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Isn't this an issue with the algorithm?

Can someone try and see how it would perform if you simply upscale the image using normal bicubic interpolation? And if it performs much better, I feel like that should be a preprocessing option to scale up the image since it seems to do so poorly on small resolutions.

But what about patents?

Yes, you're right, but this is a phone that thousands of people will get either way, regardless of the VR, just for the phone itself.

No one will ever buy a 600-800$ VR headset for anything else than using it in VR. And that's the ONLY thing it will be used for.

The phone will be used every single day of your life for doing everything, from messaging people, watching videos, browsing the web, playing games, etc.

If you want this to be a fair comparison, then also include the 1000$+ gaming rig you'd need for the VR headset to work.

So your issue is your secretary doing it's job poorly?

First, there is a way to tell it to not do that. With Google Now, you simply tap the menu and say "No more notification like this". With the assistant, you will probably be able to ask directly.

Second, let's be honest, humans fail pretty often too, so that's just a weak argument.

Lastly, I think it's unfair to dismiss a new technology just because it could maybe fail, without having even tried it.

I'm sorry but that just sounds like blind fear mongering. What you're saying is vague and doesn't really mean much.

It's like saying we shouldn't use prescription glasses, or medication, or cars, because it's not "us".

Humans invent all these tools and systems to improve and optimize our life. Make our vision better. Make our health better. Make us move around faster. In the case of AI, make us do perform certain things more efficiently.

Imagine it wasn't an actually computer. Imagine it was a personal secretary you had that gave you the EXACT same information. Gave you your flight information, turned on the light when you asked, gave you the weather and your schedule. Would you think that was wrong? That this isn't "you"? No, it's just optimizing your life, but now available for a wider population rather than rich people.

And in a lot of places, it'll come for free with the phone. I know Fi is doing it, and I think Verizon might too. I know friends that got Gear VR for free along with their Samsung phones.

Yeah, and unlike gaming VR, I think mobile VR has the potential to truly catch on and spread. It's cheap (80$ vs. 600$+), it's easy to use (no wires or crazy rig needed), and you can use it anywhere (lay on the bed, use outside).

Ingress, at peak, probably had only a small fraction the users Pokemon Go had in the first month of launch. So their experience of working at that scale was basically nonexistent. It's a whole other ball parks when you increase your player base by 2-3 orders of magnitude.

That being said, they really should've done better at predicting hype, especially since they had beta sign up and all.

So you're telling me that this probably significant percentage of Youtube creators whose videos fully adhere to the rules and have never had any problems could potentially gain a lot more money for their hard work if these few rare cases decides to clean up their videos a bit to follow rules that have been there for years and that they've agreed to when signing up?

Sounds like a fantastic deal to me, and I don't see why all those other creators should be punished just so that a few can gain money making content that is against the stated rules.

And again, this isn't censorship, if that content is really important to you, it will still be there for everyone to see, just not monetized.

While it's true that quite a few games (especially multiplayer/competitive games) have strict latency requirements, those are far from being all the games out there.

I think this model has many big features that makes it a worthy, even if it's not for everyone. Here's a few obvious ones:

- No download or even load time, jump straight in the game - Can play on almost any device, even mobile - Online co-op/multiplayer for local only games - Easy to spectate friends (don't need good upload speed)

So if you are a gamer who plays a moba/fps every single day, then sure, having your own rig is nice. But if you're someone who likes playing the latest single player story game, or some indie games, but don't want to invest into a gaming PC/console every few years, this model could be very useful.

What do they gain from removing advertising from any video? Any money you make is money they make.

Another thing you need to realize is that this is all automated, they don't come and manually remove monetization from your video. Yes, the algorithm could potentially be wonky, but again, it's in their best interest for it to be good.

Everything that has been spouted so far has been senseless propaganda and none of it is backed by any actual facts.

I think he's referring to the fact that Youtube Red is not available in every country yet.

I think each of these address a very different problem, and completely disagree with him. Trying to bundle all of these things into one big app will just make the app bloated and development painful. Youtube at this point has many different uses (average length videos, live streams, music/audio) and trying to have a one size fits all app is not necessarily the right way to go.

Youtube GO is meant for people who live in areas with poor connectivity. Again, having them download a big 100mb bloated app is not the right solution. On the other hand, people with LTE don't care about the download size and locally sharing videos, so why put that in the same app? Same thing with trying to put Chatting/Livestream notification into the Youtube app, or trying to hack a music player into it.

Speaking of collapsing, does it feel really slow in this thread? It almost feels like their implementation is O(n) where n is the number of comments, and it's really struggling here. I see a very clear 500ms delay here whereas it's instant in most other threads...

Hmm, can't seem to change page in Chrome. In Firefox, it works slightly better but still doesn't really. I'm guessing it only works on Safari? How can they release a language and not have proper documentation that is accessible by anyone?

It'd be great if someone could get the book, convert it to PDF and post it online.