Was there any legislative interest in serious hacking penalties in the UK after the NHS ransomeware hack? Hospitals nationwide were disrupted and lives were endangered. The dudgeon in the British online press was palpable.
I have already opined that I think Uber's failure was in the sensor array. Because this is exactly where so many human drivers fail, self-drive has to field sensors that are a lot better than human eyes, including being able to see in multiple directions at once.
I don't see a real problem with the distance-between-interventions measure. Whenever a human intervention occurs, it represents a situation the self-drive system didn't see. Logging these situations and meticulously cross-checking each one with what the sensor array saw and what the software was doing is how we debug the system. That in the Tempe pedestrian case the Uber monitor failed to intervene successfully is beside the point. The accident obviously represents a moment where intervention should have taken place.
Most of the driving we do is routine, boring and done from sheer necessity. This is exactly the kind of task at which humans tend to slack off and do poorly. Because of this, decades of car safety improvements have been unable to reduce the annual death rate below about thirty thousand in the US. This is impressive in terms of the increasing number of vehicle-miles, but still an unforgivably large number.
1) This is Silicon Valley. They have lots of money to pursue difficult technology like this. 2) There is a standard measure already, average distance between interventions by the human monitor. Waymo is clearly ahead here at 5100 miles to Uber's 13. When that average distance gets to some agreed value of very high, self-drive will be ready for general use.
I want my music to go with me. What I need is the ability to listen to my Music when I am out in the middle of the boondocks with no cell service at all.
So is that when you sit down under a tree, pull your turntable, amplifier, speakers and stack of vinyl out of your backpack, set up the solar panels, and play some Dixieland?
Replace "over 40" with "people of a certain skin color" and you have an obvious case.
No, the way to get action today would be to find patterns of sexual harassment on people over 40, and that doesn't happen. Actual harassment is more typically by men over 40, who have died and risen into upper management, the corporate afterlife.
If we punished outsourcing, H1B use, etc. with hefty FICA taxes levied on their users, we could not only create more domestic jobs, but help reduce the deficits in our welfare system.
Like the hedge fund bro tax, wasn't this another campaign promise that went nowhere?
Obviously not in many econ classes. Bitcoin is failing as a currency precisely because now that most of the ultimate available supply has been mined, that's all there will ever be. Because of this, Bitcoin has transitioned from being a digital currency to a sort of imaginary investment which will be hoarded so long as each buyer thinks he can sell it for a higher price to some other buyer. Either Dorsey already holds a lot of it or he just doesn't know any better.
Even gold makes a better currency than BTC, because the gold supply has increased by an annual couple of percent or so over all historic time as new gold comes out of the ground. That's why it made a perfectly good currency across the pre-technology centuries when the amount of wealth in the world barely changed and every transaction was a zero-sum exchange. When the Industrial Revolution made it possible for net economic wealth to increase every year, the need arose for managed currencies that grew at the same rate as everything for which it can be traded.
Neural nets were envisioned in the Sixties, but not implemented. Self landing rockets never emerged from the cover of Analog until Elon made it so. The old electric cars couldn't get far on the lead-acid batteries of the day.
Today's technology rocks because we Boomers are no longer holding it back.
Take Phoenix for example. 4.x million people, in the middle of a desert. The only way the city has any water is by bleeding the Colorado dry. In what universe does having such a large city in a *desert* make any sense at all?
A universe in which the 14 million people of Greater Los Angeles desalinate their own water, leaving a more than adequate amount for Phoenix and all the other inland users.
There is no real "brine problem" with desalination. All of the salt in the brine was there originally. Desalination just temporarily separates the salt and the water, without changing the amount of either.
As of this year, in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand a Chinese company is now extracting approx. 4 billion liters of water per year from our reservoir. Christchurch citizens had no say in the matter.
No human driver could have seen that woman in time to stop, but a car equipped with infrared lidar should be able to. Time to update the sensors on the test fleet.
Why wouldn't they instead teach the history and culture of Eastern civilization, dead Chinese men instead of dead white ones? I will grant this is still an improvement over teaching nothing but hatred of white people.
That's what Chinese universities are for. A wealthy society sends its best young people overseas to gain understanding of new cultures so they can improve trade relations.
My big takeaway after having lived in Asia is that the main advantage they have over so many other parts of the world is long-term thinking. Organizations public nd private plan for a generation from now. Our public agencies can't think beyond the next election and our corporations can't plan past the next quarter.
Because historically every society that became prosperous enough to host major universities used its liberal arts schools to transmit the values of its own culture, with whatever parts of ancient cultures that interested them. Only in the radical-infested parts of the US and Europe has it become fashionable for liberal arts schools to actively denigrate their own cultures.
Because rocketry out of the Earth's thick atmosphere and gravity well is still edgy engineering in an unforgiving environment. Each new company coming into the field has to learn that all over again.
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Was there any legislative interest in serious hacking penalties in the UK after the NHS ransomeware hack? Hospitals nationwide were disrupted and lives were endangered. The dudgeon in the British online press was palpable.
I'll never get why you people love crazy-expensive monopolies run by defense giants so much.
Because articles like this bring out the sock puppets. ULA? Ford? Who knows?
Which is how we're doing it now.
So long as facebook exists it's users are in danger.
The information its users reveal on it is what's in danger.
