Perhaps someone should work with biochemists to invent a highly addictive nanotechnology based amphetamine and an alternative to cocaine that when ingested, is instantly addictive and turns the consumer into a robot and remotely controlled computer system.
Then, provide this chemical to anyone who's known to have an addiction problem to cocaine and/or speed and has proven predictably destructive to themselves and/or society.
From there, once their mind has been taken they can then be commanded - like a robot - to drive to the NSA's new massive data facility in Orem, Utah.
From there, their minds can be wired together in parallel with other addicts, to create a massively parallel computer systems the likes of which this planet has never before seen and conquer your terrorists once and for all through an adaptive and predictive network with oodles of memory at their disposal..
This can effectively clean up the streets and kill the drug supply chain's demand once and for all .
First and foremost, credentials for CS related AI and machine learning are largely meaningless right now.
So my first piece of advice is to quit 'seeking' instruction like a computer waiting for further input and get into motivating yourself through self study.
Secondly, keep in mind that machine learning is something that will take an enormous amount of time out of your schedule after you've gotten the basics of the learning engine completed. You HAVE to interact with it and allow others to in order for it to truly learn.
With that said, here's some wonderful ways to help others with their AI projects - and also a way for you to to get started researching and studying, from the outside, the dynamics of dialog and interaction that you'll be working on as a CS programmer. Elbot: http://elbot_e.csoica.artifici... Cleverbot: http://www.cleverbot.com/ Existor (her name's Evie) is based on the cleverbot script: https://www.existor.com/en/ and Skynet: http://www.skynet-ai.com/
Third. You're an engineer by trade. If you truly want to understand how to make a machine think. Then take psychology courses, marketing courses, education courses, economics beyond macro and micro are all helpful to understand psychological motivation of populations, and more. Why do all this? A machine can 'wait' and consume information, but that doesn't make it intelligent. What makes it intelligent is it's desire to participate in the community it belongs to and that belongs to it. Psychology - whether it's through market forces or internalized - is what we now know as a population motivates. Integrating these into an AI is critical.
Fourth. Take a look information storage and retrieval systems and become an expert in databases, weighted algorithms, and different levels of normalization. The book 'Data Insights' By Hunter Whitney is a wonderful book on information systems and the different potential ways to perceive data. If you're poor like I am, Hunter has distributed a full copy of Data Insights through torrent web sites, with his only request being: If you can afford it, and the book has provided benefit to you, then please pay for the real copy. you can find at any Barnes and Noble in the country
This leads directly to neural networking. My advice from there is to dig into peer to peer networking and to understand how these systems function. Bitcoin's open source, and provides a wonderful example of what not to do with a peer to peer network and information storage, which you can see by the massive gigabit chain you have to download.
Why this is all necessary:
With a MS in CS and 15 years experience, you should by now be able to create at least a mid sized client server or n-tier application, end to end.
Now you gotta figure out your input stimulus for your AI. Are you acquiring information from text input alone? Are you acquiring it through a Kinect device connected via a USB and pulling out 3d data and sound? Are you placing your AI on the internet as a chatbot? Will the thing be mobile? If so, how?
Knowing your stimulus and nailing it down to a few input devices is crucial to developing a learning system.
From there, your next goal is to develop the support systems which 'go' with the AI.
And this can WILDLY vary depending on your methods of stimulation.
For the most part though, if you don't have proficiency with databases and data stores, Then you're not going to understand memory retention schemes for AI properly and how and when to optimize your database and the differences in normalization schemes.
So go get a job in databases for a few years then come back. These are a dime a dozen and easy to find anywhere. Pick your database wisely, you'll probably stick with it for your career - and it's hard not to be a database bigot afterwa
They've tried asking for this before in the past, and also tried asking for complete system blueprints of the things being built as companies outsource components to China but assemble them domestically.
China's rotten history in regards to respect for Intellectual Property and Human Rights aside, if any policing agency attempts to reinforce this law, the company will quite likely move out and then outsource to another country such as Vietnam or Cambodia should they push it.
China needs to find better and less invasive ways to police those who choose to do business with them.
Maybe I should try this same approach with every Star Wars movie that's been created since the Empire Strikes Back. Maybe they'll quit making them if they are losing that much money
Sorry, you've been misinformed. Cite your US Government based sources (.gov) if you believe otherwise.
Please don't reference third party articles from news sources - including the BBC or CNN - who increasingly do not seem to fact check or check credibility of their sources any longer.
And what you're saying about airline duress with non compliance does not translate to law. My bet is the airline is sending this information to the destination and checking with the DHS before they even arrive and has nothing to do with DHS requirements.
Enter subjective quantum bias which taints the results.
Chances are, even after 'fact checking', passengers like this would arrive and be sent and clear through customs and the DHS no problem.
