Please fwd me some spam selling whatever it is you're smoking.
If Windows weren't so dominant an OS then botnets would operate on other systems as well (or in its place). It's a question of ROI, nothing else.
That said, it's also not a question of an "offending operating system." It's a question of uninformed (or incompetent, or both) users. If they can't be trusted to not double-click on an xxxxx.jpg.exe file in an email, they are likely to have problems with identity theft and other non-Windows-exclusive security issues. Rather than taking away Windows, these users need to receive training in basic computer security.
Using Windows is NOT a privilege, by the way. If the user paid for it, they have a right to use it.
Cutting off internet and then asking for demonstration that... they've bought a Mac? Will this be demonstrated using ninja magic? A photo via mail?
I can't tell whether you're a Windows elitist, a Mac fanboy, or just plain mental.
Yep a good philosophy to live by. Slaves should stay slaves. Citizens of oppressive dictatorships should be happy with their lot. And so forth.
People should have no liberty or security at all. Maybe something like a giant prison gone out of control on the inside but blockaded by armed law enforcement. Yeah that would be ideal.
I can't tell whether your post is Flamebait or Funny. If there were a "WTF" tag and I had mod points today, I'd just go with that.
It's equally unreasonable and irrational. Even if rhinos burned fuel, all drove Ford Excursions, and worked full time at Exxon-Mobil, and this was somehow predicted to lead to a population decline from current numbers, it would be insane to then suggest that we skip a few steps and take the population down an order of magnitude just to make sure it happens. TO WHAT END?
This is all part of the "humanity vs the planet" line of reasoning that fuels eco-terrorism at worst, ignorance at least, and a whole lot in-between.
Ah. Well if the reference is done in satire as well, then ok. But from the language of the original post, it really doesn't seem that way, even now. The "modest proposal" phrase certainly makes the reference obvious now, but the whole "if we don't do it, nature will" takes away the benefit of the doubt as far as I'm concerned.
Any time. It helps to ward off those who can't stand to be disrespected for posting bullcrap. Though, given that you've posted a reply, I see it's not 100% effective.
THAT's like saying me slapping YOU upside the head has the power of all the stars in all the galaxies in the universe going supernova at the same time for a MINUTE!
Indeed, but diesel prices don't have to be as high as they are. Diesel is a good bit more expensive than gasoline at the pumps, even though it's a lot less expensive to produce. Obviously so the companies selling both can make a lot more money. That diesel import vehicles get purchased less is probably an ok bonus, too (for US car manuf.).
Your idea will totally work because humans don't actually have any desire to procreate!
This might be a difficult concept to grasp, but there is no objective "good environment" as far as the planet is concerned. There is only the question of how good the environment is for whatever particular life to thrive. Even if your "modest proposal" wasn't HIT-MY-HEAD-AGAINST-THE-WALL-TO-RESTART-MY-BRAIN-CRAZY, to say that in order to achieve a "good environment" we would have to lose 90% of the human population, means it's NOT a good environment for humanity.
Seriously, that line of reasoning will kill braincells of rational people trying to follow it. It's the same thing as saying that because the current global ecosystem is unable to sustain the current population of white rhinos, what we should do is "humanely" drop their population to 10% of today's so that they can each have plenty of resources.
You're absolutely correct on all points. The system will create "best guess" chord progressions, in any case. I assume it's able to create several guesses based on a probability threshold the user sets initially (probably something like "show me the top 5 most 'fitting' progressions").
Based on what it's trained on, the system will show certain tendencies. If after training it's boxed up and given to a user to work with (no further training possibly by user), then the user will have to learn what these tendencies are and adjust accordingly.
And yes, to not create total rubbish the singer will have to have some musical sense. Just like how a "language model" is used to pick out the most-likely-to-be-correct translation from a lattice that the translation model generates in statistical natural language translation systems, the singer might need to pick out what he/she desires out of a set of possibilities the music generation system presents.
So, if your point was that this system will not be able to instantly fulfill an amateur singer's desires, then you're definitely right. Ideally the system would be able to be further trained on music the amateur singer personally enjoys (or wants to emulate), and would also learn from the choices the singer makes when selecting progressions generated by the system. Over time, then, it would do a better job of mapping the singer's vocals to what he/she wants to hear as an accompaniment.
