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Reddit is very anti-trump, and liberal. Most reputable media companies in the western world are liberal. Do you have an example of a website like huffpo or buzzfeed quoting reddit about how awesome that beautiful pepe gif of trumps train with no brakes is?

Any trump content is heavily downvoted on reddit. Just click on controversial posts on reddit, filter for today or the whole week, one subreddit will be most prominent.
They'll keep using the technology. They probably won't want to play Go again - they'll have little to gain and everything to lose - and I suspect most of the possible audience will lose interest.
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ich sehe den kampf bomber gegen männer mit esel als beendet an ,jeder macht fehler aber seht die IS und al quaida als freunde ,jetzt,ich will nicht alle immer identifizieren,siehaben noch nicht alle computer,und es sind nochnicht alle sicher,besser sie sind stärker in den netzwerken vertreten,lasst sie anonym,einer reicht ja,sie hatten immer recht,denken auch mal falsch und wir haben frieden die daten werden so missbraucht um wieder einen krieg anzuzetteln und ich sehe es gibt leutedie den ganzen islam ausradieren wollen,da bin ich dagegen und wir arbeiten alle zusammen ,fingerabdrücke brauch ich auch nicht baut einer scheisse sinds alle also mit namen von mir aus aberhackerwollen auch nicht identifiziert werden ,wir regeln das ohne polizei diesmal,besser,alex-neuester stand,es gibt keine kriege mehr weil sonst alle netzwerke die penner rauswerfen und den namen schreibt schon jeder,es wollen nur welche bin laden finden und es hört nie auf glaub ich,gruss alex egal welche gruppe
> What if most positions are obviously junk in go while they are more difficult to assess in chess?

I wouldn't go with most (because I don't know about that), but many of these boards would also be either impossible to achieve (in a normal game) or illegal.
Some people might think that Opera Turbo reduces privacy, since everything goes through a centralized proxy.
There is a growing cargo cult between what people belief is ecologically responsible behavior and what keeps waste low in a society.

In my opinion this complex consist part out of learned behavior decades ago, remainders of slightly masochist protestant life style ethics and prolonged exposure to green-washing.

Plastics are not bad by default compared to all other alternatives¹. Bad is a waste of energy and resources as is littering instead of a closed product life chain.

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¹How many paper tissues and water+detergent is used at home for preparing a single orange compared to an efficient peeling processing line, that also hopefully doesn't discard the peels in a mixed waste disposal.

I would even guess a random pre-peeled orange might even have a higher chance of a smaller footprint in an life-cycle assessment, than a regular orange that has a higher chance of never never being sold or eaten after purchase.
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Thing is, who loses in such a case?
It's terrible indeed, and it works only if javascript is enabled.
(Full disclosure: I'm the author, we are VC backed) https://github.com/amark/gun is an Open Source graph database with Firebase like realtime synchronization.
I was very interested in the subject, but hated this video.

Very superficial, started off with a complicated relational schema to criticize relational databases, but never ended up explaining how a graph database would simplify the problem. I thought that the graph database concepts + language was way more complex than SQL schema + language.

Very fast talking and moving of slides, is this supposed to sound or look smart? On top of that, 50% of the time the video was a close up to the presenter's face moving left and right in an awkward fashion.
Because the user doesn't have to use the store.

In Android, it is possible to use third-party stores or sideload apps. Or you can develop your own app totally offline.
But that would prove that they are not overfitting their opponent. Which would be nice.
3 years is a long time to be in the 'valley of despair', if there is still no traction that is most likely the reason why there is no funding either. Growing costs money so in a growth phase investors are usually ok with expenses being substantially larger than income (that's why you need investors in the first place) but once a business has lost momentum or has shown that it can't achieve momentum they will not put their money in.

Maybe your founders simply never sought investment to begin with, but being underpaid for 3 years tells me it may be time to cut your losses and to start looking at this in terms of opportunity cost.
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Well the surveillance can't be any better in China. Mabe less covert but still there.
Not really. Even if it would only take a single dedicated GPU to win in real time against a human opponent you could not offer a service like that for free. If google massively overfits their opponent that equation still holds true so it's not really proof. It would only be proof if they switched off 10% or so of the array that powers their offering right now and it would lose from Lee Sedol consistently. For all you know they have a huge margin of error.
By all accounts VCs are becoming more selective. So if your startup couldn't get funded in the past, then with greater selectivity the chances are not looking any better.

Unless you can expect something to change fast, you might be better off looking for new opportunities.
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Is running AlphaGo really that expensive? I get that training deep learning systems is very computationally expensive, but my understanding is that running them is orders of magnitude cheaper.

edit: table showing gains as CPUs are added - https://i.imgur.com/xxdWUtV.png
I'd love/dread to see this this kind of work (neural nets run in reverse mode) applied to voices and accents.

You could credibly put any words in the mouth of anyone.
This article overly inflates the complexity of graphs and databases in order to sound fancy. I've written a response that is very direct and shows how simple a graph database can be: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/Graph-Databases-101 .
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One man's "saving money" is another man's "robbery".