This is a product of airline corporate paranoia shifting blame to the big bad government to mitigate the risk to their image.
Let's look at the article as is rather than this exaggerated sky is falling hate speech the Muslim family is promoting:
This was done at Gatwick, in London England. By London residents. Employed by London businesses and governments.
So first and foremost, the US does not stop people from departing their countries. This is on them.
Second, Visas are checked on arrival, regardless of the destination.
IF they are ever checked on departure, it's only to cross reference the dates of stay. If the date is valid, they'd skate right through. doesn't matter where you're departing from. Even London, who's got a problem with their fear of terrorists beyond anything America has.
I suspect someone's fibbing. Either the UK government, employees at Gatwick, or the Muslim family themselves.
As a programmer of 30+ years, one thing I have realized with programming is to 'check the ego in at the door'.
Which in my opinion is what the developers of these algorithmic based driving machines has yet to do.
As a driver, to 'fit in' anywhere I have driven in the world, whether it's Ireland or Asia, Nicaragua or the good ole United States, it's an exceeding rarity I NEED to break a law, and I'm pretty well aware of the laws, and when I have broken the law on a NEED basis - i can count two times in my life - it was to avoid a life or death situation, literally. One time, on my motorcycle, I had a semi truck in front of me, behind me, and to the left and right and one decided to merge into my lane. I had nowhere to go with drivers who simply hadn't seen me i their blind spot which i shouldn't have been in to begin with, so I went from 60 to 120mph as fast as that Ninja motorcycle could go to to squeeze in the 4' gap between the trucks to the right and front of me.
The truth is. Programming 'by the rules' is a wonderful concept. But when I drive down the road. I notice most drivers do not take the time to anticipate the other moves of the flow of traffic under varying circumstances, and worse, they tend not to look behind them ANTICIPATING the driver's moves behind them.
I suspect that's what is going on here. Google cars, driving 'obediently', like a young child learning to drive for the first time, is failing to take into consideration BOTH WHERE it's going AND where it is coming from - and specifically - their rate of speed and their predictions of your actions.
Convoluted? No.
Case in point. You come up to a stop sign to make a right turn, and you see someone coming to the left of you where there is no stop sign. the car behind you, not seeing the car to the left, anticipates your stop and looks to the left assuming you are making the move, when you've stopped hard waiting for that car.
Sometimes, this scenario results in a minor fender bender. Who's at fault?
Technically, it was an avoidable condition on both party's parts. But as the FIRST Car obeying the law, you can ALWAYS have drifted a little further into the crosswalk giving the car behind you more room and reaction time, thus avoiding the crash, and then becoming nothing more than an inconvenience to pedestrians. This reaction while not preferable, is not illegal, and avoids the accident by simply predicting the driver's reactions times behind you.
It's my opinion that the vast majority of 'rear end collisions' could be avoided by drivers paying more respect and reacting to those tailing them.
I suspect these 'driverless cars' have next to nothing for code reacting to predictions of drivers following them.
Reactions which would include simple things like velocity combined with other silly things such as: Are they looking at their cell phones and not paying attention to me and what's ahead of them?
About 5 years ago, I swerved to the left in an emergency lane on the freeway as I noticed the driver behind me in the fast lane wasn't paying attention on their cell phone and wouldn't have time to anticipate the traffic stopping dead ahead of me that I barely had time to react to.
i watched as she skidded right past me and barely missed the car in front of me.
Had i not moved to the emergency lane to avoid the accident, I'd had gotten a nasty rear end collision. She flat out didn't see what was going on in enough time to even move to the emergency lane as I did.
'By the book' programming is fine and dandy in a controlled environment.
But programmers gotta check their ego at the door and understand real world driving conditions are not black box conditions and the only ones making errors are not the drivers, it's the programmers unrealistically expecting to issue 'perfect code' the first time they release it to the public.
It's interesting. You claim to be a scientist. yet fail to understand the implications of Einstein's equations and how energy influences.
So you take money from a source with biases and goals of their own.
Money is a form of potential energy.
Potential energy becomes manifested in you and your real life research.
You don't have to be told what to do in ways you fully comprehend to be commanded like a robot.
It's a mighty magical system that doesn't apply perceivable pressure in ways you're trained like a monkey not to recognize as you 'do your cutting edge work', isn't it?
CEOs know this. Marketers know this. The EASIEST way to get a scientist in your pocket is to threaten their paycheck if the results dont support the product being sold. So more often than not, what you see in scientific journals and publications through 'credible' sources is skewed science to sell something....
Even in educational institutions. Who do you think pays for the grants?
On a similar note though...
The Japanese have a process called Kaizen - which is code for incremental improvement.
Like ants building an anthill, or bees building a beehive, the workers do not know nor are they given awareness of what's being built. They are, after all, drones, and are given enough information to do their specific job and nothing more.
