Every week, I get one or more solicitations inviting me to be a keynote speaker at a conference, serve as an editor of a journal, or submit an invited paper, all from conferences and journals that I've never heard of before. In the grand scheme of things, I am far from being an academic superstar. I can only imagine how much worse it must be for some of my colleagues.
What is surprising to me about this story isn't that some researchers are padding their CVs with publications in bogus journals, but that they aren't being called on it. If I were to list such a publication on my own annual report, my department chair would have me in his office in an instant, demanding to know why I was trying to damage the school's reputation with such idiocy.
So the question is this: why isn't this oversight also taking place at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford? Is there really so little departmental supervision that researchers at those schools can actually get away with this?
Who cares anymore? You can just put a PDF up somewhere of your work.
Peer reviews are a joke. It's a waste of time trying to satisfy some random person's demand that some completely non-related issue be resolved. With the communication system of 1 message back and forth every 2-3 months, it takes years to get something done. Unless you know your peers and then the whole thing is just a formality.
Respected journals and conferences have as much garbage as the next. 99% of the papers are only good for their introduction and related work since the papers are accepted from universities with more resources so they have access to more interesting problems. Their solutions most of the time are mostly awful and badly explained.
Youtube also has another weird problem. It's recommendation has gotten absolutely click baitey only. It used to suggest really interesting videos but now all it suggests are click baits from a handful of content creators.
And the main culprit for that is your own human brain.
Youtube mostly uses machine learning nowadays for its recommendation system.
Automatic systems designed to increase the time spent online watching, so that Google can earn more money.
The AI powering Youtube autonomously learn that showing you video A instead of Video B (given that you've watched X, Y, Z) is more likely to keep you around.
And due to how human brains work, it *happens* that video A is going to be click baitey because that's what works the best at attracting humans attention.
The AI is simply independently rediscovering and learning on its own what has been studied since a long time regarding, e.g. , content on the TV that attracts attention (answer : emotions, specially violent ones).
I wish that was true.
No matter how many times I ask it not to show me the "top 10 of blah blah blah", it keeps showing up.
Youtube's algorithm is compromised. Why does stupid stuff like "top 10 actors who did cartwheels in movies" (something I made up) show up? I don't care. I even actively say I'm not interested and a few weeks later there are more of the same.
It used to recommend music that I might like from the music videos I'd watched previously. Those are gone too. A lot of them were live shows and I suspect there was dubious copyright involved.
It used to recommend talks based on conference talks that I had watched previously. Those are gone. I spend quite a bit of time watching class lectures that professors have put up and it never recommends similar classes. I have to find them outside of youtube and make playlists to keep track of them.
I doubt IBM poured billions into oncology Watson. All it was doing was creating recommendations for doctors from reading patient reports and treatment research reports.
IBM sure poured billions into Watson and it's their biggest future product. The oncology seems like a small side project.
Google's performance has gone down over the years. It used to bring up better results but now it's mostly from the same sites and it's 99% the same as bing or any other search engine. Forum threads, blog posts don't come up often and it's mostly results from corporate websites.
Youtube also has another weird problem. It's recommendation has gotten absolutely click baitey only. It used to suggest really interesting videos but now all it suggests are click baits from a handful of content creators.
Google and Youtube ranking has been gamed way too much now, and Google in turn have really neutered their algorithms.
Doctors are blind, but not because they can't see. They are blinded by their conflict of interest between patient care and controlling costs. This conflict of interest is never disclosed to patients, but is very real. A doctor will never tell you "hey I think you might have pre-cancerous cells, but I'm not going to order the test because it costs $2000 and it may very well not be pre-cancer. We'll just wait and see if an actual tumor develops," but 99 times out of 100, if a doctor doesn't order a test for something, this is exactly the reasoning.
My wife of 37 years died from cervical cancer that started as precancerous cells in her cervix that were detected but never acted upon by her physician. The doctor wanted to wait another 6 months before running any tests on it because, she said, the cells were not conclusively abnormal.
In the trial, the emails I had subpoenaed showed that the cells were in fact a high grade pre-cancerous legion, but an email from the insurance company instructed the doctor to put off further testing or a LEEP procedure because they were way over that quarters expenditure numbers and that it could probably wait 6 months without issue. I will never forget that email, "these things can always wait 6 more months."
Well, those six months cost her her life, cost me my wife, and cost our children their mother.
I am all for replacing doctors with machines and AI, so long as insurance companies are never allowed to tinker with the algorithms. Let's face it though, they will figure out a way.
Don't wait for a greedy insurance company to murder a family member to demand change. We need a medical system that puts health first.
That is messed up. I hope you publicize this more and make more people aware of what happened.
I've had this opposite experience though. I went to the doctor for a routine checkup and ended up doing 3 tests for no reason. Chest X-ray, EEG and some blood work that I was charged for. They were not expensive tests but there was no reason for any of the tests. I even overheard one of the nurses look at my insurance details and say something giddily about deductibles.
