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Quantum computers, OpenPower, RISC-V, and now this - I'm really liking Google's recent focus on designing new types of chips and bringing some real competition into the chip market.
Storms are not common in San Francisco, but they do happen occasionally. We usually get at least one or two good thunderstorms with high wind every winter.

There was a big one in February that eroded away a huge chunk of beach: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Old-ruins-emerging-on-...
What? None of that made any sense. The only way they can reduce liquidity is to stop trading, or buy it all up, neither of which is bad.

> Remember, if a HFT extracts money that means the actual seller and actual buyer's price never meets which means the market is not doing accurate price discovery instead providing two prices separated by fractions of a second.

Just no, that is not at all correct. HFT increases price accuracy, it doesn't reduce it.
Mm, yes, hoover up that Google marketing hype and spew it back out here to create the echo chamber necessary to convince people these technologies are just around the corner.
Without sounding crass:

1. It works already (IE it's already in use)

2. It works really well (or else they wouldn't be using it so broadly)

3. Considering how long this was said to be in development, it also likely means they are working on the next big improvement before these guys have even gotten the current one working.
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As a road cyclist I say sure, it's not sane to ride at an average of 40kph (25mph) without a helmet. However, as a commuter cyclist I say nonsense! Where I live almost everybody 8 to 80 years old rides without a helmet -- just little kids do because they're still learning -- for a simple reason, no one rides faster than 20kph. Cycling should be about being free and having fun. A helmet sends the opposite message which is not good when you want people to cycle instead of driving their lives away.
I'm surprised by the perf claims. Nvidia isn't doing kids play. The graph implied they were untouchable in terms of perf...
I flew last November, from Trondheim (Norway) to Amsterdam, round trip. Both times I had to take my shoes off. But the rest of the screening process is much quicker, and the lines aren't as long. I even got extra searching when I arrived back home and it was quicker than the waits in the US - and that dude went through all of my stuff. I happily travel lightly, but still not bad at all.
This seems very similar to the "Fathom Neural Compute Stick" from Movidius:

http://www.movidius.com/solutions/machine-vision-algorithms/...

TensorFlow on a chip....
About as much as you can buy Amazon Echo or Google Home actually. At least IBM makes very clear what the usage conditions of Watson are, and it's fully extensible.
Hmm. You raise an interesting point. The LZ77 paper does indeed refer to an earlier work by Lempel and Ziv, which measures sequence complexity by counting how many new subsequences they have (roughly speaking). That earlier LZ paper in turn refers directly to Kolmogorov Complexity (hereafter, "KC").

Case closed, right?

But take a look at that paper (Jan. 1976 IEEE IT Trans. -- http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1055501). The third paragraph acknowledges the KC approach of using the length of a hypothetical computer program, and refers to the usual suspects. But the fourth paragraph then specifically rejects that approach, and says they are taking a new and simpler approach to the problem, which counts prefix sequences.

See what I mean? They were able to get somewhere by explicitly not following the KC path (which involves the hypothetical sequence-generating computer program). LZ went with a weaker notion that was actually computable in practice. I think that weakening has characterized the more successful work that uses the general idea of complexity.

The list you link to simply catalogs all approaches at measuring "complexity". It's not measuring complexity that's the issue, it's that attempting to use KC as a complexity measure in real settings tends to lead nowhere. (Or induce charlatanry, or both.)

And I categorically reject a couple of your examples. VC dimension has nothing to do with Kolmogorov Complexity. The term does not even appear in the index of Vapnik's magnum opus. And, having gone through Vapnik's proofs very closely during my PhD, been to his talks, driven him to lunch in my car, etc., etc., I can say that they make no reference to KC. None.

