The book is much better, unfolds on a more realistic time scale, has a much more believable twist leading to people being unfairly persecuted. Totally hated the Hydrogen explosion at Jupiter saving the Earth in the movie.That said a great first try by China at a big budget Sci-Fi, as good or better than the average American big budget Sci-Fi. Not China's 2001, more like China's Armageddon.
Please China don't mess up The Three Body Problem (they've already shelved one failed attempt). Despite a comment in another thread. The Three Body Problem is the best Sci-Fi trilogy I've read in 40 years. The book Wandering Earth pails to insignificance compared to TTBP.
I have a high school aged daughter and the school system has a schizophrenic approach to text books. In the science curriculum they mostly switched over to Power Point demonstrations of the knowledge they need to know. Where is the “knowledge” itself? Undefined. Just an outline of what you need to know. In a parent teacher conference I asked where they get the “knowledge,” what I got was a rambling explanation of a variety of source including the “OLD Science Curriculum book”, but the book is only available to use at the school because it isn’t distributed to the students anymore. The Power Point is derived from the old book, but can’t be bothered to give page numbers or chapters for what needs to be looked up. Basically they expect the kids to just Google everything and if all else fails use an old book in class and find the item by looking them up in the index.
Very little emphasis is placed on knowing basic science knowledge and facts, but rather HOW to do research. Keeping elaborate lab books and statistics, but again hardly any real emphasis on knowing the structure of science from the ground up. That’s just all stuff you Google when you need it. Oh and about the knowledge they did look up, it is all mostly ephemeral stuff like percentage of this and percentage of that or completely isolated factoids with out a reference to the whole framework they reside in.
Now the math curriculum where we are at is much better, stellar as a matter of fact. No complaints there (other than the very competitive nature). But SCIENCE is a mess from what I’ve seen.
Last note, I don’t care if a book is paper or electronic, but learning shouldn’t be constant steam of Google look-ups. Which isn’t to say Google doesn’t have a place if you are doing your own separate learning project, but give’m books for the core stuff!
From Wikipedia on Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE): Atlantic Hurricane Seasons 1851 - 2018 scroll to the bottom, see how everything goes crazy yellow and orange starting in 1995.
I think I trust this more than your crazy conspiracy site. Hey, but don't let facts change your mind.
Seems all energy storage methods have pros and cons and this one seems to not be superior across the board from the replies I’m seeing. I remember seeing years ago compressed air as an energy storage type for cars. What I’m thinking though is it seems this method would make a really great adjunct storage solution where you need cooling. You have to add heat back in to get the efficiency back up, seems server farms could make great use of the added cooling. Maybe electric cars in warmer climbs would also benefit from an alternate AC powered by compressed air which also generates some extra watts as well.
VR growth may be slow, but it isn’t stopping. I have a Lenovo Microsoft Mixed Reality set and it can be very immersive. That said, it was balky to set up at first with unanticipated bluetooth problems. Even though the Headset is affordable, you still need a serious rig to run it. There is a very noticeable screen door effect that makes it impractical for watching movies or reading fine print (so don’t expect to replace your monitor for day to day tasks). That said, true 360 degree videos can be quite engaging, and games can also be knock your socks off experiences (you don’t really notice the screen door effect when your are really in a game or 360 video).
3D never caught on for many reasons, but VR will only improve with time. Screen door effects will go away especially once foveated rendering becomes common. Hardware costs will come down, eventually it will replace your desktop in many cases. Viewing 3D movies at home will probably make a resurgence once VR headset become better (as in watch in VR).
Yes adoption is not what was expected, but that is not a death knell, there is too much potential for what can be done in VR and AR. Right now you need to be somewhat technically inclined to know what you need or tweak things to work – that will change. What will always disappoint and be expensive going forward is haptics – that will be one very hard nut to crack. Another problem is motion sickness in games with motion not tied to your actual body position (driving games for instance). Walking around in VR is a blast, riding around in VR is a vomit inducing nightmare. So, as with any technology, there are places where it shines and places where it doesn’t.
1080p -- 2 Million Pixels, 4K -- 8 Million pixels, 8K -- 33 Million pixels.
