John Oliver tends to yell a lot, disparage people, insult them, avoid rational discussion of the issues and conflate complicated issues by reducing them to the point of uselessness.
Well, why not put a few million faces of each race or whatever it's called now into your training dataset? I'm sure there are underground datasets that exist.
Or make some new datasets of their own?
Sounds like some people think it's an important problem to solve, so getting funding shouldn't be a problem.
I'm afraid you are going to have to show your work here.
The problem is, existing software has not been exposed to enough images of people of color to be confidently relied upon to identify them.
Are you sure? And if so, why hasn't it?
This isn't the 1960s. Who exactly is biasing facial image databases, in 2018? Noted hotbeds of racism like universities and tech companies? How are they doing so?
As long as windows 10 is spyware, changing to it is not "upgrading" or "modernizing". It's acceptance of abuse. And your insistence that it is something else is assistance of abuse.
When I can no longer run windows 7 on my PC, I will move the installation into VMware and run Linux on my PC. I will never run any newer version of Windows. Microsoft is now nothing but a malware distributor, and anyone proposing you use Windows is aiding criminal activity.
I, too, trust strangers on the internet more than a large domestic company.
No, I actually do, for real... though I'm not sure that I have reasons for doing so good enough to be overly snarky about it.
Basically he was cramming in a lot of digits into a keyboard buffer, but the phone didn't even think about most of them. Meaning that even if he guessed the correct pin, it's most likely it wouldn't have worked because it would be discarded without checking.
Yes. My point was, that wasn't super clear from how this was reported.
While I'm nitpicking... Apple didn't "refute" this either... they denied it. "Refuting" would involve presenting some sort of proof, not just saying "you're wrong; check your work".
(Though I notice that Google has now added a second meaning of simply "deny or contradict"... lovely.)
What an unclear story. At first read, it sounds like Apple is saying "well, it's just that some of them don't get counted, so neener neener", which is, er, exactly what the guy was alleging.
If I understand the clarifications, what Apple meant was that some of them don't get used at all (to try to unlock the device).
"It's almost as if Warner Bros. has been taken over by Voldemort, trying to use dark magic to destroy the light of a little town," said Sarah Jo Tucker, a 21-year-old junior at Chestnut Hill College, which hosts a Quidditch tournament that coincides with the annual suburban Philadelphia festival.
I didn't think anything could be worse than a Voldemort political metaphor.
When said feedback is used to keep the boot firmly on the employees neck. After the third time it was mentioned to me that anything less than perfect scores are considered a failure, I stopped taking them.
My 4 out of 5 "good" rating should be used as an opportunity to reward someone for a good job. Not doing so is a ploy to keep wages low.
A company that does that is going to do it anyway... it's not the survey's fault.
If a server doesn't bring me my bill and run my credit card, or if they don't actually take my full order (I order some / all of my meal on the tablet), should I tip the amount that I would normally tip at a full service place? Personally I tip less when I have to run my own credit card. Also be aware that many of the tablets calculate the tip on the total bill (including the tax), where historically you don't tip on tax.
Tip culture is out of control. There are places they seem to expect tips now for picking food up at a counter. For pete's sake, I don't tip at the deli or grocery store. Why should I tip you?
When the cost of labor gets too high, people will find a way to replace it. You're not going to find these ipads in places where it costs only $1 an hour to have a waiter.
Yep. Nor will you find waitresses looking for the most expensive plumber they can find. But when restaurants look for cheaper services, it's evil...
The dissent has some actual legal reasoning, which you might read.
He voted to allow the government to collect your location data wiithout a warrant. His reasoning is worth fuck-all. His motivations were purely political, in support of an authoritarian president.
Your motives are purely political. Someone actually dared to dissent from the result you wanted, so it must be because "da fascist".
You don't have to agree with his legal reasoning, but he did in fact use some.
It may not even be the outcome he wanted. Honest legal reasoning sometimes has that result, you know.
The 5-4 opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the four most liberal justices. It is a loss for the Justice Department, which had argued that an individual has diminished privacy rights when it comes to information that has been voluntarily shared with someone else.
So, the liberals on the court voted in favor of your right to privacy and the "conservatives", including Trump's boy Gorsuch, voted that fuck your privacy rights, the police need to track you without a warrant. Also, the Trump Administration argued that your freedom isn't as important as the right of the government to track you.
Remember that the next time some Republican or Trumpist tells you that they're all about the rights of the individual and smaller government. Republicans will always be the party of authoritarianism and the elite.
The dissent has some actual legal reasoning, which you might read.
I suppose it could have used your "emanations and penumbras", but some silly people rely on actual law and stuff.
Did you read the ruling? It's very interesting. This is from the dissent:
This is a long-standing American tradition that goes back to the Founding Fathers: Use the flowery language of Liberty, but when it comes right down to it, support Tyranny. That's what the dissenters did today.
Translation: you didn't read it and you don't care what the legal rationale is.
Yep. And not an emanation or penumbra to be found in the dissent either, just legal reasoning.
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"Those are the king's stags, varlet!!"
He should run for President.
Exactly! "That's not who we are".
Oh, you meant that other president ...
We finally found a "medical" reason to grow the stuff! said stoners everywhere.
Well, why not put a few million faces of each race or whatever it's called now into your training dataset? I'm sure there are underground datasets that exist.
Or make some new datasets of their own?
Sounds like some people think it's an important problem to solve, so getting funding shouldn't be a problem.
I'm afraid you are going to have to show your work here.
The problem is, existing software has not been exposed to enough images of people of color to be confidently relied upon to identify them.
Are you sure? And if so, why hasn't it?
This isn't the 1960s. Who exactly is biasing facial image databases, in 2018? Noted hotbeds of racism like universities and tech companies? How are they doing so?
