Daily Archives: February 25, 2016

Just bought Minecraft , can someone help me grasp some things ? via /r/Minecraft

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Just bought Minecraft , can someone help me grasp some things ?

Hi,

I recently bought Minecraft after my brother kept telling me to do so. I never really got on the bandwagon back in school days when i was 12, im 19 now. I played it now and then but never really delved much into it.

Just a few questions i have

  • What are some basic things i should know ?

  • There are two game modes, what does each one offer ?

  • What is the overall purpose of Minecraft?

  • Is there a leveling up system in the game ?

Edit: My brother has all the handbooks including the blockapedia book as well. Any particular pages i should see in the book

Submitted February 25, 2016 at 07:50AM by cheeseandonionsman
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Google is working on PlaNet – a neural network for guessing where pictures were taken

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Wondering where a fabulous picture on the internet was taken at – we’ve all been there. Guessing the location is quite hard if the image is not geotagged.

It seemed someone at Google had this problem, too, so the company decided to take the image search to the next level.

Google built a neural network called PlaNet, loaded with more than 90 million location-tagged images. When you search for the location of a picture – PlaNet scans it at pixel-level matches its contents to the already existing database.

The first batch of trials proved promising – PlaNet guessed the country with a 28.4% success rate and the continent – with a 48% success rate. PlaNet was also able to recognize 3.6% of times images at street level accuracy, and 10% at city-level.

Sure, those numbers hardly sound impressive, but they, in fact, do when you consider this is just the beginning.

Hopefully, we’ll see PlaNet up and working sooner rather than later. The service supposedly takes 377MB of memory, which means it can easily work even off a smartphone.

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Samsung comes out with 256GB phone storage, seems a great fit for the Note 6

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Samsung Electronics has officially started mass production of industry’s first 256 GB memory chip based on the Universal Flash Storage 2.0 (UFS) standard. The company boasts the new chip features outstanding performance for mobile devices, which exceeds that of a typical SATA-based SSD for PCs.

In fact, data transfer is up to 850MB/s read and 260MB/s write. That’s three times faster than high-performance micro SD cards.

The chip, which is based on the company’s V-NAND tech, boasts up to 45,000 read and 40,000 write operations per second. (IOPS). That’s two times faster than the previous gen UFS memory.

As you can guess, watching and recording 4K movies is a breeze for the chip. Samsung also hints at its future phones supporting USB 3.0 interface and says with this new 256GB UFS 2.0 chip, transferring a 90-minute 1080p video will take just 12 seconds.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 6 will quite probably come out this September and it doesn’t sound outlandish that the company’s flagship phablet will be the first phone to feature such storage…

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PARC Stays Close To The Future

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Xerox founded its PARC research center during the sales heyday of its eponymous paper copiers, and tasked it with inventing “the office of the future.” Its location in Palo Alto, far away from corporate headquarters in an Internet-less era of expensive toll calls, is often cited as a mistake that kept it from commercializing every discovery.

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Inside Forbes: 11 Realities and Observations About the News Business, Like Them Or Not

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1. Signs of a content bubble. More than ever, editorial and branded content (native ads) are going after the same eyeballs. Compounding that, an explosion of complicated text, video and graphic packages produced by and for content marketers are out of sync with smartphone users who want fast and simple. That reality will require a new round of mobile friendly, easy-to-consume native ads that will run smack into similar efforts by editorial newsrooms.

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IOT Is The Killer App For Big Data

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Companies have been embarking on big data initiatives for many years. Often, these were IT driven  solutions looking for  problems to solve. IT professionals understood that if they could bring many disparate data sources into one place and make that data actionable, the data would become a gold mine of valuable information. And that could lead to new revenue sources, huge cost reductions, process optimizations, and many other terrific opportunities. The challenges have always been, how to fund these big data initiatives, and how to make business executives aware of big data’s capabilities, so they can take advantage of the opportunities.

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