I think x_0 refers to the corrupted image and x is the (denoised/upscaled/inpainted) image the optimization algorithm tries to come up. Without R(x) the optimal solution is simply x=x0. So we need a good R(x) that can measure how good or natural the solution image is. In this work the R(x) is constraining the valid x to those that can be represented by a CNN.
The house value does not need rise enough to offset the interest + taxes unless you're buying it and leaving it unoccupied for all this time.
If you need a house to live in, the monthly rent for a 1MM house is likely going to be over $3k. Over 30 years this will come out to be $1.08M, much more than the $870k in mortgage interest + taxes for owning the house. On top of that there's the 20-30% tax discount on the mortgage interest that will make owning even more favorable.
>> If you need a house to live in, the monthly rent for a 1MM house is likely going to be over $3k.Over 30 years this will come out to be $1.08M, much more than the $870k in mortgage interest + taxes for owning the house
Over 30 years, if house prices go down due to whatever reason, so will rents (more or less). Homeowners will be underwater and suck up all the downside risk. Renters will remain free of crushing debt.
The only way homeowners are protected is if the house appreciates enough to eat up that downside risk before a future catastrophe arrives, right?
> Until 1999 it received wide support from Chinese officials
Even some famed academy of science fellow believed in "special human body functions". 90s was just a really weird time in China. Chinese government is far from perfect, but I honestly don't know anyone from China who doesn't support the banning of FLG.
It's not block-oriented. Image components are meshes, and they're filled with textures. Between frames, the meshes change position and shape, and the textures dissolve. It's a full morph.[1][2]
This got to the demo stage, and there were a plug-in and an SDK around 2008. The playback side worked fine, but the compression side was really slow at the time.
The internet being bad is done on purpose. They don't have to make it shit with the traffic analysis, since internal traffic has traffic analysis too. They do it to keep china's internet an internal, more easily controllable intranet.
I think it has more to do with lack of competition in the ISP market. In most places, there's only one fixed line broadband provider, so there's incentive to increase speeds (as people will pay to get better quality streaming video on multiple devices) but none to improve peering with overseas networks.
I've been fortunate enough to have access to non-GFWed bandwidth to play with on several occasions, and my experience would seem to suggest this is accurate. I can easily sustain 60mbps to the US when not subject to the GFW, but when using normal non-exempt bandwidth from the same (domestic) provider, could only sustain 5-10mbps. China's network architecture in Tier-1 cities is largely fine, and it's really the GFW that throws a wrench in things internationally.
Data localisation regulations are certainly one reason for foreign companies to set up local infra, but IMHO the real reason is that it's the only way to provide an even remotely tolerable user experience to users in mainland China. Aliyun is basically AWS for China and is very easy to get up and running, and getting an ICP license wasn't nearly as hard as everyone makes it out to be (got one in ~2 weeks from application).
NOT GFW, just concerning Apple's money.
Chinese have downloaded so much HD video crossing the border through the GFW,but the speed is not so slow as Xcode downloading.
Sorry! I never really spent much time in the physical sciences, so I didn't know that. You would obviously not want to pick Joules as a fundamental unit.
FWiW you can have 3 or even more frequencies in a laser beam coherent with each other, i.e. where te phase of the waves is locked together. This allows you to interfere the waveforms of the different lasers in time, as their relative phases are locked. This is very hard to do with continuous wave lasers, but rather routine with short pulsed lasers (e.g. femtosecond).
