Yep, walled garden. Between the lines: "Users are leaving our surveillance to look at interesting stuff on the web. We must prevent that. We must see all that they see and stop them from ever leaving our sight." If only they could find a way to follow users on Facebook. That must really hurt their executives.
Did you not read the bit about the inverse correlation between ICT use and learning outcomes?
Re: improving learning outcomes, there's a solid body of research going back decades that shows a long list of interventions in K-12 education. In practice, computer assisted instruction typically has an effect size of around.3 -.4. That's low and definitely not worth the time, effort, and expense involved. By comparison, interventions like formative assessment and learner-centred teaching typically produce effect sizes of >.9, nearly 3 times the learning gains and a lot less expensive to implement. If someone can come up with computer assisted learning that justifies the time, effort, and expense, I'll happily endorse it.
"Community edition" means it isn't free and open source software. They temporarily allow people to use a limited version of the software (Isn't that generous of them?), but what do you think will happen if everyone uses the community edition and not the paid for version? In fact, in order to make any money at all, they have to make sure that the community edition is more like a free trial, i.e. it isn't fit for purpose, so it doesn't compete with the paid for version.
Rather than look to SciFi for what it might look like, why not look at history? Oxford historian Adam Curtis did a series of documentaries looking at the promises of self-organising systems in general and computer/data driven systems in particular: "All watched over by machines of loving grace" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_%28TV_series%29) Well worth a watch if you can get it. Here's a preview on the Guardian's website: http://www.theguardian.com/cul...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a 68 year-old international organisation consisting of 34 member states including the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, South Korea, Switzerland, and Turkey. Every 3 years, they publish the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report. That's where all those statistics about who's education system is better than who's and everyone declares an education crisis (except Finland).
It's part of my job to read the research and try to make sense of where the strengths and weaknesses of education systems and their approached lie, especially with regard to technology enhanced learning (That's what I make my living out of). I can quite confidently tell you that any education system that replaces its teachers with computers would suffer massive losses in learning outcomes. The invention of the printing press didn't replaced teachers, neither did radio, audio recordings, video recordings, or TV, as was boldly promised by educational technologists over the past few decades. When you look at the research, the biggest effect sizes (how much students learn) come from students' relationships with their teachers. In other words, the quality (training and experience) of teachers and that they're given the autonomy, freedom, and responsibility to do their best for their learners makes far more difference than anything else. Finland regularly outperforms most other countries because this is exactly what they focus on.
You can read the report for yourself: OECD (2015) Students, Computers and Learning: Making The Connection, Paris, OECD Publishing, [online] Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789... (Accessed 15 September 2015).
Let's just hope they don't feed in Fifty Shades of Grey to the AI as part of the project. Then I'm sure you'd see a whole new layer of meaning to "getting tied up in traffic."
Too late... Google: German battered calamari, shrimp, tuna, and cabbage recipes [search]
Result: Now, I've seen more helmets than Hitler, but the sight of his one-eyed monster made my pussy batter ooze like someone had poured fairy liquid into Niagara Falls. It was bliss having his huge penis probed inside me again; stuffing my calamari cockring with a 10 inch purple battery-operated monster just didn't get my quim gushing like it used to. Hours of pounding like this would leave any girl's beef curtains looking like a hippo's yawn, and I was no different! He munched on my purple cabbage, even though I'd been walking the red carpet for the best part of a week. If I don't dial the rotary phone to get my shrimp sap slobbering from my soft-shelled tuna taco, his sperminator is going to leave my lunchmeat resembling badly battered road kill.
That means a single teacher's salary for could provide (45000/200) 225 nice tablets, or with class sizes of 20ish, roughly 11 classrooms full. Make this "educational model" reasonably rugged, with an average service life of 3 years, and we've got 33 classrooms full of rugged tablets for the price of one teacher.
The OECD recently published a study where they found a direct correlation between classroom computer use and poorer academic performance. There's also dozens of studies that show tech in classrooms improves learning outcomes for a small (privileged) minority of pupils in a narrow range of subjects. How does this affect your opinion on tech in classrooms?
Good to see the competition is in keeping with 'Murican values. Take a really cool, creative, interesting, and potentially useful area of technology then turn it into a festival of violence.
perform neural network functions like language comprehension
They let on it was bullshit with this one. Ain't no AI that can do language comprehension (natural language processing doesn't actually comprehend language) let alone one on a USB stick. If it can correctly answer questions like:
"The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they feared/advocated violence. Who feared/advocated violence?"
...then I'll believe they're getting closer to AI that can comprehend language.
