I wouldn't call UTC monte carlo algorithms brute force.
If alpha-beta chess is brute force, then so is Monte Carlo Tree Search. They both use a massive amount computations in a straightforward algorithm. Both are scalable, where doubling the amount of computations leads to a linear improvement in ELO strength.
Read a bit on Go algorithms. This one isn't using a dumb search.
Read up on them yourself. It is doing dumb search. It's like having millions of stupid Go players at your disposal playing games among each other, while growing a best-first search tree based on the winning percentages.
No, this one must have used an extremely advanced search algorithm, very smartly removing unlikely branches of the search.
The algorithms are fairly new, but it isn't rocket science. The really surprising thing is that it actually works for Go. Seriously, the ideas behind these algorithms are simple and easy to understand.
Knowledge about the complexities of the game is not required for the machine to win with this method, and that makes me call bullshit.
Actually, this is a good thing. Before Monte Carlo methods started to dominate Go (about 2 years ago), all the top programs were written with human-coded expert knowledge. Progress was extremely slow and didn't keep up with advances in computer hardware. It took decades of man-labor to achieve a moderate success, which was all surpassed in a couple of years by MoGo.
Furthermore, hardly any advances were being made in Artificial Intelligence, since most of the work involved adding specialized domain knowledge that only applied to Go.
What's really exciting here is that such a simple method works in a game that people thought was beyond brute force. Tactics, strategy, "expert" knowledge can be discovered without hand-coding them. With computers going the massively parallel route this is a very big deal.
Too lazy to Google it, but my assumption would be that the insect DNA (if said story is true) is from food, not spiders eaten in your sleep. Bugs end up in processed food.
It's effective on you. Advertising is about brand recognition, which you nicely demonstrated by mentioning Geico and Budweiser. It doesn't matter if you got the mascot screwed up.
He was clearly evangelizing, suggesting others give up defending themselves and asking for Christ to protect them. Testifying that he prays, and God shows him the way. Includes a religious quote.
If you do this on Slashdot, you will get a response, since many people view religion as fairy tales.
Actually, if you follow the link, you'll see that that is just the front page.
The front page is the face to the world. It's like sending in a resume full of typos. These guys have extremely high standards if you look at their forum announcements, so it's extremely glaring to have such an amateurish front page.
Actually, I think it has more to do with insecurity.
I'm sure that's part of it. There's also annoyance and frustration at things that are obviously wrong. This is a result of thinking critically all the time. Look at their announcements that I linked to. I support most of their high standards, but many average gamers would be like "wtf, lol".
They provide info for the benefit of all rather than keep it to themselves (something a true elitist would do).
What would be the point? You're so into the Kool Aid that you'd just deny any bias I've shown. For example:
Today's Democratic party is to the right of Richard Nixon, so calling it leftist is laughable.
Whether that's true or not (I don't know, I haven't done a side by side comparison), it's besides the point. There's clearly bi-partisan politics still going on, with lots of screaming monkeys throwing poo at each other. Each side thinks they are normal and unbiased, and thinks the other side extremists.
As for Slashdot, it so obviously leans to the Democrats you'd have to be in the Kool Aid not to see it. To me it sounds like you do see it, but deny people lose their objectiveness and get all screechy.
Quibbling about page layout is just arrogance on your part.
That wasn't quibbling, that was pointing out completely horrid design, the kind of stuff any site would get mocked for on Slashdot, good content or not.
I don't understand why nerd culture has to belittle everything.
The same reason people hold themselves to be elitists and look down on others.
What a hilarious reference, Elitistjerks.com, who knew such a thing existed?
And in true l33t fashion, their homepage design is god awful. 1/3 of the horizontal real estate wasted on a stat counter, and the rest of it blown to hell with megabytes worth of images at insane resolutions.
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I second this. The Keaton / Nicholson films took place in a world that was Willy Wonka-esque. You had to just roll with it and say "oh, it's a movie!" to believe it.
Well, it is based on a comic book, with comic book villains, and a guy that runs around in a bat suit fighting crime. I haven't seen the current movie, but when I see Ledger's Joker in promos I have no desire to see the movie. It's too damn gritty. The combination of trying to be real and also living in a comic book world (even a dark one) doesn't work at all for me.
It's the nature of screechy politics that ratchets up everything the "other" side does to extreme levels. Where election fraud becomes treason and calls for summary execution.
I believe massive systemic election rigging would also be considered the equivalent (or close equivalent) to treason by the founders of this country.
There's no evidence for that. It's the opposite, as has been stated earlier in this thread, the Constitution clearly defines it because the founders were afraid of a loose definition of treason.
We have laws against election fraud, and those are the proper ones to prosecute with. Treason should be reserved for (as an example, not that I believe in it) an actual US conspiracy for 9/11.
Oh, and on the scale of election frauds, this isn't like some national overthrow of the government. Democrats took over majority position in Congress during the past election cycle. If this was a national coup, the conspirators did a very poor job. While reports are election fraud are disturbing, I think these are isolated incidents, and not the massive rigging you make it out to be.
