You should really read text before quoting it. It would help with the quality of your replies.
Absolutely. But constructing an argument that is predicated on negating a sentence through the use of an easily overlooked two word suffix, does not enhance comprehension.
I think once self-driving vehicles are more common, a great deal more effort will be put into map accuracy and route planning.
I agree that mapping will improve in the future - but in order to do so it will need to take vehicle dimensions/weight into account as constraint, as well as indicating how things like how seasonal and day to day weather affects the route.
And already I would expect a commercial trucking operation to use a more robust navigation solution than a $99 TomTom.
Given that the majority of trucking companies are owner/operators, I am not so sure of that assumption.
Currently, the trucks will be operated the old-fashioned way in towns, so there will still be a human behind the wheel reading the signs and responding to them, or not.
If that was the case then trucks wouldn't go down the wrong road ever. 2 weeks ago there was a report on the local news of a truck driver ignoring the sign that said "Don't drive here", and crashing and causing an issue.
You know there's a bit more to that story, right? Got stuck in snow, wandered off alone and died. Wife and kid survived him by staying with the car like sensible people. Carry water and blankets in your car.
While he may have died because of bad survival skills, the root cause of his death was the choice of route.
AutoTrucker> 10:17 Mode Freeway, Speed Limit 75, Speed 70, Following planned route AutoTrucker> 10:23 Mode Freeway, Speed Limit 75, Speed 70, Following planned route AutoTrucker> 10:28 Mode Freeway, Speed Limit 75, Speed 0, Planed route blocked, No alternative possible AutoTrucker> 10:28 Notify home base, Request human oversight: normal, upload last 10 minutes of video camera footage AutoTrucker> 10:29 Detected unauthorized access to load, Request human oversight: Urgent, Upload video camera live feed AutoTrucker> 10:29 Activate dye bombs, Request human oversight: Urgent, Upload video camera live feed . . .
If a self driving big rig is going to make freeway driving better for the rest of us, then I am all for it.
I have personally encountered truck drivers weaving side to side, tailgating and making sudden lane changes (the worst one was also in heavy rain just as I was about to pass a truck) - and I don't even drive that much. I blame all that activity on drivers who either don't pay attention, are possibly sleep deprived and/or are trying to make some arbitrary (and possibly illegally imposed) mileage requirement. If that can be eliminated then the roads will be a safer place to be.
On the other hand I also see on local roads, signs that say things like "Truckers - the GPS information for this road is wrong - you cannot get through this way". So I am interested in knowing in general how route planning will be made for all driverless vehicles, as it would seem that local knowledge and common sense will (currently) always trump a computer selected route. Worst case scenario was that tech journalist who took the wrong road in northern CA (?) in winter and got stuck in snow and died.
This article is saying that fracking chemicals are getting into the same water that is feeding the wells to people's homes.
If it is getting into peoples drinking water supplies, then I would suspect that it is also potentially getting into the water supplies of livestock, as well as other animals.
Drug smugglers in Europe managed to deliver 400kg of cocaine to the Aldi supermarket chain in Berlin. So apparently not all drug smugglers are good at moving their contraband.
and of course yet another member of the Bush family. Yes Jeb is looking to run in 2016.
Last December I heard some conservative political commentator ripping Jeb to shreds because Jeb didn't speak like a 'murican. This commentator was objecting to Jeb using latino pronunciation when saying spanish words. With that sort of animosity brewing in places, Jeb is going to have a lot of trouble navigating the republican political machine regardless of how good a candidate he is.
There are various reasons Stallman couldn't make it as politician, but the most relevant one right now is that in the US we can't have candidates that can't be packaged like a product.
Stallman could't be elected because (for better or worse) Stallman is an extremist and true believer. No-one who has such a rigid position - no matter what their politics - is electable.
Remember back in the 70's & 80's when HP was one of the top 10 companies in the world
Not only that you could feel smug about owning an HP calculator that used RPN
(Also HP test gear was the bomb. I know that they sold off that section to someone else, but I have no idea if the current iteration of test gear has the same reputation.)