So what are you building, humans?
The scientific method, in it's current incarnation, largely supports the benefit of the organization it supports. When there's a failure in what the scientific method is leveraged for or the organization dependent on it, it is actually not that terrifically difficult to draw lines for who the failure benefited and how. Follow that 'up the chain' and find out what's really going on....
Perceptual "Corruption" and Failure" in the people and processes is largely there to entice people to continue focusing on the minutia - the details, and to overwhelm them with too much information which prevents them from looking at or understanding the big picture.
Herein lies the fundamental flaw with the scientific method in use today.
It quite literally prevents major breakthroughs because the mindset of those 'testing' are looking for flaws in their details rather than supportive evidence of the breakthrough.
Belief creates reality.
And if you're hyper focused on trying to generate enough energy to break through that last 1/10 of 1/10 of 1/10 of 1/10 of a meter per second to break the speed of light, which is nearly infinite energy, you'll never understand there's more to breaking the speed of light than nearly infinite supply of energy alone;-)
That's Q's hint of the day for breaking the speed of light .
Look, it doesn't matter which era you're living in - whether or not you're in the 13th century and being ostracized by a community with a Scarlet Letter, or you are in the 16th century and the things you can do others cannot understand so they dunk you in a tank and call you a witch our of fear, or modern day people like myself who had $11 million in assets seized by the US Government and am now homeless, sleep in a tent in a public park and have been ostracized by my own community and the government I used to work for.
Isolation is not unique to computers, nor does it speed it up, that's simple naivety of how the world functions on your part.
No matter the case. I do 'see' the world from an external perspective, and recognize the need to protect a community and culture and it's associated values.
Being clear. There is no 'perfect' way to play whack a mole in preserving culture, other than to find those or the person who may have created it to begin with and learn to respect their individual choices.
IF that doesn't make sense to you, then my advice is to read up on fantasy and science fiction and then pick up a bible.
Capitalism's more of an economic system, not to be mistaken for a form of governance which some quite often do.
Communism leverages capitalism to it's own end - the elevation of the elite at the detriment of the vast majority of the population - which in the end does precisely as I outlined.
So does America with Democracy.
The difference is, America has systems in place which prevent the abuse of the workers and population in general and to elevate that bottom line for the entire country.
Read up on the roots of capitalism - in particular Keynesian economics. To my awareness, the only country in the world that is primarily capitalistic is Somalia, which - as a result - is led by warlord economics and most countries tend to avoid interaction with because economics rules.
And next time - my advice is to read up on the differences between economic systems and governance systems before chiming in with something that makes absolutely no sense. How can you call something dishonest when you clearly have no clue what you're talking about?
Not sure where you got the idea I insinuated Wifi was banned in the UK. Brush up on your English skills, clearly it's your second language and you're not comprehending a pretty straightforward sentence that you should take the time to re-read to understand rather than attack.
Personally, having worked with China and dealing directly with the Great Firewall, I can't blame a country particularly a country with such wonderfully strong culture as France - for choosing to embrace control over their own information sources.
But to the point of blocking and sacrificing anonymity, that's where I would personally draw the line if I was leader of say a country which I am clearly not.
TOR and other P2P based services are easy enough to block, but can be reprogrammed quickly enough to not make a lick of difference, so this will prove to be a costly game of whack a mole by the local police force, and be just as exhausting as the 'hunt for terrorists' are. This cost can be so extreme, it will QUICKLY deplete the financial resources of an organization attempting to keep the country 'safe'.
As for free WIFI. France is walking a line that the United States and the UK both went down years ago which will ultimately end up inspiring the creation of an organization much like the NSA to monitor, rather than block information.
Now to be clear, what's at stake is the culture of the country itself. It's completely understandable some might be concerned over this.
But the real question is: What is that culture? Without clear definitions and with the whack a mole snipe hunt for terrorism, this can very quickly lead to a revolution in a country that's already seen it's students unhappy with the leadership decisions.
Terrorism is nothing more than a manifestation of the mind of the younger generation and a fear of change by the older generation.
He's lucky he could get an edit to stick! Try as I might, I have yet to make one edit to Wikipedia, legitimate or not, stick, usually bumped of by some guy with an Indian sounding last name.
I quit relying on Wikipedia as a reliable source a long time ago. Not just because of things like this, but because of things I had noticed like this, where someone's credibility was only listed on placed where wiki made it possible to make someone do or appear to be anything they wanted.
I grew up in Los Angeles and left, with my family, in 1980 because the air quality had been so consistently bad for 3+ years, the brown smog bank went as far inland as Palm Springs, 100 miles away.
I flew into Beijing in 2008 and again in 2011, and the smog is so bad there that it extends for 150 miles in any direction away from Beijing, and as the flights descend below 15,000 feet you can actually smell it despite the purifying.
