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  1. Setup for a FPS is important. on DeepMind's AI Agents Exceed 'Human-Level' Gameplay In Quake III (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a hard time carrying if an AI can beat me in a game unless its an AI that receives its video feed over camera feeds of the game play and then mechanically moves the mouse and keyboard to play. Maybe they are frame scanning directly to the AI, but still need to simulate input delays with more then a stochastic timer.

    However, it’s worth noting that the greater the number of DeepMind bots on a team, the worse they did. A team of four DeepMind bots had a win probability of 65 percent, suggesting that while the researchers’ AI agents did learn some elements of cooperative play, these don’t necessarily scale up to more complex team dynamics.

    I also find this interesting. Still the most recent results in the field are very promising.

  2. Re:Hey, Moron. on 'Plugspreading' is an Abomination (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed

  3. Re:What the fuck are you talking about? on 'Plugspreading' is an Abomination (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think this is a regional difference. Where I am all plugs are stacked on top of each other not side by side. So that Samsung design is Perfect. Compare that to an old DC Wall wart where you can't plug it in the top plug with out blocking the bottom plug.

    Power strips come in both orientations so as a designer your screwed. Thing that really bugs me about that article is his complaint about the apple charger. When it has a removable plug adapter so you can plug an extension cord in to it. We can make fun of it catching on fire, fraying and all the other things the design does, but plug ability isn't one of them.

    This just seamed like a excuse to rant.

  4. Re:Good in some areas on Daylight Saving Time Isn't Worth It, European Parliament Members Say (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I see this confusion all the time. Everything people complain about is the returning to "Normal Time".

    Honestly, the most expensive part of DST is the modern debates about keeping DST. Computers handle the rest on most clocks by now and you hardly need to worry about it.

  5. Re:You won't believe all nine ways I reacted... on BuzzFeed Hacked By OurMine As Group Accuses Site of Publishing 'Fake News' (thedrum.com) · · Score: 1

    This man needs props

  6. Re:Net Negative on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention Sharper Image lost court cases about fraudulent claims.

    http://www.latimes.com/health/...

  7. Re:Still pretty crusty on laptops on Linux Kernel 4.5 Officially Released · · Score: 2

    This was a feature on my Mint Laptop last winter when my car heater went out.

  8. The science is settled on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Consensus is in. Billions of Clock Cycles and Billions of Transistors can't be wrong. Clearly Earth is rare!

  9. Well, if they can't make money off it anymore we will gladly accept it uploaded to git hub.

  10. Re: Obligatory XKCD on iPhones Bricked By Setting Date To Jan 1, 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    good luck proving this isn't true.

  11. This is amazing. I have been educated. I was going to mod you up, but apparently my points ran out.

  12. Re:Good ... on NHTSA Gives Green Light To Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Of course insurance will be different between a self driving car and a human driving car. Just like it is different between my self and my co-workers based on our driving history. However, the question is what is the insurance for. If I am buying liability insurance for a autonomous object then the rationale like car insurance must be such the vehicles are so likely to be in an accident that I need a method of paying off other individuals before I can recoup my losses from google. This is akin to needing public transit insurance to pay off people hit by a city bus I was ridding. I was not in control of the vehicle at the time of the incident I had no way of prevention the accident from occurring and it would have occurred weather I was on the bus, so the insurance is paid for by the City who operates the bus and not the passengers.

  13. Re:If it's "settled", it ISN'T "science" on Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs: "The Science is Settled." · · Score: 1

    Very well said.

  14. Re:If it's "settled", it ISN'T "science" on Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs: "The Science is Settled." · · Score: 1

    A much easier test is to look up every-time you drop something.

  15. That comes with a heavy assumption that the current 4 year politician some how can affect the entire culture of 250ish year old state. Even if a new Governor came in with the sole attempt to stop silly request like this from being denied he would run in to opposition from career employees who thought they could just wait him out. Now that an event has occurred the current individual in charge as a chance to access and retaliate in a proportional manor as deemed necessary.

