Yes, Amazon robots can locate a shelf of products and retrieve it (as long as the shelf is uniform, and labeled clearly). That is releatively easy to do. But pick an arbitrary item out of a box and then pack it? Very very hard. In fact, might not be possible to get it to work reliably.
FTFA:
"The robots still aren’t as good as humans. They get stumped by stuff wrapped in plastic or things partly obscured by other items, for instance." "RightHand’s Jentoft said robots in the pilot programs are being used mostly to pick items from boxes."
You rarely solve a complex problem all at once, it's usually solving parts of a problem until you have solved the whole thing. They will get there in time.
CPU technology isn't going to progress in leaps and bounds anymore, so we might be getting close to the fastest digital processors we will ever see. Of course people scoff and say "Moore's Law", but the fact is that Moore's Law is dead. It is obvious by just looking at the current state of computing that it is dead. That is why there is a rush to multi-core. Everything is dependent on progress of digital processors. And they haven't been progressing at the same rate as they have been historically. Not even close.
1) Moore's Law is an observation about the number of transistors in CPUs, not their computational power or power draw. It has no direct correlation to performance. 2) GPUs massively accelerate computer vision solutions and there is plenty of processing power. 3) Neural networks are ultimately more suited for this type of task since they work like brains, so a shift to using NN chips is inevitable. 4) If I've told you once, I've told you a billion times, DO NOT PROVOKE THE BORG.
...convincing publishers to open up their licensing agreements, that figure is approaching 40 percent...
“It’s not that much actual work to do it, it’s just about flipping a switch and getting publishers to agree to releasing this data,”
But when the publishers see what the Initiative for Open Citations is doing, won't the publishers just terminate the licensing agreement because they are potentially cutting into the publishers' profits?
because he's our president and he made promises to take no actions, knowing that chemical weapons were in play.
What do you think the leader of the United States should do when confronted with a chemical weapons attack?
remember the part where i wrote, "I'm not commenting on whether that is good or bad, I'm just saying, he sure doesn't seem to be a man of his word"? The point is that he's not a man of his word.
look at your remark above and consider whether it was a useful comment or just sour grapes.
The point was to highlight that he breaks his word whenever it suits him. If it brings anyone a little closer to understanding who the man is then it was a useful comment. If it was really sour grapes then would have said something mean about voters and insulted them. The truth is we had two bad options and we picked the greater evil.
In other words, whenever you get to hear one of them talk about "ritual" reasons for something, it basically means "we really have no good idea why the heck they did that".
Considering the strange and elaborate rituals of current humans, it's a good deduction. I understand that science is all about continually seeking evidence and positing the best explanation when you find more.
These actions seem to be yet another thing that run contrary to his rhetoric. I'm not commenting on whether that is good or bad, I'm just saying, he sure doesn't seem to be a man of his word.
To say it was a ritualistic is missing the mark. The truth is that they ate people with "poko" (exceptional traits). Tribes would disseminate lists of exceptional traits they needed to acquire to advance within the hierarchy of their tribes. The quest to advance to the tribe leader has been succinctly described as, "Pokoman: gotta eat 'em all."
If he meant to create combustible fuels from the atmosphere by inputting energy and then just using said fuel for propulsion, then that's at least not apriori not thermodynamically impossible
Which is why I wrote it, dummy! -_-
What makes it silly, however, is the inefficiency of this idea.
The question posed was, "[h]ow can a jet be electric?", not what's efficient and realistic model for air transport. Stop assuming!
What you're willfully ignoring here is that the efficiency is not all that matters.
Not at all.
A plane has a certain payload capacity, and the fuel/battery load counts against that. Your 10x greater efficiency (actually it's closer to 2x) does no good if the energy density of batteries is so low that you now have zero remaining payload for passengers and cargo. And you get most of the 2x worse efficiency back by the fuel being burned (and thus no longer having to carry its weight) throughout the flight.
"It's more complex than such a simple example but the fact remains it's the system that matters, not the energy storage medium," sums it up pretty good, no?
TFA openly admits the technology is not yet there to make a fully electric jet viable. Which was AC's point.
Actually, the AC's point was that we may never make a fully electric jet viable due to power density.
It's a problem the snake oil salesman known as Ashish Kumar is willfully ignoring.
