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Best torrent client?
Frostwire
A lot of people swear by uTorrent, but I like how minimal Transmission is.
Transmission on gnu Unix
Why is opus not more widespread as an audio format? Video and image format standards change overtime, but MP3 is still the dominant audio format despite being incredibly outdated and inferior for years now.
because normies
>>52998125
>muh normies ;_;
For the same reason we use Xorg, the same reason we use unix, and etc.
Because MP3 is here.
>>52998125
Normies don't push formats though, they just consume them. With streaming and digital downloads of music as big as it is now, wouldn't it be in the provider's best interest to use a lossy format that has significantly better filesize for the same if not better audio quality?
Google Play Music for example uses MP3 320, not even V0. Even if you upload a file that is MP3 V0, Ogg Vorbis, or Ogg Opus, it will convert it to MP3 320.
Harold edition
Old: >>52992368
>>52997687
2nd for functional programming is a meme
python is pretty cool guies
A.I General Thread
Continuing from >>52981663
>Unanimous A.I. treats humans like bees to make better decisions
Source: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/02/15/unanimous-a-i-treats-humans-like-bees-to-make-better-decisions/
>Honey bees make optimal decision for the location of their hive based on group intelligence, Rosenberg explains. Each bee encodes its preference for, and level of conviction in, a potential site in a ‘waggle dance.’
>Rosenberg says that his research show that humans can work in a similar way.
>Unanimous A.I.’s UNU platform works by assembling a group of people online, all logged into an interface where they can interact to answer a series of questions together. A researcher asks a question and a selection of potential answers are laid out in a circle onscreen.
>Participants must then drag a ‘puck’ in the center of the circle towards their preferred answer. The twist is that everyone is dragging the same puck, so that a consensus on the ideal result is quickly reached.
>Maybe Robots Won't Kill Us If They Read 'Good' Books
Source: http://www.futurity.org/stories-robots-ethics-1105812-2/
>Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology believe the answer lies in “Quixote“—a technique that teaches “value alignment” to robots by training them to read stories, learn acceptable sequences of events, and understand successful ways to behave in human societies.
>Quixote is a technique for aligning an AI’s goals with human values by placing rewards on socially appropriate behavior. It builds upon Riedl’s prior research—the Scheherazade system—which demonstrated how artificial intelligence can gather a correct sequence of actions by crowdsourcing story plots from the internet.
>Scheherazade learns what is a normal or “correct” plot graph. It then passes that data structure along to Quixote, which converts it into a “reward signal” that reinforces certain behaviors and punishes other behaviors during trial-and-error learning. In essence, Quixote learns that it will be rewarded whenever it acts like the protagonist in a story instead of randomly or like the antagonist.
>For example, if a robot is tasked with picking up a prescription for a human as quickly as possible, the robot could a) rob the pharmacy, take the medicine, and run; b) interact politely with the pharmacists, or c) wait in line. Without value alignment and positive reinforcement, the robot would learn that robbing is the fastest and cheapest way to accomplish its task. With value alignment from Quixote, the robot would be rewarded for waiting patiently in line and paying for the prescription.
>>52997490
>Robot finds books on Feminism
>The robot believes all cis white males should be killed
>Goes out into a rampage
>>52997474
Stay mad, /g/ doesn't to anime.
Requesting her github in case it's not down yet. Any anons still have the link?
> Also general cringe thread
what's cringey about supermodels who code?
>>52997398
>code
>>52997398
>supermodel
I hope to start a compsci degree soon and I was wondering whether I should upgrade to a Macbook, or wait for the Sklylake Macbooks, OR just stick with my windows 10 asus which cost around £400 a couple years ago.
>compsci
>mac
No. Just... no.
Install gentoo.
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac
>>52996423
why? seems all cs students use mac
Daily reminder that we're in 2016 and we're still using this 80's dog's turd.
>>52996277
but y'know, theres literally nothing that can replace it.
>>52996299
Except Wayland.
/thread
>>52996299
I still have faith in waymeme
![500x1000px-LL-a6b1007e_IMG_20151208_191455[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ucCnIJT.jpg "500x1000px-LL-a6b1007e IMG 20151208 191455[1]")
Best closed headphones edition
--PLEASE USE THIS FORM TO GET PURCHASE ADVICE--
>Requesting purchase advice:
http://pastebin.com/hjHkKDyM (embed)
Asking "Hey guys, what's your opinion on x?" is frowned upon.
>/g/ wiki headphone FAQ:
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Headphones
>Previous thread:
>>52977145
>>52995793
maybe he's trying to meme with how it sounds similar to Vader?
I don't know dude
>>52995820
So uh
DT770 vs MSR7?
Hey fa/g/s,
Has anyone here been working with intel xeon phis? If yes what where you doing with it?
What its purpose?
>>52994963
to coprocess
>>52994963
x86-64 manycore for parallel computing instead of shitty proprietary closed gpus.
Holy shit linus is a fucking genius, this means I never have to manage my cables again. Linus said it doesn't effect performance or temperatures so he must be right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IPaLKzkVjE
>>52994738
he is
>>52994738
>blocking airflow that cools off physical objects with physical objects doesn't affect how much airflow that cools off physical objects gets to those physical objects
How do I adblock sweaters on Youtube yo? this shit is killing me? His sweater ad beat my 3 adblockers I got running.
>want to use Udacity so I can have an easier time getting a job
>Udacity website requires nonfree javascript
>tfw the botnet wants me to be a NEET
>>52994721
>FOSS loser is a NEET
In other words cows moo and birds tweet
can I get my pizza now?
>>52994760
Fucking new wave birds, I want off this ride
Let's show Void Linux some love
I just installed it in a virtual machine and holy shit it's good.
>up to date packages
>rolling release
>easy as fuck installation while being pretty much as lightweight as Arch
>no systemd
Also there are packages that are available in the official repositorys that are only available in the AUR for Arch users. You should try it, it's pretty great.
Pic related, nothing really special but it was fast and easy to setup
No yaourt/AUR required for i3-gaps, pretty awesome
How's the KDE support?
>>52994300
I haven't tried it but I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work fine
>want to buy new graphics card
>want to use CRT monitor too
>HA TOO BAD HAVE 2 DVI-D FAGGOT
why is AMD this retarded
I really don't want to buy an nvidia card with a similar price (GTX 970)
>>52993502
Adaptors exist.
AMD HAS NO CRTS
>>52993537
active ones only and they have latency
why only nvidia has DVI-I
If everything else about the monitors is equal, including the cost, what do you personally find to be more important?
http://strawpoll.me/6825116
>>52992925
CRT
/g/ is NOT your personal consumer review site.
spend extra $100 or so and get 4K IPS for muh pee pee eye
>>52992946
here's your reply
Anyone else considering switching to Windows?
ur mom
>>52992846
Already done m8
>>52992846
No It's slow, unresponsive and has loads of finicky problems with my laptop's hardware while linux doesn't.
