Fair explanation, but the criticism still stands - hipsters as a group are no longer hip, theres too many of em. It's no longer few oddballs seeking the weird, think kramer from seinfeld, but whole subculture of kramer clones which define themselves through volatily weird hip things.
The core of the throuble is the scorched earth. Without hipsters, the given obscure hip thing would remain hip much longer - hipsters giving it exposure often propel it into mainstream culture.
This is often bad, when some closed circlejerk is suddenly disturbed by the masses, but by same amount, it's often positive when the exposure is desired. Cool obscure, silly and goofy vietnamese android game? Sure it's hipsters spreading the word. Hipsters and more broadly, the millenial culture of short attention spans and seeking of anything new are the frontiers of hype. They will perhaps destroy whole traditional advertising industry (there will be only professional hipsters for hire, look up pewdiepie vs flappy bird saga), which can be only good.
At that point, hipsters will evolve into their next stage, the natural calling - they'll become hypesters.
Maybe distraction tactics? "Hurr durr we have Tor and PGP, you can trust us now, pls, pretty pls, we promise to not abuse, pinky pie promise, we'll be good now!!!11". But more realistically it's to log IP accesses to key server, so they can make nice fb target address sender home ip correlation maps of interesting people who are foolish enough to fall for this trick. That's all assuming their plan is indeed to replace pgp.mit.edu. Keybase tried to do that already with not much success, but facebook has far much better social leverage to get traction than mere app appers doing twitter apps.
Incidentally, mass effect game universe. Engines eventually reach full charge cloud, which needs to be neutralized by dispersing it into atmospheres of planets en route. We could do the same.
> Term limits aren't necessarily a good thing
While your argumentation is sound, incubents for life are not great either - status quo tends to get more and more entrenched - bureaucracy keeps growing indefinitely even after system achieves base performance. All the problems of executive branch seeping into legislative.
When country starts to suck, people get disillusioned with politics, lethargic. This further amplifies the feedback loop - less informed voters, more need for term limits to enact at least some change.
Otherwise posts of career politicians are still replaced due to pawn exchanges, death and occasional corruption scandal - which luckily prevents efficacy converging towards zero as time goes. However members are keeping post for two decades or more in extreme cases, and we get very nasty things - paradoxically short sighted planning due to populism (because low quality voter base), rampant coat changing, high level corruption - old guard is well connected for it, compared to n00bs in office.
> if you replace people at too high a rate
It's an interesting game theoretic/social problem - design optimum algorithm to dynamically adjust term limits. Perhaps applying progressive handicap to ballot results depending on time already in office. But just like fixed term limits could be counterproductive, no term limits at all could be sticking head in the sand, hardly optimal.
But this is just tiny fraction of stuff done, mainly low tier last mile or local company DC. NOCs of big internet companies and ISPs operate with far bigger assortment of gear and technology. HW/SW tasks tend to be more intertwined plus ton of stuff which can go wrong and speed of troubleshooting is important.
Redundancy solves hardware problems, but unfortunately human errors tend to be more costly in networks - by their nature these are usually far less compartmentalized than "software" when looked at from bird's view. Put simply, incompetent operator can do far more damage.
Finally, OP makes it sound like all it takes is just CCIE and not being an immigrant. But the cert is just an entry pass and netops job market is is several magnitudes smaller, so there are proportionally less H1B workers doing it.
I'd not recommend to OP doing this, unless he can get through CCIE fairly effortlessly just by using years of experience. That being said, basic programming skills is a must for such a job to get familiar with internal tooling used at any given place (eg here he'd need ability to parse bash,php,python,ruby at minimum).
The formal logic approach is still the only one that has a theoretical possibility of creating some aspects of true intelligence.
Sort of. We actually do have fairly robust theorem solvers written in prolog, but thats not enough. Intuitively, "true AI" works like extracting formal logic theorems out of huge set of before/after data fed to a blackbox.
Just like humans do something intuitively at first, with some degree of success, but when they find rational backgrounds (with help of formal logic rigor) behind that intuition, it gives significant accuracy boost. The two work in tandem - formal rigor is toothless when facing the totally unknown, but can explain it after intuitive models are trained and it can feed its hypotheses into them in lieu of farmed data.
Trouble is that layered NN camp ("intuitive") and formal logic camps are still too separated. But corporate interests will force merger to a degree.
This is most visible in speech recognition, and more recently, vision where formal grammar models sit above low level intuition NN, or better said, directs training of layers so it can work with less data and reason about unknown inputs because it actually "understands" what's going on on a formal level.
Yes and no. Fun stuff is still done, especially in terms of computer vision and hearing - there are numerous stakeholders.
However zero interest in actual research, it's all engineering.
