WilliamDhalgren

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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
hmm has anyone tried such global karma that determines default comment ranking? IMHO it could work only if its on something like a logarithmic scale. Else people that tend to create substantial on-point comments will get swamped with say fu
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
well if intelligence is recognising and extrapolating from regular patterns in your sensorium, surely the AlphaGo system is rather intelligent; even just playing against the search-less pattern subsystems on the version that beat Fan Hui (w
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
hm, used to be said for chess too; a uniquely human creative skill.. I love the Go algorithm (there's 3 basic ones in there really), but no aspect of it seems creative. To try to see it in a grossly simplified step by step fashion: in
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
heh a decent point, but to be fair the task really isn't "make a picture in the style of <artist>" but "make a picture in the style of this one other picture". I'm not particularly convinced an otherwise
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
what? eyes?? really? aren't you confusing the deep dream work with the style transfer work? I remember the dreams thing having eyes everywhere. Can you show me an example? I'm thinking of something like this: https://gi
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
I completely agree there's a ridiculous amount of work to be done for a human level intelligence -- I'd even speculate that there's little economic need for one too; most economic tasks, even high-level creative and strategic
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
I think compute is more limiting to the graphics than mere pixel density. Certainly if what bothers you is that it seems low-poly. Now if you can track one's fovea fast enough to render just where you're looking at, then you don&#
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
I guess its quite obvious by now, but sadly I couldn't dig up the video anymore. apologies.
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
yup. Though apparently they could deanonymize some folks, but couldn't target the users they wanted. But I'd expect that to change, a low-latency network like tor that also doesn't create cover traffic just architecturally is
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
of course; but that's not tor's threat model anyhow. Nevermind the scenario of being mostly taken over; it also obviously falls to traffic analysis by a global passive observer. In other words, its not gonna protect you from the N
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
when they really get there, all current public crypto is just broken. Symmetric is just weakened; basically you need to double the keysize. And there's prob a backlog of messages those actors can then decrypt. Besides that, everyone ne
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
It'd be a very interesting argument, if you could provide statistics to back up the notion that Office products today are really as marginal as you make it out to be. I'd expect them to be comparably central to corporate and civil
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
hmm, wiki mentiones that private copies are actually usually allowed in the EU, with the exception of the UK, and a regular reason given for blank media levies many countries have. But that's rather different from online distribution o
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
prime-time congestion is hardly exceptional then, so that shouldn't qualify.
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
copyright law is in fact harmonized on EU level, by the EU copyright directive. Not that it could be substantially different already by Berne convention on a global level.
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Well for one, torrent's not a video format. Let alone a streaming video service. And anyhow, FCC did exactly that; they went after Comcast for throttling torrents for no reason. And throttling torrents just because they're torrent
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Sry, could you clarify, what looks more like rerouting a large download?? Anyhow, allowing traffic shaping in congestion control is not a network neutrality loophole in itself, but ofc any regulation depends on the regulator.
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
yeah, that's the case. Could you clarify? I'm just seeing old articles claiming the last court verdict on the matter was that the FCC overstepped its authority in that particular case? Did some case or law change this? But yeah, h
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
I wonder even about that, given that it's stated that it can be done only under exceptional and temporary conditions of congestion. The regulator should probably act if it were the general practice instead. But yeah, the public will ne
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
comcast could in the US, and won in court. Despite US regulation being seen as quite robust. By this text, they'd need to show it was an exceptional and temporary necessity to deal with congestion.
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Nope; that would simply be challenged in court.
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
A legislative act is not an act of the court - that'd be a judicial act - but of the parliament ie a law; that's the legislative body. Ofc a regulation needs to comply with laws; how else is a legal state supposed to work? And afa
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
yeah, plug-in hybrids seem like the best of both worlds; that could still let you go all-electric for the ~90% of your commutes, but w/o the range anxiety or limits to your occasional longer trips. And the fact you end up occasionally
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
really? I thought the superfast charging stations could charge a something like the first half of your battery in something like that time? Granted, gets rather slow as you approach 100%..
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
actually, the odd thing is how seemingly quickly abiogenesis seems to have occured on earth; few 100 million years give or take. This may mean that given proper planetary conditions, life just tends to happen rather easily - ie for a quite
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
well, you need rotation to create a dynamo, and these rotate rather slowly; once per orbit only. Now, it does seem this is still quite fast enough to produce a dynamo, but still the issue is whether it can still be strong enough to create a
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
yeah, kinda true -- though there's a great deal of extra uncertainty about M-dwarfs in particular in comparison to more sun-like stars, just because we did have this one example to study of that. But on the other hand, we see all kinds
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Its a really really tiny star; quite small even as M-dwarfs go. So its habitable zone cannot but be where it could tidally lock the planet. Now, maybe some other resonances are possible, perhaps if there are other bigger planets around it h
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
heh, as you say; apparently there was a previous signal; reading the article about the find at centauri dreams, http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36210 - and it does mention a pre-2016 Doppler signal with a period of 11.2 d
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
If you mean the previous claim of there being an Alpha Centauri Bb planet, later retracted, then this new finding involves a completely different star, not just a different period. This is around Proxima Centauri, the previous one was aroun

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