civil? huh? why not a criminal case.
prosecutor should be prosecuted for not bringing a criminal case then...

and it's used in newspapers now already against them. the reason they would do a settlement is to get off cheaper.

anyways, settlements are common in criminal cases as well. the whole settlement system needs to go - it's a joke internationally and seemingly makes the prosecution first try to up the charges so they can settle down so they don't need to go to court and instead can blackma.. "negotiate" the culprit to admit to something lower - which makes the whole system a joke and not a justice system(the law has certain punishments for certain crimes, it's not supposed to be a negotiation and the court is supposed to find out what happened).

for example if the prosecution has evidence that someone murdered someone, they damn well should prosecute it as a murder and not try to make a deal for manslaughter - and if they have just evidence of it being a manslaughter then they should prosecute it as such! it's not the prosecutions job to make a deal with the culprit about what the crime was...

which makes the whole settlement system bullshit.

also it's common that through the settlement process the crimes committed turn into whole other crimes. and what does that mean? that the statistics will never be correct.

besides though, the dismissal of the officers involved is an admission of guilt.

sure he did.

he proposed switching to a cashless system.
but cashless doesn't make a system currencyless.

like, move to bitcoin? perhaps.

but if you move to amazon payments, paypal or whatever, then you're just moving to dollars. or if you're moving to a peso based cashless system, you're still operating with pesos.

it's a stupid article really. "just move back to dollarzzz!!!"

they certainly marketed it as a quantum computer.

anyways, what I was indeed after was does their thing perform faster than a simulation ran on similarly costing hardware of the supposed process?

anyways, saying that we're entering the golden age of quantum computers is like saying that we were entering the golden age of hollywood began in 1800's. it's just stupid. maybe it's the golden age for funding for these guys though.

it's just a jobs creation scam.

and for keeping the black people out of key positions, of course. the system only provides money(and power) to the people running the tests - people who shouldn't have a job in the first place there. the person administrating the test essentially pulls the answers out of his ass and reads the signs as he wishes. furthermore the whole concept of it was created as a stress test. like, I always wondered, how it's supposed to test between a lie and just being really stressed about being asked if you drove over a pedestrian last week?

at least it's not as silly as the french handwriting analysis.

for authenticity..

people pay for that. execs pay for that. would you rather have van damme or arnold? both can play essentially the same roles.

they made the government official sign a NDA.

and gave them some money back. that they can't disclose to their voters. because of the nda.

how does that even compute into being a golden age?

is it settled now even if that one companys "quantum computer" can actually solve anything faster than a simulation about what it does for cheaper?

things you need to buy(depending on model, some don't user linears so you can skip them, but need buy some other stuff more):

*control board(30-70 bucks).
*power supply(old pc supply will do, 12V, 10-40 bucks)
*some sort of straight rod or tubing(tubing is ok for using with printed bushings).
*some electric wiring.
*hot end(20-100 bucks). comes with a heating element and a temp sensitive resistor.
*some stepper motors(4 ,5-20 bucks /piece).
*some sort of build plate(piece of glass, 20cm*20cm typically, 2 bucks)

if you were shopping carefully, I'm fairly sure you could do a funbot or smartrap build for 80-100 bucks + printed parts. you can print a rack and pinion so you don't need the belts, or use fishing line instead.

why are repraps that add a 200 bucks worth of linear guides and belts and a little cut plywood, metal or polycarbonate then going sometimes 800$+? don't really know. lulzbot is a particular example of a vendor that has a seemingly astronomical markup whilst not really adding anything expensive to the product.

you can get pretty decent kits for 300-400 bucks now that will perform just as well as a lulzbot nearing 2000 bucks(and way better than current makerbots).

it's not strange at all.
it's just artificial ;)

I mean, the categories aren't exact or well done or even fitting. it's still a manageable recognition contest, it just means that the results aren't useful in comparison if you want to use it to make searches from human queries...

I mean, humans already score lower than google, ms or baidu's engine does. which makes honing these partial percentages pretty stupid.

they should just devise a better contest quite frankly, with combination categories or lists of "whats in the picture in relation to each other", like "wine in a glass" vs. "wine glass and a wine bottle"

zardoz is great and a critically acclaimed success.

and it has some deep things to say about quite a few things, like punishments, ai, immortality and what have you..

you could build it by hand.

you can build the metal parts with a metal 3d printer.. more expensive than traditional methods for no benefit though. the magnets? i suppose you could, but for what benefit? and the coils? well you most certainly would like to use a coiling machine to coil them up.. but printing the copper in place as the coils.. would be too expensive and too stupid.

anyways, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... as you can see, not _everything_ about it is 3d printed.

different image set.
the real life image set is harder.

also the test has... well.. it has set imagesets for trainig and then as the test. would the chinese CHEAT? surely not! or perhaps they just threw more cpu and memory at the problem until they could beat the previous by a fraction(you can mess with the first dataset if you want to).

who the fuck cares anyways since half the pictures on the internet wont be baidu reachable anyways.

look dude, that would make expendables 3 the most popular movie in canada.

or perhaps they have some examples of movies which were viewed(pirated) multiple times by everyone in the nation due to their logic.

they're copyright guys so it's unknown if they know how the internet works, so they can just pull out things from thin air or base claims on shit like every connection opening in a torrent network is a view (resulting in anyone copying a movie making 20-1000 "views" - it's absurd they could deduce the number of views from number of torrent downloads anyways.).

can the service rep pass or administer the turing test?

I bet according to the script he can't do either.

which is why the callers are frustrated.