Two years, huh? Maybe the person who actually knew anything about image recognition was a rightwinger. Upon finding out, Google naturally declared him an irredeemable bigot and ran him out (or just plain disappeared him, if Damore's lawsuit is any indication of how those fascists actually tick), and now no one knows how to fix it. Or maybe someone does and won't out of spite.
See what happens when you run an SJW business and people find out? The pot-shots and inuendo just write themselves at your expense, comrades.
We could dangle financial success as the motivator for getting good talent over here. That's always been understood to be a temporary thing given that the rest of the world can only get richer. Passing laws over here that encouraged outsourcing wealth-generating industries like manufacturing to there hurried that along faster than was good for America, however.
"No worries!" proclaimed the coastal elistists, "for American freedom entices the whole world to flock here!" Well, in principle yes. But given the way Big Tech in Silicon Valley seems to be about as open and tolerance as Mao's China or Pol Pot's Cambodia (that's not as big of an exaggeration as it used to be, for you can now be fired and blacklisted from tech for your politics), we can't really claim that as an advantage either.
So let's look inward and ask ourselves an honest question: We've got money, we've got clean air and "green" but they also have money, and the comfort of the home culture and neither one of us has more freedom than the other, and while their schools don't measure up to ours (yet), our schools are at best a decade from all turning into Evergreen State. Berkeley has already fallen down that moronic rabbit hole. What do we do to make America a desirable place to be again? This is a practical question. The foreigners with means to leave are the canaries in the coal mine. Listen carefully and you'll hear people who already have power and influence (cough Bernie Sanders, cough cough) itching for policies that will turn this place into Venezuela. Venezuela used to be rich and no one would have thought twenty years ago that it would go so far down in such a short amount of time.
"FEM/FEA and CAD software" is not a substitute for engineering knowledge. It is possible to use it incorrectly, to misinterpret the results, to misrepresent or ignore results you don't like because they'll eat into your profit margin or damage your reputation, and anything in between. It is also possible for the software to have been written incorrectly from the beginning. Engineering judgement is required to determine whether a piece of software is appropriate to use for any project. Google Sketchup is fine for a garage project, not to build a skyscraper.
No one writes 'No record.' What happens is that there is no record kept. While in practice this ought not happen with advising and schedule constraints and the like, it is theoretically possible to flunk a core course in the major once, or even twice, pass it the last time, and have 'Pass' appear on the transcript with no one the wiser that the person failed.
Yeah, and keep going down that road and you won't even need to be literate to get a medical degree or a PE license. How's the prospect of being operated on a by surgeon who didn't opt to take the medical license exam but nontheless feels his ability to make a positive contribution shouldn't be predicated on a single number sound to you? Wanna live in a building designed by a person who's grasp of calculus isn't necessarily quantified, but who definitely has the right aura?
Yet another assault on the idea that you can objectively measure reality, that some people are more suited to success than others, and that hard work yields tangible benefits. Oh, and you get to entice more lazy coddled to take on mountains of debt to feed the academic industrial complex. And then ten years after you've got indebted rabble to rouse against a Them that can be anything from moneylenders, The Patriarchy(TM), or just about anyone with their head planted squarely on their shoulders who made all the right choices in life and isn't drowning under the consequences of the past delusions. Disgusting.
Where to start? Here's a few off the top of my head:
1. Petrochemicals are not just used for fuel, they are used to make plastics, fertilizer, and other chemicals (and medicines) that make modern standards of living possible, and prop up the lifestyle of every single New Yorker, from limousine liberal Manhattanite to hipster-doofus Brooklynite and everyone in between.
2. Most CO2 come from burning coal, not oil, and not in Western countries.
3. As others point out, as admitted shareholders, NYC is suing itself here. Great use of taxpayer dollars.
4. Global warming is a hoax. Given the fervor of the lefties about it in recent months, I'm honestly starting to believe that even the science is a hoax, not just the politics of it. Really. Honest to God.
No, insisting on proof of a negative statement while asserting that conclusions drawn from noise and amped up by politics are proof of a positive is what makes you a zealot. The asking for evidence makes you an honest skeptic. I encourage it.
My memory's fuzzy on the subject, but I believe a large class of array objects in java have their sizes fixed at instantiation allowing the virtual machine to optimize around some of these checks at runtime. Don't really know enough about Go to say anything, but my default guess is that restrictiveness in the language helps performance in these cases.
