Look up Sahabot developed at our lab at the University of Zurich in the 90s. Nothing new. I don't understand why people decide to go public on their duplication of someone else's work.
Machine learning operates within a model, influenced by implementer's bias. Anything it'll ever be able to do will be constrained to lie within the model. There is no way "an AI" will be able to understand human concepts the same way humans do, and in part that's because humans don't learn just by playing Pictionary.
When will this hype subside, so that we can actually focus on the real stuff machine learning can do, without constant conflation with the idea that "general AI" could even ever exist?
Thank you very much for that excellent feedback. This talk was to a technical audience. I will be giving this talk again to a humanist audience soon, and you are absolutely right that I need to focus on precisely the point you raise!
Android is Free, but Google has woefully neglected it for years. Or rather, they meticulously worked on pulling all functionality into Play Services, while blinding the public into thinking that they are so great in doing open-source.
If they take Android non-free (what does this even mean?), it won't actually make much of a difference to the status quo. I'd hope for the EU to not take any of this, and simply double the fine if they do.
I've no evidence for this, but the way he keeps defending big-G in the wake of all the privacy problems we've seen and continue to feel, he's been touting them as being stellar about privacy and that they would never, and bla.
Maybe it's true that unlike Facebook, Google doesn't sell your data. But the main reason for that is that they want to monetise you all by themselves. Also, nothing would stop them from doing so tomorrow.
Gmail innovations here or there, your best bet is to get rid of Google and Facebook, use plugins like uMatrix and Cookie AutoDelete and navigate the Web without splattering your fingerprints everywhere.
Check out matrix.org. It is not only a rich IM solution with all the bells and whistles, including multi-devices end-to-end encryption, but Matrix also provides for bridges and proxies to other networks, so that it can be used to unify communication.
It's only 2.5 years old but has already come quite a way!
Check out matrix.org. It's a federated, open-standard, rich communication protocol. It can't do everything of Slack and Whatsapp yet, but it's moving along fast and you can help. There are already several clients to choose from, as well as integrations with other networks, APIs, and bot-like tools etc..
We used it at linux.conf.au 2017 to (inofficially) bridge between Slack and IRC, and had an update of ca. 33% of the conference within 3 days or so, while the number of Slack users went down to a low one-digit figure.
#matrix on Freenode is bridged to the main discussion room, so pop on over if you want.
So now I have a couple dozens of "Noto" fonts on my machine, but wasn't the idea of Unicode to approach it "one size fits all"? I.e. why is there not a single "Noto serif" font that combines them all? Or how else is one supposed to configure the browser now to give access to all those symbols?
Correct me if I am wrong, but distilled water is harmful to the body as it flushes out salts and minerals. It can actually kill you at larger quantities. So why exactly should I drink distilled water when my body needs the minerals (i.e. during sport)?
This is standard practice in Germany and it works extremely well. Glad to see that the US is considering it now that Apple threatened to control the market.
The real question is: which solution works with the X.org drivers and does not require me to pull in proprietary binary code? My experience is that binary-only graphics cards drivers will blow up sooner or later, or might just stop being ported to newer X.org versions.
Bad politics is a self-fulfilling prophecy with people like Arif. I tip my hat to him, but his leaving means that the proportion of corrupt assholes up there increases and there is one less person in charge who could actually defend the people vs. capitalism and greed.
What we need is someone on our side who has the breath and the guts to stay up there.
I cannot find any discussions that Shuttleworth would have had with the Debian release team on the release or project lists. I hope he's not just talking to himself or only with those people who are members of the Debian release team and on his payroll.
Uh, releasing a component used by Launchpad does not mean releasing the whole thing, now does it? I doubt Launchpad will become OSS, it would go completely against what I understand Canonical's mission to be.
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Look up Sahabot developed at our lab at the University of Zurich in the 90s. Nothing new. I don't understand why people decide to go public on their duplication of someone else's work.
Machine learning operates within a model, influenced by implementer's bias. Anything it'll ever be able to do will be constrained to lie within the model. There is no way "an AI" will be able to understand human concepts the same way humans do, and in part that's because humans don't learn just by playing Pictionary.
When will this hype subside, so that we can actually focus on the real stuff machine learning can do, without constant conflation with the idea that "general AI" could even ever exist?