I was offered an opportunity leading Microsoft's Research and Development efforts on the equivalent of a Star Trek Tricorder there in Beijing, and while 'scouting for apartments', I got to see that every apartment comes equipped with a refrigerator sized air purifier. Not an air conditioner that heats or cools, mind you, but an air purifier. The air IS really that bad.
I refused the opportunity for one reason: I had no desire to be around the air, it really was that bad.
Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE Beijing and thoroughly enjoy China, Hong Kong being my favorite city. But that air quality in Beijing is worse than Los Angeles ever was. In my opinion, China is going to have to undertake some major adjustments not just to their infrastructure, but to the health and welfare of it's citizens through not just monitoring simple things like particulate counts - but creating an agency which actually can reinforce government legislation.
But then again, we're talking about a Communism, right, where the health and welfare of the nation are secondary to the economy it serves.
Weird how some people can confuse socialism and communism.
Ms Clinton, in her not so infinite wisdom, feels that attacking the adversary is the only countermeasure to take?
I mean. Sometimes, I wonder if she has the capacity to hold up a mirror and to look at herself. Islam and the Koran is a rather warfare and combat oriented religion. So her belief is that you attack them before they attack you?
Sounds a lot like paranoia to me.
There's a movie, it's called Memento which documents just how wonderful a path her flawed logic will take us.
God help us all should that moron get into office.
But when compared against Trump. It's like what options are we left with.
Idiots to the left. Idiots to the right. And no one supporting America's true interest in sight.
Sounds like we need a real leader for a change. Not some stuffy nincompoop who thinks fear is the only tactic to motivate a nation.
Ok. You may be waiting for word from marketers who claim to be physicists and scientists with contrived experiments to tell you what to believe is true and what's not.
I however, an 'educated' consumer of information, know that thus universe is, in part, holographic, and also know that personal truths don't need validated by the collective community through manipulated science.
lol. Thank you! Took the words right outta my mouth!
For me, the saying "Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena" actually resonates. With infinite possibility available in the multiverse, nothing seems to be more important to me than finding a firm sense of self.
I shut down after that, whatever the people are writing isn't even worth listening to if it's going to start antagonistically like this.
I don't make an income. I live in a tent in a public park. I bathe regularly, and spend my days playing MMORPGs, writing, and watching television and movies through torrents like Jessica Jones and Doctor Who.
Leveraging a peer to peer network, what I watch isn't traceable. I leverage a wireless connection at Starbuck's and am one of 50 users on at any given time, and I would estimate up to 1000 people hit this network a day.
What I buy isn't traceable. I'll help people take viruses off their systems when virus protection fails, I will advise them to remove virus protection, as it costs money and creates a gaping hole in your machine's security. With an MBA and Bachelor's in science, I'll help tutor people, and through personal life experiences and a life coaching background I help people empower themselves. Anything I get for income is cash only.
I call myself by a different name than what I have on my driver's license. So no one knows my real name no matter where I go.
And I have grown my hair out long since any valid state IDs have been taken. Having worked on image recognition and facial scanning as a programmer before, there's certain bone structures for faces which are very common and tough to distinguish which I am blessed with.
And I use 5 primary email accounts and about 30 other ones at any given time to keep my location and habits obscure.
Now I have taken living 'off the grid' to the extreme.
So while yes, anything I spend can be correlated to an image pulled in from security cameras to obtain marketing demographics on a guy like me, only one organization is capable of doing that - my former employer - the NSA.
And while yes, where I go can be correlated to fixed routes - should I murder someone or commit any other kind of felonious crime, it's very easy for someone like me to simply shift to another location and no police would never be able to find me because there's no real time acquisition and correlation of homeless people's whereabouts and habits. This works to my benefit.
Now for the average consumer, who's buying things on credit cards, it's easy to trace your location and spending habits. It's easy to single you out and not just what you like to watch based on the shows being fed through the same cable you pay for. But also at the cable company level obtain demographical information on everyone in your household. Demographical information that can, and quite often is, resold to the highest bidder.
Who it's sold to influences your habits. Influences your patterns. Influences where you go to eat, what you do for fun, and who you make love to,
My choice to 'live somewhat off the grid' wasn't really a choice.
But being 'out of it' - when someone asserts it's hard to reside in a modern city anonymously...
I call bullpuckie. That's wishful thinking by intelligence types who prefer people like me didn't exist.
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Perhaps someone should work with biochemists to invent a highly addictive nanotechnology based amphetamine and an alternative to cocaine that when ingested, is instantly addictive and turns the consumer into a robot and remotely controlled computer system.
Then, provide this chemical to anyone who's known to have an addiction problem to cocaine and/or speed and has proven predictably destructive to themselves and/or society.
