Comment Re:modern medicine fails again! (Score 1) 180
It sounds like your wife is off the medication, and no longer in paid? What a miracle.
What was her diagnosis?
Comment Re:Will someone please MAKE IT STOP! (Score 2) 107
Remember that a pro-lifer sees abortion as the murder of a human being.
And being opposed to the murder of someone isn't contradictory to ambivalence about school lunch for that same person.
Being raised in poverty is bad. But being murdered is a whole lot worse.
Comment Re:Now we do diets here? (Score 2) 168
Good post.
But one caveat - shorter (eg. 36h) fasts may be better and safer than long ones. They also avoid the muscle wasting that will come from a 2 week fast.
I've been doing 2 or 3 36h fasts/week regularly for ~4 years. The health and mental benefits are legit. But I started experimenting with longer fasts and nearly died from an idiopathic ventricular tachycardia during one. FWIW, the full cardiology workup at the hospital indicated everything looked flawless.
Clearly, I have some type of arrhythmia disposition and this isn't normal. But I do think it was precipitated by the fast. So as with anything, there are some risk/return tradeoffs to consider.
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Comment Non issue (Score 1) 32
This isn't new (at all) and shouldn't be on Slashdot. This is email marketing 101. I do wonder if there's some deliberate astroturfing around this company.
Every marketing email you've ever received has a tracking pixel in it. This is why Gmail (and recently Y!) mail both added an anonymous proxy for loading images in email -- this means that not only does the sender not get your IP, but at most they'll only know the 1st time you loaded the email (subsequent requests are usually served from a cache). This is also why you should have images off by default in any email client (this is easy to configure in Gmail).
Before email clients added image proxy'ing, it was like the wild west.. any embedded images were served directly from the 3rd party host (including cookies, user agent, etc!)
DeepMind's AI Beats Humans At Quake III Arena (yahoo.com) 98
"A team of programmers at a British artificial intelligence company has designed automated 'agents' that taught themselves how to play the seminal first-person shooter Quake III Arena, and became so good they consistently beat human beings," reports AFP:
The work of the researchers from DeepMind, which is owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, was described in a paper published in Science on Thursday and marks the first time the feat has ever been accomplished... "Even after 12 hours of practice, the human game testers were only able to win 25% of games against the agent team," the team wrote. The agents' win-loss ratio remained superior even when their reaction times were artificially slowed down to human levels and when their aiming ability was similarly reduced....
The team did not comment, however, on the AI's potential for future use in military settings. DeepMind has publicly stated in the past that it is committed to never working on any military or surveillance projects, and the word "shoot" does not appear even once in the paper (shooting is instead described as tagging opponents by pointing a laser gadget at them). Moving forward, Jaderberg said his team would like to explore having the agents play in the full version of Quake III Arena and find ways his AI could work on problems outside of computer games. "We use games, like Capture the Flag, as challenging environments to explore general concepts such as planning, strategy and memory, which we believe are essential to the development of algorithms that can be used to help solve real-world problems," he said.
DeepMind's agents "individually played around 450,000 games of capture the flag, the equivalent of roughly four years of experience," reports VentureBeat. But that was enough to make them consistently better than human players, according to Ars Technica. "The only time humans beat a pair of bots was when they were part of a human-bot team, and even then, they typically won only five percent of their matches..."
"Humans' visual abilities made them better snipers. But at close range, [DeepMind's team FTW] excelled in combat, in part because its reaction time was half that of a human's, and in part because its accuracy was 80 percent compared to the humans' 50 percent."
The team did not comment, however, on the AI's potential for future use in military settings. DeepMind has publicly stated in the past that it is committed to never working on any military or surveillance projects, and the word "shoot" does not appear even once in the paper (shooting is instead described as tagging opponents by pointing a laser gadget at them). Moving forward, Jaderberg said his team would like to explore having the agents play in the full version of Quake III Arena and find ways his AI could work on problems outside of computer games. "We use games, like Capture the Flag, as challenging environments to explore general concepts such as planning, strategy and memory, which we believe are essential to the development of algorithms that can be used to help solve real-world problems," he said.
DeepMind's agents "individually played around 450,000 games of capture the flag, the equivalent of roughly four years of experience," reports VentureBeat. But that was enough to make them consistently better than human players, according to Ars Technica. "The only time humans beat a pair of bots was when they were part of a human-bot team, and even then, they typically won only five percent of their matches..."
"Humans' visual abilities made them better snipers. But at close range, [DeepMind's team FTW] excelled in combat, in part because its reaction time was half that of a human's, and in part because its accuracy was 80 percent compared to the humans' 50 percent."
Comment Re:A Related Story (Score 1) 77
Am I reading this right? You literally didn't brush your teeth for 6 months?
Comment What have they done that's criminal? (Score 1) 49
Not taking sides, but I'm genuinely curious. What have they done that's criminal?
There's a very specific, high bar for that.. and none of the articles seem to touch on it.
Comment Re:And the result is more false positives (Score 1) 72
My recent experience exactly! Not only have some of my co-workers' emails incorrectly landed in my spam folder, but some digests I receive now get stuffed in my spam folder every day despite me hitting the "Not Spam" button on 3+ of them.
I was pondering just a few days ago what the heck was going on with Gmail spam filtering. I never had a problem up until this "AI" improvement.
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