No,I understand it all quite well. Including the part about what noise, unmodeled physics, overfitting, and false confidence are. You, dear friend, don't seem to understand the difference between extrapolation, prior estimates, and posterior analysis, for one thing.
While I watch as about a foot of global warming slowly melts after the second longest deep freeze on record slowly lifts, I will also point out that if last year was colder than. 2012 and 2014, an equally valid guess is that those two years were a peak. But the operative word here is "guess." Wait a few more decades for a few more solar cycles to elapse and then you can do some dispassionate analysis. Strangely enough, it's from the humanities that we can take a lesson here: the historians have understood for quite a while that anything more recent than a few decades ago cannot be evaluated objectively.
Everything within the framework of what's legal and in line with our values as a free society. I wouldn't entertain a debate about things like nationalization of all industries and business to ensure uniformity of wages, for example, because those alternatives, while possibly effective, are not in line with how we do things in this country.
Yes, there is. The First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee freedom of speech and equal enforcement of all laws, and subsequent court rulings have applied those protections to include state laws and local ordinances as well as federal laws. Private companies do not have such restrictions on what they can or cannot allows their employees to say while on the clock but there are laws on the books against discrimination in hiring and firing decisions and we generally expect our businesses to hew to the spirit of freedom espoused by our laws rather than acting in a way that is antithetical to them.
It is a myth being sold to cover up yet another governmental power-grab. Equal pay for equal performance is the only possible outcome in anything resembling a free market. If a woman could be payed less for the same job, there would be near 100% male unemployment in just about every job besides sperm donor. Any aggregate disparaties between wages of *all* men and *all* women are the outcomes of individual choices made by consenting adults evaluating what's best for them in terms of career and life outside of work and any disparties if compensation for the same job title are largely the result of individual choices about the level of effort and amount of brownnosing applied to the job as opposed to having a life outside of work.
No, the US couldn't do this. Compensation agreements are a matter of consent between private parties and many businesses (and many individuals) view that information as a trade secret or an equivalent. Forcing its disclosure for all employment agreements would cost private citizens and private businesses a competitive advantage and thus revenue, in violation of the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Also: WTF? Not all people perform the same quality of work in the same job category. In some white-collar jobs, it even defies quantification with GS ratings. So what a regulation like that would do (if it were even lawful, which it's not) is destroy fairness by preventing performance-based pay, destroy any incentive structure a business might have for motivating employees, and impose an additional paperwork burden that a) no one in government would even pay attention too since it would be a flood of information but also b) open up employers to liability and capricious enforcement from politically motivated government appointees and grandstanding politicians and bureaucrats looking to score points.
This is a horrible idea that will create chaos without solving anything. Do you work for the federal government? Have you ever had a real job in the private sector? Do you have any understanding of how business works or any respect for the idea that government's job is to serve its citizens and not to harass them? How in the world could you think this was a good idea?
You're on your lunchtime high, right? The free market allows you to have a practical choice between Microsoft, Apple, Ubuntu, Redhat, any of a dozen flavors of fully open-source/free Linux, BSD, EComStation (PS/2...remember that?) running on hardware from dozens of manufacturers using CPUs from a half-dozen or so big chipmakers. In Soviet Russia, on the other hand, you use an abacus. If you need to do paper-and-pencil arithmetic, you're fucked because there's a paper shortage.
Safety checks and transparent abstractions cost cycles and memory accesses.
try{
for(i=0; i<10; i++){
if(i<0 || > a->length){
throw(zOMGEXception);
}
a->data[i] = i;
}
catch(){ //The programmer has to state this explicitly or it's a silent runtime error. //The language feature doesn't relieve you of any responsibility
}
If the cost of switching, porting, or retraining is less than the cost of paying for 'data center grade' hardware, then Nvidia does have something to worry about. PHBs would do well to remember that unlike consumer-grade products, when they sell to tech firms, their customers are also their competition and they will engineer their way around your revenue stream if you tighten the screws too hard and too fast.
Texas Instruments learned this the hard way with Commodore and Mostek back in the 80s. Microsoft learned it the hard way which is now why they're asses and elbows trying to shoehorn unix tools into Windows. Nvidia might learn the lesson next if they're not careful.
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Two years, huh? Maybe the person who actually knew anything about image recognition was a rightwinger. Upon finding out, Google naturally declared him an irredeemable bigot and ran him out (or just plain disappeared him, if Damore's lawsuit is any indication of how those fascists actually tick), and now no one knows how to fix it. Or maybe someone does and won't out of spite.
