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    Ars Technica has a nice write up of an article in Science where a Bay Area startup called Vicarious AI has developed a new AI based on how a mammals visual cortex works called the Recursive Cortical Network (RCN). The best description of how this works from Ars is: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/inspired-by-brains-visual-cortex-new-ai-utterly-wrecks-captcha-security/ When they used this methodology on reCAPTCHA, training the AI with the Georgia Font, the RCN was able to have a 94% recognition rate of letters as opposed to the human accuracy of 87% and the system even achieved a 57% accuracy against BotDetect, which is used by PayPal & Yahoo. When looking at training samples, this AI outperforms it's next best contender by about 1.9% but achieves this with only about 1400 image samples as compared to the leading contenders 7.9 million images. It would seem to me that the CAPTCHA methodology of determining whether someone is a bot or not may be reaching it's end with this.
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    I think that Anandtech is looking at the HP Envy x360 with the R5 2500U as starting at $700.00. Honestly, if the fully spec-ed out version of this with the R7 chip performs as well as AMD is indicating and is less than $1000.00, then I'm really tempted to pick one up. https://www.anandtech.com/show/11963/hp-announces-envy-x360-15-with-ryzen-mobile
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    I would say that I'm glad they're going with a single 4-core CCX, however, I'm hoping you can get DDR4 speeds running higher than 2400 on these chips since that will probably significantly affect both the CPU and GPU performance across the Infinity Fabric. Now to wait for the actual benchmarks to be released...
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    It's a short throw Laser Projector projector with a TV Tuner (at least from what I can find out). Technically what the HiSense package consists of: 100-inch Anti-Glare screen from Screen Innovations HiSense Short Throw 4K Laser Projector with incorporated 2 channel speakers and TV Tuner Wireless 6.5-inch subwoofer.
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    Is it just me or do other people sometimes also accidentally read demonetization as demonization? OT: This gets to one of those complicated portions with the internet, how it is set-up and Google as a successful corporation... Does Google have a right to determine what content they will allow on their platforms and what they will deny? I would say that they do, however as a company with far reaching social impacts that supposedly tries to encourage free & open communication I would hope that they would only censor the most abhorrent content if any... This gets to that problem of what is abhorrent content though and who determines that, which is a gray area where what I may consider to be abhorrent, someone else might consider perfectly fine... Ideally, the internet should be a platform that allows for free speech and the trade of free thoughts where if you disagree with someone you can present an articulate argument to counter it and have a productive discussion. In real life however, the internet tends to feel like the exact opposite. As for this case, not really sure and I think it could be argued both ways rationally in a court of law.
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    While not a standard LED/LCD TV, HiSense has released what they are calling their 100-inch 4K Ultra HD Smart Laser TV. Basically this is working with a short throw Laser Projector to project the image onto a 'super-thin, lightweight, 100" Screen Innovations Anti-Glare screen', however the form factor and specs look really nice and this is supposed to be re... Specs from PRnewswire: 4K Ultra HD Resolution UHD Upscaler 3,000 Lumens for Optimal Brightness TV Tuner Hisense Smart TV Platform Built-in 110 Watt Harman Kardon Speakers and Wireless Subwoofer 100" Screen Innovations Anti-Glare Screen DLP 4K UHD digital micromirror device (DMD) chip 2 HDMI Inputs 20,000-Hour Light Source Lifetime https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hisense-unveils-groundbreaking-100-4k-ultra-hd-smart-laser-tv-300542823.html Now, you may be wondering how much this will cost you and HiSense is selling these right now for $10,000.00 USD, which honestly, while expensive, is a fairly good price IMO for a 4K Laser projector with a 100-inch screen, 'smart' interface and a 2.1 Harmon Kardon 110 watt audio system considering that some Sony Laser Projectors can cost upwards of $20,000.00 and that is just the projector... Now to just sell a kidney and/or eat Top Ramen for about 5-years to afford this. Engadget Article: https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/25/hisense-10000-laser-tv-home-cinema-in-box/
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    With the recent trend of phones ditching the 3.5 mm headphone jack from new devices, it might be interesting to do a round-up of the top 5 and 5 worst 3.5 mm to bluetooth adapters for audiophiles... Maybe look into some of the issues with battery life, Transmit and Receiver mode functionality, media key functions, added audio latency. Could look at how well it broadcasts both music and audio associated with video like Youtube, Plex Media, etc... To take it a step further, you could test out the audio quality of using an adapter vs dedicated bluetooth headsets and the expenses involved.