If people can't tell your age when looking at you, how can you get a computer to do it accurately?
A persons apparent age is going to depend on a whole bunch of things including environmental things. EG take a farmer who spends all of his time outdoors and someone who partakes in a regime of moisturizers, skin peeling and other assorted beauty activities and lives in their mom's basement. Even if they are the same biological age, they won't look the same apparent age.
It only works with carry on, unless you want you checked luggage to end in LA. But given that people are trying to pass off huge cases as carry ons, it doesn't seem much of an impediment.
While I would have no reason to consider the pope's opinion on a scientific matter to be particularly interesting; doesn't climate change count as a glaringly obvious moral issue under all but the very, very, most optimistic models of its expected effects?
Only if it exists(*)
* Note that I am not advocating either side - I am just pointing out the likely basis for the argument against the pope getting involved.
Unless the story is about politics, then the comments (including the +5s) are in the groupthink sewer here the same as they'd be anywhere else.
Not sure I totally agree with that.
From my experience even the groupthink comments still have to back up their arguments with some justification rather than just a "Because I said so" argument. (and anyone who tries to present a "Because I said so" argument is going to be called out pretty quickly.) Thus even if I am not in the groupthink, I am still learning the basis for the groupthink.
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You should really read text before quoting it. It would help with the quality of your replies.
Absolutely. But constructing an argument that is predicated on negating a sentence through the use of an easily overlooked two word suffix, does not enhance comprehension.
I think once self-driving vehicles are more common, a great deal more effort will be put into map accuracy and route planning.
I agree that mapping will improve in the future - but in order to do so it will need to take vehicle dimensions/weight into account as constraint, as well as indicating how things like how seasonal and day to day weather affects the route.
And already I would expect a commercial trucking operation to use a more robust navigation solution than a $99 TomTom.
Given that the majority of trucking companies are owner/operators, I am not so sure of that assumption.
Currently, the trucks will be operated the old-fashioned way in towns, so there will still be a human behind the wheel reading the signs and responding to them, or not.
If that was the case then trucks wouldn't go down the wrong road ever. 2 weeks ago there was a report on the local news of a truck driver ignoring the sign that said "Don't drive here", and crashing and causing an issue.
You know there's a bit more to that story, right? Got stuck in snow, wandered off alone and died. Wife and kid survived him by staying with the car like sensible people. Carry water and blankets in your car.
While he may have died because of bad survival skills, the root cause of his death was the choice of route.
AutoTrucker> 10:17 Mode Freeway, Speed Limit 75, Speed 70, Following planned route
AutoTrucker> 10:23 Mode Freeway, Speed Limit 75, Speed 70, Following planned route
AutoTrucker> 10:28 Mode Freeway, Speed Limit 75, Speed 0, Planed route blocked, No alternative possible
AutoTrucker> 10:28 Notify home base, Request human oversight: normal, upload last 10 minutes of video camera footage
AutoTrucker> 10:29 Detected unauthorized access to load, Request human oversight: Urgent, Upload video camera live feed
AutoTrucker> 10:29 Activate dye bombs, Request human oversight: Urgent, Upload video camera live feed
. . .
If a self driving big rig is going to make freeway driving better for the rest of us, then I am all for it.
I have personally encountered truck drivers weaving side to side, tailgating and making sudden lane changes (the worst one was also in heavy rain just as I was about to pass a truck) - and I don't even drive that much. I blame all that activity on drivers who either don't pay attention, are possibly sleep deprived and/or are trying to make some arbitrary (and possibly illegally imposed) mileage requirement. If that can be eliminated then the roads will be a safer place to be.
On the other hand I also see on local roads, signs that say things like "Truckers - the GPS information for this road is wrong - you cannot get through this way". So I am interested in knowing in general how route planning will be made for all driverless vehicles, as it would seem that local knowledge and common sense will (currently) always trump a computer selected route. Worst case scenario was that tech journalist who took the wrong road in northern CA (?) in winter and got stuck in snow and died.
Simple .. you start with "B".
Otherwise what you have is "A" sort of like "B", but with compromises.
