Posts by Little Mouse

Re: Waah

And unfortunately now we're in an era where I challenge you to name more than one current journo. And even if you can, how many of those do you jump straight to when they've published something new?

Re: protective film? That was a privacy screen

I've trained my co-workers to never -ever- touch my screen. With anything.

They might not have a problem with their own screens looking like they've been smeared with vaseline & lard, but that's because they're animals.

Re: Irrelevant

Looks like some "disruption" may be just around the corner...

"another reason Evernote may have lost its luster over the past few years: A lack of new features."

New Features. Because that's what we're all crying out for from a Notepad app, right?

Re: An analysis of the tracks

Or Commentards running away from the new Moderators before their comments get airbrushed from history again?

Re: Sweet

Seconded. We want more Boffins-in-Sheds articles.

Re: Daft

Can anyone else remember...?

I don't know about coal or gas, but I definitely had a kids' Big Book of Facts in the late 70's that said the oil reserves would run out in 40 years,

Re: Doesn't work

But you definitely wouldn't want to (or be able to) hold onto those little clip-on lenses that the OP is referring to, so the downvotes seem a bit harsh.

My first thoughts on reading the article were that this should just be a straight-up maths problem, no ML required. The audio equivalent of raytracing, if you like.

My intuition tells me that this scenario might be too complex for a ML model as there are simply too many variables. Literally any number of objects, of any shape, of any material, in any location, in a room that itself could be any shape, and size and any material. How would you format the training data in any meaningful way?

Re: Bad design

"Sounds like a USB cable."? Uh - uh.

As has been said before on this very site, USB cables always take three attempts.

The first try always fails, so flip it over. 2nd try also fails, so flip back over again and.. Presto!!

Re: enthusiastic salesperson who never intended to defraud anyone

Well, no salespeople would be safe anyway. In my book that's a win.

Re: But I DO want to know!

Little Chef had a particularly annoying advert 30+years ago. They played that fucking song continuously on repeat when I was there once.

If you can remember the one I mean, apologies for the ear worm...

"Welllll, I'd like eggs & bacon. I'd like toast & jam..."

Re: Sensitive image

There's a lot of people down there. I bet some of them were up to no good when the shots were taken.

Re: Not enough people in those shots

The main climbing season is very short. Literally just a couple of months long. I guess they just avoided the rush hour.

But going off-season would presumably be more difficult for drones too (colder, harsher conditions, less daylight, etc)

Re: almost twice as far as Earth from the Sun

Agreed - This story does smack of shoehorning the Anthropogenic Climate Change narrative into a situation that can be readily and better explained with known parameters.

Climate Change is real - even sceptical ol' me can accept that, but making it the de facto angle for every single science article is getting a bit tired. And if you have to blame aliens to give your theory any weight, you've got to wonder if maybe you're approaching the science from the wrong angle.

"but I would like to play with ray tracing"

After "playing with ray-tracing" on my co-pro'd 386DX back in 1992, I could weep reading that.

Re: " we worked to create a unique delivery experience"

"pissing off the customer"...

I think you mean: supplying an Armitage Shanks experience...?

Re: Scaling?

Mynah? Phew - My mistake. In that case fry the undeserving little fuckers.

Re: Whose fault is it?

No victim blaming to see here. The victims of this debacle were the individuals whose data was compromised. And according to a court of law, Capital One absolutely were culpable in this.

Re: Measuring a property does not set it...

If physics was just a series of "logical" deductions extrapolated from flawed assumptions, we'd have had it all sorted out a long time ago.

Unfortunately for your arguments, the actual* cornerstones of modern Physics are: lots and lots of hard to understand Maths, the scientific method, and the results of a few centuries of replicable experimentation.

Caveat - IANAP either. Actual physicists are more than welcome to correct the above paragraph as necessary.

Re: Upside down 3.5" floppies

I once accidentally used a whiteboard marker to label a stack of CD-R's.

Once the disk started spinning the ink made a very pretty chromatography-style pattern all the way to the edge of the disk, and presumably all over the insides of the CD-Drive as well.

Re: I've already got a working fusion power source

I propose that we increase the power output of the sun.

That'd be far more effective than the tiny incremental efficiency gains we're getting from solar panels, and only slightly less feasible than getting fusion up and running in less than a decade for a mere $50,000,000.

These guys are rightly being held accountable for their appalling actions.

The corporate culture though must have been something akin to a cult for any group of people to go to such inappropriate lengths on behalf of their company.

Just how deep has the rot set, I wonder?

Re: Stole

Think in terms of human speech. It would be a mammoth undertaking to manually pinpoint exactly what it is that makes a dialect or accent unique. Consider how a Brummie accent differs from a Scouse. Or how about something more subtle - e.g. Norfolk vs Somerset, or Australia vs New Zealand?

This is something that Machine Learning should be able to excel at. Feed the computer lots of examples and let it figure out for itself what the unique identifiers (or combinations thereof) are. From the article it sounds like they've done exactly that, albeit for whale song (which I understand is a *lot* more complex than one might at first assume).

Unfortunately, that does mean that people are going to start labelling it an "AI", cos it's all the same thing innit?

Re: Giant rubber balls in space

Another Philae lander perhaps? That little dude bounced all over the place.

Re: I predict lots of new laws to protect media cartels IP from this "Legal minefield".

No new laws are required yet. This technology is only reproducing the "sound" of Vader's voice, not the content.

This has been done with JEJ's permission don't forget. There will be a contract in place to cover who gets paid, and under what circumstances.

How you can and can't use voices that sound just like famous individuals is already well covered too. We've had impersonators for as log as we've had celebrities, but you try using a pretend Morgan Freeman voice without permission in your latest TV Ad campaign, and see how far that gets you.

Words in isolation don't have a legal status. It's what you do with them that matters.