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> once Google figures out that you typed in a question, they want to give you the answer to your question

And that's the problem that the article rightfully denounces. Having the answer to every question is not something that you can automate, not without strong AI.

> Prepending that is a very bad workaround

I strongly disagree; for me it's a very sensible thing to do - and in fact is how we do it in a social context ("I'm totally not making this shit up, I've read it in a scientific article / this morning newspaper / a tweet message"). We rely on the context where the knowledge came from as a proxy for how accurate its content might be.

The default posture of engineers to a problem of inaccuracy is "make it more accurate". That's the logical method when you're building bridges, where we can describe the physics to an extremely accurate degree and where it would fall out or quickly degrade if you make a mistake.

But for problems that rely on inaccurate or uncertain information, and where no exact models exists, the only reasonable way to build them is to degrade gracefully. If you don't handle failures, it will fail in spectacular ways - because it will fail sometimes.

The system should provide an escape hatch, and allow the user to be in control. The user of an automated system should always be able to inspect how the system came to the provided result, and be able to override the given results in those cases where it will get it wrong
(at least by some users in a supervising role, which other users could notify to).

Unless a revolution happens, Artificial Intelligence will only ever work in the large if we put humans in the decision loop.
It is an interesting fact that concrete itself is a carbon sink, and that it mitigates a bit the emissions associated with its production.

That said, I agree that it would be interesting to have a independent study of the complete environmental impact of such a building, from its erection to its disposal.

I would instinctively expect a smaller impact from this kind of "lean" approach, though this might also create problems due to the economy of scale not necessarily being present.
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If there is to be another AI winter it will be because of unfulfilled promises in NLP.

As someone who works in NLP I don't think there will be an AI winter. There will be a Gartner "valley of despair", abut no winter.

That doesn't mean NLP is solved though.
or.... they'll learn that you prioritize answering calls over f2f, and they'll start calling you all the time. easier to 'avoid' to some degree, but you're just shifting the interruption.
I was confused by the second paragraph until I remembered that Americans put shredders into their kitchen sinks for whatever reason.
I don't know. I stopped reading at "Rails app".
OVH does.
>your body responds to exercise by burning less calories during the day by making you more tired to conserve calories"

But that's proven wrong, eg. in the link I posted above and numerous others and goes against common sense of anyone who tried it. Feeling fatigued is a newbie thing, after you get used to it you will have more energy not less.
Ha ha! That's quite a good one. In Japan I can also get flavoured kombu. It's quite chewy so it takes a while to eat :-)
This detail does not support 'FBI lies to federal judiciary in psyop to mislead everyone about their iPhone-cracking capabilities' in any meaningful way.
Yikes. More of this "People only want to be told what to do" stuff.

I can easily think of a dozen political questions for which no simple answer would be correct -- the language is simply too fuzzy. For many, many things, this is a good idea. The date of Easter is the date of Easter. But the glaring danger here is that for many things this is a freaking evil dystopian nightmare. Why? Because Google will keep tweaking these impossible questions until they look real enough to most people that nobody complains At that point, millions, perhaps billions of people are asking complex questions to a little box that has designed itself to give an plausible but incomplete or wrong answer.

Epistemology, Google. There are things you can know and things you cannot. Please do not treat them all the same.
There was an interesting talk about industrial simulations at the International Conference on Functional Programming this year.

(The gist was that avoiding mutation and keeping everything purely functional allowed them to roll back and forth in time with no problem, or try out multiple different futures. That's somewhat orthogonal to inheritance.)
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Apple can easily become large enough by simply making it easier for iPhone users to upload camera-captured content to Apple's own silo than to upload content to youtube.
This. Nobody ever said "my creation is intended to be seen only on this one type of display screen, and not another type that hasn't been invented yet".

I think "excessive verisimilitude" is the term for this annoying attitude.
Unlimited cloud DVR is a big win and with YouTubes infrastructure experience you can expect it to near flawless. However, Google are terrible at marketing most of their products and this pitch is slightly confusing for the YouTube audience.

