Many countries have set a deadline by which no more new ICE vehicles can be sold. It tends to be either 2030 or 2040. But in truth by then there will be no consumer demand for them anyway. And manufacturer that is not switching it's focus to EVs, is committing suicide.
Your post makes no sense: why ban new ICE vehicles if there is no consumer demand for them? My reading on proposed bans is that without threat of physical force people won't change over to EVs.
None of the other options are close to 100% effective, so it's advisable to use more than one. Pills or anything you can use daily have the advantage of becoming routine and thus harder to forget or run out of.
Also the "side effects" are actually desirable for some people.
Re-read the parent. He didn't say "two other contraceptive options", he said "two other places to stick it in".
I am really surprised that no one has come up with an easily cleanable and reusable fertility test that would allow couples to test for fertility with the same accuracy the current kits have.
Because the test won't tell you that she will become fertile two days form now, and get pregnant with the sperm you deposited right now into her.
But appraisals are somewhat worthless. The buyer and the seller both obviously think that the house is worth X or they wouldn't be doing the transaction.
Are you sure about that? I've personally seen someone attempt this scenario: Buyer and seller are in cahoots, "agree" on a price that is roughly 3x what the house would fetch on an open market. Bank provides the agreed-upon money as a mortgage on the property, seller default, bankrupt, bank repossesses, buy/seller split the cash and bank is left trying to sell a house at 3x the actual open-market value.
The only reason the idiots in the story failed is because repeated appraisals made by various banks automatically stopped the loan being made.
I see. Isn't the value of the property determined by how sound it is though? Or are they just saying "it would be worth this much assuming it wasn't full of termites so you had better get someone to check that assumption"?
If some of the companies developing for Win 10 and MacOS were to start releasing Linux ports too, the era of the Linux Desktop would come a lot sooner.
Facing the inevitable switch from Win 7 to Win 10 in around a year, i've done an evaluation of my needs and in actual fact the only thing i need to leave MS behind is better photo editing support. I know there is GIMP, but a linux port of Affinity Photo would be a lot better for me (to use in conjunction with Darktable), along with Epson pulling their thumbs out their arse and writing linux drivers for their P600 / P800 family of photo printers.
I use gimp for any/all image manipulation, even when I am on Windows. It's not great for photo editing, but it's good enough and I found out that "good enough" works for me.
My experience of users who point at a specific application as a reason for staying with Windows is that the majority of them first decide to stay with Windows and then look for a reason to do so. Functionality has nothing to do with it.
The users who *are* stuck with Windows are usually power-users of one single application (be it photoshop, or some proprietary CAD app, a particular game, etc), but these users are by far the minority - the majority of photoshop users will find that gimp can do everything they used to do on photoshop, but they won't even look at it.
A group of researchers found three unrelated families where individuals had mitochondrial DNA from both parents.
Hmm...
Actually raises the question: how did they know that those families where actually unrelated? mDNA from 25 generations ago when those three families were related can make its way into the current gen, no?
(Obviously, someone will post a lengthy and factually correct response to this explaining why that is not possible, right?)
I only claimed that poster is lying because he thinks that holding the stick in a gear when it pops out destroys the transmission.
Eh, if you damaged the shift mechanism badly enough it could require a transmission out to repair, which is functionally the same as destroying the transmission for the average owner.
Maybe, possibly... but taken in context with his other blatant lie about driving into a ditch to stop the car after a cable broke, I doubt it.
That's the thing about including one lie in with a whole bunch of other statements - you lose your credibility.
You should do the same. Brakes don't work with cables,
What? Yes they do. They're called parking brakes.
You should read more carefully - loss of parking brakes don't result in "driving into a ditch to stop the car". That's how we know he is lying.
and transmissions don't get more damaged than they already are by holding it in when it pops out.
They said the shift lever popped out, and they held it in. That had nothing to do with the brakes.
You really should read more carefully - poster claims that the transmission was destroyed when they held in the lever after it popped out. Neither he nor I claimed that had anything to do with the brakes. I only claimed that poster is lying because he thinks that holding the stick in a gear when it pops out destroys the transmission.
It's obviously clear that he's lying about these things: a brake cable snapping doesn't mean you have to stop by driving in a ditch and holding a gear in place doesn't destroy the transmission.
Uh, not all these things happened on the same day.
Engage brain, dear reader.
You should do the same. Brakes don't work with cables, and transmissions don't get more damaged than they already are by holding it in when it pops out.