Set up a scheduled transfer from your checking account to your own savings account if you can't manage your own money. Don't encourage these kind of rip-off merchants.
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I suspect that training the AI is the most CPU intensive part.

If they would release the (trained) AI to everybody, that would prove that the training phase is general enough to beat any player, not just one.

Google doesn't have to pay for the CPU time. Ke Jie can find sponsors if he pretends he can beat AlphaGo.

(Edit: clarify)
A great deal of speculation woven around a very few facts.
As publisher, fuck you. As consumer, that was the original reason i used Opera years ago, the natively implemented blocklist was just amazingly fast, especially compared to the extension on the other platforms.

Its a little sad that they changed so much that they have to reinvent the wheel now.
It's a huge cluster of machines.
I would say just the reverse, this will work more and more.
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To illustrate your point: you can just add rows to a game of Nim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim) to get a truly enormous state space, without changing the simple winning strategy.
Interesting that it looks they are dumping 12v and going back to telecoms standard 48V :-)
Starcraft 2 is less than a decade old. Go goes back three millenia.
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I don't doubt there is an a-symmetry between the number of machines / GPUs they throw at the problem during a match and during the run-up to a match but even so they will have to have some margin of error if they expect to win in the first place and besides that whatever that pile of hardware is it, the infrastructure required to run it and the people involved are not free.
The article is missing what I think is one of the most important parts, and that's the reasoning behind using a MEAN stack instead of a more classic approach using a standard back-end language like Ruby, Perl or Python, because I honestly fail to see how this is easier than using a framework like Django or RoR.
The 10^170 figure is legal positions. It's about 1% of possible board positions. How many of those are sensible is another matter.
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Just as much as you can argue that for Go. Interestingly enough, the top chess player Magnus Carlsen insists that he's not particularly bright.
This doesn't seem to be the main reason why Go is harder than chess for computers. It was noted that even in 9x9 Go, with a comparable branching factor to Chess, traditional Go programs are still no stronger than on big boards. The main difficulty for Go is that it is much harder to evaluate board positions. So in Chess the depth of the search can be significantly reduced by using a reasonable evaluation function, whereas in Go no such function seems to exist.
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I did hedge in the original comment with a "not much you can do that's faster" rather than a "nothing you can do faster." I write control-plane software in Erlang; I am well-aware of software that can take advantage of a 12- or 36- or 100-core CPU. :)

But, most software that people "parallelize" with pthreads is not that type of software, and would be much better served being split into independently-partitioned shared-nothing worker processes, ala Redis. Not only for performance sake, but also because that frees you from the operational constraint of needing a single big machine to run it on. (You still can run all your shared-nothing worker processes on the same piece of Big Iron, but you don't have to, and that flexibility is important for designing a solution in the face of unknown usage profiles.)
Fan Hui has already learned from AlphaGo. He's been playing matches against her regularly, and (perhaps as a result of that) won _all_ his games in the last European championship.
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It's only a couple hundred GPUs for training. You can afford to rent that in the cloud for probably a hundred bucks or less per game.
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Or the finance director brought into the hype and there is some nasty costs lurking that netfix haven't thought about.
Actually this AI kind of confirms these myths, since its basis are not in mathematics but in neural networks. While it could be argued to be just math, so is the brain, but that's besides the point. The point is, even the programmers have no idea what the AI is thinking.

The way it picks moves is very similar to how top professionals do.

Intuition is reduced to memories stored vaguely as neural connections.
We still have the Turing test.
"We are the first major browser vendor to integrate an ad-blocking feature"

Firefox had it first. Enabling it's tracking protection makes almost all ads go away (because ads track you).

They're also forgetting Brave.
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He's effectively saying as an outsider that he would have won the match just played. But he has no way of knowing that. It's easy to see mistakes from the outside. Seems like hubris to me.
This really is a great app IMHO, a compact mind map.
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Actually computers were already in the top 10 percentile or so. I mean top go playing bots ranked something like 5dan amateur which is very hard to achieve, so it could already defeat most human players.
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We've had this discussion before but that product is not a graph database, it has no graph traversal features
I earn good money with Ads, but i am very well aware how the Internet works. Block ads myself and would never be stupid enough to depend on ads for a income. Its extra more, and you should be handling it like that, else you will be fucked within no time.
Yeah, i see but my line of thinking was more along: "if I have this docx in 100 years time will I be able to decode its contents?"

I think the answer is probably yes (pending possible " "premature" apocalyptic scenarios =)

Regarding the zip compression, docx is a "Document Container File" standardized under ISO/IEC, so provided we still have computers and the standard documentation is still know, it should in theory be possible to DEFLATE the file.

Inside you would find all the text content as xml, and as some have pointed out here, binary blobs as well. Those would be mostly font files and image files (or am I missing some others that would be important?). In my opinion the fonts would not be critical to the content meaning.

