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Comment Ensemble neural nets (Score 3, Interesting) 230

by Theorem Futile on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @10:01AM (#47099017) Attached to: The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net

That makes sense. Rare errors will be screened out if instead of a single deterministic selection process you use a distribution of schemes and select based on the most probable outcome... I am wondering what our brain does with its minority reports...

Submission + - The End of the Gas Guzzler

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Friday July 29, 2011 @09:11AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Michael Grunwald reports that President Obama will announce today a near-doubling of fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks, and the Big Three automakers — GM, Ford and Chrysler — will support it in a final deal that will require vehicle fleets to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, which will reduce fuel consumption by 40% and carbon emissions by 50%. Although environmentalists had pushed for 60 mpg and the White House had floated a compromise of 56.2, 54.5 is pretty close, considering that last year’s standards were only 28.3. "I might point out that the same auto industry that ran attack ads about how 56.2 would destroy their businesses and force everyone to drive electric cars has embraced 54.5 as an achievable target," writes Grunwald. "It almost makes you wonder if the automakers may have exaggerated the costs of compliance, the way they always do. ""

Submission + - GAO Report: DoD Incompetent at Cybersecurity (itworld.com)

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itwbennett

on Friday July 29, 2011 @09:03AM

itwbennett writes: "According to a scathing report from the GAO released July 25, the Department of Defense only started to take cyberwar seriously during the past two or three years, after ignoring warnings for about 2 decades. And when we say, 'take it seriously' we mean 'throw gobs of money at it' — to little effect. 'According to DoD, a large number of intelligence agencies and foreign militaries are actively trying to penetrate our military networks. These networks are scanned millions of times a day and probed thousands of times a day. Over the past several years, DoD has experienced damaging penetration to these networks...[including] blueprints of weapons systems that have already been compromised,' the report said. Even for an organization with the budget and security awareness of DoD, the prospect of having to keep pace with the steady increase in threats from smaller countries and stateless terror organizations is 'daunting,' GAO concluded."

Cosmological Constant Not Fine Tuned For Life 536

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @12:43PM from the random-is-random dept.

eldavojohn writes "A common argument one might encounter in intelligent design or the arduous process of resolving science with religion is that the physical constants of our world are fine tuned for life by some creator or designer. A University of Alberta theoretical physicist claims quite the opposite when it comes to the cosmological constant. His paper says that our ever expanding universe has a positive cosmological constant and he explains that the optimum cosmological constant for maximizing the chances of life in the universe would be slightly negative: 'any positive value of the constant would tend to decrease the fraction of matter that forms into galaxies, reducing the amount available for life. Therefore the measured value of the cosmological constant, which is positive, is evidence against the idea that the constants have been fine-tuned for life.'"

KDE 4.5 Released 302

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @06:16AM from the newer-and-shinier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "KDE 4.5.0 has been released to the world. See the release announcement for details. Highlights include a Webkit browser rendering option for Konqueror, a new caching mechanism for a faster experience and a re-worked notification system. Another new feature is Perl bindings, in addition to Python, Ruby and JavaScript support. The Phonon multimedia library now integrates with PulseAudio. See this interview with KDE developer and spokesperson Sebastian Kugler on how KDE can continue to be innovative in the KDE4 age. Packages should be available for most Linux distributions in the coming days. More than 16000 bug fixes were committed since 4.4."

Feed OpenOffice.org 2.2 released (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @09:13AM

Touted as a "real alternative" to 2007 Microsoft Office, updated open-source application suite said to address security flaws.

DARPA Planning Liquid Robots 125

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @09:13AM from the where-is-sarah-conner dept.

moon_monkey writes "According to New Scientist, Darpa is soliciting proposals for so-called Chemical Robots (ChemBots) that would be soft, flexible and could manoeuvre through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions. They suggest that it could be made from shape-memory materials, electro- or magneto-rheological materials or even folding components."

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