What if a hyperpod can't leave on time? Are the margins of error such that it can be squeezed in prior to the next hyperpod?
There's multiple train stations in India that handle 500,000 to 1,000,000 daily passengers, and their railway infrastructure runs on switches and relays that were obsolete before man set foot on the moon. There's not a lot of room for errors there and yet they manage.
So I think it's fair to say that Elon Musk, his unlimited Mastercard and his legion of PhDs can figure out how to handle delays in a transportation system designed for thousands of passengers a day.
Musk has never been concerned with making a profit with any of his companies. Both Tesla and SolarCity have never been profitable. For the last 5 years he has been saying Tesla would begin turning a profit the following year. SpaceX is barely profitable because they severely undercut the competition to get launches. Not even PayPal was profitable when it was acquired by EBay.
Same thing happened with Amazon. No profit for 12 years, and now they're printing money and are slowly driving the competition out of business. Who's going to disrupt Amazon now?
It's fun and rewarding to be a bird of ill omen, no? Sit there like a know-it-all and piss on people who are trying to make things happen?
Not so long ago "electric car" meant a shitty golf cart that reached maybe 15mph. Now we have access to electric cars that do the driving for you and can do 0-60mph in 3 sec. Also not so long ago, sending shit to space was obscenely expensive and was mostly a one-way trip for the rocket; now there's reusable rockets and the cost of sending shit to space is 4x lower than what the NASA or Air Force used to pay.
What the fuck more do you need to be amazed by that guy.
I know you're joking but there's something about his personality that just rings true. A relentless, scrappy bastard that would pick up a shovel and start digging if he ran out of money, and that would probably call people that were around during the sunny days and shame them into getting down there to help.
The kind of thing that I could picture Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell or Bill Gates do in their days. All those guys are/were the real deal. This is the kind of leadership that's sorely missing in tech, tough bastards with a backbone, not asswipes with phony social agendas like the Google or Facebook CEOs.
It's to be expected that these cameras might have little impact on the behavior of police officers in Washington, D.C., he says, because this particular force went through about a decade of federal oversight to help improve the department.
I don't think this is the real cause. What happens is that people get used to cameras, just like celebrities or people on reality TV shows forget to keep a poker face after a while because the cameras are always there.
As with all test programs at Consumer Reports, the Electronics program buys virtually all products at retail, like any consumer. That enables us to remain completely impartial and unbiased. Our secret shoppers visit stores across the country to make their purchases, without revealing that the products are destined for the Consumer Reports labs.
If so there have to be a continuous monitoring of song changes in order to trigger the recognition algorithm - and I'd call that continuous recognition.
This is basic logic.
This is, in fact, very "basic" logic. The same kind of logic that can make anything be anything else, since it's anything.
Advertising and marketing have rather specific definitions, and existing legislation already deals with that. Extending that to Facebook, Twitter, etc. is hardly overreach.
Looks like the exact opposite of what's happening in the ride-sharing or condo-sharing industries, where rules that apply to established organizations are thrown aside by "disrupters".
I understand that you're probably trying to mine some goatse coins, but still, could we get less goatse and more lemon party? Maybe a tubgirl once in a while?
Give her a break. She needed the money to replace the furniture she stole from the government (again) and is going to have to return soon (again).
Hillary Clinton and her staff removed "lamps and furniture" from State Department offices and brought them to her home in the early months of her tenure, the FBI said in 100 pages of notes made public Monday.
The boldness of those common criminals is amazing. Rape, theft, fraud, probably murder. Meanwhile the media is still chasing russian hackers and grabbed pussies.
DRM is like the delusional gambler. No matter how much money he loses he refuses to quit, because quitting would be and admission that he has failed and lost all his money.
DRM doesn't work as a bullet-proof system to prevent motivated people to use commercial content for free, but it does work in making it difficult enough that mainstream users will pay for it.
For instance, as a casual gamer I'm not going to fuck around downloading cracks (that are probably lost in an ocean of fakes infected with malware), I find it easier to pay for the game on Steam. In fact almost all games I play come from sales on Steam or PS4. Meanwhile, I have many gamer friends so if there was no DRM whatsoever I'd probably do like I used to in the 90s, use shared copies.
