I spend a lot more time by my phone than I do watching TV/listening to radio. Twitter wouldn't have reached me unless DJT tweeted the all-clear, but since the alert reached everyone over their phones that does seem like the right vector for correcting it.
Personally, whenever I get a storm alert I turn on the TV, radio, or get on the internet to stream a local radio or TV station to confirm what's happening and the area that the alert covers. I certainly don't check Twitter as a huge percentage of what's there is false or misleading. Plus, a twitter account is more likely to be hacked than a live news feed.
BTW: practically every vehicle has a radio in it and most local stations offer streaming. The point is that you are a lot closer to a radio for much of the time than you think.
Splitting California's electoral votes is a right wing wet dream. Makes you wonder if it's the Koch family or the Mercers behind this push. Or some combination of billionaires and Russian foreign intelligence.
It's also the wet dream of everyone in the area desiring it, to be free of the oppressive liberal extremism running rampant in Commifornia.
Well, why not go all out. Divide the country into two, that way the conservatives can be in their own country and the Liberals in the other.... Of course, this would lead to another division as some conservatives will still see others as "too liberal" and want their own country... etc....
The real sad thing is that people have forgotten how to talk to each other instead of spouting the party line. For example, I never thought that I would see the day where so many are willing to give up on their morals just for political advancement, and I'm talking about the voters, not the politicians....
Sugarcane is more efficient than corn, but the US doesn't have much land suitable for growing sugarcane that can't be more profitable with another use. I'm talking as someone who grew up in Hawaii.
Switchgrass is more efficient than corn. The problem is that the corn industry, including the seed companies, has too much lobbying power to make the change to another crop.
I can't wait for driverless cars. Not only am I lazy, I'm a geek. Sadly, there's not many geeks left on Slashdot.
But not a car geek, I'm guessing. I think that the technology for self-driving cars is cool. But... I don't see it being perfected for another 20 years. Even then, I, personally, will still need a regular SUV. Why? because I like camping, hiking, and boating (requires towing). Most of which occurs off the beaten path, areas where self-driving cars would be literally stuck in the mud. Beyond that, I actually like driving...
Besides, if you are a true geek you would be more interested in working from home and "going to the office" in a virtual environment, having your groceries and packages delivered by drones, and walking / biking to nearby restaurants, etc.. Basically, eliminating the need for a car... (grin)
I can't understand how this works at all if it's not a viable currency. If bitcoin is not currency, what is the driving force behind owning it?
Play Money. Think of the various money bubbles like the dotcom, or housing bubbles.
It's not actually real money. While bitcoin suffers from being less tangible, otherwise it is vapor. A few people will make out well when the bubble is breaking, the rest? Not so well.
Money itself is a virtual concept. But, as far as bitcoin is concerned, as long as people can exchange bitcoin for more accepted currency it is "real money", even if the transaction fees are high.
There are three ways this can go: Bitcoin becomes fully accepted, Bitcoin value drops to nothing (even if you can still exchange it), or Bitcoin becomes worthless through lack of ability to exchange it for anything of real value. My guess is that Bitcoin will devalue as banks come up with their own version of E-Coin.
Democrats are with Democrats, even when they take huge sums of money from rapists.
Glass houses.... Sadly, that's both sides in this political environment. It no longer matters who you keep company with politically, just as long as they are on your side and supporting your agenda.
One size fits all is almost never appropriate. I know I'm most productive at the start of the morning before people start interrupting me for questions, and usually through a good part of the afternoon before 4 PM.
Not me. I work for an international company with the main office being in EMEA and with our team being global. Which means that the majority of my mornings (afternoons in Europe) are taken up by early morning meetings, usually from 8:00am to noon. Tuesday's and Thursdays are completely taken up by meetings.
I am the most productive on Wednesdays as it's one of the only full days that I have no meetings scheduled. Friday comes in second place. So, for me, it's pretty close.
