Comment Because they still suck? (Score 1) 688
I will not buy a car that takes longer to recharge than it does to drive off that charge. That's absurd.
I will not buy a car that takes longer to recharge than it does to drive off that charge. That's absurd.
I did an experiment with NT 3.51 once. It could boot with as little as 12MB of RAM. You couldn't really use it, but it would boot up. It was an incredibly good OS.
It isn't a neural network. It's a sort of parallel analog computer although they do discuss the possibility of implementing it with digital technology.
At first I thought they might be doing some flavor of Computational RAM, but they did something rather different. The system is analog. And it is suggested memristors could provide useful in implementation of similar systems.
Just a couple sections I found interesting FTA:
As we discuss in the following paragraphs, the machine we built is analog and hence would be scalable to very large numbers of memprocessors only in the absence of noise or using some error-correcting codes. This problem derives from the fact that in the present realization, we use the frequencies of the collective state to encode information, and to maintain the energy of the system bounded, the amplitudes of the frequencies are dampened exponentially with the number of memprocessors involved. However, this latter limitation is due to the particular choice of encoding the information in the collective state and could be overcome by using other realizations of digital memcomputing machines and using error-correcting codes. For example in (8), two of the authors (F.T. and M.D.) proposed a different way to encode a quadratic information overhead in a network of memristors that is not subject to this energy bound.
These properties ultimately derive from a different type of architecture: the topology of memcomputing machines is defined by a network of interacting memory cells (memprocessors), and the dynamics of this network are described by a collective state that can be used to store and process information simultaneously. This collective state is reminiscent of the collective (entangled) state of many qubits in quantum computation, where the entangled state is used to solve efficiently certain types of problems such as factorization (9). Here, we prove experimentally that such collective states can also be implemented in classical systems by fabricating appropriate networks of memprocessors, thus creating either linear or nonlinear combinations out of the states of each memprocessor. The result is the first proof of concept of a machine able to solve an NP-complete problem in polynomial time using collective states.
In summary, we have demonstrated experimentally a deterministic memcomputing machine that is able to solve an N P -complete problem in polynomial time (actually in one step) using only polynomial resources. The actual machine we built clearly suffers from technological limitations, that impair its scalability due to unavoidable noise. These limitations derive from the fact that we encode the information directly into frequencies, and so ultimately into energy. This issue could, however, be overcome either using error correcting codes or with other UMMs that use other ways to encode such information and are digital at least in their input and output. Irrespective, this machine represents the first experimental realization of a UMM that uses the collective state of the whole memprocessor network to exploit the information overhead theoretically introduced in (8). Finally, it is worth mentioning that the machine we have fabricated is not a general purpose one. However, other realizations of UMMs are general purpose and can be easily built with available technology (22–26). Their practical realization would thus be a powerful alternative to current Turing-like machines.
cite an instance of Blizzard either demanding money for a tourney or denying someone a right to have a tourney.
As to dumb things Nintendo has done recently... everyone in the gaming world is well aware of that. And honestly... after some bitching no one cared because Nintendo's most recent offerings have been garbage. They just had a really bad generation.
I hope they do better next time but
Anywho... when it comes to esports we're talking about SC, Counterstrike... etc So... can you show me an instance of blizzard of valve shutting a tourney down?
Otherwise I'm going to yawn and hand wave.
vague... what will you be teaching your children? And why do you think they'll out compete people taught to be flexible and open minded?
I never contradicted that.
I'm probably just spoiled by really nice meat.
One of my family members owns a small ranch. He raises top quality beef. Most of it is exported to Japan.
I buy all my serious meat from him. Never frozen. Grass fed... From the slaughterhouse to my plate.
I've had texas BBQ. Best steak houses etc.
No offense to those fellow but its massively over rated in my opinion.
What great BBQ tradition do I hail from? I couldn't say. I'm from Cali and I can often improvise something that is better than that stuff. Obviously with just really good ingredients. But as they say... you use what you have... and I have really good meat.
It makes more sense if you understand eastern philosophy or actually read any of the Herbert books.
What I'm talking about is neither being so conflicted with doubt that you're unable to act effectively nor so married to any way of thinking that you can't change. As Lee said "be like water".
