MongFondler
MongFondler t1_j60rvi2 wrote
Reply to comment by bekilledoff in Rogue AI ‘could kill everyone,' scientists warn by Parking_Attitude_519
This is why we need to stop trying to solve global warming and put all our skill points into perception. Checkmate Rogues, my perception is so high I can see time itself.. no backstab bonus for you.
MongFondler t1_j403v3r wrote
Reply to comment by jquest12 in Study refutes industry claims that ban on menthol cigarettes leads to increased use of illegal smokes: Banning menthol cigarettes doesn't lead more smokers to purchase menthols from illicit sources, contradicting claims made by the tobacco industry by lolfuys
It's huge in the UK, not only are there illegal imports from Europe but there are "fake" cigarettes usually made from terrible cheap tobacco smuggled in from China and assembled here
Bare in mind our cigarettes are taxed insanely high. My gran smoked regal (probably the most expensive price bracket) and they were £14.12.
80% of that is tax I believe.
MongFondler t1_jdy21x2 wrote
Reply to TIL intercontinental ballistic missiles use celestial navigation to check and correct their course (initially set using internal gyroscopes) while flying outside the Earth's atmosphere. by Captainmanic
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.