The results may not exactly fit everyone, it's very rare that averages do. What it does do is give a sense of just how much time is sucked away by various office and corporate activities, distractions, etc. that takes away productive time. From that perspective, it's an interesting study and one that might help people think about ways to reduce or eliminate time sucking activities.
For example, we all have meetings that we don't need to attend or where we are added "just in case". Eliminating some, stacking others on a single day, or giving specific times that you will join the meeting (i.e. for a 30 minute period, rather than the full 1 to 2 hours) might help free up time to get more done.
Lots of people will tell you that adverts have no effect on them,
These are the kind of people that advertising has the best effect on. People who refuse to believe they can be influenced.
Advertising has a huge effect on me, which is why I go out of my way to avoid/block it. However because I'm concious of the effect, I can control it somewhat. In fact I have a list of brands I'll never buy because one of their ads has really annoyed me.
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It depends on your personality. Some people are more open to suggestion than others. Hypnotism in magic acts is one example of this. Some people are easily "hypnotized" while others, like myself, are so skeptical and grounded in reality that it just doesn't work. Advertising is similar. It works on some people much better than others.
Advertising has a minor effect on me. It makes me aware of products that I didn't know about and I tend to notice Ads for products that I've already bought, especially expensive items (part of the post purchase confirmation bias). Beyond that, I always assume that everything in an Ad is a lie in some form or another. Perhaps this is because I understand how marketing works from having a Business Degree and am aware of the techniques being deployed.
In many ways, advertising is a lot like "fake news". A little bit of skepticism goes a long way....
I am not sure its true. Desktop sales may be dwindling, but that is what you expect when the useful life of a machine is extending from three to ten years*, and the market was already saturated. If you want a desktop, you probably already have one. Even in the third world. However, that might well be 20 billion desktops, and in ten years time, may well be 22 billion desktops.
A desktop is NOT a tablet. Just like an SUV is NOT a motorbike. They solve different problems.
And really, the problem is not KDE is different from Gnome, any more than there is a problem that Ford is not Nissan. There may be a problem that granny can't tell a Ford from a Nissan, but my 90 year old Mum refused to use a Windows machine. She wanted a Mac. My sister in law said "My computer is all messed up -can you fix it?" and I looked at it. It had installed Windows 10 while she was asleep, and was having a booting frenzy as it installed a million "updates". I said No. "I cant fix that. If you like, I can install Linux like I use". She said "I thought your machine was much more expensive than mine. I said "No, it was much cheaper". She agreed to have Linux on it, and has used it happily ever since. If she wants to print something, she emails it to me, like she always did. She has her own printer, but the ink dried up from lack of use in 2014.
*The last place I worked had quite a number of machines that were approaching their 11th birthday. We joked that they were now old enough for secondary school. I think the company gave then all 10/100 Ethernet cards as birthday presents.
I upgraded my Dad's computer to Windows 10 and installed Start10. It looks the same as Windows 7. He doesn't notice the difference and can print off his own stuff... grin
"A bit inconvenienced". Sure. Tell that to your kid on Christmas eve when you don't have the toy he sooooo wanted because Amazon shipped it in a cardboard box and the delivery guy wanted to find out whether he can punt it directly to your door.
Well, if they are doing it right they will do it during non-critical times of the year per regional custom. For example, the programmers and business representatives should be smart enough to have package testing disabled during the Christmas rush in the US. Yes, this could affect things like birthdays, but you only need a few purchases of the same toy for it to learn the optimal solution. You'll end up pissing off a few customers but it should be optimized by the Christmas rush.
I don't have a vest, so no vest pockets. The phone won't fit in the front pockets of the jeans and my shirts don't have pockets. I don't want to wear a little holster for it or carry a satchel/knapsack/murse/purse. What to do?
Buy real jeans... or step it up a bit and buy dockers with "mobile" pockets...
