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Comment · 7 years ago
When I worked for a german research institute we had this policy for all US travels. They did not see a necessity to do this for any other country.
Comment · 7 years ago
No, for entering the US.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes. More specifically, the Communist Party of China is very proud of its ideological roots going back to Marx, Lenin and Mao. They call their economic system socialism with chinese characteristics. But they don't see the current stage to be the full realization of socialism, but as being in the beginning stage of building socialism.
Comment · 7 years ago
HN should make a rule against articles behind paywalls.
Comment · 8 years ago
No one forces you to run windows on this machine.
Comment · 8 years ago
No. Or it depends on what you mean by inspired. There is no need to build airplanes with flapping wings, but you could still say that human flight is inspired by bird flight. When we look at the brain we have no way of disambiguating which properties are implementation details and which properties play an important role in learning. We made much more progress of understanding learning in the bottom up approach, where we find from first principles what kind of computations enables us to create certain behaviors. Connections to neuroscience are mostly interesting parallels that are found post-hoc. We don't even know if the human brain is actually good at what it's doing.
Comment · 8 years ago
I don't quite reach that number. According to Landauer's principle the minimum energy required to flip a bit is 0.0172 eV. Times 2^128 is ~10^18 J. The first google result for boiling all oceans puts it around 10^29 J. Even at realistic energy values for current hardware (10 fJ), we are still 5 orders of magnitude short of boiling all oceans.
Comment · 8 years ago
And it's still higher than one year ago.
Comment · 8 years ago
No, the tradeoff is actually the other way around. Encoding with a neural network can potentially be faster than the exhaustive tree searches that are done in current compression methods. On other hand, current decoders are fairly dumb and extremely optimized for speed. Neural networks will probably have trouble competing. In the design of video codecsan increase in decoding time is considered at least 10x more costly than the same increase in encoding time.
source: I worked with both HEVC and neural network based compression.
Comment · 8 years ago
Yes and it's not even close.
Comment · 8 years ago
There is no historic evidence for the jews ever being in egypt.