Yeah, and its good at minimizing high frequencies, which is why the dct is used in image compression. There is no good general windowing, understanding is key, and where smoothing or windowing will hide the effect of the border, thus inhibiting understanding, mirroring helps understanding.
Perhaps, but they could have broken it down, assaulted them, then claimed that they were violent. They get away with that kind of crap all the time, because mostly, they do this to criminals, and are friends with the local police. Sometimes they get caught, usually for things like shooting a dog that was chained and far out of reach, or because someone had it on video, but these thugs are the kind of people who got rejected from or fired from the police, so however incompetent, cowardly, and violent the cops are, these thugs are worse.
They are good at telling people what they want to hear. There are lots of people like that too, but yeah they generally dont achieve much on their own.
Try methylphenidate or similar long lasting adhd meds, instead of rittalin, and avoid strattera its largely useless. also get a private phone separate from your work phone, and leave the work phone at work, with notifications off in general.
Microsoft is preemptively cooperating, and will likely not be forced to create a separate OS for the eu. Apple will be forced to create a EU specific one, one which not just lets people install other Appstore's, but which will ask the user if they want the google Appstore or a free one, or the apple one, the first time you start it.
Knowing when to lose is quite valuable. Microsoft learned that the hard way last time.
At this point apple is just in denial. The eu alone will force them to make every user pick the default appstore on first install from alternatives including both something free and google, and probably samsung, and force them to provide easy to use api for everyone else.
Its hilarious to see the difference between apple, google and microsofts reactions. Two of them went we will fight tooth and nail, microsoft who tried that last time instantly went we are dropping the fees instantly, unless you want more? and will work with regulators to make open access ...
Its obviously retarded, but I'm not so worried, most cars are gargantuan 10M+balls of decades old C that no one understands, and no one has ever audited or gone through to fix warnings. Almost everything is communicated along joint databuses typically can, which sends everything everywhere by default. They are so ridiculously easy to hack you can do it over wifi or bluetooth it should not have in the first place, but the sound system is no doubt connected to the airbag. However, if you have physical access to the system the opportunities are endless, and for every engineer that tries to fix security issues, you have three like the guy who tried to argue that his fantastic innovation of partial self implemented 16 bit encryption would make the can secure. For these reasons I dont expect a single one of the old car companies to achieve secure code in our lifetime, meaning sure, it will be a little inconvenient, but when was the last time you used a browser without an adblocker.
There really should be a syntactic sugar for things like pure function/stateless, and its collary, explicitly reentrant, verified by the compiler. Then a debug mode- or perhaps flag would allow all functions which dont qualify as explicitly non-threadsafe, possibly having that as the default.
But I'm dubious about the use of needing to explicitly mark functions as non-threadsafe, its a bit like the const vs mut, but while const might be slightly less common save for things that should be autogenerated, in the case of reentrant, if it isnt explicitly marked, it should never be used reentrant, even if it happens to be a pure function at the moment, or for this one implementation etc.
Mostly confusing the benefit which taking notes provides with the benefit paying the minimum attention taking notes requires. Though there is also the memory habit confounder, i.e. if you are used to needing to remember only the things you write down, you are less likely to remember it if you dont. Similarly, if you are used to not need to remember what you type, you wont. However, if you are able to pay attention regardless, and are used to needing to remember even if you aren't taking notes, you will. These confounders are obvious and the article is completely oblivious to them.
The thing about spacs isnt that the product itself is a scam, it can be, but it does not need to be. The problem is that its a product wrapped in two scam wrapping papers. The first which is extracted the instant the deal goes through is typically 5% - 20% of the ipo value, the second is unbounded but historically an additional 30-80% which is value lost over the next year. Its also the case that the latter will trend upwards over time.
The actual product can be fine, but its a bit like buying something after being told its great but you cant actually look at it, and we say it costs x, but dont mention that 80% of that is the optional wrapping paper that you didnt want or need to buy.
In most western democracies I think mass surveillance will counter most efforts by private individuals to get off using deep fakes, I'm much more concerned about police using it to get evidence against people they "know" are guilty. The old scandals of police taking mixing evidence from the scene with dna collected from the suspect, using the latter twice then pointing to it as evidence comes to mind.
I really dont think any country is really ready for what is coming, but I also think its exactly the repressive countries that are in the most trouble, not democracies. Lets say some mid level bureaucrat sees a faked video of Xi telling everyone to spray their airport runways with disinfectant. Does so, cracks down on anyone critiquing it, even if its on reasonable basis such as saying Xi said airports, not airport runways, that they would stop. Lets say the video really gets wide spread, and is something even more stupid, what is Xi going to do? Admit he failed to control the internet, and tell people to think critically about the orders he gives?
Hmm, now I'm going to go tell 4chan to get me the script for the dumbest vaguely plausible thing to have Xi say. A tip btw, you want to create videos of politicians saying something and moving reasonably for a longer period of time, use one of the classic/old face to face transforms, then use that as prior for the deep fake.
That a non periodic signal eg something which is nonzero only in a short span, requires a infinite number of periodic functions i.e fourier series/transform to represent is better considered as a limitation of the basis, it simply cannot represent such, only approximate it by a signal with a infinite period, which is not the same as non-periodic to mathematicians.
The definition of the signal implies its expression both in fourier and spatial basis exactly, with no uncertainty.
For this to have an interpretation as uncertainty requires that the functions themselves have that interpretation.
The functions as a group must also be a basis for the function, them being orthogonal is insufficient for that. Any finite set is also often insufficient.
We know DNA and and even semi self replicating biochem molecules can form both in the presence and absence of gravity. It requires a suitable energy gradient though, and I like the idea that cyclical changes in the energy gradient are required for evolution to occur rather than stagnating in a specific state. This is partly why tidepools are an interesting candidate for early life.
Thing is, if your freze something, that does not stop its internal decay due to radiation, e.g. carbon 14, kalcium etc, its just that the errors which occur arent multipled and the relatively short time is insufficient. But freeze a corpse for a millenia and it will turn into swiss cheese from self radiation, even if it was healthy when you froze it.
There is a difference in where the mutations occur in the body. Sunburn still primarily causes mutation in and near the skin. radiation can cause mutations in the organs deeper in the body which are less robust against radiation, for the exact reason that the skin is usually a sufficient barrier.
I would have been impressed a decade ago, but this is just an extremely marginal improvement, even if you can trust them, which you know intel, so you cant.