The big problem is most applications suck at parallel processing. 4 Cores
1 for the OS
3 for the applications
Is what seems to suit home usage rather well. Having an 8th gen i7 with 6 cores with a total of 12 threads is underutilized by most applications, and will in general not run at its full potential. So you have an application that you want to work faster moving from 1 core to in essence 12 threads or 16 threads will not have mores law speed improvements, because the program is often stuck on a single core, which hasn't been increasing in speed.
The problem is multi-fold
1. Little Education in Parallel processing programming. Still this is mostly regulated to 300-400 CS classes for undergrad, and mostly designed to aid CS students as an area of study in their Masters Degree.
2. Most programming language have poor implementation of parallel processing. Threading is one way to do parallel processing their are other methods as well. I have seen languages such as MPL (for an early parallel processing system) that actually had an elegant structure of plural variables where you can code parallel processing without threads but using standard lanagues
This is psuto-code as I hadn't used MPL in over 20 years.
plural int x;
plural int holder;
int didchange = 1;
x = randint(maxcpu);
while (didchange) {
didchange = 0;
if (cpu % 2 = 0) {
if (x > x[cpu+1]) {
holder = x;
x = x[cpu+1];
x[cpu+1] = holder;
didchange = 1;
}
if (cpu % 2 = 1) {
if (x[cpu-1] > x) {
holder = x[cpu-1];
x[cpu-1] = x;
x= holder;
didchange = 1;
}
}
Locking conditions and timing all handled easily without a lot of thought of the details. Yet using all the processors.
For application developers, threading will utilize multiple cores.
For library developers, it's not just multiple cores. It's SIMD and specialized instruction sets for different architectures and even GPU acceleration. Most library developers go in very deep into these and most very popular libraries already do a lot of work on this.
The only problem where I had something hit one core while the others are doing nothing is the c++ linker. But, LLVM and gold are working on those problems.
is the problem. The world has more qualified workers than job openings except at the very, very top end of the spectrum (yeah, we can always use more math wizs and surgeons, very few folks have the genetics for that, and yes, a steady hand is genetic).
You'll still do interviews to pick between them. Hell, my Kid had an in person interview to apply for Nursing School so she could get into her 300 level courses. They had twice as many qualified students as openings...
But matching the applicant for the job is still difficult.
Job descriptions are vague or full of way too much requirements. I have been in jobs where two years into the job, I could only satisfy one line of the job requirement. Other jobs where I ended up doing things that were completely different than what the job description said.
It's either recruiters who have a worse sense of what is required or my very limited personal connections that I've gotten jobs from. Online job applications has never worked for me.
In individualist capitalist societies, all social structures are broken. Nations, tribes, friendships, romances, families, it all breaks down. The only social institute that remains is work.
This causes people to seek purpose in their work, to identify themselves with it, to hate those who do not work as hard.
This is all very convenient for the ruling caste, a new form of religion, bypassing all stupid rituals, enslaving people directly, while they thank you for it.
No, it doesn't break down. Why the hell would it break down? Makes no sense.
Insurance is all about risk mitigation. If you are high risk, you are high cost. That's how it works, no amount of Obama attempting to play God is going to change that.
Why is this such a hard concept to get? If you want to raise costs, you try and force insurance companies to see everyone as the same, because then they can't handle risk properly.
That is not how insurance works.
I pay into insurance knowing that if bad things happen I don't go bankrupt.
If I can only get insurance when no bad things happen and get kicked out it when they do happen, what is the point of getting insurance?
The way the thing is set up at the moment, as soon as a automaker hits 200,000 cars the subsidy decay clock begins for that automaker. Other manufacturers can amble up to the line and then take their swill from the trough at their leisure knowing their slice is reserved.
A better way would have been to have a larger shared trough of subsidy $ that is gobbled up and gone when it's gone. That would have accelerated EV manufacture as it would encourage more rapid adoption and penalise the slackards.
Unless a company then just decides to make it's business model the exploitation of these tax breaks.
A bigger problem with the tax break was it was a tax rebate. So, if you didn't pay more than $7500 in federal tax (excluding SS and MC), you won't get the full amount. So, essentially you could fully utilize the tax break if your income was about $100,000 or more (assuming you maximized all your other tax breaks).
When 14 percent of all film directors in the industry are female, and they represent 50 percent of the population, that's a big delta there that needs to get rectified.
The last time I had my alignment done I wasn't at all bothered that I couldn't find a female mechanic. Why should I care any more or less who's directing the movies that I watch?
Thanks to Wonder-Woman movie, I had conversations about the Justice League with girls.
I have a lot of weaknesses. My people skills suck, I'm scrawny, I'm arrogant. I'm also generally known as a really good programmer and people ask me how/why I'm so much better at my job than everyone else in the room. (There are a lot of things I'm not good at, but I'm good at my job, so say everyone I've worked with.)
