Comment Re: one of the biggest and most powerful companies (Score 3, Insightful) 235
Don't forget the whole internet thing and how they ignored it.
Don't forget the whole internet thing and how they ignored it.
It's kinda a welfare program for high end scientists. How else could billions be spent on ``science'' and benefit thousands of contractors. The liberal scientists get something fun to play with, and a bunch of special interest groups get billions of easy money to build and operate the thing.
With that thought, perhaps U.S. should build one that's perhaps 150 miles, somewhere in mid west (nice and flat). Locate it such that it spans at least 4-5 states to get a bunch of senators for it. There are worse ways to prop up the economy... and this make work project might actually do something cool.
No, Watson was an answer engine more like Wolfram Alpha. Where this is more of adding contextual comprehension/understanding to search terms.
So this is a... question engine?
42!
Advances are in ways of learning hidden layers that are slightly more clever than backpropagation. For example, lets say you have an image, apply some transform to it (dct, wavelet, whatever, neural net layer, etc.) and save all the important features, but at say 10x less space. Then do the same to those features. Every time reducing the amount of data by 10x. After a few such layers, lets say you're left with 10 bits worth of information---the ``most important'' (according to your benchmark used) ten bits of the whole image.
The ten bits could be anything, such as `this image is a car' or `this image is a face', or ``this face looks angry', etc.
The trick is applying the benchmark on the hidden layers---e.g. how do you pick out which features are important after applying a transform. For that, you train another (inverse) transform that recovers original data from the features---the one that gets you closest to the original wins (e.g. lets say you feed 1000 bits into a neural net to get 100 bits out, and then via inverse transform turn those 100 bits into the *original* 1000 bits... that would mean that your 100 bits represented all the information in the input 1000 bits---obviously more often than not you won't get a perfect match but something close---repeat for any number of layers you want).
The ``new'' (e.g. last decade or so) advances are in training hidden layers of neural networks. Kinda like peeling an onion, each layer getting progressively coarser representation of the problem. e.g. if you have 1000000 inputs, and after a few layers, only have 100 hidden nodes, those 100 nodes are in essence representing all the ``important'' (some benchmark you choose) information of those 1000000 inputs.
So it's settled, the lawyers win!
Looking forward to 2038
Hmm... how about a laser beam of much longer wavelength---like radio, or even much lower (e.g. say 60Hz---but just as directional as a laser)?
Eh, wake me up when they discover mai tai drinks on mars...
When they said ``computing device that follows you around,'' they might've meant as ``your own personal terminator, follows you around and protects you''
"online advertising" is just a tiny aspect of "advertising". e.g. look at how much is spent on TV commercials. Google is nowhere near the monopoly in "advertising". Or are you saying that when $HUGECOMPANY spends $10m on marketing, $9.99m of that goes to google?
Indeed. You'd have more luck finding stuff on microsoft.com website via Google than via Microsoft's own search!
Yes, unfortunately "the fuse" to prevent consoles blowing up would not be invented for another 900 years.
John Jackson is way better than his clone Jack Johnson!
...also, is time chunky? does it interfere with itself kinda like light? Does space interfere with itself? How would such things manifest themselves in our observable universe?
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
