I started writing a reply, then realised that without more information it's hard to analyse the problem, and the article isn't freely available, unfortunately.
IQ tests don't test a single aspect of intelligence, and it matters what kind of tests have lower scores. Do these have more to fluid or crystallised intelligence? We could then further speculate what caused the particular change. For example, education has moved over the years to better address how girls learn, and it could have negatively affected how boys learn to think.
The main reason there are so many cryptocurrencies is that it's easier to make money off a new currency than an old one. If a coin takes off, early adopters make a lot of money.
> Getting security patches is not support. It's base line minimum expectations.
It's only baseline minimum expectations because you're getting it. As CastrTroy said, if you're using an Android device, your baseline expectations are not to get any update.
From the result, 80% of people understand how inflation affects the value of their money, and 45% percent understand something about stocks, even though investing in stocks is required to manage retirement money (and only 16% got it wrong). All in all, not bad.
I'd say that even if 99999 out of 100000 people dropped out, Bitcoin would still work perfectly. Well, actually, that's not really right, because mining is very centralised, so what I really mean is, using 0.001% of computing power would still be enough. That excess 99.999% could be represented by a very small number of people with mining farms.
The problem with mining is that it's designed to become less efficient the more computing power is put into the system. That's a terrible design which leads to what we're seeing in terms of power use.
As Google says, a headset using this is expected to have a smaller field of view than the eyes have, so acuity will be 40 ppd vs. 60 ppd for the eyes (just 50% for the eyes). Also, the eyes don't have the same acuity over the entire range of angles.
I've often encountered downloaded text files which aren't Windows-formatted. While there are many alternatives that do handle line ends correctly (the most readily available in Windows is WordPad), Notepad is a default for various file types and this added support will certainly help.
This really isn't something basic, not something sophisticated, and there's no particular reason not to include it. While Microsoft is very late to the party, it's a definite case of 'better late than never'.
People will now start advocating that kids go to these jobs, then, a few years from now, complain how many people are going to lose their jobs to machines, and why are people not going to STEM which is very important, and all kinds of other stuff that people enjoy complaining about.
Well, that time has probably passed long ago, but we're still here, precisely because of that narcissistic impulse to broadcast our worthless opinion to a crowd of hopefully like-minded people.
Even in this context, I'm not sure in what sense AI is equal to job automation. Physical job automation doesn't require AI (in the modern, data analysis sense), and is the most relevant to backward countries. AI-related job automation, for example replacing doctors by AI, will be a big help to backward countries.
It has never occurred to me that Stephen Hawking was getting old. He's always felt kind of ageless to me. And frankly, 76 is a pretty good old age, certainly for one with ALS.
He was an impressive individual, and I'm really glad that he was around and managed to live and contribute for so long.
Thanks. Quite interesting. Although in practice there doesn't seem to be much difference, and quite a bit of variation seems to exist in Europe (for example if I am to believe this DVD copying page). The original intentions might be good, but I don't think there's that much of them left.
I agree that copyright terms are a problem, but as long as they're the law, I don't see the problem with forcing websites to conform to the standard, assuming that all they're being asked for is blocking by IP.
Project Gutenberg claimed that the German language works are for consumption of German readers in the US, so blocking German users seems to be in line with that.
Was there even a single fusion plant project announced before this? Is there one which was announced and should have been active by this year (i.e., which failed to deliver)?
From that article, it looks like in addition to the 600 server theft (valued at 200 million), the aforementioned 600 GPUs, etc. (valued at 20 million) have been stolen.
Anyway, solving half the problem is better than solving none. If one can prevent kids up to 11 from accessing things they shouldn't and buying things by mistake, that's pretty good.
Yes, it's exactly the same as trying to make things idiot proof. Idiots, and most children, do bad things accidentally, or through lack of understanding of the implications.
Sure, kids can deliberately do things against their parents' wishes, but that's not the usual case. It can be terribly easy for kids to buy stuff without understanding that they did, and if something prevented them from doing it, that would be helpful.
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I started writing a reply, then realised that without more information it's hard to analyse the problem, and the article isn't freely available, unfortunately.
IQ tests don't test a single aspect of intelligence, and it matters what kind of tests have lower scores. Do these have more to fluid or crystallised intelligence? We could then further speculate what caused the particular change. For example, education has moved over the years to better address how girls learn, and it could have negatively affected how boys learn to think.