I think one major difference is that I'm always studying, intentionally working to improve, every day. I've been doing that for twenty years.
I've worked with people who have "20 years of experience"; they've done the same job, in the same way, for 20 years. Their first month on the job they read the first half of "Databases for Dummies" and that's what they've been doing for 20 years. They never read the second half, and use Oracle database 18.0 exactly the same way they used Oracle Database 2.0 - and it was wrong 20 years ago too. So it's not just experience, it's 20 years of learning, getting better, every day. That's 7,305 days of improvement.
If you take this attitude towards other people, people will not ask your for help. At the same time, you'll be also be not able to ask for their help.
You're not interviewing your peers. They are already in your team. You should be working together.
I've seen superstar programmers suck the life out of project by over-complicating things and not working together with others.
No Google Apps, a Death Sentence For Its Smartphones
Seriously?
Where can I get a phone that is sentenced to death? I sure as hell wish I could easily replace the too-instrusive and never asked for Google junk for better alternatives. And tell my mom how to do it for her phone as well.
I mean yes, I know that there is lineage OS, but that is not exactly mom-friendly. And installing F-droid is easy, but removing the Google junk is not. And every Android update brings more unwanted Google junk.
Exactly! Google loses by someone not using their system, not the other way round.
ZTE will use Taiwanese chips and create its own version of android and store.
If ZTE plays it right, this might just be the right amount of disruption to create a new ecosystem for their phones.
Instead of creating low end, low margin phones, they might actually be forced to innovate and create something unique.
If your cost out weighs your production you are expendable, if you are on the other side of the ratio get a raise of find someone who will pay you your market value. Cut throat policies can cut both ways.
Exactly. They can lay off whoever they want and workers can choose to work for whichever employer they want.
IBM's stock has been performing appallingly. Obviously laying off older employees didn't work.
Only because the materials used in clothing are flexible enough to make fully automated manufacturing challenging, and even that is likely to change in the very, very near future. Oh, and for shoes, it already has changed to a large extent.
And even in factories with low levels of automation, large parts of the work are still done by machine. Humans guide the material through the machines, but the sewing is still done by machine, not by hand stitching, which means orders of magnitude fewer people are involved than historically were. So when I say that manufacturing is mostly automated, that includes garments and shoes.
how is the work on your cars and trucks done? oh yeah, by mechanics.
The mechanics plug in a diagnostic machine, it figures out what part to replace, and a person replaces it. It's only a matter of time before that final step is automated. Once you train one robot to do the work, you can have a million robots doing that same task for the cost of building the hardware. The leap from robot manufacturing to robot repair is a lot smaller than you seem to believe. The minute one car company does it, they'll all rush to do it, because the labor cost on car repairs is downright insane. Frankly, if any industry is ripe for automation, that's it.
how is building inspection done? oh, by people.
Only because buildings are still built by people. When robot house builders take over that industry, the verification will be done by someone signing off on the wiring diagram, and inspections will be as unnecessary as the builders.
If you look at electronics, engineers design things, machines build things, machines package things up for delivery, and soon machines will handle the delivery, too. If you honestly believe that any other manufacturing industry is significantly different in some way that will make it impractical to automated, I have a bridge to sell you.
And although you are correct that there will still be people doing repairs for a long time to come, that is true only for the sorts of repairs that involve going to the customer site, such as plumbing, refrigerator repair, etc. Car repairs and electronic repairs are on the short list for automation. Apple is already doing cell phone screen repairs by automated machine. By 2030, the only people doing electronic repairs by hand will be the independent repair shops, assuming the manufacturers' zero-labor repairs don't undercut them and run them out of business.
this won't change anytime soon, because AI is mostly a farce with nothing fundamental new in decades.
This has already changed, and if you haven't noticed, it's no surprise that you still think AI is a farce with nothing fundamentally new in decades.
It seems that a lot of people overestimate AI. There are just so many things that are insanely easy for humans that are really hard for machines.
People believe some sort of unsupervised deep learning method will come along and solve all these problems. But it might never come. Maybe deep learning will only work well with supervised data.
We might have to wait for the next breakthrough on unsupervised learning to achieve it and who knows when that will come.
I'm not understanding how this works better than a $0.50 mirror.
Ahole drivers with brights on, misaligned head beams, overly tall vehicles, strange colors and over bright head beams won't blind you.
Computer keeps track of other aggressive aholes who like to tailgate, lane swerve and do other stupid things.
You risk your life with a $0.50 mirror everyday. From seeing all the road rage everyday, I'd say we keep trying something better. There is just simply too much dangerous driving out there. Every 5-10 minutes on the road, I see something dangerous happening. From all the hundreds of thousands of accidents that happen, there are millions that are near misses.
Glassdoor already has a big jump on this information, it will be hard for LinkedIn to catch up. In an unrelated story, Microsoft has been screwing up LinkedIn since they bought it, I'm not using LinkedIn to tell business connections "Happy Birthday" or to track celebrity news.