My irony alarms are going off ... layoffs at the AI division!
Apparently some people still have some. They will be working diligently to rectify that.
Looks like both you and Google are well behind the times.
I sincerely hope so. Following the times on every stupid change is kind of ... stupid.
"Refute" in its most common usage was very useful; it meant essentially "to publicly dispute something conclusively, with convincing evidence".
Now people use it to mean simply "dispute", which is not nearly as useful.
"Increasingly", "many", "more"
How many? How do you know?
It makes a great story, but "many" of these kinds of stories don't have much to back them up, as to the size of the problem.
It might be helpful to say "X percent of DV cases in {area} in 2017 involved smart home devices" or something.
"It's coming from inside the house!"
As long as windows 10 is spyware, changing to it is not "upgrading" or "modernizing". It's acceptance of abuse. And your insistence that it is something else is assistance of abuse.
When I can no longer run windows 7 on my PC, I will move the installation into VMware and run Linux on my PC. I will never run any newer version of Windows. Microsoft is now nothing but a malware distributor, and anyone proposing you use Windows is aiding criminal activity.
I, too, trust strangers on the internet more than a large domestic company.
No, I actually do, for real ... though I'm not sure that I have reasons for doing so good enough to be overly snarky about it.
Basically he was cramming in a lot of digits into a keyboard buffer, but the phone didn't even think about most of them. Meaning that even if he guessed the correct pin, it's most likely it wouldn't have worked because it would be discarded without checking.
Yes. My point was, that wasn't super clear from how this was reported.
While I'm nitpicking ... Apple didn't "refute" this either ... they denied it. "Refuting" would involve presenting some sort of proof, not just saying "you're wrong; check your work".
(Though I notice that Google has now added a second meaning of simply "deny or contradict" ... lovely.)
What an unclear story. At first read, it sounds like Apple is saying "well, it's just that some of them don't get counted, so neener neener", which is, er, exactly what the guy was alleging.
If I understand the clarifications, what Apple meant was that some of them don't get used at all (to try to unlock the device).
"It's almost as if Warner Bros. has been taken over by Voldemort, trying to use dark magic to destroy the light of a little town," said Sarah Jo Tucker, a 21-year-old junior at Chestnut Hill College, which hosts a Quidditch tournament that coincides with the annual suburban Philadelphia festival.
I didn't think anything could be worse than a Voldemort political metaphor.
I was wrong ...
When said feedback is used to keep the boot firmly on the employees neck. After the third time it was mentioned to me that anything less than perfect scores are considered a failure, I stopped taking them.
My 4 out of 5 "good" rating should be used as an opportunity to reward someone for a good job. Not doing so is a ploy to keep wages low.
A company that does that is going to do it anyway ... it's not the survey's fault.
If a server doesn't bring me my bill and run my credit card, or if they don't actually take my full order (I order some / all of my meal on the tablet), should I tip the amount that I would normally tip at a full service place? Personally I tip less when I have to run my own credit card. Also be aware that many of the tablets calculate the tip on the total bill (including the tax), where historically you don't tip on tax.
Tip culture is out of control. There are places they seem to expect tips now for picking food up at a counter. For pete's sake, I don't tip at the deli or grocery store. Why should I tip you?
When the cost of labor gets too high, people will find a way to replace it. You're not going to find these ipads in places where it costs only $1 an hour to have a waiter.
Yep. Nor will you find waitresses looking for the most expensive plumber they can find. But when restaurants look for cheaper services, it's evil ...
If you get consistently bad ratings, it affects your job. Why is that a problem?
In the bad old days, we might respond to this by, you know, trying to do our job better. But that was before social media, you silly old farts!
"Air gap" is a cutting edge feature? We had an air gap between our little WordPerfect network (in a military office) and the world in 1996 ...
Whatever this is, I guess it isn't an actual air gap.
When people lack meaning in their lives, they have to find it somewhere, I suppose.
Too bad the posturing is meaningless.
We as a species IMO should be focusing 75% of our resources on biology for curing diseases and life extension,
Oh, sure. What we really need is nobody dying any more. There simply aren't enough of us at the moment.
So ... you'd like to end medical research into curing and preventing disease, in order to control population? Or you just enjoy clever ripostes?
He voted to allow the government to collect your location data wiithout a warrant. His reasoning is worth fuck-all. His motivations were purely political, in support of an authoritarian president.
Your motives are purely political. Someone actually dared to dissent from the result you wanted, so it must be because "da fascist".
You don't have to agree with his legal reasoning, but he did in fact use some.
It may not even be the outcome he wanted. Honest legal reasoning sometimes has that result, you know.
Pick bugbear -> assign blame
Nicely done Sir!
Open eyes, observe life.
That explains all the terror of the school shootings in Laura Ingalls books ... lack of facial recognition cameras. After all, guns were ubiquitous.
So, the liberals on the court voted in favor of your right to privacy and the "conservatives", including Trump's boy Gorsuch, voted that fuck your privacy rights, the police need to track you without a warrant. Also, the Trump Administration argued that your freedom isn't as important as the right of the government to track you.
Remember that the next time some Republican or Trumpist tells you that they're all about the rights of the individual and smaller government. Republicans will always be the party of authoritarianism and the elite.
The dissent has some actual legal reasoning, which you might read.
I suppose it could have used your "emanations and penumbras", but some silly people rely on actual law and stuff.
This is a long-standing American tradition that goes back to the Founding Fathers: Use the flowery language of Liberty, but when it comes right down to it, support Tyranny. That's what the dissenters did today.
Translation: you didn't read it and you don't care what the legal rationale is.
Yep. And not an emanation or penumbra to be found in the dissent either, just legal reasoning.