It's the same with any kind of software. I don't recall ever paying for MS-DOS 6 or Windows 3.1, but today if I needed Windows I'd probably buy a copy at Best Buy rather than deal with the endless patching and cracking.
If someone has music playing in the background which is being changed at random intervals, whether because the song ended and the next began or because someone switched tracks, the app cannot know that unless it's continuously monitoring.
Nobody said it wasn't continuously monitoring. That's not the same as continuously recognizing.
I can see why you're confused; you have no idea how technology works. You must shit your pants when you see a dvr skipping commercials (OMG THEY HAVE THE ENTIRE CORPUS OF TV ADS IN THAT BOX AND IT'S CONSTANTLY COMPARING THEM TO MY TV SHOW OMG OMG").
Why shit on mp3 and try to re-invent the wheel with vectors?
First, nobody is shittng on mp3. As for the reason to use tiny vectors instead of storing big mp3 files, I'm not sure why I have to explain it to you but it comes down to two things.
1) Storage 2) Availability of advanced, high quality vector processing libraries like BLAS or LAPACK
this being said, it was just my guess, for all I know maybe they are storing data in sqlite3 or in the headers of a jpeg file that shows your mom pleasuring herself with a maglite.
You act as though everyone is only going to listen to full songs of exactly 2-3 minutes when in reality people will be listening to song fragments and jumping from track to track at any time.
Before facepalming people, maybe you should RTFA. The service they describe is not for someone actively listening to music, it's to detect automatically whatever is playing in the background. For instance, when you're at Starbucks.
I'm not a fan of Google usually but this is a pretty interesting feature. Shazam is cool but most of the time when I hear a song that I like, my interest doesn't go as far as actually unlocking the phone and starting the app. But glancing at the lockscreen and seeing what is playing in the background, that I would do for sure, and it would add just a little bit to my quality of life.
And it's not just for good songs. For instance, the other day I heard a song in Spanish by a duo that included someone who clearly doesn't speak Spanish. I had to look it up because I found it annoying, and I realized it was Justin Bieber and Daddy Yankee (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK-RJiYKBYw). With things like this "playing now" gadget, I would have known immediately and it would have fueled my dislike of that Bieber person without forcing me to do anything other than own a decent smartphone.
yet, the actual results database is so bad, that shazam and google both fail to identify most of the jazz songs I try with their service.
now I just record in whatsapp and send to a music friend who reply not only with the correct track but a few similar suggestions.
screw ai.
Pareto principle, amigo. Pop, hip-hop and country will always take the bulk of the market, and therefore the bulk of the attention of this kind of tool.
But instead of seeing this as a problem, maybe you should see it as an opportunity. You probably have a huge collection of the kind of music you like; you coud build specialized models and sell them. Or even better, create a specialized shazam-like app where people can purchase those additional models, and you'll make good money, then Google will buy you out.
I'm much more interested in what the battery impact of such a useless feature is.
It's unlikely to move the needle.
Songs usually last for a solid 2-3 minutes, so that limits the processing to maybe 500 analysis per day. That's basically like doing 500 searches per day, on fast storage (probably cached), probably using some kind of vsm or inverted index, or maybe a radix tree. Minimal cpu usage, minimal i/o, no gpu usage. I suspect the weather apps is more harmful for the battery than this kind of thing because it involves the network stack.
How in the actual fuck is this possible? They have an audio an audio signature of every song built in?
Yes. And this is not surprising; the data needed to identify songs is tiny. Essentially it's just vectors (big numerical arrays), they don't need to store the whole mp3.
More and more can be done locally on the devices. For instance, look at what is actually needed to detect English speech using CMU sphinx: https://github.com/cmusphinx/p... (look at the hmm model)
This used to require huge computing power and storage, but now it can work on a mobile device.
Another example: once upon a time you needed Google datacenters to do gender and age recognition on photos. Now you can download pre-trained models for that, and the result can fit on a mobile device. Or you can download the entire dataset (500k photos of celebs) and train it yourself on your own servers; https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch...
