One factor IS different. Japan has near-free public healthcare. As should be obvious, this difference is likely the main driver.

This has already been done in many different ways within computer science. Genetic Algorithms is a technique in Artificial Intelligence that has been solving problems in production settings for decades now.

The past 10 years have seen the violent death of over 100,000 Venezuelans, on par with Iraq and Syria, at the hands of "revolutionary defense squads" armed by Chávez and Maduro. It's sad to see this report fall for the regime's ploy of denominating these deaths as "caused by random crime" instead of the politically-motivated, population-control mechanism it is. Hopefully it will take less than a few decades to set straight the record.

All of with lead to a more equal society in Europe instead of a winner-takes-all-screw-the-rest situation like in the US.

I got that the AI uses reinforcement learning, but how does it know whether it is doing well or badly? Even assuming ALL these games show score as big numbers on the screen: Did the AI come pre-equipped with a "layer" that parses the pixel data to read the score? Or did it learn to read numbers all on its own?? Because if it's the latter, that's pretty darn impressive, and I don't see any indication of the former on the article or the paper.

Actually that's probably the reason. Not code-wise, but people-wise. Win9 would have reminded people too much of Win95 and Win98.

I drink about a glass of water an hour while working, which is healthy by itself, and having a bathroom break every 30 minutes helps negate the effects of sitting. It's like having a built-in pomodoro timer.

Um... my original comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. I should have made that clearer.

I don't agree. If Obama had even tried to fund his re-election campaign using the White House budget, he'd be in prison or worse right now. During the campaign, Maduro literally forced ALL TV and radio media to transmit pro-government events and messages FOR HOURS EVERY DAY. No joke.

The govt probably doesn't intend the censorship to be long term, just until "the protest is quelled".

Nope. Venezuela imports everything and local currency is pretty much worthless on the outside.

Not easy to fight oppression when the other side has all the media, all the money, all the weapons. It can be done, but the cost of lives would be in the thousands at least and will likely leave a permanent rift and hate among venezuelans. I would like to avoid that, and the OAS is supposed to be in place for exactly that reason.

To be fair, at the moment the Ukraine revolt is far more bloody and destructive. At the moment.

Not to mention his election was highly suspect and not under fair conditions, just like the FAQ I posted states.

This is very hard to predict. Foremost, I think there's no going back to the status quo. Either Maduro leaves office or is forced to make major concessions (tho some argue that the radicals in his clique simply won't let that happen), or the govt just plain completes its transition into overt military dictatorship with death squads and all.

Yes, the govt has shown every intention of escalating. Barring a military revolt, protesters simply don't have the weapons to match the level of force, but some are already becoming desperate and this could very well turn into a civil war soon.