Final Fantasy X HD Remaster - Part 3 - Blue skies and sandy beaches (PS3)
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White sand, pristine beaches and crystal clear water have helped a remote beach in Queensland's Whitsundays to be named as one of the best beaches in the world, according to travellers.
Tourism website TripAdvisor has released its list of the best beaches worldwide for 2014 as chosen by its users, and Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island in tropical north Queensland has made it into the top five.
Two West Australian beaches - Turquoise Bay in Exmouth and Broome's Cable Beach - also made it into the world's top 25 beaches, coming in at 20th and 22nd respectively.
The results were based on ratings and reviews contributed to the website by travellers over a 12-month period.
Out of the top 25 beaches in Australia, Shelly Beach in Sydney came in fourth, Burleigh Heads in Queensland was rated fifth and Manly in Sydney placed seventh.
According to research from Tourism Queensland, the Whitsundays region hosted 671,000 domestic and international visitors in the year ending September 2013.
Queensland Tourism Industry Council chief executive Daniel Gschwind says Queensland should be proud of its beaches, and Whitehaven Beach is remarkable.
"It's the outstanding natural beauty of it, the blue, the coastline, the sand... the bay that's immediately adjacent to the beach with the estuary of the river that flows into the ocean there," he said.
Whitsunday Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and is a National Park itself.
Mr Gschwind says the cooperation between tourism operators and government authorities has allowed the beach to retain its untouched character.
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Once a year, hundreds of thousands of college students descend on the beaches of the Southern coast for spring break, but on a debauchery-fueled, booze-filled battleground in South Padre Island, one small group is going to parties to spread the word of God.
For the past 34 years, Buddy Young has led a Christian ministry called "Beach Reach" to the Texas island and notorious spring break hotspot to talk about Jesus.
"I'm not on the sin team anymore, I'm not on the party team, but I want to come back and help my party people get to the team they all want to be at," Young said.
And he's not alone. His ministry consists of college-age spring breakers with a much different purpose -- to pray for the partiers. Nate, 23, and his friends drove down to South Padre Island from Michigan, a roughly 30-hour ride.
"I've been pretty hammered," he said, surveying the crowds. "I usually don't get this drunk, but it's spring break... this place is out of control."
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Between flights, hotels, car rentals and other expenses, college students spend an estimated $1 billion to go on spring break, a rite of passage, where there are no rules, only expectations to get drunk, naked and hook up. But sometimes they end up in more trouble than they bargained for.
Fueled by large amounts of alcohol, and sometimes drugs, these vacations quickly can become dangerous. Almost 2,000 college-age kids die every year from alcohol-related injuries.
Young said his ministry's biggest goal is to make sure the students have a safe spring break.
"We realize students come to spring break and they just want to blow off some steam and have fun," he said. "But in the midst of that, there are tons of safety issues."
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The cold, dry climate of Antarctica is perfect for astronomy, say scientists.
Antarctica may not be very conducive for living, but it is probably the best spot on Earth for stargazing.
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It was using the BICEP2 telescope in Antarctica that scientists detected the gravitational waves that were imprinted on the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang some 14 billion years ago. The observations were made possible because of the cold, dry atmospheric conditions typical for the region
"The South Pole is the closest you can get to space and still be on the ground," said John Kovac, a radio astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the lead discoverer. "It's one of the driest and clearest locations on Earth, perfect for observing the faint microwaves from the Big Bang."
Vladimir Papitashvili, the US Antarctic Program's astrophysics and geospace sciences program director agrees. "The South Pole is an excellent place for Cosmic Microwave Background observations during the long, dark, and very cold winter," Dr. Papitashvili said in a press release.
Dry conditions (precipitation is roughly 2 inches every year) prevent growth of trees. Vegetation in the region consists mainly of algae, mosses, and lichens.
Last year, temperature on the East Antarctic Plateau plummeted to as low as 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius), according to NASA.
With an average elevation of more than 2,000 m (6,500 ft.), the high altitude is a huge advantage for the astronomers. It means, "theres less atmosphere to look through," according to Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. "The cold, dry air makes for minimal water vapor and less atmospheric emission of infrared light, both of which interfere with observations. Best of all, 24-hour darkness in winter means no daily temperature oscillations, reducing air currents."
