Re: GAN see through
GAN is an acronym for Generative Adversarial Network.
Posts by Borg.King
157 posts • joined 8 Apr 2011
Talk about a GAN-do attitude... AI software bots can see through your text CAPTCHAs
OneDrive Skype integration goes live aaand... OneDrive falls over in Europe
Boeing 737 pilots battled confused safety system that plunged aircraft to their deaths – black box
AoA sensor replaced prior to fatal flight
Wasn't the Angle of Attack sensor replaced prior to this last fatal flight of this aircraft?
So far I have heard reports that there were issues on the 3 previous flights to this one, and the sensor had been replaced. Had one faulty sensor been replaced with another one? Had the wrong sensor been replaced? Did the new sensor pass all ground tests on the system before departure? Had the ground tests been properly executed? Has the cockpit been found to determine the state of the MCAS switches?
If the MCAS / AoA system had issues on the previous flights, were those pilots aware of the new equipment operating procedures on the 737 MAX? How did those previous pilots overcome the documented system failures?
The final AAIB report on this will make extremely interesting reading. I hope they find the cockpit voice recorder, though I expect it will just have the two pilots extremely baffled at why their aircraft is repeatedly countermanding their control inputs.
Doctors join wombats in sh!tting bricks to help parents relax about kids chowing down on Lego
Wombats literally sh!t bricks – and now boffins reckon they know how
Want to hack a hole-in-the-wall cash machine for free dosh? It's as easy as Windows XP
Solid state of fear: Euro boffins bust open SSD, Bitlocker encryption (it's really, really dumb)
Apple's launch confirms one thing: It's determined to kill off the laptop for iPads
Pocket Rocket
The new Mac Mini line looks to be in the same ball park as a refurb Mac Pro (6 core i7, 32GB, 1TB SSD, $2499), but it supports the latest Mac OS X and has Thunderbolt ports.
With some adaptoring, I think it'll even be able to drive my two Apple 30" monitors. I write code, so video resolution/performance has absolutely no bearing on my needs at all.
The new Mac Pro (next year?) needs to be a significant step up to have me looking away from a high end Mac Mini.
Watch closely as NASA deploys the world's biggest parachute at supersonic speeds
UKIP doubled price of condoms for sale at party conference
Excuse me, but your website's source code appears to be showing
Apple cops to iPhone 8 production oops, offers to fix borked phones
No need to code your webpage yourself, says Microsoft – draw it and our AI will do the rest
Don't let Google dox me on Lumen Database, nameless man begs
Abracadabra! Tales of unexpected sysadmagic and dabbling in dark arts
Needed a jolly
In a former life, many a time bringing an ailing PC or printer back to base would remove all trace of the reported issue. The thing just needed a day out of the office.
Similarly, temporary HD fixes for worn out bearings could be achieved by putting the HD in the freezer for a few hours. They'd run long enough afterwards to copy off the data to a new HD.
Teardown chaps strip away magic from Magic Leap's nerd goggles
Feature Comparison Table
I'm not a VR connoisseur by any means, but I've yet to see a side by side feature comparison of the Magic Leap One with the other [leading] units on the market?
If this unit is as poor as reporters would have us believe, then a few facts and stats would be helpful to illustrate this conclusion.
Security MadLibs: Your IoT electrical outlet can now pwn your smart TV
So long Grandma, thanks for all the fish
1. Overload the switch.
2. Trip the GFCI on the main distribution panel.
3*. Powers down the automatic defibrillator, and the WiFi connected panic switch.
4. Anyone want Grandmas cat?
5. Donations to the RSPCA please.
* At this point you could switch the movie script to mix alien and human DNA to create whomsowhatever.
Apple tipped to revive forgotten Macbook Air and Mac mini – report
I love my Mac Mini
1. It's my home server,
2. It captures video from my home security cameras
3. I can Remote Desktop into it
4. It sits nicely hidden away in my networking cabinet - behind the towels, the sheets and the 2 bumper packs of toilet rolls :)
I would love a new one though. Faster (i7), more RAM (32GB), 2TB+ HD. One HDMI port, and a handful of Thunderbolt / USB C would do it.
(Plus I can use one for Windows and get rid of my wife's desk space consuming Dell tower too.)
US voting systems: Full of holes, loaded with pop music, and 'hacked' by an 11-year-old
Supermicro breathes in, shimmies a PB of Intel flash into one rack unit
As exciting as this is
Is it economically sensible to actually buy these compared to, say, four 256TB units and then spend the purchasing dollars saved on renting extra datacenter floorspace/power/cooling?