Counter anecdote: In college, my friend had a Chrysler Lazer which was the uptrim sibling of the Dodge Daytona. Biggest piece of shit ever. Something was always breaking or else the engine was burning up.
I enjoyed poking fun at it until I wrecked my car and my pop got me another used car as a "surprise". Boy my heart sank when I saw it was the same piece of shit Chrysler model my friend had. So many things broke on that thing: steering wheel almost came off in my lap, brake cable snapped at an intersection so I had to stop by driving it into a ditch, gear shift kept popping out so I drove the last 100 miles until home forcefully holding the lever in place and destroyed the transmission, in my first job post-college, I saw flames coming out from under the hood as I drove into the parking building so I coasted it into a spot, opened the hood, and beat the flames out with my coat. Then I walked to my office. I left the car there sitting there and so wanted to just abandon the fucking thing, but they don't let you do that, so I donated it to the high school auto shop. They had that thing running in days, and the kids working on it told me, "Cool car!" It was like passing a psychotic ex-girlfriend off onto someone else.
I wanted my GF to get a mazda CX9. She didnt want to drive a japanese car (She's chinese) and went with a chevy uplander.
[...]
point of the story - I have a huge regret buying that turd of an uplander.
Did you buy it or did she buy it? When I bought my wife a car I didn't ask her detailed opinion first - it's my money, my car, my responsibility. She got to say what type of car she wanted (hatchback, SUV, whatever) but not which brand or which model.
of course, when she bought her own car she had full and complete autonomy to spend her money as she saw fit but she *still* asked me things like "Is this a reliable brand? Is this expensive to maintain", etc.
I have some experience with this.
So have I. AI hype restarted just a few years ago so by now almost anyone interested has looked into it, played with it, etc. Some of us have even done postgrad in it.
I very strongly suspect you do not. But you don't even have to believe me. Geoff Hinton has made the same argument, and he has some pretty reasonable qualifications.
And his numbers fail the most basic of tests - how much information can a human process in a single second. His numbers are counting each sensory input separately while comparing to a NN looking at whole images. If we count each individual pixel in each image the NN receives it is vastly faster than the human.
Looking at images alone, humans can't "see" more than a few distinct images per second while the NN can see, react and adjust to a few hundreds of thousands of images per second. A 30 year period of human images can be fed into the NN in a fraction of the time it took the human to acquire them.
So when OP said he received human guidance for 30 years, I fail to see why he thinks that a computer that processes images thousands of times faster than he does also needs 30 years of training.
Humans are not slow. Hinton has computed the amount of sensory information that is processed by the human brain, using reasonable approximations for things like the effective sampling rate of the eyes and ears. It's enormous.
Humans can "process" maybe 1 high-res photo per second. Computers can do the same several thousands times faster. Humans *ARE* slow and discard almost all sensory input in any given second (flash 1 million stills at a human in a single second and you'll be lucky if they manage to catch even one of those images).
The *consciousness* that we subjectively experience is slow.
In which case my point to the OP still stands - his "30 years of human guidance" can be sent to a NN in a weekend.
You also will notbuy your PC at that store or Best Buy and spend mire than average on it.
My desktop is a 2nd-gen i7 with 16GB of ram, cost around $250 when I bought it last year, and yet it will still do more than a top of the range tablet bought now, mostly because the tablet is almost incapable of being used to produce content.
The tablet can't replace the desktop, because the desktop is used for a much more demanding class of functionality (content-production). The tablet is equivalent to a TV, the desktop is equivalent to a lathe.
A 600 eur iPad Pro from last year, at the things it can do, basically runs circles around most 1000 eur PCs of today.
I doubt it. My dev environment alone eats up around 16GB, that's even assuming that gcc can run on iOS, and cross-compile for my target, or that eclipse/VS/qtcreator will run on iOS, or that various creation tools (gimp, etc) will run on iOS.
Tablets are not toys because of the hardware, they are toys because they are content-consumption only devices. Those of us who produce more content than we consume won't use tablets to do the production.
After Weygers died, a guy stumbled upon lots of pieces of his art and bought all of it. Now, it appears, this guy's looking to let others know about Weygers' story, probably to try to make a profit from the art.
"...this guy..." I meant that to mean "this new guy", and not the guy that I mentioned in the previous sentence. That's a grammar foul, and I admit imperfection. As the shame sets in, I'm only able to find solace in the fact that I have the rest of the week off, because of Thanksgiving.
