I'm not big fan of some of the art you describe, but it certainly qualifies as "art" in a way that an image generated by an algorithm wouldn't be. None of the artists who produce the kinds of works you describe only produced those works in isolation. Their work is part of a larger discussion in the art world. Those works were not necessarily created with the intent to have wide appeal, but to say something about the role of the artist in making artwork and/or the role of viewer in looking at art. And if that discussion is not always apparent in the works themselves, it certainly would be part of the ancillary materials the artist would produce as well: artist's statements and things like that. At the current state of the art, there is no way an AI could come up with something useful to communicate via its works that would serve the same function. I mean, you could train an "AI" with scans of every artwork ever and what would it do with that? Sure it could take some random seed and generate an image that might even be very pleasant to look at, but the AI wouldn't tell you why it thought this was important to do, that would take a separate and completely different kind of "AI" entirely. It's the difference between a self-driving car being able to get from point A to point B, and the car deciding where it wants to go and why.
Just to be clear: I am no fan of the airlines. I hate them and have been finding alternative forms of travel (and travelling less) as a result. But if their ticket terms are clear up-front (which I'm guessing they are for things like overbooking), then I don't see how the consumer has a valid complaint. If people charged with creating laws and regulations for airlines were to outlaw the practice of having goofy ticket prices like this, or to require the airlines to allow passengers to get off a plane any time they pull up to a gate without recourse for any situation in which the passenger does not get back on, it would be fine by me! I think almost all big businesses have totally unbalanced power in the marketplace and that airlines are the worst of the worst in this regard. So either pass a law that prevents the airlines from being able to unilaterally set unfavorable terms like this, or actually take a stand and don't fly.
Perhaps because buying tangible goods is different than buying a service? Hotdog and soda become yours as soon as the money changes hands and you are free to dispose of as you like. An airline ticket is a contract to perform a service under a set of conditions. The airline is free to set whatever conditions they want on their tickets, especially if there are obvious price differentials being offered. Personally, I think the practice of charging less for a longer trip is crazy, but obviously the airlines have their reasons.
Please point to even a single example of a car rental firm charging less for a 7-day rental than they do for a 5-day rental that starts on the same date.
Do you also think that if you don't finish your meal the restaurant can sue you?
A lot of the buffets where I live have posted policies that they will charge extra fees if you are caught "wasting" food. Sushi buffets especially point out that if you take nigiri or rolls and don't eat the rice, that's considered "wasting". I don't know how often these policies are enforced, but they do exist.
With respect to airlines, a ticket is a service contract, not a tangible good. If the terms of the contract stipulate that the customer must make a good faith effort to actually travel the complete route, then intentionally skipping a leg of the journey is a violation of the contract. If you dislike the standard practices of the airlines, and the terms and conditions they attach to their tickets, perhaps find another way to travel? Regarding overbooking: do they disclose that practice when you purchase the ticket? If so, you pays your money you takes your chances. I bet there's a price point at which you can have the risk of being bumped removed.
Sure, and since you need a passport to leave the country, we'll just keep track of when you leave and when you return... if you are gone for more than a certain amount of time, your benefit stops until you return.
If they both disappear at the same time, it's an obvious scam and scrutiny will be intense. Either they are waiting for the heat to die down before she joins him or like you said, she's just a patsy in all this.
You're right. I am switching back to incandescent bulbs immediately. Because there's obviously a lot of virtue in using an additional 47W per bulb. In the winter I won't even have to run the furnace, either, so it's like WINNING. And I can't wait to go back to having to change the bulbs every 6-12 months in every single socket. At least all those extra bulbs in the garbage will be plain glass and metal!
You know the "3rd world" countries where these "lower emissions standards" are being outsourced to? They could easily add the cost of protecting their own environments to the cost of providing goods/services to other countries. Nothing prevents them from enacting the same sort of environmental controls that other countries have (the dangers and solutions are well-documented at this point)... and they might even still be the most cost effective producer.
You don't know what you're talking about. The var keyword simply saves you having to specify the type on the left side of the initial assignment statement. You always know exactly what the type of any variable is as it is explicitly stated on the right hand side of the assignment. This is a massive readability win when the type name is more than a few characters. Additionally, VB.NET is strongly typed.
There is a built-in disincentive to sit on unused domain names: the cost of keeping it registered with the registrar. As long as someone is willing to pay for that, what business is it of yours whether they are "using" it or not.
"Of all the active/hot/shooting armed conflicts around the world right now (over 100), Muslims are involved on one or both sides in the vast majority of them."