I can't disagree with what you actually posted, but as far as this software goes, it all comes down to the training data. If it's mostly trained on top-40 pop, which is simple, formulaic, and doesn't really deviate much from the same few chord progressions, then it will be quite good at auto-generating top-40 pop-style music. It will of course be rubbish at everything else.
Training it on diverse music would be ideal if they had a lot more training data to work with. Otherwise you'll end up with very incoherent phrasing in the music. Two or three chords taken together might work, but longer progressions will start to sound weird and possibly introduce unintuitive key changes, etc.
If you throw thousands of songs at it, it will be able to map longer chord progressions properly, and you might get entire verses to sound coherent.
Basically I imagine it's the same approach used here as in statistical natural language translation. The baseline system probaly just uses n-grams, mapping sequences of n given notes to sequences of "most-likely corresponding" chords. (Notes may be identified by pitch+duration in this case.)
He doesn't want a job from them. In TFA it says so. And in fact he seems to be at least as adversarial about all this as Creative was. If you ask me he might a competent driver writer, but he has the social skills of a hippopotamus. Creative was most certainly not the "good guy" in this, but Kawakami didn't exactly take the high road at any point, either. And frankly I wouldn't even offer a job to him if I were any company, given his attitude and lack of tact.
OMG BONZI BUDDY! I remember that poltergeist! We installed him 6 years ago on my computer (I was a freshman in undergrad then) so that we could have him say stuff like "punch me in the testicles" and random variations on the Arnold's Pizza Shop message. But when that got boring it turned out he didn't want to leave. I don't remember what it took to exorcise him in the end, but it probably involved registry configuration and animal sacrifice.
What noobery. You're confusing the "what" with the "how". Finding eigenvalues is part of a particular page rank algorithm. It's not THE page rank algorithm. Likewise, statistical inference is part of particular "machine learning" systems. It's not THE system. Using statistical inference alone will give you crude (albeit good, with enough training data) baselines to work from in some applications such as automatic text translation, but you'll need more than that to overcome issues like data sparseness, etc.
I know anonymous cowards like playing expert, but there's a reason why you're the butt of so many jokes here -- only thing you're usually expert in is misinformation and disingenuity.
Well said (and quoted). It has always concerned me... as much as people oppose the current US involvement in Iraq, bringing back the draft (naturally), etc. I wonder how little of a "push" it would take for the government to pass whatever it pleases should the US be attacked once again on the scale of 9/11 (or worse).
Really, one more catastrophic incident with thousands of casualties, and we'll be back to waving flags and guns and common sensibility will give way to/get smothered by the war mongers.
And that's not to say that I know how a nation should respond to such incidents, or that I think the US responded poorly per se (initially, at least). Rather my point is that people don't realize just how little it would take for national sentiment to shift completely. If s--t hits the fan, not only WILL the propaganda machine go to work right away, but I am certain it will be effective.
This was way back in high school, but I'm fairly certain it will work well in any large, densely-populated building.
1) choose the victim building 2) get 3 pigs 3) paint very prominent digits -- '1', '2', and '4' -- on the pigs 4) release pigs in building selected in step 1
Watching folks round up the 3 pigs is fun enough. But it's hilarious to watch the long, futile search for pig #3.
I can't wait! Yeah, they'll probably manage to swindle folks into buying all sorts of F'n modules, and that's why they're going along with that business plan in the first place.
In Guild Wars (another MMORPG), those using bots are discouraged from doing so by a method different from suing those that write the macros -- ArenaNet (the devs) simply sniff out (using various AI mechanics) those that use bots and ban them from the game. This action is covered by the EULA that users accept before playing.
Whether EULAs hold up in court, etc. is another issue entirely, but in cases such as banning for using bots I'm fairly certain ArenaNet wouldn't have problems defending themselves.
People don't want to use bots in GW because they'll get banned. It takes tweaking the AI bot-sniffing to keep up with macros, but the system works well enough that high-profile lawsuits are unnecessary.
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Aston Martin's privately owned. Bought from Ford by rich Kuwaitis for $850 million or something.
Can't say that's necessarily a good thing, but I guess Ford wanted the money.
And yeah, Hyundais are better built than Astons. But Astons are better in many other regards of course.
Please fwd me some spam selling whatever it is you're smoking.
If Windows weren't so dominant an OS then botnets would operate on other systems as well (or in its place). It's a question of ROI, nothing else.
That said, it's also not a question of an "offending operating system." It's a question of uninformed (or incompetent, or both) users. If they can't be trusted to not double-click on an xxxxx.jpg.exe file in an email, they are likely to have problems with identity theft and other non-Windows-exclusive security issues. Rather than taking away Windows, these users need to receive training in basic computer security.
