An ANN is trained on a very specific task. For example, one could be trained to determine from pictures if an animal is a dog or not. Typically the ANN’s output is a probability, e.g. “80% likelihood this picture is of a dog”. You give it pictures, then look at the results, and tell it if it’s wrong or right. Inside…

So ~$23 million isn’t enough to pass on?

Just a reminder that Stella Artois is from Belgium, where it is notorious for being the lowest of the low in terms of beer, and the only difference between it there and here is branding, aka tricking you into seeing value that isn’t actually there. So if you like it, you’re both dumb and gross.

Well that’s potentially very problematic, as your examples are entertainment. Having news be dictated by what’s popular is how we got to the severe level of manipulative misinformation that some news outlets have become. For news to be what it should be, the most accurate and relevant news would sell the best. I think…

Viking was a job, not an ethnicity, so go for it!

After recently replaying most of the previous games, what really helped me was the realization of how these games are structured. Imagine the pitch for the original game: was it “we have this great, clear story, and in addition we’ll link in a bunch of stuff from Disney and SE”, or was it “we have this idea for really…

Not sure how tongue-in-cheek the socialism points are, but smashing the current system seems rather harsh. There are definitely substantial problems, but throwing everything away ignores the positives capitalism has brought. However, the current system also seems rather unsustainable - while there is clearly severe…

To be a Trump voter, you have to be the type of person who believes shooting yourself in the foot to splatter blood on the clothes of someone you hate is worth it. Unfortunately, many people have been programmed for years to easily fall to this false value trick.

The thing about Kingdom Hearts is that the story only exists as a thread to tie together disparate cool set pieces. This could be said of almost any video game, but it’s particularly glaring in these games because the set pieces are derived from completely different stories across completely different universes,…

They are pretty adamant about blatantly copying TNG as much as possible. Female security chief leaving around the end of the first season is just one more unoriginality point for them.

Might make an interesting story, but doesn’t seem like it would work well as a superhero movie. Either the superheroes are secondary to the main characters, which would mean the superhero material would be reduced and thus disappointing to people who go to see a superhero movie for superheroes, or the main characters…

Super hero movies have overtaken a specific space: big-budget action movies with excessive amounts spent on special effects. They exist as spectacle, and serve that purpose competently. People want something they don’t have to think too deeply about, can mostly just react to. Smarter movies exist, but most people…

Huh. Well, knowing Florida, that may just work itself out.

Also, for the cheater: it sounds like you may still be sleeping with your wife as well, which means you’re exposing her to threats she doesn’t even know about. Beyond despicable. Whether you continue the affair or not, if you don’t tell your wife that it happened, you are a monster - you may as well have injected her…

I think there may have been something different for me because I remember my first hangovers being an abject hell I couldn’t believe any living beings would willingly inflict upon themselves more than once. I’ve had extreme pain before but this was something else. I read that hangovers were basically dehydration, so…

As someone who recently stopped playing this game after putting way too much time into it from the start (hit 12,500 achievement points), if you knew what endgame is like, you wouldn’t feel guilty at all. I maxed out all levels a long time ago, and there is still a ton of stuff to do after hitting 70. Also, the…

Please provide empirical evidence that crystals have any real effect beyond exploiting idiots.

Say what you will about the strategy of simply charging more, but that was the totality of the strategy that saved Tim Hortons (Canadian coffee shop franchise) from going under in its early days. Pretty much no one checks after the fact if their assessment of assumed value was at all correct.

Many in investing have been saying for a long time now that the actual fundamentals like earnings haven’t been able to support the valuations, but markets aren’t fundamental indicators, they are sentiment indicators. The arbitrary nature of the points they dropped from and to means you can’t tell if value was lost now …

Fundamentally, buybacks shouldn’t boost prices. Some see it as an indicator that the company’s leaders think the stock price is too low, but it’s really an indicator that those leaders don’t see an opportunity to further invest in their company with a return as high as the dividend rate. But whatever people think they…