Or you want a model to recognize basically any kind of object in a photo? https://github.com/tensorflow/... (there's a model specifically designed to run on mobile devices)
i know it's disturbing but this is where things are today. Just a few years ago, this XKCD comic was true:
Huh? The "scare narrative" is more a property of the Republicans.
Welcome to the present day, where once again the GOP and Democrats have switched place. Nowadays the witch hunters and fearmongerers are the Demoocrats. A Democrat president (Obama) has spent the most money on military of all presidents in history, even without declaring a new war, and also sponsored the biggest big brother project in history. The Democrats organizers planned and executed acts of violence to disrupt GOP events during the campaign. Etc. Etc.
But the cozy relationship between the DNC and media goes far beyond that. Look at the leaked DNC emails.
For instance, here's one email where the Clinton campaign members discuss the questions that CNN will ask Trump:
From: Dillon, Lauren Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 12:00 PM To: Freundlich, Christina; Roberts, Kelly; Sarge, Matthew; Graham, Caroline; Walker, Eric; Bauer, Nick; Brinster, Jeremy Subject: RE: Trump Questions for CNN
CNN said the interview was cancelled as of now but will keep the questions for the next one:(
Good to have for others as well.
Updated here:
- Who helped you write the foreign policy speech you're giving tomorrow? Which advisors specifically did you talk to? What advice did they give you? Did they give you any advice that you chose not to take?
-A number of Republicans and think tanks including the Heritage Foundation have suggested tying defense spending to GDP, most often suggesting defense should be funded at 4 percent GDP. Is that something you would do/we'll see in your plan?
- You've said you look to Ambassador John Bolton for military advice and called him "terrific," but he was one of the architects of the Iraq war. How do you explain your praise for Bolton if you also claim the war was a mistake? What advice have you taken from him?
Another example, a CNN analyst asking the DNC to approve her editorial points:
From: Maria Cardona [mailto:Maria.Cardona@deweysquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 10:21 AM To: Patrice Taylor; Miranda, Luis Subject: URGENT - DRAFT CNN OPED ON NV Importance: High
I want to make sure it is not to heavy handed. Please let me know asap! Thanks!!
From:john.podesta@gmail.com To: nconfess@nytimes.com Date: 2015-02-11 14:54 Subject: Re: good times
Off the record. No, mostly about Brock's eccentricities shall we say. On Feb 10, 2015 1:36 PM, "Confessore, Nicholas" wrote:
> Hi John, > I am sure you have lot and lots of downtime these days to talk to > reporters, and so this question no doubt is well-timed. > But can you offer any wisdom on whether this contretemps between Messina > and Brock tells us anything about the future of the other Obama alums who > have found places, or are seeking them, in Greater Clintonland? > To put the question more directly--is this blow up over Media Matters > going to make it harder for the Clinton folks to bring in and use > effectively the best of the Obama alums? > Seems you are among the few people widely respected in both camps. So your > opinion would count for a lot. > thank you, > Nick > > > -- > Nicholas Confessore > The New York Times > W (212) 556-5911 > C (917) 456 2446 > gchat: @nconfessore >
If you don't like those examples, no need to nitpick, there's a search engine on wikileaks, it's worth doing a bit of research to see for yourself. There's so much stuff in there that is damaging to the Democrats and mainstream media, no surprise they're all using the red scare to distract people from this.
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What if a hyperpod can't leave on time? Are the margins of error such that it can be squeezed in prior to the next hyperpod?
There's multiple train stations in India that handle 500,000 to 1,000,000 daily passengers, and their railway infrastructure runs on switches and relays that were obsolete before man set foot on the moon. There's not a lot of room for errors there and yet they manage.
So I think it's fair to say that Elon Musk, his unlimited Mastercard and his legion of PhDs can figure out how to handle delays in a transportation system designed for thousands of passengers a day.