Yes, batteries will get better, but 40 times better ? That remains to be seen, and there is NO guarantee
What the AC is willfully ignoring here is that the efficiency of the system is what matters, not energy density. If you have a chemical system that 10 times the energy density but only 10% the efficiency and the electrical system would have an equal amount of power. It's more complex than such a simple example but the fact remains it's the system that matters, not the energy storage medium.
A jet can be fully electric if it uses the atmosphere from the intake to create a combustible fuel and then combusts it. This would require a lot of energy but it is possible since our atmosphere can be broken down into combustible components.
However, when this article refers to a jet, they are referring to the class of airplanes known as business jets and their variation on business jets is electric.
I see little reason that I should have to pay money for TV shows that have commercials in it that cannot be skipped. They can continue being greedy assholes and I can continue only paying for services without commercials.
Then don't respect the man, respect the President.
Respect is earned, not gifted or required regardless of status. However, considering I've been civil (by not breaking laws) about him being in office, I think that's amount of respect earned. Frankly, I've thought he would be impeached since the day he was elected because I understand the kind of man that he is.
Even though we disagree, I do not wish to be your foe.
What good is an opponent that cannot recognize a joke for what it is and move on?
Democracy requires public debate. So we should engage, even if we two are the only ones who benefit. Name calling only gets in the way, so we should avoid it.
We're not actually debating anything to do with democracy. I called him Mango in Chief and you said I shouldn't for the most hypocritical of reasons.
Consider this, if he was just a run of the mill republican or democrat, I wouldn't say anything bad about him (policies, sure but not him). Hell, he's the only president that I've ever made fun of and I've seen my share of presidents doing dumb and shameful things.
You mean the GNOME that was so "wonderful" that it resulted in the rise of multipleforks and a mass exodus of developers? The GNOME 3 series has had to undo every major UI design change they have made because people hated it so much.
This isn't internet connectivity being added to each robot, it's more like an intranet that connect to a single server per factory that has one job: sending data over the net to a specified destination. The destination holds all the info for all the factories and allows factories to have their part inventory managed from a central location. To actually change what the robot does, you would need to hack the factory server and the robot's computer. The good thing about this setup is that it's unlikely to need maintenance or even patching because it's so incredibly basic. This means it's easy to lockdown the server that actually faces the Internet to do it's one thing: send data. Considering the factories are their bread and butter, I have a hard time seeing them skimping on security for the factories. However, I could see the factory management server getting hacked if it uses some bonehead design like it runs on IIS or something. The only thing you can really do though is wreak havoc with their part inventory.
TL;DR: hacking is unlikely though hacking the robot computers and reprogramming the robots would require a state-sponsored level of hacking.
Security people have been warning people about this possibility for a long time. I certain various government agencies from various governments have developed their own UEFI rootkits for a slew of motherboards.
It sure seems like Slashdot is falling in love with misleading headlines because there seems to be a plenty of them lately. I don't know who or why is making them misleading but please, knock it off.
No seriously, why would anyone that isn't competing with or invested in the Alphabet actually care? Does anyone really care what teenagers think is cool or are they just trying to sell a product?
Tesla having a market cap bigger than Ford makes no rational sense even with the most optimistic possible growth expectations for Tesla.
It doesn't make sense until you recognize they have a good chance of becoming the dominant car and battery manufacturer on a global scale, though it may take a decade.
Android is an userland built on the Linux kernel, much like GNU is built on the Linux kernel.
Android is as much Linux as Ubuntu is Linux.
Yes, buried in there somewhere is a Linux kernel, but the kernel is not the operating system.
You have a poor definition of operating system because Linux does everything that is required of an operating system. Also, who said anything about it being an operating system? The only thing he mentioned was Linux.
scientist> All the world's most valuable information has been stored in this room! politician> All of it? Then why are you asking for so much additional funding? scientist> You see those two mountains? politician> Yeah?... scientist> The one on the left will be filled with porn and the one on the right with pictures of cats. politician> My God, it's beautiful!
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Yes, Amazon robots can locate a shelf of products and retrieve it (as long as the shelf is uniform, and labeled clearly). That is releatively easy to do. But pick an arbitrary item out of a box and then pack it? Very very hard. In fact, might not be possible to get it to work reliably.