Glasshdoor information is all over the place.
Some of their information is 5-8 years old. Some have been manipulated for whatever reasons. Maybe it is good for some areas but for my area it was not accurate and probably dangerous for candidates.
LinkedIn Users Will Soon Know What Jobs Pay Before Applying for Them
That's nice but what pisses me off the most about job interviews is not that, its being asked to a job interview and having a conversation something akin to the following:
Interviewer: We are looking to replace Bob who left us recently. We are looking for a somebody who know <long list of APIs> and has recently worked on <insanely specific project description>, we really need a close fit on this.
Me: No, if I had it would say so in my CV.
Interviewer: So, do you know Microsoft.NET
Me: No, if I did it would say so in my CV.
Interviewer: Do you have any Microsoft programming experience.
Me: No, if I had it would say so in my CV, in fact it says in my CV I have 10 years of Linux system programming experienece in C/C++.
Interviewer: Well I must say I'm rather disappointed, why did you even apply here?
Me: I was sent here by the person at the recruiting office who told me you wanted to interview me for a job because my CV matched what you were looking for.
Interviewer: Well,... it seems your skill profile is incompatible with our requirements.
Me: No shit stupid, **which my the common sense processor in my brain modifies to: This is true**.
Interviewer: Looks at his laptop screen and types something.
Me: Can I ask you something?
Interviewer: Sure, shoot?
Me: Did you even read my CV?
Interviewer: Scowls and does not answer.
Should not be interviewing for jobs through a recruiter! Especially after 10 years of industry experience.
... I set up a separate low-balance checking account just for less secure transactions. It can only get hit so hard, acting as a buffer to my household finances. I can transfer money in/out at my financial institution, but my household funds never get exposed to the world.
Buy a decent pan with a thick bottom, the thicker the better. It will take longer to heat, but it will also provide a more even and consistent heat as the mass helps 'smooth' fluctuations or uneveness and 'hot spots' in your heat source.
Cast Iron is your friend. Big, solid, sturdy pans that keep their heat well even if you have to take them off the burner before everything's done cooking. Get them properly seasoned and never wash them with soap, and they'll last a lifetime.
I prefer enameled dutch ovens.
You can't really wash the cast iron and it is very porous. So, it will absorb things like spices and all your meals start tasting like the meals before.
A joke is that if you cook fish in a cast iron pan, then it becomes your fish pan forever. Many meals afterwards will have that fishy flavor.
it is. I mean that. Especially if you live in a cheap apartment with a crappy kitchen. I do, and I cook most of my meals and it sucks. Your stove takes forever to heat up. Your burners don't heat evenly so you have to set them and let the pans hit for 10-15 minutes or your food cooks unevenly. The stove never stays level either. Your microwave is cheap and your fridge small. Your freezer smaller
If I make a meal of eggs, potatoes & some pancakes from scratch (minus the pancake mix, which is pre made) I need to plan on a little over an hour. 10-15 minutes to heat the pans. 5 minutes to mix the pancake batter (you can't mix it until just before you use it or it screws up the pancake texture). 15 minutes to cook the pancakes (one at a time, since I only have 1 full sized burner) 5 to cook the eggs (I'm not a good cook, so if I try to juggle the eggs and pancakes I burn one or the other) meanwhile the potatoes are cooking for about 30 minutes while being flipped periodically. Then I need to sit down and eat (15-20 minutes) and then clean up (10 minutes). Of course, I have to wait at least 30 minutes to an hour to clean since the pans need to cool or they'll warp. And you can't leave the pans sitting around, especially in an apartment. You'll get roaches. Lots of them. And ants.
Then there's the cost of fresh food. If it's not on sale it's expensive. If it is on sale it's about to go bad. You can freeze meat, but vegetables & fruits don't freeze well (fruit it tolerable in smoothies but nothing else). Packaged dinners are a great buy because they keep for months. I can buy them when they're on sale, stock up and save. I can't do that with Bananas. They're worm food in 5 days tops.
There's a reason why women used to be home bound. Food preparation was a full time job. As pay decreases they moved into the workforce largely to make up the difference. Processed foods made that possible. But wages keep going down. So we need foods that need less and less prep time and cost less and less. There are consequences.
You can get induction countertop stoves. They work really well and it heats up so fast that it actually throws off the rhythms of some quite experienced cooks.
I now try to batch cook and make meals that will last a few days. So I don't have to cook everyday or don't have to grab something unhealthy. Huge dutch ovens or the large pressure cookers are great for that.
Rest, exercise and cooked food are something that should never be skipped. Without your health, everything else is meaningless.
Slashdot Mirror
Every week, I get one or more solicitations inviting me to be a keynote speaker at a conference, serve as an editor of a journal, or submit an invited paper, all from conferences and journals that I've never heard of before. In the grand scheme of things, I am far from being an academic superstar. I can only imagine how much worse it must be for some of my colleagues.
