Google/Alphabet seems to have a soft spot for hot air, mostly hype pie in the ski projects that were common in the 80s. Boston Dynamics was a survivor of that era and Google bought their story at the tune of 1 billion dollars only to have to turn around and sell it at a loss.
Their merger and acquisitions department is in sore need of a few more skeptical minds.
When Apple was in deep trouble back in the late 90s, we had three CEOs who failed to turn it around: John Sculley, Michael Spindler and Gil Amelio.
Similarly with Yahoo, we have Terry Semel, Jerry Yang, Carol Bartz, Scott Thompson, Ross Levinsohn and Marissa Mayer, all of which failed to turn around the company. And of course according to many on the interwebs the main reason Ms. Mayer failed is because she has a vagina.
Also, their push toward UWP apps and continuum is a longer term strategy of convergence. Eventually, phones will take over from PCs....
...and by that logic eventually cars will take over from trucks. For many people a truck (PC) was an overkill and a car (smartphone) suffices. By now almost all such people have made the switch and the remaining laptop/desktop users will never switch, because their needs are different.
To (over)extend the car analogy, you want the interface to cars and trucks to be similar, to facilitate adoption, but it likely will never be identical since their ultimate purpose is different. In that sense Apple got it right: make OSX and iOS similar, but separate. Microsoft instead tried to force the single window mode, which makes so much sense in a small screen device on the desktop with 30+ inch monitors.
Not initially. Later on he did fully embrace communism, but the internal debates with Che (who was always fully pro-communist) are well known. As someone else pointed out, Ho Chi Minh is another example of someone who was pushed into communism by CIA actions.
Sorry that this doesn't match your simplistic conception of the world.
When Castro first came to power, he was inspired by the Mexican revolution of 1910-1920 who did not turn communist. Moreover the Cuban Communist Party had denounced Castro's revolution as pro-Western. He was pushed into the USSR sphere of influence by the aggressive CIA-led actions.
Then the embargo provided the biggest excuse ever for Castro and his dictatorship. He could always blame his failed economic policies on the USA led embargo.
The data indicates that Blacks commit crimes less than whites, but that prison correlates with crime more than white does
This. I have a friend who became drug addict and spent decades breaking all manner of laws. Since she was white, she spent not a single day in prison and does not even have a criminal record in spite of having been arrested dozens of times. I have no doubt that if she had been black (or even just a man for that matter) she would have spent at least a year in prison.
The problem with this article is that Snopes itself has a pretty strong left-wing bias.
No they don't. It is just you reacting to fact checking that you didn't like. Just like 538 people were accused of being pro-Hillary, right until during the last week when they had the highest odds for Trump of any media organization. Then people on the left started accusing it of being pro-Trump.
Regardless of the true bias (if any) of 538 models, people (from either side) were not accusing 538 of being biased because of a careful analysis of their model, but simply because it didn't match their personal political preference.
That is exactly what you are doing when you call Snopes "a pretty strong left-wing bias".
Finally an article that goes against the nonstop doom and gloom tone of seemingly every single report on automation.
Indeed, according to these reports every single job is about to be lost to robots and AI. What they fail to mention is that in the latest robotic competition a robot couldn't even transfer a shopping basket of sundries from one box to another.
she's probably no worse off than that odd foreign kid.
And that is mighty difficult, which is why immigrant communities tend to hang together for a while. Maybe if enough people are revived, the kid could hang around with other previously frozen people.
Look, twitter would be a better place if it removes comments like "you stupid bitch" and "you neckbeard racist". They are content free attacks that diminish the value of what one gets out of tweeter.
I would equally ban Killary/Drumpf postings. If you cannot make a point without a childish nickname, go some place else. This does not censor content, it censors non-content and has no bias per se to the left or right.
There are indeed some issues that need to be worked out, but this one in particular is taken care if we assume that the wind travels at the speed of light, i.e. if composed of photon-like particles.
Thank you for proving my point. That is a list of 16 things that are wrong with Obamacare (some of which are plain false, such as premiums "skyrocketing" over five years) followed by five "proposals" four of which are platitudes, such as "Work with Congress to create a patient-centered health care system that promotes choice, quality, and affordability."
The only effective actionable proposal is to make insurance market open across all 50 states.
This is a typical example of Trump's modus operandi. Call everything a disaster, just because isn't perfect. Spout platitudes about making it great again, then give few (usually none) effective steps to fix the problem.
It doesn't work that way. The gravity effect doesn't become infinitesimally small, it actually drops with the inverse square of the distance which is just what the physics predict.
Again, get your facts straight. Most immigrants take cash based jobs and bunk up when freshly arrived, but want to move up from that soon, just the same as you would. Their use of emergency rooms is no different than any other poor American and it is subsidized by your health insurance, not your taxes. Obamacare makes those free-riders contribute a portion of those costs, and any true Republican would be in favor of this, which is why Romney proposed it when he was governor in Massachusetts.
