Badmouthing your employers is an excellent way to remain unemployed.
I also have the responsibility to make my company a better company, in my opinion. I work for a DoD contractor and am perfectly fine with it, but I'm going to tell them if a product isn't worth the cost. I think our country misuses the military and am vocal about it, I also think if the country had no military we would have a problem too. None of this is simple black and white. DoD products don't just kill people either: http://www.c-130.net/c-130-new...
How many have we killed in Iraq since 2003, I wonder.
10 times less than the number killed in Iraq not directly attributable by US coalition forces... if you believe the reporting. Not that any number of dead is a good thing.
Should western nations follow ethics at their peril? Do you think China and Russia are ethical adversaries?
Everyone defines ethics differently. I'm not going to dictate how someone should define their ethics, just that they hopefully put the greater good first when engineering a product (even that is a very grey definition). I'm also not going to say anyone should be immune to the consequences of their chosen ethics, even myself.
There are historical reasons for engineering ethics. Some of the ethics go beyond engineering into just being a good person, while other ethics are the kind that when not followed and people die, bad things happen to the company that failed to act ethically.
Actual Intelligence doesn't exist. After all what is intelligence if not the ability to make a decision based on past information to achieve a desired outcome. The only difference between humans and computer models in this regard is: a) the scale of the model and level of information required to gain an understanding. b) only humans are dumb enough to get two different results with the same input information without changing any external variables.
Do humans make two different decisions based on the same external variables, or do we just recognize the external variables that have changed?
I met him once in the guest suite at Dragoncon in Atlanta, where I was also a guest speaker. His personality in real life was exactly the same as he's featured in the Marvel films.
Thanks for posting this, I've only seen him in movies and it is nice to know the impressions from the movies were of Stan Lee himself, rather than a character for the movies.
I congratulate the MIT for reinventing the bicycle... well, magnetic tunnel junction. Beg for grants and investor money more
There haven't been many inventions for decades (centuries?) that didn't reinvent some previous invention in some way that worked a little bit better. If that wasn't the case, there would be maybe one or two PHD graduates in each discipline, in the entire world every year.
"The new devices, with their low power consumption and high switching speed, could eventually be especially useful for devices such mobile computing, Beach says, but the work is still at an early stage and will require further development."
So we don't yet know if it can replace existing hardware, but hopefully it will work out.
With supercomputing, often #1 on the list is more powerful than the next 20 combined. It's important for the US to remain #1.
Absolutely. Now that we have the #1 supercomputer on this list, we can supercompute more computer stuff than the next 20 supercomputers on the list can supercompute their stuff.
I guess what I'm saying is, I don't actually give a shit about this list, or whatever it is they are doing with these computers, because I strongly suspect none of it benefits me in any way and is likely to be something I detest.
Yeah, might be something completely horrible like genetic cancer analysis of the type that led to cancer immunotherapy (OK, so this is a bit of an assumption about how these treatments came about and I'm ignoring research for killing people too). Regardless, it isn't the research but the application that could be a problem.
The first thing through my head was, does it matter how fast it is if you don't know how to use it, the second was that comes with terrible innuendo...
Regardless, what are really being done with the computers of value? Is the fastest supercomputer really adding the most value to the world?
Base engineer needs to be much smarter and not what I saw on Amazon Alexa's team interview questions. People who can code well under strict policies and broken recruitment processes are likely not the people who will start the voice AI revolution. It needs to beat the turning test, not voice recognition from the 90s.
That kind of development costs money, why spend more than the minimum if you can already make plenty of money at minimum cost?
I live on the edge of a small town with farms around. It seems like we've often had in the past couple years a lot of months where we got the northern edge of one storm, the southern edge of the next and end up without much rain overall compared to everyone around us. As a result the farmers have to start getting out the huge sprinklers for their crops, and the next day a storm hits us head on while the farmers are sprinkling. Seems like it could save a lot of gallons of irrigation, or alternately crop damage knowing if weather than day is actually going to rain here or miss again.
There never will be any "AI driven" software development, unless the AI is consciousnous (Google Chrome can not even suggest the correction for this word, it only underlines it red... WTF?) and can _grasp_ the business the software is intended for.