There are far more Kool Aid drinking Democrats than Republicans on Slashdot. Any downmod would have been followed by an indignant "mod parent up!" and would have been acted upon. If you don't think Slashdot leans Left than you've been drinking that Kool Aid yourself.
I don't care how you stretch it, it was not treason. Election fraud does not scale up to treason. Treason was Benedict Arnold.
Election fraud is no laughing matter, and should be prosecuted under the appropriate law, but histrionic charges of "treason!" and "up against the wall!" are a joke and make you look like a bunch of rabid partisans.
I think in general people don't like hidden fees (Americans or otherwise). However, I'm not surprised at the responses you get. First of all, you're a foreigner questioning an American system, so the natural reaction is to defend. Second, there are a lot of Libertarian types on places like Slashdot. I have a Libertarian bent myself, but I am in favor of some consumer protection laws.
News has always been a mix of actual information and hyped up stories. It's neither all bad nor all good. Your doom and gloom of "nowadays" is the same thing every generation complains about.
Any other ideas on why they'd want this not to be looked into?
It's human nature not to want to admit mistakes, even to yourself. These people have spent years convicting people on DNA, and in the mind of the public it's rock solid -- if they have you on DNA, case closed.
The upheaval in the court system will be huge. All cases where DNA evidence was used will have to be retried. Throw in the mentality of "we know he's guilty anyways" based on other evidence, and it's not surprising that the FBI would rather sweep this under the carpet.
The idea that the FBI is part of some conspiracy to get slave labor is absurd.
I'm not sure I exactly agree with this definition, but clearly an argument could be made that subverting elections would in essence be "war" against the republic.
Umm, election fraud, pure and simple. It's not a new crime, and it has never been held to be treason. It's just more screechy politics that you would laugh at if the other side were making similar charges.
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I wouldn't call UTC monte carlo algorithms brute force.
If alpha-beta chess is brute force, then so is Monte Carlo Tree Search. They both use a massive amount computations in a straightforward algorithm. Both are scalable, where doubling the amount of computations leads to a linear improvement in ELO strength.
Read a bit on Go algorithms. This one isn't using a dumb search.
Read up on them yourself. It is doing dumb search. It's like having millions of stupid Go players at your disposal playing games among each other, while growing a best-first search tree based on the winning percentages.
No, this one must have used an extremely advanced search algorithm, very smartly removing unlikely branches of the search.
The algorithms are fairly new, but it isn't rocket science. The really surprising thing is that it actually works for Go. Seriously, the ideas behind these algorithms are simple and easy to understand.
Knowledge about the complexities of the game is not required for the machine to win with this method, and that makes me call bullshit.
Actually, this is a good thing. Before Monte Carlo methods started to dominate Go (about 2 years ago), all the top programs were written with human-coded expert knowledge. Progress was extremely slow and didn't keep up with advances in computer hardware. It took decades of man-labor to achieve a moderate success, which was all surpassed in a couple of years by MoGo.
Furthermore, hardly any advances were being made in Artificial Intelligence, since most of the work involved adding specialized domain knowledge that only applied to Go.
What's really exciting here is that such a simple method works in a game that people thought was beyond brute force. Tactics, strategy, "expert" knowledge can be discovered without hand-coding them. With computers going the massively parallel route this is a very big deal.
Too lazy to Google it, but my assumption would be that the insect DNA (if said story is true) is from food, not spiders eaten in your sleep. Bugs end up in processed food.
It's effective on you. Advertising is about brand recognition, which you nicely demonstrated by mentioning Geico and Budweiser. It doesn't matter if you got the mascot screwed up.
he doesn't preach
He was clearly evangelizing, suggesting others give up defending themselves and asking for Christ to protect them. Testifying that he prays, and God shows him the way. Includes a religious quote.
If you do this on Slashdot, you will get a response, since many people view religion as fairy tales.
Actually, if you follow the link, you'll see that that is just the front page.
The front page is the face to the world. It's like sending in a resume full of typos. These guys have extremely high standards if you look at their forum announcements, so it's extremely glaring to have such an amateurish front page.
Actually, I think it has more to do with insecurity.
I'm sure that's part of it. There's also annoyance and frustration at things that are obviously wrong. This is a result of thinking critically all the time. Look at their announcements that I linked to. I support most of their high standards, but many average gamers would be like "wtf, lol".
They provide info for the benefit of all rather than keep it to themselves (something a true elitist would do).
Which is great, hats off to them.
Then you should have no problem proving it then.
What would be the point? You're so into the Kool Aid that you'd just deny any bias I've shown. For example:
Today's Democratic party is to the right of Richard Nixon, so calling it leftist is laughable.
Whether that's true or not (I don't know, I haven't done a side by side comparison), it's besides the point. There's clearly bi-partisan politics still going on, with lots of screaming monkeys throwing poo at each other. Each side thinks they are normal and unbiased, and thinks the other side extremists.