I similarly reject your comparison to Fisher information. It's an expected value of a Hessian. Sure, you could construct a specific problem where there is a relationship between FI and KC, but is KC really helping to understand FI?
They are already using it in production and have been for over a year? That is a huge difference compared to what people are working on and building. They beat Lee Sedol using this hardware. Over 100 teams at Google are using machine learning. This hardware already accelerates their projects.
If Android starts including it by default instead of Hangouts, then sure.
Send him a copy of your book.
Can somebody explain the new Firebase reframing towards GCP? Maybe with another provider analogy? (e.g.,Firebase is to GCP like Parse is(was) to Facebook)
Google wants you to name its next product
Material Design for Wearables guidelines
Here is the problem, not all devices you could work with it are self-hosted and doesn't allow cloud interactions. Now if you're talking about Home's dependence on a cloud for local interaction, then I get you.

But, on the other side, if it's not open and you can't use any device with it... I'm going to be really upset on a personal level.

The reasons consumer IoT isn't huge yet are:
1) Disparate connection types (e.g., I could buy Z-wave, Wifi, BLE, etc and they all onboard differently)
2) I can't choose which device I want to use with which platform because of politics.

Some of these devices (thermostats or security systems for instance) aren't impulse buys. If I have a Honeywell thermostat, and Home doesn't support it, I either buy a new thermostat or don't buy Home.

That's a crummy choice for a consumer.
I looked into this recently. Voice triggering is typically done on DSP and the digital processing power is typically already small compared to the microphone (which is not much itself). For power optimized applications the DSP implementation is power optimized (low speed, low leakage) and processing is done in two steps: a coarse, basic recognition with some false alarm probability, with an accurate second step. For a plugged device there's no need to super optimize, the DSP part should be in the single digit mW.
A fixed trigger makes the system simpler however: no configuration to manage, no risk of having the kids randomly changing the trigger for something funny, etc.
"State adversaries are a different story. I don't doubt the NSA might somehow break into Snowden's Echo, but most people don't have such adversaries."

State adversaries have repeatedly demonstrated a desire to "collect it all" and sort it out later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

The entire emphasis of what Snowden revealed was precisely that the method employed by the NSA were not targeted.
Ah okay. That's fair, I wasn't really considering it as an adversarial situation in terms of power. I was looking at it more from a "purchase this product" or not in an isolated decision.
Although that stuff seems to be more about on the fly reasoning at low wattage so you can embed a drone with neural nets... This is more for servers.
Yeah, just realized my knowledge of server hardware is hopelessly outdated. They seem to be a couple of orders of magnitude more powerful than what I assumed was available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_merchandise_authorizati...
So you're saying IBM offers something that could be turned into an Echo-like system? Do you have any links on how to do that? I'm interested.
You've just slandered an entire company based on third party information. Unless you witnessed it yourself.
Have they said anything about latency or asynchronous timewarp? It's a bit too technical to make it into end-user marketing content, but for game developers ATW is a huge deal and it's an area where Cardboard was lagging way behind.
Amazing. That seems to be almost exactly what I was thinking of. I would think that the sensor would need to be on one's head, though, particularly if one is trying to achieve the "poise" I was speaking of.

>I can't quite bring myself to add yet another device to my life that needs looking after, charging, etc.

I'm with you there, however, having scoliosis, it's nearly impossible to tell when the posture's going "adrift". The Lumo smartphone integration is a turnoff, but if the device is otherwise simple I might just pick one up.
- Google Container Engine

- Cloud Shell

to name a couple more.
Hmm... I didn't know this. The last time I asked they said it would never happen. I was told the original reason was that all buckets had to have a unique name
Ndvidia has to be general purpose. This is not and thus can be better optimized.
Uh, where are you defining Allo as one of the largest messaging platforms on the internet? It literally just launched.

It might do well, but it could also easily be a flop (as many other social initiatives from Google have been). Either way it's a long ways from catching up to WeChat, Viber, or even Facebook Messenger.
Same here. Customer service was great at replacing my fitbit four times. Needless to say, I don't use fitbits anymore.
"Accurate" is too broad a term. The hospital test was likely very accurate, it was just optimized for sensitivity (being sure to catch it if it's there, at the expense of false positives), rather than specificity (being able to have a high degree of confidence that a positive test is true, at the expense of a higher false negative rate).