Oh, and were you looking for "the AI is conscious and can grasp"? Or, "the AI consciousness can grasp"? The first meaning the AI can grasp while being conscious, the second meaning the AI's consciousness is what is grasping the concept (pardon if you knew any of this, but when I read your WTF it sounded like you were trying to find better phrasing of your comment).
There never will be any "AI driven" software development, unless the AI is consciousnous (Google Chrome can not even suggest the correction for this word, it only underlines it red... WTF?) and can _grasp_ the business the software is intended for.
While I don't see a takeover anytime soon, I could still see AI working parts of the development. It doesn't have to grasp the full business to analyze requirements and note a high probability that certain requirements are incomplete, conflicting, etc. While this would not develop software from scratch, it could cut out a significant portion of the work I do as a software developer (either identifying how to fix the requirements, or trying to implement bad requirements I failed to notice and having to rework the code later). Even this is probably going to be very costly and error prone for a while.
You didn't take the word "photographer" literally.
Don't make excuses for sloppiness in your communications. Fix it.
Sure, just as soon as Slashdot communication effects anything important I'll focus on correcting my communications here like I do in places where it is important. Also will do more when they let me make easy corrections like in places where my communication is important.
On the internet, you must be explicit. Most people on the internet are ESL.
Just like most people on the internet don't understand the affects of a drone on wildlife. No matter what we are doing to nature, scaring the shit out of a bear and endangering a cub is not a good way to go about promoting green.
And a lot of dyslexics too. I think that tends to be the cause of the scatter brained academic image. While I'm a full time software dev and part time PHD student, dyslexia often tends to result in me reading something and my mind going off on the wrong track with it (usually reading something too literally, while other times I pick up subtle meanings fine). After a while you learn to get used to saying the wrong thing or double checking what people tell you, though double checking is a bit more difficult on slashdot...
I originally thought the poster was being sarcastic and was agreeing in a sarcastic manner that shooting (with guns) is not a wonderful alternative, rather than noting it meant shooting with cameras. Hopefully at least my intent that treating wildlife with respect came across, even if everything else was said wrong.
There's nothing quite like seeing animals in all their majesty while they run away from all the loud shit with cameras. Yep, that's some real appreciation.
Good idea, lets appreciate the animals by not caring and the corporations can go in and destroy their habitat... oh wait, that seems to happen either way.
And the crashes on average come every 10 years or so (looking for the next one soon, riding it out again). When you are within 20 years of retirement, time to have a good chunk of your retirement out of the stock market, at 10 years from, better have anything you need for the next 10 years at least out of the stock market. I'm over 20 years away at the moment and have less than recommended in stock, in fact I will probably shift more away soon.
As a programmer, the thing that scares me the most career-wise is the very real likelihood that we've seen the future of AI-driven software development... and its source code mostly resembles Malbolge. Or maybe C++, compiled into ARM assembly, and displayed as raw bytecode... GZipped, and in hex.
At the moment, AI driven software doesn't concern me too much. As a developer I think less about how to work in the current language I'm assigned to and more about the structure the program needs to execute. So I can transition to any language or programming method without too much trouble.
A pretty small portion of my day is actually spent coding. Most of it is talking to the customers get clarification on what they really what the program to do. Most of the time the submitted requirements are incomplete, conflicting or just wont work. So I need to sit down with the humans and explain why the software can't overcome the physical limitations of the hardware they have chosen and what compromise they will be satisfied that will actually work in the real world. I'll start getting worried when AI can explain these kind of things to hardware engineers, or non engineers.
Or just don't try to find fulfilment through work. Hobbies, crafts, volunteering, learning, and family are all much, much, much better than work. For 90% of people, the only thing work is good for is to earn money so they can do other things.
Or find a job that benefits society and is worthwhile to continue to work at until you can't anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
You also have the right to get another job.
Badmouthing your employers is an excellent way to remain unemployed.
I also have the responsibility to make my company a better company, in my opinion. I work for a DoD contractor and am perfectly fine with it, but I'm going to tell them if a product isn't worth the cost. I think our country misuses the military and am vocal about it, I also think if the country had no military we would have a problem too. None of this is simple black and white. DoD products don't just kill people either: http://www.c-130.net/c-130-new...