FTFA:
"The robots still aren’t as good as humans. They get stumped by stuff wrapped in plastic or things partly obscured by other items, for instance."
"RightHand’s Jentoft said robots in the pilot programs are being used mostly to pick items from boxes."
You rarely solve a complex problem all at once, it's usually solving parts of a problem until you have solved the whole thing. They will get there in time.
CPU technology isn't going to progress in leaps and bounds anymore, so we might be getting close to the fastest digital processors we will ever see. Of course people scoff and say "Moore's Law", but the fact is that Moore's Law is dead. It is obvious by just looking at the current state of computing that it is dead. That is why there is a rush to multi-core. Everything is dependent on progress of digital processors. And they haven't been progressing at the same rate as they have been historically. Not even close.
1) Moore's Law is an observation about the number of transistors in CPUs, not their computational power or power draw. It has no direct correlation to performance.
2) GPUs massively accelerate computer vision solutions and there is plenty of processing power.
3) Neural networks are ultimately more suited for this type of task since they work like brains, so a shift to using NN chips is inevitable.
4) If I've told you once, I've told you a billion times, DO NOT PROVOKE THE BORG.
...convincing publishers to open up their licensing agreements, that figure is approaching 40 percent...
“It’s not that much actual work to do it, it’s just about flipping a switch and getting publishers to agree to releasing this data,”
But when the publishers see what the Initiative for Open Citations is doing, won't the publishers just terminate the licensing agreement because they are potentially cutting into the publishers' profits?
Why is this about Drumpf?
because he's our president and he made promises to take no actions, knowing that chemical weapons were in play.
What do you think the leader of the United States should do when confronted with a chemical weapons attack?
remember the part where i wrote, "I'm not commenting on whether that is good or bad, I'm just saying, he sure doesn't seem to be a man of his word"? The point is that he's not a man of his word.
look at your remark above and consider whether it was a useful comment or just sour grapes.
The point was to highlight that he breaks his word whenever it suits him. If it brings anyone a little closer to understanding who the man is then it was a useful comment. If it was really sour grapes then would have said something mean about voters and insulted them. The truth is we had two bad options and we picked the greater evil.
In other words, whenever you get to hear one of them talk about "ritual" reasons for something, it basically means "we really have no good idea why the heck they did that".
Considering the strange and elaborate rituals of current humans, it's a good deduction. I understand that science is all about continually seeking evidence and positing the best explanation when you find more.
Oh, I did. I just think it needs to be highlighted for the people who believed him.
These actions seem to be yet another thing that run contrary to his rhetoric. I'm not commenting on whether that is good or bad, I'm just saying, he sure doesn't seem to be a man of his word.
To say it was a ritualistic is missing the mark. The truth is that they ate people with "poko" (exceptional traits). Tribes would disseminate lists of exceptional traits they needed to acquire to advance within the hierarchy of their tribes. The quest to advance to the tribe leader has been succinctly described as, "Pokoman: gotta eat 'em all."
If he meant to create combustible fuels from the atmosphere by inputting energy and then just using said fuel for propulsion, then that's at least not apriori not thermodynamically impossible
Which is why I wrote it, dummy! -_-
What makes it silly, however, is the inefficiency of this idea.
The question posed was, "[h]ow can a jet be electric?", not what's efficient and realistic model for air transport. Stop assuming!
What you're willfully ignoring here is that the efficiency is not all that matters.
Not at all.
A plane has a certain payload capacity, and the fuel/battery load counts against that. Your 10x greater efficiency (actually it's closer to 2x) does no good if the energy density of batteries is so low that you now have zero remaining payload for passengers and cargo. And you get most of the 2x worse efficiency back by the fuel being burned (and thus no longer having to carry its weight) throughout the flight.
"It's more complex than such a simple example but the fact remains it's the system that matters, not the energy storage medium," sums it up pretty good, no?
TFA openly admits the technology is not yet there to make a fully electric jet viable. Which was AC's point.
Actually, the AC's point was that we may never make a fully electric jet viable due to power density.
It's a problem the snake oil salesman known as Ashish Kumar is willfully ignoring.
Yes, batteries will get better, but 40 times better ? That remains to be seen, and there is NO guarantee
What the AC is willfully ignoring here is that the efficiency of the system is what matters, not energy density. If you have a chemical system that 10 times the energy density but only 10% the efficiency and the electrical system would have an equal amount of power. It's more complex than such a simple example but the fact remains it's the system that matters, not the energy storage medium.