They do not want code monkeys, as you still do need a PhD-level knownledge to even design this kind of stuff, just like computers in the 60s. Thats why companies are bought and people are hired only if they have something useful to show already in applicable field.
The trend is real. Its not called AI, but "deep learning". Basically Google and Facebook bought few datamining companies and ball got rolling.
Google torch7 for specific stuff.
1) Megacorp allows to run your models on their data, and you can write paper about it
2) But your results are not reproducible, because well, private corporate data
Solution indeed is to put the training sets in the public domain.
Quite the opposite, strong AI was the previous boom/bust.
This time we're using "sheer brute force" to train NNs in a bid to get emergent intelligence-like patterns, instead of using formal logic constraint solvers.
That's not how rechargeable batteries work, your deoxidize charging would be super tricky:)
Aluminium indeed sucks weight and even price wise, but can make it up potentially with longevity and ability to sustain high charging currents.
Don't forget about valence electrons which affect net ion charge you can transport in a chemical bond - it's 1 Li vs 3 Alu. The reason why alu sucks weight wise is first and foremost unfavourable chemistry for cathode counterpart, not atomic number.
Alu does have interesting properties, though:
http://www.nature.com/nature/j...
While it indeed have a magnitude less specific capacity, these cells can serve as interesting interim in place of ultra capacitors (regenertive braking etc). Li reactivity is both blessing and curse.
Or a 1TB+ 2003-2015 releases archive torrent for avid readers who are serious about this free ebook thing (beware: some countries may deem clicking on that link stealing millions of dollars worth of books).
Kinda thought it was part of the joke - as the riot happens regardless of color its actually pretty politically correct. The racist compiler warns about that, though (are you sure you want to be painted black?).
Pretty much. Combined with Snowden, US has come out of its closet and said "fuck this shit about moral facade". While nobody likes russians in the region (as historically their imperialism was still far worse), europeans are now between two grinding stones - one completing an encirclement, and second having a good pretense to "feel threatened". Interesting times ahead.
Remains to be seen if NATO members signed the faustian deal with lesser of the evils.
Just to chime in with fun theory feminists and masculinists often forget about when they start sperging about muh gender online:
The mean IQ scores between men and women vary little. The variability of male scores is greater than that of females, however, resulting in more males than females in the top and bottom of the IQ distribution.
What this means that yes, in absolute numbers, there are more males with above average IQ, but also higher amount of dullards, with women sticking closer to the center of the bell curve.
My personal pet theory is that back in the day, this didnt matter that much as computers were too much of a niche. When this niche became a mainstream subject though, this distribution (in absolute numbers) started to show. Overgeneralized pet theory: intelligent people flock towards computers, others to sports and other endeavors. In absolute numbers, theres more males of smae iq than females.
It's true the economic restraints of COMECON bolstered DIY culture all across eastern bloc, a lot of which remains to this day.
It had it's downsides as well - the hardware at hand was often ancient and the planned state production we relied on for a lot of source components was very inefficient because of communist cadres - basically incompetent bureaucrats created a lot of e-waste by manufacturing useless junk (a lot of which was not salvageable even for DIY) - buggy ASIC clones, poorly done circuit boards, non-existent QA and braindamaged designs, you name it. Think incompetent CEOs of monopolistic megacorp wreaking havoc with nepotism/cronyism/office politics and there being no board to dismiss em. Thats what communist cadres were like, good technical designs and processes were rejected for political reasons way too often.
FWIW the title is a bit incorrect, as both hackaday posts deal mostly with computer scene in czechoslovakia, not soviet bloc as a whole - MM is recycling/abridging existing computer history series from root.cz into english.
I'm hoping it will be a pleasant surprise. There is history of decent open software output from IBM, I'm sure sendmail "community" was pretty butthurt about Postfix too, as IBM simply took good protocol with horrible implementation and re-wrote the daemon from scratch and got it right.
It's really, really tricky to do - a decentralized peg to external fiat currency with no central/internal control on-chain.
a rather flawed version based on artificial scarcity
Well, yeah. The get rich quick pyramid distribution is necessary to induce gold fever and guarantee hype (as seen in perpetual carousel or half-assed alts dangerously overselling their wares). People still wanted the stable fiat peg for other stuff, eg on chain fiat/btc exchange. Not going to happen (unless you make it a underwritten fiat XCP/CC asset, at which point it's no longer on-chain decentralised) unless central banks and government bond markets are actually on that chain, ie internal to the system.
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Fair explanation, but the criticism still stands - hipsters as a group are no longer hip, theres too many of em. It's no longer few oddballs seeking the weird, think kramer from seinfeld, but whole subculture of kramer clones which define themselves through volatily weird hip things.
