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Re:Microsoft mulls cutting UK datacentre investment amid Brexit concerns
on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:13AM (#13471021)
What I think Brexit has shown is that the British public is averse to 'poor' immigrants, as they are more likely to be competing for low wage jobs and often have a limited education, nonprogresive values and an isolationist mindset. I've not once heard someone complain about Pakistani surgeons or Polish engineers.
If points based controls reduce the the level of 'poor' immigrants then I'd expect it to eventually become a non-issue as it was when the EU member nations were all roughly similar in GDP per capita.
Re:CMU's Libratus builds substantial lead in Brains vs. AI competition
on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:43AM (#13461496)
I think this table summarises the increase in complexity when comparing games to non trivial tasks http://alumni.soe.ucsc.edu/~bweber/gamasutra/Tasks.png
Re:Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead
on Friday January 06, 2017 @08:14AM (#13335979)
Isn't that the point of DeepMind?
Re:UK's new Snoopers Charter just passed an encryption backdoor law by...
on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @07:13AM (#13070071)
Between government mouthpieces and DA-Notices I can understand how the media silence could come about. But the lack of opposition, by people whose entire careers have been built around opposing the government, is quite concerning.
If there is a reason this policy has such broad cross-party support then why isn't anyone allowed to explain what that reason is?
Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers?
on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:37AM (#13036283)
You're quite right. It's more akin to drawing your curtains and locking your front door. Anyone with enough motivation can break in but at least it's not all out on display.
Re:Why 30 is the decade friends disappear
on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:44AM (#12959650)
It seems to me to come from a difference in priorities. I'll try something because I want a new experience, whereas the people who maintain the subcultures are there because they want to receive the social capital that goes along with being the best in their group.
Re:Why 30 is the decade friends disappear
on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:38AM (#12959561)
Re:North Korea claims success in fifth nuclear test
on Friday September 09, 2016 @07:46AM (#12461255)
I would agree that normally governments make geopolitical decisions in a rational ways. But due to governments being emergent systems you have rare events in which individual incentives can line up to make irrational decisions happen. Look at what happened with the Brexit vote for example.
Re:Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:04AM (#12043521)
Straw man
Re:Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:02AM (#12043511)
You only have to be better informed on a specific subject too. If for example your job involves buying large quantities of two brands of bananas, and you notice that one brand is consistently worse than the other. You now have some unique insight that you could use to speculate on the banana market.
Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing
on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @08:13AM (#11619835)
Extrapolation works until it doesn’t.
Re:Classism in America
on Thursday April 07, 2016 @09:11AM (#11446927)
I never thought I'd say that rare pepes are elements of high culture.
Re:'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @08:07AM (#10264489)
Or an episode of Rick and Morty.
Might as well make the exterior copper as well, like a steampunk tardis.
Re:‘Deep learning’ technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial...
on Friday May 22, 2015 @07:29AM (#9587683)
This is some truly impressive work, I would expect the next step is to have the robot 'guess' what a new task is based on its similarity to previously completed tasks.
i.e. when given wood with a protruding nail + hammer, it relates the task to a previously trained Whac-A-Mole scenario and begins hammering the nail in.
Re:Of Course It’s Already Been Taxed
on Thursday March 05, 2015 @11:42AM (#9151844)
Then surely it should fall into the same category as a other gifts?
Re:China drops leading technology brands for state purchases
on Thursday February 26, 2015 @07:00AM (#9112125)
Why not both?
Re:Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces
on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @06:59AM (#9026620)
Algorithmic middle managers then?