It's only the language that a company with a $700 Billion market cap has decided should be the way to go to program all of their mobile devices.
If you play in the Apple ecosystem, then learning Swift is not "may be useful for a few years", it is a must for the future.
I mean my USB hub never drops my mouse connection or anything like that. So there is no chance of a false positive.
This article is saying that fracking chemicals are getting into the same water that is feeding the wells to people's homes.
If it is getting into peoples drinking water supplies, then I would suspect that it is also potentially getting into the water supplies of livestock, as well as other animals.
Drug smugglers in Europe managed to deliver 400kg of cocaine to the Aldi supermarket chain in Berlin. So apparently not all drug smugglers are good at moving their contraband.
Aldi supermarket workers find record cocaine stash in banana boxes
and of course yet another member of the Bush family. Yes Jeb is looking to run in 2016.
Last December I heard some conservative political commentator ripping Jeb to shreds because Jeb didn't speak like a 'murican. This commentator was objecting to Jeb using latino pronunciation when saying spanish words. With that sort of animosity brewing in places, Jeb is going to have a lot of trouble navigating the republican political machine regardless of how good a candidate he is.
There are various reasons Stallman couldn't make it as politician, but the most relevant one right now is that in the US we can't have candidates that can't be packaged like a product.
Stallman could't be elected because (for better or worse) Stallman is an extremist and true believer. No-one who has such a rigid position - no matter what their politics - is electable.
They spun out Agilent for that role into its own company
Yeah my memory was dim on that.
But HP still managed get rid of the business that was the core of what Hewlett and Packard created in their garage.
Remember back in the 70's & 80's when HP was one of the top 10 companies in the world
Not only that you could feel smug about owning an HP calculator that used RPN
(Also HP test gear was the bomb. I know that they sold off that section to someone else, but I have no idea if the current iteration of test gear has the same reputation.)
On the other hand, a computer can be trained to pick up clues in the image that most people wouldn't notice.
In which case it should have correctly estimated Obama's age in the second picture.
Or is this a "true scotsman" issue in that "a well trained system would have correctly estimated obamas age in the second pic" ??
You seem to assume that computers can't be better than humans?
Let me simplify my comment for you: A computer cannot control for factors that are not encoded in an image. But those factors can effect apparent age.
If people can't tell your age when looking at you, how can you get a computer to do it accurately?
A persons apparent age is going to depend on a whole bunch of things including environmental things. EG take a farmer who spends all of his time outdoors and someone who partakes in a regime of moisturizers, skin peeling and other assorted beauty activities and lives in their mom's basement. Even if they are the same biological age, they won't look the same apparent age.
How exactly is the seat unsold in this case? It was sold, it is simply unoccupied.
I agree. If anything the airline made *more* money as it didn't have to expend the fuel to get the passenger from Chicago to LA.
How does this work with checked luggage?
It only works with carry on, unless you want you checked luggage to end in LA. But given that people are trying to pass off huge cases as carry ons, it doesn't seem much of an impediment.
There's no way that it would power a home in the US. I can hear the constant squealing of the overload notification already.
Who says you are limited to buying just one?
Something I learned 20 years ago, is that you never, never have a non-tech directly manage techs.
You can say the same thing about recruiters.
I saw it on Ars before I saw it here. It is also on the front page of CNN
He also did things like stay out at night and dance tango. He's the cool pope that is needed by the catholic church!
While I would have no reason to consider the pope's opinion on a scientific matter to be particularly interesting; doesn't climate change count as a glaringly obvious moral issue under all but the very, very, most optimistic models of its expected effects?
Only if it exists(*)
* Note that I am not advocating either side - I am just pointing out the likely basis for the argument against the pope getting involved.
Unless the story is about politics, then the comments (including the +5s) are in the groupthink sewer here the same as they'd be anywhere else.
Not sure I totally agree with that.
From my experience even the groupthink comments still have to back up their arguments with some justification rather than just a "Because I said so" argument. (and anyone who tries to present a "Because I said so" argument is going to be called out pretty quickly.) Thus even if I am not in the groupthink, I am still learning the basis for the groupthink.