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Comment Nope, no problem here (Score 1) 190

Of all the things that use resources which I run on my laptop including chrome, Xcode, various nodejs backed servers, NLP stuff, things in docker, Slack is not among the problems. Even after all this time, the JVM based apps are still the problematic ones. That being said, I did invest some time trying to use Atom; and it did have to be killed multiple times to avoid running out of system resources. I ascribe that to straight up bugs.

Comment Re:Just one quick trick ... (Score 1) 123

It's not necessarily true that click-bait images are harder to recognize than click-bait titles. For though it is true that the neural networks that recognize each will be different and will certainly have different training sets, the approach is the same. Find a bunch of examples and manually classify them, and then let the NN generalize based on those examples. The question is how many examples are required in each case. It's not obvious that these numbers are vastly different; would one expect each clickbaity image to be describable by succinct caption and would that caption be similar in complexity to a click-bait title? Expect Facebook to have plenty of money to pay people mechanical turk style to gather sufficient examples.

Comment Who's assuming humans will stay the same? (Score 1) 311

So the argument goes; what's to stop us humans from augmenting ourselves with computers and/or genetically modifying ourselves to better interact with our silicon brethren? Nothing. Therefore, it will happen.

In fact it's already happening, mobile phones, VR, no longer teaching cursive in schools, eletronic contact lenses, life-extension, brain-to-brain communication, herman millar aeron chairs. The list goes on.

Comment Re:Err on the side of caution (Score 3, Informative) 55

Adding; the species A. aegypti is the mosquito that carries Zika and is present in the United State mainland along the Gulf Coast and also in AZ. There is a ~3 day window after a mosquito bites someone who is infected before someone else can be infected but after that it's for the lifetime of the mosquite (total 15 days). No natively transmitted Zika has been reported in the continental US, but it is expected that 20% of the population of Puerto Rico will be infected by Zika by the end of the year.

Comment Re:Chris Anderson is the only reason they exist (Score 1) 19

Nah, don't think so. You sound disgruntled. For one thing, the Solo is quite a bit faster than the Phantom; but it does feel expensive and it does have a shorter flight time. I think you have to cut them some slack for attempting to take on a vastly larger company (though they messed up doing it). The lack of the gimbal early on hurt them greatly.

I've looked at the ARDUpilot (frontend) stuff -- admittedly very briefly -- and it just looks old (like mid 2000's kind of old) and are you saying it (ARDUpilot GUI) is only Windows? Well, yea then it has to go. But that is just the GUI. I have not had a problem with using the python API as far as reliability goes -- it does not ever crash. It is layered on top of ARDUpilot API. And the documentation is actually pretty good.

However, that being said, currently their customer support for developers is pretty bad and it seems clear that this is a response to the turmoil they are experiencing.

Comment Re:FORUMS NEEDS TO GO! (Score 1) 480

It's fucking unbelievable how much trouble people interacting with other people on the internet has caused for so many people.

Let's ignore how fundamentally broken it is, as a technology, in almost every respect. That includes its fucking awful historical association with trolls, its total lack of real insight (sorry, Anonymous' are opinions complete shit), its ultra shitty set of mutually incompatible ideas, memes, and non sequitur invective (WHICH IS THIS SHOUT SHOUTY SHO), and similar problems.

Typing stuff on the Internet has allowed too many unskilled cranks to shit out way too many words. It was one thing when they did it in Ancient Rome, Cicero or Julius Caesar #vinividivici. Awesome. Now it's being done in people's basements, and it's a motherfucking disaster!

Worse, communication has enabled the for-profit media industry. Google makes it trivial for them to track every word you type. If you don't want to fall victim to it, then you have to use a VPN or anonymous mode or TOR or something, I don't know who cares? Just give me my groupon, OK?

Forums need to go.

If you really need to use an idea delivery technology, use a letter, or a parchment, or even a goddamn cave painting . All three of them are better than Internet in every way.

Comment Re:Where To Go From Here? (Score 1) 67

No I think they do, though admittedly it's very narrow. In this case it's "construct new rules automatically (about winning Go) after experiencing winning and losing Go". The difference is the rules about how to play and the single Goal (winning) and what winning looks like are predefined. The objective function about how to go about winning is what is learned. For a different game insert new game mechanics and end positions and then let the same optimizer run. It might be interesting to se what happens if you just simply randomize the rules and winning position millions of times and let the system learn that (a general piece-board-position game solver). This was an idea of Fisher wasn't it? Let the players take turns to set up the position to get them "out of book."

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