Now that we have an precedent set on making exemptions from the CDA, I expect they are going to push for another to really give this teeth.... and all they need is some compliant legislators.
the MPAA calls for "civil and criminal actions against creators of pirate add-on software and the repository web sites that host them, against distributors of the preloaded devices, and against the entities streaming the content."
Its a pretty classic dilemma - Got the route of the law and you are painted as over-reacting and unhinged.... Go above and beyond to have your issue and opinion respected and, again, you are then perceived as over-reacting and unhinged.
The culture that is supposed to hold people accountable for bad behaviour laughed it off as 'boyz bein boyz' is sexism in action. That the organized response of HR was to imply she was conspiring with the other *6* women in the company to give a good guy a hard time is sexism in action.
Yep, it happened to me (not at Uber) and I've seen it from afar in other larger orgs. Revoltingly common. The enabling aspect of 'its a Joke...' or 'they are a great guy!' is the worst
That completely depends on the kind of work he is doing. Although you have to get a clearance it rarely means you have access or work on classified data.
I live in a place where most of my friends who do things like art, medial care, science, are barely getting by. I would dive into that research project that may never pay if I didn't have to choose between that the cheap food payed for by change scraped out of the couch.
I'm an American in Bangalore now and I think it goes deeper than just a systemic educational advantage. Its also about relative pay and a global corporate rush to spend as little as they have to.
The purchasing power of an Engineer's salary here has instantly created an upper class which has many people very motivated to enter the field. The very high pay (in purchasing power), the generally high academic standards, and the absolute cost advantage of moving operations here means Americans in the long run aren't as competitive not simply because their standards aren't high enough.
Should American educational standards be raised ? Absolutely. Addressing the rest of the dynamics at play here to remain competitive is much harder to do however. In fact all of the changes that I imagine that would be needed would require major social changes that I suspect most Americans would resist.
After reading the Tech Report (note -- not a published paper in a respected journal) its clear that they are not presenting anything new here.
Its surpising that a) its news and b) they anyone is founding a company based on these ideas since they have to date not been sucessful in solving "the vision problem."
Firstly, the main ideas that they use have had a long history in visual modelling and statistical pattern recognition. The assertion that visual processing operates so cleanly at "levels" is far from clear although an idea with quite a long history -- See Marr for instance...Or spatial frequency channels as another example of competing partition of function.
One main issue is that they never mention what an explicit representation of visual object actually is, let alone how they might be reflected in cortex. Their approach follows the typical learning ideas of the perceptron, etc.. but those systems are known to be unstable!
More seriously, their whole argument doesn't demonstrate they understand the realities of the structure and functional architecture of visual cortex. That the visual system is highly space-variant is a fact that makes simplistic rectilinear statistical pattern matching a daunting problem. Although it is possible that their _may be_ an invariant representation, the jury is still out since its far from clear how orientation maps, occular dominance columns and the other peculiarities of the visual areas might produce such a thing when you foveate.
In summary, it seems much more like these guys were brought on board for advertising fanfare.
- That these technologies are strongly informing
the subcultures that really adopt them and that
at least one part of that effect is strengthening
different modalities of being social.
You could say the same about chat for instance
except these are groups of people that are out
socializing in the classical sense with special
new characteristics.
Slashdot Mirror
Now that we have an precedent set on making exemptions from the CDA, I expect they are going to push for another to really give this teeth.... and all they need is some compliant legislators.
the MPAA calls for "civil and criminal actions against creators of pirate add-on software and the repository web sites that host them, against distributors of the preloaded devices, and against the entities streaming the content."
Its a pretty classic dilemma - Got the route of the law and you are painted as over-reacting and unhinged.... Go above and beyond to have your issue and opinion respected and, again, you are then perceived as over-reacting and unhinged.
The faustian bargin of being a women developer.
and the guy who started all this!
The culture that is supposed to hold people accountable for bad behaviour laughed it off as 'boyz bein boyz' is sexism in action. That the organized response of HR was to imply she was conspiring with the other *6* women in the company to give a good guy a hard time is sexism in action.
Do you really believe he treats is wife any better? I'm skeptical
Excellent point. Its a set of dynamics that breed secondary issues (like sexual harrassment) by rewarding bad behaviour.
Yep, it happened to me (not at Uber) and I've seen it from afar in other larger orgs. Revoltingly common. The enabling aspect of 'its a Joke...' or 'they are a great guy!' is the worst
That completely depends on the kind of work he is doing. Although you have to get a clearance it rarely means you have access or work on classified data.
Tots, I wish that all the VC-backed 'futurists' who have nation-state levels of cash would finally put their money where their mouth is...
Yep, true.
I live in a place where most of my friends who do things like art, medial care, science, are barely getting by. I would dive into that research project that may never pay if I didn't have to choose between that the cheap food payed for by change scraped out of the couch.
Yep. True.
I seriously don't get the moralizing about 'jerbs!'... usually after bitching about pay disparity.
+1 Score: 9
A highly debatable 2 out of a 100, winning bigly!
Willful naivety it is!
So *that's* the universal coverage plan!
Glad when it ended, not looking forward to it agin. You know, arthritis.
Yep, me too for the same reasons.
If it walks like the last Duck.... ;)
I saw them rappel down the building.
Oh wait -- Why not package one of those singing frogs that live forever ? Audio encoding and playback is simple and ensured!
Oh, don't worry -- once they come knocking on your door for having an open-access wireless router in your home you'll know what side you are on...
I'm an American in Bangalore now and I think it goes deeper than just a systemic educational advantage. Its also about relative pay and a global corporate rush to spend as little as they have to.
The purchasing power of an Engineer's salary here has instantly created an upper class which has many people very motivated to enter the field. The very high pay (in purchasing power), the generally high academic standards, and the absolute cost advantage of moving operations here means Americans in the long run aren't as competitive not simply because their standards aren't high enough.
Should American educational standards be raised ? Absolutely. Addressing the rest of the dynamics at play here to remain competitive is much harder to do however. In fact all of the changes that I imagine that would be needed would require major social changes that I suspect most Americans would resist.
The new Black!
After reading the Tech Report (note -- not a published paper in a respected journal) its clear that they are not presenting anything new here.
Its surpising that a) its news and b) they anyone is founding a company based on these ideas since they have to date not been sucessful in solving "the vision problem."
Firstly, the main ideas that they use have had a long history in visual modelling and statistical pattern recognition. The assertion that visual processing operates so cleanly at "levels" is far from clear although an idea with quite a long history -- See Marr for instance...Or spatial frequency channels as another example of competing partition of function.
One main issue is that they never mention what an explicit representation of visual object actually is, let alone how they might be reflected in cortex. Their approach follows the typical learning ideas of the perceptron, etc.. but those systems are known to be unstable!
More seriously, their whole argument doesn't demonstrate they understand the realities of the structure and functional architecture of visual cortex. That the visual system is highly space-variant is a fact that makes simplistic rectilinear statistical pattern matching a daunting problem. Although it is possible that their _may be_ an invariant representation, the jury is still out since its far from clear how orientation maps, occular dominance columns and the other peculiarities of the visual areas might produce such a thing when you foveate.
In summary, it seems much more like these guys were brought on board for advertising fanfare.
I think that article made a more complex point
- That these technologies are strongly informing
the subcultures that really adopt them and that
at least one part of that effect is strengthening
different modalities of being social.
You could say the same about chat for instance
except these are groups of people that are out
socializing in the classical sense with special
new characteristics.