Or "Norwegians are getting dumber, but are still smarter than Americans".
The main reason there are so many cryptocurrencies is that it's easier to make money off a new currency than an old one. If a coin takes off, early adopters make a lot of money.
> Getting security patches is not support. It's base line minimum expectations.
It's only baseline minimum expectations because you're getting it. As CastrTroy said, if you're using an Android device, your baseline expectations are not to get any update.
From the result, 80% of people understand how inflation affects the value of their money, and 45% percent understand something about stocks, even though investing in stocks is required to manage retirement money (and only 16% got it wrong). All in all, not bad.
Not just to launder dirty money. A monetary system that doesn't go through the banking system is useful to criminals by itself.
I'd say that even if 99999 out of 100000 people dropped out, Bitcoin would still work perfectly. Well, actually, that's not really right, because mining is very centralised, so what I really mean is, using 0.001% of computing power would still be enough. That excess 99.999% could be represented by a very small number of people with mining farms.
The problem with mining is that it's designed to become less efficient the more computing power is put into the system. That's a terrible design which leads to what we're seeing in terms of power use.
FTFY.
As Google says, a headset using this is expected to have a smaller field of view than the eyes have, so acuity will be 40 ppd vs. 60 ppd for the eyes (just 50% for the eyes). Also, the eyes don't have the same acuity over the entire range of angles.
In short, this is close enough to what's needed.
Sorry, now at 47,369. (I do occasionally trim that, but normally I'm too lazy to do that.)
I have no idea how many read e-mails the inbox has, but I long gone are the days when I sorted stuff in any way.
I've often encountered downloaded text files which aren't Windows-formatted. While there are many alternatives that do handle line ends correctly (the most readily available in Windows is WordPad), Notepad is a default for various file types and this added support will certainly help.
This really isn't something basic, not something sophisticated, and there's no particular reason not to include it. While Microsoft is very late to the party, it's a definite case of 'better late than never'.
People will now start advocating that kids go to these jobs, then, a few years from now, complain how many people are going to lose their jobs to machines, and why are people not going to STEM which is very important, and all kinds of other stuff that people enjoy complaining about.
This is exactly the smart glasses product I'd be willing to buy. No camera, no distractions, just information in front of my eyes when I want it.
Well, that time has probably passed long ago, but we're still here, precisely because of that narcissistic impulse to broadcast our worthless opinion to a crowd of hopefully like-minded people.
Even in this context, I'm not sure in what sense AI is equal to job automation. Physical job automation doesn't require AI (in the modern, data analysis sense), and is the most relevant to backward countries. AI-related job automation, for example replacing doctors by AI, will be a big help to backward countries.
It has never occurred to me that Stephen Hawking was getting old. He's always felt kind of ageless to me. And frankly, 76 is a pretty good old age, certainly for one with ALS.
He was an impressive individual, and I'm really glad that he was around and managed to live and contribute for so long.
Thanks. Quite interesting. Although in practice there doesn't seem to be much difference, and quite a bit of variation seems to exist in Europe (for example if I am to believe this DVD copying page). The original intentions might be good, but I don't think there's that much of them left.
Would be cool if you could expand on why the European model is crap and the US one is good. (Not judging; I really want to know.)
I agree that copyright terms are a problem, but as long as they're the law, I don't see the problem with forcing websites to conform to the standard, assuming that all they're being asked for is blocking by IP.
Project Gutenberg claimed that the German language works are for consumption of German readers in the US, so blocking German users seems to be in line with that.
Was there even a single fusion plant project announced before this? Is there one which was announced and should have been active by this year (i.e., which failed to deliver)?
From that article, it looks like in addition to the 600 server theft (valued at 200 million), the aforementioned 600 GPUs, etc. (valued at 20 million) have been stolen.
So the government will be less likely to know where I am.
Top Secret said it best.
Though probably won't be in a couple of years. :)
Anyway, solving half the problem is better than solving none. If one can prevent kids up to 11 from accessing things they shouldn't and buying things by mistake, that's pretty good.
Yes, it's exactly the same as trying to make things idiot proof. Idiots, and most children, do bad things accidentally, or through lack of understanding of the implications.
Sure, kids can deliberately do things against their parents' wishes, but that's not the usual case. It can be terribly easy for kids to buy stuff without understanding that they did, and if something prevented them from doing it, that would be helpful.