4K is for the most part way overkill for most movies. I watch most of my stuff in 720p (1 Million pixels) as it is very, very superior to SD or DVD on my tablet. On my 8 foot projection screen 1080p makes a visible but not dramatic upgrade from 720p. That said, some wide screen movies would be better on a wider screen and we are throwing away some of our 2 Million pixels on letter-boxing. When Blu-Ray came out they should have had a 3 Million pixel Wide Screen option at 1080p, this would have twice the usable pixels of regular letter-boxed 1080p.
4K is really sweet for programming and browsing and having multiple windows in general.
8K haven't really seen any up close, can't imagine it is much needed much currently -- but I could be wrong -- can never have enough windows:)
VR at 1440p still has a lot of screen door. I suspect 4K VR will be about good enough, but not affordable soon. Eye tracking and Foviated rendering will be needed to make 8K VR viable (though we are then at a point 8K starts to make sense).
How'bout we do the 3/4 that's doable first, instead of, you know... not doing it because the last 1/4 is hard.
Aviation is already looking at creating electric motor planes that run on batteries. I go one further and suggest using microwaves emitted from high locations (above most birds) that top off the batteries periodically, maybe even making the batteries essentially a backup for emergency landings (huge weight and efficiency savings). That of course is just one idea as opposed to "We Still Have No Idea"
As someone with a 60 year view on things I can say excitement about technology wanes and waxes with time, but currently we are in a waxing phase. Voice activated AI is starting to permeate our lives, self driving cars will be arriving soon, space has become exiting again with SpaceX.
Here are the main upticks in general interest in technology as I see them, starting before I was born.
1920s Travel by Car 1930s Electricity delivered to the home (wide adoption). 1940s True air travel and widespread radio use. 1950s Atomic Age, Automation, TV 1960s Space Age, Mainframe Computers 1970s First Lull, we did get VCR's and time shifting 1980s Video Games, Personal Computer (OK both arrived in late 70’s, but this is wide adoption) Early 1990s Another Lull, Personal Computing great for business – home use doesn’t live up to promise, Video Games cool a bit. Late 1990s, Cell Phones, and the Internet (again wide adoption) Early 2000s, Another Lull, though the Internet was continuing to pick up steam, computers are truly useful at home now. Late 2000s, HDTV wide adoption (finally TV is improving at a rapid pace) Early 2010s, Smart Phones wide adoption Late 2010s, Voice recognition AI, AI in general is rapidly improving and being used widely in business, cusp of self-driving cars, Virtual Reality is now out of the lab, SpaceX has given us back the space-age.
Compared to previous decades I think this one is only getting hotter and hotter – Not quite yet at 1960’s Space Age general interest in technology, but a close second (and the decade isn't over yet).
Your post suggests that all productivity improvements go only into corporate coffers and no real price decreases. However here is how it works in the real world. There is still inflation, the costs of making jeans will rise due to other factors and, yes, for a short time the company may reap increased profits, in the long run it will be forced to keep its prices lower than it would have otherwise or lose market share. Also it could be that buying the lasers and developing the tech will mean that it may be some years before it realizes all those said profits, by which time inflation or competition from someone else who has had productivity gains as well and has been able to lower costs (or keep them the same) will force them to keep prices lower than they otherwise would have been.
This isn’t to say there isn’t corporate greed, but lets not act like every productivity gain is an evil thing of no benefit to consumers.
As to displaced workers hopefully Levi is large enough to shuffle most to other activities. If not and they are treated very unfairly during termination, then Levi can feel the rightfully backlash of public scorn at that time.
Do Teslas have this problem now? I remember when you use to have to put down your exterior antenna before going into a car wash. Yes, many of the current under-development cars have this problem. Once self driving cars really arrive there maybe a short period where you have to cover some special equipment in some cases for some brands -- but quite quickly the cars will evolve to not need this or car washes will evolve to accommodate. To propose this is the thing that will prevent adoption is foolish (or wishful thinking) which I think is part of the suggestion behind this posting.
So I said I fear. You have now shown I should fear. Way to vividly validate my points. BTW by going down I meant impeachment, at some point even Republicans won't be able to stomach this administration.
Listening to CPAC on CSPAN today I couldn’t believe how deranged these people all seem. I really feel like the NRA was threatening armed insurrection if Donald Trump is removed from office. Core beliefs: there is no Global Warming (or doesn’t matter much); Democrats and liberals are part of a Socialist plot to take all our rights away; immigrants are destroying our culture; everyone who needs (deserves) healthcare will have it (only lucky well-paid working people deserve it); luck and privilege are not factors in obtaining wealth, only hard work is.