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Pete Santilli Episode #658 - Texe Marrs - The Coming Age Artificial Intelligence
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As cognitive computing or artificial intelligence grows in capability, what skills should humans acquire? According to AlchemyAPI CEO Elliot Turner, we will need to shift our educational focus away from the kind of stuff that computers can do better.
Speaking at Gigaoms Structure Data 2014 show in New York alongside Stephen Gold, the head of sales for IBMs Watson program, Turner said there was still a lot of runway to go before we fleshies find ourselves struggling to find purpose. While systems coming online today are amazingyou can still have a person read a document better than a machine can today, he said.
Weve just got to focus on the things that make us special and move away from this historical view of rote memorization, because thats not going to be as useful a skill, Turner said.
Indeed, natural language recognition is starting to evolve to the point where cognitive computing systems such as Watson can take information and understand it in a learning sense.
Gold said this would have great application in fields such as medicine. He described a near future in which physicians would have artificial intelligence-based assistants that can recognize the applicability of the outcome of some obscure trial and regurgitate it as needed.
This may seem quasi-magical now, but as Turner pointed out, were pretty good at taking huge leaps in cognitive computing for granted once weve had them around for a bit: As soon as these technologies come online and are integrated with our daily lives, we stop thinking of them that way Oh, its speech recognition.
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Summary: AlchemyAPI has a lofty but challenging goal: Democratize big data for the masses. A look at the emerging artificial intelligence stack.
AlchemyAPI is a deep learning company without a face---actually a user interface---with a lofty goal to democratize artificial intelligence.
The company, based in Denver, specializes in training deep neural networks to analyze information and carry out cognitive computing tasks. In some ways, AlchemyAPI could be considered David to IBM's Goliath. Or IBM just buys David at some point.
Deep learning, using algorithms to model data so machines can learn and adapt, is a hot space right now even though the so-called killer application or industry hasn't been found. For now, deep learning technology could mean anything from finding facial patterns on Facebook to combing through the human genome and medical literature to cure cancer.
AlchemyAPI's technology has been applied to vision and sorting through unstructured data. The company can process everything from SEC footnotes to images to video in context.
We caught up with Elliot Turner, CEO of AlchemyAPI, at GigaOm's Structure Data conference over a storage shed at Chelsea Piers in New York. Turner and company were good sports hanging out in 34 degree weather since GigaOm apparently doesn't do press rooms or briefing areas for anyone not on its research team these days.
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The democratization of big data. Turner's main mission is to democratize big data and enable real-time analysis of unstructured information---Web pages, chats, video, text and SEC filings to name a few items---for both large companies and small. At the GigaOm Structure Data conference in New York, Turner was slated to be on a panel with Stephen Gold, vice president of worldwide marketing and sales for IBM's Watson business unit. The storyline is that deep learning should be available to all, not just large companies. "We're not solving just one problem and want to put our capabilities in the hands of everybody," said Taylor. "We want to do for big data what AWS did for infrastructure."
Where's the UI? AlchemyAPI's technology can be found at a bevy of companies ranging from Hearst to Jive Software to Outbrain to trading firms looking to combine news and regulatory filings with algorithms. In all of these cases, AlchemyAPI's technology serves as a base layer and customers put on the front-end experience. Should AlchemyAPI want to expand its wares to a broader market beyond developers, it may want to ponder a UI. Turner said AlchemyAPI would ponder a front end to make its algorithms and data more accessible, but wouldn't want to compete with customers. Nevertheless, AlchemyAPI's labs team has at least pondered a front end interface to target "non engineers." "The long-term vision is to make our technology available to a wide audience," said Turner. "It's such a huge space."
The artificial intelligence stack. Turner frequently returned to the concept of AI as a stack---much like a computing stack. That stack today is just being formed. AlchemyAPI is obviously at the base layer with its programming interfaces, but could plug into other levels over time. Today, there are a lot of companies that plug into various levels of the AI stack, but the problem is that customers have to comingle vendors and approaches. IBM has core language processing tools and moves up to Watson. AlchemyAPI also sounds like it would like to provide a full AI stack over time.
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The challenge: Come up with an artificial intelligence project that by itself can come up with a TED talk so good it gets a standing ovation.
