Mel81x

Don't know how true this is but that thread alone makes you wonder who actually knows what they are doing when it comes to this virus and how informed the public are on what needs to be done.

Excellent article which can spawn myriads of questions into how data and its usage in scenarios ultimately leads to a deeper understanding (even if its skewed to fit a purpose). I remember reading a Nassim Nicholas Taleb book called "Antifragile" that deals with how disorder creates scenarios of importance in situations where you'd least expect them to. This of course was backed by math and then by numbers but you then have to ask yourself how good the AI is ever going to be if it doesn't truly have all the data it needs to make that math work. Just because an equation works doesn't necessarily mean its being applied correctly. This is where that genius bastard Yoshua in Montreal made some serious inroads. His paper on neural networks and how they can be used to further learning by simply introducing metas into formulas as a way of testing learning is astounding (i'd recommend a read if you like formal languages and automata theory but it turns into a dull affair if you don't grasp that concept as hes not the kind of person who likes to do things which can be understood by people who dont have their fundamentals right). All said and done this is a part of AI that goes beyond what we think Machine Learning is going to be useful for. Just because a machine can churn out data based on what its given to produce results is still looking at the problem as a box versus a universe. I also think that statement about this being the last hurdle is ridiculous and the kind of thing you'd expect from someone at MIT or Columbia just because they themselves are victims of causality and trying to put it in a box with a limitation that math can solve when the reality is that there are way too many variables in play to truly say it will work without seeing everything (and that imo isn't happening for the next 100 years or maybe more just because of how much society and our living and understanding changes every day)

Not much really. He landed here on the 20th of Feb then flew out to Hyderabad on the 22nd. The government is going through the protocol of finding out who all he came in touch with but that's the latest news from here. No one wants to divulge the software company he works for just to be on the safe side but of course its not that simple. We'll find out more as it starts to develop. Bangalore airport hasn't bothered with any checking as I flew from Goa back to BLR but I suspect once this starts to gain a bit more traction they'll start this at the airports too. So far there are no confirmed cases of the virus in Bangalore.

Kinda wish he had stayed till the end of the season to see the first team win the league. He's been at the club since 2013 and I think anyone that's been around doing the kind of work they have at various levels would want to be around when the club lifts the cup and ends their 30 year drought. https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/academy/388913-neil-critchley-leaves-liverpool-u23s-role

I heard its good but I'll play it later in the day. Pre-ordered NiOh 2 this morning.

Andy: "Does Champions League not count?" Trent: "It's Sky Sports" LOL

What an expensive month for gaming. Lots of good titles coming out. NiOh 2 (PS) - This is the one I am most excited for Doom Eternal Ori and the Will of the Wisps Half Life: Alyx The Complex (I wont be getting this but its such an odd-ball concept I am curious how people react to it) Persona 5 Royal

I think that's a far more technical ban than this one. This guy has literally been abusing EA (not like everyone else doesnt want to) and also apparently started calling devs out and abusing them and spitting (which is a vile habit). This is why no one is really taking any stance here. EA is also pretty firm on what they've done and they don't care if one out of millions disappears from their platforms they've got so many others lining up. I would like to see Ninja's reaction to all this but in all honesty I don't think anyone is paying serious attention other than his followers.

Just wait till Microsoft gets that Scarlet online program working. They'll put Google to shame and have something with a good library behind it and then the game will really change. I think right now they are treading water behind Nintendo and Sony when it comes to actual console sales but thats never been what they are after. They want to bridge that PC/Console gap and it will come in another 5 years time when they get things right in the network space. Stadia, for all intents and purposes, is a great idea and its execution works fine in certain areas but as a whole its a failure and the biggest reason is its limited library coupled with how the internet works across the globe. If Microsoft spends next-gen moving their computing tech to the cloud with stability and pair it with their Xbox Online Services they'll have something the rest can't really compete with. But, thats a pipe-dream because they have serious issues with render models and other issues pertaining to how the stream service actually will work so until they figure those things out next-gen isn't coming to us but prior-gens can.

