No, the author makes the point that algorithms don't exculpate anyone from making bad decision. "The computer said: No." is no excuse for mishandling someone. We had the example on Slashdot of the algorithm that tries to predict recidivism and thus recommend probation or prison. A deeper analysis showed that it was biased against black people because it predicted higher recidivism for them than they had in reality, and it was biased pro whites as it predicted lower recidivism rates than real. And it was not even factoring in the skin color of the people in question. But the way it weighed the socio-economic factors seems to be the problem. It was scoring high on recidivism when many socio-economic risk factors were slightly up, but gave low scores when only one or two risk factors were high, but all others were low. Thus it was overestimating the recidivism rates of poor people with a weak family background, but completely missing the recidivism risk of well off people from a stable family, but deep personal problems.
But because the program was actually used in judiary decisions in several States, it unnecessarily sent people to prison, while it recommended to set high risk people free on probation, and it did it with a strong racial bias that was contradicted by reality.
The Ukraine has no oil. The Ukraine has iron and steel. And it is the transit country for natural gas exports to the E.U., thus it can threaten to block the gas revenue for Russia.
While other countries were rolling out their own specs, the US held back and waited a couple of years. When we decided to switch the technology had grown more capable, new algorithms for compression and such were available, and...we leapt ahead of everyone else in the world.
That's probably why I can get 1080p TV in Europe, but no one broadcasts 1080p in the U.S..
Of course concatenation is math. You do it all the time. You concatenate 3, period, 1, 4 and three other dots to create an approximate expression for pi: 3.14...
It's called positional notation, and it was invented in India, and got refined by the Arabs, who added the important symbol 0, called a circlet or zifr in Arabian. Thus today, we still talk about ciphers and Arabic numberals when referring to positional notations.
But even generators are late to the game. Charles Wheatstone and Werner Siemens presented the dynamoelectrical principle in 1867, and only then electric generators were ready for generating electric power in an industrial setting.
No. But there are rules how to handle that: The U.S. court asks an E.U. court to allow the transfer. And then the transfer happens, or the approbriate E.U. police unit gets the data and transfers it. Somehow this U.S. judge didn't want to play by the rules.
I wonder what happens if an E.U. court finds that the data transfer of personal data from an E.U. located server to the U.S. without E.U. judicary oversight is illegal. That was one of the arguments in the Microsoft case. If the U.S. judge then orders Google to ignore the E.U. court, he could be held in contempt of the E.U. court and face punitive measures.
There are international or bilateral agreements (e.g. Privacy Shield with the E.U.), that offer similar protections to non-citizens in the U.S.. I wonder if you knew that before you started your rant.
But the Privacy Shield agreement between the E.U. and the U.S. demands similar protections as spelled out in the Privacy Act for E.U. citizens. And if the U.S. don't comply, the E.U. is forced by a court decision to forbid any processing of E.U. citizen data in the U.S., which means that Google, Facebook. Amazon and Microsoft are in a ton of shit.
It exists in the same way than property rights or rights to remain unharmed and alive. Yes, there are robberies, grievious bodily harm and murder, and there is privacy intrusion. Why do you defend your life and your property, but not your privacy?
I'm pretty sure, it's actually the reverse. Metallic Hydrogen was theoretized to exist in 1935, and the idea that Jupiter's core could be metallic hydrogen was first published in the 1970ies, when data from the Pioneer 10 mission was being evaluated.
If drug companies relied on trade secrets, you run into the problem of allergies, of unknown interaction between different drugs and all other problems which can only be avoided if drug companies reveal the ingredients of their drug.
Your idea would cause drugs to become more unpredictable and thus less effective.
Interestingly though, European countries believe, they are paying the high drug prices to subsidize them for other countries. Which points to a simple fact: You aren't subsidizing drugs for other countries at all. If selling a drug in a country would turn in no profit for a pharmaceutical company, they wouldn't sell it there. You are subsidizing nil. If drug prices are high in your country, then you as the one who finally pays the bill for the drug, have not much negotiating power over drug prices, because a cartel of insurers, pharmaceutical companies and health care provider are setting the prices by haggling between each other.
For some reason, the U.S. recently voted someone into office who promised to dismantle any attempt to break into this cartel.
