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Comment Re:What? It's not April 1 yet (Score 1) 151

Indeed, because the RUSSIANS metalled in the elections

Absolutely, Trump definitely alloyed with them.

I'm completely in favor of Alloying Trump and some Russians. Tell you what though ... if we Smelt him first and mix in some Tin I'm pretty sure we get his Bronzer to become Brass.

Comment Re:Perhaps, perhaps (Score 1) 422

by powerlord (#55739923) Attached to: Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco

Then perhaps all those Republicans who are hellbent on outlawing abortion because it "kills a person" should enact laws

Perhaps the Democrats hellbent on enlawfulling abortion should enact laws to allow for not just robots, but robots to take the homeless people loitering and grind them into dog food. After all, it would just be a really late term abortion for a clump of cells no-one wants anymore to improve the lives of everyone around.

So I should put you down as a "Maybe" on the issue of Abortions into the 63rd Trimester?
AI

AI Goes Bilingual -- Without a Dictionary (sciencemag.org) 99

Posted by BeauHD from the computation-and-language dept.
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Automatic language translation has come a long way, thanks to neural networks -- computer algorithms that take inspiration from the human brain. But training such networks requires an enormous amount of data: millions of sentence-by-sentence translations to demonstrate how a human would do it. Now, two new papers show that neural networks can learn to translate with no parallel texts -- a surprising advance that could make documents in many languages more accessible.

The two new papers, both of which have been submitted to next year's International Conference on Learning Representations but have not been peer reviewed, focus on another method: unsupervised machine learning. To start, each constructs bilingual dictionaries without the aid of a human teacher telling them when their guesses are right. That's possible because languages have strong similarities in the ways words cluster around one another. The words for table and chair, for example, are frequently used together in all languages. So if a computer maps out these co-occurrences like a giant road atlas with words for cities, the maps for different languages will resemble each other, just with different names. A computer can then figure out the best way to overlay one atlas on another. Voila! You have a bilingual dictionary. The studies -- "Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpora Only" and "Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation" -- were both submitted to the e-print archive arXiv.org.

Comment Re:XP is the least important issue (Score 1) 112

Actually the most useful LFG site for Destiny is https://www.the100.io/?r=24312...

When you join, it will automatically try to group you with up to 100 people of similar playstyles (based on a small list of questions about playtime and style).

It then lets you set up LFG events both within your group, or open to the population at large (or you can keep them private until right before the event so your group can join, then throw them open at the end if you still need one or two people).

I've only used it a couple of times, but clanmates have usually had a pretty good experience with it.

Comment Re:Bricks and Mortar can't compete (Score 1) 398

by powerlord (#55519611) Attached to: America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning

Ran into this at P.C. Richards a bunch of years ago when I got a new Air Conditioner.

The choices were a light cheap model from China, or a more expensive model (made with more metal that the salesperson claimed would hold up better) that was made in the US.

We opted for the US made one (for a host of reasons), and its held up long past the cheaper model we installed in a different room.
Power

'Quark Fusion' Produces Eight Times More Energy Than Nuclear Fusion (futurism.com) 173

Posted by BeauHD from the theoretical-forms-of-energy dept.
walterbyrd shares a report from Futurism: This new source of energy, according to researchers Marek Karliner and Jonathan Rosner, comes from the fusion of subatomic particles known as quarks. These particles are usually produced as a result of colliding atoms that move at high speeds within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where these component parts split from their parent atoms. It doesn't stop there, however, as these disassociated quarks also tend to collide with one another and fuse into particles called baryons. It is this fusion of quarks that Karliner and Rosner focused on, as they found that this fusion is capable of producing energy even greater than what's produced in hydrogen fusion. In particular, they studied how fused quarks configure into what's called a doubly-charmed baryon. Fusing quarks require 130 MeV to become doubly-charmed baryons, which, in turn, releases energy that's 12 MeV more energy. Turning their calculations to heavier bottom quarks, which need 230 MeV to fuse, they found that a resulting baryon could produce approximately 138 MeV of net energy -- about eight times more than what hydrogen fusion releases. The new study has been published in the journal Nature.

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