Chrome is only starting to provide any real programming tools. So when teachers want to use tools, they will have to use whatever few are supported on Chrome, or use them in the cloud. If I want Java and Netbeans (or IntelliJ, or BlueJ, or...) good luck.
Google created this sticky platform as the snare, and the formerly do-no-evil company is now a gigantic spider sucking the blood (and perhaps student brains) out of schools
And of course, consider the Digital Gap, which as the New York Times says is note quite what was expected:
Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected https://nyti.ms/2JkjOuf
50% of the country's online sales are concentrated with a single vendor. They can squeeze suppliers mercilessly. They can play favorites, drive companies out of business, essentially whatever they want. That's seems far more serious than search.
There are buttheads everywhere. But there are certain things that work better for largescale program development. Object-Oriented code and strong typing are good things for larger programs on the back end. Web technologies are still intrinsically ugly, but at least that part of the stack is a huge improvement.
Moreover, because PHP has no structure, lots of idiots learned to hack it. The barriers to entry for.Net and Java are higher so the quality of programmers are often better.
For a quick graph I would write a couple of lines in Matlab, not write a Java program, but I would never write a several thousand line program to build thousands of graphs per day in Matlab unless forced at gunpoint. Oh, look: http://hudson.dl.stevens-tech....
Aside from the climate effects, what is the effect of putting a lot of siilver in the environment?
Is everyone in China going to come down with Argyria?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
These guys claim to anesthetize the victim (er, patient) and then execute them by filling their brains with glass. So let's use that for death row inmates. It's humane, and if we screw up, we can boot up the copy and apologize to it in a few hundred years. And since it's a copy we won't even owe it money. Win-win!
This is evolution in action. Survival of the fittest genetic engineers. Those too stupid to play with the technology will find a way to get a Darwin award. But will any of them concoct something so stupid it will win the award for our entire species, rather than just them personally?
It seems incredible to me that this was done without public comment and regulation.
This is extremely dangerous. First, it's a potential vector for diseases to jump inter-species.
Second, it's a way to grow more unquestioning trump supporters.
The article is trolling to get attention, but whether Deep Learning is enough to get the job done or not, saying that AI won't be a threat is ludicrous. 40 years ago, computers would "never" play chess like a human. Then it turned out that if you look ahead enough, the same tricks suddenly look "intelligent" to Kasparov. After Chess, then it was "but a hard game like Go can never be solved by a computer." And that fell to AI. And then Google beat its own Go program with a learning algorithm.
Our brains work with neural networks. It's only a matter of programming the coefficients. With enough layers, we will have a computer as smart as a person. If it's not deep learning, that does not negate the fact that when that happens whether in 5 years, 10 years, or 30 years, our intelligence will no longer be a marketable commodity. Think about that. How much is a person's physical labor worth these days? Not much now that automation can do so much more.
So the author claiming that deep learning won't do it? Who knows? We've got 20 smart people working on the problem in my university, and probably the same at every research institution in the world. The only question is how long will it take.
Saying that intelligence won't scale? That, the author is completely pulling out of their ass. Yes, people are good at different things, including social interaction, writing, gymnastics, and playing a violin. All those things work on the same hardware. There is no reason to think that human neural networks are particularly different than the neural networks being built in silicon. And all trends show that soon, robots will be able to run, walk, jump, drive better than humans.
This ass is no different than Lord Kelvin pronouncing that heavier than air flight would never work, except that Lord Kelvin did great work in thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and this buffoon just writes puff pieces in wired.
When you hate people, you make claims about how "they" are all.... You don't have to say the word hate to make it clear. You clearly hate me, even though I've never done anything to you, never controlled the media, cheated any "gentiles" out of their life savings.
I'm not going to refute you point by point. I am not interested in your obsessions. I know a lot of Jews, and I don't know any that behave the way you describe. And I'll bet you don't know any personally, because you hate us so much in the abstract. You hate us so much that you consider Madonna tainted just because she's into Kaballah, though she's also into piercings, Bondage and Discipline, and displays of public sexuality, not exactly behavior sanctioned by orthodox Judaism. Madonna's been into quite a few things. Don't worry, I'm sure she'll grow out of it.