There have always been ways you weren't allowed to drive on. Pedestrian zones, walking ways, closed roads. There were always reasons why the provider of said ways said that cars shouldn't go there. Now there are additional considerations leading to even more ways which get closed for cars. It's the town that maintains the ways and operates them. Federal roads for instance are not affected in most cases.
No one is actively taking your gasoline driven car away. If you really need it, keep it. But for the largest part of the population, it might make sense to drive an electric car most of the year, and only for the few long trips into sparsely populated regions, they can rent a gasoline powered one.
Your argument is akin to arguing that cars are not usable for anybody, because there are some people living on small islands who need a boat to get somewhere else, or because once in a while, you need to go by airplane, because it would take too long to drive from New York City to Seattle. Yes, there are special cases, when a car is not a good solution. For those cases, we have other solutions. But that doesn't mean that we have to abandon cars. People living on small islands will not be frequent car customers. So what?
The same can be said for electric cars. Yes, there are special cases where they aren't a good solution. But for most people in most cases, they are. And for special needs, there are special transportation means you can use -- be it a gasoline powered car, a train, an airplane, a boat or a bicycle. It doesn't mean that you have to own all of them.
Baseload is one of those talking points which get repeated and repeated again, but no one actually enumerates the baseload. How much energy do we have to provide constantly at a minimum?
But still, they are subsidies. You get subsidies to build solar. You get subsidies to build a coal plant. So if we are talking about a free market, you have to remove the subsidies for building the coal plant, because construction cost is part of the cost of a coal plant.
The maximum signal-to-noise ratio you can get from a cassette tape is between 60 and 65 dB (depends on the type of tape, Fe, Cr, Ferrochrome, Metal). The CD offers 96 dB. A cassette tape is really, really band limited. Above 16 kHz, it won't record anything meaningful. Below 50 Hz the same. A tape has not enough band reserves to even record VHF radio while preserving quality.
No, he didn't. Compact Cassettes were invented in 1963 by the dutch company Philips, and in the 1970ies, they were everywhere. I was born in 1970, and as long as I remember, we had a cassette recorder at home. I also remember all the cassettes my father had in his box with his recordings, which were called something like "Songs 1975" or similar. We never had an 8-track though. My father just commented once during a movie where you could see someone putting a cassette into his car's stereo, that this was an 8-track, the first time I ever heard about it.
On the contrary: People don't use air travel every day. 99% of all travel is not air travel.
You are messing two things up: deciding against air travel for a specific trip, and abolishing air travel altogether.You are trying to make the one be the same than the other. Many issues with air travel can be solved by simply having less air travel.
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But because the program was actually used in judiary decisions in several States, it unnecessarily sent people to prison, while it recommended to set high risk people free on probation, and it did it with a strong racial bias that was contradicted by reality.
The Ukraine has no oil. The Ukraine has iron and steel. And it is the transit country for natural gas exports to the E.U., thus it can threaten to block the gas revenue for Russia.
While other countries were rolling out their own specs, the US held back and waited a couple of years. When we decided to switch the technology had grown more capable, new algorithms for compression and such were available, and ...we leapt ahead of everyone else in the world.
That's probably why I can get 1080p TV in Europe, but no one broadcasts 1080p in the U.S..
Of course concatenation is math. You do it all the time. You concatenate 3, period, 1, 4 and three other dots to create an approximate expression for pi: 3.14... It's called positional notation, and it was invented in India, and got refined by the Arabs, who added the important symbol 0, called a circlet or zifr in Arabian. Thus today, we still talk about ciphers and Arabic numberals when referring to positional notations.
But even generators are late to the game. Charles Wheatstone and Werner Siemens presented the dynamoelectrical principle in 1867, and only then electric generators were ready for generating electric power in an industrial setting.
No. But there are rules how to handle that: The U.S. court asks an E.U. court to allow the transfer. And then the transfer happens, or the approbriate E.U. police unit gets the data and transfers it. Somehow this U.S. judge didn't want to play by the rules.
