As with all its other negotiations in Asia, the fruits of Uber's consultation with the Philippine government was prefaced by unorganized invasion, trade complaints, bans and general conflict.
I guess nobody ever said it was unbiased news for nerds...
I do rather like the image of hired transport modernization as a seething horde of goblins, unorganizedly invading Asia with scavenged weapons and half-assed catapults.
Dude, the ideal gas law was applied directly to a sports scandal. That's is News for Nerds.
Hear hear!
A rule of thumb for musicians is "someone is going to call out Freebird! at every show you play." Likewise, someone is going to call out "Hey this isn't News For Nerds!" on every/. thread.
I mean, this isn't the nerdiest story ever, but they did have to do Science(TM) to make this report.
Agreed, I don't think nuclear war is even in the top 5 outcomes from geoengineering. Conventional war probably makes the short list, as does "Great, it worked," "Fuck, it didn't work" and "Oops we turned the wrong knob, nice knowin ya!"
I suppose a few of those could eventually precipitate nuclear war and thus nuclear winter. But a) so could lots of things unrelated to climate change, and b) we have a pretty good solution for that too: fire up the coal plants and start feeding cows sauerkraut.
Wasn't the original idea behind business school finding and training good managerial candidates (which are apparently quite hard to come by)? Not teaching piranhas how best to outsource the labor force and High Frequency Hump the stock market?
All I'm saying is, I agree that good managers are hard to come by, and maybe we should have a school for that.
We are in the midst of a decades-long scandal. It seems lazy people who evidently hate the English language have been appendin "-gate" at the end of pretty much anything that annoys or inconveniences them.
I'm sure when you tell the Apple Store people their watch doesn't work on your tattooed wrist, they will take it back and issue a refund. You may have to spend 15 minutes doing that instead of picking out artisanal teapots or locally-sourced beard wax. Oh the horrors!
If there's anything worthy of the death penalty, it's putting countless lives at risk by promoting fake medicine for personal gain. Wakefield would be right there on death row, too.
If they're paying for schools (through taxes) then they get a say in how the schools operate. No taxation without representation.
+1 well-played snark. Anti-vaxxers are exactly the type of people who would take that "no taxation" line they read in a grade school textbook and misapply it to their own imagined plight.
Of course they have representation at all levels of government, and their property taxes no more give them the right to put other kids at risk than to dictate the Bible as the official history textbook.
I, for one, am really glad they're getting rid of the old version that had all those extra features and didn't react to scroll wheel zooming like an enraged chihuahua. /sarcasm
Shit you're right! God damn it, I was so happy to type the word "queue" I forgot it was the wrong word. And it's worse because I have actually cued things in the recording sense. Now I have to deal with the Spelling Nazis and the Smelling Nazis...
But once we're all done laughing, I think we should take a sober look at the real scientific explanation: the Four Corners is host to a phenomenon known as Intermittent Fulminating Atmospheric Rancidity Tempest - Extended Duration.
I think it's an admirable goal to get your kid interested in computers and coding. But it seems like/. gets this question every week, sometimes multiple times a week. You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting some variant of "How can I teach my [son/daughter/nephew/[2-/3-/4-/5-/6-/7-/10-]year-old/3rd grade class/nation's kindergarteners] how to code?" Can we just sticky this to the sidebar somewhere?
I was recently reminded that LEDs are not just good for consumer and business fixture applications.
At the trainstop by my work, they just replaced all the old lights (constantly broken and dark) with these super bright LED panels. Ceilings in the station are so high that you need a scissor lift to get to the bulbs, it was a big multi-day production to put them in. You can imagine how any improvements in consistency, efficiency, and duty cycle would be very welcome.
Not sure if the "you" in your post was me or the Googles of the world making self-driving cars. If it's me, I'll just point out that I never proposed that handwringing over decisional ethics was the one thing holding SDCs back.
My point was that questions like the one in TFS are matsurbation. The question ought to be, are we at a point where they're safer (aggregate) than humans, driving in real world conditions? You and I both agree that currently the answer is no. For optics and liability reasons, they'll probably have to be an order of magnitude safer than the average human driver before they gain wide traction. I think that day is closer than you seem to, but that's just fortunetelling.
I disagree about rushing to a blanket ban, and I don't grok your main complaint about jackasses with half capable systems. Is there a big mod/DIY community out there outfitting their Suburbans with hand-rolled CarLinux or something?
FWIW I agree the whole "don't worry the driver's gonna be right there to take over at a moments notice" line is absurd. I buy it for these early test runs where the drivers are paid to make sure no one gets flattened by a Google logo, but a real self-driving future actively discourages engagement and driving skill.
1) Cars are not technologically at a point where they have omnipresent awareness of the constituents of every vehicle around them and the locations of every pedestrian (add in crowded street-facing cafés, structural members for buildings, and everything else you could possibly think of). Neither, for that matter, are people.
2) The most brilliant philosophers still disagree over the ethics of choosing who dies when someone's gotta go. See also the Trolley Problem, most other ethical dilemmas, and generally the eternal struggle between various consequentialist and deontological systems of ethics.
3) This precise scenario is highly contrived and seems (1st approximation) to be vanishingly rare.