However, it does seem to be addressing a real need. Which is native multi device support for live TV with the features the modern consumer expects and a price point that Netflix only crowd won't loathe. With streaming services like Netflix moving towards original content, I can see YouTube TV complimenting Netflix nicely to provide the majority of content that consumers desire.
Recent story: Google plans to commercialize quantum technologies in 5 years:

http://www.nature.com/news/commercialize-quantum-technologie...
My wife had never really been in a real arcade till she and I visited that very same one, and we were both blown away!
It was build in cables (https://cables.gl/) – a visual WebGL / WebVR / Web Audio editor which is currently in private beta.
The website was realised by undev (https://undev.studio)
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Empty mansions or super-expensive flats over the long term does not contribute much to the stats - that type of housing make up a vanishingly small part of the total housing volume, so even if they were all empty it wouldn't make much difference.

But Croydon actually has some of the most expensive areas of the UK. When people think of Croydon, they often think only of Croydon town centre, but that's a tiny part of the borough. It doesn't have the 10+ million flats you might find a handful of in Kensington etc., but it does have lots of multi-million properties, in numbers big enough that those are significant for these stats.

E.g. here's an example of the type of things you might find in Purley, which is part of Croydon [1], [2]. In Shirley (also Croydon) you're more likely to find properties around the million mark, but you do have roads where the average is around 1.5-2.5 million.

In terms of empty properties, there's minimal difference between those areas, or the luxury flats near the station, or the middle class areas, or the couple of run down council estates.

[1] http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/41807624?search_ide...

[2] http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/33270402?search_ide...
Google wants to avoid editorializing, and be able to throw their hands up and say "not our fault!" due to the plausible deniability of "algorithms".

They can't pull that off anymore.

There needs to be a shift towards a Web-of-Trust-like system, where some sources are recognized as authoritative. Government websites, like the CDC, for example. Big media outlets. Scientific associations (IPCC, APA, etc). Not all information is equal. Even if, for example, government dietary recommendations are outdated in some ways, that should be the authoritative answer Google provides, unless there is an equally-reputable but more accurate source (here, prioritize medical sources over governmental ones).

A high school dropout doesn't know more about academic subjects than a PhD grad. A blog isn't as authoritative as a reputable source. This is easy stuff.

Then the question becomes: "some people don't see reputable sources as reputable". That isn't Google's problem, and it can't be fixed at their level.
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only mid-reversal is a bad thing.
You must not have been looking very hard. Searching for "email" on the policy page gives you:

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>
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Can't beleieve I had to scroll this far down. Land prices in urban areas are set by ability to pay, so with cheaper construction you can pay even more to the land owneer! Prices won't fall in urban centres one cent.

The problem of expensive housing is man-made: by bakers lending enough fiat credit to match your surplus value.
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I wonder if anyone even tried to get a OVH box. I did and they asked for "proof of address" and my ID. Scaleway, Linode and DO didn't ask for it. OVH would have been interesting, if they didn't had this requirement. In my opinion it's a NO GO because of this.
if the law enforcement is not clean, then who would be?
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Everybody is parking money, not just the Chinese.

French legislation also favorizes the tennants, so the owners would rather keep these places empty than even bother renting. Now the city council is coming up with a tax for a problem created through regulation. Which only proves that career politicians do not even understand the economics behind these issues.
Pardon my ignorance, but would such a service need to be specific to a site? I'm wondering if there is a business (or perhaps better yet, non-profit) opportunity to provide data to drive something that can be tacked on to individual sites. Would an organization like Mozilla have an opportunity here?
Not everyone cares about UNIX desktops, specially looking at changes at Apple and their sales.
Clearly, OVH has enough time to do this.
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Scaleway's lower offerings are not virtual machines.
They are small dedicated arm boxes.
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Which people won't do, because YouTube is where the viewers already are, and also because Apple has what might charitably be called a checkered history with its first-party cloud services.
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If anything, Netflix with its huge affordable worldwide available library is going to be huge. Broadcast TV is rapidly dying and Google's decision to support linear broadcast content instead of expanding YouTube to be a VoD provider is utterly baffling.
This is the real source of fake news: AI be it at FB or G or whichever megalith org.
You can read this (and any other BBC Worldwide article) by entering the url at http://archive.is.

Here's the link for this article: http://archive.is/lJkKW
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Was it contactless? I've found staff really aren't used to online contactless transactions which can decline, they just take the "card read successfully" beep to mean transaction approved.

