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This seems smart, there doesn't seem to be too much wrong with opening the door to investors. Once the investors start supporting the Tesla M3 and EV entry luxury cars, they will be also interested in investing in the infrastructure to support these kinds of solutions.

If sales and orders continue rising, and he requires investments, then he's already hooked in investors. Tesla might just prove themselves to be the gateway to a new infrastructure model.

How much "drift" do you guys have to deal with when using consumer electronics? I don't imagine the calibration being too difficult or numerous these days. Wi-Fi these days is cheap and of high quality.

It's like the $10,000 dollar hammer, but this is far worse.

With the hammer, government apologists claimed it was to "secretly move money for DoD"... which really means it was the DoD and military just giving themselves a shit ton of money.

The US is very corrupt. The DoD dodged a bullet when 9/11 happened because that was the day they were going to be put under investigation.

Sadly enough, nothing happened at all, and this type of political graft is very common among the military and their politicians.

A recent case for example is the head of University of California who does not even belong there and is completely ill qualified to lead a college. Her only real experience is as a _spy chief_ for the military and DHS.

This type of political graft resulting from military connections is going to be far more common and invade further into civilian infrastructures. It's not like the NSA's complete treasonous behavior in spying on the US citizens they're supposed to protect isn't bad enough... that isn't even the tip of the iceberg, I'd wager. Before that of course was the CIA funneling drugs into cities to fund their own pockets and programs. Or even the joke of the "war on drugs" which all it was meant to do was control the profit flow of illegal street drugs.

These styles of military programs, also known as soft power projection, directed at the US population and citizens is getting far more common and invasive. These days, it is almost considered the norm.

It is just naive or dumb to think Google is left alone when they don't give access to the government. Of course they give access, but in the interest of being a vital source of intelligence and data they put on an act.

Obama 1.0 is the sucker spin... Obama 2.0 is the squeeze.

First they pretend to be on your side, then they pretend to help, then they extinguish.

There is no such thing as privacy in a surveillance state.

Google got hustled. Nest was a disaster from the start. They are barely even a one-off. The best thing Google got out of their 3.2 billion dollar purchase was a patent troll.

These silicon valley companies made these horrible buyouts in the billions, and they have yet to feel the effects.

Or.. Maybe they are just working on their thug life portfolio? A bit sidetracked at best.

They are seen as throwing away cash, and throwing away 1% of cash holdings is very bad.

Literally the US can dictate what kind arms they can develop. It is required they comply to receive consideration for US military aid and to remain under the US nuclear umbrella (from other nuclear armed countries like China, India, Russia, etc...).

Umm... how old is this hack? Over a decade ago, one of my friends used to drive a somewhat nice car that he modded and fixed up on his own. He always threw his keys with the alarm dongle thing, etc... in the freezer and I never asked why.

edit: Although his car was still eventually stolen when the thieves used some kind of specialized tools to bend his car's hood. The tool allowed them to bend the hood without triggering the alarm somehow and cut the power sources to the alarms. Then they put it on a repo/tow truck and drove away. I guess he showed his alarm to the wrong hot girl he would always bring around when we all hanged out.

When the police found the car everything was gone except for the car's frame and bent hood.

FUCK is just a high entropy statement with lots of energy.

This is one of the faultier parts of having to answer to share holders. Apple is finding it more difficult to justify having their own entire supply chain rather than relying on other companies (i.e. Intel, IBM, Samsung, etc...)

If they didn't make that horrible mistake of their recent multi-billion dollar purchases, they'd have extra billion atleast towards a fab plant.

I'm laughing at Apple right now. Idiots. You Apple board... are stupid.

Microsoft is like, "It's totally a good idea to build an AI sculpture of today's 18-24 year old American chatting behaviors"...

That is the only path not available to the dominating robotics countries of Germany, Japan and Korea who are literally under the gun not to develop such arms and weapons (without approval of the US).

That is not surprising since the robotics market is already dominated by other companies from Germany, Japan, and Korea. DARPA made the mistake of opening their competition to Korea, and Korea dominated the competition with an innovative robotic design. It was obviously far ahead in terms of practicality and their design could already be used today.

Google is trying to enter a market already dominated and pieced out.

I think this is geared for kids, and not really adults.