Perhaps I am too old, but I just don't get the point of these devices. Security and privacy aside, what do they do that my cell phone cannot? All this cool automation stuff they show on TV requires Hundreds of dollars of equipment, that is replacing, perfectly good existing equipment with a little extra benefit, being worth the price. But to add to the real kicker, nearly all these extra devices can just as easily bet setup on your cell phone. Where there is a speaker where you can asks the same commands and get the same responses.
If these devices also doubled as a high-quality wi-fi router and perhaps had a few plugs in the back to plug in a light switch it may be more worth it.
For me, I like being able to mute the TV or turn it on/off from across the room when the remote isn't handy or when my hands are full. I already had the Harmony hub and remote, all I needed to do is add the Amazon Echo and I got the Echo for free (special promotion the first year it was out). I primarily use it for controlling the TV but I've also started using it to tell me when the next sports game is scheduled, to set timers for cooking, and to play radio stations on Tunein, all via voice control.
The basic benefit is that you can control things, get information, or simply play tunes via voice control when your hands are full or you don't have your phone/remote handy. Are the possible privacy issues worth the added convenience? Each person will have to decide on their own.
Australians are used to being shafted on price (aka the 'Australia tax') and many of us are used to shopping on overseas sites (via VPN if needed) using shipping forwarder services and the like.
What people want from Amazon AU is basically Amazon US, but local. This doesn't appear to be what we've got here.
Sounds just like the Canadian version, Amazon.ca, which is severely limited in comparison to the US version.
I live in the US but my relatives are back in Canada. I would love to be able to buy presents on Amazon.ca and have them shipped locally in Canada rather than buying them in the US and driving them across the border. Amazon.com is cheaper, even after paying taxes, and has almost an infinitely larger selection of items.
2) You act like it's a bad thing to have an ability to greatly (2-3x) increase your range, something you don't have with ICE vehicles.
It's called a gas can. All you have to do is fill one and stick in the back. Other options includes a siphon to get gas from another ICE vehicle (car, boat, 4-wheeler, lawn tractor, etc.). Beyond that you can increase mileage in an ICE car by going slower speeds and turning off electronics. Not to the extent of an electric, but ICE cars do not have to go as far to find a fueling spot if low on gas...
And the person he lands on? Is that Darwinism at work?
This reminded me of the advice that when hiring people, you should divide the CVs into two piles and throw one of them away. Because you don't wan't to hire people with bad luck, of course. You want people with bad luck to live?
What if you, the hiring manager, is the one with bad luck?
Do you decide to take the "good luck" pile? Or maybe the "bad luck" pile hoping that will cancel out your bad luck...
Or... do you realize that you are screwed anyway because HR advertised the job with impossible requirements at an arbitrarily low salary....
BTW: This guy has already done a few things that could have easily killed him. The fact that he is still alive seem to indicate that he at least has some "blind luck" on his side.
You're free to think what you wish, but Matt.Battey didn't offer your qualifications. When you find yourself having to invent a bunch of qualifications to support your argument you may have a faulty argument.
Financial institutions have been using ML to detect fraud for years. Every large credit card transaction you make is scrutinized by AI systems to detect fraud. Insurance claims and tax returns are also being analyzed by ML systems. This is an argument from ignorance.
Matt Brattely's reply was to the topic and the article. The point of the article was that ML and AI was being used to develop a large amount of software that most people wouldn't recognize as being a use case for ML or AI. It doesn't take a genius to reach a logical conclusion that while he may not have stated this qualification up front, it's implied.
Yes, banks, etc. are probably using DL to detect fraud (another obvious use case). But that's not what I meant by Financial software. I mean things like Tax Software, Accounts Payable, Receivables, etc. which you totally missed because you were more interested at getting your screed down than actually contributing.
Besides, whether I am right in my assumptions or not it's still a valid question. What are Google using AI and DL for that are non-obvious use cases?
I think that he meant an everyday example like building better accounting software not something that would obviously benefit from deep learning like language tools.
Language tools are an obvious use for deep learning. Especially when users/contributors can tweak the context of words and idioms that do not directly translate very well into words and may require some cultural knowledge for proper use in sentences.