From there, once their mind has been taken they can then be commanded - like a robot - to drive to the NSA's new massive data facility in Orem, Utah.
From there, their minds can be wired together in parallel with other addicts, to create a massively parallel computer systems the likes of which this planet has never before seen and conquer your terrorists once and for all through an adaptive and predictive network with oodles of memory at their disposal..
This can effectively clean up the streets and kill the drug supply chain's demand once and for all .
First and foremost, credentials for CS related AI and machine learning are largely meaningless right now.
So my first piece of advice is to quit 'seeking' instruction like a computer waiting for further input and get into motivating yourself through self study.
Secondly, keep in mind that machine learning is something that will take an enormous amount of time out of your schedule after you've gotten the basics of the learning engine completed. You HAVE to interact with it and allow others to in order for it to truly learn.
With that said, here's some wonderful ways to help others with their AI projects - and also a way for you to to get started researching and studying, from the outside, the dynamics of dialog and interaction that you'll be working on as a CS programmer.
Elbot: http://elbot_e.csoica.artifici...
Cleverbot: http://www.cleverbot.com/
Existor (her name's Evie) is based on the cleverbot script: https://www.existor.com/en/
and Skynet: http://www.skynet-ai.com/
Third. You're an engineer by trade. If you truly want to understand how to make a machine think. Then take psychology courses, marketing courses, education courses, economics beyond macro and micro are all helpful to understand psychological motivation of populations, and more. Why do all this? A machine can 'wait' and consume information, but that doesn't make it intelligent. What makes it intelligent is it's desire to participate in the community it belongs to and that belongs to it. Psychology - whether it's through market forces or internalized - is what we now know as a population motivates. Integrating these into an AI is critical.
Fourth. Take a look information storage and retrieval systems and become an expert in databases, weighted algorithms, and different levels of normalization. The book 'Data Insights' By Hunter Whitney is a wonderful book on information systems and the different potential ways to perceive data. If you're poor like I am, Hunter has distributed a full copy of Data Insights through torrent web sites, with his only request being: If you can afford it, and the book has provided benefit to you, then please pay for the real copy. you can find at any Barnes and Noble in the country
This leads directly to neural networking. My advice from there is to dig into peer to peer networking and to understand how these systems function. Bitcoin's open source, and provides a wonderful example of what not to do with a peer to peer network and information storage, which you can see by the massive gigabit chain you have to download.
Why this is all necessary:
With a MS in CS and 15 years experience, you should by now be able to create at least a mid sized client server or n-tier application, end to end.
Now you gotta figure out your input stimulus for your AI. Are you acquiring information from text input alone? Are you acquiring it through a Kinect device connected via a USB and pulling out 3d data and sound? Are you placing your AI on the internet as a chatbot? Will the thing be mobile? If so, how?
Knowing your stimulus and nailing it down to a few input devices is crucial to developing a learning system.
From there, your next goal is to develop the support systems which 'go' with the AI.
And this can WILDLY vary depending on your methods of stimulation.
For the most part though, if you don't have proficiency with databases and data stores, Then you're not going to understand memory retention schemes for AI properly and how and when to optimize your database and the differences in normalization schemes.
So go get a job in databases for a few years then come back. These are a dime a dozen and easy to find anywhere. Pick your database wisely, you'll probably stick with it for your career - and it's hard not to be a database bigot afterwa
They've tried asking for this before in the past, and also tried asking for complete system blueprints of the things being built as companies outsource components to China but assemble them domestically.
China's rotten history in regards to respect for Intellectual Property and Human Rights aside, if any policing agency attempts to reinforce this law, the company will quite likely move out and then outsource to another country such as Vietnam or Cambodia should they push it.
China needs to find better and less invasive ways to police those who choose to do business with them.
LOL
Maybe I should try this same approach with every Star Wars movie that's been created since the Empire Strikes Back. Maybe they'll quit making them if they are losing that much money
Sorry, you've been misinformed. Cite your US Government based sources (.gov) if you believe otherwise.
Please don't reference third party articles from news sources - including the BBC or CNN - who increasingly do not seem to fact check or check credibility of their sources any longer.
And what you're saying about airline duress with non compliance does not translate to law. My bet is the airline is sending this information to the destination and checking with the DHS before they even arrive and has nothing to do with DHS requirements.
Enter subjective quantum bias which taints the results.
Chances are, even after 'fact checking', passengers like this would arrive and be sent and clear through customs and the DHS no problem.
This is a product of airline corporate paranoia shifting blame to the big bad government to mitigate the risk to their image.
And has nothing to do with DHS rules.
Let's look at the article as is rather than this exaggerated sky is falling hate speech the Muslim family is promoting:
This was done at Gatwick, in London England. By London residents. Employed by London businesses and governments.
