I was a happy guest at a Chinese Jail facility for a couple months. It's a short-term jail, and the Law in China forbids any Chinese citizen to be sentenced for more then 20 days(yes, it's less then 1 month) in the said kind of vip SPA. For some reason of the destiny, there is a loophole in the Law, where the law doesn't says clearly what to do with the somewhat unlucky foreigners, and the many conflicting regulations can lead a foreigner to stay up to 9 months there!(Lord have mercy on his soul, because after 9 months there, your soul will stay there forever the day your physical body walks out of there to know what the Sun is again) This soul I mention is from Cameroon, or Nigeria, It is not clear, and this is exactly the reason he stayed 9 months there, It wasn't clear! And said soul must be still wandering around those cells there to this very Night, wherever the physical body is now, so, in my case I was lucky. Now what I will say will sound like I am a regular Jail frequenter, but I am not : D , Well, If I had to choose between that jail in China, where you are completely(and this means 100% no less) deprived of Coffee, Cigarettes, Anything to smoke at all, not even pure toilet paper, forget about smoking, you will not even remotely see it or smell it from far, anything to drink but water or sometimes home-made WangLaoZhi(what is superb, I have to say) and sometimes you can get some brown sugar that they sell for the Girl's jail for alleviation of menstruation discomfort according to Chinese ancient predictions, and where you are almost completely deprived of Salt, and if you have never try this deprivation, it isn't nice at all. I have asked the doctor for Salt, please. He could gave to me or to any other inmate any painkiller I or anyone asked for, but "I don't have Salt". I will not talk about Sun. But, a Big But with a capital B, Those beautiful and sexy cop girls that you can see running in the Jail's athletics track (like those from the olympic games, but smaller, not for the inmates, seems that they use the Jail as an training place of the Police Academy too, so those young angels are probably still Student cops) these girls will never let anyone, anyone, ever touch a hair of yours, actually If anyone touches anyone, the angels will see it on the camera and Shout by your room's loudpeakers: "Physical contact is forbidden, you both have lost one point in your point's score record"(Actually usually they are much more human then this, sometimes they called me by my given name, Stockolm syndrome and all other theories in this field don't even begin to scratch the surface of the deepness and intensity of the human relations and the feelings involved in the jobs of these girls, with their parents expecting them to have the dream husband that they cannot, and don't want to find, and the Society expecting them to be Model Citizens and They, the girls themselves, expecting to fulfill their true belief, the sheer and crude and nude and absolute belief in the Written Law, and that their lives have a meaning and a reason, a important contribution to the Development, Improvement, Justice and Freedom of the Chinese Society, and they are doing exactly this, my friend, even going a milimeter or a meter out of the written Law, for the sake of their believes in Human Fraternity and the bright unwritten Justice itself and at the same time to have to witness and look with maximum attention to all the literally nude misery of the human animality(maybe neologism, but you get it) and see the "lowest" level of people taking shower and hearing these men speak all kinds of dirty things and talk about these same watcher girls as sexual objects sometimes and sometimes even whistle at them if they see them doing the guard, of course not too much, and never if the girl can spot who was the guilty one, because people were scared of them too, off course, but Freedom of Speech there was complete, even political, some people were there because of somewhat political reasons, and people support them freely and everyone give him advice about how to go on with his political activism, this is surprising but completely true, it was about the government seized this poor people property to make a big real state Business and they go to protest in Beijing from all over the country, this is common there, so after some years the Beijing City gov got tired of handling them and now just send them back home with a few days jailtime in his own hometown as a trip souvenir. People who was caught with a lot of drugs or selling drugs gets 7 days jail or so first time, second time 20 days(maximum legal stay allowed by Law at a specially designed to be unbearable for more then 20 days concentration SPA) Third time you go "real" jail (lord have mercy on you) China is much more relaxed then people think, don't try anything weird on my advice, surely, but even the Death Penalty is probably going to be abolished rather sooner then later(someday I explain why the Chinese people is the boss of the Chinese government, and not otherwise, when you hear is an ancient cultured People, you underestimate, I only realized that in my 12th or 13th year in china, call me dumb and the majority of Death Sentences passed today in China is scheduled for 2 years from now, with some little clause on it, and if you behave well 2 years later your sentence will be silently changed to Life in Prision, unless you are a political communist authority(will be executed the next morning after trial), or you sold unsafe food and some kid died, or you killed someone and don't show regret in front of the Court Judges, or you show regret but killed a child, then you will be executed right away. ((I have lost the pairing of the parenthesis here already, this isn't a code editor) Brazilian Jail, by the other hand, you get Marijuana, other drugs, sometimes booze, visit of professional girls(woo-hoo!) Sun, Music and Barbecue, but 1 time in 2.8 years will happen that you look around after a fraction of a second and everyone is dressed like Ninjas with their shirts covering their heads and touching the ground with 1 or the 2 hands like Stressed Monkeys, so the guy next to you says: " Dress all clothes you can find quickly, so you will have less black bruises and it will let less scares on your skin when it has all finished..." but this is another story, this tale is ridiculously long already.