I'm sure in time they'll become economically viable, but is that 6 months from now, or 2 years?
I'm not a datacenter purchasing, commissioning or operations engineer (I write code), just curious to understand the economics here.
Boffins build a NAZI AI – wait, let's check that... OK, it's a grammar nazi
Shock Land Rover Discovery: Sellers could meddle with connected cars if not unbound
What a flap: SIM swiped from slain stork's GPS tracker used to rack up $2,700 phone bill
Hipster horror! Slack has gone TITSUP: Total inability to support user procrastination
UK footie fans furious as Sky Broadband goes TITSUP: Total inability to stream unfair penalties
Developer’s code worked, but not in the right century
Windows Server 2008 SP2 gets new support model
GNOMEs beat Microsoft: Git Virtual File System to get a new name
Microsoft partners to fling out collabo-visual Ginormonitors this year
Mailshot meltdown as Wessex Water gets sweary about a poor chap called Tom
Microsoft commits: We're buying GitHub for $7.5 beeeeeeellion
Smart bulbs turn dumb: Lights out for Philips as Hue API goes dark
Perhaps a bit off topic, but why smart light bulbs instead of smart light fixtures that work with any old bulb? Not that either seems to me to have all that much utility.
Good idea mostly, except it's more work to take them with you when you move, and they're not readily installable by the average homeowner.
I'd trust my mother to install a light bulb without electrocuting herself, but less so to change a light fitting.
We can't really think of any good reasons why remote control of Hue lights would be useful.
It's really useful if you have a long overgrown pathway to your house, and you're coming home late. Turning on the outside lights so you can see the nefarious rascal about to jump you and make off with the remains of your kebab.
Why they never realize that they can make off with your very expensive Hue lights instead is beyond me.
A Reg-reading techie, a high street bank, some iffy production code – and a financial crash
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for each byte in largeDataPacket. // megabytes
{
UpdateStatusBarOnScreen() // takes a millisecond or two
SendByteToDevice() // takes microseconds
}
The result was that sending the entire packet took about 30 minutes to progress a status bar a few hundred pixels across the screen, and only about 10 seconds to actually send all the data to the device.
Tufts boffins track device location without GPS or towers
EmDrive? More like BS drive: Physics-defying space engine flunks out
Sysadmin hailed as hero for deleting data from the wrong disk drive
LESTER looks up, spins its wheels: The Register’s beer-butler can see ...
K9
As the register seems intent on avoiding a beer carrying back pack for the humble golden retriever, which is also very adept at following balls, might I suggest that the final chassis of LESTER bears a significant resemblance to a certain robotic assistant of Dr. Who.
Plus K9 did have a LASER in his nose, and you can never have enough LASERs, can you?
Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain
Intel's security light bulb moment: Chips to recruit GPUs to scan memory for software nasties
[C|G|F|S]PU Silicon shuffle
"Hey Boss, we've got a batch of these quad core CPU's but half of the integrated GPU's have failed testing."
"Can they still access all the memory and run pattern matching?"
"Sure."
"Great, then we're going to call them Security Processing Units, add yet another $100 to the unit price and ship all that silicon anyways."
You must be yolking: English pub to launch eggstravagent Yorkshire pudding
DVLA denies driving licence processing site is a security 'car crash'
You're decorating it wrong: Apple HomePod gives wood ring of death
Who's using 2FA? Sweet FA. Less than 10% of Gmail users enable two-factor authentication
Apple sprays down bug-ridden iOS 11 with more fixes
Two drones, two crashes in two months: MoD still won't say why
Five ways Apple can fix the iPhone, but won't
Camera is an 'outie'.
have the camera lens stick out of the case
Because we all add a case. The lens ends up flush with the case, and the resulting package as a whole is less inclined to snag as you take it from your pocket.
With a flush camera body, the case would still need to have the opening for the lens, but now that lens is a millimetre or two inset within the case. This depression is now more likely to snag and have detritus collect within it*.
(* if your belly button is an 'innie', you'll already understand this scenario)
Nest cracks out cheaper spin of its thermostat
My v1 Nest paid for itself within a year.
It noticeably cut my monthly heating expenditure by around 20-25%. My January/February heating bill was around $300 before. Now $240 is the average.
Be as sceptical as you like. When I moved buying a new Nest was a no-brainer. We've even given them as house warming (sorry) presents to our family.