I live a middle class life, worry about retirement, college for the kids, what we will do when computers make labor obsolete, all the usual things slashdotters do.
"We Jews" are not all anything, any more than non-jews are pigs. *You* are a pig, and I'm sure you would make excellent bacon, but that doesn't make your neighbors pigs. Everyone has to earn the epithets by their behavior. You certainly earn yours.
As I asked, is it only Jews? Are there any other groups you have a high opinion of?
Wow, you really smoked some bad S**T in the third reich but you lost, remember?
Instead of bitching about a tiny religion with an outsized impact on the world because of its emphasis on study, why don't you learn something other than hatred?
Do something, make some money, get a life?
I wish I had some of that power you speak of but not all us class 4 Jews are in the loop I guess.
I particularly enjoy that bit about Jews controlling the music industry. All those damn Jews: Snoop, 50 cent, Janet Jackson, Madonna,...
We did have a good run in Nobel prizes that you forgot to mention. Rabi, Einstein, Feinman,.... All no doubt awarded by those damned Swedish Jews you hate so much. But sadly, as the US immigrants assimilated, that has gone away. Now the people doing the research are more Chinese, Indian, Pakistani and Iranian Jews. Do you hate them too?
With zero intrinsic value, and an infinite supply of alternative schemes, Bitcoin is truly idiocy. Who cares if it has market share today -- it takes near zero effort to support others. If people are worried about the dollar, they should not go near bitcoin. The concept is beautiful, a limited number of coins, with the supply calibrated to expand.... Except that anyone can create another system, so the supply of systems is infinite. Oops.
Goldman could make money arbitraging this -- maybe. But anyone long on these things is, to quote Buffet, buying a nonproductive asset. Worse, bitcoin is literally useless -- you cannot make Jewelry out of it, you cannot make circuit boards out of it. Bitcoin could go up to $100k tomorrow, but that does not mean it's a good investment. It's a gamble, and what you are gambling on is that there are people out there who are stupider than you if you are long.
It will be interesting to see if Goldman can actually make money on this. It's not easy to secretly short bitcoin. How will they hedge?
1, Anyone who complains about an airline will get a beating, not just the few lucky ones that resist being thrown out of their paid seats.
2. Instead of wasting money investigating crashes, the money will be divided among the long-suffering airline CEOs on poker night..
3. If your baggage is lost, airlines will give you a free double leg amputation, making it far more comfortable to fit in the new seats they are planning.
4. All TSA personnel hires will have microcephaly.
As a result, terrorism is expected to decline, as so many people will die in air travel that no one will believe terrorists when they claim they had anything to do with it.
I would have assumed that techies would include technical people of all stripes, and if so, then I think you can see that people working on clean energy technologies and biological technologies are generally making the world a better place, at least for humans. The people making it cheaper to get into space, like SpaceX could also be defined this way.
If you are defining techies as programmers, then people here have posted examples of programs that are not trivial, and of course that's a minority.
It seems like an unfair standard though, why aren't you complaining that most authors write books you don't consider important, or most movies are trivial rewrites and extensions of nonsense franchises? Not everything has to be altruistic and highbrow. There is enough to choose from.
Sorting may be interesting to you, but it's dry and rather abstract.
If you are working in Java or python, graphics is available, and graphical projects are far more interesting to the average high school student.
Animation of any kind (processing is ideal)
3d animation (spinning globe, 14 lines in processing)
2d board games (checkers). Note you are creating a board that only allows legal moves, not playing.
Earth-moon-sun system (for those captivated by the spinning globe.
You can do more mathematics if students like it. For example primes. Tying it to graphics, the prime number spiral: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/P...http://adastraeducation.org/Pr...
New York Times just had an article on engineers who make apartments quiet. They also had pictures of a lot of different types of materials
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12...
I for one would like to see a historic timeline of absolute numbers for CPUs, memory, and mass storage. But that is not so easy to do. I have found little snippets here and there on Wikipedia, but not even a single master list of CPUs, let alone more hardware. There are master lists of CPU benchmarks but not spanning generations and radically different CPU sizes obviously.