Wow, didn't take long for Godwin's law to be fulfilled this time. Yes, like all tax havens, the Swiss have provided secrecy and safe haven for the worst of humanity and continue to do so. That's along with Panama, Bermuda, Camen Islands, Jersey & Guernsey, etc. And that's where American billionaire's and corporations hide the fruits of their illegal and immoral activities too. You should check out Jane Mayer's book, "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" to see just how depraved it gets and US' involvement in the Nazi holocaust.
I'm surprised they didn't mention child pornography, drug-trafficking, terrorism, and trade in human organs. Any mention of supporting people's rights to personal privacy and freedom from search a seizure immediately trigger this kind of rhetoric these days. It's become a worn-out media trope.
Capitalism = ownership of means of production by shareholders
Socialism = ownership of means of production by government and/or workers
BTW, in many (all? OECD) countries both coexist. Cooperative startups are twice as likely to succeed as other typical models. Cooperatives often pay their fair share of taxes and give back to their communities through sponsoring social projects. All the profits go to the workers in the form of salaries (living wages) and pension funds which are considerably larger than with typical business models (no dividends to pay to shareholders for sitting on their asses doing nothing). During recessions, cooperatives tend to be more resilient and job cuts are far less likely. When workers have to be laid off, they get generous settlements and sometimes help with finding new work, e.g. at another cooperative, as well as help with any relocation and/or retraining costs. The largest cooperative in the world is the Mondragon corporation, based in the Basque region of northern Spain, with companies all over the world, a membership (workforce) of around 900,000, and it's own (non-profit) university. What's not to like about Socialism?
The whole point of this article is to associate using encryption with criminal activities. I bet the suspects under arrest also drank coffee and drove cars. Can we safely say that terrorists and criminals drink coffee and drive cars? We should treat anyone who drinks coffee and drives as suspects.
Also note that they were arrested despite using encryption, drinking coffee, and driving cars.
Yay! Tyson has (re)discovered the Cartesian dualism:) Does this mean that our universe may be a simulation, within a simulation, within a simulation, ad nauseum? As a flat-earth believing audience member said to Bertrand Russell, "I'm afraid it's turtles all the way down!" (The flat earth rests upon the back of an enormous turtle, which itself is upon an even bigger turtle, and so on). So Tyson believe that it might be simulations all the way down? Sometimes the smartest people say the dumbest things.
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say" -- Edward Snowden
Yes, we have trains, trams, street cars, buses, minibuses, taxis, and municipal bikes. The transportation technology is a non-issue, it's totally do-able. The issue is with creating a coherent, coordinated, integrated system that actually works so that people can get from A to B when and where they need to. Private corporations and start-ups just don't do anything like this. That's what government is supposed to do and does do in more civilised countries and regions. I think Elon Musk is talking to a group of people who haven't ever got out into the real world where effective systemic public transport is the norm.
Cardboard box under the viaduct with a side of forced sterilization? Cause that's about my threshold for people with no use or desire to contribute to society.
I think you might be opinionating with and under-informed mind. Basic incomes work in practice and actually stimulate economies. Check out Guy Standing's research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The truth is, 90% of us wouldn't smoke pot and play video games all day for very long. The vast majority of us would soon get bored and start wanting to do something constructive. And no, Alan Moore's 200 A.D. vision of massive unemployment leading to decadence and extremes doesn't apply here either.
Back in 2013, Senator Bob Graham gave interviews with TheRealNews.com in which he talked frankly, as well as he could without divulging classified information, about the Saudi Involvement in 9/11 (See: http://therealnews.com/t2/inde... ). So what if the Whitehouse declassifies the files that are the smoking gun as far as the Saudis are concerned? What do you think will happen? The alleged threat by the Saudis to sell off US debt is either an obvious bluff or they're even more incompetent and reactionary than I previously thought. Seriously trying to dump $750 billion in debt in an attempt to sabotage the US economy would hit the Saudis' and quite a few other economies along with them, not to mention souring the milk between the Saudi military and the Pentagon. The Saudis have bought tens of billions of military hardware that it doesn't know how to use. They're totally reliant on the Pentagon's support to help them to use it effectively: The moment that the Saudis lose Pentagon support, they're effectively a sitting duck for a potential attacker.
Yes, but I wonder how many homeless people and people currently struggling to make ends meet could be helped more efficiently through state and national public services if Amazon and other corporations paid their fair share of taxes? The US poverty and homelessness rates are almost as shocking as the amount of money that is being taken out of public circulation (i.e. to serve everyone's interests) so that a small number of oligarchs and bankers can play on the Wall Street casinos.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, walled garden. Between the lines: "Users are leaving our surveillance to look at interesting stuff on the web. We must prevent that. We must see all that they see and stop them from ever leaving our sight." If only they could find a way to follow users on Facebook. That must really hurt their executives.
Did you not read the bit about the inverse correlation between ICT use and learning outcomes?
