Someone has never, ever taken an AI class. Or even an algorithm class dealing with risk. Here's how the calculation actually works (and by the way, that approach is about 20-30 years old). Every situation is assessed an impact value: driving into oncoming traffic, 0 (very bad); driving into the right ditch, 10; swerving into a legal lane, 50; etc. Every situation is given a set of possible actions, with each action having a probability of being completed successfully. The algorithm multiplies the outcome with the odds of achieving that outcome, and picks the highest value. You can set it up in different ways, but the idea is the same: multiply outcome severity with odds of achieving outcome, pick lowest combined risk/outcome. In your situation, driving off the cliff (which is assumed to be very bad, since the car can see a very steep drop-off with no bottom) is going to have a much worse outcome than hitting the car in front of it. Hitting the car in front of it is guaranteed, but so is driving off the cliff. As a result, the algorithm will make the automated car hit the car in front of it, rather than drive off the cliff.
Not to mention that cars don't sleep, always behave optimally (according to the algorithms in place), and have no blind spots.
Oddly, one thing that seems to not have been considered is that an AI car would have a much much better ability to handle the car well under heavy braking than a human. Surely the 'drive into the oncoming car' outcome would be somewhat offset by the fact that the computer would pretty much instantly apply the maximum braking force it thinks the ABS equipped car can manage whilst performing a manouvre, at the same time as performing it, thus massively reducing the energy of any impact?
You CAN do both! however there are consequences for both, too. YMMV of course, and I dont think that scat fetishists are entirely precluded from becoming teachers...
If the school sees value in their Faculty having contact with their students on social networking sites then the school needs official presence on the social networking sites. I dont know if it is possible for a teacher to have, say, their own personal account, and for them also to have the use of an official, monitorable, account tied to their school, and representing the position they hold at the school. the result would be that for example an English department teacher would have an official English teacher #3 (maybe give them better titles than that, cant think of one without more coffee) account.
My rationale for this runs thus: Having their tutors available on the media with which the children interact the most and the freest would mean that their teachers are much more approachable/available to assist in that parts of their education or lives which may need the most assistance. Also, this would be a two way street, and teachers would be able to use the official account that they have been assigned to communicate to their pupils en masse or individually as required whilst maintaining a both a safeguard against abuse, and a firewall between the teachers' private lives and circle of social contacts, and their pupils. Using the school's own website for this would not be as beneficial as the kids won't already be acclimatised to using that.
I suspect it was the section where he implied that teachers are not productive members of society, and that they dont also pay taxes. The anti union rhetoric in your post gives away your viewpoint, by the way.
When I was a kid, I had a liberal stepdad and a conservative dad. I always thought my dad was just a racist who didn't know what he was talking about. At one point we had it out and so I left my lilly-white hometown to to live with my mom and stepdad in what happened to be a predominantly black school district (which my liberal stepdad considered a great opportunity for me to learn a valuable cultural lesson). After I got a harsh lesson in anti-white racism by getting my ass kicked for about the 10th time at said school,.
How much of your getting an ass kicking was about your attitude at that point? I would postulate that in your case your 'conservative' father had already sewn the seeds of prejudice in you, and that your difference in skin colour was massively overshadowed by the colour of your attitude towards others.
Gamestop have also taken a perfectly good download based games portal (Impulse) and removed any semblance of customer service and putting the customer first. Have been having massive problems trying to buy ONE title from their service, and they have been of zero help trying to resolve it. I have now given up and have resolved to never give Impulse any more money. Way to take a smallish games portal and trash it's customer base Gamestop!
But I think that this gag may have been due to the French surrender to Nazi Germany in 1940. The French government were offered a way of not having to surrender (in my opinion it was an insane idea they were offered) but chose instead to capitulate. It is indeed daft to use that one instance to paint a picture of the entire history of French military power.
Have you got any examples? I'm being serious here, I personally didn't think that French music was particularly good,and i'm not saying that just to have a go at the French, I just thought that French people weren't overly bothered about music to be honest. I'd like to be proven wrong.
So you're saying people should not be allowed to sell on a particular class of product, just because the developers/publishers can't manage to run a sensible business model without unfairly restricting the rights of their customers?
This! A thousand times this! Hyperbole over exactly how much money has passed them by from the AC aside, this is why you aim for the best in customer service, and sadly this is seemingly becoming a rarity rather than commonplace. When the PHBs actually get it it will, of course, be too late for WorstBuy.
