I read the paper and while the approach of learning a representation for faces, and then classifying in that new space whether the face is the same as model is sound, the representation is trained on a closed dataset (the 4m faces from facebook).
So it means that there is no way for the scientific community to check whether the results are correct or not. The results in the paper lack a comparison to a reproducible result, like using the youtube or faces in the wild datasets to train the representation, and then report results given that representation. This way researchers could validate the approach.
I would never have accepted such paper if I were to review it.
I don't believe them anyway. It rarely suggests the right names for the people in the photos that I upload. I only upload pictures of specific groups of people, and they are all somewhat similar pictures. So If its 97.5% accurate then I must account for most of the 2.5% of the inaccuracies.
And what, exactly, does using an "interface builder" to build a GUI program teach you? Nothing. Respectfully, it seems that you seem to be part of the problem rather than the solution.
Commercial IDEs from vendors like Apple and Microsoft are "better"? Better for what? I think that after a statement like (in addition to the "gui builder") that you need to take a step back and consider what your stance is and how well you really understand things.
Tell me, what is the "order of the algorithm" that the gui builder generates?
If you're trying to learn to use a framework properly, then I posit that interface builders will help you do exactly that. You'll learn how to wire up all your controls and to handle the framework callbacks properly. I am not saying that you'll learn how to write the UI code, but it will at least force you to learn how to research frameworks and their use. The interface builder doesn't actually write your framework code for you, but it will help you learn what the framework needs you to do in order for you to leverage the framework. You still have to write the code that actually does something meaningful with it.
Part of these resources are being provided by people or organizations or governments who just want to Do The Right Thing.
Some more of these resources are being provided by those who see others Doing The Right Thing and thinking to themselves that "gee, if A can do it I should do it to show I'm just as good at DTRT as them".
And the last little bit are doing it for a positive karma, so they can get away with Something Bad later on...
A positive motivation for "doing the right thing" is the fact that these military crews have to stay proficient at their job. These emergency situations give them practice for the real world without having the dull feeling of a drill. Not to mention the fact that they would have spent the money flying those helicopters, planes, and sailing those ships regardless. The real question of cost is whether they were diverted from another mission of value, or whether they were just sitting in the south China sea practicing their ELINT skills?
I don't think there will be a tsunami of attacks but I am willing to bet that you will see a multiple of 2 or 3 times the number of serious attacks in normally stable countries.
Last I checked 2 or 3 times 0 is still 0. So for 2013 you might get 3 terrorist attacks on US soil. And for all years from 2002-2012? You get... 0. Well 0 successful attacks anyway. Perhaps there were plots foiled in those years.
The water California is watering its crops with comes primarily from rivers. The rivers are watershed from rain which condensed out of water vapor in the atmosphere. Most of that water they use then evaporates and becomes water vapor in the atmosphere where it eventually condenses and falls as rain again and feeds the rivers.
It's the water cycle that you should have learned about in elementary school.
You sir, are incorrect. A lot of the water comes from underground water tables. It takes a long time for water to penetrate the earth's crust deep enough to replenish aquifers and other underground sources of water. Fresno county is one of the largest producers of agriculture in California (or it used to be). Take a look at the Historical water table information as per the city of Fresno.
For a cabled connection to your desktop, GB ethernet is probably more than you will ever need. How many HD movies can you see at the same time anyway? Is 5G not going to hit the same barrier? Sure there will be some niche applications, but John Doe doesn't need to be able to download an entire movie in 10 seconds. He definitely doesn't need to be able to use his "unlimited data" for a whole month in under a minute.
Home Ethernet will be fast enough when it can keep up with my 10 disk RAID 0. I may not transfer large volumes of data over my Ethernet on a regular basis, but when I do, I want it done ASAP.
The least the producers of the Big Bang Theory could have done is to pay some decent fees to the museum and written an episode to place inside the museum. Those cheapskates just had one scene outside in the bus stop and a stuffed toy from the museum.
It is possible (however unlikely it may be), that they tried to film on location and they would not grant them access for some reason other than financial reasons. I am sure there are all sorts of restrictions and limitations on what they allow, and perhaps that was the issue instead of money? Who knows.
Given how easily it would be to get away with the theft of anonymous cryptocurrency, I am surprised there aren't far more 'hacks' where exchanges rob all they can from their customers then close up shop. I know it has happened in China on much smaller scales, and I'm sure it will happen many more times, the question is who can you possibly trust with something that can be so easily disappeared.
Thank you for sharing my retirement strategy with all of Slashdot you unselfish bastard. Now my plan will never work.
It's like how the fund the schools here with property tax. They don't do that to be fair. They do it so the rich don't have to pay for the poor's educations.
I'm confused by this statement. In theory a rich person has a nicer house than a poor person. So the rich person pays higher property tax than the poor person. If the rich person is paying a higher tax, then aren't they helping to subsidize the education of the less fortunate? Now if the rich person lives a frugal lifestyle and lives in the same standard of housing as a poor person, then your argument makes some sense. Now since property tax is often assessed at a county level, this may mean that rich people live in their own county and the poor live in another county. Then it may make sense as well. But on its face, your argument seems backwards.
I'm pretty sure it's my mother. Ages ago, I had supper with Linus Torvalds and although he's not that tall, he's at least 20cm taller than my mother.
He lost the 20cm due to osteoporosis.
My guess is you have no clue about how US taxation works. Here is a hint, if you are a US citizen and live abroad only the first $90k of your income is tax-exempt, and then only if you spend more than 330 days outside the country in any given 365 day period. So yeah, at least in terms of income that simply doesn't work.
I understand how the US tax system works. However, you can become a citizen of another country and not have to pay US income tax. Do you really think that its hard to get a visa to visit the US when you can afford a G7?
See, people are too stupid to realize a bus with 60 people that gets defunded means there are now 60 more cars crammed onto the same failed underfunded highway infrastructure.
A 5 percent reduction in transit funding results in a 30 percent increase in traffic congestion and a 25-50 percent increase in commute times.
Penny-wise.
Pound-foolish.
That probably depends on where you're from. In my neck of the woods only the uber poor take mass transit. Those 60 people end up loosing their jobs rather than driving a car to work. That mostly has to do with the fact that the area has one of the worst transit systems I have seen in my life. They use a spoke configuration and everyone must go into downtown to get to their destination (unless they happen to be traveling to a destination that is on their line between their home and downtown).
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