I wonder what happens if an E.U. court finds that the data transfer of personal data from an E.U. located server to the U.S. without E.U. judicary oversight is illegal. That was one of the arguments in the Microsoft case. If the U.S. judge then orders Google to ignore the E.U. court, he could be held in contempt of the E.U. court and face punitive measures.
There are international or bilateral agreements (e.g. Privacy Shield with the E.U.), that offer similar protections to non-citizens in the U.S.. I wonder if you knew that before you started your rant.
But the Privacy Shield agreement between the E.U. and the U.S. demands similar protections as spelled out in the Privacy Act for E.U. citizens. And if the U.S. don't comply, the E.U. is forced by a court decision to forbid any processing of E.U. citizen data in the U.S., which means that Google, Facebook. Amazon and Microsoft are in a ton of shit.
It exists in the same way than property rights or rights to remain unharmed and alive. Yes, there are robberies, grievious bodily harm and murder, and there is privacy intrusion. Why do you defend your life and your property, but not your privacy?
It was just the wrong Wikipedia link. In reality, Ice IX it was.
I'm pretty sure, it's actually the reverse. Metallic Hydrogen was theoretized to exist in 1935, and the idea that Jupiter's core could be metallic hydrogen was first published in the 1970ies, when data from the Pioneer 10 mission was being evaluated.
If two protons fuse, they also capture an electron and turn into Deuterium, an heavy isotope of Hydrogen. No Helium-2, rather Hydrogen-2.
Your idea would cause drugs to become more unpredictable and thus less effective.
For some reason, the U.S. recently voted someone into office who promised to dismantle any attempt to break into this cartel.
There have always been ways you weren't allowed to drive on. Pedestrian zones, walking ways, closed roads. There were always reasons why the provider of said ways said that cars shouldn't go there. Now there are additional considerations leading to even more ways which get closed for cars. It's the town that maintains the ways and operates them. Federal roads for instance are not affected in most cases.
No one is actively taking your gasoline driven car away. If you really need it, keep it. But for the largest part of the population, it might make sense to drive an electric car most of the year, and only for the few long trips into sparsely populated regions, they can rent a gasoline powered one.
Your argument is akin to arguing that cars are not usable for anybody, because there are some people living on small islands who need a boat to get somewhere else, or because once in a while, you need to go by airplane, because it would take too long to drive from New York City to Seattle. Yes, there are special cases, when a car is not a good solution. For those cases, we have other solutions. But that doesn't mean that we have to abandon cars. People living on small islands will not be frequent car customers. So what?
The same can be said for electric cars. Yes, there are special cases where they aren't a good solution. But for most people in most cases, they are. And for special needs, there are special transportation means you can use -- be it a gasoline powered car, a train, an airplane, a boat or a bicycle. It doesn't mean that you have to own all of them.
Applying a syringe is not something everyone is able to do. Applying an EpiPen (or similar device) is. Laziness has nothing to do with it.
The Dutch Railways are now completely wind powered as of Jan 1 2017. Apparently they don't need baseload power plants.
But still, they are subsidies. You get subsidies to build solar. You get subsidies to build a coal plant. So if we are talking about a free market, you have to remove the subsidies for building the coal plant, because construction cost is part of the cost of a coal plant.
Really? You want one of those cars?
The maximum signal-to-noise ratio you can get from a cassette tape is between 60 and 65 dB (depends on the type of tape, Fe, Cr, Ferrochrome, Metal). The CD offers 96 dB. A cassette tape is really, really band limited. Above 16 kHz, it won't record anything meaningful. Below 50 Hz the same. A tape has not enough band reserves to even record VHF radio while preserving quality.
No, he didn't. Compact Cassettes were invented in 1963 by the dutch company Philips, and in the 1970ies, they were everywhere. I was born in 1970, and as long as I remember, we had a cassette recorder at home. I also remember all the cassettes my father had in his box with his recordings, which were called something like "Songs 1975" or similar. We never had an 8-track though. My father just commented once during a movie where you could see someone putting a cassette into his car's stereo, that this was an 8-track, the first time I ever heard about it.
Actually, it would be the distribution of an operating system.
You are messing two things up: deciding against air travel for a specific trip, and abolishing air travel altogether.You are trying to make the one be the same than the other. Many issues with air travel can be solved by simply having less air travel.