Here's DDR3 RAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
DDR4, not really there in Wikipedia, though there are some articles that talk around the subject: http://www.extremetech.com/ext...
A discussion of the LINPACK benchmark: http://www.netlib.org/utk/peop...
History of hard drives, plenty of data but not complete and not tabular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you know where to get tables of the raw data without an enormous amount of work, I'd like to see it.
Obviously all the middle east is not going to cool down any time soon, and needs a desalination solution, or the current wave of immigration will look like a trickle. Ignoring for the moment the population boom which will destroy everything if they don't control it, the technical solution is nuclear power. A nuclear plant does not contribute to global warming, and the waste heat, applied to water, desalinates a lot of water. It's a productive use of all the energy from the plant instead of just 45%. Unfortunately, no one wants Arab countries to have nuclear plants given the current political environment. The risk of terrorism, or proliferation is huge.
I think the article neglects Iran, which should be higher on the list. They are using 90+% of their surface water and are imminently in danger of running out. The minister in charge was predicting that 70% of the country could have to evacuate in just a few years.
http://www.danielpipes.org/158...
Israel currently or will shortly desalinate 100% of its water needs and is actually refilling its aquifers. So I'm not sure what the basis of the claim is. However, the desalination is using natural gas, not solar, so it is not long-term sustainable. Not all the damage has been undone yet. The dead sea has been falling by 1 meter per year for the last 30+ years because all the water coming into it was used for irrigation by Israel and Jordan. While I believe they have arrested or perhaps stopped the drop, they have not yet refilled it. There has been an interesting proposal to develop hydroelectric power with a canal from the meditteranean, and an interesting twist proposed by professor Dan Zaslavsky to generate all power needed by Israel AND Palestine with a single downdraft tower.
Here is an article on this interesting concept in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Zaslavsky's claim was that such a tower would reduce the amount of water going into the dead sea by 90% due to evaporation, therefore they could increase the flow into the dead sea by a factor of 10, generating 20GWatts of power. The concept has never been tested at scale so no one knows if it would work.
Disney actually DID fire a couple of hundred people. This is the second round at Disney ABC, where they changed their minds after getting caught misusing H1B visas to take jobs away from US workers.
Slashdot Mirror
Chrome is only starting to provide any real programming tools. So when teachers want to use tools, they will have to use whatever few are supported on Chrome, or use them in the cloud. If I want Java and Netbeans (or IntelliJ, or BlueJ, or...) good luck. Google created this sticky platform as the snare, and the formerly do-no-evil company is now a gigantic spider sucking the blood (and perhaps student brains) out of schools And of course, consider the Digital Gap, which as the New York Times says is note quite what was expected: Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected https://nyti.ms/2JkjOuf
will be using quadcopters to deliver it.
50% of the country's online sales are concentrated with a single vendor. They can squeeze suppliers mercilessly. They can play favorites, drive companies out of business, essentially whatever they want. That's seems far more serious than search.
Oh God here come the quantum trolley car memes....
There are buttheads everywhere. But there are certain things that work better for largescale program development. Object-Oriented code and strong typing are good things for larger programs on the back end. Web technologies are still intrinsically ugly, but at least that part of the stack is a huge improvement. Moreover, because PHP has no structure, lots of idiots learned to hack it. The barriers to entry for .Net and Java are higher so the quality of programmers are often better.
For a quick graph I would write a couple of lines in Matlab, not write a Java program, but I would never write a several thousand line program to build thousands of graphs per day in Matlab unless forced at gunpoint. Oh, look: http://hudson.dl.stevens-tech....
vibrator to earthquake
Aside from the climate effects, what is the effect of putting a lot of siilver in the environment? Is everyone in China going to come down with Argyria? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
These guys claim to anesthetize the victim (er, patient) and then execute them by filling their brains with glass. So let's use that for death row inmates. It's humane, and if we screw up, we can boot up the copy and apologize to it in a few hundred years. And since it's a copy we won't even owe it money. Win-win!
This is evolution in action. Survival of the fittest genetic engineers. Those too stupid to play with the technology will find a way to get a Darwin award. But will any of them concoct something so stupid it will win the award for our entire species, rather than just them personally?
