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  1. Re:Basic is easy. Useful is not. on iPhone Hacker Geohot Builds Self-Driving Car AI (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    An interesting issue (and it applies to not just this guy but to the big guys too) is the recent research that showed pretty much all neural nets will incorrectly classify input that is almost identical to input that gets classified correctly (including deep nets that are showing best results in image classification etc.). They chose to tweak a very small amount of input that maximized error causing mis-classification and found that they were able to do this consistently across nets of varying architectures and training methods.

    It's a pretty significant finding and one that shows we have a ways to go before we can trust systems like these for safety related activities.

  2. Hmmm... on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    A blow hard is trying to stop a wind farm?

  3. Re:Ravages of global warming? on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    No air?? No water?? When I was a kid we got air once a week and no complaints or else!

  4. Your response is a different point than the poster you responded to, and I think both points are valid:
    1 - Posters point: Cable offers the various channels and packages that have exclusive contracts with various sports leagues/teams etc. Not just ESPN but other channels also. I'm not sure how easy/hard it would be to get these channels today via other services like Netflix but traditionally it's been an issue.

    2 - Your point: People should be able to choose the content they want to pay for instead of purchasing packages with X% content they have no desire to consume. Totally agree, it's like the old CD thing, 1 or 2 good songs and 12 others you have no desire to hear.

  5. Re:Explain this please: on Rodent Neural Activity Has a Geometric Structure (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Place" cells track when the animal is in a specific place (relative to past experience and environment), "Grid" cells are physically arranged in a grid (approx equidistant from each other) and fire according to animals location within the current environment (meaning if it's approx in the center of the room, then the approx center cell is firing, if moving north then the sequence of firing cells follows that same path, like an internal grid/map).

  6. Re:Summarize it on Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model (arvideonews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Instead of video, which is still too short in my opinion, I present all of my information as a 3 day Japanese Kabuki theater presentation.

  7. Re:Make no mistake on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those crazy alarmist's, I took a nature walk through Hanford just the other day and it was fine.

  8. Some of the great ideas while programming on LSD.. on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 2

    What if the cursor for my app was a dragon? And as you completed work on the screen it got bigger...it could use flames out of it's mouth to delete files...this is going to be awesome.

  9. Not actually that bad... on How Bill Nye Insulted NASCAR Fans About the Sport Being the "Anti-NASA" (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    I read the article expecting to read Bill slamming NASCAR, but in reality he acknowledges the excitement of speed in a race and the level of engineering involved which is why he suggested a fuel limit to spur advancements in fuel consumption (due to the competitive nature of the race and the engineering component that already exists).

  10. ...and non-sequential/scattered read write patterns are difficult to implement efficiently. I had a problem that either had sequential input and non-sequential/scattered output or the opposite (either way worked) and it really didn't match well with GPU mem access methods.

  11. "Asteroids are #1 big (making them hard to alter), #2 far away" - the plans are for small near earth asteroids (e.g. 165 feet wide, comes within 1.5au's of earth)

  12. "especially if we're talking about the asteroid belt" - one companies plans are for small near earth asteroids (165 feet wide)

  13. Tunguska was a 50m asteroid...a 350m asteroid would destroy a small state. I could be wrong, but it seems like just landing on an asteroid could have enough force to alter the orbit (depending on how the landing is handled).

  14. Seems like there could be a danger of altering an asteroids orbit and having it eventually hit Earth.

  15. That 400,000 of the CD's were AOL mailers

  16. The rational part of the argument is that registration has a higher probability of tracking down the culprit than no registration, and the examples would be guns and cars where there have been at least 1 case in which registration information helped.

    Just because we don't really know the stats in advance regarding what percentage of incidents will be prevented (due to fear of being caught) and/or incidents identified doesn't mean that it's an irrational attempt to reduce the problem.

  17. Kirk Remembers... on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    SPOCK: Yes. Yes.
    MCCOY: What is it, Spock?
    SPOCK; An invention, Doctor. First potassium nitrate, and now if he can find some sulphur and a charcoal deposit or ordinary coal.
    (Kirk is at the outcrop of sharp diamonds, and putting them into the bamboo too.)

  18. Re:Who is Zappos? on 'First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses' -- the Zappos Management Experiment · · Score: 1

    Did you relate this tension to the customer focused circle? You'll want to co-partner with a role that has the badge for this.

  19. Re:Say what? on Cape Verde Boulders Indicate Massive Tsunami 73,000 Years Ago · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Due to limited variation in human DNA there is a hypothesis that human population was substantially reduced around 70,000 to 100,000 years ago.

  20. Re:PC dominates the gaming world on Kids Prefer To Play Games On Mobile Devices Over Consoles · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't want to go out on a limb here, but if I read between the lines I seem to be picking up that you may be pro-PC?

  21. Re:Answers on Ask Slashdot: Definitive Password Management Best Practices Using OSS? · · Score: 1

    Why did you have to argue with them? I just key in whatever garbage I feel like in those fields, no need to ask

  22. Re:Newtonian physics on New Tech Puts the Brakes On Bullets Fired From Police Sidearms · · Score: 1, Informative

    Bullet slowed (reducing kinetic energy) but plastic cap was accelerated (increasing kinetic energy) - so 80% drop in speed of bullet does not tell you the kinetic energy of the system as a whole after the collision, seems like there would be some loss but that would be due to heat during collision.

  23. Re:Wrong question = wrong answer on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 5, Funny

    From Stephen Hawkings notes:
    "And then I was reading slashdot and anonymous coward said all of this preservation of information stuff is a laughable concept, that's why I've switched professions from math/physics to web site dev. I'm working on a website for balancing checkbooks, should be really cool."

  24. Re:Not to overplay the "ironic" label, but... on Snowden: Clinton's Private Email Server Is a 'Problem' · · Score: 1

    I think Snowden is just mad that Hillary outsmarted him. He thought HCTOPSECRETSERVER01 couldn't possibly be for real.

  25. Re:Can this bubble burst already? on Deep Learning Pioneer On the Next Generation of Hardware For Neural Networks · · Score: 1

    Why do you think perceptrons are a dead end and poor use of resources? A dead-end for what goal?