Something like accounting software would be hard to visualize using deep learning since the outcome is pure calculation. And argument could be made that deep learning would be suited to tax software for optimizing the reduction of your tax bill, through various what-if scenarios, and perhaps in keeping the rules updated.
"Your assuming that watching or listening to Netflix in the background is a problem in the first place."
You're supposed to be working, period. If you're WATCHING something other than your job and you are not on your legally-required break periods, you aren't doing your fucking job.
"You have a very limited view of what IT does, I hope you don't work in it."
Meanwhile, you aren't competent enough to work IT period with your current mindset.
Um, no... Some people have a job which requires doing very little a lot of the time with periods of activity. For example, Fire Fighters aren't actively working 100% of the time that they are on the job.
Yes, I'm sure that a percentage of the binge watchers are simply slacking but you can't paint them all with the same brush unless you know what the actual job is.
I've upgraded to 57 on my primary system and my work system.
KeePass works fine and NoScript should be available soon. The one add-on that I use a lot that does not work with it is Capture & Print. I have a workaround, but this add-on did exactly what I wanted with no extra bells or whistles. I'm crossing my fingers that it will be updated as well.
As for Firefox itself, I don't like that they moved the refresh button to the left of the URL. I preferred it on the right. The GUI is now more inline with the Windows 10 UI and other flat minimal style GUIs which I'm now used to. Pages load fine and I haven't had any problems with it yet.
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Try calling the radio and tv stations.
I spend a lot more time by my phone than I do watching TV/listening to radio. Twitter wouldn't have reached me unless DJT tweeted the all-clear, but since the alert reached everyone over their phones that does seem like the right vector for correcting it.
Personally, whenever I get a storm alert I turn on the TV, radio, or get on the internet to stream a local radio or TV station to confirm what's happening and the area that the alert covers. I certainly don't check Twitter as a huge percentage of what's there is false or misleading. Plus, a twitter account is more likely to be hacked than a live news feed.
BTW: practically every vehicle has a radio in it and most local stations offer streaming. The point is that you are a lot closer to a radio for much of the time than you think.
Splitting California's electoral votes is a right wing wet dream. Makes you wonder if it's the Koch family or the Mercers behind this push. Or some combination of billionaires and Russian foreign intelligence.
It's also the wet dream of everyone in the area desiring it, to be free of the oppressive liberal extremism running rampant in Commifornia.
Well, why not go all out. Divide the country into two, that way the conservatives can be in their own country and the Liberals in the other.... Of course, this would lead to another division as some conservatives will still see others as "too liberal" and want their own country... etc....
The real sad thing is that people have forgotten how to talk to each other instead of spouting the party line. For example, I never thought that I would see the day where so many are willing to give up on their morals just for political advancement, and I'm talking about the voters, not the politicians....
Sugarcane, see Brazil
Sugarcane is more efficient than corn, but the US doesn't have much land suitable for growing sugarcane that can't be more profitable with another use. I'm talking as someone who grew up in Hawaii.
Switchgrass is more efficient than corn. The problem is that the corn industry, including the seed companies, has too much lobbying power to make the change to another crop.
https://www.scientificamerican...
I can't wait for driverless cars. Not only am I lazy, I'm a geek.
Sadly, there's not many geeks left on Slashdot.
But not a car geek, I'm guessing. I think that the technology for self-driving cars is cool. But... I don't see it being perfected for another 20 years. Even then, I, personally, will still need a regular SUV. Why? because I like camping, hiking, and boating (requires towing). Most of which occurs off the beaten path, areas where self-driving cars would be literally stuck in the mud. Beyond that, I actually like driving...
Besides, if you are a true geek you would be more interested in working from home and "going to the office" in a virtual environment, having your groceries and packages delivered by drones, and walking / biking to nearby restaurants, etc.. Basically, eliminating the need for a car... (grin)
I can't understand how this works at all if it's not a viable currency. If bitcoin is not currency, what is the driving force behind owning it?