It is _very_ common in medicine to use a very sensitive test to screen for conditions, and then cross check any positives with a more specific test (which is what should have been done in this case, prior to taking any action).
Uber is gradually moving its marketplace development from Node.js to Go and Java
I'm not saying anything about those awful people. I'm saying that our education system is a giant mess. I am the polar opposite of those parents, but I know a few of them on Facebook and find that I agree with their sentiment about schools more often than not. And that is a problem, when the system is in a condition such that I find myself agreeing with those people about schools.
Awhile back Nest was hiring tons of audio engineers.

My guess was that they took it back with the recent strife, or felt it better connected to the Google brand because of search and music.
Search, hardly. But Gmail? What happens when Google decides they're not monetizing Gmail sufficiently and force everyone to Inbox? What then!
I _think_ it's a small/medium/large reference, but it's definitely an unconventional way to put it.
I've heard before that "everybody who moves to California wants to be the last person who moves to California."

I think that applies here. Once you've got your spot, its best if it stays the way it is.
0.01 per day, with a lucky hit of a buck or two now that then. Usually ad-blocked under 1%, unless a blocker repeatedly clicked around my site.
Apple designs their own CPUs. I think they'd be able to field a massively parallel FMAC chip if they thought that was a good idea.

Where Apple really looks weak is in datacenters, networking, and cloud services.
Yeah, you're right, douche.
True. I was compelled to write because I've noticed people being seduced by the notion of KC. It tends to be a dead end.
However they structured the deal, as an end user, it seemed like throttling to me. I could download ISOs and other large binary files ok. But somehow streaming from a few sites seemed broken.

That is one thing to expect that on a low end 2Mbps connection, but I was paying for a 100Mbps wouldn't expect to have any issues at rate I was having them. How they decided to structure their payments downstream is their problem so to speak (putting on my non-technical consumer hat on).

I am glad I had a choice to switch and now with half the price or so (and also half the advertised bandwidth (65Mbps) I seem to get a much better user experience.
Meaning even deeper level of vendor lock -- now you cannot even find the chips to run your application elsewhere!
Cool history of server side swift framework (Perfect)
Love it thanks!
The fine art of literary hate mail endures
Here is one third party link I found which still shows old pricing: https://www.g2crowd.com/products/firebase/pricing

If this link is correct the new plans have a changed a bit, but pricing per GB seems to be more or less the same. A few dollars here and there. But this shows that the plans can and will change.

Smaller services like Compose.io (https://www.compose.io/pricing/) and mLab (https://mlab.com/plans/pricing/) seem to be charging around USD 15-18 per GB of DB for MongoDB. So either Firebase is less resource hungry for Google or Google's scale is allowing them to reap better efficiency or Google is subsidising Firebase and giving it almost at cost.
I've had problems with 2 of the 4 Fitbit devices me and my wife have owned. Her Flex was intermittently powering off. I contacted support and they sent a new one within days. My current Charge HR (bought in October) band started bubbling and pulling apart. I contacted support last week and a replacement device should arrive tomorrow.

I think they required receipt information for the Flex (that was a few years ago). For the Charge HR, they just asked me where I bought it and what country I live in, then offered a replacement.

Fitbit devices haven't shown good durability, in my experience, but the company has proven very willing to replace defective devices.
This is about right! 64-bit IEEE fp -> 16-bit IEEE-style fp[0] is a 4x bit size reduction, and multiplication is O(n^2) is silicon transistor count.

[0] If google is smart, they'd ditch +/- infinity and if they were ballsy, they'd ditch zero in their FP implementation.
You're vastly overestimating the average competence and concern that most human beings have when doing their jobs.