Thank you very much for that excellent feedback. This talk was to a technical audience. I will be giving this talk again to a humanist audience soon, and you are absolutely right that I need to focus on precisely the point you raise!
Ask someone to hug you. You seem to need it.
So I just gave a talk at LCA2019 on precisely this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I also thought about arguing in this direction, but then I didn't want to open the gender debate, and so I left it at "humans".
Enjoy.
Android is Free, but Google has woefully neglected it for years. Or rather, they meticulously worked on pulling all functionality into Play Services, while blinding the public into thinking that they are so great in doing open-source.
If they take Android non-free (what does this even mean?), it won't actually make much of a difference to the status quo. I'd hope for the EU to not take any of this, and simply double the fine if they do.
Fuck you, Google.
I've no evidence for this, but the way he keeps defending big-G in the wake of all the privacy problems we've seen and continue to feel, he's been touting them as being stellar about privacy and that they would never, and bla.
Maybe it's true that unlike Facebook, Google doesn't sell your data. But the main reason for that is that they want to monetise you all by themselves. Also, nothing would stop them from doing so tomorrow.
Gmail innovations here or there, your best bet is to get rid of Google and Facebook, use plugins like uMatrix and Cookie AutoDelete and navigate the Web without splattering your fingerprints everywhere.
Check out matrix.org. It is not only a rich IM solution with all the bells and whistles, including multi-devices end-to-end encryption, but Matrix also provides for bridges and proxies to other networks, so that it can be used to unify communication.
It's only 2.5 years old but has already come quite a way!
https://matrix.org/
Check out matrix.org. It's a federated, open-standard, rich communication protocol. It can't do everything of Slack and Whatsapp yet, but it's moving along fast and you can help. There are already several clients to choose from, as well as integrations with other networks, APIs, and bot-like tools etc..
We used it at linux.conf.au 2017 to (inofficially) bridge between Slack and IRC, and had an update of ca. 33% of the conference within 3 days or so, while the number of Slack users went down to a low one-digit figure.
#matrix on Freenode is bridged to the main discussion room, so pop on over if you want.
Here's Matthew (one of the project leads) at FOSDEM (with video):
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedu...
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedu...
and my little lightning talk at LCA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
-- @martinkrafft
So now I have a couple dozens of "Noto" fonts on my machine, but wasn't the idea of Unicode to approach it "one size fits all"? I.e. why is there not a single "Noto serif" font that combines them all? Or how else is one supposed to configure the browser now to give access to all those symbols?
Correct me if I am wrong, but distilled water is harmful to the body as it flushes out salts and minerals. It can actually kill you at larger quantities. So why exactly should I drink distilled water when my body needs the minerals (i.e. during sport)?
This is standard practice in Germany and it works extremely well. Glad to see that the US is considering it now that Apple threatened to control the market.
Dear father-in-law, I am very proud to see you write here! ;)
German university Witten-Herdecke http://uni-wh.de/ has this form of "inverted contract between generations" for many years already: http://sg.blog.uni-wh.de/?lang=en.
Wow, 1KW/*hour*. Does that mean it's drawing more the longer you leave it on? ;)
The real question is: which solution works with the X.org drivers and does not require me to pull in proprietary binary code? My experience is that binary-only graphics cards drivers will blow up sooner or later, or might just stop being ported to newer X.org versions.
You definitely need a chainsaw.
So someone asked his/her 305 facebook friends and called it a study. How representative!
Bad politics is a self-fulfilling prophecy with people like Arif. I tip my hat to him, but his leaving means that the proportion of corrupt assholes up there increases and there is one less person in charge who could actually defend the people vs. capitalism and greed.
What we need is someone on our side who has the breath and the guts to stay up there.
What does it mean when someone is "legion"? Go Slashdot quality!
You think Debian is the worst? Don't use it then. Idiot.
I cannot find any discussions that Shuttleworth would have had with the Debian release team on the release or project lists. I hope he's not just talking to himself or only with those people who are members of the Debian release team and on his payroll.
All I can say is watch what this guy is up to "charitable" in the future. I'd rather he didn't.
Funny it must be in your boxed universes where alphabets with more than 26 characters are unthinkable. How naïve...
Uh, releasing a component used by Launchpad does not mean releasing the whole thing, now does it? I doubt Launchpad will become OSS, it would go completely against what I understand Canonical's mission to be.