Why would you support people that pay no taxes only
Actually most immigrants pay taxes since they use somebody else's Social Insurance Number to collect their wages. They also pay sales tax and property tax through their monthly rent.
It seems you are too blinded by the kool-aid that the media gave you about Trump
Funny you say that, since it is you who is under the false impression that illegal immigrants pay no taxes because of Trump media kool-aid.
It is a particle wind. The interaction is not with the surface like a sail on a boat, but with individual atoms, like in an X-ray picture.
Boat analogy: you are thinking of a sail made of canvas. A better analogy would be using a fishing net as a sail. Surface area is no longer that important, but rather the total number of knots that were hoisted.
Exactly, I'm not scared of his policies because we have no clue what they are. I'm scared that he doesn't seem to surround himself with highly competent people. He's three main advisors Guliani, Newt and Christie are proven losers. An inexperienced president with bad advisors gives you Bush, and inexperience president with good advisors gives you Obama. I think their final approval ratings reflect this.
If you have a particle like the neutrino, which mostly goes through matter, then mass is the most important thing. The more massive you are (dense or not dense) the likelier you are to have an interaction with the wind particle and thus stop the particle from reaching the other body.
The problem with "pie in the sky" research is that for every honest-to-god researcher you attract a dozen charlatans that promise you the world in your hand in ten years. Then the system selects for the best charlatans, the ones that make you believe the breakthrough is around the corner, even though there is no hard evidence for it. The MIT Media Lab blew through billions of dollars in this mode, with little to show for it.
AI has gone through several cycles of this, with the end result that generally weaker students were being attracted to it. One of the reasons AI is more successful today is that the last AI winter was so severe that weak students stopped going to AI, so what was left is honest smart researchers spending all their time in science instead of press releases.
As deep learning becomes more popular we see the return of the weaker minds, with flashy results of little or no practical significance, but plenty of PR value.
You know the type, the people who tell you a slogan and make it seem like they have a solution (ahem Yes we can, Make America great again ahem), but when you stop and think about you realize they were full of "ideas" and bereft of execution.
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Let's not underestimate the power of learning at damn near an exponential rate.
Except that you pulled that exponential rate out of your ass. AlphaGo which has by far the best record in self improvement, learns at a linear rate.
Google/Alphabet seems to have a soft spot for hot air, mostly hype pie in the ski projects that were common in the 80s. Boston Dynamics was a survivor of that era and Google bought their story at the tune of 1 billion dollars only to have to turn around and sell it at a loss.
Their merger and acquisitions department is in sore need of a few more skeptical minds.
When Apple was in deep trouble back in the late 90s, we had three CEOs who failed to turn it around: John Sculley, Michael Spindler and Gil Amelio.
Similarly with Yahoo, we have Terry Semel, Jerry Yang, Carol Bartz, Scott Thompson, Ross Levinsohn and Marissa Mayer, all of which failed to turn around the company. And of course according to many on the interwebs the main reason Ms. Mayer failed is because she has a vagina.
I'd say the US has never had to deal with a king as remotely autocratic as the current president (how many executive orders?),
Actually Obama has issued the lowest number of executive orders per year of office since William McKinley in 1901.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also, their push toward UWP apps and continuum is a longer term strategy of convergence. Eventually, phones will take over from PCs....
...and by that logic eventually cars will take over from trucks. For many people a truck (PC) was an overkill and a car (smartphone) suffices. By now almost all such people have made the switch and the remaining laptop/desktop users will never switch, because their needs are different.
To (over)extend the car analogy, you want the interface to cars and trucks to be similar, to facilitate adoption, but it likely will never be identical since their ultimate purpose is different. In that sense Apple got it right: make OSX and iOS similar, but separate. Microsoft instead tried to force the single window mode, which makes so much sense in a small screen device on the desktop with 30+ inch monitors.
Not initially. Later on he did fully embrace communism, but the internal debates with Che (who was always fully pro-communist) are well known. As someone else pointed out, Ho Chi Minh is another example of someone who was pushed into communism by CIA actions.
Sorry that this doesn't match your simplistic conception of the world.
When Castro first came to power, he was inspired by the Mexican revolution of 1910-1920 who did not turn communist. Moreover the Cuban Communist Party had denounced Castro's revolution as pro-Western. He was pushed into the USSR sphere of influence by the aggressive CIA-led actions.
Then the embargo provided the biggest excuse ever for Castro and his dictatorship. He could always blame his failed economic policies on the USA led embargo.
The data indicates that Blacks commit crimes less than whites, but that prison correlates with crime more than white does
This. I have a friend who became drug addict and spent decades breaking all manner of laws. Since she was white, she spent not a single day in prison and does not even have a criminal record in spite of having been arrested dozens of times. I have no doubt that if she had been black (or even just a man for that matter) she would have spent at least a year in prison.
The problem with this article is that Snopes itself has a pretty strong left-wing bias.
No they don't. It is just you reacting to fact checking that you didn't like. Just like 538 people were accused of being pro-Hillary, right until during the last week when they had the highest odds for Trump of any media organization. Then people on the left started accusing it of being pro-Trump.