Play Money. Think of the various money bubbles like the dotcom, or housing bubbles.
It's not actually real money. While bitcoin suffers from being less tangible, otherwise it is vapor. A few people will make out well when the bubble is breaking, the rest? Not so well.
Money itself is a virtual concept. But, as far as bitcoin is concerned, as long as people can exchange bitcoin for more accepted currency it is "real money", even if the transaction fees are high.
There are three ways this can go: Bitcoin becomes fully accepted, Bitcoin value drops to nothing (even if you can still exchange it), or Bitcoin becomes worthless through lack of ability to exchange it for anything of real value. My guess is that Bitcoin will devalue as banks come up with their own version of E-Coin.
And then, because overfishing is bad, NYC should ban fish sales and consumption, right?
I think that you forget that some fish comes from fish farms...
Democrats are with Democrats, even when they take huge sums of money from rapists.
Glass houses.... Sadly, that's both sides in this political environment. It no longer matters who you keep company with politically, just as long as they are on your side and supporting your agenda.
One size fits all is almost never appropriate. I know I'm most productive at the start of the morning before people start interrupting me for questions, and usually through a good part of the afternoon before 4 PM.
Not me. I work for an international company with the main office being in EMEA and with our team being global. Which means that the majority of my mornings (afternoons in Europe) are taken up by early morning meetings, usually from 8:00am to noon. Tuesday's and Thursdays are completely taken up by meetings.
I am the most productive on Wednesdays as it's one of the only full days that I have no meetings scheduled. Friday comes in second place. So, for me, it's pretty close.
The results may not exactly fit everyone, it's very rare that averages do. What it does do is give a sense of just how much time is sucked away by various office and corporate activities, distractions, etc. that takes away productive time. From that perspective, it's an interesting study and one that might help people think about ways to reduce or eliminate time sucking activities.
For example, we all have meetings that we don't need to attend or where we are added "just in case". Eliminating some, stacking others on a single day, or giving specific times that you will join the meeting (i.e. for a 30 minute period, rather than the full 1 to 2 hours) might help free up time to get more done.
Lots of people will tell you that adverts have no effect on them,
These are the kind of people that advertising has the best effect on. People who refuse to believe they can be influenced.
Advertising has a huge effect on me, which is why I go out of my way to avoid/block it. However because I'm concious of the effect, I can control it somewhat. In fact I have a list of brands I'll never buy because one of their ads has really annoyed me.
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It depends on your personality. Some people are more open to suggestion than others. Hypnotism in magic acts is one example of this. Some people are easily "hypnotized" while others, like myself, are so skeptical and grounded in reality that it just doesn't work. Advertising is similar. It works on some people much better than others.
Advertising has a minor effect on me. It makes me aware of products that I didn't know about and I tend to notice Ads for products that I've already bought, especially expensive items (part of the post purchase confirmation bias). Beyond that, I always assume that everything in an Ad is a lie in some form or another. Perhaps this is because I understand how marketing works from having a Business Degree and am aware of the techniques being deployed.
In many ways, advertising is a lot like "fake news". A little bit of skepticism goes a long way....
The Earth being flat is easy to disprove.
If the Earth is round, which way is down?
Up and down are relativistic terms based on perspective and have no bearing on defining other properties.
Books: Black Widow and House of Spies by Daniel Silva
Film: John Wick Chapter 2
TV: haha, none
Netflix: Godless
Personal use of desktops is crashing.
I am not sure its true. Desktop sales may be dwindling, but that is what you expect when the useful life of a machine is extending from three to ten years*, and the market was already saturated. If you want a desktop, you probably already have one. Even in the third world. However, that might well be 20 billion desktops, and in ten years time, may well be 22 billion desktops.
A desktop is NOT a tablet. Just like an SUV is NOT a motorbike. They solve different problems.
