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That's what apple claims[1]:

"Providing simple access to the NFC antenna by banking applications would fundamentally diminish the high level of security Apple aims to have on our devices"

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/08/11/apple-pay-tech-banks-security/

I have 8x2.8 ghz Xeon cores 32 GB of RAM and a 970 GTX in my gaming vm. Works perfectly for DOOM, Witcher 3, all at 1920x1080 on high settings (maybe not full but damn pretty). Consensus on the forum seems to be you lose low single digit performance.

It's a KVM hypervisor and I haven't played online, why would they ban you for using a VM?

I've been using Unraid for a few months. It has a different - arguably inferior - parity strategy but has amazing support for VMs. I've got my gaming machine, my GPU dev box and a bunch of smaller services all in the same box and can do some really sweet online configuration.

Yeah Tim Cook is the all defector.

http://exomemory.wikia.com/wiki/All-Defector

Apple can free ride on other people publishing and synthesise in house. The field might lose out (but there are always free riders) but does Apple?

Apart from traffic data, where Google is slightly better, maps has been fine for me on ios9 and is better on 10. Apple even learned from the errors they made with the initial launch and have these big open betas for a reason.

Safari is perfect for my use cases. Way better battery life, feels lighter than chrome, etc, etc.

What exactly in your opinion is worse about modern safari and maps that makes a worse experience for the user?

Taking that at face value that's amazing.

Good comment - a few thoughts:

AlphaGo is impressive no doubt but has DeepMind done anything really key to Google's bottom line yet? A lot of the really sweet stuff they do doesn't have immediate commercial utility that I can see. Apple might be waiting to strike once Google has found the killer app (remember they're never really first at anything and focus holistically on the product).

Apple is benefiting from other companies releasing their research. If everyone but Apple releases the community is nearly as good, and Apple gets the pick of external and internal research while not needing to give up any of their own ideas. I know they send people to conferences and it can be a bit weird talking to someone who won't tell you anything about what they do.

Regarding researchers, I don't know of any top trend setters who've joined but they do have some very good applied ML people through direct- or aqui-hires.

Tl;dr: Apple doing what they usually do and keeping their powder dry/free loading off other's work until they can execute the product.

That's because they're not intelligent. They're layered function approximators with some specialisations for vision - conv layers. Their structure is designed by humans as is the data they are fed with. Maybe the human brain is the same, IMO it isn't. Humans seek out new experiences and can introspect and at their best assess their level of knowledge of a sibject. DNNs cannot.

Yet another book recommendation: Marrow by Robert Reed. Some similarities to your story :)

I use it as a daily and it's fine. Occasional freezes (a few day a day) and very occasional crashes (once a week or so). 6s+.

They definitely do cause issues - higher risk of exciting cancers and a generally more sickly existence. Studies in IBD have their efficacy at 20-30% of patients in remission after a year so they're only somewhat effective (vs half that for placebo). Anecdotally (from my own experience, and from talking to my doctors) quality of life can be poor - mind crushing fatigue is fairly common. Admittedly the fatgue may be the cocktail of other crap in my body!

Something new with few side effects might help lots of people avoid surgery.

If your design fails one user, blame the user. If it keeps failing, blame the design.

Bad road markings are very hard for current self driving systems to solve.

Your other points back up the claim though - self driving cars need to be compared to like-for-like mortality: same roads, same demographic, similar safety features. My guess is they're currently considerably less safe.

I'm basing my assertions off things like this: http://www.npr.org/2009/11/29/120716625/the-deadliest-roads-...

A comparison also needs to include the fact that Autopilot is really only used on highway like streets, which are much safer than most other types of driving.

Are there any firms your recomend for someone in the london area?

Don't worry, in all of our normal elections it is insane.

Do you have a link to the compression stuff?

I'm curious - the author talks about the New Years sex assaults then says it was reported incorrectly, and even quotes something. Is there an article that sets it straight? Wikipedia's article has it that more than half of the crimes on New Years were done by refugees or illegal immigrants.

Location: UK

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: Yes, to US/Canada

Resume/Technologies: PhD in machine learning (completion: July 2016, institution: University of Oxford), concentrating on fast approximations to Gaussian processes and Bayesian optimisation.

I have written lots of C++ (11 and up :p ) and Python, and consider myself nearly idiomatic in them. I can read and write CUDA, MATLAB, JS and a bunch of other languages.

I'm interested in doing ML on resource constrained devices: smartphones, IOT, etc.

Email: whatalovelythrowaway@gmail.com

Because whatever the idea is, it probably won't work and then there wont be free education or any money.

Wait until the cursor stops blinking. Takes some tenths of a second after you stop typing. I was tearing out my hair until I read that.

From an chat with one of their employees, my understanding is that they have a nice SDK to make it easy for people to write simulations thay scale well, by enforcing some constraints:

Dependencies between agents are local and can be expressed by simple messages

Low dimensional and smooth action space

Simple per-agent dynamics

From what I've heard it isn't going to revolutionise anything, but it might make more massive open world space MMORPGs which I'm strongly in favour of.

Your first point: Yep, totally right. I think there's two levels though, the first being that my messages are free from dragnet style surveillance, the second being that my messages are totally secure. Making them get a warrant and get my actual device to decrypt my messages is a damn sight better than having unfettered access to clear text.

Second point: Not sure about that, can't I just serve a warrant on Facebook UK to give me the data? If they say "Sorry, we can't get it because America", I imagine the police will say "What? Give it up or go to prison". Similarly, if Google/Apple allow banned apps in their app store, just bring a suit against their UK tentacles.

Honestly, I hope they do. Bets on who's first to use the words "democracy", "sovereignty" and "American"?

That was my second paragraph - and to be clear, they don't want to ban it, they want to backdoor it.

My idea was that rather than ban it outright and make it like most other internet traffic (decrypted on a server), they could mandate some kind of cacheing of the _encrypted_ data on the server. Then, once they'd lawfully executed a warrant to grab the suspects phone, they can decrypt at their leisure. Apps using per-message keys will probably be a no-no.

Myself - I live in the UK - I hope Apple, Google and Facebook all say a big "fuck you" and cut this country off from their services, but I have a feeling the 'compromise' is going to be something like the paragraph above.

Except Cameron wants to backdoor end-to-end encryption like iMessage/Whatsapp, rather than mess with something like SSL. With SSL they can just get a warrant (or you know, don't get a warrant) and look at the server, where everything is in plain text.

One possible way to backdoor it might be mandate that companies keep copies of the encrypted messages, tagged with a device ID. Then to decrypt you need to get the person's phone, which is a clearer analogy to getting a warrant to search someone's house to look for things they have stashed.

It's been my experience that tech internships are paid some reasonable fraction of what a full timer would get in exchange for a more interested program of work - I get paid 50% of what a full timer does, but I get more training and more flexibility in what I work on.

True, but he could still fit a good internship in his window and not violate the terms of a tourist visa.