The point is... act... but be open to change. Maintain that child like ability to both commit to courses of action but also entirely alter your thinking at any moment.
My comment was not for anyone... it was for people that understood Herbert's work.
oh really? So you think the Guardian is an open minded institution that doesn't routinely engage in ideological advocacy of the same ideology?
Or that that ideology in question doesn't basically a have the same solution for everything?
Because if you don't know that... you haven't been paying attention.
No, I'm not going to let you strawman me by allowing you to define my argument.
I am very clearly saying that the thesis of the whole thing was ethics in journalism. Were there rude comments made in and around that? Yes... but also from BOTH sides. Do you honestly think there were no abusive comments coming from anti GG? Don't be naive. Both sides engaged in it.
By your logic that makes anti GG a hate group as well apparently.
It is a leaderless hash tag consumer revolt. There's no way to control who joins or who speaks for it. ANYONE can use the hashtag. So yeah... you get heated and someone is going to say something nasty.
And BOTH sides did that.
Does that mean anything else anyone might have said that wasn't a mean remark is therefore void?
Obviously fucking not.
BUT that is PRECISELY your argument. And it is unsupportable if you actually have either any understanding of how the conversations work on the internet or have any interest in being intellectually honest.
If you grasp NEITHER... then you can legitimately claim to not understand through ignorance.
A fair number of the anti GG people know how the internet works. So they can't make that claim. And anyone with an open mind that wants to just get to the bottom of an issue even if they don't understand the internet will wade through the crap to find out what is really going on.
You want to claim this is all about harassment of women? Why? Because some woman had sex with five guys?
Why was she singled out? That's not unusual. We have hundreds of people that we could target for having sex with five guys. Some have had sex with a lot more than five guys... some have had sex with hundreds of guys. I could show you one of those japanese porn things where 20 guys cum on a girl's face? Where is the outrage at her?
Clearly having sex with a bunch of guys doesn't cause rage.
Okay... so maybe it is the cheating that triggered the hate? Except we have whole websites dedicated to posting stuff about how your ex cheated on you. Do you want me to post some of that? No rage there either.
So neither the cheating nor the sex caused the outrage.
What's left? Clearly it must be just because she's a woman? Well, they make up about half the population... why are these women being singled out?
BECAUSE THEY"RE GAME DEVS!!... well... we have lots of game devs that are women and they don't get harassment. There was that whole thing about Bayonetta... made by a woman. No rage at her. The creator of the king's quest series which was popular way back when... no hatred for her.
So what is left? Why do you think these women got negative reactions?
I'll tell you why... because they called anyone that said boo to them "bigots". That's what misogynist translates into... bigot. And if you call someone a bigot just for using them as evidence against a corrupt journalist... well, you're going to get people pissed off. And some of those people are going to say mean things to you that are going to hurt your fee fees.
You want to believe this is about harassment of women? There's no way to believe that. Its logically unsupportable. Its not a valid opinion. You can't even legitimately believe that. It makes no logical sense.
But I can't stop you from believing irrational things. So go ahead. Worship your religion if that makes you feel better. But don't expect anyone else to take your beliefs seriously... and your faction lost this struggle... HARD. Continue to bitch... it just makes you look sadder.
Guilty as charged... Still... brisket?
wow indeed.
So you expect a random collection of people on the internet to NOT make off color remarks?
take ANY issue that gets politically heated... then cherry pick the responses for the most hateful comments... and then represent ALL the comments and the ENTIRE group as JUST those hateful comments.
Do that.
Pick ANY issue that is controversial then pick either side... then do that.
Boom... that side is a hate group.
That's what you just did there. And you say "I" need mental gymnastics?
the whole "GG is a hate group" thing was only made possible because the people that were sold that line of bull were mostly people that were not internet savvy... that and credulous dupes. People that either don't understand that the internet just HAS those sorts of comments in any heated discussion or people predisposed to believe the worst.
And keep in mind a lot of the hateful comments are coming out of fucking 12 year olds. And in some cases they were also false flags. Lets not pretend there were not sock puppets a plenty.
Regardless... to conflate the most hateful comments with either the majority of comments or the central message is somewhere between naive and dishonest. Flip a coin.
Who builds something like that and then puts a brisket in it?
If I put that much energy into making a grill... I'd put a better piece of meat into it.
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