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> If a frame is 16ms, and the best consumer SSDs are around 2GB/s, You can only load 33MB of assets in a one frame in a best-case scenario.

I think page faulting can work a lot better for graphics assets (= textures) than for general purpose computing, because the system has special knowledge about data and can avoid processing pauses by (temporarily) using lower fidelity mipmap levels.

1) All of those assets aren't present in the current frame. 33 MB might cover the whole scene anyways.

2) Texture aware page fault mechanism can transfer low lower detail mipmap levels first. Two detail levels lower mipmap is just 1/16th of data, but is still going to be good enough for those few tens of milliseconds until better LoD can be loaded.

3) So in 3 frames (5ms) you have 100 MB. This probably covers current scene pretty well.

So everything will just appear to be there. Eyes won't have time to focus in time it takes to load all full quality assets for current scene, even if your SSD can load just 500 MB/s.

Remember, with page fault mechanism you don't need to load all assets, just those that are actually visible in the current scene. So initially there's less data to transfer.
You are so last century mate!
"This description fits almost any action that you can perform when you're at war."

Except there is no man in the loop in the kill chain.

"where the maimed survivors of a mistaken drone
strike on unarmed civilians in February 2010,
which killed 23 people, describe what happened
when they were attacked. The juxtaposition of
the appallingly gung-ho attitude of the drone
operatives, re-enacted from a transcript of
the event, and raw footage of the dead bodies" [0]

How do you confirm ground-truth? That truck you targeted with a high statistical chance of having X leader also is surrounded with non-combatants. Eyes on the ground will be responsible and wrestle with this and take responsibility. [1] Even if it's personal.

Death by algorythm, remote control, sanctioned higher up the command chain, does not.

[0] "National Bird review – chilling film reveals truths about drones" ~ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/17/national-bird-r...

[1] "Into the Fog of War" ~ http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-23/soldier's-story-exp...
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Surely the solution is either to have a more restrictive formula for the equipment or to make the players use each others equipment at random so that bringing a better broom might give the advantage to your opponent.
Man, that really sucks. I spent many nice afternoons there.
German here. It's totally non-intuitive for me that I should pass on the left when driving but pass on the right when walking. Or vice versa.

When coming to London, this always makes me spend extra CPU cycles to ensure that I'm not doing anything wrong.
I assure you not everyone shares your opinion (as not everyone shares mine). I'll just state there are lots of inconvenient truths in life and, until, you encounter them, you may not fully understand. The trick is to realize the possibility and not hold an absolute stance when in discussion. We are always learning.
You can run the Game of Life, and that's Turing-complete. So I see no reason why 2D intelligence can't exist.
The Reprieve report 'You Never Die Twice: Multiple Kills in the US Drone Program' (November 2014) provided the first estimate of the number of people – including children – killed each time the US attempts to assassinate a ‘high value target.’ For example, drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have killed as many as 1,147 unknown people in failed attempts to kill just 41 named individuals.

That was a while ago. Things have continued in much the same way and the civilian death toll is much higher, compared to a comparatively small number of jihadis successfully targeted.

Point is, Clinton knows how destructive these things are to the innocent populations in the area they operate.
But the U.S. is at war with ISIL, as part of a joint task force involving the Pakistan armed forces.

It's not total war, so the real issue is whether or not the CIA drone assassinations killed innocent civilians. The article mentions how drone attacks have killed civilians, but it doesn't specify if those are the CIA requested attacks or if they were approved by Clinton.
No, but I've on more than one occasion (mostly back in college) made sure that group planning (let's all go out to dinner and talk about what we did over break) included people that wouldn't have been included otherwise. It's not the sociopaths and psychopaths I'm concerned with, it's the normal people.
Not when you remember he works for them?
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The US can declare it's at war with "bad behavior", and its executive would believe it's legally covered, no matter who they're killing over it.
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Except life is not like writing a program where you've coded down some rabbit hole and realize you should have done X several layers up and are able to go back and fix it. It's more of hack as you go and hope the whole thing doesn't blow up until you, possibly, get a chance to rewrite or build an improved version
Not even Dota, but Warcraft 3 is still alive pretty much only in China.
Awesome list. Great job!