Using Windows is NOT a privilege, by the way. If the user paid for it, they have a right to use it.
Cutting off internet and then asking for demonstration that... they've bought a Mac? Will this be demonstrated using ninja magic? A photo via mail?
I can't tell whether you're a Windows elitist, a Mac fanboy, or just plain mental.
But you just did the same thing to make a snide remark. Fail.
Yep a good philosophy to live by. Slaves should stay slaves. Citizens of oppressive dictatorships should be happy with their lot. And so forth.
People should have no liberty or security at all. Maybe something like a giant prison gone out of control on the inside but blockaded by armed law enforcement. Yeah that would be ideal.
I can't tell whether your post is Flamebait or Funny. If there were a "WTF" tag and I had mod points today, I'd just go with that.
It's equally unreasonable and irrational. Even if rhinos burned fuel, all drove Ford Excursions, and worked full time at Exxon-Mobil, and this was somehow predicted to lead to a population decline from current numbers, it would be insane to then suggest that we skip a few steps and take the population down an order of magnitude just to make sure it happens. TO WHAT END?
This is all part of the "humanity vs the planet" line of reasoning that fuels eco-terrorism at worst, ignorance at least, and a whole lot in-between.
Ah. Well if the reference is done in satire as well, then ok. But from the language of the original post, it really doesn't seem that way, even now. The "modest proposal" phrase certainly makes the reference obvious now, but the whole "if we don't do it, nature will" takes away the benefit of the doubt as far as I'm concerned.
Any time. It helps to ward off those who can't stand to be disrespected for posting bullcrap. Though, given that you've posted a reply, I see it's not 100% effective.
THAT's like saying me slapping YOU upside the head has the power of all the stars in all the galaxies in the universe going supernova at the same time for a MINUTE!
(nonsense either way)
Indeed, but diesel prices don't have to be as high as they are. Diesel is a good bit more expensive than gasoline at the pumps, even though it's a lot less expensive to produce. Obviously so the companies selling both can make a lot more money. That diesel import vehicles get purchased less is probably an ok bonus, too (for US car manuf.).
Your idea will totally work because humans don't actually have any desire to procreate!
This might be a difficult concept to grasp, but there is no objective "good environment" as far as the planet is concerned. There is only the question of how good the environment is for whatever particular life to thrive. Even if your "modest proposal" wasn't HIT-MY-HEAD-AGAINST-THE-WALL-TO-RESTART-MY-BRAIN-CRAZY, to say that in order to achieve a "good environment" we would have to lose 90% of the human population, means it's NOT a good environment for humanity.
Seriously, that line of reasoning will kill braincells of rational people trying to follow it. It's the same thing as saying that because the current global ecosystem is unable to sustain the current population of white rhinos, what we should do is "humanely" drop their population to 10% of today's so that they can each have plenty of resources.
Final Fantasies, Mass Effect, Zelda, Elder Scrolls, Ultimas, Halo, etc. If you *adapt* those well, you can end up with very decent screenplays.
Adapting them well, that's another issue altogether. But the source material IS there, and it's rather abundant to be honest.
A lot of games have very weak stories, as do films. But many don't.
You're absolutely correct on all points. The system will create "best guess" chord progressions, in any case. I assume it's able to create several guesses based on a probability threshold the user sets initially (probably something like "show me the top 5 most 'fitting' progressions").
Based on what it's trained on, the system will show certain tendencies. If after training it's boxed up and given to a user to work with (no further training possibly by user), then the user will have to learn what these tendencies are and adjust accordingly.
And yes, to not create total rubbish the singer will have to have some musical sense. Just like how a "language model" is used to pick out the most-likely-to-be-correct translation from a lattice that the translation model generates in statistical natural language translation systems, the singer might need to pick out what he/she desires out of a set of possibilities the music generation system presents.
So, if your point was that this system will not be able to instantly fulfill an amateur singer's desires, then you're definitely right. Ideally the system would be able to be further trained on music the amateur singer personally enjoys (or wants to emulate), and would also learn from the choices the singer makes when selecting progressions generated by the system. Over time, then, it would do a better job of mapping the singer's vocals to what he/she wants to hear as an accompaniment.