What is surprising to me about this story isn't that some researchers are padding their CVs with publications in bogus journals, but that they aren't being called on it. If I were to list such a publication on my own annual report, my department chair would have me in his office in an instant, demanding to know why I was trying to damage the school's reputation with such idiocy.
So the question is this: why isn't this oversight also taking place at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford? Is there really so little departmental supervision that researchers at those schools can actually get away with this?
Who cares anymore? You can just put a PDF up somewhere of your work.
Peer reviews are a joke. It's a waste of time trying to satisfy some random person's demand that some completely non-related issue be resolved. With the communication system of 1 message back and forth every 2-3 months, it takes years to get something done. Unless you know your peers and then the whole thing is just a formality.
Respected journals and conferences have as much garbage as the next. 99% of the papers are only good for their introduction and related work since the papers are accepted from universities with more resources so they have access to more interesting problems. Their solutions most of the time are mostly awful and badly explained.
Youtube also has another weird problem. It's recommendation has gotten absolutely click baitey only. It used to suggest really interesting videos but now all it suggests are click baits from a handful of content creators.
And the main culprit for that is your own human brain.
Youtube mostly uses machine learning nowadays for its recommendation system. Automatic systems designed to increase the time spent online watching, so that Google can earn more money. The AI powering Youtube autonomously learn that showing you video A instead of Video B (given that you've watched X, Y, Z) is more likely to keep you around.
And due to how human brains work, it *happens* that video A is going to be click baitey because that's what works the best at attracting humans attention.
The AI is simply independently rediscovering and learning on its own what has been studied since a long time regarding, e.g. , content on the TV that attracts attention (answer : emotions, specially violent ones).
I wish that was true.
No matter how many times I ask it not to show me the "top 10 of blah blah blah", it keeps showing up.
Youtube's algorithm is compromised. Why does stupid stuff like "top 10 actors who did cartwheels in movies" (something I made up) show up? I don't care. I even actively say I'm not interested and a few weeks later there are more of the same.
It used to recommend music that I might like from the music videos I'd watched previously. Those are gone too. A lot of them were live shows and I suspect there was dubious copyright involved.
It used to recommend talks based on conference talks that I had watched previously. Those are gone. I spend quite a bit of time watching class lectures that professors have put up and it never recommends similar classes. I have to find them outside of youtube and make playlists to keep track of them.
I doubt IBM poured billions into oncology Watson. All it was doing was creating recommendations for doctors from reading patient reports and treatment research reports.
IBM sure poured billions into Watson and it's their biggest future product. The oncology seems like a small side project.
Google's performance has gone down over the years. It used to bring up better results but now it's mostly from the same sites and it's 99% the same as bing or any other search engine. Forum threads, blog posts don't come up often and it's mostly results from corporate websites.
Youtube also has another weird problem. It's recommendation has gotten absolutely click baitey only. It used to suggest really interesting videos but now all it suggests are click baits from a handful of content creators.
Google and Youtube ranking has been gamed way too much now, and Google in turn have really neutered their algorithms.
Doctors are blind, but not because they can't see. They are blinded by their conflict of interest between patient care and controlling costs. This conflict of interest is never disclosed to patients, but is very real. A doctor will never tell you "hey I think you might have pre-cancerous cells, but I'm not going to order the test because it costs $2000 and it may very well not be pre-cancer. We'll just wait and see if an actual tumor develops," but 99 times out of 100, if a doctor doesn't order a test for something, this is exactly the reasoning.
My wife of 37 years died from cervical cancer that started as precancerous cells in her cervix that were detected but never acted upon by her physician. The doctor wanted to wait another 6 months before running any tests on it because, she said, the cells were not conclusively abnormal.
In the trial, the emails I had subpoenaed showed that the cells were in fact a high grade pre-cancerous legion, but an email from the insurance company instructed the doctor to put off further testing or a LEEP procedure because they were way over that quarters expenditure numbers and that it could probably wait 6 months without issue. I will never forget that email, "these things can always wait 6 more months."
Well, those six months cost her her life, cost me my wife, and cost our children their mother.
I am all for replacing doctors with machines and AI, so long as insurance companies are never allowed to tinker with the algorithms. Let's face it though, they will figure out a way.
Don't wait for a greedy insurance company to murder a family member to demand change. We need a medical system that puts health first.
That is messed up. I hope you publicize this more and make more people aware of what happened.
I've had this opposite experience though. I went to the doctor for a routine checkup and ended up doing 3 tests for no reason. Chest X-ray, EEG and some blood work that I was charged for. They were not expensive tests but there was no reason for any of the tests. I even overheard one of the nurses look at my insurance details and say something giddily about deductibles.
The big problem is most applications suck at parallel processing. 4 Cores 1 for the OS 3 for the applications
Is what seems to suit home usage rather well. Having an 8th gen i7 with 6 cores with a total of 12 threads is underutilized by most applications, and will in general not run at its full potential. So you have an application that you want to work faster moving from 1 core to in essence 12 threads or 16 threads will not have mores law speed improvements, because the program is often stuck on a single core, which hasn't been increasing in speed.