It seems incredible to me that this was done without public comment and regulation. This is extremely dangerous. First, it's a potential vector for diseases to jump inter-species. Second, it's a way to grow more unquestioning trump supporters.
Drive a BFR!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4FY894HyF8&t=1964s
Our brains work with neural networks. It's only a matter of programming the coefficients. With enough layers, we will have a computer as smart as a person. If it's not deep learning, that does not negate the fact that when that happens whether in 5 years, 10 years, or 30 years, our intelligence will no longer be a marketable commodity. Think about that. How much is a person's physical labor worth these days? Not much now that automation can do so much more.
So the author claiming that deep learning won't do it? Who knows? We've got 20 smart people working on the problem in my university, and probably the same at every research institution in the world. The only question is how long will it take.
Saying that intelligence won't scale? That, the author is completely pulling out of their ass. Yes, people are good at different things, including social interaction, writing, gymnastics, and playing a violin. All those things work on the same hardware. There is no reason to think that human neural networks are particularly different than the neural networks being built in silicon. And all trends show that soon, robots will be able to run, walk, jump, drive better than humans.
This ass is no different than Lord Kelvin pronouncing that heavier than air flight would never work, except that Lord Kelvin did great work in thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and this buffoon just writes puff pieces in wired.
When you hate people, you make claims about how "they" are all .... You don't have to say the word hate to make it clear. You clearly hate me, even though I've never done anything to you, never controlled the media, cheated any "gentiles" out of their life savings.
I'm not going to refute you point by point. I am not interested in your obsessions. I know a lot of Jews, and I don't know any that behave the way you describe. And I'll bet you don't know any personally, because you hate us so much in the abstract. You hate us so much that you consider Madonna tainted just because she's into Kaballah, though she's also into piercings, Bondage and Discipline, and displays of public sexuality, not exactly behavior sanctioned by orthodox Judaism. Madonna's been into quite a few things. Don't worry, I'm sure she'll grow out of it.
I live a middle class life, worry about retirement, college for the kids, what we will do when computers make labor obsolete, all the usual things slashdotters do.
"We Jews" are not all anything, any more than non-jews are pigs. *You* are a pig, and I'm sure you would make excellent bacon, but that doesn't make your neighbors pigs. Everyone has to earn the epithets by their behavior. You certainly earn yours.
As I asked, is it only Jews? Are there any other groups you have a high opinion of?
Wow, you really smoked some bad S**T in the third reich but you lost, remember? Instead of bitching about a tiny religion with an outsized impact on the world because of its emphasis on study, why don't you learn something other than hatred? Do something, make some money, get a life? I wish I had some of that power you speak of but not all us class 4 Jews are in the loop I guess. I particularly enjoy that bit about Jews controlling the music industry. All those damn Jews: Snoop, 50 cent, Janet Jackson, Madonna, ...
We did have a good run in Nobel prizes that you forgot to mention. Rabi, Einstein, Feinman, .... All no doubt awarded by those damned Swedish Jews you hate so much. But sadly, as the US immigrants assimilated, that has gone away. Now the people doing the research are more Chinese, Indian, Pakistani and Iranian Jews. Do you hate them too?
With zero intrinsic value, and an infinite supply of alternative schemes, Bitcoin is truly idiocy. Who cares if it has market share today -- it takes near zero effort to support others. If people are worried about the dollar, they should not go near bitcoin. The concept is beautiful, a limited number of coins, with the supply calibrated to expand.... Except that anyone can create another system, so the supply of systems is infinite. Oops. Goldman could make money arbitraging this -- maybe. But anyone long on these things is, to quote Buffet, buying a nonproductive asset. Worse, bitcoin is literally useless -- you cannot make Jewelry out of it, you cannot make circuit boards out of it. Bitcoin could go up to $100k tomorrow, but that does not mean it's a good investment. It's a gamble, and what you are gambling on is that there are people out there who are stupider than you if you are long. It will be interesting to see if Goldman can actually make money on this. It's not easy to secretly short bitcoin. How will they hedge?
