The new Apple wireless keyboard *with numerical pad* is actually quite good. I think it has a butterfly mechanism but the keys travel much more than the thin one with no numkeys.
In my line of work I use a lot of mathematical optimisation. As Stephen Boyd says in his course, everybody working in optimisation has at some point this epiphany: "everything is an optimisation problem". And this is true. However to make it work you need to be very good at mathematical modelling, you need to know your methods, and most of the time the problem is unsolvable anyway by the classic methods.
In this instance maybe a lot of programming can be modelled by some deep NN. However you have to come up with a relevant architecture for your problem, you need to train it, and you need to evaluate it. It may save you time to do so, but if you need so solve something like FizzBuzz, that may not be the best way.
Yes NN are the same basic architecture, but it's like saying we are still programming in C, so nothing has changed since the early days of Unix except computers are faster. You'd be right in a way but not quite.
In ML we have discovered the importance of sparse representations and regularisation (from wavelets and optimisation) leading to better, more efficient learning methods; better gradient descent methods, and more importantly innovative architectures. The keywords of today are not backpropagation but dropout, adversarial network, generative networks, reinforcement learning, transfer learning, recurrent networks, long short-term memory, and many more.
Will NN especially deep ones solve AI ? Probably not yet, but there has been some significant progress. As more people understand what has truly been done, what its limitations are, the hype will die down a little. Until the next step.
Except the humans invented the game, mades the rules, the computers, the software, the electricity to power all that., etc. Without the humans? not so much.
True, the computer reinvented a better way how to play Go, one that humans likely cannot emulate. That in itself is interesting.
Your friends are not climatologists and have not been seriously looking at the data. Climate change in the last 100 years or so has definitely been caused by Man. The science over this is absolutely settled.
Now the consequences can be debated if you want, but most scientists agree that if mean temperature rise by another 2 degrees centigrade, we are in deep shit.
You are free to be as intellectually dishonest as you want, you are free to believe what you want and argue in whichever direction you want until you are blue in the face. You are free to fool yourself but you cannot fool Nature.
Few countries use significant numbers of military personnel in their embassy. There is usually a military attaché and some security, but that's about it.
No country in the world has as many troops outside its own borders than the USA. It has over 300,000 US troops deployed overseas. This is larger than the entire military size of all but 15 countries. For instance France, the Western Europe country with the most troops, only has 200,000 in total.
An end to public foreign aid means an end to projected soft power, which is effective at preventing the use of costly, hard power. The USA has been extremely good at projecting positive soft power in the 20th century ("leader of the Free world"). A positive world USA image generally generates positive economic outcomes. You don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I think both NASA and ESA said they had looked at reusing booster but did not find the idea economical after simulations.
Links I could find 1: Europeans. 2: Russians. These agencies have various ideas of how to compete with Space-X, I guess this is very good news for whoever wants to put a satellite in LEO.
My opinion is that if the US military were obliged to work with 1/2 the budget they have now overnight, they would actually do better because these pork projects would cease immediately. The savings could be used to fund universal healthcare.
Unions can easily shutdown production indefinitely at numerous sites if they are coordinated and smart. It would be very hard for Tesla not to accept any of their demands. I'm pretty sure that Tesla thinks an ounce of prevention is a lot better than tons of cure.
The version in BSD is a older version derived from when Solaris was open-source, in 2007. It is independently maintained and a part of OpenZFS. In fact the ZFS stacks in IllumOS (a fork of open-source Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux and OS/X share a lot of code and are compatible, in the sense that if you create a ZFS filesystem on one of these OSes, it will work on the others.
OpenZFS has made enormous progress. I have been using it on my FreeBSD, Linux and OS X (macOS) boxes for over 3 years now.
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The new Apple wireless keyboard *with numerical pad* is actually quite good. I think it has a butterfly mechanism but the keys travel much more than the thin one with no numkeys.
In my line of work I use a lot of mathematical optimisation. As Stephen Boyd says in his course, everybody working in optimisation has at some point this epiphany: "everything is an optimisation problem". And this is true. However to make it work you need to be very good at mathematical modelling, you need to know your methods, and most of the time the problem is unsolvable anyway by the classic methods.
