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Re:Where Even Nightmares Are Classified: Psychiatric Care at Guantánamo
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @03:29PM (#12945469)
And now Trump says he's going to bring back the banned techniques. Great.
Re:‘No Vacancy’ Signs Are Vanishing from America’s Highways
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @12:44PM (#12944508)
And even if you spend half your energy and three-quarters your fuel the whole day, there's no chance that the inn you planned to stay at is vacant.
Re:‘No Vacancy’ Signs Are Vanishing from America’s Highways
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @12:42PM (#12944498)
Soon, most likely, even overbooking will vanish. There might be apps that actually see if an inn or motel is actually vacant.
Most likely.
Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media ...
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @12:13PM (#12944327)
Have you ever tried to read a story, on those sites where it just shows you one picture at a time, and you have to click next to get to the next picture? Most of them are just ad machines, and it lags your browser so bad.
Re:Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and com...
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @07:29AM (#12943020)
Will Uber still stand when self-driving cars become common?
Re:Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and com...
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @07:25AM (#12943009)
But you can't predict what would happen. Driving even healthy and sober, something could happen. Assuming you're in a more developed version of the self-driving cars, machine-learning has most likely come a long way since the beginning. The car/network of cars would have learned by now that the command:
"Stay on the right side of the road."
Doesn't mean to stay on the right side of the road but it's okay to hit a few cars or pedestrians."
They would have learned, or have programmed in them, that hitting cars or people is not good.
Machines don't have a moral sense, and hoping that they are not completely sentient, this means that they don't have opinions, meaning that if you don't like this guy, you can be a little rude to him.
And my last point is that the network of cars, all communicating at once, would learn how to be safest.
Done.
Re:Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and com...
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @07:16AM (#12942979)
Not only is NVIDIA getting those three things that Huang mentioned, but they are also planning, and maybe getting, a monopoly.
Think, rapidly switching from chip-making to AI, before anybody else, but not for self-driving cars. Then, when Tesla decided to start self-driving cars, NVIDIA hopped in and now Tesla is going to use their Drive PX2 supercomputer.
This is a smart move by NVIDIA, after all, they're five years ahead!
Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media ...
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @06:55AM (#12942928)
Smart
Re:Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media ...
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @06:54AM (#12942924)
There are some sites that display not ads but fake virus alerts. When I visited one of these sites, I got a message blaring out of my computer to call a phone number or to reinstall my computer to get rid of a "virus." (Hopefully it was not.) Every time I closed out of the message box a new one would appear, and I finally managed to close out of the site. It's happened a few times.
This may not entirely relate to the topic you were speaking about.
:)