See what happens when you run an SJW business and people find out? The pot-shots and inuendo just write themselves at your expense, comrades.
We could dangle financial success as the motivator for getting good talent over here. That's always been understood to be a temporary thing given that the rest of the world can only get richer. Passing laws over here that encouraged outsourcing wealth-generating industries like manufacturing to there hurried that along faster than was good for America, however.
"No worries!" proclaimed the coastal elistists, "for American freedom entices the whole world to flock here!" Well, in principle yes. But given the way Big Tech in Silicon Valley seems to be about as open and tolerance as Mao's China or Pol Pot's Cambodia (that's not as big of an exaggeration as it used to be, for you can now be fired and blacklisted from tech for your politics), we can't really claim that as an advantage either.
So let's look inward and ask ourselves an honest question: We've got money, we've got clean air and "green" but they also have money, and the comfort of the home culture and neither one of us has more freedom than the other, and while their schools don't measure up to ours (yet), our schools are at best a decade from all turning into Evergreen State. Berkeley has already fallen down that moronic rabbit hole. What do we do to make America a desirable place to be again? This is a practical question. The foreigners with means to leave are the canaries in the coal mine. Listen carefully and you'll hear people who already have power and influence (cough Bernie Sanders, cough cough) itching for policies that will turn this place into Venezuela. Venezuela used to be rich and no one would have thought twenty years ago that it would go so far down in such a short amount of time.
No, it's msmash, quasi-literate. Again.
Yes. They were and are. Many of them find their way to the top of the heap in traditional and new media and into politics.
"FEM/FEA and CAD software" is not a substitute for engineering knowledge. It is possible to use it incorrectly, to misinterpret the results, to misrepresent or ignore results you don't like because they'll eat into your profit margin or damage your reputation, and anything in between. It is also possible for the software to have been written incorrectly from the beginning. Engineering judgement is required to determine whether a piece of software is appropriate to use for any project. Google Sketchup is fine for a garage project, not to build a skyscraper.
No one writes 'No record.' What happens is that there is no record kept. While in practice this ought not happen with advising and schedule constraints and the like, it is theoretically possible to flunk a core course in the major once, or even twice, pass it the last time, and have 'Pass' appear on the transcript with no one the wiser that the person failed.
'Pass' is a grade. 'No record' is the opposite of a grade.
Yeah, and keep going down that road and you won't even need to be literate to get a medical degree or a PE license. How's the prospect of being operated on a by surgeon who didn't opt to take the medical license exam but nontheless feels his ability to make a positive contribution shouldn't be predicated on a single number sound to you? Wanna live in a building designed by a person who's grasp of calculus isn't necessarily quantified, but who definitely has the right aura?
Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense. All of it.
Lots of nominally top-flight places already do that. At MIT, first year grades are either Pass or No Record.
Yet another assault on the idea that you can objectively measure reality, that some people are more suited to success than others, and that hard work yields tangible benefits. Oh, and you get to entice more lazy coddled to take on mountains of debt to feed the academic industrial complex. And then ten years after you've got indebted rabble to rouse against a Them that can be anything from moneylenders, The Patriarchy(TM), or just about anyone with their head planted squarely on their shoulders who made all the right choices in life and isn't drowning under the consequences of the past delusions. Disgusting.
Where to start? Here's a few off the top of my head:
1. Petrochemicals are not just used for fuel, they are used to make plastics, fertilizer, and other chemicals (and medicines) that make modern standards of living possible, and prop up the lifestyle of every single New Yorker, from limousine liberal Manhattanite to hipster-doofus Brooklynite and everyone in between.
2. Most CO2 come from burning coal, not oil, and not in Western countries.
3. As others point out, as admitted shareholders, NYC is suing itself here. Great use of taxpayer dollars.
4. Global warming is a hoax. Given the fervor of the lefties about it in recent months, I'm honestly starting to believe that even the science is a hoax, not just the politics of it. Really. Honest to God.
No, insisting on proof of a negative statement while asserting that conclusions drawn from noise and amped up by politics are proof of a positive is what makes you a zealot. The asking for evidence makes you an honest skeptic. I encourage it.
My memory's fuzzy on the subject, but I believe a large class of array objects in java have their sizes fixed at instantiation allowing the virtual machine to optimize around some of these checks at runtime. Don't really know enough about Go to say anything, but my default guess is that restrictiveness in the language helps performance in these cases.
No you dumb zealot. I'm telling you that you're looking at noise and drawing conclusions from it.
