AlphaGo at its core is an MCTS

For such a thing, one needs (I think) to do some unexpected moves to constantly force machine into sparsely probed regions.
And, during discovery stage, one needs doing it "off-line" to avoid google's retraining. Thankfully, space is big enough to ensure that google can be forced quickly enough into deep woods.
For a match like this - one needs to use different precalculated prologs for all games (won or lost).

It's more like hacking than playing...

because US went off the reservation in pursuit of those guys (him and Snowden). And since that part was very publicly proven, it throws some serious shade on the whole accusation thing.

I might be mistaken, but... This is a worm right? With no control over rate of infection, right? Meaning it's an exponential growth process. Meaning it should have hit its saturation in no time. Like an hour or so. Meaning that by the time that dude pulled the plug, the party was mostly over anyway...

This is just like those bite-sized freebies in your local grocery store. By themselves, for practical use these drives make little practical sense. Review sites shouldn't have bothered with that Intel's cache bullshit. Instead just treat them as teeny tiny SSD drives serving as a technology preview.

Bottom line - latency on these things is awesome. Write granularity is good too - will be awesome with proper abstraction level in OS. Write endurance - we don't know - waiting for somebody to write the shit out of them.

We'll see if Intel/Micron can get a market foothold (being sandwiched between DRAM and flash SSDs is no picnic).

Russia needs ice free Arctic. For shipping and future oil rigs.

I had EXACTLY same problems under Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 on my new machine.

Turned out - bugs in Skylake graphics drivers.

(in the end had to move to Fedora 25 for rock solid stability)

That would undoubtedly compromise intelligence gathering methods. Plus it would be only a matter of time before one of the recipients got hacked and all the data dumped.

My point wasn't that this is an unsolvable problem. My point was that it is an expense. Peaker plants produce _horrendously_ expensive electricity. To compensate for that solar absolutely must be substantially cheaper than traditional power supplies in order to make it worth the trouble.

Well, you do realize, that capacity (natgas or whatever) sitting idle (not making money) is seriously expensive, right?

That's why solar _must_ be cheap for markets to clear - one needs a backup to use it. That backup (might be idle capacity or additional long distance power lines or whatever) costs money.

Some organizations started to inject fake phishing emails into their communication systems. All employees who clicked get their heads bashed with a rock.

The kernel in 16.04 simply does not work with skylake graphics (not anecdotal: ArsTech was bitching about that too). Even when I've moved to 16.10 I still had to hard reboot my machine from time to time. Now I'm on fedora 25 (cinnamon spin) and it is rock solid.

I mean, we have timezone stuff already - just bury those seconds in those tables. Run machine clock at TAI and calculate "local time" by adding, for example, 8hrs35seconds to whatever local timekeep says.

Can we just move to TAI and convert to UTC only when interfacing the meatspace?

I'm surprised that the blurb makes it all about pirates while in fact it's about state censorship. That's Russian government we're talking about. Pirates has nothing to do with the request - it's all about blocking porn, of course! ;)

Why would Apple ask US-based companies to investigate this? Apple does not want to make their stuff in the US - too much trouble. That's why they've asked Foxconn in the first place - they were counting on Chinese to produce some horrible numbers and Chinese happily obliged. The whole thing is just a preemptive attack on "shift production home" movement.