The guy that stumbled onto Weygers art is also dead. He can't make any money off of it.
(PS. Sorry about the moron comment - I've been binge-watching The Goldbergs:-)
If it's balance of probabilities then witness statements confirming racism, especially independent witnesses or multiple similar accounts, will carry a lot of weight.
Not if Charter already carries black channels, which they do.
Will they have access to Charter emails? I think they can ask the judge for access. Seems like some insight into their decision making process would be relevant. The judge might question why Charter was't providing those emails in its defence too, should they choose not to.
Just refusing to carry some non-black-owned channels is meaningless and doesn't help them, because they may have legitimate non-racist reasons for doing so.
Not if they already carry black channels, which they do.
All that matters is if racism was a factor with this channel.
And the claimant in this case appears to be fucked because Charter already carries black channels.
What is the standard of evidence here? If it's balance of probabilities then it seems like Charter is fucked.
While it's easy to point at people and call them racist, once you're in a court the balance of probabilities means you better have some fucking evidence.
In this case, all Charter has to do is literally point to a fuckton of non-black channels that they refuse to carry, and then the burden of crossing the 50% (BoP) hurdle lies with the claimants.
I'm guessing that they have next to no evidence that their channel is declined due to racism. Charter doesn't need to provide reasons for declining, while the claimant does.
Your particular usual standards on this forum is to simply make subjective claims, or claims based on subjective "evidence" (such as your "evidence" of sexism/misogyny in CS by pointing to declining female participation since the 80s).
Evidence that Charter refused to carry the channel is not evidence that it refused to do so on racist grounds. If the claimant cannot produce actual documentation that Charter refused on racist grounds, then this claim is going nowhere fast.
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Many countries have set a deadline by which no more new ICE vehicles can be sold. It tends to be either 2030 or 2040. But in truth by then there will be no consumer demand for them anyway. And manufacturer that is not switching it's focus to EVs, is committing suicide.
Your post makes no sense: why ban new ICE vehicles if there is no consumer demand for them? My reading on proposed bans is that without threat of physical force people won't change over to EVs.
Um, actually, sterilization is a form of contraception.
So's death. Doesn't mean they're the same thing.
None of the other options are close to 100% effective, so it's advisable to use more than one. Pills or anything you can use daily have the advantage of becoming routine and thus harder to forget or run out of.
Also the "side effects" are actually desirable for some people.
Re-read the parent. He didn't say "two other contraceptive options", he said "two other places to stick it in".
I am really surprised that no one has come up with an easily cleanable and reusable fertility test that would allow couples to test for fertility with the same accuracy the current kits have.
Because the test won't tell you that she will become fertile two days form now, and get pregnant with the sperm you deposited right now into her.
Sperm lives for a long time in the woman.
I am curious, though. Could you give us an indicator why vasectomy is not an option?
Why don't you tell us, instead, why you think sterilisation is the same thing as a contraceptive?
But appraisals are somewhat worthless. The buyer and the seller both obviously think that the house is worth X or they wouldn't be doing the transaction.
Are you sure about that? I've personally seen someone attempt this scenario: Buyer and seller are in cahoots, "agree" on a price that is roughly 3x what the house would fetch on an open market. Bank provides the agreed-upon money as a mortgage on the property, seller default, bankrupt, bank repossesses, buy/seller split the cash and bank is left trying to sell a house at 3x the actual open-market value.
The only reason the idiots in the story failed is because repeated appraisals made by various banks automatically stopped the loan being made.
That is the real purpose of the appraisal..
I see. Isn't the value of the property determined by how sound it is though? Or are they just saying "it would be worth this much assuming it wasn't full of termites so you had better get someone to check that assumption"?
It sounds like you haven't purchased many houses.
If some of the companies developing for Win 10 and MacOS were to start releasing Linux ports too, the era of the Linux Desktop would come a lot sooner. Facing the inevitable switch from Win 7 to Win 10 in around a year, i've done an evaluation of my needs and in actual fact the only thing i need to leave MS behind is better photo editing support. I know there is GIMP, but a linux port of Affinity Photo would be a lot better for me (to use in conjunction with Darktable), along with Epson pulling their thumbs out their arse and writing linux drivers for their P600 / P800 family of photo printers.
I use gimp for any/all image manipulation, even when I am on Windows. It's not great for photo editing, but it's good enough and I found out that "good enough" works for me.