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The first robot to autonomously and intentionally break Asimov’s first law, which states: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. The robot decides for each person it detects if it should injure them not in a way the creator can not predict.
While there currently are “killer” drones and sentry guns, there is either always some person in the loop to make decisions or the system is a glorified tripwire. The way this robot differs in what exists is the decision making process it makes. A land mine for instance is made to always go off when stepped on, so no decision. A drone has a person in the loop, so no machine process. A radar operated gun again is basically the same as a land mine. Sticking your hand into a running blender is your decision, with a certain outcome. The fact that sometimes the robot decides not to hurt a person (in a way that is not predictable) is actually what brings about the important questions and sets it apart. The past systems also are made to kill when tripped or when a trigger is pulled, hurting and injuring for no purpose is usually seen as a moral wrong. Obviously, a needle is a minimum amount of injury, however – now that this class of robot exists, it will have to be confronted.
Pretty sure there's a fallacy about making analogies to things that are not analogous. The city of Austin is not the FBI. The voters of Austin made this decision; first through their elected representatives, and then through a ballot measure. There is nothing comparable about the FBI vs. privacy/encryption and the situation we are discussing. No secretive agencies or courts were involved. It is not a constitutional matter, at all.

And, if we really were calling slippery slope a valid argument, rather than the fallacy that it so often is: Austin's legal requirements for providing rides have been decreasing over the past decade, both in complexity and in cost of compliance. It's just not very slopey or slippery, as it has been trending in the opposite direction of what your slippery slope argument suggests would happen. I'm sure there's still room for improvement and simplification, but if the stoners I know who pedicab can figure it out, I'm confident the bright young lads who run Uber and Lyft can, too.
Sorry but western media (of which this forum is a subset, whether you like or not), is strangely always extremely affected by all attacks performed against western targets, but usually completely oblivious to the attacks that western powers are performing on foreign targets, usually civilians.

This does not look to me like it "does not imply a lack of concern for another group". Once is ok, twice is ok, but whenever you see that "not lacking concern for another group" actually means "not giving a sxxt about them, because they are just second class people and who the hell knows where they live anyway", sorry but I need to point it out.

Because being good on paper means nothing if you are actually pulling the trigger like a madman all around the world.
One could reasonably argue that the location of the strikes were regions which were not under the writ of the Pakistani govt.

Didn't the Pak army launch a major operation is recent years to retake control of FATA and NWFP from the Taliban / local armed tribals?
There are software tools which aggregate huge amounts of data (hands) from Poker platforms, like Holdem Manager. That's where you can see player stats like pre-flop, turn, river actions, percentages and so on. Once you have 2 players who played a lot of hands (+10k) and have the exact same stats numbers you should be a bit suspicious.
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The sexism, while satire, is actually one of the reasons why I found it extremely difficult to read through. If I recall correctly, I stopped halfway through out of irritation!
Drone strikes are arranged and approved weeks and even months in advance it's not like the US has an army of drones waiting to strike at targets of opportunity.
Also allot of the "drone strikes" that happen over pakistan aren't actually drone strikes it's just more convenient to both Pakistan and the US to claim that no manned aircraft are used but quite a few released/leaked BDA images show craters that are way too big for AGM-114's and even the GBU-12's which is the biggest thing that US drones can currently carry.
While some of the craters might be caused due to secondaries many of them don't show the tell signs of being secondary explosions.

But onto Benghazi drones wouldn't really help, drones won't stop mobs of 100's of people with AK47's storming a compound, even full on CAS with gunships could had very little effect on the end result as far as US casualties go, the people storming the both the embassy and the secondary "support compound" were doing it knowing that they will most likely die in the process.
These aren't regular armies that when they suffer even high single digit %'s force depletion sound the retreat because it would be foolish to stay otherwise.
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Are they at war with the Taliban?

The US haven't formally been at war with anyone since WWII[1], so we must rely on an informal definition of war (otherwise even Vietnam would be excluded).

A middle-ground definition of war that requires parties to be nation states but doesn't require a declaration of war, seems a bit arbitrary.

Instead of declaring war, the US now has Congress-sanctioned "use of military force". This includes the current "conflict" with the Taliban regime.

In this context the line between war casualties and assassination is very blurry. I think the blur itself might be one of the worst things about this new way of waging war.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/all-the-...
By the same logic, China could declare war at certain dissident groups, say Tibet activists (which I think China assumes to be terrorists) and then drone strike their members in the US, if the US refuses to act against those.

I don't think this is the standard a civilized nation should hold.