I've seen multiple instances with family members where the doctor's dumbass hypothesis absolutely did not match the symptoms, but they persisted in trying the worthless treatment anyway. Took 'em months to find and start treating the slightly rare form of cancer. Bring on the diagnostic computers, I say.
The video gave the impression of controller position tracking. If it's actually just an IMU, that's going to be pretty jarring.
Well they have a certified device sticker... that sticker requires certain latencies. They did not reveal the numbers, but in theory that should be a big step.
If true.... seriously Google?
I think the difference you observe relates directly to the difference between what Google does outside of Cloud Platform and what Amazon does outside of AWS.
Kirk wouldn't have gotten away with half the shit he did if every word he said to the computer roundtripped to the Federation and back before being processed.
Would love, love for Firebase to have a service similar to AWS Lambda to manipulate and transform data without having to maintain persistent servers.
One of our users complained that she could no longer print PDF documents. Everything else, Word, Excel, graphics, worked fine, but when she printed a PDF ... the printer did emit a page that - layout-wise - pretty much looked like it was supposed to, except all the text was complete and utter nonsense.

Or was it? I took one of the pages back to my desk, and later in the day I had an idle moment, and my eyes wandered across the page. The funny thing is, if I had not known what text was supposed to be on the page, I would not have noticed, but the text was not random at all. Instead, all the letters had been shifted by one place in the alphabet (i.e. "ABCD" became "BCDE").

I went back to the user and told her to check the little box that said "Print text as graphics" in the PDF viewers printing dialog, and voila - the page came out of the printer looking the way it was supposed to.

Printing that way did take longer than usual (a lot longer), but at least the results were correct.

To this day, I have no clue where the problem came from, and unfortunately, I did not have the time to investigate the issue further. I had never seen such a problem before or after.

In a way it's part of what I like about my job: These weird problems that seem to come out of nowhere for no apparent reason, and that just as often disappear back into the void before I really understand what is going on. It can be oh-so frustrating at times, but I cannot deny that I am totally into weird things, so some part of me really enjoyed the whole experience.
you can do all those with amazon echo by writing your own app.
thank you for reminding me why I love being a remote worker :)
I agree with your position here. Sure, etiquette is basically a set of unspoken social rules to keep people from feeling uncomfortable; however, it's far more gauche of a host to not pay attention to this type of proclivity in their guest (especially a recurring guest). I don't think it's at all objectionable for someone to assert their choices in a clear way the first time.

I'm sure plenty of people will say it's not OK to bend over backwards to accommodate your guests. I agree with that sentiment as well! Where we'd digress is equating "not serving alcohol" or "choosing fish over meat" to "bending over backwards".

If you're really interested in making someone feel welcome in your home, you can go without booze or steak for one night!
Hey, I am the PM for this project. It's not our intent to kill free apps. I love weekend hacks and small pet projects myself and Free dynos are still perfect for that. What we've found is that 1000 hours covered about 95% of the Free dyno usage on the platform. In most cases, if you have a bunch of Free apps, they're usually sleeping since they're not receiving traffic. I'd love to hear any additional feedback. You can reach me at brett@heroku.com.
Android Auto is getting wireless support and 'OK Google' commands
I've ditched the smartphone. And, for the most part, the phone.

I'm not at all happy with the trade-off any more.

I've got a tablet, both cameras taped over. Killing the mics would be a Good Thing.

Sigh.
Or its a bunch of ideas thrown out there.. maybe 1 will stick and 3 will die. Sucks for early adopters with dead hardware, but if we in 2016 have the tech to make this work, our odds of hitting the money are pretty high right now.
Ok, controversial opinion:

"[...] and manage everyday tasks"

What exactly do we want to automate at home? I think this whole home automation and smart home stuff is complete bullshit. Obviously there are some nice things, like "play me song xyz", but IMHO it is completely oversold. There are just not that much things to automate at home.

And this does not mean that I think 640K are enough memory for everyone.
> At best, it applies only to the town where I live. Still, the opening anecdote in the article resonated with me because Mercedes drivers around here have shown an unusually small amount of concern for my welfare.