My experience of users who point at a specific application as a reason for staying with Windows is that the majority of them first decide to stay with Windows and then look for a reason to do so. Functionality has nothing to do with it.
The users who *are* stuck with Windows are usually power-users of one single application (be it photoshop, or some proprietary CAD app, a particular game, etc), but these users are by far the minority - the majority of photoshop users will find that gimp can do everything they used to do on photoshop, but they won't even look at it.
A group of researchers found three unrelated families where individuals had mitochondrial DNA from both parents.
Hmm ...
Actually raises the question: how did they know that those families where actually unrelated? mDNA from 25 generations ago when those three families were related can make its way into the current gen, no?
(Obviously, someone will post a lengthy and factually correct response to this explaining why that is not possible, right?)
I only claimed that poster is lying because he thinks that holding the stick in a gear when it pops out destroys the transmission.
Eh, if you damaged the shift mechanism badly enough it could require a transmission out to repair, which is functionally the same as destroying the transmission for the average owner.
Maybe, possibly ... but taken in context with his other blatant lie about driving into a ditch to stop the car after a cable broke, I doubt it.
That's the thing about including one lie in with a whole bunch of other statements - you lose your credibility.
You should do the same. Brakes don't work with cables,
What? Yes they do. They're called parking brakes.
You should read more carefully - loss of parking brakes don't result in "driving into a ditch to stop the car". That's how we know he is lying.
and transmissions don't get more damaged than they already are by holding it in when it pops out.
They said the shift lever popped out, and they held it in. That had nothing to do with the brakes.
You really should read more carefully - poster claims that the transmission was destroyed when they held in the lever after it popped out. Neither he nor I claimed that had anything to do with the brakes. I only claimed that poster is lying because he thinks that holding the stick in a gear when it pops out destroys the transmission.
It's obviously clear that he's lying about these things: a brake cable snapping doesn't mean you have to stop by driving in a ditch and holding a gear in place doesn't destroy the transmission.
Uh, not all these things happened on the same day.
Engage brain, dear reader.
You should do the same. Brakes don't work with cables, and transmissions don't get more damaged than they already are by holding it in when it pops out.
Counter anecdote: In college, my friend had a Chrysler Lazer which was the uptrim sibling of the Dodge Daytona. Biggest piece of shit ever. Something was always breaking or else the engine was burning up.
I enjoyed poking fun at it until I wrecked my car and my pop got me another used car as a "surprise". Boy my heart sank when I saw it was the same piece of shit Chrysler model my friend had. So many things broke on that thing: steering wheel almost came off in my lap, brake cable snapped at an intersection so I had to stop by driving it into a ditch, gear shift kept popping out so I drove the last 100 miles until home forcefully holding the lever in place and destroyed the transmission, in my first job post-college, I saw flames coming out from under the hood as I drove into the parking building so I coasted it into a spot, opened the hood, and beat the flames out with my coat. Then I walked to my office. I left the car there sitting there and so wanted to just abandon the fucking thing, but they don't let you do that, so I donated it to the high school auto shop. They had that thing running in days, and the kids working on it told me, "Cool car!" It was like passing a psychotic ex-girlfriend off onto someone else.
Guess how we know that you're lying?
I wanted my GF to get a mazda CX9. She didnt want to drive a japanese car (She's chinese) and went with a chevy uplander.
[...]
point of the story - I have a huge regret buying that turd of an uplander.
Did you buy it or did she buy it? When I bought my wife a car I didn't ask her detailed opinion first - it's my money, my car, my responsibility. She got to say what type of car she wanted (hatchback, SUV, whatever) but not which brand or which model.
of course, when she bought her own car she had full and complete autonomy to spend her money as she saw fit but she *still* asked me things like "Is this a reliable brand? Is this expensive to maintain", etc.
Offices filled with T-800s patrolling for sexual harassment violations and offensive cubicle decorations.
This is IBM. It'll probably be closer to the ED-209 than a T-800.
Not really sure what the problem with it is. It does the same thing as the win 7 start menu but with a search field you can type into instantly.
So? The Windows 7 I had on my computer had a start menu with a search field.
I have some experience with this. So have I. AI hype restarted just a few years ago so by now almost anyone interested has looked into it, played with it, etc. Some of us have even done postgrad in it.
I very strongly suspect you do not. But you don't even have to believe me. Geoff Hinton has made the same argument, and he has some pretty reasonable qualifications.