Just to make a fun comment, in a humorous way, not criticizing your comment by any chance, just that I thought it was fun: Actually, They are sex capitals not due to high ratio of women:men, It's the opposite way: They have a high ratio of woman:men due to they being sex capitals. Donguan at it's Golden Age had probably 100 woman for each man, but if you go there today, unfortunately, it brings tears to one's eyes to see the sad state of less then 3 to 1 ratio. Or much less. In a certain winter, of heavy snow, someone was trapped for days in a train blocked by the snow, and this was time when workers go back to their hometowns for the chinese new year. This train was coming from DongGuan, and the ratio of women men inside that train was marvelous, not far from a Thousand girls to each man. This is all over now. Even the snow in China does't fall as much anymore...
Detecting something and protecting from something are different things, as Cf498 said in his comment, they just go directly to the protect step and ignore the detect step. They don't have time for Detect step. Its just that in the way he phrased his first comment, it was unclear, but I didn't assume that he was actually confusing the 2 steps, that's why I used "if" and said that I didn't understand clearly. Actually he didn't needed the info in that answer, but some others readers could get confused, as it seems to be my case. Now if you ask me how could I possibly think that cover a mirror is a way to detect a two way mirror, then I have to say I don't know, but maybe I imagined that if its day time, and the curtains don't provide enough darkness, you could cover the mirror with your head inside the cover to provide enough obscurity for your eyes to see trough the two way mirror. So maybe my imagination went too far, but yeah.
Sorry I didn't understand well your comment, if you are saying that the pretty girls cover the mirror to detect two way mirrors, that is not the reason they cover the mirror for.
Yes, but they will ask you to put your own portables devices in the wardrobe too, including watches and glasses, even when the glasses have almost no frame to speak of. This is, or was, in the golden times, coincidentally, or not, the industrial hub with more relative freedom for production variety. The state-of-art of the spycamera-ware produced over there back then would make any old shop owner in Shenzhen's eletronic market simply jaw-dropped. Off course, if the guys in Shenzhen weren't afraid of jail, they would have the same stuff at some point. Is a pity people messed up doing too much GSM stuff. You can't have nice things. Same goes for the other industry mentioned. Just Nostalgy left. A lot of legal stuff could be mass-miniaturized by removal of case and tape cover. Long time retired now, don't know last progresses, but probably best stuff available for simple mortals still in Romenia. Best available for simple mortals in the other industry probably still in the same country. Never go near device starting with a J, may become guest of enhanced interview facility. The old memories...
Also, as any pretty girl in a DongGuan city's Sauna will teach you, put all portable objects inside the room's wardrobe and cover everything you can, including mirrors, with towels, bedsheets, or whatever piece of cloth you can find. Put all flasks of Shampoo or body soap in the wardrobe aswell. Scan the long curtains of the room's window with your eyes and hands. They are really professionals there.
That's very dangerous what you are saying right there. It is more then obvious that your freedom to walk in my street's block, to exist(your freedom), depend directly on the limitation and curtail of my freedom to shoot you with my shotgun. Your freedom is killing my Total and Absolute freedom. Do you want to give me Total freedom?
Econonomic freedom is not essential to attain political freedom, or "essential" here is fuzzy, or whatever is being called economic freedom here, and whatever is being called political freedom here, has probably suffered a terminology contortionism. Mind you, I am not a fan of unnecessary rhetoric patrolling, for example, if someone says "Bezos built AWS" I think is ok, I understand perfectly that the commenter wanted to say that he gave the order to the employees to build it, not that it built it with his own hands. But some things can be toxic, when unintentionally reverberated.
