Its sort of created a an economic revolution in some poor African countries which hand minimal communications and banking before cellphones. Now a small businessman, e.g. farmer or sewing-women, can accumulate the profits of previous labor and use it to finance future endevors without scrouncing for loans. It was also hard to accumulate currency around the family-hut, assuming you had any. Beacuse petty theft and small emergencies consumed it quickly. Cell-banking has spread to Asia and now the Americas.
Through the ups and downs of economic cycles. Then around 1980 personal CDs and money market accounts came along with much higher interest rates, typically related tot he Fed short-term rate. Then most banks switched to these rates, which have been about zero for the past six years.
The first CDs and money markets had high minimum balances, about $50K in 2010 inflated money. It took me years to save up enough for my first in the 1980s. Plus they had large early cash-in penalties- typically a half-years interest. You could write that off of taxes however.
I think it was the computerization of banks that allowed interest rate flexibility. before then your passbook was the main record - you dare not lose it. It was more up to date than the bank records.
For up to five years. Not the first time you bounce a check. But do it a half dozen times and no bank will take you for up to five years no matter how much money you have.
Most modern Chinese technical terms have two to four syllables. Some of these syllables are meaningful words, while others are phonetic "sounds-like" of a foreign word. "Wei" means micro. "Bo" sounds-like blog. Often an acronym-like word is created from one syllable from a phrase of words (usally the first syllable of each word). Sometimes you get acronyms of acronyms nested several times deep (possible in English too).
Bitcoin shows it can. But bitcoin itself is probably not the best implementation of this concept due to its flaws like currency lost and glacial trading times.
As you automate for decisions for one reason or another, of machine that coukld harm humans, then the questionof liabilility becomes an issue. Medical assistant machines, like cancer radiation machines, have been in the news. Sometimes their programming has been in error despite a lot of preventive development. You cant just write it all off with a disclaimer.
You will turn you car over to the "hive mind" to get lower tolls on the expressways. In addition you are likely to get higher speeds, lower gas cost and greater safety. The cowboys will still have non-automated lanes to try to drive faster, but that may be unlikely.
Thank God the US Constitution doesnt prescribe a legal language or there was a good chance it could have been German at that time. But there are defacto languages of government used in legal precedents and communicating legislation with citizens. Klingon is not one of them.
Could the App be considered in a small sense an A.I. practicing medicine if it makes decisions and gives advice? Who gets the blame if something suddenly goes wrong or there is a gradual worsening? Plenty of other computer programs give advice, but are not as consequencial as a medical decision. Does the programmer or medical expert adviser share some of the blame? Where do you draw the line between looking up something in a manual versus actually having a decision made for you?
The US banned NASA from cooperating with Chinese space program, especially the ISS, due to China's tendency to steal technology. Much space technology has military applications. There was an embarassing incident this year when Chinese scientists were temprarily banned from a US exoplanet conference because NASA was involved.
But its time to do joint government science projects now. Two groups together can accomplish more together than separately.
Mainly climate activists and a few professors to observe the effects of global warming first hand. The "real scientists" started their annual research projects in October at the begining of Antarctic spring. (delayed a few weeks by the US government shutdown)
Both poles have been cooler than average the last year with a lot more ice. The long term trend at least in the north still appears to be warming.
Several eyars back MicroSoft toyed with the FlipBook tablet - two page-size tablets side-by-side and foldable. You could fold it to fit into a purse or briefcase. An author could make one tablet text dominant and the other graphics dominant.
Barnes and Noble had similar split screen tablet at one time, except one screen was LCD and the other e-paper employing the advantages of each.
Nearly all of my desktops the past 15 years have had 2 or 3 full size screens. I put code on one side and the applciation on the other.
Or browser on one side and text terminals on the other.
The decline of traditional journalism using multiple sources and editors is the other side of this coin. Watch the movie All the Presidents Men for how they did it in the classic days of journalism. They could not print a story without a second source, even if it was a secret source like Deep Throat. These days, half of tweeted article turn out wrong, een if they are distributed much faster. Basically I wat to see it in the NY Times or Washington Post before I believe something.
MIT Prof Peter Hagelstein, one of the rare true believers in battery-type cold fusion is teaching his cold fusion seminar again. Just about everyone else in academia does not believe him. Peter has done brilliant work in other subjects such as Xray lasers, so MIT tolerates him.
