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First we would have to figure out our purpose even if computers couldn't do everything better than us. I don't think many people have answered this question. I believe the answer is something to do with love, reproduction, creation, and happiness.
The right exists.. It's called the "right to private corespondence. There was discussion about putting it into the first amendment, but it never happened.
>Evolution has put complex motivations into human beings for billions of years, self preservation being chief among them.

The problem is when you have multiple AIs. Then same evolutionary principles apply. Paranoid and self-sustaining AIs survive, and the circle goes on...
Does anyone have insights on how a game between two Alpha-Gos would play out?
Huh, interesting. I'm not well-versed in Go at all.

It would be interesting if AlphaGo's maneuvers remain opaque to humans for an extended period of time. Can anyone at this point say with confidence that its strategies will indefinitely remain unknown?
The discussion on github also mentions Lua (https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/pull/215#issuecomment-17...), though it is true that this is coming from a Common Lisp developer.

From my point of view the feature is useful (efficient implementation without useless memory allocation) and the rebuttal looks slightly uninformed.

There are discussions about coroutines (https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...) and more generally about low-level capabilities (https://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/).
Among those, we can see in the design document (https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/4dec2849ad6d79fae...) a "Multiple Return Values" section with a "TODO" placeholder text: it seems that WebAssembly people want to implement MRV.
You mean, in addition to the big changes of the last few decades?
One would win and another loose. It plays itself all the time to train.
For those wondering, this is not a Truffle/Graal initiative[1]. They don't seem to offer access to PHP C Extensions.

I wonder if this will be easy to do when Sulong[2] is ready.

But this is great to see another project towards the goal of one VM to rule them all.

[1] From https://github.com/jphp-compiler/jphp/wiki/For-Contributors :

> Our project uses the ASM java library to generate Java VM bytecode

[2] https://github.com/graalvm/sulong
the second one is also called "Turnbeutelvergesser" (has the same meaning) but used more often/commonly.
...as far as i notice.
Computers will be able to compose symphonies very soon. If DeepMind started working on this problem, I am sure that they would succeed. At least, we would have some innovative mashups of Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. But training a powerful AI on a massive dataset of all popular and classical music should produce some extraordinary results. Especially if the dataset was given as MIDI with separate instrument tracks, so that an AI could learn how to write parts for different instruments, and how a song should be balanced. I actually think we are at the point where we have more than enough data to distill the essence of "good music", and generate an endless supply of great songs.

People have been doing his for decades, but as far as I'm aware, no-one has tried it with thousands of distributed servers and millions of songs.
English has the exact same term with the same meaning: "zipper method"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper_method
AlphaGo is certainly controllable.
I hate to be cynical, but I'm sure many of my ancestors were also told to believe similar things. I know for certain that my grandparents and great grandparents believed that technology would create such progress that people of my generation would not have to work, and all would have leisure time.

AI is more likely to evolve into a tool to be used by the few to control the many.
But like with any GNU/Linux distro, you have the choice to install any window manager you like.
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With Godel's incompleteness theorem in 1931, it was proven there is no perfect logic. He proved you can't formalize something even as simple as arithmetic -- any such attempt will always contain an infinite number of inconsistencies & paradoxes.
And has arguably a better ring to it, since "Turnbeutel" is more readily associated with children than "Sporttasche", making the term slightly more ridiculing.
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This 1000 times. Extrapolating Deep Blue's 11GFlop supercomputer to today with Moore's law would be a 70TFlop cluster. AlphaGo is using 1+PFlops of compute (280GPUs referenced for competition in [0]). That's an insane amount of compute.

While it's fun to hate on IBM, it's not really fair to say Deep Blue was throwing hardware at the problem but AlphaGo isn't. Based on the paper AlphaGo will perform much worse in terms of ELO ranking on a smaller cluster.

[0] http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2169454...
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This looks really nice, like a game i will waste hours after hours with. Will it support Linux?
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There really isn't, from the point of view of AlphaGo. But for someone playing Go (or any game), it's a hint that perhaps one should focus on things that can go wrong more than furthering your own aggressive plan.

It's certainly a feature of the best Magic: the Gathering pros, for example - their play is marked by the cards they play around, even when seemingly far ahead.
As a native German speaker, I do appreciate the ability to join words like that.