So first and foremost, the US does not stop people from departing their countries. This is on them.
Second, Visas are checked on arrival, regardless of the destination.
IF they are ever checked on departure, it's only to cross reference the dates of stay. If the date is valid, they'd skate right through. doesn't matter where you're departing from. Even London, who's got a problem with their fear of terrorists beyond anything America has.
I suspect someone's fibbing. Either the UK government, employees at Gatwick, or the Muslim family themselves.
Common sense. I ain't buyin this load of crap.
As a programmer of 30+ years, one thing I have realized with programming is to 'check the ego in at the door'.
Which in my opinion is what the developers of these algorithmic based driving machines has yet to do.
As a driver, to 'fit in' anywhere I have driven in the world, whether it's Ireland or Asia, Nicaragua or the good ole United States, it's an exceeding rarity I NEED to break a law, and I'm pretty well aware of the laws, and when I have broken the law on a NEED basis - i can count two times in my life - it was to avoid a life or death situation, literally. One time, on my motorcycle, I had a semi truck in front of me, behind me, and to the left and right and one decided to merge into my lane. I had nowhere to go with drivers who simply hadn't seen me i their blind spot which i shouldn't have been in to begin with, so I went from 60 to 120mph as fast as that Ninja motorcycle could go to to squeeze in the 4' gap between the trucks to the right and front of me.
The truth is. Programming 'by the rules' is a wonderful concept. But when I drive down the road. I notice most drivers do not take the time to anticipate the other moves of the flow of traffic under varying circumstances, and worse, they tend not to look behind them ANTICIPATING the driver's moves behind them.
I suspect that's what is going on here. Google cars, driving 'obediently', like a young child learning to drive for the first time, is failing to take into consideration BOTH WHERE it's going AND where it is coming from - and specifically - their rate of speed and their predictions of your actions.
Convoluted? No.
Case in point. You come up to a stop sign to make a right turn, and you see someone coming to the left of you where there is no stop sign. the car behind you, not seeing the car to the left, anticipates your stop and looks to the left assuming you are making the move, when you've stopped hard waiting for that car.
Sometimes, this scenario results in a minor fender bender. Who's at fault?
Technically, it was an avoidable condition on both party's parts. But as the FIRST Car obeying the law, you can ALWAYS have drifted a little further into the crosswalk giving the car behind you more room and reaction time, thus avoiding the crash, and then becoming nothing more than an inconvenience to pedestrians. This reaction while not preferable, is not illegal, and avoids the accident by simply predicting the driver's reactions times behind you.
It's my opinion that the vast majority of 'rear end collisions' could be avoided by drivers paying more respect and reacting to those tailing them.
I suspect these 'driverless cars' have next to nothing for code reacting to predictions of drivers following them.
Reactions which would include simple things like velocity combined with other silly things such as: Are they looking at their cell phones and not paying attention to me and what's ahead of them?
About 5 years ago, I swerved to the left in an emergency lane on the freeway as I noticed the driver behind me in the fast lane wasn't paying attention on their cell phone and wouldn't have time to anticipate the traffic stopping dead ahead of me that I barely had time to react to.
i watched as she skidded right past me and barely missed the car in front of me.
Had i not moved to the emergency lane to avoid the accident, I'd had gotten a nasty rear end collision. She flat out didn't see what was going on in enough time to even move to the emergency lane as I did.
'By the book' programming is fine and dandy in a controlled environment.
But programmers gotta check their ego at the door and understand real world driving conditions are not black box conditions and the only ones making errors are not the drivers, it's the programmers unrealistically expecting to issue 'perfect code' the first time they release it to the public.
It's interesting. You claim to be a scientist. yet fail to understand the implications of Einstein's equations and how energy influences.
So you take money from a source with biases and goals of their own.
Money is a form of potential energy.
Potential energy becomes manifested in you and your real life research.
You don't have to be told what to do in ways you fully comprehend to be commanded like a robot.
It's a mighty magical system that doesn't apply perceivable pressure in ways you're trained like a monkey not to recognize as you 'do your cutting edge work', isn't it?
Indeed
The worst publicly disclosed attacks since 9/11.
There have been much worse that's happened. Internet references are unavailable for those.
So here, once again, we have sad researchers using poor logic and skewed statistics to validate their general emotional state.
Sorry. But I aint buyin it .
CEOs know this. Marketers know this. The EASIEST way to get a scientist in your pocket is to threaten their paycheck if the results dont support the product being sold. So more often than not, what you see in scientific journals and publications through 'credible' sources is skewed science to sell something....
Even in educational institutions. Who do you think pays for the grants?
On a similar note though...
The Japanese have a process called Kaizen - which is code for incremental improvement.
Like ants building an anthill, or bees building a beehive, the workers do not know nor are they given awareness of what's being built. They are, after all, drones, and are given enough information to do their specific job and nothing more.