The other day I was thinking that if I create a black cube in a simulation with white background, and generate a number of PNG images of the cube in different positions, The adjusted weights I get in my network when it classifies with success in further simulations(applying the learned weights to classify now, instead of learning and adjusting the weights), Can also be used to classify a real life black dice on a real life white table, if the camera is well positioned and the light is right. In this case, the learning would "generalize", from the simulation to the real life. Maybe this simulated data used to adjust the weights could also be called "synthetic data" or "simulated data" or just "artificially generated data".
Sorry for the offtopic, but Im interested in natural Language constructs like this way of using Hmmm. after a sentence. First I thought it was something from the Portuguese speakers, after more thinking I see maybe it is common of French speakers. Or maybe is common in the U.S. too, I have been there only few times. I found it very funny, and somewhat familiar. :ps: The wonders of having a search engine at anyone's hand.
I have never heard about esperanto while in China, that was half of my lifetime, so I think there must be some exaggeration here. The efforts at establishing Confucius Institute branch schools all over the world to teach Mandarin I have clearly seen.
I have just retested and the problem I mentioned before doesn't exist anymore, It has happened around Christmas time, back then, the search returned not very relevant results, Now it shows at the 9th position what google shows at 1th (exactly the article I was searching back then, still as first match on google), but this is a minor difference of order of the first page so I have to say the search is working pretty as expected now. Sorry for not retesting it before making that comment and thanks for keeping the search good.
:all right I didn't want to say it but there: russia hypersonic
Maybe too late now, but i would like to point that I went to read Elasticsearch, Algolia, and Xapialand product descriptions before I made my comment, so I know well what Algolia is for, and in the example I gave, I was searching for a Headline, not for internal content inside the comments, and It was a headline that was in the first page of results at HN on that moment, so, I think I have phrased my comment in a polite way towards Algolia, understanding that search has more moving parts then the pattern matching algorithms of the logical core.
:ps I am sincerely grateful for the information you gave in your comment, about Entities, Concepts and Relations on a Knowledge graph. This is exactly the kind of info I was looking for when I made the comment, so It was enlighting to know that, and thank you again.
I was genuinely wondering recently why the Hackernews site search tool didn't show a very recent article with very obvious keywords, that google, for example, had in the first place in the results, when adding "Hn" to those 2 keywords in the search field. Is it a matter of the indexing, it means the article was too recent and it wasn't yet in the Algolia's(I believe) based HN's search tool memory; and in this case google copied it to memory faster; Or is this purely a matter of the Algorithms themselves? The algorithms for sure sound to be the matter, when the case is that of a search for an old article, that should be in memory already. It seems unnatural. Algolia has a free tier for open-source projects, what is very nice of them and thanks. I genuinely wonder if those algorithms are indeed so complex to justify those comparatively weaker behaviors seen at HN's internal search.
Sweet potato is a cheap and easy dietary fiber source. Also good slow burning source of energy. The betacarotene on it, in my opinion it is unclear it is good or bad for you. I think betacaroten daily maybe not good, maybe some varieties of sweet potato has less betacarotene
Anyway is a good and cheap food, can keep you alive on frozen winter.
Just to clarify a bit here, when it reads "all those chinese has a village in their passport marked", you are probably talking about the Hukou system. Well, everyone in the world has his place of birth in his passport, but, ok, the Hukou system is more then that, but is at risk of being misunderstood here, It's primary reason of existence has nothing to do with punishments, note that physical punishment at schools is currently forbidden, hated and smashed and scorched by social media and news and by the majority of parents in China. The very Hukou system itself has it's Demise "announced" by the Chinese lawmakers for years now, they are handling the update of a huge Legacy society organization and citizen identification System update and this system has already suffered many minor cuts and shut-downs of collateral ancient, obsolete regulations. To add some anedacta: I was a guest of a certain facility for a couple months in China. Any kind of physical punishment by the enforcement or the crew or the guests themselves was impossible. dozen cameras 24 h a day, no milimeter out of the Written Law. And the law doesn't predict physical punishment there, besides of the Death Penalty, that is exactly the top of the scale of Ancient physical punishment, off course. :edit adding some bit to the anedacta, I was the only non-chinese there, among hundreds.
By the other hand, one can think that the level of Knowledge of the authorities and the state-of-the-art in certain fields may be overestimated, because of the confidence of the authorities and the excess of humility of the person who is looking at that field of knowledge. That said, It is impossible to overestimate your own ability of making gross blunding mistakes.