And really, the problem is not KDE is different from Gnome, any more than there is a problem that Ford is not Nissan. There may be a problem that granny can't tell a Ford from a Nissan, but my 90 year old Mum refused to use a Windows machine. She wanted a Mac. My sister in law said "My computer is all messed up -can you fix it?" and I looked at it. It had installed Windows 10 while she was asleep, and was having a booting frenzy as it installed a million "updates". I said No. "I cant fix that. If you like, I can install Linux like I use". She said "I thought your machine was much more expensive than mine. I said "No, it was much cheaper". She agreed to have Linux on it, and has used it happily ever since. If she wants to print something, she emails it to me, like she always did. She has her own printer, but the ink dried up from lack of use in 2014.
*The last place I worked had quite a number of machines that were approaching their 11th birthday. We joked that they were now old enough for secondary school. I think the company gave then all 10/100 Ethernet cards as birthday presents.
I upgraded my Dad's computer to Windows 10 and installed Start10. It looks the same as Windows 7. He doesn't notice the difference and can print off his own stuff... grin
"A bit inconvenienced". Sure. Tell that to your kid on Christmas eve when you don't have the toy he sooooo wanted because Amazon shipped it in a cardboard box and the delivery guy wanted to find out whether he can punt it directly to your door.
Well, if they are doing it right they will do it during non-critical times of the year per regional custom. For example, the programmers and business representatives should be smart enough to have package testing disabled during the Christmas rush in the US. Yes, this could affect things like birthdays, but you only need a few purchases of the same toy for it to learn the optimal solution. You'll end up pissing off a few customers but it should be optimized by the Christmas rush.
This is probably just the beginning.
Next step is to create a robot to shew away robots...
I don't have a vest, so no vest pockets. The phone won't fit in the front pockets of the jeans and my shirts don't have pockets. I don't want to wear a little holster for it or carry a satchel/knapsack/murse/purse. What to do?
Buy real jeans... or step it up a bit and buy dockers with "mobile" pockets...
Perhaps I am too old, but I just don't get the point of these devices. Security and privacy aside, what do they do that my cell phone cannot? All this cool automation stuff they show on TV requires Hundreds of dollars of equipment, that is replacing, perfectly good existing equipment with a little extra benefit, being worth the price. But to add to the real kicker, nearly all these extra devices can just as easily bet setup on your cell phone. Where there is a speaker where you can asks the same commands and get the same responses.
If these devices also doubled as a high-quality wi-fi router and perhaps had a few plugs in the back to plug in a light switch it may be more worth it.
For me, I like being able to mute the TV or turn it on/off from across the room when the remote isn't handy or when my hands are full. I already had the Harmony hub and remote, all I needed to do is add the Amazon Echo and I got the Echo for free (special promotion the first year it was out). I primarily use it for controlling the TV but I've also started using it to tell me when the next sports game is scheduled, to set timers for cooking, and to play radio stations on Tunein, all via voice control.
The basic benefit is that you can control things, get information, or simply play tunes via voice control when your hands are full or you don't have your phone/remote handy. Are the possible privacy issues worth the added convenience? Each person will have to decide on their own.
Sorry Amazon, but you are going to have to try harder if you want our money:
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/12/amazon-australia-launch-most-of-the-prices-suck/
Australians are used to being shafted on price (aka the 'Australia tax') and many of us are used to shopping on overseas sites (via VPN if needed) using shipping forwarder services and the like.
What people want from Amazon AU is basically Amazon US, but local. This doesn't appear to be what we've got here.
Sounds just like the Canadian version, Amazon.ca, which is severely limited in comparison to the US version.
I live in the US but my relatives are back in Canada. I would love to be able to buy presents on Amazon.ca and have them shipped locally in Canada rather than buying them in the US and driving them across the border. Amazon.com is cheaper, even after paying taxes, and has almost an infinitely larger selection of items.
2) You act like it's a bad thing to have an ability to greatly (2-3x) increase your range, something you don't have with ICE vehicles.