Re: improving learning outcomes, there's a solid body of research going back decades that shows a long list of interventions in K-12 education. In practice, computer assisted instruction typically has an effect size of around .3 - .4. That's low and definitely not worth the time, effort, and expense involved. By comparison, interventions like formative assessment and learner-centred teaching typically produce effect sizes of > .9, nearly 3 times the learning gains and a lot less expensive to implement. If someone can come up with computer assisted learning that justifies the time, effort, and expense, I'll happily endorse it.
"Community edition" means it isn't free and open source software. They temporarily allow people to use a limited version of the software (Isn't that generous of them?), but what do you think will happen if everyone uses the community edition and not the paid for version? In fact, in order to make any money at all, they have to make sure that the community edition is more like a free trial, i.e. it isn't fit for purpose, so it doesn't compete with the paid for version.
Rather than look to SciFi for what it might look like, why not look at history? Oxford historian Adam Curtis did a series of documentaries looking at the promises of self-organising systems in general and computer/data driven systems in particular: "All watched over by machines of loving grace" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_%28TV_series%29) Well worth a watch if you can get it. Here's a preview on the Guardian's website: http://www.theguardian.com/cul...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a 68 year-old international organisation consisting of 34 member states including the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, South Korea, Switzerland, and Turkey. Every 3 years, they publish the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report. That's where all those statistics about who's education system is better than who's and everyone declares an education crisis (except Finland).
It's part of my job to read the research and try to make sense of where the strengths and weaknesses of education systems and their approached lie, especially with regard to technology enhanced learning (That's what I make my living out of). I can quite confidently tell you that any education system that replaces its teachers with computers would suffer massive losses in learning outcomes. The invention of the printing press didn't replaced teachers, neither did radio, audio recordings, video recordings, or TV, as was boldly promised by educational technologists over the past few decades. When you look at the research, the biggest effect sizes (how much students learn) come from students' relationships with their teachers. In other words, the quality (training and experience) of teachers and that they're given the autonomy, freedom, and responsibility to do their best for their learners makes far more difference than anything else. Finland regularly outperforms most other countries because this is exactly what they focus on.
You can read the report for yourself: OECD (2015) Students, Computers and Learning: Making The Connection, Paris, OECD Publishing, [online] Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789... (Accessed 15 September 2015).
I hope this makes my position clearer.
Let's just hope they don't feed in Fifty Shades of Grey to the AI as part of the project. Then I'm sure you'd see a whole new layer of meaning to "getting tied up in traffic."
Too late... Google: German battered calamari, shrimp, tuna, and cabbage recipes [search]
Result: Now, I've seen more helmets than Hitler, but the sight of his one-eyed monster made my pussy batter ooze like someone had poured fairy liquid into Niagara Falls. It was bliss having his huge penis probed inside me again; stuffing my calamari cockring with a 10 inch purple battery-operated monster just didn't get my quim gushing like it used to. Hours of pounding like this would leave any girl's beef curtains looking like a hippo's yawn, and I was no different! He munched on my purple cabbage, even though I'd been walking the red carpet for the best part of a week. If I don't dial the rotary phone to get my shrimp sap slobbering from my soft-shelled tuna taco, his sperminator is going to leave my lunchmeat resembling badly battered road kill.
I'm writing a romance novel for the AI... ...Your comments are much appreciated.
Someone's already beaten Google and you to it: http://www.fiftyshadesgenerato...
First, spend money on paying teachers, repairing buildings, buying computers and internet access for students...
... and if Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, et al. paid their fair share of taxes, we'd be able to afford decent education for everyone.
That means a single teacher's salary for could provide (45000/200) 225 nice tablets, or with class sizes of 20ish, roughly 11 classrooms full. Make this "educational model" reasonably rugged, with an average service life of 3 years, and we've got 33 classrooms full of rugged tablets for the price of one teacher.
The OECD recently published a study where they found a direct correlation between classroom computer use and poorer academic performance. There's also dozens of studies that show tech in classrooms improves learning outcomes for a small (privileged) minority of pupils in a narrow range of subjects. How does this affect your opinion on tech in classrooms?
Good to see the competition is in keeping with 'Murican values. Take a really cool, creative, interesting, and potentially useful area of technology then turn it into a festival of violence.
perform neural network functions like language comprehension
They let on it was bullshit with this one. Ain't no AI that can do language comprehension (natural language processing doesn't actually comprehend language) let alone one on a USB stick. If it can correctly answer questions like:
"The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they feared/advocated violence. Who feared/advocated violence?"
...then I'll believe they're getting closer to AI that can comprehend language.