They've been planning a return mission for decades. A Mars sample return mission would be the most elaborate and expensive NASA had ever planned, not including new technology cost overruns which nearly doubled Curiosity's cost, and delayed it one launch cycle. The Mars exploration program was even terminated from NASA's budget last year as a punishment, untill partially restored.
The latest proposed sample mission would invovle three sub-missions; (1) A lander-rover to collect the rockets; (2) a lander-launcher to collect the samples and put them in orbit; (3) A third slingshot mission to retrieve the orbiter. This would involve less fuel weight cost than an all-in-one mission. We dont even have a powerful enough enough rocket to launch an all-in-one mission. A probablem with tis elaborate mission is more new technology to develop with unpredicatable cost. And more steps that could fail.
NASA and the space community classify proposed missions into three categories: (1) grand over $2B, (2) quick ($1/3B), and average (inbetween). They had about a hundred excellent missions of all kinds proposed in the most recent decadanal planning. But were unable to fund even a single grand, and just a couple average.
They are usually meant as bridge while waiting for a heart transplant. But for one reason or another the patient never get son the list or transplant. Then the LVAD becomes a defacto long term terminal artificial heart.
- There are crazy stock valuations of computer companies that have almost no revenue.
- People claim that everyone should write computer software including those with minimal STEM background and minmal interest in such.
- When crazy articles about computer science racism starting appearing.
NASA was starved into irrelevance long ago. Both policitcal sides find reasons to starve it further. "Takes away from social programs" 'Increases the deficit"
I am not sure why, since there is not action stated. We also get baraged by pro-drilling and anti-fracking ads too. They may drilll 10,000 wellls in Colorado next year.
A binary counting system is infinitely extensible. English plus both other language have plenty of "two idioms" in them that reflect out bilateral bodies or interaction with just one other person. For example a pair of pants, shoes, glasses. These idioms make sense in the singular. I hear some Semetic languages have gramatical cases just for twoness. For example a word for "our" just for couples.
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Its sort of created a an economic revolution in some poor African countries which hand minimal communications and banking before cellphones. Now a small businessman, e.g. farmer or sewing-women, can accumulate the profits of previous labor and use it to finance future endevors without scrouncing for loans. It was also hard to accumulate currency around the family-hut, assuming you had any. Beacuse petty theft and small emergencies consumed it quickly. Cell-banking has spread to Asia and now the Americas.
Through the ups and downs of economic cycles. Then around 1980 personal CDs and money market accounts came along with much higher interest rates, typically related tot he Fed short-term rate. Then most banks switched to these rates, which have been about zero for the past six years.
The first CDs and money markets had high minimum balances, about $50K in 2010 inflated money. It took me years to save up enough for my first in the 1980s. Plus they had large early cash-in penalties- typically a half-years interest. You could write that off of taxes however.
I think it was the computerization of banks that allowed interest rate flexibility. before then your passbook was the main record - you dare not lose it. It was more up to date than the bank records.
For up to five years. Not the first time you bounce a check. But do it a half dozen times and no bank will take you for up to five years no matter how much money you have.
Most modern Chinese technical terms have two to four syllables. Some of these syllables are meaningful words, while others are phonetic "sounds-like" of a foreign word. "Wei" means micro. "Bo" sounds-like blog. Often an acronym-like word is created from one syllable from a phrase of words (usally the first syllable of each word). Sometimes you get acronyms of acronyms nested several times deep (possible in English too).
Bitcoin shows it can. But bitcoin itself is probably not the best implementation of this concept due to its flaws like currency lost and glacial trading times.
In fact any sort of arbitrage or derivatives could be a problem with long trade times and different values on different exchanges.
Better to be safe, than never.
As you automate for decisions for one reason or another, of machine that coukld harm humans, then the questionof liabilility becomes an issue. Medical assistant machines, like cancer radiation machines, have been in the news. Sometimes their programming has been in error despite a lot of preventive development. You cant just write it all off with a disclaimer.
You will turn you car over to the "hive mind" to get lower tolls on the expressways. In addition you are likely to get higher speeds, lower gas cost and greater safety. The cowboys will still have non-automated lanes to try to drive faster, but that may be unlikely.
once someone figures out a cost-effective sensor, clever people will figure our new ways of using it
Thank God the US Constitution doesnt prescribe a legal language or there was a good chance it could have been German at that time. But there are defacto languages of government used in legal precedents and communicating legislation with citizens. Klingon is not one of them.
