Posts by onefang

Re: "containing a myriad of nutrients and food additives"

You got a myriad of replies, with myriad different answers.

Re: re: set the controls for the heart of the sun

"I'd have hit the Interstellar Overdrive button and let it keep on going."

Good idea, otherwise it'll crash into the dark side of the moon.

'Christ, they're still banging on about "transformation". I left there three years ago and even then they'd been pitching it for a few years already.

'They seem to be very much accelerating on their downward spiral. Still, the execs have their exit plan.'

An accelerating downward spiral is a transformation, just not the one they where / are banging on about.

Re: Outer Space Treaty?

"Let the air out? In space? So they contain a vacuum? Then send them to the Earth? Care to explain how an iron sphere, containing nothing lighter than air but made of something much heavier than air, could float in the atmosphere?"

Well, that went down like a lead balloon.

I noticed someone else explaining hot air balloons, so I want bother.

Re: We choose to go to the Moon

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things"

I've always wondered what those "other things" are, but never been arsed enough to actually look it up.

Windows has a QA / Test department, they just outsourced most of the work to the users.

Re: Machine learning.

"All 'terrorists' need to do is get a copy of the software and run their videos through it, making small changes until they pass. Because it uses machine learning, by its nature, this would be trivially easy."

All they need to do is put a small rainbow in one corner of their flag.

Re: What about when Daesh/ISIS become our allies against the next threat?

"We all know that old enemies can very easily become allies. How does this AI deal with that?"

Simple, just reverse the polarity. Some clever Doctor taught them that.

Re: 99.995% is impossible

"More fool them for living in a country that's trying to kill them every day."

Only on days with a 'Y' in them.

Re: 99.995% is impossible

"You laugh but an episode of Peppa Pig is banned in Australia...

(for saying spiders aren't dangerous, basically, which is a little bit misleading in Oz...)"

There's only three dangerous to people spiders in Oz, funnel web spider, jump spider, and red back spider. The jumping bird spider is only dangerous to birds, and that one that went viral carting a mouse up the side of a 'fridge, well it was just helping it's mate get to the cold cheese. As for the so called dangerous white tail spider, that one's a myth.

Re: HDR!

"That's IF the facial recog software can even acknowledge there IS a face,"

Or consider the photo of myself and another person I uploaded to Facebook last year. Facebooks face recognition draw a rectangle around her face, and another one around my foot. I'll admit' I'm ugly, but my feet are uglier, so that's no excuse.

Re: Contrast

"Do women do anything to alter the shape or colour of their faces?"

That's exactly what make up is used for, and not only on women. Women just do it more coz more of it is marketed at them. Unless you are an actor, where some get make up to change their species.

"I wouldn't call it representative if there are no or very few people from the Indian subcontinent or east Asia, not to mention South America."

Or Australian aborigines, or several other indigenous populations.

Re: Is spreading

"Which is odd considering most programming languages ignore white space."

While that is true, Python is popular with AI coders. Maybe we need a language where black space is significant to balance things out? Followed by all the other colours.

Re: I wonder... @Doggy Geezer

"Shhh! Don't tell Intel! They’ve got enough worms of their own already."

Oh god, that's a spectre too horrid to contemplate, think my brain just went into meltdown.