When Trump goes down (and he will) I fear what these groups will do. They’ve made it clear what their guns are for when push comes to shove.
I guess I’m part of the great unwashed masses, because I enjoyed Bright quite a bit. Perhaps because I didn’t view it as a standalone movie, but the introduction of a fantasy series.
Not sure what critics where expecting. The race and inequality allegories are not subtle, but they touch on a lot of issues. You could read too much into the privileged class of elves. Do they represent Jews? More likely they are intended to represent white privilege and/or the one-percent’ers. Do some races have innate advantages (brightness) that drive inequality? This is a harder question to answer. Very few humans or orcs have the Bright (magic) ability in the movie. In some ways the movie is very predictable, as a plus or minus it raises uncomfortable social questions (without resolution). Perhaps some of its low score is because it fails to give the perhaps mandatory expected PC answers that Hollywood’s seems to demand.
I found the obvious racial stereotypes the second Star Wars trilogy harder to overlook because they weren’t trying to make any comment about racial inequality, but just playing to stereotypes out of laziness and/or carelessness (hopefully not malice).
In general I find I usually agree with the critics scores more so than the audience scores, so this one surprised me. I suspect this is a movie that for whatever reason is liked or hated by many with little in between. Since critics have to watch all movies it gets a low score. People inclined to like fantasy and action movies self select in going to and giving a rating to this movie. Largely I think if you raise social issues, critics expect some kind suggested social change, whether realized by the protagonists or not.
Multiple thoughts on how this is being presented. To me 1.4 million seems WAY on the low side with things like automated driving, delivery, order fullfillment likely arriving before that. McDonald’s new order Kiosks are horrible, but likely they will have voice input on the next go round. Why the emphasis of the likely impact on women? Likely minorities by race will be affected much more.
Let’s not be Pollyannaish about this. The only way this doesn’t get dark and ugly is with universal basic income. It should be phased in slowly, and the rich only get richer if they continue to provide more for the masses as well. Just because technology created new kinds of labor faster than job loss in the past, doesn’t mean it will this time round. In the past we moved from physical labor to mental labor. I don’t buy the we will all move to “creative” labor. Mental labor will likely only pay well for those way up the skill ladder, especially as more people try to enter the mental labor force and drive wages down.
From TFA, the computer is already better than the experts. It will only improve from this point forward. Does it matter if it 10% better or 10 times better. Lives will be saved. The 9 out of 10 was merely illustrative. If only 10% better now it will likely be 10 or even 100 times better ten years from now. We are at what is known as a tipping point. You're attitude seems to suggest computers will never be as good as humans at this activity, can't be trusted, and you would prefer humans to do this kind of screening task. I for one (having already suffered from a misdiagnosis) will chose the AI.
Sooooo...... apparently better that 9 people undergo unnecessary surgery, because the computer would make a mistake on the 10th also. If it's not perfect, then we'd better rely on the humans.
Remember, do not let the Perfect be the enemy of the Good Same comment would apply to Self Driving Cars, which I'd bet you are also against.
I had unnecessary lung surgery 12 years ago because I was misdiagnosed with lung-cancer when all I had a mild fungal infection common in my area at the time called histoplasmosis. I’ve no doubt AI’s would prevent these kinds of mistakes. I also remember being told my chance of having lung cancer was 97% by the radiologist. I’m pretty sure as a young non-smoker he didn’t factor in any kind of bayesian statistics to arrive at this answer, but just looked a chart based on signal return from a PET scan. Hopefully these days at a minimum there would be some app that has them plug in relevant variables and does the bayesian analysis for them.
Trust me, recovery from invasive lung surgery is no picnic.
We don't get bent out of shape when machines read bar codes to price our grocery items instead of a human reading the price sticker. The machine is doing essentially the same thing, but far more accurately. The only difference is we take the price and refactor into a visual form easier for the machine to read. Imagine the accuracy if the Human had to read the bar code instead and remember the item associated with it.
