Understandable, but I've family history photos that include potentially identifiable features where I cannot identify the location. An AI tool that can offer suggestions would be very helpful to me.

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The distribution and quantity in the primordial universe (the amount of dark matter was still increasing as the stellar era started) implies a later start.

It also simplifies some of the physics.

Anonymity IS a fundamental right and it has to be that way. The nature of encryption is such that you cannot weaken it without giving rogue nations and criminals total unfettered access to the entire banking system, commerce, healthcare, and critical infastructure such as energy supplies and the water supply.

That's just how it us, and there's no way to avoid it. Your choice us a simple one - either allow people to be anonymous, or provide North Korean hacker groups like Lazarus unrestricted control over everything.

You cannot make encryption that can only be broken by good guys. As soon as a tech company can break the encryption, the bad actors will be able to do the same. And when that can amount to hundreds of billions of US dollars or the capacity to hold a nation to ransom, damn right the bad actors will find out how - and fast.

But it's worse. There is a reason that those in the military communicate classified data using secure telephony units, where there is a prohibition on chitchat. Any chat beforehand provides attackers with information that weakens the security. In other words, context weakens security.

You want as little context as you possibly can, preferably none. And that's why you need not just security but anonymity as well. You must prevent bad actors from causing harm.

Now we get to the second half of the equation - do they need the messages at all? Well, it's cheaper than having field agents, but field agents can intercept all lines of communication AND provide useful context.

So, the answer is "no they don't, and using just wiretaps gives vastly poorer intelligence, but it looks better to the accounts who don't have to worry about the consequences of botching things".

Our models would allow for the possibility that Dark Matter arose after the Big Bang, possibly a long time after, and that Dark Energy arose long after the CMBR.

  Physicists have considered these as possible explanations for anomalies in the distribution of Dark Matter, and the existence of the Hubble Crisis.

If Dark Energy appears late, then you would indeed have two different values for the Hubble Constant. And our models of Dark Energy certainly allow that to be a possible explanation.

You'd have to explain the physics behind it appearing, and that may well end up an impossible hypothesis, but, for now, it would allow the universe to have different expansion epochs, played under different rules.

I'd be wary of it being step 1, but yes, there should have been significantly more steps in the detective work.

A problem is that they started with a hypothesis and then tried to prove that hypothesis correct. Confirmation bias is guaranteed in such an approach, however much care is taken.

Police should systematically gather all evidence they can, of all types, but then record what the evidence precludes, not just what the evidence allows. This is key in sanity-checking hypotheses - a hypothesis your evidence already says is impossible is obviously not the right one.

The penalties aught to be a lot higher. I'd say that $300,000 is not enough to cover emotional trauma and the cost of fixing it. Further, US jails are notorious breeding grounds for novel infections, exercise is poor, as is the food, so there's a health impact too. I'd suggest $500,000 would be better, but for that part alone.

But you've also got lost earnings, impact on the family, any debt that resulted, difficulty in finding work later, and emotional impact affecting schooling for the kids, and thus potential loss of earnings across the generations. If you add all of that up, I think an extra $500,000 would be reasonable.

So I'd have given the guy $1,000,000 in compensation.

I'd have fined the police department a further $1,000,000 for malicious wrongdoing, fraudulent charges, and gross misconduct, with that money going into the community.

Those involved should then have been tried and convicted of falsifying evidence, perjury, and misuse of government furnished equipment, with a suitable prison sentence.

Police will take things seriously when the consequences are significant.

This might actually constitute a legal offence, as you are forbidden from doing things which interfere with the lawful use by lawful users of the system.

If it bricks the computer, it would unmistakably meet the technical requirements.

Whether the courts would agree is another matter, given the EULA, but it would make for an interesting test case.

1. Databases should never be directly reachable. Neither should any other type of server. Internal networks should access via some sort of intermediate, such as a higher level server, so that no software on users' machines can cause damage to data.

2. Nothing on internal networks should be exposed to the public Internet. If remote sites need access, use a secure extranet.

First, you've boosted Chinese chip development and pushed Chinese chop forms stocks higher, whilst possibly fatally damaging chipmakers like Intel who are already in a bad way.

Second, you've completely failed to understand that Neural Nets are equivalent to N boolean functions of width M, where M is the number of inputs and N is the number of outputs. This means a fully trained NN can be recoded onto a single ASIC and run far faster on far less power. So AIs for standard stuff don't need huge data centres, they need a single chip.

Thirdly, you've failed to learn from the US' own history, where between about 1900 and 1960, the US did to Europe what China is doing to the US, with Europe having the same response the US is now having. It didn't save Europe, which ran into second place because it was too busy fighting loosing battles and no longer moving forward.

Trump will, of course, be even worse, but that's no excuse for this level of childish immaturity and incompetence.

That's not even a hard one to answer.

Choice 1: Slave-labour digital TV that costs $1000 less outright but you have to buy a new one every month because it breaks and has no meaningful warranty, costing you $120,000 more at the end of ten years, OR

Choice 2: Quality TV that is obviously $1000 more expensive if bought ourright but will last you 10 years and can be paid for with monthly installments that are practically in the pocket money range. They can do this because there's nothing the competition can do in response.

Choice 2 is vastly cheaper per payment and is much better quality.

Ergo, those looking to penny-pinch would choose option 2.

If buyers don't care if your goods are crap, then use slave labour. Why the pretense that these are actual employees, chain them to the desk and get whips and electric cattle prods to keep order.

May as well. If that's how you work and think, then might as well be honest that you're a depraved psychopath who is 300 years behind the times.

If you want to maximise the quality of goods and services, and thus profit by controlling both the market in what you produce and the market for top-quality employees, then the work week should be 28-32 hours in length and paid the same as a 40-hour week.

If a country wishes to be credible on low corruption and human rights, then it should not permit employers to indulge in slave fetishes, even in other countries. Basically, those businesses that promote slave ideology should be blocked from overseas markets and their directors banned from holding overseas property of travelling to more enlightened nations.

There must be no tolerance for CEOs who believe themselves above the need to respect human dignity.

So, on Delta, every 15 minutes of film is followed by 5 seconds of ads?

The two have to overlap, because current neural nets cannot do abstract reasoning of any sort and cannot generalise beyond the most superficial levels.

If you're going to produce a superintelligence, you'll need to do both of these and we know of only one architecture that can do either. If the "AGI" cannot do any sort of abstract reasoning, I would start by questioning how general it was.