How can a jet be electric?
A jet can be fully electric if it uses the atmosphere from the intake to create a combustible fuel and then combusts it. This would require a lot of energy but it is possible since our atmosphere can be broken down into combustible components.
However, when this article refers to a jet, they are referring to the class of airplanes known as business jets and their variation on business jets is electric.
I see little reason that I should have to pay money for TV shows that have commercials in it that cannot be skipped. They can continue being greedy assholes and I can continue only paying for services without commercials.
Then don't respect the man, respect the President.
Respect is earned, not gifted or required regardless of status. However, considering I've been civil (by not breaking laws) about him being in office, I think that's amount of respect earned. Frankly, I've thought he would be impeached since the day he was elected because I understand the kind of man that he is.
Even though we disagree, I do not wish to be your foe.
What good is an opponent that cannot recognize a joke for what it is and move on?
Democracy requires public debate. So we should engage, even if we two are the only ones who benefit. Name calling only gets in the way, so we should avoid it.
We're not actually debating anything to do with democracy. I called him Mango in Chief and you said I shouldn't for the most hypocritical of reasons.
Consider this, if he was just a run of the mill republican or democrat, I wouldn't say anything bad about him (policies, sure but not him). Hell, he's the only president that I've ever made fun of and I've seen my share of presidents doing dumb and shameful things.
You mean the GNOME that was so "wonderful" that it resulted in the rise of multiple forks and a mass exodus of developers? The GNOME 3 series has had to undo every major UI design change they have made because people hated it so much.
You could just as well have said "No privacy for you because purple monkey dishwasher"
My God, you're right! That story changed my life. ;)
he won the election and deserves the same respect as any other President.
To get respect you must first act respectable.
Enjoy your mango while you can.
This isn't internet connectivity being added to each robot, it's more like an intranet that connect to a single server per factory that has one job: sending data over the net to a specified destination. The destination holds all the info for all the factories and allows factories to have their part inventory managed from a central location. To actually change what the robot does, you would need to hack the factory server and the robot's computer. The good thing about this setup is that it's unlikely to need maintenance or even patching because it's so incredibly basic. This means it's easy to lockdown the server that actually faces the Internet to do it's one thing: send data. Considering the factories are their bread and butter, I have a hard time seeing them skimping on security for the factories. However, I could see the factory management server getting hacked if it uses some bonehead design like it runs on IIS or something. The only thing you can really do though is wreak havoc with their part inventory.
TL;DR: hacking is unlikely though hacking the robot computers and reprogramming the robots would require a state-sponsored level of hacking.
Security people have been warning people about this possibility for a long time. I certain various government agencies from various governments have developed their own UEFI rootkits for a slew of motherboards.
It sure seems like Slashdot is falling in love with misleading headlines because there seems to be a plenty of them lately. I don't know who or why is making them misleading but please, knock it off.
No seriously, why would anyone that isn't competing with or invested in the Alphabet actually care? Does anyone really care what teenagers think is cool or are they just trying to sell a product?
...and promptly refilled it with water that smells worse.
Uhh... that ain't no water, buddy. It's raw sewage.
Tesla having a market cap bigger than Ford makes no rational sense even with the most optimistic possible growth expectations for Tesla.
It doesn't make sense until you recognize they have a good chance of becoming the dominant car and battery manufacturer on a global scale, though it may take a decade.
Which part of "disastrous outcomes like rivers catching fire" is about cronyism?
Android isn't really Linux.
Android is an userland built on the Linux kernel, much like GNU is built on the Linux kernel.
Android is as much Linux as Ubuntu is Linux.
Yes, buried in there somewhere is a Linux kernel, but the kernel is not the operating system.
You have a poor definition of operating system because Linux does everything that is required of an operating system. Also, who said anything about it being an operating system? The only thing he mentioned was Linux.
scientist> All the world's most valuable information has been stored in this room!
politician> All of it? Then why are you asking for so much additional funding?
scientist> You see those two mountains?
politician> Yeah?...
scientist> The one on the left will be filled with porn and the one on the right with pictures of cats.
politician> My God, it's beautiful!