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Also however important back-propagation is, it is hardly the entire foundation of AI. From my perspective AI is proceeding apace. There are many AI methods. Yes some core algorithms should be reexamined, as should anything in science or industry. We see some stuff that seems to lag in how much improvement we expected (general intelligence), and yet others that are leaping ahead of where we thought they would be like machine learning and pattern recognition. Eventually all the threads will start to come together, but progress will remain hard to predict.
I upgraded my Nook HD+ to android 7.1 with cyanogenmod and it's like it is a brand new machine. I believe there is a successor (LineageOS) to cyanogenmod which has stopped making releases. But that said I think 7.1 will do me for as long as I keep my Nook HD+. You can't believe how much better and faster it is now.
This seems no surprise to me. Movie experience is essentially a constant. TVs keep getting better and bigger. I find little difference these days watching movies at home. In fact until we've had a 10 foot projection screen in our media room since 2008. I had a tri-beam data-grade projector back in 2000 that I powered with a myHD card. I haven't cared that much about seeing things in the theater since the introduction of Blu-Ray. With shows like Game of Thrones you essentially get a movie fix once a week minimum anyway. Here is the main thing. Learn to delay gratification. Once your watching everything 6 months delayed, your watching the same amount of content and basically the same amount of enjoyment for a lot lower cost point (which helps pay for your kick-ass media room).
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The book is much better, unfolds on a more realistic time scale, has a much more believable twist leading to people being unfairly persecuted. Totally hated the Hydrogen explosion at Jupiter saving the Earth in the movie.That said a great first try by China at a big budget Sci-Fi, as good or better than the average American big budget Sci-Fi. Not China's 2001, more like China's Armageddon.
Please China don't mess up The Three Body Problem (they've already shelved one failed attempt). Despite a comment in another thread. The Three Body Problem is the best Sci-Fi trilogy I've read in 40 years. The book Wandering Earth pails to insignificance compared to TTBP.
I have a high school aged daughter and the school system has a schizophrenic approach to text books. In the science curriculum they mostly switched over to Power Point demonstrations of the knowledge they need to know. Where is the “knowledge” itself? Undefined. Just an outline of what you need to know. In a parent teacher conference I asked where they get the “knowledge,” what I got was a rambling explanation of a variety of source including the “OLD Science Curriculum book”, but the book is only available to use at the school because it isn’t distributed to the students anymore. The Power Point is derived from the old book, but can’t be bothered to give page numbers or chapters for what needs to be looked up. Basically they expect the kids to just Google everything and if all else fails use an old book in class and find the item by looking them up in the index.
Very little emphasis is placed on knowing basic science knowledge and facts, but rather HOW to do research. Keeping elaborate lab books and statistics, but again hardly any real emphasis on knowing the structure of science from the ground up. That’s just all stuff you Google when you need it. Oh and about the knowledge they did look up, it is all mostly ephemeral stuff like percentage of this and percentage of that or completely isolated factoids with out a reference to the whole framework they reside in.
Now the math curriculum where we are at is much better, stellar as a matter of fact. No complaints there (other than the very competitive nature). But SCIENCE is a mess from what I’ve seen.
Last note, I don’t care if a book is paper or electronic, but learning shouldn’t be constant steam of Google look-ups. Which isn’t to say Google doesn’t have a place if you are doing your own separate learning project, but give’m books for the core stuff!
Same webpage Pacific hurricane seasons and ACE above normal 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018.
From a different mainstream source:
The Atlantic and Pacific Ocean hurricane season is most powerful on record this year
Combined ACE of 221
From Wikipedia on Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE): Atlantic Hurricane Seasons 1851 - 2018 scroll to the bottom, see how everything goes crazy yellow and orange starting in 1995.
I think I trust this more than your crazy conspiracy site. Hey, but don't let facts change your mind.
Seems all energy storage methods have pros and cons and this one seems to not be superior across the board from the replies I’m seeing. I remember seeing years ago compressed air as an energy storage type for cars. What I’m thinking though is it seems this method would make a really great adjunct storage solution where you need cooling. You have to add heat back in to get the efficiency back up, seems server farms could make great use of the added cooling. Maybe electric cars in warmer climbs would also benefit from an alternate AC powered by compressed air which also generates some extra watts as well.