I've (accidentally) had a free dinner once when I used a locked prepaid card and neither me or the staff behind the bar noticed that it declined.
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> each being allocated their own parsing process

That just punts the vulnerable code elsewhere. A kernel bug could leak memory across processes. And the kernel is also written in C, so you aren't getting protection from a "better" language either.
> instead of expanding YouTube to be a VoD provider is utterly baffling.

Do we really need another one?
Why does specifically Apple has to respond to this and not any other TV providers?
NLP is a distraction. Computers won't be able to do NLP until they understand the real world. Parsing a sentence about snow without know what snow is will not be useful for a computer or a human.
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How can Apple respond? They already have all the incentive they need to partner with content providers, and have for quite a long time; the opportunity to pay a flat rate for access to TV content linked to Apple ID, so available on any Apple device and only Apple devices, would have been a very strong differentiator for Apple's products, especially mobile.

But they haven't made it happen - and now they've probably lost that chance for good, if indeed they ever had it.
This reads as if the author were not suited for that kind of work. Yes, working through code and figuring out what it does, and why it does it that way, and whether it can be improved is work, maintainer's work, and if it's stressful, hard or not fun to you, than maybe you just shouldn't do it.

I have seen the other side in this situation. I've found it at times very hard to get reports about real bugs to developers. While some developers won't even listen to you if you tell them why their code is broken, others actually tell you what you need to do to give them what they need, and then they work on it. Shoutout to the xorg/mesa people; I've found them to be of the latter type.
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I am sceptical about that.

I've always had the feeling that Youtube had bad management. If they weren't the biggest library of videos online they'd probably be out of business by now (Thats my personal opinion).

Take youtube streaming for example, it can't take over Twitch . I find its hard to fiddle with youtube's UI changes.

I don't know really, I think we'll have to wait and see, but still $35 a month for 40 channels that seems a hefty price.
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Apple has a limited audience.. but perhaps it is because Apple already has ties and contracts in the media industry for iTunes.
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I'm 34 and stay thin (BMI 21) by eating as much non-carb food as I want and doing strength training every couple days. My theory is that starving yourself and running long distances is counterproductive, because it teaches your body to be economical with energy, which is the opposite of what you want. And eating mostly fat is good for you, because it keeps hunger in check and teaches your body to use fat for fuel, which is exactly what you want. It's broscience, but it works for me.
When the topic discussed is software that can run on any platform, you have to care about UNIX desktop, otherwise you're cheating - or at least not providing a solution to the problem as was stated.
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> Which is the third possibility that you consider non-silly?

Grouping separators include space (that's the SI style, using either comma or period as decimal separator), apostrophe and "˙" (DOT ABOVE). A few locales also use "·" (MIDDLE DOT) as decimal separators.

Many modern languages allow interspersing "_" in numbers which replaces spaces for grouping.
I'm very optimistic about this program, but I also wonder how much of the success of the main program and the fellowship can be scaled into a MOOC.

I was part of YCF1 as AirPaper, and while I think it was an incredibly valuable experience, most of the things the YC partners told us we're things that we "knew." Most of the advice was available in one essay or another, but it still felt very, very different to have one of the partners tell us directly what we should be doing.

I actually think in a lot of ways the YC program felt a lot like therapy for our startup. We'd talk in group office hours about the other successes and problems other startups were facing. Individual office hours felt like one on one therapy where we got very specific direction out of the partners, but most of the time they were really helping my cofounder and I work out what the solution to our biggest problem was.