How many have we killed in Iraq since 2003, I wonder.
10 times less than the number killed in Iraq not directly attributable by US coalition forces... if you believe the reporting. Not that any number of dead is a good thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/ne...
Should western nations follow ethics at their peril? Do you think China and Russia are ethical adversaries?
Everyone defines ethics differently. I'm not going to dictate how someone should define their ethics, just that they hopefully put the greater good first when engineering a product (even that is a very grey definition). I'm also not going to say anyone should be immune to the consequences of their chosen ethics, even myself.
There are historical reasons for engineering ethics. Some of the ethics go beyond engineering into just being a good person, while other ethics are the kind that when not followed and people die, bad things happen to the company that failed to act ethically.
https://www.nspe.org/resources...
Actual Intelligence doesn't exist. After all what is intelligence if not the ability to make a decision based on past information to achieve a desired outcome. The only difference between humans and computer models in this regard is:
a) the scale of the model and level of information required to gain an understanding.
b) only humans are dumb enough to get two different results with the same input information without changing any external variables.
Do humans make two different decisions based on the same external variables, or do we just recognize the external variables that have changed?
Ah, sorry for the assumption but interesting information on how Chrome works!
*affects
I wondered how long it would take someone to comment on that!
> He seemed like a great character himself.
I met him once in the guest suite at Dragoncon in Atlanta, where I was also a guest speaker. His personality in real life was exactly the same as he's featured in the Marvel films.
Thanks for posting this, I've only seen him in movies and it is nice to know the impressions from the movies were of Stan Lee himself, rather than a character for the movies.
I congratulate the MIT for reinventing the bicycle... well, magnetic tunnel junction. Beg for grants and investor money more
There haven't been many inventions for decades (centuries?) that didn't reinvent some previous invention in some way that worked a little bit better. If that wasn't the case, there would be maybe one or two PHD graduates in each discipline, in the entire world every year.
"The new devices, with their low power consumption and high switching speed, could eventually be especially useful for devices such mobile computing, Beach says, but the work is still at an early stage and will require further development."
So we don't yet know if it can replace existing hardware, but hopefully it will work out.
With supercomputing, often #1 on the list is more powerful than the next 20 combined. It's important for the US to remain #1.
Absolutely. Now that we have the #1 supercomputer on this list, we can supercompute more computer stuff than the next 20 supercomputers on the list can supercompute their stuff.
I guess what I'm saying is, I don't actually give a shit about this list, or whatever it is they are doing with these computers, because I strongly suspect none of it benefits me in any way and is likely to be something I detest.
Yeah, might be something completely horrible like genetic cancer analysis of the type that led to cancer immunotherapy (OK, so this is a bit of an assumption about how these treatments came about and I'm ignoring research for killing people too). Regardless, it isn't the research but the application that could be a problem.
The thing that I always liked personally, regardless of all his other accomplishments, was spot Stan Lee in any movie with any of his characters.
He seemed like a great character himself.
The first thing through my head was, does it matter how fast it is if you don't know how to use it, the second was that comes with terrible innuendo...
Regardless, what are really being done with the computers of value? Is the fastest supercomputer really adding the most value to the world?
Base engineer needs to be much smarter and not what I saw on Amazon Alexa's team interview questions. People who can code well under strict policies and broken recruitment processes are likely not the people who will start the voice AI revolution. It needs to beat the turning test, not voice recognition from the 90s.
That kind of development costs money, why spend more than the minimum if you can already make plenty of money at minimum cost?
I live on the edge of a small town with farms around. It seems like we've often had in the past couple years a lot of months where we got the northern edge of one storm, the southern edge of the next and end up without much rain overall compared to everyone around us. As a result the farmers have to start getting out the huge sprinklers for their crops, and the next day a storm hits us head on while the farmers are sprinkling. Seems like it could save a lot of gallons of irrigation, or alternately crop damage knowing if weather than day is actually going to rain here or miss again.
There never will be any "AI driven" software development, unless the AI is consciousnous (Google Chrome can not even suggest the correction for this word, it only underlines it red ... WTF?) and can _grasp_ the business the software is intended for.