1, Anyone who complains about an airline will get a beating, not just the few lucky ones that resist being thrown out of their paid seats. 2. Instead of wasting money investigating crashes, the money will be divided among the long-suffering airline CEOs on poker night.. 3. If your baggage is lost, airlines will give you a free double leg amputation, making it far more comfortable to fit in the new seats they are planning. 4. All TSA personnel hires will have microcephaly. As a result, terrorism is expected to decline, as so many people will die in air travel that no one will believe terrorists when they claim they had anything to do with it.
I would have assumed that techies would include technical people of all stripes, and if so, then I think you can see that people working on clean energy technologies and biological technologies are generally making the world a better place, at least for humans. The people making it cheaper to get into space, like SpaceX could also be defined this way. If you are defining techies as programmers, then people here have posted examples of programs that are not trivial, and of course that's a minority. It seems like an unfair standard though, why aren't you complaining that most authors write books you don't consider important, or most movies are trivial rewrites and extensions of nonsense franchises? Not everything has to be altruistic and highbrow. There is enough to choose from.
Sorting may be interesting to you, but it's dry and rather abstract. If you are working in Java or python, graphics is available, and graphical projects are far more interesting to the average high school student. Animation of any kind (processing is ideal) 3d animation (spinning globe, 14 lines in processing) 2d board games (checkers). Note you are creating a board that only allows legal moves, not playing. Earth-moon-sun system (for those captivated by the spinning globe. You can do more mathematics if students like it. For example primes. Tying it to graphics, the prime number spiral: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/P... http://adastraeducation.org/Pr...
New York Times just had an article on engineers who make apartments quiet. They also had pictures of a lot of different types of materials http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12...
Yes, yes, as we all know science is wrong, and the earth was made approximately 5000 years ago. And the earth is flat.
I for one would like to see a historic timeline of absolute numbers for CPUs, memory, and mass storage. But that is not so easy to do. I have found little snippets here and there on Wikipedia, but not even a single master list of CPUs, let alone more hardware. There are master lists of CPU benchmarks but not spanning generations and radically different CPU sizes obviously. Here's DDR3 RAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... DDR4, not really there in Wikipedia, though there are some articles that talk around the subject: http://www.extremetech.com/ext... A discussion of the LINPACK benchmark: http://www.netlib.org/utk/peop... History of hard drives, plenty of data but not complete and not tabular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... If you know where to get tables of the raw data without an enormous amount of work, I'd like to see it.
Obviously all the middle east is not going to cool down any time soon, and needs a desalination solution, or the current wave of immigration will look like a trickle. Ignoring for the moment the population boom which will destroy everything if they don't control it, the technical solution is nuclear power. A nuclear plant does not contribute to global warming, and the waste heat, applied to water, desalinates a lot of water. It's a productive use of all the energy from the plant instead of just 45%. Unfortunately, no one wants Arab countries to have nuclear plants given the current political environment. The risk of terrorism, or proliferation is huge. I think the article neglects Iran, which should be higher on the list. They are using 90+% of their surface water and are imminently in danger of running out. The minister in charge was predicting that 70% of the country could have to evacuate in just a few years. http://www.danielpipes.org/158...
Israel currently or will shortly desalinate 100% of its water needs and is actually refilling its aquifers. So I'm not sure what the basis of the claim is. However, the desalination is using natural gas, not solar, so it is not long-term sustainable. Not all the damage has been undone yet. The dead sea has been falling by 1 meter per year for the last 30+ years because all the water coming into it was used for irrigation by Israel and Jordan. While I believe they have arrested or perhaps stopped the drop, they have not yet refilled it. There has been an interesting proposal to develop hydroelectric power with a canal from the meditteranean, and an interesting twist proposed by professor Dan Zaslavsky to generate all power needed by Israel AND Palestine with a single downdraft tower. Here is an article on this interesting concept in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Zaslavsky's claim was that such a tower would reduce the amount of water going into the dead sea by 90% due to evaporation, therefore they could increase the flow into the dead sea by a factor of 10, generating 20GWatts of power. The concept has never been tested at scale so no one knows if it would work.
His brother's B and N also get sick, but at difference rates.
Disney actually DID fire a couple of hundred people. This is the second round at Disney ABC, where they changed their minds after getting caught misusing H1B visas to take jobs away from US workers.