Regardless of the true bias (if any) of 538 models, people (from either side) were not accusing 538 of being biased because of a careful analysis of their model, but simply because it didn't match their personal political preference.
That is exactly what you are doing when you call Snopes "a pretty strong left-wing bias".
Finally an article that goes against the nonstop doom and gloom tone of seemingly every single report on automation.
Indeed, according to these reports every single job is about to be lost to robots and AI. What they fail to mention is that in the latest robotic competition a robot couldn't even transfer a shopping basket of sundries from one box to another.
she's probably no worse off than that odd foreign kid.
And that is mighty difficult, which is why immigrant communities tend to hang together for a while. Maybe if enough people are revived, the kid could hang around with other previously frozen people.
This is a funny use of the term "first" invented by Americans:
This was the first flight of a heavy-lift ES-variant of the Ariane V since the ATV resupply missions to the ISS.
The rest of the world would have phrased this as: the previous flight of the Ariane V was the resupply mission to the ISS.
How about we do one better and look at the data instead?
Fertility rate in Utah has dropped from 4.3 children per woman 60 years ago to 2.3 today and still falling.
http://gardner.utah.edu/wp-con...
This can easily be fixed with tax cuts, particularly if targeted at billionaires.
No, Italians combine it in small amounts with Arabica to create espresso blend. They use it judiciously, which is not the same as "love it".
Look, twitter would be a better place if it removes comments like "you stupid bitch" and "you neckbeard racist". They are content free attacks that diminish the value of what one gets out of tweeter.
I would equally ban Killary/Drumpf postings. If you cannot make a point without a childish nickname, go some place else. This does not censor content, it censors non-content and has no bias per se to the left or right.
There are indeed some issues that need to be worked out, but this one in particular is taken care if we assume that the wind travels at the speed of light, i.e. if composed of photon-like particles.
Thank you for proving my point. That is a list of 16 things that are wrong with Obamacare (some of which are plain false, such as premiums "skyrocketing" over five years) followed by five "proposals" four of which are platitudes, such as "Work with Congress to create a patient-centered health care system that promotes choice, quality, and affordability."
The only effective actionable proposal is to make insurance market open across all 50 states.
This is a typical example of Trump's modus operandi. Call everything a disaster, just because isn't perfect. Spout platitudes about making it great again, then give few (usually none) effective steps to fix the problem.
It doesn't work that way. The gravity effect doesn't become infinitesimally small, it actually drops with the inverse square of the distance which is just what the physics predict.
But gravity is constant with distance.
Proportional to the inverse square you mean?
Again, get your facts straight. Most immigrants take cash based jobs and bunk up when freshly arrived, but want to move up from that soon, just the same as you would. Their use of emergency rooms is no different than any other poor American and it is subsidized by your health insurance, not your taxes. Obamacare makes those free-riders contribute a portion of those costs, and any true Republican would be in favor of this, which is why Romney proposed it when he was governor in Massachusetts.
Why would you support people that pay no taxes only
Actually most immigrants pay taxes since they use somebody else's Social Insurance Number to collect their wages. They also pay sales tax and property tax through their monthly rent.
It seems you are too blinded by the kool-aid that the media gave you about Trump
Funny you say that, since it is you who is under the false impression that illegal immigrants pay no taxes because of Trump media kool-aid.
It is a particle wind. The interaction is not with the surface like a sail on a boat, but with individual atoms, like in an X-ray picture.
Boat analogy: you are thinking of a sail made of canvas. A better analogy would be using a fishing net as a sail. Surface area is no longer that important, but rather the total number of knots that were hoisted.
Exactly, I'm not scared of his policies because we have no clue what they are. I'm scared that he doesn't seem to surround himself with highly competent people. He's three main advisors Guliani, Newt and Christie are proven losers. An inexperienced president with bad advisors gives you Bush, and inexperience president with good advisors gives you Obama. I think their final approval ratings reflect this.
If you have a particle like the neutrino, which mostly goes through matter, then mass is the most important thing. The more massive you are (dense or not dense) the likelier you are to have an interaction with the wind particle and thus stop the particle from reaching the other body.
The problem with "pie in the sky" research is that for every honest-to-god researcher you attract a dozen charlatans that promise you the world in your hand in ten years. Then the system selects for the best charlatans, the ones that make you believe the breakthrough is around the corner, even though there is no hard evidence for it. The MIT Media Lab blew through billions of dollars in this mode, with little to show for it.
AI has gone through several cycles of this, with the end result that generally weaker students were being attracted to it. One of the reasons AI is more successful today is that the last AI winter was so severe that weak students stopped going to AI, so what was left is honest smart researchers spending all their time in science instead of press releases.
As deep learning becomes more popular we see the return of the weaker minds, with flashy results of little or no practical significance, but plenty of PR value.
You know the type, the people who tell you a slogan and make it seem like they have a solution (ahem Yes we can, Make America great again ahem), but when you stop and think about you realize they were full of "ideas" and bereft of execution.