If you bought a Pi to surf YouTube... OK. Whatever. It's much more than that. I don't see how it compares to Roku in any meaningful way, except perhaps there are DIYers who prefer to tinker with their media center? Or you could wire up an IR receiver? The Pi Zero W and Pi 3 B+ both have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, so make a remote app for your phone if you want?
I agree. Arduino brought us a platform for electronics and computing experimentation that really helped the maker movement, but Raspberry Pi took that to its logical progression by making the board more than just a micro-controller. But it's not like you have EOR situation here... they work together.
What I don't really understand is the use case for these Compute Modules... What does this get you that a "rack" of regular Pis wouldn't?
If someone is in their 70's, that's not "early onset" dementia, which is typically reserved for people under 65. What I think you mean is "early stages of dementia".
Good point. If you have the sockets set up to work with Alexa, an Echo can actually turn itself off... you'll still need the one in another room to turn it back on, though.
1) Understand what polling is and how it works before saying "polls mean nothing". The actual election itself was a poll. The main difference between the election and the pre-election polls was that the election included the entire sample set of people whose votes were actually counted, whereas a pre-election poll, by necessity, cannot know whether any given voter will actually show up on election day, and even if they could predict that perfectly, they have a margin of error regarding whether or not their MUCH smaller sample size is adequately representative of the population of voters on election day.
2) In 2016, the election hinged on a few states where Trump won by very small margins. Margins much smaller than the margin of error in pre-election polls.
3) It is possible that a) late-breaking events or b) the polls themselves altered the behavior of voters when it came time to vote on election day. People can change their minds about who they will vote for or their likelihood of voting. Events that happen after a pre-election poll cannot be retroactively fitted into existing poll results. People deciding that the election is a foregone conclusion and staying home is also difficult to incorporate. People deciding that they simply cannot stand the projected result is the other side of that coin. Constant exposure to polling information is demotivating to the projected winner's supporters and motivating to the supporters of opponents.
4) If the election for president was strictly popular vote, Hillary would have won easily and the polls would have been correct. Instead, polling for who is going to win the office of president is complicated by the fact that you really need to model 50 individual elections and then combine the results. See #2.
5) For the efficacy of polls, you cannot cherry-pick your sample like that and say the 2016 prediction was wrong, therefore polls mean nothing. That is no more insightful than saying that the 2012 predictions were all accurate therefore polls never lie.
6) Different polls have different reliability levels. Online polls of the sort that the President apparently sought to cheat on have some of the worst reliability levels you can get. Online polls have the abysmal selection bias, among other problems. And since his target audience is filled with people who discount science when it comes to things like evolution and climate change, whose education in mathematics, social science, and statistics is almost certainly lacking... it might be useful for him to have polls he cheated on to point to as a counter-point to those produced by the "fake news" folks. Then the narrative becomes "fake news trying to prevent Trump win with fake polls, don't let that happen! The real polls show Trump can win!" Competing polls results can heighten the effects mentioned in #3, to emphasize an "us vs. them" narrative.
How would I know if the "Do Not Disturb" button worked? Wireshark. Even if the device listens but doesn't respond, what matters is whether it phones home-- and that can be monitored. It should not be connecting to the network until after it recognizes the wake word... now I suppose it could record and then wait for the wake word to transmit... but if I'm that paranoid, why wouldn't I just install a bunch of smart sockets to turn the power to my devices off when I want true privacy? Or why would I get devices like these in the first place?
Pfft. Bio-energy is where it's at. Think GMO chlorophyll-based light-to-sugar energy capture from the sun (https://www.the-scientist.com/daily-news/genetic-modification-improves-photosynthetic-efficiency-32519). Then think about feeding that sugar to artificial muscle which contracts to convert stored chemical energy into kinetic energy (https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/first-contracting-human-muscle-grown-laboratory). The kinetic energy is then used to spin turbines which generate electricity. It's basically what was done in the pre-industrial age with horses and horse-powered machines, but this time we can use science to improve the efficiency of the energy capture and transfer.
Pointing it to the middle of a lake is stupid. While MaxMind may not have any ill intent here, their incompetence is incredible. If the problem is that stolen hardware is being tracked down to the GPS coordinates and the accuracy number associated with those coordinates is being ignored, set the GPS coordinates to somewhere more responsive than the middle of the lake. Perhaps the nearest police, sheriff, FBI office? You know, somewhere that will be able to respond to these concerns with some authority?
