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Let's play with statistics:

Scenario 1: 100 human drivers drive some distance. 2 bad drivers caused 150 accidents and both died in their last fatal accidents.

Scenario 2: 100 self-driving/autopilot-enabled cars drive the same road for the same distance. Everyone has one accident and one of them is fatal.

Statistical numbers: Self-driving/autopilot-enabled cars cut both the accident rate and death rate by half. Death rate per accident is reduced from 2/150 to 1/100.

Conclusion: self-driving/autopilot is better.


Human accidents, however, are not news.

"Tesla also posted these photos that raise another important question: they show what's called a "crash attenuator" or safety barrier in the proper condition ... and the way it was the day before Walter Huang's crash ... collapsed after a different accident."

Did you see any news coverage of the previous accident? I know I didn't.


If we're making up statistics out of thin air can we do a couple with people riding ponies too?


It worth to mention that the southern part of China has a different climate than the north. It is very normal that during summer, there is flood in South but drought in North. The situation may different from year to year but the trend is very clear. That is also why there is South–North Water Transfer Project[1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tr...


It is the same government because you will still be caught for discussing the TianAnMen square event in public. It is still a taboo topic since 1989 and nothing on this matter changed so far.


I am a Chinese and I am curious starting when we had net neutrality? Every major sites has to pay all major ISPs to connect into their network so that all ISPs' customers can access the site. When you rent a server, you need to make sure that the server is connected to at least two of the major networks otherwise ISPs will throttle traffic from other competitors. It is also true that connecting servers outside the country is terribly slow if it even accessible


Wow so a nicely named govt policy has the opposite effects it’s intended to have? I’m shocked!


But it's not result of Net Neutrality, but the lack thereof... What makes you think that China has NN?


It is common. The Chinese commentator Gu Li mentioned pair game and team game. But I cannot find an English page about it. Here is a Chinese Wikipedia page. https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/团队围棋

FWIW, the five people team played with Ke Joe before the game and won (again, according to Gu Li.)


Thank you. This is interesting and I didn't expect it!


Playing go cooperatively is very different from chess or most other turn-based tactical games in that combinatorics make the gamespace astronomically large. Most pro players understand what impact this has on gameplay and how to adapt their risk management strategies to the game. Way back in the day, popular man v cpu strategies took into account the limitations of monte carlo simulations and would intentionally make moves that change the game state as much as possible to exploit how hard the computer would need to work in order to begin finding optimal moves.

I think alpha go has advanced to the point where its unlikely human players can reliably defeat it, but I think there are still opportunities for better algorithmic players to defeat it.

Anyways, certain moves can cut off game states by the quadrillions, so it's often pretty intuitive what an optimal response to a move is, given certain context of the board and sometimes the player. In that respect, I'm curious how pro level go is going to change after these alpha go games are studied, because it has a very peculiar, decidedly calculatorish style of play, but it's obviously very effective regardless. Go has prospered for so long because there's so much room to express yourself in a move, pro players really play with their whole soul, but computers are just taking advantage of the pure mathematical angles of the game

It's fascinating stuff. I really want to see the alpha go team write a starcraft ai or something like that.


In short, there is no guarantee. Any message could be deleted at any time for no reason.


How often do messages get deleted?


Try sending a sensitive keyword.


Maybe not if you're in China.


often, they are very fast deleted from your Moments (Wall), heck is you use sensitive keyword they won't be even delivered to the other party in PRIVATE message, so much for this amazing messenger we should look up to


Big government intervention is not the app's fault.


WeChat is censoring the messages, not government, they just give them order and WeChat gladly accept terms in exzchange for China monopoly and protection from international competitors, same go for Facebook, Google and million other services, which Chinese just stole and rebranded. So how exactly it's not their fault they are sleeping in bed with Chinese government?


But could it be part of the reasons for its success ?


Yeah, that's a great question. The reason they have the luxury of not caring about their user count could be that the government takes care of that issue for them by interfering with their competitors.


I think they are different topics under different environment. Software changes, a lot, over time. You can hardly recognize a software's source code if you don't touch them for a decade. The features changed, new features added, old features deprecated, etc. On the other hand, over the life time of a person, their DNA will not be changed dramatically. What their cells need to do is just an exactly copy of its genes. There won't be a case where one person needs to grow a third arm, while in software world, we constantly change requirements.

Software evolves more like the evolution of a species: Small changes over time to adapt the ever changing environment.


Nice work! But you may want to remove src/#lib.rs# :)


Thanks! Yeah, only a few days into using emacs. I keep forgetting about those files.


Just use this as your .gitignore file for every project https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/Emacs...


Really such editor-related gitignore entries should go in the user's core.excludesfile, not repository's .gitignore

Its unlikely that anyone would try to make a file that conflicts with an editor-related gitignore entry, but it's nice to have the .gitignore file cleanly delineate exactly what garbage the build system and application create, without being cluttered up with entries for every editor that any developer might ever use.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7335420/global-git-ignore


Are you saying that Kubernetes only supports GCE? AFAIK, Kubernetes could run on many (any?) cloud or even bare metal machines.

Disclaimer: I used to work on Kubernetes and its related projects.


He is obviously saying this project only supports GCE. K8s supports other environments, yes, but this project could use K8s in a way specific to GCE (e.g. managing machines with gcloud ssh related apis)


Here is a similar product from Motorola several years ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Atrix-4G-Android-Phone/dp/B00...

And there's a laptop dock sold separately

http://www.amazon.com/AT-Laptop-Motorola-Retail-Packaging/dp...

I had the phone but had never used the dock. Not sure about the experience, but it's a cool idea to me.


I had the Atrix , stiil have, is running great ( but slow ) with the lapdock.

Idea is absolutelly great, HW reall OK, but in software was never completly done. It felt like was more like a PoC.

I was pretty dissapointed by Motorola not following this idea. It was kind of ahead of time.

Like others commented, very few phones have a HDMI interface.


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