EDIT: spelling
What's scary is that most still don't seem to realize how much worse this will be made by autonomous killer robots.

They're already killing people essentially based on an algorithm, that may have only a 51% chance of identifying the "right target" (that's the logic they use to spy on Americans, too). They've already admitted to targeting people with drone strikes based on the phone SIM alone, which is not much better than targeting someone based on their IP address.

But now they would be able to just build that into an autonomous drone, and allow it to kill anyone it meets that has a 51%+ chance of being a "bad guy".

Truly scary stuff, which many still seem to excuse with nonsense such as "yeah, but they would've killed those guys just the same with Apache helicopters!".

No, they wouldn't. They would only target the most important targets and the ones they are most sure it's who they think they are. With autonomous killer drones they can just launch 1,000 of them upon a country and allow them to kill anyone on sight that has whatever chance of being a target is implemented into their code.

It's also the same BS excuse people used post-Snowden revelations: "But NSA has always spied on a few dictators and rival countries - surely that's just the same as them now spying on everything billions of people are doing every day, storing everything for decades, and from all ally countries as well? Right?!"

And that's without even discussing the possibility of these machines being hacked, or having software bugs (which they'll probably use as an excuse everytime they get caught killing innocent people by the media - "Whoopsie, a software bug just killed 20 innocent people - What ya gonna do? - What's important is that nobody takes responsibility and gets punished for it now..."
My 4 year old son asked for a Remote Control Helicopter for xmas this year. Specifically, a Helicopter with a laser beam so that he could shoot out the street light that shines on our back yard.

Evidently I complain about this a lot.
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Aren't textures loaded into memory compressed anyway? Even 33MB is a lot of data when compressed properly.
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Another interesting thing is that perceptron can approximate any non-linear function with just a single hidden layer.

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> If a frame is 16ms, and the best consumer SSDs are around 2GB/s, You can only load 33MB of assets in a one frame in a best-case scenario.

33 MB of assets per frame is more than enough for a lot of practical tasks. Modern texture compression achieves 2 bits per pixel (e.g. ASTC 8x8) with very little percievable loss of quality (when you apply texture mapping, lighting, effects, etc. ASTC 12x12 gets 0.89 bits per pixel, but noticeable loss of quality). At this rate, the 33 MB/frame is 16k x 8k worth of texture data, every frame. Vastly more than there are pixels on screen.

And this figure does not take into account the block cache at all. If the data has been used recently (several minutes depending on RAM size), a copy of it might be still around in RAM which would make it nearly instantaneous and almost a gigabyte per frame of data (assuming all memory bw is put to this use).

As for the framerate issues, it would be imperative that this technique is implemented in a stall-free way (which is possible with Vulkan/D3D12) so that a steady 60 fps is maintained. All textures should have at least a few mip map levels resident at all times to fall back on. A single "standard" GPU sparse page (64k) is 512x512 texels at ASTC 8x8, which is quite a large texture already.

In other words: 33 MB per frame is a lot more than what we get today.
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Ish. Right now, games explicitly handle resource loading/unloading from/to RAM in userspace. Using memory-mapped texture files would allow utilizing proven and much faster kernel infrastructure for this.
Assuming that the U.S. Military is allied with China against (and at war with) the Tibeten activists, and the drone assassination was of a leader in that group - then yes, your hypothetical slippery slope is analogous.
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Had all that in BBC BASIC, back in the day!
Yes.

But it doesn't change anything. Lower LoD mipmap level is going to be less data with or without compression. Each lower level data size is just 25% of previous.
>The managers at Walgreens don't know how to design, validate, and certify laboratory tests and procedures

This is why the current company system is a bad idea. It puts incompetent idiots in charge.

This is almost literally the definition of an epic failure. If you're running a health company and someone shows up on your doorstep with some unusual claims about their product, are you going to pay someone to do some independent checking, or are you just going to rely on social proof and the fact that the marketing person seems okay?

Making management decisions on the basis of status and social proof - and that includes the VC scene - is the opposite of collective intelligence.
> Except life is not like writing a program...