Oh, and were you looking for "the AI is conscious and can grasp"? Or, "the AI consciousness can grasp"? The first meaning the AI can grasp while being conscious, the second meaning the AI's consciousness is what is grasping the concept (pardon if you knew any of this, but when I read your WTF it sounded like you were trying to find better phrasing of your comment).
There never will be any "AI driven" software development, unless the AI is consciousnous (Google Chrome can not even suggest the correction for this word, it only underlines it red ... WTF?) and can _grasp_ the business the software is intended for.
While I don't see a takeover anytime soon, I could still see AI working parts of the development. It doesn't have to grasp the full business to analyze requirements and note a high probability that certain requirements are incomplete, conflicting, etc. While this would not develop software from scratch, it could cut out a significant portion of the work I do as a software developer (either identifying how to fix the requirements, or trying to implement bad requirements I failed to notice and having to rework the code later). Even this is probably going to be very costly and error prone for a while.
You didn't take the word "photographer" literally.
Don't make excuses for sloppiness in your communications. Fix it.
Sure, just as soon as Slashdot communication effects anything important I'll focus on correcting my communications here like I do in places where it is important. Also will do more when they let me make easy corrections like in places where my communication is important.
On the internet, you must be explicit. Most people on the internet are ESL.
Just like most people on the internet don't understand the affects of a drone on wildlife. No matter what we are doing to nature, scaring the shit out of a bear and endangering a cub is not a good way to go about promoting green.
And a lot of dyslexics too. I think that tends to be the cause of the scatter brained academic image. While I'm a full time software dev and part time PHD student, dyslexia often tends to result in me reading something and my mind going off on the wrong track with it (usually reading something too literally, while other times I pick up subtle meanings fine). After a while you learn to get used to saying the wrong thing or double checking what people tell you, though double checking is a bit more difficult on slashdot...
I originally thought the poster was being sarcastic and was agreeing in a sarcastic manner that shooting (with guns) is not a wonderful alternative, rather than noting it meant shooting with cameras. Hopefully at least my intent that treating wildlife with respect came across, even if everything else was said wrong.
ESL? 'Shooting' footage or photos is a common verb. He's not referring to killing the animals with bullets or arrows.
Meh, mostly I just tend to read things bit too literally. Works good when reviewing requirements, less so with other reading.
Or we could watch something shot by one of the many actual wildlife photographers and not some dunce with a new toy.
There we go, I vote for appreciating wild life corpses!
There's nothing quite like seeing animals in all their majesty while they run away from all the loud shit with cameras. Yep, that's some real appreciation.
Good idea, lets appreciate the animals by not caring and the corporations can go in and destroy their habitat... oh wait, that seems to happen either way.
And the crashes on average come every 10 years or so (looking for the next one soon, riding it out again). When you are within 20 years of retirement, time to have a good chunk of your retirement out of the stock market, at 10 years from, better have anything you need for the next 10 years at least out of the stock market. I'm over 20 years away at the moment and have less than recommended in stock, in fact I will probably shift more away soon.
As a programmer, the thing that scares me the most career-wise is the very real likelihood that we've seen the future of AI-driven software development... and its source code mostly resembles Malbolge. Or maybe C++, compiled into ARM assembly, and displayed as raw bytecode... GZipped, and in hex.
At the moment, AI driven software doesn't concern me too much. As a developer I think less about how to work in the current language I'm assigned to and more about the structure the program needs to execute. So I can transition to any language or programming method without too much trouble.
A pretty small portion of my day is actually spent coding. Most of it is talking to the customers get clarification on what they really what the program to do. Most of the time the submitted requirements are incomplete, conflicting or just wont work. So I need to sit down with the humans and explain why the software can't overcome the physical limitations of the hardware they have chosen and what compromise they will be satisfied that will actually work in the real world. I'll start getting worried when AI can explain these kind of things to hardware engineers, or non engineers.
Or just don't try to find fulfilment through work. Hobbies, crafts, volunteering, learning, and family are all much, much, much better than work. For 90% of people, the only thing work is good for is to earn money so they can do other things.
Or find a job that benefits society and is worthwhile to continue to work at until you can't anymore.