Another Texan checking in, and I absolutely agree with you (with the addition of BMW and a growing number of Audi drivers).

95% of my travel is by bicycle or motorcycle and in my personal experience this group of drivers is disproportionately less concerned with the safety/welfare of others.
I was referring to Windows 10 data collection, which captures keystrokes and location info and sends it off to Microsoft.
I don't trust them with such extensive data collection, which is why I did not want to install windows 10 in the first place. And I trust them even less now.
I guess it's not e2e in all chats for the @google assistant to be able to be part of the conversation.
If it would be part of the e2e conversation you would be sharing all your messages with google anyways, kind of defeating the purpose.

At least they offer "incognito" chats. I think that's a fair compromise in the light of Allo being focused on the Assistant & Smart Replies.
Thanks for the link. That was really interesting. I can relate a lot to him.

It is a strange "condition".
Is there any mention of how much the deal was worth?

Seems like mostly an acquihire, does Coin even have a steady revenue stream?
Except for one minor contact high at a party, I never even experienced weed.

I have a friend who had strikingly similar experiences as a child. She quit school for a while and got high daily -- mostly weed, as I understand it. About the age of 21 or 22, she got herself back into school and now has a very successful professional career.

Drugs may indeed destroy some people. But, the messaging is far too simple -- and simplistic.

And, those people often are not helped. They are simply castigated and ostracized.

I don't mean, at all, to make light of such circumstances. And, I have currently been helping someone -- help to the tune of dozens of hours per week and hundreds of miles driven, and hundreds of dollars -- who came darned close to being lost, herself.

I'd still trade my life for hers. She's lived hers -- mistakes and all.
The VR Ecosystem looks a lot like the console ecosystem, which has dealt with the problem by adopting SDKs like Unity or Unreal.
I haven't read the book, but I wish to make a subtle but important distinction between 'energy' and 'entropy'.

Whenever we say energy in common parlance, we actually mean a source of low entropy (energy). From the perspective of physics, "life" is a non-equilibrium process so the crucial input is low entropy stuff (fuel/food/etc), which can be 'used' by the organism while converting that stuff to high entropy waste.

As far as we know, energy is always conserved; strictly speaking there is never an energy crisis. It's all about (low) entropy.
I suspect confirmation bias is heavily in play here. You think Mercedes drivers are more likely to violate road norms than other drivers, so whenever you see a Mercedes driver, you think, "Ah ha! Another Mercedes driver that's a jerk!"

To be honest, I don't see the problem that either you or the author sees with Mercedes drivers. In my experience, it's Audi drivers that are more likely to be jerks than Mercedes drivers, but again, that's probably confirmation bias talking.
"General purpose" isn't that general, if you look at the actual operations they support and their threading model. It's already fairly optimized for these sorts of operations, and this amount of claimed headroom makes me suspicious.
This is really interesting. Another one I'm familiar with is that Subaru is predominately for lesbians. I'm curious about the neocon Prius one. I'd never heard that before. What would be the driving force to get a neocon in a Prius? I would think they'd be in the gas guzzling trucks along with the cowboys.
If you've already been handed the baby, your boots should be on their way to the emergency room as fast as your truck can go. It really isn't right how you people turn every call into an excuse for searching without a warrant. Unrelated stuff going on in the home or birth center is none of your business.
just did. please look for an email from vineet at ekcoffee dot com. we literally submitted our new apps for app store review this morning. i'd like to understand better how this impacts us.
Arrogant?
It's not the events themselves that are underestimated- it's the details.

Do the books specifically address using water as a reductant? My experience is that not even scientists in the field (I worked at reprogramming hydrogen-producing enzymes) have a full appreciation of how bizzare that is.
> For example, what if every TED talk had a VR broadcast so you could slap on your goggles and "attend" it.

No thanks. I currently would rather read a paper than youtube a lecture. I would surely rather read a paper than strap a $600 device to my head.
India introduces legislation to ban unofficial maps