Caveat: As a Brit my only encounter with these guys was visiting relatives across the pond 9 years ago, and helping them shop for computer peripherals. Bestbuy's service was reasonable on that occasion (must have been lucky), but nothing particularly amazing
Fail, dude. Just fail. Ever hire in Europe? There is a lot more red tape to go through. Europeans have mandatory vacation time, and they will take it.
It's not just that we will take their vacation it just because it's been _earned_. It's actually legally required. Something called a work life balance
Overtime pay goes up exponentially.
Want to cite some sources for this nonsense rhetoric?
And they actually enforce this as opposed to burying it in some court docket.
So you think that laws to protect citizens of a country and their rights should not actually be enforced?
Firing is worse.
So you think that citizens should have zero rights to actally know they have a job for longer than the 5 minutes you can be bothered to pay them?
Don't forget that you have to pay a lot more taxes (think 60% VAT for starters.)
You think that anywhere in the EU there is a sales tax of 60%? What the hell have you been smoking?
Stop disparaging the US until you get a clue.
Stop disparaging the system in other countries until _you_ get a clue
Here in the UK, we have this. It works really well when combined with a publicity campaign. Anyone buying a phone that then turns out to be stolen goes to the police, and if they bought it from some person in the pub, with no way of tracing that person, then more fool them, they just learned a valuable lesson.
As the worst newspaper around, the Daily Mail start with the result they want and steer all discourse towards it, even if it means twisting and lying along the path. They will just make it up if they need to do so, and there have been a lot of cases where this has happened!
You are saying that 10Mbit is the top tier?
Man that's ridiculous. I take it your government not appreciate the advantages to their economy as a whole that decent, universally affordable high speed internet access brings.
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Someone has never, ever taken an AI class. Or even an algorithm class dealing with risk. Here's how the calculation actually works (and by the way, that approach is about 20-30 years old).
Every situation is assessed an impact value: driving into oncoming traffic, 0 (very bad); driving into the right ditch, 10; swerving into a legal lane, 50; etc. Every situation is given a set of possible actions, with each action having a probability of being completed successfully. The algorithm multiplies the outcome with the odds of achieving that outcome, and picks the highest value. You can set it up in different ways, but the idea is the same: multiply outcome severity with odds of achieving outcome, pick lowest combined risk/outcome. In your situation, driving off the cliff (which is assumed to be very bad, since the car can see a very steep drop-off with no bottom) is going to have a much worse outcome than hitting the car in front of it. Hitting the car in front of it is guaranteed, but so is driving off the cliff. As a result, the algorithm will make the automated car hit the car in front of it, rather than drive off the cliff.
Not to mention that cars don't sleep, always behave optimally (according to the algorithms in place), and have no blind spots.
Oddly, one thing that seems to not have been considered is that an AI car would have a much much better ability to handle the car well under heavy braking than a human. Surely the 'drive into the oncoming car' outcome would be somewhat offset by the fact that the computer would pretty much instantly apply the maximum braking force it thinks the ABS equipped car can manage whilst performing a manouvre, at the same time as performing it, thus massively reducing the energy of any impact?
Information about what you are eating is what the protection of consumers that the EU is keen on is partly about.
There's a whole 'other' market out there for mattresses that are...
You CAN do both!
however there are consequences for both, too. YMMV of course, and I dont think that scat fetishists are entirely precluded from becoming teachers...
I agree on the usefulness of Failbook, however The Kids are into it nowadays. The Kids are in fact a teacher's job, so the issue is relevant.
and a nonlow uid is not the sign of being wet behind the ears. Its not like low uid bigotry is anything new on slashdot however...
If the school sees value in their Faculty having contact with their students on social networking sites then the school needs official presence on the social networking sites. I dont know if it is possible for a teacher to have, say, their own personal account, and for them also to have the use of an official, monitorable, account tied to their school, and representing the position they hold at the school. the result would be that for example an English department teacher would have an official English teacher #3 (maybe give them better titles than that, cant think of one without more coffee) account.
My rationale for this runs thus: Having their tutors available on the media with which the children interact the most and the freest would mean that their teachers are much more approachable/available to assist in that parts of their education or lives which may need the most assistance. Also, this would be a two way street, and teachers would be able to use the official account that they have been assigned to communicate to their pupils en masse or individually as required whilst maintaining a both a safeguard against abuse, and a firewall between the teachers' private lives and circle of social contacts, and their pupils. Using the school's own website for this would not be as beneficial as the kids won't already be acclimatised to using that.