So what are you building, humans?
The scientific method, in it's current incarnation, largely supports the benefit of the organization it supports. When there's a failure in what the scientific method is leveraged for or the organization dependent on it, it is actually not that terrifically difficult to draw lines for who the failure benefited and how. Follow that 'up the chain' and find out what's really going on....
Perceptual "Corruption" and Failure" in the people and processes is largely there to entice people to continue focusing on the minutia - the details, and to overwhelm them with too much information which prevents them from looking at or understanding the big picture.
Herein lies the fundamental flaw with the scientific method in use today.
It quite literally prevents major breakthroughs because the mindset of those 'testing' are looking for flaws in their details rather than supportive evidence of the breakthrough.
Belief creates reality.
And if you're hyper focused on trying to generate enough energy to break through that last 1/10 of 1/10 of 1/10 of 1/10 of a meter per second to break the speed of light, which is nearly infinite energy, you'll never understand there's more to breaking the speed of light than nearly infinite supply of energy alone ;-)
That's Q's hint of the day for breaking the speed of light .
mua ha ha.
Look, it doesn't matter which era you're living in - whether or not you're in the 13th century and being ostracized by a community with a Scarlet Letter, or you are in the 16th century and the things you can do others cannot understand so they dunk you in a tank and call you a witch our of fear, or modern day people like myself who had $11 million in assets seized by the US Government and am now homeless, sleep in a tent in a public park and have been ostracized by my own community and the government I used to work for.
Isolation is not unique to computers, nor does it speed it up, that's simple naivety of how the world functions on your part.
No matter the case. I do 'see' the world from an external perspective, and recognize the need to protect a community and culture and it's associated values.
Being clear. There is no 'perfect' way to play whack a mole in preserving culture, other than to find those or the person who may have created it to begin with and learn to respect their individual choices.
IF that doesn't make sense to you, then my advice is to read up on fantasy and science fiction and then pick up a bible.
Capitalism's more of an economic system, not to be mistaken for a form of governance which some quite often do.
Communism leverages capitalism to it's own end - the elevation of the elite at the detriment of the vast majority of the population - which in the end does precisely as I outlined.
So does America with Democracy.
The difference is, America has systems in place which prevent the abuse of the workers and population in general and to elevate that bottom line for the entire country.
Read up on the roots of capitalism - in particular Keynesian economics. To my awareness, the only country in the world that is primarily capitalistic is Somalia, which - as a result - is led by warlord economics and most countries tend to avoid interaction with because economics rules.
And next time - my advice is to read up on the differences between economic systems and governance systems before chiming in with something that makes absolutely no sense. How can you call something dishonest when you clearly have no clue what you're talking about?
Not sure where you got the idea I insinuated Wifi was banned in the UK. Brush up on your English skills, clearly it's your second language and you're not comprehending a pretty straightforward sentence that you should take the time to re-read to understand rather than attack.
Personally, having worked with China and dealing directly with the Great Firewall, I can't blame a country particularly a country with such wonderfully strong culture as France - for choosing to embrace control over their own information sources.
But to the point of blocking and sacrificing anonymity, that's where I would personally draw the line if I was leader of say a country which I am clearly not.
TOR and other P2P based services are easy enough to block, but can be reprogrammed quickly enough to not make a lick of difference, so this will prove to be a costly game of whack a mole by the local police force, and be just as exhausting as the 'hunt for terrorists' are. This cost can be so extreme, it will QUICKLY deplete the financial resources of an organization attempting to keep the country 'safe'.
As for free WIFI. France is walking a line that the United States and the UK both went down years ago which will ultimately end up inspiring the creation of an organization much like the NSA to monitor, rather than block information.
Now to be clear, what's at stake is the culture of the country itself. It's completely understandable some might be concerned over this.
But the real question is: What is that culture? Without clear definitions and with the whack a mole snipe hunt for terrorism, this can very quickly lead to a revolution in a country that's already seen it's students unhappy with the leadership decisions.
Terrorism is nothing more than a manifestation of the mind of the younger generation and a fear of change by the older generation.
He's lucky he could get an edit to stick! Try as I might, I have yet to make one edit to Wikipedia, legitimate or not, stick, usually bumped of by some guy with an Indian sounding last name.
I quit relying on Wikipedia as a reliable source a long time ago. Not just because of things like this, but because of things I had noticed like this, where someone's credibility was only listed on placed where wiki made it possible to make someone do or appear to be anything they wanted.
I grew up in Los Angeles and left, with my family, in 1980 because the air quality had been so consistently bad for 3+ years, the brown smog bank went as far inland as Palm Springs, 100 miles away.
