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Comment Re:Google Cached Web Pages (Score 1) 64

I have started turning most links in my lectures into archive.org links, it is just too much effort checking every time whether the pages are still there.

And, yes, I donate to them.

Thank you for sharing this tip. it's brilliant! Not just for lectures, but for many other use cases as well. Bookmarks, links sent by messaging apps, you name it.

Comment Not just the training (Score 1) 179

The training is just the tip of the iceberg. The underlying assumption is that autonomous systems "capture information from the environment", and this is completely wrong. The training --with labeled data-- takes the Shannon model at face value and simulates an environment that is sending messages tio the autonomous system. But then, when the system operates out in the wild, there is no tag in the images, so it resorts to pattern recognition. Those of you who know that error correction is a key aspect of Shannon's work can recognize that pattern recognition does not have anything remotely similar, so the confidence level on identifying an object or situation varies significantly along the way, sometimes catastrophically.

Comment Re:And if I had just... (Score 1) 34

Well... Blockbuster and Intel both had very profitable business models that would have concentrated the lion's share of resources, so there's a reasonable probability that the acquired companies could't have developed in the same way we see them now.

It is extremely hard for established companies to pivot towards innovative business models. And by innovative I don't mean "let's turn this product into a service and charge a monthly fee", but creating/developing markets that didn't exist before.

Comment There is a problem with the MOSFETs (Score 1) 70

According to this article (non-paywalled) there is a serious potential problem with the MOSFETs that were used in the spacecraft. Some of them may not be able to withstand the radiation intensity in Jupiter's orbit.

Considering that they chose to launch, I hope whatever strategy the engineers decided to aplly works flawlessly.

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