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    Well, since they would be along fiber lines, at least there would be an easy fast connection available to send the data along.
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    21 GPUs is actually fairly impressive. Any tips/tricks on what your setup is and how you got it all setup? Would be interesting to see...
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    I wouldn't say they are completely disregarding gamers if the game optimization bit of the ReLive update is true... It's more along the lines that I think AMD realizes that they cannot compete as well with Nvidia in the gaming arena and their cards happen to be at the better end of the performance per dollar metric for compute tasks so they are trying to support where their cards are being sold.
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    It would appear that AMD fully realizes that GPU Mining is a profitable business for selling their products and has added a GPU Workload toggle as well as support for up to 12 Polaris or Vega based RX cards on Windows 10 in compute tasks in the newest ReLive Edition 17.10.2. https://www.anandtech.com/show/11959/amd-releases-radeon-software-crimson-relive-edition-17102 One thing to note is that there appear to still be bugs in this as they list two major bugs dealing with the Compute and Multi-GPU setups. First is that the system may hang up when switching to Compute mode while Crossfire is enabled and the second (which would be more major for miners) is that after an extended period of 12x GPU compute workload use, the system may hang. So who has their twelve RX 480s and/or 580s stashed away just waiting for official support? AMD Release Notes: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Software-Crimson-ReLive-Edition-17.10.2-Release-Notes.aspx
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    Nah, cause you're still using 2 CPUs... That would by 7 Gamers 1 Motherboard. Here is what I would want to see looked at using for a new 7 Gamers 1 CPU build... https://hothardware.com/news/gigabyte-mz31-amd-epyc-7000-motherboard-16-dimm-slots
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    Definitely a subjective evaluation, which is kind of how the Mercalli system is setup is to measure felt intensity of the earthquake, where as Richter and Moment Magnitude scales are both based on the amount of energy released as opposed to perceived intensity. Something that is always a bit interesting is to look at the differences between the 'Did You Feel It' results and the Shakemap results for the earthquakes that the USGS posts online. The Shakemaps tend to color out the areas using intensity and base their intensity measurements on Peak Acceleration (%g) and Peak Velocity (cm/s), where as the DYFI maps are more based on reports of damage perceived by people reporting. Of course a phone's accelerometer would hopefully be able to detect peak acceleration and velocity, although I'm unsure how high that would go and under a Scale X+ earthquake I'm not sure I want my phone accelerating at over 156 g's and travelling at over 160 cm/s across the desk. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
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    That might be interesting as a mobile app concept if the app was allowed GPS access and could provide some kind of context such as knowing whether you were in a building and which floor you were on... Of course, I would probably design the app to rate more on the Modified Mercalli Scale of I thru X how severe was the motion you felt thru a slider...
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    Something like this? https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/ Is actually fairly useful for collecting data after the fact on felt seismicity vs registered seismicity. (At least in the US).