Are you confused, since you are confusing "evolution" with gentrification. San Francisco de-evolved.

To undo your over simplification, in terms of evolution San Francisco is over specialized in an evolutionary sense. Can you parse that and understand what that means?

They're basically talking about social engineering. AFAIK, they used the CIA to funnel in cocaine, etc... to minority neighborhoods, then applied social engineering, adverts, and glorified drug abuse. Then the police and FBI went and killed them or jailed them. When they say "black", they effectively mean anyone they consider "non-white". They did it to all the minorities in various forms.

San Francisco used to be an awesome place, then all those people moved in from some white-only places and it's pretty much gone down hill. It used to be an awesome, diverse place with strong and creative people... now look at it. It's so sterile and void of originality it is sickening in comparison to what it used to be.

Alot of those people imitate the culture and creativity from San Francisco's once diverse population until it's just become another vapid rendition of a once vibrant city.

Look at clowns like "Lil Dicky" for example that exemplify the notoriety of the idiocy that is confused for San Francisco culture.

The worst are the police from the MidWest and other racist places where they openly shoot minorities (Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Latinos, etc...) then they are assigned to places like San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Portland, etc... to gentrify the area. They have been working a lot with the white supremacist "techbros' that plague San Francisco, such that when altercations occur, the police will abuse the minority every time. They even laugh about it too. It's sickening.

Wow, you techbros are everywhere. Way to watch out for your bro. /s

Apple was very happy that Google gave S. Korea a very public smackdown at their own game with the AlphaGo AI software. If only I were kidding.

It is incorrect to consider this form of AI as an "intelligence", and it's definitely not "alien". The hype train is a bit ridiculous, and even DeepMind and Google isn't go as far as to state that "humans are overfitted". That is hilarious.

It is not far beyond the human level. Lee Sedol already admitted that he had some psychological strategies that he employs that AlphaGo is completely impervious to.

With AlphaGo, it doesn't understand the moves like a human would. It simply looks at what other humans have played and considers that within its search tree.

It is believed now that Lee Sedol has a really good ability in reading AlphaGo's moves now (see: Micheal Redmond and AGA Game 4 commentary). Game 5 is going to be very interesting. I'm pretty sure the DeepMind team is just as excited. After game 4, they were noticeably far more ecstatic in the after-game press review.

Hassabis and Silver kind of reminded me of developers given the details of a bug that was notoriously difficult to find.

edit; I can't wait for the reviews of the entire 5 game series. If a book came out I'd very likely buy it. A book discussing both Go and AlphaGo AI at the same time consisting of people among the top of their respective fields would be amazing.

If you look at DeepMind's numbers, AlphaGo is meant to win more than 50% of the time against human players (expert). Right now, my opinion is that its actual capability in wins is less than 50%.

It didn't master anything. What the DeepMind team did was make an "AI" which means it can _imitate_ (to a certain degree) of "playing go".

Or the helpless look of Aja Huang... like "I have no idea how to decipher that neural network, that's part of why you are here".

You're conveniently forgetting that this "AI" is a representation of tens of millions of amateur plays which is far more than a few decades in total time. Not that Lee Sedol needs someone like me to defend him, but remarks like yours are very misleading.

A human is far, far, leagues, more efficient at learning than today's AIs. These AI requires millions of hours of man time of data to even come close to competing at the level of an expert person which did the same, and even arguably far better, in a "few decades".

Well, we don't actually know AlphaGo's true strength in Ko matches because the Ko setup wasn't that complex. There wasn't a lot of trade points available.

A possible explanation is:

During self reinforcement learning, AlphaGo learned to minimize Ko potential by maximizing its probability of winning through diminished available Ko moves.

It would be interesting to see how AlphaGo would be able to capitalize on a game that emphasized Ko play, but that would take more time with AlphaGo to emphasize that kind of play.

edit: I'm not sure why, but I think Lee Sedol is partly holding back, or not playing at his maximum ability. It feels like these games are more along the lines of query games.

I look forward to the next two games because I'm 100% certain Lee Sedol is going to query the AI with some new queries.

No, it's not just that. It is also:

- Should companies reveal what type of information they have on their consumers.

- Should and can companies protect their data on their consumers as their own property.