I flew into Beijing in 2008 and again in 2011, and the smog is so bad there that it extends for 150 miles in any direction away from Beijing, and as the flights descend below 15,000 feet you can actually smell it despite the purifying.
I was offered an opportunity leading Microsoft's Research and Development efforts on the equivalent of a Star Trek Tricorder there in Beijing, and while 'scouting for apartments', I got to see that every apartment comes equipped with a refrigerator sized air purifier. Not an air conditioner that heats or cools, mind you, but an air purifier. The air IS really that bad.
I refused the opportunity for one reason: I had no desire to be around the air, it really was that bad.
Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE Beijing and thoroughly enjoy China, Hong Kong being my favorite city. But that air quality in Beijing is worse than Los Angeles ever was. In my opinion, China is going to have to undertake some major adjustments not just to their infrastructure, but to the health and welfare of it's citizens through not just monitoring simple things like particulate counts - but creating an agency which actually can reinforce government legislation.
But then again, we're talking about a Communism, right, where the health and welfare of the nation are secondary to the economy it serves.
Weird how some people can confuse socialism and communism.
Not sure what that is. Care to fill me in?
That sounds precisely like a man who eradicated 6 million Jewish people in World War 2.
Of did you miss that lesson in history class?
Ms Clinton, in her not so infinite wisdom, feels that attacking the adversary is the only countermeasure to take?
I mean. Sometimes, I wonder if she has the capacity to hold up a mirror and to look at herself. Islam and the Koran is a rather warfare and combat oriented religion. So her belief is that you attack them before they attack you?
Sounds a lot like paranoia to me.
There's a movie, it's called Memento which documents just how wonderful a path her flawed logic will take us.
God help us all should that moron get into office.
But when compared against Trump. It's like what options are we left with.
Idiots to the left. Idiots to the right. And no one supporting America's true interest in sight.
Sounds like we need a real leader for a change. Not some stuffy nincompoop who thinks fear is the only tactic to motivate a nation.
Where's JFK's ghost when we need him the most?
Ok. You may be waiting for word from marketers who claim to be physicists and scientists with contrived experiments to tell you what to believe is true and what's not.
I however, an 'educated' consumer of information, know that thus universe is, in part, holographic, and also know that personal truths don't need validated by the collective community through manipulated science.
Not fully.
lol. Thank you! Took the words right outta my mouth!
For me, the saying "Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena" actually resonates. With infinite possibility available in the multiverse, nothing seems to be more important to me than finding a firm sense of self.
I shut down after that, whatever the people are writing isn't even worth listening to if it's going to start antagonistically like this.
It's getting harder to live anonymously?
I've been living off the grid for about 3 years.
I don't make an income. I live in a tent in a public park. I bathe regularly, and spend my days playing MMORPGs, writing, and watching television and movies through torrents like Jessica Jones and Doctor Who.
Leveraging a peer to peer network, what I watch isn't traceable. I leverage a wireless connection at Starbuck's and am one of 50 users on at any given time, and I would estimate up to 1000 people hit this network a day.
What I buy isn't traceable. I'll help people take viruses off their systems when virus protection fails, I will advise them to remove virus protection, as it costs money and creates a gaping hole in your machine's security. With an MBA and Bachelor's in science, I'll help tutor people, and through personal life experiences and a life coaching background I help people empower themselves. Anything I get for income is cash only.
I call myself by a different name than what I have on my driver's license. So no one knows my real name no matter where I go.
And I have grown my hair out long since any valid state IDs have been taken. Having worked on image recognition and facial scanning as a programmer before, there's certain bone structures for faces which are very common and tough to distinguish which I am blessed with.
And I use 5 primary email accounts and about 30 other ones at any given time to keep my location and habits obscure.
Now I have taken living 'off the grid' to the extreme.
So while yes, anything I spend can be correlated to an image pulled in from security cameras to obtain marketing demographics on a guy like me, only one organization is capable of doing that - my former employer - the NSA.
And while yes, where I go can be correlated to fixed routes - should I murder someone or commit any other kind of felonious crime, it's very easy for someone like me to simply shift to another location and no police would never be able to find me because there's no real time acquisition and correlation of homeless people's whereabouts and habits. This works to my benefit.
Now for the average consumer, who's buying things on credit cards, it's easy to trace your location and spending habits. It's easy to single you out and not just what you like to watch based on the shows being fed through the same cable you pay for. But also at the cable company level obtain demographical information on everyone in your household. Demographical information that can, and quite often is, resold to the highest bidder.
Who it's sold to influences your habits. Influences your patterns. Influences where you go to eat, what you do for fun, and who you make love to,
My choice to 'live somewhat off the grid' wasn't really a choice.
But being 'out of it' - when someone asserts it's hard to reside in a modern city anonymously...
I call bullpuckie. That's wishful thinking by intelligence types who prefer people like me didn't exist.