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    Originally saw the link for this over on HardOCP and as a geologist, thought the concept sounded interesting so pulled up the article. A Geophysicist over at Stanford has developed a method to turn existing fiber optic infrastructure into a massive seismic network in order to create a higher density sensor. The technique works by measuring the backscatter signals from the fiber optic cable to measure the vibrations and strain on the cable. So far, they have run a trial using a 3-mile figure 8 loop on the Stanford campus and have been able to pick up small local tremblors as well as the recent Mexico earthquake. The array, while not as sensitive as a standard seismograph, can be used to distinguish between a magnitude 1.6 and 1.8 earthquake as well as pick up the different P and S waves. The biggest benefit from this is that the cost of using the existing infrastructure of fiber optic internet to establish this sort of network is less than installing seismometers, which can lead to more data and better coverage of cities. 3-mile fiber loop used for testing https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2017/10/19/building-billionr-optical-fibers/ While this is not as sensitive as a standard Seismometer network, I could definitely see this as being useful in large urban environments, especially for mapping out the substrate material of the cities, engineering more earthquake proof structures and potentially providing for a possible early warning system (although that part may be very limited in capability). HardOCP Link: https://www.hardocp.com/news/2017/10/23/stanford_researchers_build_earthquake_observatory_optical_fibers
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    For the majority of people I don't think it will be an issue (unless we reach a point where the FAA wants no electronics on a flight) however there are small groups of people, especially in the media industry, that can't carry on all the electronics they would need for their job and I think that's where this will have the biggest impact. I don't know how much gear Linus and crew need to take to perform a shoot at something like CES or another expo/convention/product reveal or if they could even get away with fitting it all into their carry-on and that's where I would see this having the biggest impact.
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    Thought that this was an interesting article that may have a large impact on @LinusTech and other YouTubers attending future conventions. In an article posted on Engadget, the FAA is proposing new rules that would limit the electronics that you can check in at the airport to the size of a cellphone or smaller in order to limit the risk of a lithium-ion battery exploding and creating an unmanageable fire in the cargo compartment. https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/20/faa-proposes-ban-large-electronics-checked-baggage/ Petapixel article: https://petapixel.com/2017/10/20/us-urging-airlines-ban-cameras-checked-bags/ This is kind of interesting in which I'm not sure how you would classify something as cellphone size or smaller... Most modern cellphones contain a battery that can be several times larger than a digital camera battery pack. According to the FAA document they are considering this for large Portable Electronic Devices (PED)s which they define as a laptop, tablet, or similar device that is larger than a cellphone or smartphone. I'll admit that I usually carry all my electronics on my carry-on, however that's usually limited to a small digital camera, smartphone, tablet, Switch and an external 20,000 mAH battery pack. This also will probably impact anything that you try to order online and have to get delivered via air as in my experience recently Amazon will not ship large battery packs on air delivery.
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    From what I've seen (and in my opinion) it would appear the best hardware feature on the iPhone 8 is the new SoC, which is the same one they are putting in the iPhone X, so if they are counting on more X sales, then they are probably trying to move more of the A11 chips into that part of the assembly so they can increase it's production. (Although my understanding is that they also have a couple of other production line issues on the X models that they are working out.)
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    Going to give this a meh myself... Tried input for a $1500 workstation and it immediately went to 32 GB of RGB RAM. Also went with a locked 8700 processor which with Intel's current board offerings don't make any sense and a 550W Supernova PSU. Do wonder if they are using a WCCF database of benchmarks for choosing parts (including all the 'leaked' results).
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    In a couple of decades people will read of this wonderful and glorious worldwide open communication system known as the internet and how each government came up with it's own set of rules on how it should be managed. This led to the time when this communication network was cut up and mangled to appropriately match each governments requirement and the dark times when people lost the ability to communicate across borders and the death of the internet... Of course this would be assuming that said governments would allow that story to be told.
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    Have any of the updates to iOS 11 enabled the ability to completely turn off the WiFi or Bluetooth through the Control Center yet?
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    That new Star Wars game that they are moving to a different studio??? I'm beginning to loathe the current state of the gaming industry (especially the large companies).
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    I know that when I was in JROTC color guard, we used M-1 Garand's with blanks for the start of sport games.
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    Reading the article, I wish it was just cosmetic stuff, however, it sounds more like they will try to help you justify other in game purchases by putting you in games that gives that purchase a slight advantage. Not sure if that is Pay to Win or Pay to Progress.
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