While I think the information in this class will certainly be valuable, I hope that the participants of this class really convince themselves that the advice applies to them, right now. To get the most out of this class, I think you need to abandon cynicism and let the message reach through the screen and grab you and your cofounders by the lapels.
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Good point, fragmentation of VoD services isn't a good thing.
They still keep putting out made-up stories so I don't see why not
Bitcoin is based on a blockchain process, but other applications could be as well. Blockchain exists as a separate concept. Not unreasonable to expect companies to commercialise it.
Thanks for the feedback all. I wrote this piece as I have been going to Nepal for the past 7 years and try to get back there every year. Every country has it's problems and I am there mainly to catch up with some dear friends who I will continue to be in touch with for life. I have always had positive experiences in the country so like to share it with others. Of course I don't write about the days I spend on the toilet or sick, who wants to read that stuff. Note I did say in the article though that this was the first trip out of 7 that I didn't get sick!
why not jail the guy and pay a fine too.

they jail innocent people all the time a give huge payouts or put people away in guantanamo and then also pay huge amounts of compensation.

how about the judge fines the law enforce and gives the fine to orphanages or to the victims.
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Oh yeah, having an x86 CPU makes it super easy to emulate - just look at how good the original XBox emulators are. That was sarcasm. There are no good XBox 1 emulators because the GPU is a custom, undocumented chip by nVidia and nobody has sat down to reverse engineer it. I predict that similar custom hardware parts will make it very hard to accurately emulate PS4 and XBone games. Then again, I feel like there are a lot less console exclusives nowadays, so we might not lose out on too much after the systems' deaths. And in the end, it's just games - people will always keep making more. It's sort of a philosophical point, but I feel that letting some art disappear completely, so people can re-discover and re-make it as new isn't really a bad thing.
the game designers would have obviously preferred CRT. they were designed for a specific usecase that todays screens don't handle well, and probably never will unless a completely new tech comes along.

Also, if you have played games a lot on CRT, you will find HDR OLED not amazing at all. HDR OLED makes mistakes between were things are in memory vs the screen. so you think 'that thing didnt get me' and then it does even though it was pixel(s) away.
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Apple's trying to lead in the space with their Apple TV product. The trouble is that getting actual TV content that way is difficult or impossible; news and premium channels have fragmented and incomplete offerings, but there's no good way of which I'm aware to get content from the broadcast networks, and certainly no option to pay a flat fee for content from all of them.

That's a huge drawback for Apple's offering, because a whole lot of people want to watch that stuff. If they want to keep their product relevant, they have to address it - but they now have a huge new problem in that every Apple TV has a YouTube app, and so do a lot of competitors in the space. They could've had first mover advantage on this, because up to now no one has managed it - but now it seems YouTube has, which leaves them playing catch-up.
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This article should really be one sentence: "Pure codebase rollbacks in production are impossible if schema changes are made". Pretty obvious, frankly.
SPICE, VHDL and Verilog typically run on some 56 core machine in a server room. At least once you are working on a sufficiently complex design.
What this article doesn't touch on but I have found an issue with classic consoles on non-CRT screens is:

1. Light guns

Even on consoles as late as the Sega Saturn, the light guns were design around the timings of CRT refresh rates and thus many (albeit not all) LCD screen are not compatible. I would imagine this could be a real issue for collectors / restorers of cabinets as shooting games (eg Virtua Cop) were quite popular in arcades.

2. Early 3D systems as used on Sega Scope for the Sega Master System; and the Nintendo 3D System for the Famicom (Japanese NES)

These devices are less common and as far as I'm aware only available on home consoles. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, it's active shutter glasses (ie disabled one eye at a time) and was timed around the interlacing on CRTs. At 50/60Hz (depending on your region) the effect can be a little unpleasant. But it's also pretty amazing to play when you consider the devices are approximately 30 years old.
That wouldn't work when somebody leaks something that is true but the cia denies (as an example).
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Huh? Is that enabled automatically, or do I need to flip a switch?
- higher resolution (with fine grain sized stock)

- higher dynamic range

- gracefull saturation behavior

and IMHO the absolute killer feature:

- a "fresh" sensor for each and every frame captured (no worries about scratches in the optical lowpass coating, no hassle with dust on the sensor).

Also absolutely no dependency on charged batteries if one uses a purely mechanical camera.
That is (roughly) one way to look at it and actually the interpretation that David Deutsch thought brought the most clarity. He was the first to describe a quantum Turing machine.
Thing is, with the single model process, a kernel bug could also leak memory between customers. And in fact, it's much more likely, since for it they're all in the same security context. So it's not punting the code, it's reducing the attack surface.
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It was, and they released the MacBook Air and then the iPad. Then tablets gutted the netbook market, and thanks to their foresight, they were well positioned to ride that wave. They haven't done the same with TV.