English, on the other is awesome for forming phrases that are nearly impossible to translate. "To go to town on somebody" is one I really like, for example. Also, English is much better for cursing, for some reason. People cursing in German always sound really, really lame (except for Bavarians).
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Price is not that great. 16GB RAM version is more expensive than Windows edition at my local shop (Prague). At least it has Intel wifi.
If anyone needs or have to install windows 7 on DELL brand laptops for any reason, I highly recommend you to wait until you confirm it can be done.

I have Dell XPS/Precision 11 and 13, the problem is the Windows 7 have difficulty to boot from UEFI, and you will stuck because AHCI is not supported by these DELL's BIOS.
yes it's not so prevalent indeed. It's likely that the ancestor of modern english relied more on forging compounds before it started importing a vast part of it's vocabulary from latin through french. Worth noting that many of the words of latin or greek origin are in turn compounds in those languages. Just a few random examples:

- exit: out - go
- prospect: forward - look
- decide: down - cut
- alarm: to the weapons

Such etymologies might still be somewhat intuitive to native romance language speaker, although in most of the cases the brain just treats them as opaque units of meaning and sometimes even an obvious alarm (italian: allarme) -> all'arme (italian for "to the weapons") which shares the same pronunciation is not immediately obvious to a native speaker until you point it out; after that an a-ha moment follows.

Thus I'm curious to know how does it work in German where so many compound words are accessible without being hidden by arcane etymology and the general rule is still productive: does it require some effort to actually break a compound in smaller parts once it became so common to be de facto a new word of its own ?
> bothered by the errors in his supporting facts

When considering how the intelligence community could abuse their surveillance powers, most people focus on the coercive possibilities (blackmail). The real power, however, is not in controlling how someone makes decisions, but in controlling the options they have to choose from.

For a very good explanation of this, I recommend this[1] section from an older interview with Jacob Appelbaum about the time the CSE tried to recruit him.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt7XloDNcm4#t=805
There's little risk your kid will get his hands on your encryption and do something immature that is also lethal; similarly there's little domestic violence you can commit in a rage with encryption.

A lack of faith in the absolute rationality of people is my argument against guns, and I include my own rationality there.

My argument for encryption is that tech is increasingly an extension of our minds, and we need to keep our mind private. I'm for encryption to the same degree that I'm against government use of a hypothetical mind scanner.

It is breaking encryption that is violent; that's the "gun" here, and it's one I'm against.
Reading this thread, I believe there's one aspect not discussed: in a battle between man and machine, it's debatable who wins and depends on the domain, but a man-machine combination always wins over both.

On emotions, that's a characteristic of life. With the consciousness we possess, without emotions we would quickly realize that life isn't worth living. I doubt that a "true AI", one with consciousness, will want to live without emotions. And about dogs, we haven't built anything as sophisticated yet ;-)

On AlphaGo, personally I'm not impressed. It's still raw search over the space of all possible moves, combined with neural networks and these techniques do not have the potential to yield human-level intelligence.

On logic, we have enough as to be able to build AlphaGo (also aided by computers and software that we've built, in a man-machine combination, get it?). Can a computer do anything resembling that yet? Of course not, because for now computers are just glorified automatons.
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I have the 6700HQ in an XPS-15, it never seems to throttle - for example earlier today when I built firefox with -j8 it just pegged all cores and never let up.

I can be a tad noisy in this situation as you would expect, but from what I have seen - and reviews back me up - it doesn't throttle.
Another fun fact: for political correctness, an artificial gender-neutral way of referring to both male and female students has long been the "internal capital I" [1]:

Studenten (male) + Studentinnen (female) = StudentInnen

Recently though, the Green Party has gone a step further in Germany, and now uses in all of their documents the so-called "gender-star" [2]:

Student*innen

This is because it was felt that the version with capital-I only focused on males and females, but still excluded trans-sexual, trans-gender, and inter-sexual people.

This practice has even led to a new verb in German: "to gender", i.e., to use politically correct gender-neutral language.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binnen-I

[2] http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/die-gruenen-machen...
Looked really good until they had to botch something: let's put hdmi 1.4 and no DisplayPort, it's not like we're selling 4k screen ...
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That is a serious security issue
What does any of that have to do with Ubuntu shipped Dell XPS 13s?
This is one of those ingenious inventions that make you ask: "Where have you been all of my life".
Perfect for coffee shops, or when the router's in a room that you can't access without waking anyone up.

Of course in an ideal world, wireless routers would be smart enough to reset themselves, without having to add another $60 to their price. But we are only in 2016.
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I once had the unusual task of helping to translate a lengthy set of requirement specification documents for a migration between to ERP systems from German to English.