I can't disagree with what you actually posted, but as far as this software goes, it all comes down to the training data. If it's mostly trained on top-40 pop, which is simple, formulaic, and doesn't really deviate much from the same few chord progressions, then it will be quite good at auto-generating top-40 pop-style music. It will of course be rubbish at everything else.
Training it on diverse music would be ideal if they had a lot more training data to work with. Otherwise you'll end up with very incoherent phrasing in the music. Two or three chords taken together might work, but longer progressions will start to sound weird and possibly introduce unintuitive key changes, etc.
If you throw thousands of songs at it, it will be able to map longer chord progressions properly, and you might get entire verses to sound coherent.
Basically I imagine it's the same approach used here as in statistical natural language translation. The baseline system probaly just uses n-grams, mapping sequences of n given notes to sequences of "most-likely corresponding" chords. (Notes may be identified by pitch+duration in this case.)
He doesn't want a job from them. In TFA it says so. And in fact he seems to be at least as adversarial about all this as Creative was. If you ask me he might a competent driver writer, but he has the social skills of a hippopotamus. Creative was most certainly not the "good guy" in this, but Kawakami didn't exactly take the high road at any point, either. And frankly I wouldn't even offer a job to him if I were any company, given his attitude and lack of tact.
Good thing for Microsoft, then, that the market for $10k tables is so big among rich, gay men in San Francisco.
Well what we can do now is release t-shirts that say "When I was your age, Omega Centauri was a globular cluster."
OMG BONZI BUDDY! I remember that poltergeist! We installed him 6 years ago on my computer (I was a freshman in undergrad then) so that we could have him say stuff like "punch me in the testicles" and random variations on the Arnold's Pizza Shop message. But when that got boring it turned out he didn't want to leave. I don't remember what it took to exorcise him in the end, but it probably involved registry configuration and animal sacrifice.
What noobery. You're confusing the "what" with the "how". Finding eigenvalues is part of a particular page rank algorithm. It's not THE page rank algorithm. Likewise, statistical inference is part of particular "machine learning" systems. It's not THE system. Using statistical inference alone will give you crude (albeit good, with enough training data) baselines to work from in some applications such as automatic text translation, but you'll need more than that to overcome issues like data sparseness, etc.
I know anonymous cowards like playing expert, but there's a reason why you're the butt of so many jokes here -- only thing you're usually expert in is misinformation and disingenuity.
Well said (and quoted). It has always concerned me... as much as people oppose the current US involvement in Iraq, bringing back the draft (naturally), etc. I wonder how little of a "push" it would take for the government to pass whatever it pleases should the US be attacked once again on the scale of 9/11 (or worse).
Really, one more catastrophic incident with thousands of casualties, and we'll be back to waving flags and guns and common sensibility will give way to/get smothered by the war mongers.
And that's not to say that I know how a nation should respond to such incidents, or that I think the US responded poorly per se (initially, at least). Rather my point is that people don't realize just how little it would take for national sentiment to shift completely. If s--t hits the fan, not only WILL the propaganda machine go to work right away, but I am certain it will be effective.
It's tough, and here you also have to watch out for their guns. Your best bet is to use "special" powdered doughnuts as a lure.
Yah and that ain't all you can measure.
Speaking of which that goes for boobs, too. I also wonder if this one metric would lead to performance as good as what the research in TFA managed.
This was way back in high school, but I'm fairly certain it will work well in any large, densely-populated building.
1) choose the victim building
2) get 3 pigs
3) paint very prominent digits -- '1', '2', and '4' -- on the pigs
4) release pigs in building selected in step 1
Watching folks round up the 3 pigs is fun enough. But it's hilarious to watch the long, futile search for pig #3.
WTF is a Scilon? It sounds cool. Is it a new Protoss unit in StarCraft 2?
I can't wait! Yeah, they'll probably manage to swindle folks into buying all sorts of F'n modules, and that's why they're going along with that business plan in the first place.
In Guild Wars (another MMORPG), those using bots are discouraged from doing so by a method different from suing those that write the macros -- ArenaNet (the devs) simply sniff out (using various AI mechanics) those that use bots and ban them from the game. This action is covered by the EULA that users accept before playing.
Whether EULAs hold up in court, etc. is another issue entirely, but in cases such as banning for using bots I'm fairly certain ArenaNet wouldn't have problems defending themselves.
People don't want to use bots in GW because they'll get banned. It takes tweaking the AI bot-sniffing to keep up with macros, but the system works well enough that high-profile lawsuits are unnecessary.