VR growth may be slow, but it isn’t stopping. I have a Lenovo Microsoft Mixed Reality set and it can be very immersive. That said, it was balky to set up at first with unanticipated bluetooth problems. Even though the Headset is affordable, you still need a serious rig to run it. There is a very noticeable screen door effect that makes it impractical for watching movies or reading fine print (so don’t expect to replace your monitor for day to day tasks). That said, true 360 degree videos can be quite engaging, and games can also be knock your socks off experiences (you don’t really notice the screen door effect when your are really in a game or 360 video).
3D never caught on for many reasons, but VR will only improve with time. Screen door effects will go away especially once foveated rendering becomes common. Hardware costs will come down, eventually it will replace your desktop in many cases. Viewing 3D movies at home will probably make a resurgence once VR headset become better (as in watch in VR).
Yes adoption is not what was expected, but that is not a death knell, there is too much potential for what can be done in VR and AR. Right now you need to be somewhat technically inclined to know what you need or tweak things to work – that will change. What will always disappoint and be expensive going forward is haptics – that will be one very hard nut to crack. Another problem is motion sickness in games with motion not tied to your actual body position (driving games for instance). Walking around in VR is a blast, riding around in VR is a vomit inducing nightmare. So, as with any technology, there are places where it shines and places where it doesn’t.
1080p -- 2 Million Pixels, 4K -- 8 Million pixels, 8K -- 33 Million pixels.
4K is for the most part way overkill for most movies. I watch most of my stuff in 720p (1 Million pixels) as it is very, very superior to SD or DVD on my tablet. On my 8 foot projection screen 1080p makes a visible but not dramatic upgrade from 720p. That said, some wide screen movies would be better on a wider screen and we are throwing away some of our 2 Million pixels on letter-boxing. When Blu-Ray came out they should have had a 3 Million pixel Wide Screen option at 1080p, this would have twice the usable pixels of regular letter-boxed 1080p.
4K is really sweet for programming and browsing and having multiple windows in general.
8K haven't really seen any up close, can't imagine it is much needed much currently -- but I could be wrong -- can never have enough windows :)
VR at 1440p still has a lot of screen door. I suspect 4K VR will be about good enough, but not affordable soon. Eye tracking and Foviated rendering will be needed to make 8K VR viable (though we are then at a point 8K starts to make sense).
How'bout we do the 3/4 that's doable first, instead of, you know... not doing it because the last 1/4 is hard.
Aviation is already looking at creating electric motor planes that run on batteries.
I go one further and suggest using microwaves emitted from high locations (above most birds) that top off the batteries periodically, maybe even making the batteries essentially a backup for emergency landings (huge weight and efficiency savings).
That of course is just one idea as opposed to "We Still Have No Idea"
As someone with a 60 year view on things I can say excitement about technology wanes and waxes with time, but currently we are in a waxing phase. Voice activated AI is starting to permeate our lives, self driving cars will be arriving soon, space has become exiting again with SpaceX.
Here are the main upticks in general interest in technology as I see them, starting before I was born.
1920s Travel by Car
1930s Electricity delivered to the home (wide adoption).
1940s True air travel and widespread radio use.
1950s Atomic Age, Automation, TV
1960s Space Age, Mainframe Computers
1970s First Lull, we did get VCR's and time shifting
1980s Video Games, Personal Computer (OK both arrived in late 70’s, but this is wide adoption)
Early 1990s Another Lull, Personal Computing great for business – home use doesn’t live up to promise, Video Games cool a bit.
Late 1990s, Cell Phones, and the Internet (again wide adoption)
Early 2000s, Another Lull, though the Internet was continuing to pick up steam, computers are truly useful at home now.
Late 2000s, HDTV wide adoption (finally TV is improving at a rapid pace)
Early 2010s, Smart Phones wide adoption
Late 2010s, Voice recognition AI, AI in general is rapidly improving and being used widely in business, cusp of self-driving cars, Virtual Reality is now out of the lab, SpaceX has given us back the space-age.
Compared to previous decades I think this one is only getting hotter and hotter – Not quite yet at 1960’s Space Age general interest in technology, but a close second (and the decade isn't over yet).
My first job was at Burger King in 1974, and we had the conveyor belt broiler. Plop patties on the belt, they slid into a bin a few minutes later.