My overall impression is that German lends itself far easier to lengthy, nested, convoluted sentences. You can build long sentences in English, too, but their structure tends to be ... flatter?

So in translating, I would often break up monstrous monolithic sentences ("Bandwurmsatz", as we say in German) into several shorter ones.

It is different, I guess, when translating literature, but translating literature is probably really, really hard anyway. So try to have pity on those poor people who had to translate Kafka.

I generally prefer to read literature in its original language, but English is the only foreign language I know well enough to do that... :(
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Yes. They have been shown to be self-aware and aware of their surroundings, which satisfies the classical definition of consciousness. Unless you reject that definition, I'm not sure why you'd claim this.
Related: Korinthenkacker (raisin crapper), a nitpicker
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O yeah missed that there is direct usb-c cable to DP thought it needed another adapter.
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I'm working on a complex golang program where I need to close various open TCP sockets. I keep running into bugs where I forgot to close one. I turned on "Closing Time" by semi-sonic while I fixed all the bugs.
Why assume that humans and computers won't merge?
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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a new lib called Relate, started as some experimentation, ended up scaling to a full lib :)

The concept is simple, a simpler and data agnostic Relay on top of Redux. I think the end result is quite interesting.

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They are playing with a 7.5 point komi [1], and so a game cannot end in a tie. Doesn't that mean that there is no distinction between winning and not losing?

[1] komi is a number of points that is added to white's score to compensate for the disadvantage of moving second. When a non-integer komi is used, such as in this match, you cannot have a tie because scoring on the board is always integral.
One more week - on March 21st Apple will probably debut MacBook Pro 13 with Skylake. For 15 inch version we would probably need to wait untill June
I'm sure you already know this argument, but it bears re-mentioning. It's not the things you directly store on your phone -- it's everything else. Your phone tracks where you go, what opinions you post about various things and when, the people you communicate with, your money, and your correspondence. Apple is making the case that your phone could basically turn into a traveling wiretap, listening to everything you say. I even saw a recent article that said folks are looking into using your phone to track when you have sex. The iPhone health app, if used, is about as personal as I could imagine anything being.

None of that bears on what sorts of extremely personal information you may or may not voluntarily choose to additionally put on your phone. In the aggregate, however, it's about as intimate as you can get.

I understand the "I don't put anything personal on my phone" statement. I feel the same way. But that doesn't mean that there aren't extremely personal and sensitive pieces of information on there -- information I would not want to be sharing with others without my consent.
I bought some XPS 13 with ubuntu installed. By the time I need windows 7 on the field, but I found out it is not possible because you will stuck at "AHCI not competable" BSoD no matter what ever you do.

I bet not everyone realized it is not possible(with my limited knowledge) to install Windows 7 on DELL laptops with UEFI bios.
No constrained optimization?
AlphaGo uses Chinese rules, and this match against Lee Sedol has a komi of 7.5.
Put Windows 7 in a VM on the Linux partition.
You mean something like this:

http://apidocjs.com/example/

generated from this

https://github.com/apidoc/apidocjs.com/tree/gh-pages/source/...
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Somebody who slices rolls/buns over the kitchen sink to avoid getting crumbs everywhere.
Dialogues like this make me feel like I'm in some surreal universe where all software evolved around one giant mainframe, and now, centuries later, everyone is still programming in COBOL, and it's illegal to not be backward compatible.
With komi at 6.5 or 7.5 there are no ties.
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> Mixing js and html in a react flavor does not give the the same sense of being on the right track.

But you're not mixing js and html. JSX is not html, it's a DSL to express a tree-like structure. In that sense, it's like mixing js and...dom creation logic.

The reasons I'm aware of to avoid mixing html and js fall into roughly two categories - separation of concerns(don't mix business rules, state management, control flow etc with presentation) and concerns of encoding(building strings of html makes for poor development, debugging, brittle code, and so on).

Since React is just a view layer, it does not impose an entangling of concerns. You can do everything within React components, or separate things on your own or via some other framework.

Meanwhile, the gains from manipulating a DOM or a Virtual DOM are immediately obvious. Even the most popular libraries like jQuery advocate using a more structured approach than simply concatenating strings(e.g. jQuery's whole DOM creation and manipulation lib - although it does make tradeoffs and still allows plenty of html through). The (Virtual) DOM tree naturally allows for composition, compared to the complexities of composing strings of html together.