As for Slashdot, it so obviously leans to the Democrats you'd have to be in the Kool Aid not to see it. To me it sounds like you do see it, but deny people lose their objectiveness and get all screechy.
Quibbling about page layout is just arrogance on your part.
That wasn't quibbling, that was pointing out completely horrid design, the kind of stuff any site would get mocked for on Slashdot, good content or not.
I don't understand why nerd culture has to belittle everything.
The same reason people hold themselves to be elitists and look down on others.
Liar.
Kool Aid drinker.
Here's a helpful suggestion for you
Got one for you too: Stop throwing feces and look at things objectively.
What a hilarious reference, Elitistjerks.com, who knew such a thing existed?
And in true l33t fashion, their homepage design is god awful. 1/3 of the horizontal real estate wasted on a stat counter, and the rest of it blown to hell with megabytes worth of images at insane resolutions.
I second this. The Keaton / Nicholson films took place in a world that was Willy Wonka-esque. You had to just roll with it and say "oh, it's a movie!" to believe it.
Well, it is based on a comic book, with comic book villains, and a guy that runs around in a bat suit fighting crime. I haven't seen the current movie, but when I see Ledger's Joker in promos I have no desire to see the movie. It's too damn gritty. The combination of trying to be real and also living in a comic book world (even a dark one) doesn't work at all for me.
But, "Rabid Partisans"
Where the hell does that come from?
It's the nature of screechy politics that ratchets up everything the "other" side does to extreme levels. Where election fraud becomes treason and calls for summary execution.
I believe massive systemic election rigging would also be considered the equivalent (or close equivalent) to treason by the founders of this country.
There's no evidence for that. It's the opposite, as has been stated earlier in this thread, the Constitution clearly defines it because the founders were afraid of a loose definition of treason.
We have laws against election fraud, and those are the proper ones to prosecute with. Treason should be reserved for (as an example, not that I believe in it) an actual US conspiracy for 9/11.
Oh, and on the scale of election frauds, this isn't like some national overthrow of the government. Democrats took over majority position in Congress during the past election cycle. If this was a national coup, the conspirators did a very poor job. While reports are election fraud are disturbing, I think these are isolated incidents, and not the massive rigging you make it out to be.
There are far more Kool Aid drinking Democrats than Republicans on Slashdot. Any downmod would have been followed by an indignant "mod parent up!" and would have been acted upon. If you don't think Slashdot leans Left than you've been drinking that Kool Aid yourself.
You're arguing a straw man. I never said it wasn't malice. Read the posts I was replying to up-thread.
He's the guy who sold you out for cooler friends in tenth grade, idiots.
Hey, sorry you took it personal.
I don't care how you stretch it, it was not treason. Election fraud does not scale up to treason. Treason was Benedict Arnold.
Election fraud is no laughing matter, and should be prosecuted under the appropriate law, but histrionic charges of "treason!" and "up against the wall!" are a joke and make you look like a bunch of rabid partisans.
I agree, and I'm not apologizing for their behavior. They should do what's right in the name of justice.
However, that wasn't the topic I was replying to. I was talking about an alternative to the "slave labor" conspiracy angle.
I think in general people don't like hidden fees (Americans or otherwise). However, I'm not surprised at the responses you get. First of all, you're a foreigner questioning an American system, so the natural reaction is to defend. Second, there are a lot of Libertarian types on places like Slashdot. I have a Libertarian bent myself, but I am in favor of some consumer protection laws.
Free energy, as far as nutjob themes go, is fairly popular. Wikipedia has an article on it. Even MythBusters has gotten in on the act.
News has always been a mix of actual information and hyped up stories. It's neither all bad nor all good. Your doom and gloom of "nowadays" is the same thing every generation complains about.
I've never understood why Americans are so opposed to the idea of knowing how much they are going to pay before they buy something.
As an American, I've never run across this sentiment from the masses. I suppose the shop-keepers like it, and government likes people shopping.
Any other ideas on why they'd want this not to be looked into?
It's human nature not to want to admit mistakes, even to yourself. These people have spent years convicting people on DNA, and in the mind of the public it's rock solid -- if they have you on DNA, case closed.
The upheaval in the court system will be huge. All cases where DNA evidence was used will have to be retried. Throw in the mentality of "we know he's guilty anyways" based on other evidence, and it's not surprising that the FBI would rather sweep this under the carpet.
The idea that the FBI is part of some conspiracy to get slave labor is absurd.
Go ahead and mod me down, I've got decent karma.
Yeah, bashing Karl Rove will really get you modded down on Slashdot. Who's next, RIAA?
I'm not sure I exactly agree with this definition, but clearly an argument could be made that subverting elections would in essence be "war" against the republic.
Umm, election fraud, pure and simple. It's not a new crime, and it has never been held to be treason. It's just more screechy politics that you would laugh at if the other side were making similar charges.