The images would of course depend on what format they were encoded in. But that's a whole other discussion!
Just let it play against itself. certainly one side will lose.

Though I wonder if something emerges. For example, black always wins, or, black always wins from a certain opening position.
If the developers behind AlphaGo did the same calculations with pen and paper as they sat across from the human player, would that be them achieving the win themselves? If so, why does having an automated piece of paper change that?

"It's just like parents bathing in the success of their offspring."

There is no offspring here. There is a set of calculations, written by some people.
Firefox already has tracking protection, which also blocks ads (because they almost universally track you). It's Opera that is following suit, probably as a reaction to the publicity Brave is getting.
Under what scenario?
This, I assume, is all done because 99% of web sites are trivially done with server-side HTML generation and that is not hipstery enough.
Meanwhile 'Google Translate' translates texts terribly bad. Why don't they work on important tasks?
Also it's very likely if the human played stronger in the last match, the computer also would have stepped up. Computers tend to sacrifice points (i.e. "big leads") for assured victory, so unless the human is stronger than the computer, you cannot know it's true potential.
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And Ke Jie was born in 1997. Wow.
I predict 5-0 for DeepMind. Now, Lee has a broken self-confidence to battle (crucial for a human player), something that will not and can not trouble the DeepMind team.
I would want to see a longer game where a team of professionals play against AlphaGo, just to test its limits.
To be fair, he's 8-2 vs Lee Sedol head to head and he's only 19 years old.
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Isn't it sad that this was deemed even worth reporting? Why assume someone like Fred Brooks wouldn't do that?
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Except... the Trump memes were just trolling. Until he took it and posted that image with "Can't stump the Trump". Nobody shills for Trump because they want him to win, it's just a dumb fun thing like holding your hand over an open flame until you get burned. You don't do it because you want to get burned, you do it for the socio-tribal meta-significance of the act.
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I saw this at RBI (part of reed Elsevier) I had to port a small system I built from linode to AWS and it was 10x the cost on AWS.
I believe the assumption is that any average person would not do that. Reporting that Fred Brooks did that sets him apart from the average person.
Dijkstra's algorithm is wonderful, but by no means is a requirement for being a graph database. A graph database is that, a database composed of nodes that can interconnect into a graph. GUN supports this and allows for traversing the graph. We haven't implemented Dijkstra's algorithm, which is what your "discussion" refers to.
Yes. The links you've posted have nothing to do with China and are irrelevant to the conversation. "The US and Britain have done bad things, so China can do them too" yet again.
I'd bet they'll probably continue playing. They are not using any special purpose hardware, and they already have the software.

However, they won't make it such a big PR focus. (And even if they stop, other people will implement the same ideas.)
Agreed. I guess there's a lazy stereotype that once people reach a certain 'status' they don't trouble themselves with 'the little people' anymore, but Fred Brooks is hardly a megalomaniacal diva (I have no idea what his personal wealth is, though). As much as I absolutely detest the likes of Donald Trump, I wouldn't be surprised if even he acted in a similar way in that situation.
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That's why it's called savings and not investment (I realise in some economic sense they are equivalent).

We have been engaged in collective madness over investment/savings returns. I remember conversations (probably 2007ish) where I was trying to point out to a banker that the nominal return cannot exceed inflation in the long run. How is it that pension funds can be predicated on a 6-8% return. Well it only works if we have a 1) a crash every so often wiping out everyones gains or 2) hyper inflation (or 3 some other people just giving money away).

In fact we seem to have reached a somewhat contradictory outcome where assets inflated once, and then we continue to live with low returns and inflated assets (some people would have it that the baby boomers are protecting their wealth), the zombie japanese economy mode.

It is a somewhat arbitrary and feudal system of haves and have nots. You bought a house at the right place/time? Well you're a millionaire now (even if you paid nothing but intrest on the mortgage). Anyway it would seem to make a mockery of the economic precepts by which the modern economy is supposed to run.

I have always been pro-crash (even more so anti-boom).
Macbook Air - check. Tie and cardigan - check. Is Fred Brooks one of the original hipsters? ;-)
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AlphaGo did paradigm shifting moves.
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AlphaGo has a learned evaluation function for each move.

Evaluation function exists but it is not as simple as it can be for chess.
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>Most people find this a joke, but I don't kid when I say that 4Chan might be the single most influential political force today.

I do hope you are kidding, because to say that a fringe Internet forum holds more sway on the masses than TV, newspapers, Super PACs, corporate lobbies, etc, then I think you are seeing things very very wrong.

>I've seen firsthand how 4Chan has been able to influence Trump's presidential run. If it weren't for /pol's constant shilling for him, I doubt Trump would've had so much support. 4Chan's memes have changed perceptions of Trump, whether you like it or not

Trump is winning states left right and center. Millions of Americans are voting for him. After everything that can be said about Trump, I wonder what makes you think this is attributed to, of all things, 4chan? Isn't this a little too megalomaniac?
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