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  1. I don't know if people think "real AI" (insert your definition here) really exists, but there's certainly some "the computer makes the decision, humans just get to see the results" in play, and in some cases the humans don't know enough about the current state of the innards of the black box to be able to predict the decision. I'm not worried about robot revolution, but I am somewhat concerned that folks will get turned down for loans, insurance, what have you for reasons that no human can explain, validate, and/or correct.

  2. wanting to know which of my cats is walking on the countertop makes me a busybody?
    wanting to know when the UPS guy drops off a package on my front porch makes me a busybody? ... I'm still not seeing it.

  3. the part you appear to be dismissing is that it indicates that we have in fact identified the big differences. There's not another big difference hiding in the weeds, so to speak. This is useful information.

  4. Re:20-40 terabytes? on The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    For most of my purposes DVD image/audio quality is fine, but I really like having the menus available for things like language/subtitle selection. Thanks for the pointers!

  5. Re:Clearly this is already decided on The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Combine them and up the drive speed and you could have WARHAMR 40K drives. (in red, obviously.)

  6. Re:20-40 terabytes? on The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    that's about the solution I came up with when I wanted all the menus and stuff for DVDs, but that was a number of years ago. Is there a good solution for playing an ISO image nowadays, especially across a network?

  7. Re:Constant job changes are needed on Even More Americans Have Stopped Biking To Work (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I figured it was because the tilt in the road surface to get water to flow to the gutter was worse at the edge. But yeah, bikes hugging the left edge of the bike lane always made me nervous when I was going past them.

  8. Re:a butterfly will be sued for causing a typhoon on NVIDIA Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit Tied To Cryptocurrency Implosion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    you can't do that if you know you're wrong. Proving that they knew they were wrong when they said it... that's the challenging bit.

  9. Re:There isn't on Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have a pointer to the data you're using on what percentage of millennial degrees are in which fields?

  10. Re:Known moron Cayenne here to doubt the math. on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    if it pays for itself, what's the opportunity cost?

  11. Re:No correlation between biometrics and honesty on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they'll tell you whatever they think you want to hear.

  12. Re: And some idiot just yesterday INSISTED... on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so can specified overrides

  13. Re:Unconstitutional on The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    it sounds like they're not taking bitcoin themselves, they're just willing to connect to a bitcoin-dollar exchange to make your transactions simpler. They only wind up getting dollars.

  14. Re: I prefer the pound on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I know that and you know that but the people who make, e.g. bathroom scales are perfectly happy to report the force of weight in kilograms.

  15. Re:I prefer the pound on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    This. In theory the non-metric unit of mass is supposed to be the "slug" but pound gets overloaded just like kilogram does, to be both mass and force.

  16. Interesting question. What comes to my mind would be something like an automated hot air balloon; heat the air using solar-generated electricity to increase buoyancy, let it cool to decrease; possibly add/remove air from the bag using an electric pump. Not the fastest response time, but might be adequate for some purposes.

    I'd be interested in seeing what methods they actually use, though :)

  17. Re:Your tax dollars pay for it on The US Military is Making Balloons That Hover at the Edge of Space, Indefinitely (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder if this would be easier/cheaper than the 7k satellites SpaceX just got approval for?

  18. Re:What he said was true on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    To me, "just happens" carries the connotation of "for no reason", and _that_ has never been true. There's a reason. Usually programmer error, sometimes hardware error, rarely random glitch. But there's always a reason and the vast majority of the time it's human error.

    You're quite correct that crashes are to be expected, especially in a learning environment. And that's how I read the article author's statement too. But I can see where mykepredko could read it otherwise and disagree with that reading.

  19. Re:Interesting but where does the money come from on Indiegogo 'Guaranteed Shipping' Will Ensure Refunds If Campaigns Fail (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if they can get any form of credit an escrow account should be very manageable if they actually have something functional and just need to ramp up production. If they don't have something functional, they probably won't qualify for this program.

  20. what we should do is modify humans to be poisonous to mosquitos :)

  21. Re:Too many is not the problem on There Are Way Too Many Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    write a letter to your congresscritters pushing for mandatory mechanical licensing of video. Don't hold your breath, though.

  22. Re:How about gamers on The First Detailed Look at How Elon Musk's Space Internet Could Work (newscientist.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Glass is 31% slower, not a rounding error. Speed of light through air is much closer to matching your description. While this article from 2013 talks about using air-based conduits, I don't think it's reached full deployment yet.

  23. that seems more feasible. I still think it would be simpler for them to just require the proof before issuing the approval, but inefficient processes are hardly a new thing. Thanks for the clarification :)

  24. how does responding to a plural statement with a plural response indicate cowardice?

  25. Re:The call is coming from inside the house on Startling New Research Finds Large Buildup of Heat in the Oceans, Suggesting a Faster Rate of Global Warming [Update] (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    why do you think it mitigates the issue? My reading is that one of the biggest heat sinks we have is filling faster than we thought, reducing future ability to absorb heat.