But what are the opportunity costs of people having to bear the burden of living under a predictive model?
Exactly none.
You are free to ignore weather reports and it won't cost you anything. That way you won't benefit from the predictions either, but that opportunity cost is not incurred by the prediction.
No. Social cohesion means that people don't blame each other for their common problems.
In that context hate speech is just ridiculous. Arresting people for it would give it undeserved credence, and is an effective means of preventing social coherence.
Why are we using the Christian epoch? VMS used the Julian day from astronomy, and Unix has its own epoch. Why cling to an obsolete calendar that had to be reformed every couple centuries anyway?
The rendering engine of Mozilla has been reworked, and the chrome (not Chrome) around it is next, to profit from the improvements.
This means that features aren't cut from the code so much as simply not ported. Though that is not much of a distinction, but it may explain that bugs have nothing to do with it.
This is not the first time Mozilla have done this. Firefox was originally a minimal port of Netscape's Navigator with just enough functionality for web browsing.
But it is magic. It has tangible physical effects through the manipulation of mere symbols. And it usually doesn't work as desired.
And it is artificial. And it adapts to its environment to give better responses. This makes it more intelligent than most people.
And it is not an algorthm. Algorithms are finite lists of finite, precisely defined steps, which can be processed in finite time. AIs are systems that endlessly try to match an unknown function. AIs are not algorithms, they are systems that develop heuristics.
You have no idea how programs work, much less how they are written, least of all pattern recognition programs.
Any bias that the programmers may have is irrelevant. Imagine a matgematician who is biased towards prime numbers devising a way to add numbers. Would you expect this addition to result in more prime numbers han other methods when used by the general public?
Pattern recognition in particular is built with adaptive systems, which means machines that learn from examples. Those will exhibit bias if that bias is in the training set, or part of the way the questions are asked.
Those have nothing to do with the programmers nor the system itself. Those are squarely how the system is used.
If Washington made a law to require American companies to refer to Taiwan as the Republic of China, while China just refuses to do business with anyone who does so, all American companies will become Chinese companies.
Then I'm going to mention Taipan!, Drug Wars, Jones In The Fast Lane, SimCity, Railroad Tycoon, Transport Tycoon, Oil Imperium, Ports of Call, Theme Park, Zeppelin,...
I have no doubt that it will be done eventually, but if not even the phone lines are buried, then the temporary solution of bridging the gap with radio seems to be more permanent than I would have expected.
Electricity, water, waste water, phone lines, how difficult would it be to bury glass fiber alongside those?
But it's not done. The ethernet standard for fiber optic cable is intentionally incompatible with all previous standards. Routers and network cards for it are incredibly expensive.
But glass fiber is literally made from sand. The cable itself is cheaper than copper wires, and connectors are much more robust. You don't have to worry about RF interference either.
You have a point: Radio can cover a wider area without having to bury anything, which is an advantage in rural areas where little to no infrastructure is built anymore, or where no infrastructure other than roads have been built yet.
Getting fiber to the desk would not be difficult at all, from a purely technical perspective. It's the cost of the equipment that is prohibitively expensive, because it is more profitable to sell at high price to the few who absolutely need it or simply have the money to spare, than at low price to many.
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But what are the opportunity costs of people having to bear the burden of living under a predictive model?
Exactly none.
You are free to ignore weather reports and it won't cost you anything. That way you won't benefit from the predictions either, but that opportunity cost is not incurred by the prediction.
No. Social cohesion means that people don't blame each other for their common problems.
In that context hate speech is just ridiculous. Arresting people for it would give it undeserved credence, and is an effective means of preventing social coherence.
Other effective ways of reducing crime are not having the rich live next door to the poor, and reducing the diffrrence between rich and poor.
I notice that none of the measures that would havevan actual effect have anything to do with police, and everything with politicians.
It is never illegal to repair anything you own. You may void the warranty by doing so, but that's not illegal.
Why are we using the Christian epoch? VMS used the Julian day from astronomy, and Unix has its own epoch. Why cling to an obsolete calendar that had to be reformed every couple centuries anyway?
Why not put the era names in a separate config file? The logic won't change, but the list will be added to until Japan's population grows extinct.