The problem is multi-fold 1. Little Education in Parallel processing programming. Still this is mostly regulated to 300-400 CS classes for undergrad, and mostly designed to aid CS students as an area of study in their Masters Degree.
2. Most programming language have poor implementation of parallel processing. Threading is one way to do parallel processing their are other methods as well. I have seen languages such as MPL (for an early parallel processing system) that actually had an elegant structure of plural variables where you can code parallel processing without threads but using standard lanagues This is psuto-code as I hadn't used MPL in over 20 years. plural int x; plural int holder; int didchange = 1; x = randint(maxcpu); while (didchange) { didchange = 0; if (cpu % 2 = 0) { if (x > x[cpu+1]) { holder = x; x = x[cpu+1]; x[cpu+1] = holder; didchange = 1; } if (cpu % 2 = 1) { if (x[cpu-1] > x) { holder = x[cpu-1]; x[cpu-1] = x; x= holder; didchange = 1; } } Locking conditions and timing all handled easily without a lot of thought of the details. Yet using all the processors.
For application developers, threading will utilize multiple cores.
For library developers, it's not just multiple cores. It's SIMD and specialized instruction sets for different architectures and even GPU acceleration. Most library developers go in very deep into these and most very popular libraries already do a lot of work on this.
The only problem where I had something hit one core while the others are doing nothing is the c++ linker. But, LLVM and gold are working on those problems.
is the problem. The world has more qualified workers than job openings except at the very, very top end of the spectrum (yeah, we can always use more math wizs and surgeons, very few folks have the genetics for that, and yes, a steady hand is genetic). You'll still do interviews to pick between them. Hell, my Kid had an in person interview to apply for Nursing School so she could get into her 300 level courses. They had twice as many qualified students as openings...
But matching the applicant for the job is still difficult.
Job descriptions are vague or full of way too much requirements. I have been in jobs where two years into the job, I could only satisfy one line of the job requirement. Other jobs where I ended up doing things that were completely different than what the job description said.
It's either recruiters who have a worse sense of what is required or my very limited personal connections that I've gotten jobs from. Online job applications has never worked for me.
In individualist capitalist societies, all social structures are broken. Nations, tribes, friendships, romances, families, it all breaks down. The only social institute that remains is work.
This causes people to seek purpose in their work, to identify themselves with it, to hate those who do not work as hard.
This is all very convenient for the ruling caste, a new form of religion, bypassing all stupid rituals, enslaving people directly, while they thank you for it.
No, it doesn't break down. Why the hell would it break down? Makes no sense.
THAT"S HOW INSURANCE WORKS!
How many times does this need to be repeated?
Insurance is all about risk mitigation. If you are high risk, you are high cost. That's how it works, no amount of Obama attempting to play God is going to change that.
Why is this such a hard concept to get? If you want to raise costs, you try and force insurance companies to see everyone as the same, because then they can't handle risk properly.
That is not how insurance works.
I pay into insurance knowing that if bad things happen I don't go bankrupt.
If I can only get insurance when no bad things happen and get kicked out it when they do happen, what is the point of getting insurance?
The way the thing is set up at the moment, as soon as a automaker hits 200,000 cars the subsidy decay clock begins for that automaker. Other manufacturers can amble up to the line and then take their swill from the trough at their leisure knowing their slice is reserved.
A better way would have been to have a larger shared trough of subsidy $ that is gobbled up and gone when it's gone. That would have accelerated EV manufacture as it would encourage more rapid adoption and penalise the slackards.
Unless a company then just decides to make it's business model the exploitation of these tax breaks.
A bigger problem with the tax break was it was a tax rebate. So, if you didn't pay more than $7500 in federal tax (excluding SS and MC), you won't get the full amount. So, essentially you could fully utilize the tax break if your income was about $100,000 or more (assuming you maximized all your other tax breaks).
When 14 percent of all film directors in the industry are female, and they represent 50 percent of the population, that's a big delta there that needs to get rectified.
The last time I had my alignment done I wasn't at all bothered that I couldn't find a female mechanic. Why should I care any more or less who's directing the movies that I watch?
Thanks to Wonder-Woman movie, I had conversations about the Justice League with girls.
A lot of sci-fi is just sausage fest.
That seems about right to me.
I have a lot of weaknesses. My people skills suck, I'm scrawny, I'm arrogant. I'm also generally known as a really good programmer and people ask me how/why I'm so much better at my job than everyone else in the room. (There are a lot of things I'm not good at, but I'm good at my job, so say everyone I've worked with.)
I think one major difference is that I'm always studying, intentionally working to improve, every day. I've been doing that for twenty years.