Comrade Snowden? Any rants, I mean eloquent prose, about how the subway system is the envy of the civilized world?
No,I understand it all quite well. Including the part about what noise, unmodeled physics, overfitting, and false confidence are. You, dear friend, don't seem to understand the difference between extrapolation, prior estimates, and posterior analysis, for one thing.
While I watch as about a foot of global warming slowly melts after the second longest deep freeze on record slowly lifts, I will also point out that if last year was colder than. 2012 and 2014, an equally valid guess is that those two years were a peak. But the operative word here is "guess." Wait a few more decades for a few more solar cycles to elapse and then you can do some dispassionate analysis. Strangely enough, it's from the humanities that we can take a lesson here: the historians have understood for quite a while that anything more recent than a few decades ago cannot be evaluated objectively.
Everything within the framework of what's legal and in line with our values as a free society. I wouldn't entertain a debate about things like nationalization of all industries and business to ensure uniformity of wages, for example, because those alternatives, while possibly effective, are not in line with how we do things in this country.
Yes, there is. The First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee freedom of speech and equal enforcement of all laws, and subsequent court rulings have applied those protections to include state laws and local ordinances as well as federal laws. Private companies do not have such restrictions on what they can or cannot allows their employees to say while on the clock but there are laws on the books against discrimination in hiring and firing decisions and we generally expect our businesses to hew to the spirit of freedom espoused by our laws rather than acting in a way that is antithetical to them.
It is a myth being sold to cover up yet another governmental power-grab. Equal pay for equal performance is the only possible outcome in anything resembling a free market. If a woman could be payed less for the same job, there would be near 100% male unemployment in just about every job besides sperm donor. Any aggregate disparaties between wages of *all* men and *all* women are the outcomes of individual choices made by consenting adults evaluating what's best for them in terms of career and life outside of work and any disparties if compensation for the same job title are largely the result of individual choices about the level of effort and amount of brownnosing applied to the job as opposed to having a life outside of work.
No, the US couldn't do this. Compensation agreements are a matter of consent between private parties and many businesses (and many individuals) view that information as a trade secret or an equivalent. Forcing its disclosure for all employment agreements would cost private citizens and private businesses a competitive advantage and thus revenue, in violation of the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Also: WTF? Not all people perform the same quality of work in the same job category. In some white-collar jobs, it even defies quantification with GS ratings. So what a regulation like that would do (if it were even lawful, which it's not) is destroy fairness by preventing performance-based pay, destroy any incentive structure a business might have for motivating employees, and impose an additional paperwork burden that a) no one in government would even pay attention too since it would be a flood of information but also b) open up employers to liability and capricious enforcement from politically motivated government appointees and grandstanding politicians and bureaucrats looking to score points.
This is a horrible idea that will create chaos without solving anything. Do you work for the federal government? Have you ever had a real job in the private sector? Do you have any understanding of how business works or any respect for the idea that government's job is to serve its citizens and not to harass them? How in the world could you think this was a good idea?
You're on your lunchtime high, right? The free market allows you to have a practical choice between Microsoft, Apple, Ubuntu, Redhat, any of a dozen flavors of fully open-source/free Linux, BSD, EComStation (PS/2...remember that?) running on hardware from dozens of manufacturers using CPUs from a half-dozen or so big chipmakers. In Soviet Russia, on the other hand, you use an abacus. If you need to do paper-and-pencil arithmetic, you're fucked because there's a paper shortage.
Safety checks and transparent abstractions cost cycles and memory accesses.
//The programmer has to state this explicitly or it's a silent runtime error.
try{
for(i=0; i<10; i++){ if(i<0 || > a->length){
throw(zOMGEXception);
}
a->data[i] = i; }
catch(){
//The language feature doesn't relieve you of any responsibility
}
will always be marginally slower than
for(i=0; i<10; i++){
data[i] = i;
}
If the cost of switching, porting, or retraining is less than the cost of paying for 'data center grade' hardware, then Nvidia does have something to worry about. PHBs would do well to remember that unlike consumer-grade products, when they sell to tech firms, their customers are also their competition and they will engineer their way around your revenue stream if you tighten the screws too hard and too fast.
Texas Instruments learned this the hard way with Commodore and Mostek back in the 80s. Microsoft learned it the hard way which is now why they're asses and elbows trying to shoehorn unix tools into Windows. Nvidia might learn the lesson next if they're not careful.
What changed? Did someone let slip that bitcoin mining can be done in C faster than with remote calls to jquery?