The paradigm shift from React isn't so much React itself, but the ecosystem it (subtly, or not so subtly) pushes alongside with it. Immutable state and pure rendering functions force you to think through the states and edge cases of your application that would otherwise remain as subtle bugs. Components with a clean life cycle(as opposed to angular 1 directives) allow for easy composition. The virtual dom allows you to divorce your framework from html and the browser, and transplant it to other devices.

By the way, the separation of markup and style was a fight for a semantic web. Web apps, which are React's primary use-case, generally sidestep that concern. The theoretical benefits of separating markup and style are still the same today, but the expectations placed on a web site have increased tremendously, and you must juggle those benefits with others.
XPS13 / QHD / Touch user here (last years model). I've used it rarely but it works without flaws. (Well, firefox can't really handle multitouch on X11, but that's a whole different story).

Only problem is that it's incompatible with kids.
"Hey, what's that? TAP"

Oh, let me press reply on the screen :-)
I'm glad Obama finally took a side. It's just unfortunate he took the wrong side. The truth is that he has always supported this side, though. Even before he got elected in 2008 and when he was campaigning on "ending warrantless mass surveillance", he still voted in the Senate for the Patriot Act extension.

On the encryption issue he has been cowardly hiding behind Comey and the DoJ "hey, it's not me saying that, it's the FBI. I do like strong encryption! In fact, some of my best friends use strong encryption."

So at least I'm glad that charade is over, so he openly admits that his "legacy" will be a president fighting to expand mass surveillance and to end strong encryption.

I didn't want to make this political, but time is running out and we can't afford to tiptoe around this anymore. As we speak Obama is working to legalize all the illegal NSA sharing with the DEA and FBI, and it's probably just a matter of time until local police departments have easy access to all of that data, too. We need to stop that NOW!

There's only one presidential candidate who actually has a track record voting against laws like the Patriot Act, FISA and CISA, beyond already promising to end mass surveillance (which anyone could do, just like Obama did) - and that's Bernie Sanders. If you care about not seeing your country turn into a police state (which is what will happen when NSA sharing with civil agencies gets legalized), then go vote for him in the primaries and tell all of your friends and family to do so.

This may be the last chance you get to stop encryption backdoors in the US and turn back the mass surveillance capabilities in a more significant way. I can't imagine what the US would look like after another 8 years with a president or presidents that are even more hawkish than Obama was on these issues.

But my guess it will look a lot more like China. The DoJ is already using the rhetoric that "Apple has been helping China unlock its phones this way, anyway, so why doesn't it help the US, too?" First off, that's false, and second you can see they don't want to make any distinction between China and US anymore on this issue. To them, what China is doing is the "ideal" that they strive for. There needs to be someone to change that culture in the government from top to bottom, and do it soon.
I am running Arch on the non-developer edition XPS 15 (late 2015 edition). Initially the touchpad was occasionally not recognised, then having a touchscreen is really useful :) Other than that, I got it because there was no HiDPi screen without touch. And HiDPi is definitely worth it.
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There is no "purpose".

There is only selection.

Meat is just a phase.
Same here. Even the fan noise is quite acceptable in comparison with my old HP pavilion. The XPS sounds like a light breeze, whereas the HP sounded like a vacuum cleaner.
It's not truly artificial if it's using a human playbook. (Is the problem posed by the parent, I believe.)
I find the idea that startups need to have social value or that there exists such a thing as "fundamentally important work" to be one of entitlement and self importance. As if it's owed to the critic that Sam/Silicon Valley be trying to help them in some way.

As for hypocritical, it's seems pretty clear to me that demanding someone undertake incredibly risky, intense, life consuming work for the purpose of bettering society, while they themselves do not, would qualify. I'm not sure how it wouldn't.

Your analogy doesn't work because that's just evaluating people based on their own personal goals, not saying they should have loftier ones. If Robbie Savage was saying that professional soccer players should be donating their high salaries to charity, or building houses instead of playing a silly game, that would be hypocrisy.
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One of the first income tax evasion prosecutions, follow the passing of the 16th amendment (making income tax permanent), relied almost entirely on bank deposit records. Centralized reporting requirements are pretty important to the IRS. I couldn't find the specific case, but this paper [0] covers the topic pretty thoroughly. If you are incredibly bored and end up reading it, you'll notice that in their investigations the IRS commonly skips a lot of things that would be labor intensive (like finding property held under a different name), and sticks to the prewrapped financial records from the banks.

So yeah, taxes existed before the internet - they used paper deposit slips.

[0] http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
I was using machine learning in computer chess some time ago. My commentary: http://arekpaterek.blogspot.com/2016/03/my-thoughts-on-alpha...