Musk has never been concerned with making a profit with any of his companies. Both Tesla and SolarCity have never been profitable. For the last 5 years he has been saying Tesla would begin turning a profit the following year. SpaceX is barely profitable because they severely undercut the competition to get launches. Not even PayPal was profitable when it was acquired by EBay.
Same thing happened with Amazon. No profit for 12 years, and now they're printing money and are slowly driving the competition out of business. Who's going to disrupt Amazon now?
It's fun and rewarding to be a bird of ill omen, no? Sit there like a know-it-all and piss on people who are trying to make things happen?
Not so long ago "electric car" meant a shitty golf cart that reached maybe 15mph. Now we have access to electric cars that do the driving for you and can do 0-60mph in 3 sec. Also not so long ago, sending shit to space was obscenely expensive and was mostly a one-way trip for the rocket; now there's reusable rockets and the cost of sending shit to space is 4x lower than what the NASA or Air Force used to pay.
What the fuck more do you need to be amazed by that guy.
I know you're joking but there's something about his personality that just rings true. A relentless, scrappy bastard that would pick up a shovel and start digging if he ran out of money, and that would probably call people that were around during the sunny days and shame them into getting down there to help.
The kind of thing that I could picture Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell or Bill Gates do in their days. All those guys are/were the real deal. This is the kind of leadership that's sorely missing in tech, tough bastards with a backbone, not asswipes with phony social agendas like the Google or Facebook CEOs.
It's to be expected that these cameras might have little impact on the behavior of police officers in Washington, D.C., he says, because this particular force went through about a decade of federal oversight to help improve the department.
I don't think this is the real cause. What happens is that people get used to cameras, just like celebrities or people on reality TV shows forget to keep a poker face after a while because the cameras are always there.
He's a young hip techbro.
He's 49
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Out of curiosity, what are you quoting in your comment? This text didn't appear in TFA or the summary.
Techcrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10...
No.
As with all test programs at Consumer Reports, the Electronics program buys virtually all products at retail, like any consumer. That enables us to remain completely impartial and unbiased. Our secret shoppers visit stores across the country to make their purchases, without revealing that the products are destined for the Consumer Reports labs.
https://www.consumerreports.or...
They probably hired a "growth hacker"
The list of felony charges includes assault with a deadly weapon, child abuse, lewd act upon a child and oral copulation of a person under 10.
This gonna look good on his linkedin
If so there have to be a continuous monitoring of song changes in order to trigger the recognition algorithm - and I'd call that continuous recognition.
This is basic logic.
This is, in fact, very "basic" logic. The same kind of logic that can make anything be anything else, since it's anything.
Maybe the media are angry because they are patriots, sickened to see their country run by an idiot installed by the Kremlin.
You mean as opposed to a crook that took money from Putin to facilitate the expansion of Putin's nuclear business in America?
Advertising and marketing have rather specific definitions, and existing legislation already deals with that. Extending that to Facebook, Twitter, etc. is hardly overreach.
Looks like the exact opposite of what's happening in the ride-sharing or condo-sharing industries, where rules that apply to established organizations are thrown aside by "disrupters".
I understand that you're probably trying to mine some goatse coins, but still, could we get less goatse and more lemon party? Maybe a tubgirl once in a while?
Give her a break. She needed the money to replace the furniture she stole from the government (again) and is going to have to return soon (again).
Hillary Clinton and her staff removed "lamps and furniture" from State Department offices and brought them to her home in the early months of her tenure, the FBI said in 100 pages of notes made public Monday.
http://www.washingtonexaminer....
The boldness of those common criminals is amazing. Rape, theft, fraud, probably murder. Meanwhile the media is still chasing russian hackers and grabbed pussies.
What a shame that MP3s are so huge and complex that Google has a storage and indexing capacity problem
What a shame that you didn't RTFA and missed the part where they explain that it works while the device is not connected to internet
DRM is like the delusional gambler. No matter how much money he loses he refuses to quit, because quitting would be and admission that he has failed and lost all his money.
DRM doesn't work as a bullet-proof system to prevent motivated people to use commercial content for free, but it does work in making it difficult enough that mainstream users will pay for it.
