tiler

I would guess that they trained AlphaGo from many thousands of hours of match footage. Writing a computer vision script to segment / extract the data may cost cycles as you say, but would save many human hours by eliminating the need to re-watch the footage and literally type out state information for each move.

I mean no offense, but a 75% failure rate isn't exactly a great endorsement of your methodology.

Ehh. Hilary Clinton is far more powerful than the people that invite her to give speeches. More than likely this is a way for a business interest to pay tribute in the hopes that someday she might remember their fealty.

One interpretation of this interview: If Machiavelli had had a prince for a disciple, the first thing he would have recommended him to do would have been to write a book against Machiavellism. --Voltaire

Another interpretation of this interview: P.T. for POTUS.

ATM the price is $25.

I think much of what you've said can be applied to other types of social outcasts e.g. drunks, gamblers, etc.

I realize that this is besides the point but going on the title alone we could write a script that could generate an 'infinite' (max out available memory) sized image.

Perhaps you could explain how the existence of trans. people is proof that gender is not a social construct?

There are some great examples among the comments of people vehemently defending their provably false beliefs.

You do know what happened in 2007-2008 which allowed for this, right?

I wonder if this work has any link to what Carmack and the Oculus Rift crew are doing with Android?

How could I get in touch with a team within Walmart that uses Scala? (To see if there are any available positions.)

"The world divides into facts. Each fact can be the case or not the case, while everything else remains the same."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

You make a good point, but in this case location X is not a specific coordinate but a wide range of possible coordinates over the ocean.

Imagine a system which levied taxes not to fund government expenditure but to carefully control inflation. In this system there is no need for the government to collect taxes from citizen X to fund the needs of citizen Y. How is this possible? Study U.S. fiscal policy and you will learn about such a system. Given enough consideration you will eventually see that 'the redistribution of wealth' from citizen X to Y is an antiquated idea given how our monetary system actually works. A more accurate description of what occurs is: given the growth of the productivity of the population as a whole, we can 'distribute wealth' to those with less as long as this distribution doesn't cause the system to become unstable.

Just a conjecture, but, it may not always be possible/straightforward to map a set of CA rules meant for a rectangular grid to a hex grid.

"Focusing is about saying no."

- Steve Jobs

A couple of random thoughts on potential applications/uses:

1. Alexandria needs to communicate with Bilbo. Alexandria has the privilege of being trusted by whatever organization she belongs to (be that her country, company, etc) and as such is unmonitored AFAsheKs. Biblo on the other hand is some fugitive-type and is unable, or perhaps unwilling, to enter direct communication with Alexandria for fear of compromising himself or his beloved Alexandria. Bilbo could then monitor Alexandria's calls for an encoded message via a protocol they predetermine. This protocol could take the form of linguistic or audio steganography. One could image all sorts of information being leaked by Alexandria.

2. More realistically this could be tool for bribery. Monitor a set of vulnerable targets, wait until they reveal something, take a bribe to stay quite.

3. Or, for the Machiavellian-minded leak information that was supposedly confidential between two parties.

Last Week Tonight by John Oliver is a good source of news when it is in-season.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight

Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur?

SpamMimic works by using a context free probabilistic grammar to derive its output. Each production of the grammar is translated into a Huffman tree based on the probabilities assigned to each variable or terminal symbol in the production.

For example:

  S -> A(.25) | B(.75)
  A -> aS(1.0)
  B -> bS(.75) | b(.25)

You simply feed the mimic function an encoded message (as a binary string) until you consume all the bits. Of course you can also pad the bit string so that it always terminates on a terminal symbol.

I wrote a program not too long ago that took some inspiration from SpamMimic and linguistic steganography in general. For fun I used the comments from this thread as input to my program:

  So why not send it as spam? The key here is hiding in this approximately 95% of HN.

  So why not send spammer--not a spy.

  For my favourite variation seems rather inefficient. It should be possible output 
  can be used already, and you just look for in spam thousands of people with it. 2. 
  Also send lots of receiving person and a Novel Vertex Coding and identify the 
  system being used, it's used to encoding and identify the fake spam. Appendix 
  B gives an enemy (Kerckhoffs's principle).

  [1]: https://github.com/rw/tweetfs

  Plainsight uses each byte of the

The encoded message is: 'meet at 3'

On where to start => I'd start by getting a very solid grasp of graph theory. It is the bedrock of many algorithms and along the way you'll learn all kinds of useful mathematical notation, but in a way that should be easier for you to pick up than plain old 'pure-math.' I've found the following series of videos presented by Donald Knuth, aka The Christmas Tree Lectures, to be incredibly informative and inspirational [1].

Another area of math that you need to know for C.S. related activities is linear algebra. To get started I'd recommend reading 'Coding the Matrix' by Phillip Klein.

[1] => https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNMsVRnSJ44...

A snippet from the article: "An 1857 letter that a Sigma Phi member named Jenkins Holland sent to one of his fraternity brothers suggests the new system was already hitting full stride: 'I did get one of the nicest pieces of ass some day or two ago.'"

I imagine that services can be grouped with other relevant services. For example: Bike Chain Installation + Bike Chain Lubrication.

Is it possible to see the city (or any map location) from a street level view? Nice project btw!

I really appreciate that the Stanford group is always willing to post mistakes/mislabels. Kudos.

Nice guess. There are 4486 lines of C when the set of lines that start with {/* , * , */} + the set of empty lines are excluded.