Yeah, lets all ignore the person who invented the web because he did something you don't agree with once.
All hail the Slashdot Way!
I have already opined that I think Uber's failure was in the sensor array. Because this is exactly where so many human drivers fail, self-drive has to field sensors that are a lot better than human eyes, including being able to see in multiple directions at once.
I don't see a real problem with the distance-between-interventions measure. Whenever a human intervention occurs, it represents a situation the self-drive system didn't see. Logging these situations and meticulously cross-checking each one with what the sensor array saw and what the software was doing is how we debug the system. That in the Tempe pedestrian case the Uber monitor failed to intervene successfully is beside the point. The accident obviously represents a moment where intervention should have taken place.
Most of the driving we do is routine, boring and done from sheer necessity. This is exactly the kind of task at which humans tend to slack off and do poorly. Because of this, decades of car safety improvements have been unable to reduce the annual death rate below about thirty thousand in the US. This is impressive in terms of the increasing number of vehicle-miles, but still an unforgivably large number.
1) This is Silicon Valley. They have lots of money to pursue difficult technology like this.
2) There is a standard measure already, average distance between interventions by the human monitor. Waymo is clearly ahead here at 5100 miles to Uber's 13. When that average distance gets to some agreed value of very high, self-drive will be ready for general use.
So Uber lags Waymo in self-drive? Microsoft has been getting away with being the laggard in operating systems for years, yet it still makes billions.
I want my music to go with me. What I need is the ability to listen to my Music when I am out in the middle of the boondocks with no cell service at all.
So is that when you sit down under a tree, pull your turntable, amplifier, speakers and stack of vinyl out of your backpack, set up the solar panels, and play some Dixieland?
It took you 30 years to see Venus?
In the UK that would be perfectly normal.
Apparently it would have been a tenth magnitude object, undoubtedly visible in Neanderthal telescopes.
Whippings have been ordered stopped between 2000 and 2300 on Sundays, to give the guards' arms some rest.
Replace "over 40" with "people of a certain skin color" and you have an obvious case.
No, the way to get action today would be to find patterns of sexual harassment on people over 40, and that doesn't happen. Actual harassment is more typically by men over 40, who have died and risen into upper management, the corporate afterlife.
If we punished outsourcing, H1B use, etc. with hefty FICA taxes levied on their users, we could not only create more domestic jobs, but help reduce the deficits in our welfare system.
Like the hedge fund bro tax, wasn't this another campaign promise that went nowhere?
Obviously not in many econ classes. Bitcoin is failing as a currency precisely because now that most of the ultimate available supply has been mined, that's all there will ever be. Because of this, Bitcoin has transitioned from being a digital currency to a sort of imaginary investment which will be hoarded so long as each buyer thinks he can sell it for a higher price to some other buyer. Either Dorsey already holds a lot of it or he just doesn't know any better.
Even gold makes a better currency than BTC, because the gold supply has increased by an annual couple of percent or so over all historic time as new gold comes out of the ground. That's why it made a perfectly good currency across the pre-technology centuries when the amount of wealth in the world barely changed and every transaction was a zero-sum exchange. When the Industrial Revolution made it possible for net economic wealth to increase every year, the need arose for managed currencies that grew at the same rate as everything for which it can be traded.
Neural nets were envisioned in the Sixties, but not implemented. Self landing rockets never emerged from the cover of Analog until Elon made it so. The old electric cars couldn't get far on the lead-acid batteries of the day.
Today's technology rocks because we Boomers are no longer holding it back.
Take Phoenix for example. 4.x million people, in the middle of a desert. The only way the city has any water is by bleeding the Colorado dry. In what universe does having such a large city in a *desert* make any sense at all?
A universe in which the 14 million people of Greater Los Angeles desalinate their own water, leaving a more than adequate amount for Phoenix and all the other inland users.
There is no real "brine problem" with desalination. All of the salt in the brine was there originally. Desalination just temporarily separates the salt and the water, without changing the amount of either.
As of this year, in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand a Chinese company is now extracting approx. 4 billion liters of water per year from our reservoir. Christchurch citizens had no say in the matter.
And shipping this water to China?
No human driver could have seen that woman in time to stop, but a car equipped with infrared lidar should be able to. Time to update the sensors on the test fleet.
Why wouldn't they instead teach the history and culture of Eastern civilization, dead Chinese men instead of dead white ones? I will grant this is still an improvement over teaching nothing but hatred of white people.
That's what Chinese universities are for. A wealthy society sends its best young people overseas to gain understanding of new cultures so they can improve trade relations.
My big takeaway after having lived in Asia is that the main advantage they have over so many other parts of the world is long-term thinking. Organizations public nd private plan for a generation from now. Our public agencies can't think beyond the next election and our corporations can't plan past the next quarter.
Because historically every society that became prosperous enough to host major universities used its liberal arts schools to transmit the values of its own culture, with whatever parts of ancient cultures that interested them. Only in the radical-infested parts of the US and Europe has it become fashionable for liberal arts schools to actively denigrate their own cultures.
And to think I share a demographic with this worm. Man the fuck up and stop being such a whiny little bitch.
Spotted the Antifa thug!
Because rocketry out of the Earth's thick atmosphere and gravity well is still edgy engineering in an unforgiving environment. Each new company coming into the field has to learn that all over again.