I've worked with people who have "20 years of experience"; they've done the same job, in the same way, for 20 years. Their first month on the job they read the first half of "Databases for Dummies" and that's what they've been doing for 20 years. They never read the second half, and use Oracle database 18.0 exactly the same way they used Oracle Database 2.0 - and it was wrong 20 years ago too. So it's not just experience, it's 20 years of learning, getting better, every day. That's 7,305 days of improvement.
If you take this attitude towards other people, people will not ask your for help. At the same time, you'll be also be not able to ask for their help.
You're not interviewing your peers. They are already in your team. You should be working together.
I've seen superstar programmers suck the life out of project by over-complicating things and not working together with others.
Salaries for top A.I. researchers have skyrocketed because there are not many people who understand the technology
...because there are not many hiring managers who understand the technology, so they throw money at it instead.
Those AI researchers can start a company that will be bought out for millions within a year.
They're actually losing money by working for a salary.
No Google Apps, a Death Sentence For Its Smartphones
Seriously?
Where can I get a phone that is sentenced to death? I sure as hell wish I could easily replace the too-instrusive and never asked for Google junk for better alternatives. And tell my mom how to do it for her phone as well.
I mean yes, I know that there is lineage OS, but that is not exactly mom-friendly. And installing F-droid is easy, but removing the Google junk is not. And every Android update brings more unwanted Google junk.
Exactly! Google loses by someone not using their system, not the other way round.
ZTE will use Taiwanese chips and create its own version of android and store.
If ZTE plays it right, this might just be the right amount of disruption to create a new ecosystem for their phones.
Instead of creating low end, low margin phones, they might actually be forced to innovate and create something unique.
If your cost out weighs your production you are expendable, if you are on the other side of the ratio get a raise of find someone who will pay you your market value. Cut throat policies can cut both ways.
Exactly. They can lay off whoever they want and workers can choose to work for whichever employer they want.
IBM's stock has been performing appallingly. Obviously laying off older employees didn't work.
H1Bs are currently handed out by a lottery. Instead, hand them out based on the salary of the employee, highest-paid first.
Really need an H1B employee? Gonna have to pay more.
This will heavily bias H1B towards the east and west coast.
Lottery unfortunately is the most fair way to do it.
Only because the materials used in clothing are flexible enough to make fully automated manufacturing challenging, and even that is likely to change in the very, very near future. Oh, and for shoes, it already has changed to a large extent.
And even in factories with low levels of automation, large parts of the work are still done by machine. Humans guide the material through the machines, but the sewing is still done by machine, not by hand stitching, which means orders of magnitude fewer people are involved than historically were. So when I say that manufacturing is mostly automated, that includes garments and shoes.
The mechanics plug in a diagnostic machine, it figures out what part to replace, and a person replaces it. It's only a matter of time before that final step is automated. Once you train one robot to do the work, you can have a million robots doing that same task for the cost of building the hardware. The leap from robot manufacturing to robot repair is a lot smaller than you seem to believe. The minute one car company does it, they'll all rush to do it, because the labor cost on car repairs is downright insane. Frankly, if any industry is ripe for automation, that's it.
Only because buildings are still built by people. When robot house builders take over that industry, the verification will be done by someone signing off on the wiring diagram, and inspections will be as unnecessary as the builders.
If you look at electronics, engineers design things, machines build things, machines package things up for delivery, and soon machines will handle the delivery, too. If you honestly believe that any other manufacturing industry is significantly different in some way that will make it impractical to automated, I have a bridge to sell you.
And although you are correct that there will still be people doing repairs for a long time to come, that is true only for the sorts of repairs that involve going to the customer site, such as plumbing, refrigerator repair, etc. Car repairs and electronic repairs are on the short list for automation. Apple is already doing cell phone screen repairs by automated machine. By 2030, the only people doing electronic repairs by hand will be the independent repair shops, assuming the manufacturers' zero-labor repairs don't undercut them and run them out of business.
This has already changed, and if you haven't noticed, it's no surprise that you still think AI is a farce with nothing fundamentally new in decades.
It seems that a lot of people overestimate AI. There are just so many things that are insanely easy for humans that are really hard for machines.
People believe some sort of unsupervised deep learning method will come along and solve all these problems. But it might never come. Maybe deep learning will only work well with supervised data.
We might have to wait for the next breakthrough on unsupervised learning to achieve it and who knows when that will come.
I'm not understanding how this works better than a $0.50 mirror.
Ahole drivers with brights on, misaligned head beams, overly tall vehicles, strange colors and over bright head beams won't blind you.
Computer keeps track of other aggressive aholes who like to tailgate, lane swerve and do other stupid things.
You risk your life with a $0.50 mirror everyday. From seeing all the road rage everyday, I'd say we keep trying something better. There is just simply too much dangerous driving out there. Every 5-10 minutes on the road, I see something dangerous happening. From all the hundreds of thousands of accidents that happen, there are millions that are near misses.