In this instance maybe a lot of programming can be modelled by some deep NN. However you have to come up with a relevant architecture for your problem, you need to train it, and you need to evaluate it. It may save you time to do so, but if you need so solve something like FizzBuzz, that may not be the best way.
Yes NN are the same basic architecture, but it's like saying we are still programming in C, so nothing has changed since the early days of Unix except computers are faster. You'd be right in a way but not quite.
In ML we have discovered the importance of sparse representations and regularisation (from wavelets and optimisation) leading to better, more efficient learning methods; better gradient descent methods, and more importantly innovative architectures. The keywords of today are not backpropagation but dropout, adversarial network, generative networks, reinforcement learning, transfer learning, recurrent networks, long short-term memory, and many more.
Will NN especially deep ones solve AI ? Probably not yet, but there has been some significant progress. As more people understand what has truly been done, what its limitations are, the hype will die down a little. Until the next step.
This is one of the most insightful comment on Slashdot ever.
Most humans do need guidelines, and parents to enforce them in their early years, police a bit later on.
Except the humans invented the game, mades the rules, the computers, the software, the electricity to power all that., etc. Without the humans? not so much.
True, the computer reinvented a better way how to play Go, one that humans likely cannot emulate. That in itself is interesting.
Agreed. The Apple touchpads work.
This video is not exactly crystal-clear...
Citations needed, I think.
Intelligent and intellectually dishonest can absolutely go together. Take any lawyer.
Your friends are not climatologists and have not been seriously looking at the data. Climate change in the last 100 years or so has definitely been caused by Man. The science over this is absolutely settled.
Now the consequences can be debated if you want, but most scientists agree that if mean temperature rise by another 2 degrees centigrade, we are in deep shit.
You are free to be as intellectually dishonest as you want, you are free to believe what you want and argue in whichever direction you want until you are blue in the face. You are free to fool yourself but you cannot fool Nature.
Few countries use significant numbers of military personnel in their embassy. There is usually a military attaché and some security, but that's about it.
No country in the world has as many troops outside its own borders than the USA. It has over 300,000 US troops deployed overseas. This is larger than the entire military size of all but 15 countries. For instance France, the Western Europe country with the most troops, only has 200,000 in total.
An end to public foreign aid means an end to projected soft power, which is effective at preventing the use of costly, hard power. The USA has been extremely good at projecting positive soft power in the 20th century ("leader of the Free world"). A positive world USA image generally generates positive economic outcomes. You don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I think both NASA and ESA said they had looked at reusing booster but did not find the idea economical after simulations.
Links I could find 1: Europeans. 2: Russians. These agencies have various ideas of how to compete with Space-X, I guess this is very good news for whoever wants to put a satellite in LEO.
My opinion is that if the US military were obliged to work with 1/2 the budget they have now overnight, they would actually do better because these pork projects would cease immediately. The savings could be used to fund universal healthcare.
Actually, long term, what Trump is doing now is really bad for the rich.
And then wage 3x fewer wars. Sounds like win-win!
Intent to cause harm is usually actionnable, if proven.
A lot of libertarians, I'm told, think that way.
That's the easy, short term way. In reality these people asking for 90% of your salary could be 100% untrained.
Unions can easily shutdown production indefinitely at numerous sites if they are coordinated and smart. It would be very hard for Tesla not to accept any of their demands. I'm pretty sure that Tesla thinks an ounce of prevention is a lot better than tons of cure.
As you may know, RedHat has deprecated BTRFS in RHEL7.4 whereas many distributions like Ubuntu fully support ZFS.
I woud say that the status of BTRFS is worse than that of OpenZFS on Linux. See also here for an interesting article.
The version in BSD is a older version derived from when Solaris was open-source, in 2007. It is independently maintained and a part of OpenZFS. In fact the ZFS stacks in IllumOS (a fork of open-source Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux and OS/X share a lot of code and are compatible, in the sense that if you create a ZFS filesystem on one of these OSes, it will work on the others.
OpenZFS has made enormous progress. I have been using it on my FreeBSD, Linux and OS X (macOS) boxes for over 3 years now.
Precisely, a bunch of drives, or a RAID, starts at two drives.
It takes time and money but production can definitely move out of China if needed.