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I'm not big fan of some of the art you describe, but it certainly qualifies as "art" in a way that an image generated by an algorithm wouldn't be. None of the artists who produce the kinds of works you describe only produced those works in isolation. Their work is part of a larger discussion in the art world. Those works were not necessarily created with the intent to have wide appeal, but to say something about the role of the artist in making artwork and/or the role of viewer in looking at art. And if that discussion is not always apparent in the works themselves, it certainly would be part of the ancillary materials the artist would produce as well: artist's statements and things like that. At the current state of the art, there is no way an AI could come up with something useful to communicate via its works that would serve the same function. I mean, you could train an "AI" with scans of every artwork ever and what would it do with that? Sure it could take some random seed and generate an image that might even be very pleasant to look at, but the AI wouldn't tell you why it thought this was important to do, that would take a separate and completely different kind of "AI" entirely. It's the difference between a self-driving car being able to get from point A to point B, and the car deciding where it wants to go and why.
Just to be clear: I am no fan of the airlines. I hate them and have been finding alternative forms of travel (and travelling less) as a result. But if their ticket terms are clear up-front (which I'm guessing they are for things like overbooking), then I don't see how the consumer has a valid complaint. If people charged with creating laws and regulations for airlines were to outlaw the practice of having goofy ticket prices like this, or to require the airlines to allow passengers to get off a plane any time they pull up to a gate without recourse for any situation in which the passenger does not get back on, it would be fine by me! I think almost all big businesses have totally unbalanced power in the marketplace and that airlines are the worst of the worst in this regard. So either pass a law that prevents the airlines from being able to unilaterally set unfavorable terms like this, or actually take a stand and don't fly.
Perhaps because buying tangible goods is different than buying a service? Hotdog and soda become yours as soon as the money changes hands and you are free to dispose of as you like. An airline ticket is a contract to perform a service under a set of conditions. The airline is free to set whatever conditions they want on their tickets, especially if there are obvious price differentials being offered. Personally, I think the practice of charging less for a longer trip is crazy, but obviously the airlines have their reasons.
Please point to even a single example of a car rental firm charging less for a 7-day rental than they do for a 5-day rental that starts on the same date.
Do you also think that if you don't finish your meal the restaurant can sue you?
A lot of the buffets where I live have posted policies that they will charge extra fees if you are caught "wasting" food. Sushi buffets especially point out that if you take nigiri or rolls and don't eat the rice, that's considered "wasting". I don't know how often these policies are enforced, but they do exist.
With respect to airlines, a ticket is a service contract, not a tangible good. If the terms of the contract stipulate that the customer must make a good faith effort to actually travel the complete route, then intentionally skipping a leg of the journey is a violation of the contract. If you dislike the standard practices of the airlines, and the terms and conditions they attach to their tickets, perhaps find another way to travel? Regarding overbooking: do they disclose that practice when you purchase the ticket? If so, you pays your money you takes your chances. I bet there's a price point at which you can have the risk of being bumped removed.
Sure, and since you need a passport to leave the country, we'll just keep track of when you leave and when you return... if you are gone for more than a certain amount of time, your benefit stops until you return.
Read the article: "while some individuals found work, they were no more likely to do so than a control group of people who weren't given the money."
IOW, the UBI did not reduce their willingness to find work. It had no apparent effect at all.
You are already charged per mile by proxy via gas taxes.
Find that hard to believe, please link.
If they both disappear at the same time, it's an obvious scam and scrutiny will be intense. Either they are waiting for the heat to die down before she joins him or like you said, she's just a patsy in all this.
You're right. I am switching back to incandescent bulbs immediately. Because there's obviously a lot of virtue in using an additional 47W per bulb. In the winter I won't even have to run the furnace, either, so it's like WINNING. And I can't wait to go back to having to change the bulbs every 6-12 months in every single socket. At least all those extra bulbs in the garbage will be plain glass and metal!
You know the "3rd world" countries where these "lower emissions standards" are being outsourced to? They could easily add the cost of protecting their own environments to the cost of providing goods/services to other countries. Nothing prevents them from enacting the same sort of environmental controls that other countries have (the dangers and solutions are well-documented at this point)... and they might even still be the most cost effective producer.
You don't know what you're talking about. The var keyword simply saves you having to specify the type on the left side of the initial assignment statement. You always know exactly what the type of any variable is as it is explicitly stated on the right hand side of the assignment. This is a massive readability win when the type name is more than a few characters. Additionally, VB.NET is strongly typed.
There is a built-in disincentive to sit on unused domain names: the cost of keeping it registered with the registrar. As long as someone is willing to pay for that, what business is it of yours whether they are "using" it or not.
A large number of Google searches I run have not just a link to Wikipedia but incorporate WP content into the results page.
"Of all the active/hot/shooting armed conflicts around the world right now (over 100), Muslims are involved on one or both sides in the vast majority of them."
Citation needed.
The Pi works as a Linux system running Raspbian distro.... so emacs is there. What else would you want? ;)
Because wiring directly onto the pins is a pain? I'd guess they expect most people are covering them with a HAT or are using a breakout cable?