Glassdoor already has a big jump on this information, it will be hard for LinkedIn to catch up. In an unrelated story, Microsoft has been screwing up LinkedIn since they bought it, I'm not using LinkedIn to tell business connections "Happy Birthday" or to track celebrity news.
Glasshdoor information is all over the place.
Some of their information is 5-8 years old. Some have been manipulated for whatever reasons. Maybe it is good for some areas but for my area it was not accurate and probably dangerous for candidates.
LinkedIn Users Will Soon Know What Jobs Pay Before Applying for Them
That's nice but what pisses me off the most about job interviews is not that, its being asked to a job interview and having a conversation something akin to the following: Interviewer: We are looking to replace Bob who left us recently. We are looking for a somebody who know <long list of APIs> and has recently worked on <insanely specific project description>, we really need a close fit on this. Me: No, if I had it would say so in my CV. Interviewer: So, do you know Microsoft .NET
Me: No, if I did it would say so in my CV.
Interviewer: Do you have any Microsoft programming experience.
Me: No, if I had it would say so in my CV, in fact it says in my CV I have 10 years of Linux system programming experienece in C/C++.
Interviewer: Well I must say I'm rather disappointed, why did you even apply here?
Me: I was sent here by the person at the recruiting office who told me you wanted to interview me for a job because my CV matched what you were looking for.
Interviewer: Well, ... it seems your skill profile is incompatible with our requirements.
Me: No shit stupid, **which my the common sense processor in my brain modifies to: This is true**.
Interviewer: Looks at his laptop screen and types something.
Me: Can I ask you something?
Interviewer: Sure, shoot?
Me: Did you even read my CV?
Interviewer: Scowls and does not answer.
Should not be interviewing for jobs through a recruiter! Especially after 10 years of industry experience.
... I set up a separate low-balance checking account just for less secure transactions. It can only get hit so hard, acting as a buffer to my household finances. I can transfer money in/out at my financial institution, but my household funds never get exposed to the world.
Overdraft fees will kill you in that case.
Buy a decent pan with a thick bottom, the thicker the better. It will take longer to heat, but it will also provide a more even and consistent heat as the mass helps 'smooth' fluctuations or uneveness and 'hot spots' in your heat source. Cast Iron is your friend. Big, solid, sturdy pans that keep their heat well even if you have to take them off the burner before everything's done cooking. Get them properly seasoned and never wash them with soap, and they'll last a lifetime.
I prefer enameled dutch ovens.
You can't really wash the cast iron and it is very porous. So, it will absorb things like spices and all your meals start tasting like the meals before.
A joke is that if you cook fish in a cast iron pan, then it becomes your fish pan forever. Many meals afterwards will have that fishy flavor.
Making a sandwich could be considered processed.
But the real question is why TF is this on Slashdot?
Depends on the bread you are using. Article states that some breads are ultra-processed.
it is. I mean that. Especially if you live in a cheap apartment with a crappy kitchen. I do, and I cook most of my meals and it sucks. Your stove takes forever to heat up. Your burners don't heat evenly so you have to set them and let the pans hit for 10-15 minutes or your food cooks unevenly. The stove never stays level either. Your microwave is cheap and your fridge small. Your freezer smaller If I make a meal of eggs, potatoes & some pancakes from scratch (minus the pancake mix, which is pre made) I need to plan on a little over an hour. 10-15 minutes to heat the pans. 5 minutes to mix the pancake batter (you can't mix it until just before you use it or it screws up the pancake texture). 15 minutes to cook the pancakes (one at a time, since I only have 1 full sized burner) 5 to cook the eggs (I'm not a good cook, so if I try to juggle the eggs and pancakes I burn one or the other) meanwhile the potatoes are cooking for about 30 minutes while being flipped periodically. Then I need to sit down and eat (15-20 minutes) and then clean up (10 minutes). Of course, I have to wait at least 30 minutes to an hour to clean since the pans need to cool or they'll warp. And you can't leave the pans sitting around, especially in an apartment. You'll get roaches. Lots of them. And ants. Then there's the cost of fresh food. If it's not on sale it's expensive. If it is on sale it's about to go bad. You can freeze meat, but vegetables & fruits don't freeze well (fruit it tolerable in smoothies but nothing else). Packaged dinners are a great buy because they keep for months. I can buy them when they're on sale, stock up and save. I can't do that with Bananas. They're worm food in 5 days tops. There's a reason why women used to be home bound. Food preparation was a full time job. As pay decreases they moved into the workforce largely to make up the difference. Processed foods made that possible. But wages keep going down. So we need foods that need less and less prep time and cost less and less. There are consequences.
You can get induction countertop stoves. They work really well and it heats up so fast that it actually throws off the rhythms of some quite experienced cooks.
I now try to batch cook and make meals that will last a few days. So I don't have to cook everyday or don't have to grab something unhealthy. Huge dutch ovens or the large pressure cookers are great for that.
Rest, exercise and cooked food are something that should never be skipped. Without your health, everything else is meaningless.
I don't trust slashdot anymore.