machine translation that's not only usable, in some cases it's exceptional?
that shit needed some research.
perhaps they should focus less on g+ stuff and more on this stuff? as much as i like google+, being a social network necessitates having people on it:(
there's people working on implementing some psy modelling into it, but those are largely backported from x264 (which thank fuck has implemented a lot of it's own innovative tech that can be applied to many other codecs, and hasn't put patents on them).
the _only_ benefit of VP8 is political.
webm itself is more than VP8 though. it's VP8+vorbis+TimedText in an mkv wrapper. you can drop-in replace VP8 with something else as it comes along (sadly Snow will never really get there).
all video formats come with the threat of a lawsuit from that cunt at MPEG-LA.
i say bring it the fuck on. when they try to defend their patent portfolio against google's lawyers (and any other vested interests that want to jump into the fray), they'll find their portfolio shrinking to the level their legitimacy hit years ago.
doctors and pharmacists spend as much time with sales reps as they do with patients.
i'm not saying it's good, but certainly hiring all those sales reps would cost something, and though it is abused, the system works to inform doctors about new drucks.
a medical journal could do it just as well... but how many GPs actually keep up to date?
to be honest, school traffic is fucking deadly. when you have kids your brain changes. you're in primal defensive mode.
put that behind the wheel of an SUV (with poor peripheral visibility) at rush hour, and you've got a very good reason to do whatever you can to make people concentrate on driving a little more carefully.
i'm actually in favour of going all-out in school zones. it's freeways with no pedestrian traffic, well paved and designed roads and no traffic signals that you've gotta wonder why there's fixed speed cameras on every bridge.
though OP might have a point about your average US citizen - salt and sugar are way too prominent in the diet.
i find Coca-Cola a little hard to handle these days unless i'm drunk, and i actually prefer beer as a "snack" drink. even non-alcoholic beer is a good soft drink substitute. i wonder if it's worth giving it to my child - there's an ethical dilemma.
bioethics is a new field consisting of amateur biologists or science writers coming up with absurd situations so they can see what people think of them, then sort out the ethics of it.
personally i'd like to see AI'd harvesting techniques (or just more immigrant labour), so you can plant diverse and complementary plants in the same crop. this will drastically reduce the incidence of typical crop pests, and natural pesticides from one plant will be useful amoung it's neighbors... the only problem with doing things this way is the added complexity in harvesting a wide range of plants all at once. hence the robots that can accurately recognise each plant.
brains don't recognise "chair", so much as they recognise $object and we are trained by our environment to be good at spotting whatever $object is our specialty. this doesn't take long, and i'd reckon that a problem like this would take minutes of training to get equal or better than a computer, and a bit longer to far surpass it.
wouldn't the problem at hand be NP-hard? maybe that's why gamers are beating the algos?
could this be a new way to "monetize" the internet? outsourcing hard problems for cash. with a cloud paradigm, it doesn't matter whether it's a cluster of computers or a crowd of aspies when the end result is the same.
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it's simple. if the doc writes your script with a pen that bears the same name as the drug they're prescribing, just get a second opinion.
if you don't like it, give the script to a smackie to enjoy.
dude, driverless cars?
machine translation that's not only usable, in some cases it's exceptional?
that shit needed some research.
perhaps they should focus less on g+ stuff and more on this stuff? as much as i like google+, being a social network necessitates having people on it :(
the context it was included as marketing (really PR, which marketing is a subset of, as is education and much else), sounds like a budgetary one.
we're not talking about the definition of "Education", rather what part of the balance sheet would the pharma company include education in.
cost-wise, VP8 uses more power for less quality.
there's people working on implementing some psy modelling into it, but those are largely backported from x264 (which thank fuck has implemented a lot of it's own innovative tech that can be applied to many other codecs, and hasn't put patents on them).
the _only_ benefit of VP8 is political.
webm itself is more than VP8 though. it's VP8+vorbis+TimedText in an mkv wrapper. you can drop-in replace VP8 with something else as it comes along (sadly Snow will never really get there).
all video formats come with the threat of a lawsuit from that cunt at MPEG-LA.
i say bring it the fuck on. when they try to defend their patent portfolio against google's lawyers (and any other vested interests that want to jump into the fray), they'll find their portfolio shrinking to the level their legitimacy hit years ago.
advertizing is more than TV and print.
doctors and pharmacists spend as much time with sales reps as they do with patients.
i'm not saying it's good, but certainly hiring all those sales reps would cost something, and though it is abused, the system works to inform doctors about new drucks.
a medical journal could do it just as well... but how many GPs actually keep up to date?
a good enough idea... if nobody got fined, states would have to be honest about how much tax they need.
fines are not corrective. they are taxation without representation.
to be honest, school traffic is fucking deadly. when you have kids your brain changes. you're in primal defensive mode.
put that behind the wheel of an SUV (with poor peripheral visibility) at rush hour, and you've got a very good reason to do whatever you can to make people concentrate on driving a little more carefully.
i'm actually in favour of going all-out in school zones. it's freeways with no pedestrian traffic, well paved and designed roads and no traffic signals that you've gotta wonder why there's fixed speed cameras on every bridge.
i would love to turn sunlight into alcohol too.
if you have frequent blizzards and hailstorms, then solar is probably not for you.
to be sure it'd be great to be able to harvest and store a fraction of what we get from the sun, but if it's windy, maybe wind power would suit?
seems to me oil is far more useful in manufacturing. burning it seems like a hell of a waste.
instead of bobcat, hovercraft contained eels. would not buy again.
if you read the output of any given chatbot in a valley-girl voice, it will pass the Turing test.
presumably they'll so some rather simple math and see if it's worth it.
exactly. it's all about having an open mind.
though OP might have a point about your average US citizen - salt and sugar are way too prominent in the diet.
i find Coca-Cola a little hard to handle these days unless i'm drunk, and i actually prefer beer as a "snack" drink. even non-alcoholic beer is a good soft drink substitute. i wonder if it's worth giving it to my child - there's an ethical dilemma.
milk, i mean.
my half-indian wife is quite intolerant, but when she was pregnant, she guzzled the stuff.
bioethics is a new field consisting of amateur biologists or science writers coming up with absurd situations so they can see what people think of them, then sort out the ethics of it.
it's an interesting, if a little trollish field.
personally i'd like to see AI'd harvesting techniques (or just more immigrant labour), so you can plant diverse and complementary plants in the same crop. this will drastically reduce the incidence of typical crop pests, and natural pesticides from one plant will be useful amoung it's neighbors... the only problem with doing things this way is the added complexity in harvesting a wide range of plants all at once. hence the robots that can accurately recognise each plant.
you missed:
"Nothing is happening! Everything is fine! NANANANANANAAAANAAAANAAAAAA I'MNOTLISTENING!"
brains don't recognise "chair", so much as they recognise $object and we are trained by our environment to be good at spotting whatever $object is our specialty. this doesn't take long, and i'd reckon that a problem like this would take minutes of training to get equal or better than a computer, and a bit longer to far surpass it.
brains are very plastic, changable things.
wouldn't the problem at hand be NP-hard? maybe that's why gamers are beating the algos?
could this be a new way to "monetize" the internet? outsourcing hard problems for cash. with a cloud paradigm, it doesn't matter whether it's a cluster of computers or a crowd of aspies when the end result is the same.
sudo make beer
that's alright, it's not long to wait before the next APPLE APPLE APPLE story you're waiting for...
i wonder who modded this troll? this is the most accurate and concise post i've seen here today! and in a first post, no less.