The AI XPrize, announced today at TED.
Can an artificial intelligence system get a standing ovation at the TED conference?
That's the challenge for the brand-new A.I. XPrize, announced Thursday at TED in Vancouver by XPrize Foundation head Peter Diamandis.
Unlike most XPrizes, which have clear rules and goals, this one is a bit more free-form. Described as "a modern-day Turing test, [it will] be awarded to the first A.I. to walk or roll out on stage and present a TED talk so compelling that it commands a standing ovation from you, the audience."
And TED and the XPrize Foundation is turning to the global community for ideas on how to make this a reality. Fortunately, though, it is offering a few sample ideas on what could be the winning formula:
Each year at the TED conference, an interim prize would be offered for the best A.I. presentation until such time that an A.I. truly delivers a spectacular TED talk, and the A.I. XPrize presented by TED winner is crowned.
That, of course, is just one approach. The winning angle may be something altogether different. And it's as yet unclear how much the victorious team will win.
Still, it's an interesting idea. One hopes that TED audiences of the future will not be so bowled over by the very concept of an A.I. giving a talk that they automatically give the first one to take the stage a standing O. Instead, let's hope that the first-ever ovation is truly deserving. Maybe it'll be a meta talk, an A.I. explaining how it took on the challenge of getting a standing ovation at TED, and the process it took to achieve success.
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The challenge: Come up with an artificial intelligence project that by itself can come up with a TED talk so good it gets a standing ovation.
The AI XPrize, announced today at TED.
Can an artificial intelligence system get a standing ovation at the TED conference?
That's the challenge for the brand-new A.I. XPrize, announced Thursday at TED in Vancouver by XPrize Foundation head Peter Diamandis.
Unlike most XPrizes, which have clear rules and goals, this one is a bit more free-form. Described as "a modern-day Turing test, [it will] be awarded to the first A.I. to walk or roll out on stage and present a TED talk so compelling that it commands a standing ovation from you, the audience."
And TED and the XPrize Foundation is turning to the global community for ideas on how to make this a reality. Fortunately, though, it is offering a few sample ideas on what could be the winning formula:
Each year at the TED conference, an interim prize would be offered for the best A.I. presentation until such time that an A.I. truly delivers a spectacular TED talk, and the A.I. XPrize presented by TED winner is crowned.
That, of course, is just one approach. The winning angle may be something altogether different. And it's as yet unclear how much the victorious team will win.
Still, it's an interesting idea. One hopes that TED audiences of the future will not be so bowled over by the very concept of an A.I. giving a talk that they automatically give the first one to take the stage a standing O. Instead, let's hope that the first-ever ovation is truly deserving. Maybe it'll be a meta talk, an A.I. explaining how it took on the challenge of getting a standing ovation at TED, and the process it took to achieve success.
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The challenge: Come up with an artificial intelligence project that by itself can come up with a TED talk so good it gets a standing ovation.
The AI XPrize, announced today at TED.
Can an artificial intelligence system get a standing ovation at the TED conference?
That's the challenge for the brand-new A.I. XPrize, announced Thursday at TED in Vancouver by XPrize Foundation head Peter Diamandis.
Unlike most XPrizes, which have clear rules and goals, this one is a bit more free-form. Described as "a modern-day Turing test, [it will] be awarded to the first A.I. to walk or roll out on stage and present a TED talk so compelling that it commands a standing ovation from you, the audience."
And TED and the XPrize Foundation is turning to the global community for ideas on how to make this a reality. Fortunately, though, it is offering a few sample ideas on what could be the winning formula:
Each year at the TED conference, an interim prize would be offered for the best A.I. presentation until such time that an A.I. truly delivers a spectacular TED talk, and the A.I. XPrize presented by TED winner is crowned.
That, of course, is just one approach. The winning angle may be something altogether different. And it's as yet unclear how much the victorious team will win.
Still, it's an interesting idea. One hopes that TED audiences of the future will not be so bowled over by the very concept of an A.I. giving a talk that they automatically give the first one to take the stage a standing O. Instead, let's hope that the first-ever ovation is truly deserving. Maybe it'll be a meta talk, an A.I. explaining how it took on the challenge of getting a standing ovation at TED, and the process it took to achieve success.
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