For instance, as a casual gamer I'm not going to fuck around downloading cracks (that are probably lost in an ocean of fakes infected with malware), I find it easier to pay for the game on Steam. In fact almost all games I play come from sales on Steam or PS4. Meanwhile, I have many gamer friends so if there was no DRM whatsoever I'd probably do like I used to in the 90s, use shared copies.
It's the same with any kind of software. I don't recall ever paying for MS-DOS 6 or Windows 3.1, but today if I needed Windows I'd probably buy a copy at Best Buy rather than deal with the endless patching and cracking.
Doesn't mean I endorse DRM, but it works.
Looks like you're illiterate then.
If someone has music playing in the background which is being changed at random intervals, whether because the song ended and the next began or because someone switched tracks, the app cannot know that unless it's continuously monitoring.
Nobody said it wasn't continuously monitoring. That's not the same as continuously recognizing.
I can see why you're confused; you have no idea how technology works. You must shit your pants when you see a dvr skipping commercials (OMG THEY HAVE THE ENTIRE CORPUS OF TV ADS IN THAT BOX AND IT'S CONSTANTLY COMPARING THEM TO MY TV SHOW OMG OMG").
Why shit on mp3 and try to re-invent the wheel with vectors?
First, nobody is shittng on mp3. As for the reason to use tiny vectors instead of storing big mp3 files, I'm not sure why I have to explain it to you but it comes down to two things.
1) Storage
2) Availability of advanced, high quality vector processing libraries like BLAS or LAPACK
this being said, it was just my guess, for all I know maybe they are storing data in sqlite3 or in the headers of a jpeg file that shows your mom pleasuring herself with a maglite.
*facepalm*
You act as though everyone is only going to listen to full songs of exactly 2-3 minutes when in reality people will be listening to song fragments and jumping from track to track at any time.
Before facepalming people, maybe you should RTFA. The service they describe is not for someone actively listening to music, it's to detect automatically whatever is playing in the background. For instance, when you're at Starbucks.
I'm not a fan of Google usually but this is a pretty interesting feature. Shazam is cool but most of the time when I hear a song that I like, my interest doesn't go as far as actually unlocking the phone and starting the app. But glancing at the lockscreen and seeing what is playing in the background, that I would do for sure, and it would add just a little bit to my quality of life.
And it's not just for good songs. For instance, the other day I heard a song in Spanish by a duo that included someone who clearly doesn't speak Spanish. I had to look it up because I found it annoying, and I realized it was Justin Bieber and Daddy Yankee (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK-RJiYKBYw). With things like this "playing now" gadget, I would have known immediately and it would have fueled my dislike of that Bieber person without forcing me to do anything other than own a decent smartphone.
yet, the actual results database is so bad, that shazam and google both fail to identify most of the jazz songs I try with their service.
now I just record in whatsapp and send to a music friend who reply not only with the correct track but a few similar suggestions.
screw ai.
Pareto principle, amigo. Pop, hip-hop and country will always take the bulk of the market, and therefore the bulk of the attention of this kind of tool.
But instead of seeing this as a problem, maybe you should see it as an opportunity. You probably have a huge collection of the kind of music you like; you coud build specialized models and sell them. Or even better, create a specialized shazam-like app where people can purchase those additional models, and you'll make good money, then Google will buy you out.
I'm much more interested in what the battery impact of such a useless feature is.
It's unlikely to move the needle.
Songs usually last for a solid 2-3 minutes, so that limits the processing to maybe 500 analysis per day. That's basically like doing 500 searches per day, on fast storage (probably cached), probably using some kind of vsm or inverted index, or maybe a radix tree. Minimal cpu usage, minimal i/o, no gpu usage. I suspect the weather apps is more harmful for the battery than this kind of thing because it involves the network stack.
How in the actual fuck is this possible? They have an audio an audio signature of every song built in?
Yes. And this is not surprising; the data needed to identify songs is tiny. Essentially it's just vectors (big numerical arrays), they don't need to store the whole mp3.
More and more can be done locally on the devices. For instance, look at what is actually needed to detect English speech using CMU sphinx:
https://github.com/cmusphinx/p...