But for the Pi Zero... yeah, I'm going directly to the $2 color-coded headers you can solder on and never looking back.
If you bought a Pi to surf YouTube... OK. Whatever. It's much more than that. I don't see how it compares to Roku in any meaningful way, except perhaps there are DIYers who prefer to tinker with their media center? Or you could wire up an IR receiver? The Pi Zero W and Pi 3 B+ both have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, so make a remote app for your phone if you want?
I agree. Arduino brought us a platform for electronics and computing experimentation that really helped the maker movement, but Raspberry Pi took that to its logical progression by making the board more than just a micro-controller. But it's not like you have EOR situation here... they work together.
What I don't really understand is the use case for these Compute Modules... What does this get you that a "rack" of regular Pis wouldn't?
If someone is in their 70's, that's not "early onset" dementia, which is typically reserved for people under 65. What I think you mean is "early stages of dementia".
Good point. If you have the sockets set up to work with Alexa, an Echo can actually turn itself off... you'll still need the one in another room to turn it back on, though.
1) Understand what polling is and how it works before saying "polls mean nothing". The actual election itself was a poll. The main difference between the election and the pre-election polls was that the election included the entire sample set of people whose votes were actually counted, whereas a pre-election poll, by necessity, cannot know whether any given voter will actually show up on election day, and even if they could predict that perfectly, they have a margin of error regarding whether or not their MUCH smaller sample size is adequately representative of the population of voters on election day.
2) In 2016, the election hinged on a few states where Trump won by very small margins. Margins much smaller than the margin of error in pre-election polls.
3) It is possible that a) late-breaking events or b) the polls themselves altered the behavior of voters when it came time to vote on election day. People can change their minds about who they will vote for or their likelihood of voting. Events that happen after a pre-election poll cannot be retroactively fitted into existing poll results. People deciding that the election is a foregone conclusion and staying home is also difficult to incorporate. People deciding that they simply cannot stand the projected result is the other side of that coin. Constant exposure to polling information is demotivating to the projected winner's supporters and motivating to the supporters of opponents.
4) If the election for president was strictly popular vote, Hillary would have won easily and the polls would have been correct. Instead, polling for who is going to win the office of president is complicated by the fact that you really need to model 50 individual elections and then combine the results. See #2.
5) For the efficacy of polls, you cannot cherry-pick your sample like that and say the 2016 prediction was wrong, therefore polls mean nothing. That is no more insightful than saying that the 2012 predictions were all accurate therefore polls never lie.
6) Different polls have different reliability levels. Online polls of the sort that the President apparently sought to cheat on have some of the worst reliability levels you can get. Online polls have the abysmal selection bias, among other problems. And since his target audience is filled with people who discount science when it comes to things like evolution and climate change, whose education in mathematics, social science, and statistics is almost certainly lacking... it might be useful for him to have polls he cheated on to point to as a counter-point to those produced by the "fake news" folks. Then the narrative becomes "fake news trying to prevent Trump win with fake polls, don't let that happen! The real polls show Trump can win!" Competing polls results can heighten the effects mentioned in #3, to emphasize an "us vs. them" narrative.
How would I know if the "Do Not Disturb" button worked? Wireshark. Even if the device listens but doesn't respond, what matters is whether it phones home-- and that can be monitored. It should not be connecting to the network until after it recognizes the wake word... now I suppose it could record and then wait for the wake word to transmit... but if I'm that paranoid, why wouldn't I just install a bunch of smart sockets to turn the power to my devices off when I want true privacy? Or why would I get devices like these in the first place?
Pfft. Bio-energy is where it's at. Think GMO chlorophyll-based light-to-sugar energy capture from the sun (https://www.the-scientist.com/daily-news/genetic-modification-improves-photosynthetic-efficiency-32519). Then think about feeding that sugar to artificial muscle which contracts to convert stored chemical energy into kinetic energy (https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/first-contracting-human-muscle-grown-laboratory). The kinetic energy is then used to spin turbines which generate electricity. It's basically what was done in the pre-industrial age with horses and horse-powered machines, but this time we can use science to improve the efficiency of the energy capture and transfer.
Pointing it to the middle of a lake is stupid. While MaxMind may not have any ill intent here, their incompetence is incredible. If the problem is that stolen hardware is being tracked down to the GPS coordinates and the accuracy number associated with those coordinates is being ignored, set the GPS coordinates to somewhere more responsive than the middle of the lake. Perhaps the nearest police, sheriff, FBI office? You know, somewhere that will be able to respond to these concerns with some authority?
If all the jobs are automated, and no one has any jobs, who will buy the stuff the machines produce?