It's called a gas can. All you have to do is fill one and stick in the back. Other options includes a siphon to get gas from another ICE vehicle (car, boat, 4-wheeler, lawn tractor, etc.). Beyond that you can increase mileage in an ICE car by going slower speeds and turning off electronics. Not to the extent of an electric, but ICE cars do not have to go as far to find a fueling spot if low on gas...
And the person he lands on? Is that Darwinism at work?
This reminded me of the advice that when hiring people, you should divide the CVs into two piles and throw one of them away. Because you don't wan't to hire people with bad luck, of course. You want people with bad luck to live?
What if you, the hiring manager, is the one with bad luck?
Do you decide to take the "good luck" pile? Or maybe the "bad luck" pile hoping that will cancel out your bad luck...
Or... do you realize that you are screwed anyway because HR advertised the job with impossible requirements at an arbitrarily low salary....
BTW: This guy has already done a few things that could have easily killed him. The fact that he is still alive seem to indicate that he at least has some "blind luck" on his side.
I think that he meant
You're free to think what you wish, but Matt.Battey didn't offer your qualifications. When you find yourself having to invent a bunch of qualifications to support your argument you may have a faulty argument.
Financial institutions have been using ML to detect fraud for years. Every large credit card transaction you make is scrutinized by AI systems to detect fraud. Insurance claims and tax returns are also being analyzed by ML systems. This is an argument from ignorance.
Matt Brattely's reply was to the topic and the article. The point of the article was that ML and AI was being used to develop a large amount of software that most people wouldn't recognize as being a use case for ML or AI. It doesn't take a genius to reach a logical conclusion that while he may not have stated this qualification up front, it's implied.
Yes, banks, etc. are probably using DL to detect fraud (another obvious use case). But that's not what I meant by Financial software. I mean things like Tax Software, Accounts Payable, Receivables, etc. which you totally missed because you were more interested at getting your screed down than actually contributing.
Besides, whether I am right in my assumptions or not it's still a valid question. What are Google using AI and DL for that are non-obvious use cases?
Google translate: https://www.nature.com/news/de...
I think that he meant an everyday example like building better accounting software not something that would obviously benefit from deep learning like language tools.
Language tools are an obvious use for deep learning. Especially when users/contributors can tweak the context of words and idioms that do not directly translate very well into words and may require some cultural knowledge for proper use in sentences.
Something like accounting software would be hard to visualize using deep learning since the outcome is pure calculation. And argument could be made that deep learning would be suited to tax software for optimizing the reduction of your tax bill, through various what-if scenarios, and perhaps in keeping the rules updated.
Forests and jungle are being cut down to raise cows and cow feed.
Stop eating cows and this will revert to a carbon sink.
So you're saying that we should "eat mor chikin".... (grin)
"Your assuming that watching or listening to Netflix in the background is a problem in the first place."
You're supposed to be working, period. If you're WATCHING something other than your job and you are not on your legally-required break periods, you aren't doing your fucking job.
"You have a very limited view of what IT does, I hope you don't work in it."
Meanwhile, you aren't competent enough to work IT period with your current mindset.
Um, no... Some people have a job which requires doing very little a lot of the time with periods of activity. For example, Fire Fighters aren't actively working 100% of the time that they are on the job.
Yes, I'm sure that a percentage of the binge watchers are simply slacking but you can't paint them all with the same brush unless you know what the actual job is.
I don't like that they moved the refresh button to the left of the URL. I preferred it on the right.
The Refresh button is now outside the URL bar and you can move it via the Customize screen like some of the other UI buttons.
Cool!! Thanks for the tip!!
I've upgraded to 57 on my primary system and my work system.
KeePass works fine and NoScript should be available soon. The one add-on that I use a lot that does not work with it is Capture & Print. I have a workaround, but this add-on did exactly what I wanted with no extra bells or whistles. I'm crossing my fingers that it will be updated as well.
As for Firefox itself, I don't like that they moved the refresh button to the left of the URL. I preferred it on the right. The GUI is now more inline with the Windows 10 UI and other flat minimal style GUIs which I'm now used to. Pages load fine and I haven't had any problems with it yet.