The core of the throuble is the scorched earth. Without hipsters, the given obscure hip thing would remain hip much longer - hipsters giving it exposure often propel it into mainstream culture.
This is often bad, when some closed circlejerk is suddenly disturbed by the masses, but by same amount, it's often positive when the exposure is desired. Cool obscure, silly and goofy vietnamese android game? Sure it's hipsters spreading the word. Hipsters and more broadly, the millenial culture of short attention spans and seeking of anything new are the frontiers of hype. They will perhaps destroy whole traditional advertising industry (there will be only professional hipsters for hire, look up pewdiepie vs flappy bird saga), which can be only good.
At that point, hipsters will evolve into their next stage, the natural calling - they'll become hypesters.
> WTF?
Maybe distraction tactics? "Hurr durr we have Tor and PGP, you can trust us now, pls, pretty pls, we promise to not abuse, pinky pie promise, we'll be good now!!!11". But more realistically it's to log IP accesses to key server, so they can make nice fb target address sender home ip correlation maps of interesting people who are foolish enough to fall for this trick. That's all assuming their plan is indeed to replace pgp.mit.edu. Keybase tried to do that already with not much success, but facebook has far much better social leverage to get traction than mere app appers doing twitter apps.
Incidentally, mass effect game universe. Engines eventually reach full charge cloud, which needs to be neutralized by dispersing it into atmospheres of planets en route. We could do the same.
> Term limits aren't necessarily a good thing
While your argumentation is sound, incubents for life are not great either - status quo tends to get more and more entrenched - bureaucracy keeps growing indefinitely even after system achieves base performance. All the problems of executive branch seeping into legislative.
When country starts to suck, people get disillusioned with politics, lethargic. This further amplifies the feedback loop - less informed voters, more need for term limits to enact at least some change.
Otherwise posts of career politicians are still replaced due to pawn exchanges, death and occasional corruption scandal - which luckily prevents efficacy converging towards zero as time goes. However members are keeping post for two decades or more in extreme cases, and we get very nasty things - paradoxically short sighted planning due to populism (because low quality voter base), rampant coat changing, high level corruption - old guard is well connected for it, compared to n00bs in office.
> if you replace people at too high a rate
It's an interesting game theoretic/social problem - design optimum algorithm to dynamically adjust term limits. Perhaps applying progressive handicap to ballot results depending on time already in office. But just like fixed term limits could be counterproductive, no term limits at all could be sticking head in the sand, hardly optimal.
> vswitch, ip balancer gear etc
But this is just tiny fraction of stuff done, mainly low tier last mile or local company DC. NOCs of big internet companies and ISPs operate with far bigger assortment of gear and technology. HW/SW tasks tend to be more intertwined plus ton of stuff which can go wrong and speed of troubleshooting is important.
Redundancy solves hardware problems, but unfortunately human errors tend to be more costly in networks - by their nature these are usually far less compartmentalized than "software" when looked at from bird's view. Put simply, incompetent operator can do far more damage.
Finally, OP makes it sound like all it takes is just CCIE and not being an immigrant. But the cert is just an entry pass and netops job market is is several magnitudes smaller, so there are proportionally less H1B workers doing it.
I'd not recommend to OP doing this, unless he can get through CCIE fairly effortlessly just by using years of experience. That being said, basic programming skills is a must for such a job to get familiar with internal tooling used at any given place (eg here he'd need ability to parse bash,php,python,ruby at minimum).
obligatory webcomic to explain difference between hand holding (implicit) and hand forcing(explicit)
Sort of. We actually do have fairly robust theorem solvers written in prolog, but thats not enough. Intuitively, "true AI" works like extracting formal logic theorems out of huge set of before/after data fed to a blackbox.
Just like humans do something intuitively at first, with some degree of success, but when they find rational backgrounds (with help of formal logic rigor) behind that intuition, it gives significant accuracy boost. The two work in tandem - formal rigor is toothless when facing the totally unknown, but can explain it after intuitive models are trained and it can feed its hypotheses into them in lieu of farmed data.
Trouble is that layered NN camp ("intuitive") and formal logic camps are still too separated. But corporate interests will force merger to a degree.
This is most visible in speech recognition, and more recently, vision where formal grammar models sit above low level intuition NN, or better said, directs training of layers so it can work with less data and reason about unknown inputs because it actually "understands" what's going on on a formal level.
Yes and no. Fun stuff is still done, especially in terms of computer vision and hearing - there are numerous stakeholders.
However zero interest in actual research, it's all engineering.
They do not want code monkeys, as you still do need a PhD-level knownledge to even design this kind of stuff, just like computers in the 60s. Thats why companies are bought and people are hired only if they have something useful to show already in applicable field.