I suspect it was the section where he implied that teachers are not productive members of society, and that they dont also pay taxes.
The anti union rhetoric in your post gives away your viewpoint, by the way.
What's 'G******d'? You've completely lost me there :)
When I was a kid, I had a liberal stepdad and a conservative dad. I always thought my dad was just a racist who didn't know what he was talking about. At one point we had it out and so I left my lilly-white hometown to to live with my mom and stepdad in what happened to be a predominantly black school district (which my liberal stepdad considered a great opportunity for me to learn a valuable cultural lesson). After I got a harsh lesson in anti-white racism by getting my ass kicked for about the 10th time at said school, .
How much of your getting an ass kicking was about your attitude at that point?
I would postulate that in your case your 'conservative' father had already sewn the seeds of prejudice in you, and that your difference in skin colour was massively overshadowed by the colour of your attitude towards others.
Gamestop have also taken a perfectly good download based games portal (Impulse) and removed any semblance of customer service and putting the customer first. Have been having massive problems trying to buy ONE title from their service, and they have been of zero help trying to resolve it. I have now given up and have resolved to never give Impulse any more money. Way to take a smallish games portal and trash it's customer base Gamestop!
Laptop. That is where you are making your mistake. Using a laptop for PC gaming is, frankly, like trying to ice skate uphill.
But I think that this gag may have been due to the French surrender to Nazi Germany in 1940. The French government were offered a way of not having to surrender (in my opinion it was an insane idea they were offered) but chose instead to capitulate. It is indeed daft to use that one instance to paint a picture of the entire history of French military power.
How do we do the same in the UK?
Have you got any examples? I'm being serious here, I personally didn't think that French music was particularly good,and i'm not saying that just to have a go at the French, I just thought that French people weren't overly bothered about music to be honest. I'd like to be proven wrong.
So you're saying people should not be allowed to sell on a particular class of product, just because the developers/publishers can't manage to run a sensible business model without unfairly restricting the rights of their customers?
This! A thousand times this! Hyperbole over exactly how much money has passed them by from the AC aside, this is why you aim for the best in customer service, and sadly this is seemingly becoming a rarity rather than commonplace. When the PHBs actually get it it will, of course, be too late for WorstBuy.
Caveat: As a Brit my only encounter with these guys was visiting relatives across the pond 9 years ago, and helping them shop for computer peripherals. Bestbuy's service was reasonable on that occasion (must have been lucky), but nothing particularly amazing
Fail, dude. Just fail. Ever hire in Europe? There is a lot more red tape to go through. Europeans have mandatory vacation time, and they will take it.
It's not just that we will take their vacation it just because it's been _earned_. It's actually legally required. Something called a work life balance
Overtime pay goes up exponentially.
Want to cite some sources for this nonsense rhetoric?
And they actually enforce this as opposed to burying it in some court docket.
So you think that laws to protect citizens of a country and their rights should not actually be enforced?
Firing is worse.
So you think that citizens should have zero rights to actally know they have a job for longer than the 5 minutes you can be bothered to pay them?
Don't forget that you have to pay a lot more taxes (think 60% VAT for starters.)
You think that anywhere in the EU there is a sales tax of 60%? What the hell have you been smoking?
Stop disparaging the US until you get a clue.
Stop disparaging the system in other countries until _you_ get a clue
Probably more like adverts for more *ahem* professional services
Here in the UK, we have this. It works really well when combined with a publicity campaign. Anyone buying a phone that then turns out to be stolen goes to the police, and if they bought it from some person in the pub, with no way of tracing that person, then more fool them, they just learned a valuable lesson.
WHEEEAAAATOOONNNN!
(Not sure everyone likes in jokes, but meh(this sentence inserted to defeat all caps lameness filter))
I have to say, with that one, I salute you. (or was the doubled entendre entirely accidental?)
As the worst newspaper around, the Daily Mail start with the result they want and steer all discourse towards it, even if it means twisting and lying along the path. They will just make it up if they need to do so, and there have been a lot of cases where this has happened!
FTFY
It's about the chance to have a talentless shock jock locked up, and in that I approve.
You are saying that 10Mbit is the top tier? Man that's ridiculous. I take it your government not appreciate the advantages to their economy as a whole that decent, universally affordable high speed internet access brings.