Why does every era have to have its own codepoint? It's just a name, isn't it composed of existing glyphs?
Can we take any sort of action to force Mozilla to stop removing features?
No.
What you can do is fork it and maintain the feature yourself.
(Or pay someone to do it for you.)
Who knows, your fork might see wider adoption than the mainline version.
Feeds are too user-centric. You might not have all your reading choices aggregated and tracked by a central authority!
Feeds don't circumvent that either.
The rendering engine of Mozilla has been reworked, and the chrome (not Chrome) around it is next, to profit from the improvements.
This means that features aren't cut from the code so much as simply not ported. Though that is not much of a distinction, but it may explain that bugs have nothing to do with it.
This is not the first time Mozilla have done this. Firefox was originally a minimal port of Netscape's Navigator with just enough functionality for web browsing.
It should recognise faces.
It should tell you if a face that you show it matches a face in a catalogue of faces.
It said that those 28 people looked similar to someone who had been arrested by the police before. Not necesarily very similar, just somewhat.
This is the comment I have been looking for. (I think.)
But it is magic. It has tangible physical effects through the manipulation of mere symbols. And it usually doesn't work as desired.
And it is artificial. And it adapts to its environment to give better responses. This makes it more intelligent than most people.
And it is not an algorthm. Algorithms are finite lists of finite, precisely defined steps, which can be processed in finite time. AIs are systems that endlessly try to match an unknown function. AIs are not algorithms, they are systems that develop heuristics.
Do you expecct the face recognition software to also be judge and jury?
You have no idea how programs work, much less how they are written, least of all pattern recognition programs.
Any bias that the programmers may have is irrelevant. Imagine a matgematician who is biased towards prime numbers devising a way to add numbers. Would you expect this addition to result in more prime numbers han other methods when used by the general public?
Pattern recognition in particular is built with adaptive systems, which means machines that learn from examples. Those will exhibit bias if that bias is in the training set, or part of the way the questions are asked.
Those have nothing to do with the programmers nor the system itself. Those are squarely how the system is used.
That's why they built a wall, to prevent people from fleeing to a civilised neighbouring country.
No, they won't. But they will pretend to, and thus put pressure on Trump's government.
If Washington made a law to require American companies to refer to Taiwan as the Republic of China, while China just refuses to do business with anyone who does so, all American companies will become Chinese companies.
Then I'm going to mention Taipan!, Drug Wars, Jones In The Fast Lane, SimCity, Railroad Tycoon, Transport Tycoon, Oil Imperium, Ports of Call, Theme Park, Zeppelin, ...
what any of this means.
Or if it even means anything.
There is a saying that 90% of any advertising budget is wasted, but nobody knows which 90%.
For most businesses there is a simple correlation: No ads, no business. So don't ever expect fewer ads unless the 90% can be reduced.
And business plans do feature revenue targets.
Phone and cable could be replaced with fiber.
I have no doubt that it will be done eventually, but if not even the phone lines are buried, then the temporary solution of bridging the gap with radio seems to be more permanent than I would have expected.
Thank you for the insight.
Electricity, water, waste water, phone lines, how difficult would it be to bury glass fiber alongside those?
But it's not done. The ethernet standard for fiber optic cable is intentionally incompatible with all previous standards. Routers and network cards for it are incredibly expensive.
But glass fiber is literally made from sand. The cable itself is cheaper than copper wires, and connectors are much more robust. You don't have to worry about RF interference either.
You have a point: Radio can cover a wider area without having to bury anything, which is an advantage in rural areas where little to no infrastructure is built anymore, or where no infrastructure other than roads have been built yet.
Getting fiber to the desk would not be difficult at all, from a purely technical perspective. It's the cost of the equipment that is prohibitively expensive, because it is more profitable to sell at high price to the few who absolutely need it or simply have the money to spare, than at low price to many.
A clandestine attack has to be the most stupid way of drawing attention to your situation that I ever heard of.
It is at times like these that I am reminded of the dark fiber that has been laying dormant in east Berlin since the mid 1980s.
How do you think your 5G cell towers connect to the net?
Smoke signals?
Cell towers are connected to the net by fiber.