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Started by Camazotz Automat, August 17, 2012, 04:04:35 AM

Jojo

Quote from: GravitySucks on July 03, 2018, 05:02:02 AM
Recent docs only works if uou open or save a file while word or excel is open. If you open it by double clicking the filename instead of the <open> in the menu and then don’t make any changes to the file, you won’t see it in recent files even if you have word installed on your computer. And of course you would need to be signed into word for it to know which user you are to provide a recent file list.
When you say word being open, you mean Word Online, right?  Sorry if that's a stupid question.
Unit 14


Jojo

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on July 03, 2018, 03:19:24 PM
It's the only kind you ask.
And you had time to notice  :-*.  Too bad you couldn't answer  ;).



albrecht

The Case Against Quantum Computers. (No word if his criticism also applies to using "quantum" with regard to past/future lives, portals, unicorns, UFOs, Bigfeet, or demons....)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing

Jackstar

I'm sure if some scientists somewhere got a quantum computer working to mine cryptocurrency, they would tell the world immediately! Right after monkeys flew out of their butts!


ItsOver

Let us know when the damn thing lands or creates a nice crater on Mars.

chefist

Quote from: ItsOver on November 26, 2018, 02:14:51 PM
Let us know when the damn thing lands or creates a nice crater on Mars.

Mission accomplished! Landed safely.


Jackstar

That's a great article. I don't necessarily agree that 99.99999% is necessary for ground vehicles--but that's what would be mandatory for flying cars, and that's what consumer-grade fully automated vehicles are heading towards.

It seems obvious to me that Elon is the scapegoat for the industry that wants to use 1% of the driving population as expendable crash-test dummies, so I don't agree with the author's conclusions--except about the lying psychopath part. Mostly spot-on there.


Taaroa

I'd be curious to see how the car works in a more congested and busy part of London than where they filmed.
https://youtu.be/cfRqNAhAe6c

Dr. MD MD

Quote from: Taaroa on December 16, 2018, 11:52:24 PM
I'd be curious to see how the car works in a more congested and busy part of London than where they filmed.
https://youtu.be/cfRqNAhAe6c

Fuck autonomous cars! They’ll just become “suicide” machines for anyone they don’t wnat around anymore.

Taaroa

Demon Underneath - John DeLorean and the Invention of the Future
https://theoutline.com/post/6776/john-delorean-rise-and-fall-big-money-the-fbi-celebrities-and-cocaine?zd=1&zi=h5v2h4uu

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on December 17, 2018, 05:17:29 PM
Fuck autonomous cars! They’ll just become “suicide” machines for anyone they don’t wnat around anymore.
As opposed to what they are now?  ::)


Taaroa

QuoteHR Giger also designed an underground tunnel transportation system for Switzerland in the form of a pentagram, with a large pyramidal edifice at each point, or entrance. It should be noted that he trained as an architect.



Translation:
QuoteThe entrances to the underground are marked with 1000m high pyramids, 5 in total. They are connected underground with 5 equal length straights. Connections are 2 parallel lines, with 3 level mag lev trains, with interfaces to the public road and railway system. The magnet trucks, 30 in total, 6 per line, can transport 6km of vehicle line and 3 km of train composition per ride.

Per line you need 6 elevators. 2 of them are always loading and 2 are always unloading, 2 are in the tunnel.
Loading and unloading is happening in 30 minute intervals. The loaded train on line B departures, afterwards the unloaded train on track A A is pushed laterally onto track B. Empty track A will be occupied by another arriving train.


QuoteDeepMind subsequently made assurances that the medical data “will never be linked or associated with Google accounts, products or services”, and that all patient data will remain under the strict control of its NHS partners.
BWAAAH-HA-Ha-Ha...        Yeah, right.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-nhs-health-app-deepmind-artificial-intelligence-ai-privacy-streams-app-a8633316.html

So a computer used to sabotage a smart car would be called.... (wait for it)...    a Crash80. 

Har har har.    ;)

Shameful pun - and exhibiting little effort on my part.




albrecht

Many people have been speculating that the "10 year challenge" is not the claimed viral meme but done on purpose for FB, and maybe others, to tweak facial recognition algorithms....
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-17/facebooks-10-year-challenge-ploy-teach-facial-recognition-algorithms

Quote from: albrecht on January 19, 2019, 11:47:41 AM
Many people have been speculating that the "10 year challenge" is not the claimed viral meme but done on purpose for FB, and maybe others, to tweak facial recognition algorithms....
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-17/facebooks-10-year-challenge-ploy-teach-facial-recognition-algorithms
Kate O’Neill  is exactly right - the larger the dataset, the more accurate the results.
Good article BTW.    :)

Metron2267

So we're borrowing a trick from Cuba? Oh joy... :-[  How many innocent non-loiterers will have their minds wrecked by this crap.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/7-Eleven-Plays-Piercing-High-Pitch-Sound-Targeting-Homeless_New-York-505143632.html
A Portland (Ore.) convenience store installed a high-pitch sound generator to clear out homeless loiterers.

albrecht

Quote from: Metron2267 on January 31, 2019, 03:01:38 PM
So we're borrowing a trick from Cuba? Oh joy... :-[  How many innocent non-loiterers will have their minds wrecked by this crap.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/7-Eleven-Plays-Piercing-High-Pitch-Sound-Targeting-Homeless_New-York-505143632.html
A Portland (Ore.) convenience store installed a high-pitch sound generator to clear out homeless loiterers.
I recall a decade or so ago some malls in the UK were playing classical music in certain places to drive off undesirables and "youths."  Here some of our places play 'hawk sounds' to drive away the grackles (birds that mass up and crap everywhere.)

albrecht

Quote from: (Sandman) Logan-5 on January 19, 2019, 09:48:48 PM
Kate O’Neill  is exactly right - the larger the dataset, the more accurate the results.
Good article BTW.    :)
Wouldn't have to assume good data? I would think, depending on computer power or what is trying to be studied, that too much noise or too much data might make it harder to get the message or good information? For this example, maybe it would be good to focus on only one sex, race, or whatever. Then perfect the recognition for that smaller, but cleaner, data set. Then use the stuff learned in the process to improve the program/system and then expand it to other groups? Idk.


A beta-test of something in The Great White North?  Or just criminals/hackers/kids playing around or perfecting their hack before releasing it on the underground markets? Car remotes have always been a security problem but, I guess, the FOBs have a bit more tech than the old ones and that is what they are trying to hack? Or just some weird signals interfering with them for some other reason?

Something mysterious is blocking vehicle key fobs from working in a small Alberta town
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/carstairs-westview-co-op-grocery-car-key-fob-1.4999558

Jackstar

Quote from: albrecht on January 31, 2019, 06:34:52 PM
Something mysterious is blocking vehicle key fobs from working in a small Alberta town


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