Some of us just want straight facts so we can form our own opinions.
Not possible. "The straight facts" is too much data for one person to assimilate. They must be filtered to produce something you can conceivably finish. So who do you want filtering your facts, since they must be filtered?
What you don't understand is that academic careers are based on what you can publish in a peer-reviewed journal. If you don't publish in the journals (or something equivalent), you won't be hired, you won't be promoted, your work doesn't become part of the literature. It doesn't exist for any practical purposes.
The COMPAS algorithm, while opaque, does not have race as an input. It was found its accuracy could be matched by an algorithm with just two variables: age and prior convictions.
The joker in that is the "prior convictions." If there was bias in how the subject was convicted in earlier cases, then the algorithm will codify that bias.
Don't hold your breath for the fifth-generation PlayStation.
A PlayStation 5 would be ninth-generation; Sony got into the console business late. The original PlayStation was fifth generation--its stablemates were the N64 and the Saturn.
The Hercules emulator will emulate an IBM z system on your PC. Now, any IBM mainframe software that's not decades old is copyright and basically impossible for an ordinary Joe to get for an emulator. But in the 60s and 70s, IBM released much of their system software free, figuring to make money on the hardware. You can get an MVS turnkey system for Hercules built with the last free version of MVS (3.8j). You get an assembler (G--H and HLASM were licensed program products) and TSO (not ISPF or SDSF, though. You do get a homebrew replacement which seems to be markedly inferior). No CICS or DB2. You don't get PL/I, FORTRAN or COBOL, but you can install old versions of these (no Checkout or Optimizing compiler for PL/I, but PL/I-F was free and you can find install tape images). I've got it installed on my Linux laptop, and it was a blast seeing the operator console come up in the x3270 session (I was an MVS operator for many years).
Asimov did that problem in the story "Reason". Robot QT-1 had never been properly instructed on what a human was, and refused to obey Donovan and Powell because it would not believe something weaker than it could be a human. They never did convince it otherwise; fortunately, it turned out not to be necessary.
Heinlein was calling them on it (although he probably overstated his case) fifty years ago in "Pravda means Truth" (which you can find in Expanded Universe or the earlier The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein)
Since this is modded up as "Interesting", I'm going to assume that the parent is not making a joke and point out that it's the wrong Venice. Nothing to do with Italians, and that's why it's in the LA Times.
Fortunately, you don't have to keep your mail in local folders and rely on that. All my mail is kept by Dovecot on an IMAP server that Thunderbird accesses. Yes, Thunderbird caches it locally, but that's not something that I have to pay any attention to. All the mail is kept in truly standard Maildir (mbox, at least in Dovecot, doesn't support nested directories) format on the server.
Well, that's why columns 72 to 80 were for the sequence numbers. With those, a dropped deck could be automatically sorted back into the correct sequence.
Paper tape? Kid stuff. Too fragile. Now, punch cards, that's where it's at! (I did my first programming in FORTRAN on punch cards. Yes, that makes me feel ancient)
Gene editing is extremely well understood: it makes predictable changes to human DNA. That's its attraction.
Gene-editing itself is well understood (I'd hesitate to call it "extremely" well understood, though). What the consequences of a given gene edit might be are often not well understood at all, because our understanding of cellular machinery is still rudimentary.
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I sincerely doubt that a human that had never seen a kitten before would see a kitten in an image blot either.
Not possible. "The straight facts" is too much data for one person to assimilate. They must be filtered to produce something you can conceivably finish. So who do you want filtering your facts, since they must be filtered?
Seems to have panned out for them over the last thirty-plus years.
What you don't understand is that academic careers are based on what you can publish in a peer-reviewed journal. If you don't publish in the journals (or something equivalent), you won't be hired, you won't be promoted, your work doesn't become part of the literature. It doesn't exist for any practical purposes.
The joker in that is the "prior convictions." If there was bias in how the subject was convicted in earlier cases, then the algorithm will codify that bias.
A PlayStation 5 would be ninth-generation; Sony got into the console business late. The original PlayStation was fifth generation--its stablemates were the N64 and the Saturn.
"Your winnings, Monsieur Pai."
I'd speak for the Mon Calamari, but I suspect it's a trap.
The Hercules emulator will emulate an IBM z system on your PC. Now, any IBM mainframe software that's not decades old is copyright and basically impossible for an ordinary Joe to get for an emulator. But in the 60s and 70s, IBM released much of their system software free, figuring to make money on the hardware. You can get an MVS turnkey system for Hercules built with the last free version of MVS (3.8j). You get an assembler (G--H and HLASM were licensed program products) and TSO (not ISPF or SDSF, though. You do get a homebrew replacement which seems to be markedly inferior). No CICS or DB2. You don't get PL/I, FORTRAN or COBOL, but you can install old versions of these (no Checkout or Optimizing compiler for PL/I, but PL/I-F was free and you can find install tape images). I've got it installed on my Linux laptop, and it was a blast seeing the operator console come up in the x3270 session (I was an MVS operator for many years).
Asimov did that problem in the story "Reason". Robot QT-1 had never been properly instructed on what a human was, and refused to obey Donovan and Powell because it would not believe something weaker than it could be a human. They never did convince it otherwise; fortunately, it turned out not to be necessary.
Heinlein was calling them on it (although he probably overstated his case) fifty years ago in "Pravda means Truth" (which you can find in Expanded Universe or the earlier The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein)
The point is, unlike lengths or weights, multiplying temperatures makes no goddam sense.
"For inhaling burning smoke, it's not as destructive to the lungs as you might think." Yeah, that makes it all better.
Since this is modded up as "Interesting", I'm going to assume that the parent is not making a joke and point out that it's the wrong Venice. Nothing to do with Italians, and that's why it's in the LA Times.
Actually, if you don't live in Japan, it's been on the market only since 2012.
Here you go. Although I suppose I should have made you Google it for yourself.
Fortunately, you don't have to keep your mail in local folders and rely on that. All my mail is kept by Dovecot on an IMAP server that Thunderbird accesses. Yes, Thunderbird caches it locally, but that's not something that I have to pay any attention to. All the mail is kept in truly standard Maildir (mbox, at least in Dovecot, doesn't support nested directories) format on the server.
The advertisers, of course. They are, after all, the ones paying the bills.
Who's that?
Well, that's why columns 72 to 80 were for the sequence numbers. With those, a dropped deck could be automatically sorted back into the correct sequence.
Paper tape? Kid stuff. Too fragile. Now, punch cards, that's where it's at! (I did my first programming in FORTRAN on punch cards. Yes, that makes me feel ancient)
You mean this one?
This is news?
But that'll give your computer blue CPUs!
Gene-editing itself is well understood (I'd hesitate to call it "extremely" well understood, though). What the consequences of a given gene edit might be are often not well understood at all, because our understanding of cellular machinery is still rudimentary.