And his numbers fail the most basic of tests - how much information can a human process in a single second. His numbers are counting each sensory input separately while comparing to a NN looking at whole images. If we count each individual pixel in each image the NN receives it is vastly faster than the human.
Looking at images alone, humans can't "see" more than a few distinct images per second while the NN can see, react and adjust to a few hundreds of thousands of images per second. A 30 year period of human images can be fed into the NN in a fraction of the time it took the human to acquire them.
So when OP said he received human guidance for 30 years, I fail to see why he thinks that a computer that processes images thousands of times faster than he does also needs 30 years of training.
Humans are not slow. Hinton has computed the amount of sensory information that is processed by the human brain, using reasonable approximations for things like the effective sampling rate of the eyes and ears. It's enormous.
Humans can "process" maybe 1 high-res photo per second. Computers can do the same several thousands times faster. Humans *ARE* slow and discard almost all sensory input in any given second (flash 1 million stills at a human in a single second and you'll be lucky if they manage to catch even one of those images).
The *consciousness* that we subjectively experience is slow.
In which case my point to the OP still stands - his "30 years of human guidance" can be sent to a NN in a weekend.
Sure, but I've had over 30 years of human guidance to get there.
Due to humans being so slow, that's still about 5 orders of magnitude less than the guidance that the software got.
Anyway I've never been a big fan of that book. It's the same one that said crime went down because we legalized abortion.
And? Crime *is* lower when unwanted children are not born. What's your issue with that correlation?
You also will notbuy your PC at that store or Best Buy and spend mire than average on it.
My desktop is a 2nd-gen i7 with 16GB of ram, cost around $250 when I bought it last year, and yet it will still do more than a top of the range tablet bought now, mostly because the tablet is almost incapable of being used to produce content.
The tablet can't replace the desktop, because the desktop is used for a much more demanding class of functionality (content-production). The tablet is equivalent to a TV, the desktop is equivalent to a lathe.
A 600 eur iPad Pro from last year, at the things it can do, basically runs circles around most 1000 eur PCs of today.
I doubt it. My dev environment alone eats up around 16GB, that's even assuming that gcc can run on iOS, and cross-compile for my target, or that eclipse/VS/qtcreator will run on iOS, or that various creation tools (gimp, etc) will run on iOS.
Tablets are not toys because of the hardware, they are toys because they are content-consumption only devices. Those of us who produce more content than we consume won't use tablets to do the production.
After a second look...
After Weygers died, a guy stumbled upon lots of pieces of his art and bought all of it. Now, it appears, this guy's looking to let others know about Weygers' story, probably to try to make a profit from the art.
"...this guy..." I meant that to mean "this new guy", and not the guy that I mentioned in the previous sentence. That's a grammar foul, and I admit imperfection. As the shame sets in, I'm only able to find solace in the fact that I have the rest of the week off, because of Thanksgiving.
The guy that stumbled onto Weygers art is also dead. He can't make any money off of it.
(PS. Sorry about the moron comment - I've been binge-watching The Goldbergs :-)
If it's balance of probabilities then witness statements confirming racism, especially independent witnesses or multiple similar accounts, will carry a lot of weight.
Not if Charter already carries black channels, which they do.
Will they have access to Charter emails? I think they can ask the judge for access. Seems like some insight into their decision making process would be relevant. The judge might question why Charter was't providing those emails in its defence too, should they choose not to.
Just refusing to carry some non-black-owned channels is meaningless and doesn't help them, because they may have legitimate non-racist reasons for doing so.
Not if they already carry black channels, which they do.
All that matters is if racism was a factor with this channel.
And the claimant in this case appears to be fucked because Charter already carries black channels.
What is the standard of evidence here? If it's balance of probabilities then it seems like Charter is fucked.
While it's easy to point at people and call them racist, once you're in a court the balance of probabilities means you better have some fucking evidence.
In this case, all Charter has to do is literally point to a fuckton of non-black channels that they refuse to carry, and then the burden of crossing the 50% (BoP) hurdle lies with the claimants.
I'm guessing that they have next to no evidence that their channel is declined due to racism. Charter doesn't need to provide reasons for declining, while the claimant does.
Your particular usual standards on this forum is to simply make subjective claims, or claims based on subjective "evidence" (such as your "evidence" of sexism/misogyny in CS by pointing to declining female participation since the 80s).
Evidence that Charter refused to carry the channel is not evidence that it refused to do so on racist grounds. If the claimant cannot produce actual documentation that Charter refused on racist grounds, then this claim is going nowhere fast.