Your post suggests that all productivity improvements go only into corporate coffers and no real price decreases. However here is how it works in the real world. There is still inflation, the costs of making jeans will rise due to other factors and, yes, for a short time the company may reap increased profits, in the long run it will be forced to keep its prices lower than it would have otherwise or lose market share. Also it could be that buying the lasers and developing the tech will mean that it may be some years before it realizes all those said profits, by which time inflation or competition from someone else who has had productivity gains as well and has been able to lower costs (or keep them the same) will force them to keep prices lower than they otherwise would have been.
This isn’t to say there isn’t corporate greed, but lets not act like every productivity gain is an evil thing of no benefit to consumers.
As to displaced workers hopefully Levi is large enough to shuffle most to other activities. If not and they are treated very unfairly during termination, then Levi can feel the rightfully backlash of public scorn at that time.
Do Teslas have this problem now? I remember when you use to have to put down your exterior antenna before going into a car wash. Yes, many of the current under-development cars have this problem. Once self driving cars really arrive there maybe a short period where you have to cover some special equipment in some cases for some brands -- but quite quickly the cars will evolve to not need this or car washes will evolve to accommodate. To propose this is the thing that will prevent adoption is foolish (or wishful thinking) which I think is part of the suggestion behind this posting.
So I said I fear. You have now shown I should fear. Way to vividly validate my points. BTW by going down I meant impeachment, at some point even Republicans won't be able to stomach this administration.
Listening to CPAC on CSPAN today I couldn’t believe how deranged these people all seem. I really feel like the NRA was threatening armed insurrection if Donald Trump is removed from office. Core beliefs: there is no Global Warming (or doesn’t matter much); Democrats and liberals are part of a Socialist plot to take all our rights away; immigrants are destroying our culture; everyone who needs (deserves) healthcare will have it (only lucky well-paid working people deserve it); luck and privilege are not factors in obtaining wealth, only hard work is.
When Trump goes down (and he will) I fear what these groups will do. They’ve made it clear what their guns are for when push comes to shove.
I guess I’m part of the great unwashed masses, because I enjoyed Bright quite a bit. Perhaps because I didn’t view it as a standalone movie, but the introduction of a fantasy series.
Not sure what critics where expecting. The race and inequality allegories are not subtle, but they touch on a lot of issues. You could read too much into the privileged class of elves. Do they represent Jews? More likely they are intended to represent white privilege and/or the one-percent’ers. Do some races have innate advantages (brightness) that drive inequality? This is a harder question to answer. Very few humans or orcs have the Bright (magic) ability in the movie. In some ways the movie is very predictable, as a plus or minus it raises uncomfortable social questions (without resolution). Perhaps some of its low score is because it fails to give the perhaps mandatory expected PC answers that Hollywood’s seems to demand.
I found the obvious racial stereotypes the second Star Wars trilogy harder to overlook because they weren’t trying to make any comment about racial inequality, but just playing to stereotypes out of laziness and/or carelessness (hopefully not malice).
In general I find I usually agree with the critics scores more so than the audience scores, so this one surprised me. I suspect this is a movie that for whatever reason is liked or hated by many with little in between. Since critics have to watch all movies it gets a low score. People inclined to like fantasy and action movies self select in going to and giving a rating to this movie. Largely I think if you raise social issues, critics expect some kind suggested social change, whether realized by the protagonists or not.
Multiple thoughts on how this is being presented. To me 1.4 million seems WAY on the low side with things like automated driving, delivery, order fullfillment likely arriving before that. McDonald’s new order Kiosks are horrible, but likely they will have voice input on the next go round. Why the emphasis of the likely impact on women? Likely minorities by race will be affected much more.
Let’s not be Pollyannaish about this. The only way this doesn’t get dark and ugly is with universal basic income. It should be phased in slowly, and the rich only get richer if they continue to provide more for the masses as well. Just because technology created new kinds of labor faster than job loss in the past, doesn’t mean it will this time round. In the past we moved from physical labor to mental labor. I don’t buy the we will all move to “creative” labor. Mental labor will likely only pay well for those way up the skill ladder, especially as more people try to enter the mental labor force and drive wages down.
You can now install Firefox on Fire Stick and Fire TV and it is suppose to work with YouTube including fullscreen mode.
I installed it last week in anticipation. I will try it out when I get home.