Could the App be considered in a small sense an A.I. practicing medicine if it makes decisions and gives advice? Who gets the blame if something suddenly goes wrong or there is a gradual worsening? Plenty of other computer programs give advice, but are not as consequencial as a medical decision. Does the programmer or medical expert adviser share some of the blame? Where do you draw the line between looking up something in a manual versus actually having a decision made for you?
The US banned NASA from cooperating with Chinese space program, especially the ISS, due to China's tendency to steal technology. Much space technology has military applications. There was an embarassing incident this year when Chinese scientists were temprarily banned from a US exoplanet conference because NASA was involved.
But its time to do joint government science projects now. Two groups together can accomplish more together than separately.
Mainly climate activists and a few professors to observe the effects of global warming first hand. The "real scientists" started their annual research projects in October at the begining of Antarctic spring. (delayed a few weeks by the US government shutdown)
Both poles have been cooler than average the last year with a lot more ice. The long term trend at least in the north still appears to be warming.
Several eyars back MicroSoft toyed with the FlipBook tablet - two page-size tablets side-by-side and foldable. You could fold it to fit into a purse or briefcase. An author could make one tablet text dominant and the other graphics dominant.
Barnes and Noble had similar split screen tablet at one time, except one screen was LCD and the other e-paper employing the advantages of each.
Nearly all of my desktops the past 15 years have had 2 or 3 full size screens. I put code on one side and the applciation on the other. Or browser on one side and text terminals on the other.
The decline of traditional journalism using multiple sources and editors is the other side of this coin. Watch the movie All the Presidents Men for how they did it in the classic days of journalism. They could not print a story without a second source, even if it was a secret source like Deep Throat. These days, half of tweeted article turn out wrong, een if they are distributed much faster. Basically I wat to see it in the NY Times or Washington Post before I believe something.
MIT Prof Peter Hagelstein, one of the rare true believers in battery-type cold fusion is teaching his cold fusion seminar again. Just about everyone else in academia does not believe him. Peter has done brilliant work in other subjects such as Xray lasers, so MIT tolerates him.
They've been planning a return mission for decades. A Mars sample return mission would be the most elaborate and expensive NASA had ever planned, not including new technology cost overruns which nearly doubled Curiosity's cost, and delayed it one launch cycle. The Mars exploration program was even terminated from NASA's budget last year as a punishment, untill partially restored.
The latest proposed sample mission would invovle three sub-missions; (1) A lander-rover to collect the rockets; (2) a lander-launcher to collect the samples and put them in orbit; (3) A third slingshot mission to retrieve the orbiter. This would involve less fuel weight cost than an all-in-one mission. We dont even have a powerful enough enough rocket to launch an all-in-one mission. A probablem with tis elaborate mission is more new technology to develop with unpredicatable cost. And more steps that could fail.
NASA and the space community classify proposed missions into three categories: (1) grand over $2B, (2) quick ($1/3B), and average (inbetween). They had about a hundred excellent missions of all kinds proposed in the most recent decadanal planning. But were unable to fund even a single grand, and just a couple average.
China may do it first.
They are usually meant as bridge while waiting for a heart transplant. But for one reason or another the patient never get son the list or transplant. Then the LVAD becomes a defacto long term terminal artificial heart.
- There are crazy stock valuations of computer companies that have almost no revenue.
- People claim that everyone should write computer software including those with minimal STEM background and minmal interest in such.
- When crazy articles about computer science racism starting appearing.
NASA was starved into irrelevance long ago. Both policitcal sides find reasons to starve it further. "Takes away from social programs" 'Increases the deficit"
I am not sure why, since there is not action stated. We also get baraged by pro-drilling and anti-fracking ads too. They may drilll 10,000 wellls in Colorado next year.
A binary counting system is infinitely extensible. English plus both other language have plenty of "two idioms" in them that reflect out bilateral bodies or interaction with just one other person. For example a pair of pants, shoes, glasses. These idioms make sense in the singular. I hear some Semetic languages have gramatical cases just for twoness. For example a word for "our" just for couples.
Public opinion will turn on a hairpin when there is a serious teror attack - not the script-kiddie type we saw just a few months ago in Boston.
FB and Google are far more insidious in what they collect and how they use it.