Ah, the memories of childhood. Once I went to a winter June's Party. Saint John's popular parties all over Brazil. This was a huge "clandestine" Big Deal ballonists, many were cops, my primary school mate's father was a cop, and he took us there, crossing the 13 kilometers Rio de Janeiro-Niteroi bridge at night, that huge 3 meters or so tall ballon came down in flames from the sky, my friends father stopped the car in the same middle of the bridge and went out the car to recover the balloons mortal remainings. The "Bucha" , what means the "sponge", a square of Parafine Wax mixed with Cloth fibers and Kerosene, that was the combustion torch of the aircraft was still half unburnt. Half the "silk" paper of the fuselage was still good too, ;D He smashed everything in the trunk of the car we we went on our way to fishing and explode firecrackers by Rio State coast. At That winter party we went that time, I have myself "hand-launched" a 1.5 meters ballon with the other kids. The adults lauched ballons 10, 15, 20 meters tall, full of firecrackers and fireworks that have time-control devices so they ignite and launch the fireworks when they were at a nice attitude on the sky. It was a really a piece artisan craft tech. Sometimes caused fires in Oil Refineries and Collateral Civilian Facilities Damage. This guy would bring to our primary school an Album similar to an Baseball Card Album, but instead it was an Balloon Cards Album, so I think they even sell cards of those things for kids. I remember the most famous/heaviest at time was called "The King of the Kings" and it was more than 20 meters if I recall and was never recovered, they say it went to Space : D This Ocult Art still exists, but is much more clandestine now, When a young "Boss" of a Tactical Standing Point of the Rio de Janeiro's Cartel army dies, the guys in the Favela will launch huge balloons full of fireworks, and shoot bursts of tracing bullets like those from the first Iraq War trough the sky. Sometimes an inloved Boss would launch a big Baloon for his girfriend. But it's not allowed to play like before. It's like the Brazilian Art of WarKites, that uses a mix of fine-ground Glass with wood-glue spread along the line of the kite to cut everything on it's way, preferably other people's kites, but sometimes other people's necks. People still die from it. But is still goes on. Cannot fight with wild people, must civilize step by step ; D
I see. Thanks. So they kill it, cut out it's head and bury on a salt desert so people will forget it exists and buy their new game instead. Still feels that something isn't quite right in this being the only reason, it's strange. But yeah, you are right, would need to call more than one friend to get 6B USD just for fun money, to risk on the game industry because of a personal caprice :D Your ideas were better, thanks.
Protecting neural networks from adversarial attacks, i think you mean. Protecting good A.I. from spoofing attacks is exactly the same as protecting human drivers from spoofing attacks.
so maybe we don't need Lidar, because the cameras can see like the human eye in the snow, too. Depth can be given by doing like insects and adding many triangulation points.
Ok , thanks for that information, sincerely. Let's find some friendly agent to assume control of this 2K company then. Thank you. Actually, when there is Unity3D around, what is the point of them keeping it closed. They could still keep the Movie and Art rights, if someday Hollywood wants to make a movie of it or whatever dream they have of milking it somehow in the future. They might very well loose the value of the Art and Story itself when someone makes a similar Unity3D game with a passable Art and Story that buries their value, and now it buries for real. Can't understand what is the point of their reasoning keeping it frozen.
I hope AI evolves fast enough to kill LIDAR even before it's birth. I really hate lasers on my eyes. I have fought once with some street laser sellers because of it, and some blood was splat. I don't like fighting and I'm not violent at all, but I hate those things and a future of thousands lasers coming from all cars on the street would be the Horror. Luckily it's all most vaporware and carmakers are going to loose a few billion dollars on this mistake, before pivoting to raw pixel based A.I.
that was my same thought too, if you ever saw a tobacco leaf and a Marijuana leaf. Even the green shade is pretty different. Now, the Castor Oil Plant[1], which is planted for it's oil, can be confused with marijuana from distance to the untrained eye.
can't help with not going a bit on this rant, because it really hurts, so Brazil, please just do like the smart African countries do, let the Chinese bring thousands of workers and then they will go back to spend the Chinese New Year with their families and let a railroad built there, that will work for longer than the lifetime of these workers, and they probably will live longer than what you expect. Come on, there is no point in protecting your workforce if you let your workforce collecting empty cans all day for a dollar to buy the bread of today Anyway!!! You are not protecting anything or any workers, much the contrary, and you still don't get a single working train...It's like Einstein said, there are no limits for Stupidity, indeed...
There have been pretty strong Cannabis planted in big scale farms for many decades in South America. There are those not so strong too, but there are tons of good stuff in big operations. Paraguay, for example, have skilled big plantation farmers.