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Comment: Re:Tested in mice only! (Score 1) 121

Depends -- if it could be combined with traditional insulin therapy to help prevent the serious highs, it could still be pretty beneficial for overall control. I don't know if that would work or not, but it seems like a possibility, at least.

I'm also not sure what normal blood glucose levels are for mice. They refer to source that I found says that the mean level for mice is about 174 mg/DL.

Comment: Re:What does the 'Imaginary Property" crowd expect (Score 1) 658

by tirerim (#43646801) Attached to: Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only
No, SaaS is the exact analog of services like Pandora and Spotify. It's just paying a continuous fee to have the same previously recorded bits put on your computer repeatedly. The equivalent of a live performance would be paying the developers to manipulate your images on the fly when you needed to do something that you couldn't do yourself with the software. (Not quite equivalent, but more realistic, would be paying for support on an as-needed basis.)

Comment: Re:Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream? (Score 1) 533

by tirerim (#43622745) Attached to: Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream?
I keep hearing the "people won't tolerate being recorded everywhere" argument, and it seems to be demonstrably false: people are already accepting being recorded 24/7 by security cameras in an increasing number of public places. You could argue that Google Glass crosses some threshold of obviousness or ubiquity, but that's at most a matter of degree, which suggests to me that people will stop caring about it soon enough if they still care at all.
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Yokohama Accidentally Tweets That NK Missile Is Inbound 131

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the just-a-drill dept.
ForgedArtificer writes "Earlier today, the Crisis Management Office Affairs Bureau for the city of Yokohama, Japan had some startling news for its followers; to wit, a North Korean missile was on its way to Japan. The tweet stayed up for about 20 minutes before being removed and replaced with an apology. The city reports that a pre-written tweet was released due to a malfunction in the 'mechanism' that would have released the tweet at the appropriate time."

Comment: Missing option: manual typewriter (Score 1) 266

by tirerim (#42791099) Attached to: For personal printing, not work, I usually use ...
I actually have an inkjet printer now, but there was a period of a couple of years in the middle of the last decade when I had no working printer at all, and if I needed to send something official I typed it out on my ancient Smith-Corona. It's still more reliable than any printer I've ever had.

Comment: Re:Sources of improvements? (Score 1) 162

by tirerim (#42085313) Attached to: A.I. Advances Through Deep Learning

from TFA

" Modern artificial neural networks are composed of an array of software components, divided into inputs, hidden layers and outputs. The arrays can be “trained” by repeated exposures to recognize patterns like images or sounds.

These techniques, aided by the growing speed and power of modern computers, have led to rapid improvements in speech recognition, drug discovery and computer vision. "

Sounds like both.

Well, that doesn't say anything; that just described every neural network for the past couple of decades, except for the "rapid improvement" part. I haven't read TFA, so I don't know if there's more detail, but just describing the basics of how neural networks operate isn't an explanation for why they're suddenly improving.

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