  16. Re:...against a common enemy on Splitscreen Gaming Is a Culture, Not a Mode · · Score: 1

    We have large enough displays these days that I don't understand why you would want to distort the Aspect Ratio. I sense the gneral consus was it sucked, but I really liked how RE4 made two screens with the same aspect ratio on the display and a small null space instead of super wide or super tall split screen. The viewports were slightly offset so it was easier to not cross screens as well and they could have easily used the null space for a status or map view, but the general concept is to have the exsact same rendering function in both single and co-op play.

  17. Re:This is just the looong tail of the distributio on How Many Scientists Does It Take To Write a Paper? Apparently, Thousands · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is common practice for grad students to include more renowned professors in the lab etc on papers out of respect of their funding. Since your worth as a Primary Investigator (grant holder) is based on the number of papers on your resume, It is the only way of having a career. I've seen papers with 20+ PH.Ds on it where most of them, I know for a fact, have done practically nothing for the paper.

    I needed to fix that for you. In general a well funded lab is so busy the PIs do almost nothing buy advise and review to make sure the grant work stays on progress. In reality Grads and Post Docs do 90% of the work in hopes of one day moving to a career in management aka a PI position. I've never meet a PI that has time to work the day to day minutia of science discovery in fact they often lament if they wanted to keep doing science they would have never started a lab.

  18. Re:Why can't the world move beyond this crap? on North Korea Is Switching To a New Time Zone · · Score: 1

    The time being the same doesn't help me know if people are up.

  19. Re:In the US. on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 1

    I just have this feeling that the "FREE" energy is a bait and switch once we reach this "Tipping Point"

  20. Re:Dictionary? on Bug Exposes OpenSSH Servers To Brute-Force Password Guessing Attacks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dictonary doesn't really mean English Dictonary, but a sorted list of common passwords and variations. Then just cycling through all of the entries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The dictonary may well be based of stats and possible characters not used in english grammer.

  21. Re:Investigating if laws were broken on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    This isn't entirely true. When Petit -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... -- Tight roped the twin towers the police and Mayor came out on live televission to say a simaler phrase. "Were not sure what to charge him with, but we are sure he broke some law" Ultimently, they didn't charge him with anything but had him agree to public performances in more appropriate areas and a promise to not perticipate in simaler activity.

    This isn't the only precident for someone performing an action and the court system admiting it really wasn't prepared for htis type of law breaking so instead lets use him as a public example of why we need new laws and he can go on. If you think the two crimes are so different ignoring the fact that both encouraged copy cats and both could result in death.

  22. Re:take care of yourself and you will look good on Scientists Show Human Aging Rates Vary Widely · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was with you until the Milk part. My ancestors worked hard at animal husbndry and shoving milk down thier guys to ensure I was lactose tolarante. Ok to be fair they didn't care about me they just wanted to surivive, but its a niec side effect at any rate, ...

  23. Re:Unchanging UIs? Not just for old people on How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives · · Score: 1

    Its like those silly icons on the top of a mac keyboard. I swear each one I get they are in a random new order for no reason! Or Android L changing what the Back button looks like to a triangle. I don't mind minor UI updates new colors shading, but stop moving things around for no reason or at least have a transition period over several iterations.

    We need to get to a point where you have long term support on a given interface. Windows Classic Skin does ok with this, but applications need to support it as well. Update the default UI as you wish, but offer users the classic design as a fall back for stability.

  24. Re:Unchanging UIs? Not just for old people on How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives · · Score: 2

    I had to loko this up but you were rigth!. WTH is up with these young people. User Experince Design! Seriously!? Just read the description of this new fangled "field". Oh well new term for me.

  25. Re:Those evil enemy oppressors on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 2

    Last I checked this is exactly how the USSR dissolved.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Others have mentioned good examples and Sections of Spain and the UK have in recent years voted to leave. Only in the great USofA do we believe states should be treated like the inhabitants of Hotel California.