The trend is real. Its not called AI, but "deep learning". Basically Google and Facebook bought few datamining companies and ball got rolling.
Google torch7 for specific stuff.
It's not that bad, but the gist is similiar.
1) Megacorp allows to run your models on their data, and you can write paper about it
2) But your results are not reproducible, because well, private corporate data
Solution indeed is to put the training sets in the public domain.
Quite the opposite, strong AI was the previous boom/bust.
This time we're using "sheer brute force" to train NNs in a bid to get emergent intelligence-like patterns, instead of using formal logic constraint solvers.
That's not how rechargeable batteries work, your deoxidize charging would be super tricky :)
Aluminium indeed sucks weight and even price wise, but can make it up potentially with longevity and ability to sustain high charging currents.
Don't forget about valence electrons which affect net ion charge you can transport in a chemical bond - it's 1 Li vs 3 Alu. The reason why alu sucks weight wise is first and foremost unfavourable chemistry for cathode counterpart, not atomic number.
Alu does have interesting properties, though:
http://www.nature.com/nature/j...
While it indeed have a magnitude less specific capacity, these cells can serve as interesting interim in place of ultra capacitors (regenertive braking etc). Li reactivity is both blessing and curse.
People of color this week.
... monochromatic.
Which is weird, because looking at world in this black and white fashion is well
obscure maymays were never this appropriate
Or a 1TB+ 2003-2015 releases archive torrent for avid readers who are serious about this free ebook thing (beware: some countries may deem clicking on that link stealing millions of dollars worth of books).
Thanks obama!
Kinda thought it was part of the joke - as the riot happens regardless of color its actually pretty politically correct. The racist compiler warns about that, though (are you sure you want to be painted black?).
Pretty much. Combined with Snowden, US has come out of its closet and said "fuck this shit about moral facade". While nobody likes russians in the region (as historically their imperialism was still far worse), europeans are now between two grinding stones - one completing an encirclement, and second having a good pretense to "feel threatened". Interesting times ahead.
Remains to be seen if NATO members signed the faustian deal with lesser of the evils.
A good amp is the best antenna.
A good hill is the best amp.
Just to chime in with fun theory feminists and masculinists often forget about when they start sperging about muh gender online: The mean IQ scores between men and women vary little. The variability of male scores is greater than that of females, however, resulting in more males than females in the top and bottom of the IQ distribution. What this means that yes, in absolute numbers, there are more males with above average IQ, but also higher amount of dullards, with women sticking closer to the center of the bell curve.
My personal pet theory is that back in the day, this didnt matter that much as computers were too much of a niche. When this niche became a mainstream subject though, this distribution (in absolute numbers) started to show. Overgeneralized pet theory: intelligent people flock towards computers, others to sports and other endeavors. In absolute numbers, theres more males of smae iq than females.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037%2F00...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126%2Fsc...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017%2Fs1...
It's true the economic restraints of COMECON bolstered DIY culture all across eastern bloc, a lot of which remains to this day.
It had it's downsides as well - the hardware at hand was often ancient and the planned state production we relied on for a lot of source components was very inefficient because of communist cadres - basically incompetent bureaucrats created a lot of e-waste by manufacturing useless junk (a lot of which was not salvageable even for DIY) - buggy ASIC clones, poorly done circuit boards, non-existent QA and braindamaged designs, you name it. Think incompetent CEOs of monopolistic megacorp wreaking havoc with nepotism/cronyism/office politics and there being no board to dismiss em. Thats what communist cadres were like, good technical designs and processes were rejected for political reasons way too often.
fukovo tetris2 represent ^_^
FWIW the title is a bit incorrect, as both hackaday posts deal mostly with computer scene in czechoslovakia, not soviet bloc as a whole - MM is recycling/abridging existing computer history series from root.cz into english.
Just the usual butthurt and sour grapes.
I'm hoping it will be a pleasant surprise. There is history of decent open software output from IBM, I'm sure sendmail "community" was pretty butthurt about Postfix too, as IBM simply took good protocol with horrible implementation and re-wrote the daemon from scratch and got it right.
It's really, really tricky to do - a decentralized peg to external fiat currency with no central/internal control on-chain.
Well, yeah. The get rich quick pyramid distribution is necessary to induce gold fever and guarantee hype (as seen in perpetual carousel or half-assed alts dangerously overselling their wares). People still wanted the stable fiat peg for other stuff, eg on chain fiat/btc exchange. Not going to happen (unless you make it a underwritten fiat XCP/CC asset, at which point it's no longer on-chain decentralised) unless central banks and government bond markets are actually on that chain, ie internal to the system.
The same story for a lot of old and hairy codebases. Try glibc some day if you really want to see things.