Nice to have a browser on the Fire Stick anyway
From TFA, the computer is already better than the experts. It will only improve from this point forward. Does it matter if it 10% better or 10 times better. Lives will be saved. The 9 out of 10 was merely illustrative. If only 10% better now it will likely be 10 or even 100 times better ten years from now. We are at what is known as a tipping point. You're attitude seems to suggest computers will never be as good as humans at this activity, can't be trusted, and you would prefer humans to do this kind of screening task. I for one (having already suffered from a misdiagnosis) will chose the AI.
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Sooooo...... apparently better that 9 people undergo unnecessary surgery, because the computer would make a mistake on the 10th also. If it's not perfect, then we'd better rely on the humans.
Remember, do not let the Perfect be the enemy of the Good
Same comment would apply to Self Driving Cars, which I'd bet you are also against.
I had unnecessary lung surgery 12 years ago because I was misdiagnosed with lung-cancer when all I had a mild fungal infection common in my area at the time called histoplasmosis. I’ve no doubt AI’s would prevent these kinds of mistakes. I also remember being told my chance of having lung cancer was 97% by the radiologist. I’m pretty sure as a young non-smoker he didn’t factor in any kind of bayesian statistics to arrive at this answer, but just looked a chart based on signal return from a PET scan. Hopefully these days at a minimum there would be some app that has them plug in relevant variables and does the bayesian analysis for them.
Trust me, recovery from invasive lung surgery is no picnic.
We don't get bent out of shape when machines read bar codes to price our grocery items instead of a human reading the price sticker. The machine is doing essentially the same thing, but far more accurately. The only difference is we take the price and refactor into a visual form easier for the machine to read. Imagine the accuracy if the Human had to read the bar code instead and remember the item associated with it.
Shouldn't it be Building not Builds. It won't be completed until 2020.
Samsung HMD Odyssey (Headset)
Platform Windows Mixed Reality
Display Dual 3.5” AMOLED
1,440 x 1,600 @90/60Hz
Interface HDMI2.0 + USB 3.0 Interface Bound Cable (4m Length)
Lens Single Fresnel
Field of View 66, FOV 110, 6.7X
IPD 60-72mm Range
Camera 6 DOF Camera x 2
Sensor Accelerometer(6 Axis)| Gyrometer(6 Axis )|
Compass(3 Axis)|Proximity Sensor| IPD Sensor
Acoustics 2 MIC Support| Cortana|Built-in AKG Headphone
Control & Function Volume|IPD Adjustment
Dimension 202mm(W) x 131.5mm(D) x 111mm(H)
Weight 645g
Samsung HMD Odyssey (Controller)
Control & Function Touchpad (Clickable), Menu button
Windows/Controller power button, Trigger, Thumbstick, Indicator light
Sensor Accelerometer(6 Axis)| Gyrometer(6 Axis )|
Compass(3 Axis)
Battery AA Battery x 2ea
Dimension 154.2 x 119.1 x 119.1mm
Weight 160g
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Also however important back-propagation is, it is hardly the entire foundation of AI. From my perspective AI is proceeding apace. There are many AI methods. Yes some core algorithms should be reexamined, as should anything in science or industry. We see some stuff that seems to lag in how much improvement we expected (general intelligence), and yet others that are leaping ahead of where we thought they would be like machine learning and pattern recognition. Eventually all the threads will start to come together, but progress will remain hard to predict.
I upgraded my Nook HD+ to android 7.1 with cyanogenmod and it's like it is a brand new machine. I believe there is a successor (LineageOS) to cyanogenmod which has stopped making releases. But that said I think 7.1 will do me for as long as I keep my Nook HD+. You can't believe how much better and faster it is now.
This seems no surprise to me. Movie experience is essentially a constant. TVs keep getting better and bigger. I find little difference these days watching movies at home. In fact until we've had a 10 foot projection screen in our media room since 2008. I had a tri-beam data-grade projector back in 2000 that I powered with a myHD card. I haven't cared that much about seeing things in the theater since the introduction of Blu-Ray. With shows like Game of Thrones you essentially get a movie fix once a week minimum anyway. Here is the main thing. Learn to delay gratification. Once your watching everything 6 months delayed, your watching the same amount of content and basically the same amount of enjoyment for a lot lower cost point (which helps pay for your kick-ass media room).