(look at the hmm model)
This used to require huge computing power and storage, but now it can work on a mobile device.
Another example: once upon a time you needed Google datacenters to do gender and age recognition on photos. Now you can download pre-trained models for that, and the result can fit on a mobile device. Or you can download the entire dataset (500k photos of celebs) and train it yourself on your own servers;
https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch...
Or you want a model to recognize basically any kind of object in a photo?
https://github.com/tensorflow/...
(there's a model specifically designed to run on mobile devices)
i know it's disturbing but this is where things are today. Just a few years ago, this XKCD comic was true:
https://xkcd.com/1425/
Now you can actually download the code and models to do that completely offline and in a few ms.
Huh? The "scare narrative" is more a property of the Republicans.
Welcome to the present day, where once again the GOP and Democrats have switched place. Nowadays the witch hunters and fearmongerers are the Demoocrats. A Democrat president (Obama) has spent the most money on military of all presidents in history, even without declaring a new war, and also sponsored the biggest big brother project in history. The Democrats organizers planned and executed acts of violence to disrupt GOP events during the campaign. Etc. Etc.
Well it's not a secret. On their own website there's even a timeline of the NYT endorsements of Democrats candidates:
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
But the cozy relationship between the DNC and media goes far beyond that. Look at the leaked DNC emails.
For instance, here's one email where the Clinton campaign members discuss the questions that CNN will ask Trump:
From: Dillon, Lauren
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 12:00 PM
To: Freundlich, Christina; Roberts, Kelly; Sarge, Matthew; Graham, Caroline; Walker, Eric; Bauer, Nick; Brinster, Jeremy
Subject: RE: Trump Questions for CNN
CNN said the interview was cancelled as of now but will keep the questions for the next one :(
Good to have for others as well.
Updated here:
- Who helped you write the foreign policy speech you're giving tomorrow? Which advisors specifically did you talk to? What advice did they give you? Did they give you any advice that you chose not to take?
-A number of Republicans and think tanks including the Heritage Foundation have suggested tying defense spending to GDP, most often suggesting defense should be funded at 4 percent GDP. Is that something you would do/we'll see in your plan?
- You've said you look to Ambassador John Bolton for military advice and called him "terrific," but he was one of the architects of the Iraq war. How do you explain your praise for Bolton if you also claim the war was a mistake? What advice have you taken from him?
[...]
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emai...
Another example, a CNN analyst asking the DNC to approve her editorial points:
From: Maria Cardona [mailto:Maria.Cardona@deweysquare.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 10:21 AM
To: Patrice Taylor; Miranda, Luis
Subject: URGENT - DRAFT CNN OPED ON NV
Importance: High
I want to make sure it is not to heavy handed. Please let me know asap! Thanks!!
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emai...
Here's an email from the New York Times:
From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: nconfess@nytimes.com
Date: 2015-02-11 14:54
Subject: Re: good times
Off the record. No, mostly about Brock's eccentricities shall we say.
On Feb 10, 2015 1:36 PM, "Confessore, Nicholas"
wrote:
> Hi John,
> I am sure you have lot and lots of downtime these days to talk to
> reporters, and so this question no doubt is well-timed.
> But can you offer any wisdom on whether this contretemps between Messina
> and Brock tells us anything about the future of the other Obama alums who
> have found places, or are seeking them, in Greater Clintonland?
> To put the question more directly--is this blow up over Media Matters
> going to make it harder for the Clinton folks to bring in and use
> effectively the best of the Obama alums?
> Seems you are among the few people widely respected in both camps. So your
> opinion would count for a lot.
> thank you,
> Nick
>
>
> --
> Nicholas Confessore
> The New York Times
> W (212) 556-5911
> C (917) 456 2446
> gchat: @nconfessore
>
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-...
If you don't like those examples, no need to nitpick, there's a search engine on wikileaks, it's worth doing a bit of research to see for yourself. There's so much stuff in there that is damaging to the Democrats and mainstream media, no surprise they're all using the red scare to distract people from this.