Also, if you're interested in how games are drawn and in particular how some companies make their games look close to Anime and their artwork give this a watch. Even if you hate anime and even if you think fighting games are trash you have to admire the fact that the team behind the work for these games achieved what they did while keeping the stylistic elements similar to the original works. It is a tad bit long but I think its great for anyone looking at character design and modeling.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/the-nuclear-option-ea-bans-abusive-fifa-player-from-all-of-its-games/ Good. Getting rid of these entitled streamers is the only way to clean up the trash that pollutes the community. Good at a game? Good. Starts abusing players and the company making the game? Get banned. Do it repeatedly? Get banned for life from not just the game but the entire company's platform. It's what they deserve really. I am sure he'll move onto another game but as they say "cant take a tiger out of the jungle" and he'll get banned there eventually too.

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/02/24/cheetah-cubs-born-columbus-zoo-in-vitro-fertilization-mh-orig.cnn/video/playlists/atv-trending-videos/ They managed to use invitro fert to help aid in the birth of two cheetah cubs. This will certainly help their dwindling numbers in Africa.

Didn't know they had a console version of this honestly. Bought this on Steam a while back and thought it was quite enjoyable when I played through it. But as I was playing I stumbled on Battle Chasers: Nightwar and then I left it for a bit.

Didn't that have more to do with Nintendo wanting the partnership? I can't seem to remember Microsoft wanting in on that honestly but I could be wrong.

I dont think I'll own an Xbox console again. I don't see the appeal honestly.

https://kotaku.com/microsoft-unveils-xbox-one-series-x-specs-and-shares-so-1841885827 M$ drops the first hint at their next-gen. I like what I am seeing if im honest.

I think the problem also goes back to healthworkers having to do a lot of work in such a short span of time they did a quick look and said its okay you have no symptoms instead of following protocol. Whoever passed these nutjobs shouldn't be anywhere near a quarantine zone because they clearly don't understand that their job isn't just to make sure people don't have the virus but to ensure that it doesn't spread using vector patterns that can't be traced.

This is odd to me too. As a healthworker you shouldn't believe what anyone says during a quarantine. Maybe making more people watch the The Thing before you send them out in the field will teach them the importance of running your own tests versus believing what anyone says.

This sums up my reaction. For anyone to not treat this as something that could potentially be spread to everyone you know and affect people around you is just callous behavior and imo should come with repercussions. Yes it horrible to be quarantined but putting the large population at risk is stupid and reckless.

Its Will Forte.

Its not bad honestly but they rely on so many Playstation fixed apps to get users more entrenched in their ecosystem (which really isn't theirs) so if you want to watch Amazon Prime or Netflix or Hulu, etc you've got them as part of an application setup process. As far as game networks go though? Microsoft has the upper hand. Sony's network is so piss poor I think its always going to be second-best to Microsoft's unless someone decides to revamp it and Sony Japan just does not seem to care about that part of their market. Nintendo on the other hand are absolutely horrible. Frequent drops, poor region management, game downloads on a 300Mbps network at 50Kbps? I know they are fairly new to this arena but surely the engineers they hired to get this working right could have done better.

I think that's about right. You have to wonder how much money Sony is losing when you see these numbers though. M$ has banked on their online services (which are phenomenal and rightly so) to add-on to the market for their consoles added with the fact that R+D for the controller sets always goes both for PC and XBox so they should be making a killing in that market but they aren't and its one of the two Japanese manufacturers who are always topping the scales in that respect. I think the next Xbox console is going to bench itself at 500 while Sony are watching to get market-share by dropping their price. That's the game Sony is playing right now because they are just dying to tell the world about Playstation 5 but at the same time they want Microsoft to tell the world about their new XBox project and set the price. Then Sony can do some slicing and dicing to come out with a cheaper price.