So, your argument is that it's okay to have terrible foreign policy because we don't have time travel. Are you sure you want to go with that?
Randomizing the equipment is a bad idea. If you're confident that you would lose an even contest, then it's a good idea to bring the worst broom allowable. You might get lucky and have your opponent use it, putting them at a disadvantage. If they don't then you lose, but you were going to lose anyway. Randomization always favors the weaker party.
Correction: it is of course not all about raking up numbers, -lots of questions are answered. Still it feels weird to talk about the workload without adjusting the threshold for asking.
> heirarchy of GPUs, outputs wired to inputs

Nvidia introduced a new, faster SLI bridge for the new 1000 generation, aren't they used in GPGPU setups?
I'm not sure what got so complicated about this question, but I was wondering what the person initially responded to here was talking about:

in Canada (actually, pretty much everywhere but America)

since the systems sound pretty identical.
Why does RAM even matter? Warframe merely needs 700MB and yet it still looks great.
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> I assure you not everyone shares your opinion (as not everyone shares mine)

I know. And the only thing I would like from you american leaders is to state this openly: we are only interested in defending our way of life, with wherever means it takes.

This is what is happening all around the world right now, but you are hypocritically pretending that you are trying to uphold an specially pure moral standard in your multiple conflicts around the world.

That's something going for Trump: he does not seem to be hypocritical.
I think the issue here is she used her unsecure cellphone and presumably "private" email server to approve these strikes in which case it might have caused operational information to leak.

This isn't about someone using a cellphone or a laptop, this is about someone using any communication device that wasn't clear for the transmission of classified information to approve strikes which i would only presume to be classified if only due to operational reasons.
I liked them for their community character, this is totally missing in wikipedia, stackexchange and HN, but these three are still better information sources than the forums back in the days.
ag has issues with .gitignore, as patterns are not recognized properly. The matcher that git uses cannot be included due to licensing (see https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614).

Does seem like there is hope, as a BSD licensed version exists. My fingers are crossed that this is solved soon :)
I was intrigued because there is some indication of a rough but important ordering to the topics in formal maybe antics education. I was interested in seeing what that order was.

I've seen others say that linear algebra is a prerequisite of any kind of maths maturity goal.

I think, personally, maths is an incredibly important field and there's a feeling that some degree of comfort with it will help me in more ways than I can imagine. That is, however, an opinion formulate after some self study based on a great interest in the field.

It fascinates me that even things we take for granted, such as addition and multiplication, has entire subfields that have generalised the structure of those operations over those types of sets (in what's taken for granted: addition and multiplication over the set of integers). What's even more fascinating is that this work has had an impact on other areas of deep interest e.g category theory and Haskell.
That's true, I'm not the most sociable of people and a lot of what makes cities attractive is wasted on me.
When I moved to the country it was the libraries and the bookshops I missed.
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Having all resources that an application needs in the GPU memory, I think.
Yeah this. Dozen's of them with this weird strategy with a few very identifying features.

Edit: I can't recall the exact figure, but we had a few million hands combined.
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Doubtful. PP was addressing the nature and scope of the complaint, not endorsing it.
Strict 2D?

Think electronics: no bridges -> no cables crossing

Think biology: any kind of digestive tract would split a purely 2D being in two.
> easy way to mass produce them and smuggle them into the US assemble them and start launching drone strikes from within the US on US persons of interest like politicians and CIA officials

Terrorists are a form of those drones.
Using this results in a lot fewer civilian casualties compared to carpet bombing the area.

War will always have civilian casualties and it will always be with us.
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The GPU doesn't have DMA to the disk or RAM it has to go through the CPU to access it which causes quite a delay.

Even if you read from RAM during normal operations you'll have very low framerate unless you are using pretty damn good latency masking a good example will be texture streaming where you hold low res textures in your GPU memory and load the higher res ones from RAM or disk and even on very high end systems it causes allot of texture popins which people find rather annoying.
Well, congress has the other legal tool alongside "War", which is to 'grant letters of Marque and Reprisal'. They both grant war, either on a country, or individual scale.

The actual quote from the Constitution is thus:

"To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;"

If ISIS isn't a state-level entity (which I believe it is, but does not follow agreed upon definitions of countries) then these Letters of Marque are sufficient if levied against their organization.
This article is quite shallow, but the one linked below is excellent and discusses in some detail several of the serious side-effects of light pollution (on human health, animal populations, crime, as well as wasted money):

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/20/the-dark-side-2
The country I live in owners change the timing belt before recommended date or else they pretty much can't sell the car for the price they want. It's a bid deal. So much so, that when I sold a car last year I was getting somewhat irritated by the question of it having been done or not (said so in the ad, tyre kickers don't know what else to ask about).