Wow, didn't take long for Godwin's law to be fulfilled this time. Yes, like all tax havens, the Swiss have provided secrecy and safe haven for the worst of humanity and continue to do so. That's along with Panama, Bermuda, Camen Islands, Jersey & Guernsey, etc. And that's where American billionaire's and corporations hide the fruits of their illegal and immoral activities too. You should check out Jane Mayer's book, "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" to see just how depraved it gets and US' involvement in the Nazi holocaust.
I'm surprised they didn't mention child pornography, drug-trafficking, terrorism, and trade in human organs. Any mention of supporting people's rights to personal privacy and freedom from search a seizure immediately trigger this kind of rhetoric these days. It's become a worn-out media trope.
Capitalism = ownership of means of production by shareholders
Socialism = ownership of means of production by government and/or workers
BTW, in many (all? OECD) countries both coexist. Cooperative startups are twice as likely to succeed as other typical models. Cooperatives often pay their fair share of taxes and give back to their communities through sponsoring social projects. All the profits go to the workers in the form of salaries (living wages) and pension funds which are considerably larger than with typical business models (no dividends to pay to shareholders for sitting on their asses doing nothing). During recessions, cooperatives tend to be more resilient and job cuts are far less likely. When workers have to be laid off, they get generous settlements and sometimes help with finding new work, e.g. at another cooperative, as well as help with any relocation and/or retraining costs. The largest cooperative in the world is the Mondragon corporation, based in the Basque region of northern Spain, with companies all over the world, a membership (workforce) of around 900,000, and it's own (non-profit) university. What's not to like about Socialism?
Tried Canadian CUs? http://www.meridiancu.ca/Pages...
The whole point of this article is to associate using encryption with criminal activities. I bet the suspects under arrest also drank coffee and drove cars. Can we safely say that terrorists and criminals drink coffee and drive cars? We should treat anyone who drinks coffee and drives as suspects.
Also note that they were arrested despite using encryption, drinking coffee, and driving cars.
Capitalism has always been around, even the feudal farmers were capitalists.
Capitalism doesn't mean what you think it means.
Just capitalism. The cartel part is redundant.
Yay! Tyson has (re)discovered the Cartesian dualism :) Does this mean that our universe may be a simulation, within a simulation, within a simulation, ad nauseum? As a flat-earth believing audience member said to Bertrand Russell, "I'm afraid it's turtles all the way down!" (The flat earth rests upon the back of an enormous turtle, which itself is upon an even bigger turtle, and so on). So Tyson believe that it might be simulations all the way down? Sometimes the smartest people say the dumbest things.
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say" -- Edward Snowden
Yes, we have trains, trams, street cars, buses, minibuses, taxis, and municipal bikes. The transportation technology is a non-issue, it's totally do-able. The issue is with creating a coherent, coordinated, integrated system that actually works so that people can get from A to B when and where they need to. Private corporations and start-ups just don't do anything like this. That's what government is supposed to do and does do in more civilised countries and regions. I think Elon Musk is talking to a group of people who haven't ever got out into the real world where effective systemic public transport is the norm.
Cardboard box under the viaduct with a side of forced sterilization? Cause that's about my threshold for people with no use or desire to contribute to society.
I think you might be opinionating with and under-informed mind. Basic incomes work in practice and actually stimulate economies. Check out Guy Standing's research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The truth is, 90% of us wouldn't smoke pot and play video games all day for very long. The vast majority of us would soon get bored and start wanting to do something constructive. And no, Alan Moore's 200 A.D. vision of massive unemployment leading to decadence and extremes doesn't apply here either.
Back in 2013, Senator Bob Graham gave interviews with TheRealNews.com in which he talked frankly, as well as he could without divulging classified information, about the Saudi Involvement in 9/11 (See: http://therealnews.com/t2/inde... ). So what if the Whitehouse declassifies the files that are the smoking gun as far as the Saudis are concerned? What do you think will happen? The alleged threat by the Saudis to sell off US debt is either an obvious bluff or they're even more incompetent and reactionary than I previously thought. Seriously trying to dump $750 billion in debt in an attempt to sabotage the US economy would hit the Saudis' and quite a few other economies along with them, not to mention souring the milk between the Saudi military and the Pentagon. The Saudis have bought tens of billions of military hardware that it doesn't know how to use. They're totally reliant on the Pentagon's support to help them to use it effectively: The moment that the Saudis lose Pentagon support, they're effectively a sitting duck for a potential attacker.
Yes, plus 28.396% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Yes, but I wonder how many homeless people and people currently struggling to make ends meet could be helped more efficiently through state and national public services if Amazon and other corporations paid their fair share of taxes? The US poverty and homelessness rates are almost as shocking as the amount of money that is being taken out of public circulation (i.e. to serve everyone's interests) so that a small number of oligarchs and bankers can play on the Wall Street casinos.