Given the above, maybe the question shouldn't be if a robot can make a perfect (or any) ethical decision. Maybe for now it should just be if the robot can do better than a human at not killing anyone at all in these sorts of situations. Maybe "I did my best to protect my owner from death and just happen to average out safer for everyone" will have to be ok for now.
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As with all its other negotiations in Asia, the fruits of Uber's consultation with the Philippine government was prefaced by unorganized invasion, trade complaints, bans and general conflict.
I guess nobody ever said it was unbiased news for nerds...
I do rather like the image of hired transport modernization as a seething horde of goblins, unorganizedly invading Asia with scavenged weapons and half-assed catapults.
It's the first time we've been able to replicate racing forces so high that it introduces liability questions.
As a nerd-attorney, I think it's rad as hell they have a racing simulator so accurate they could get sued for hurting you with it.
Dude, the ideal gas law was applied directly to a sports scandal. That's is News for Nerds.
Hear hear!
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A rule of thumb for musicians is "someone is going to call out Freebird! at every show you play." Likewise, someone is going to call out "Hey this isn't News For Nerds!" on every
I mean, this isn't the nerdiest story ever, but they did have to do Science(TM) to make this report.
I just don't get it.
I think it's top down from the coach. Belichick is the living embodiment of the middle finger. Brilliant guy, but his IDGAFs are through the roof.
Yes. Let's call it the War on Gate.
Let it be known that I was for it before I was against it. #warongategate
students, teachers, scientists, or psychologists
Psychologists are social scientists, you insensitive clod!
Agreed, I don't think nuclear war is even in the top 5 outcomes from geoengineering. Conventional war probably makes the short list, as does "Great, it worked," "Fuck, it didn't work" and "Oops we turned the wrong knob, nice knowin ya!"
I suppose a few of those could eventually precipitate nuclear war and thus nuclear winter. But a) so could lots of things unrelated to climate change, and b) we have a pretty good solution for that too: fire up the coal plants and start feeding cows sauerkraut.
Wasn't the original idea behind business school finding and training good managerial candidates (which are apparently quite hard to come by)? Not teaching piranhas how best to outsource the labor force and High Frequency Hump the stock market?
All I'm saying is, I agree that good managers are hard to come by, and maybe we should have a school for that.
We are in the midst of a decades-long scandal. It seems lazy people who evidently hate the English language have been appendin "-gate" at the end of pretty much anything that annoys or inconveniences them.
I'm sure when you tell the Apple Store people their watch doesn't work on your tattooed wrist, they will take it back and issue a refund. You may have to spend 15 minutes doing that instead of picking out artisanal teapots or locally-sourced beard wax. Oh the horrors!
#noteverythingisafuckinggate-gate
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I thought he was talking about entropy :-/
"Sponsored Content" banner at the top of this post?
Right next to the "Guaranteed to Run Crysis" stamp!
If there's anything worthy of the death penalty, it's putting countless lives at risk by promoting fake medicine for personal gain. Wakefield would be right there on death row, too.
If they're paying for schools (through taxes) then they get a say in how the schools operate. No taxation without representation.
+1 well-played snark. Anti-vaxxers are exactly the type of people who would take that "no taxation" line they read in a grade school textbook and misapply it to their own imagined plight.
Of course they have representation at all levels of government, and their property taxes no more give them the right to put other kids at risk than to dictate the Bible as the official history textbook.
I believe google may have (had?) some undocumented "near"-type feature.
This!! For various technical reasons, I don't think a regex-capable, public-facing search engine is feasible right now :(
But I'd beg, borrow, and bite to get some sort of "regex lite" capabilities (we could start by excluding the stuff that's np-hard, like lookbacks).
I, for one, am really glad they're getting rid of the old version that had all those extra features and didn't react to scroll wheel zooming like an enraged chihuahua.
/sarcasm
The Eli system isn't that old, and in the past players with drastically different levels of skill were more likely to play each other.
Actually, the Eli System is pretty much all they had in the past. As in, "Hey Eli, match up the all these chess players, will ya?"
:)
Now Elo, on the other hand...
I beg to differ.
Shit you're right! God damn it, I was so happy to type the word "queue" I forgot it was the wrong word. And it's worse because I have actually cued things in the recording sense. Now I have to deal with the Spelling Nazis and the Smelling Nazis...
I mean, yes haha, fart fart fart toot toot toot.
But once we're all done laughing, I think we should take a sober look at the real scientific explanation: the Four Corners is host to a phenomenon known as Intermittent Fulminating Atmospheric Rancidity Tempest - Extended Duration.
I think it's an admirable goal to get your kid interested in computers and coding. But it seems like /. gets this question every week, sometimes multiple times a week. You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting some variant of "How can I teach my [son/daughter/nephew/[2-/3-/4-/5-/6-/7-/10-]year-old/3rd grade class/nation's kindergarteners] how to code?" Can we just sticky this to the sidebar somewhere?
And this new graphene LED bulbs will compete HOW?
I was recently reminded that LEDs are not just good for consumer and business fixture applications.
At the trainstop by my work, they just replaced all the old lights (constantly broken and dark) with these super bright LED panels. Ceilings in the station are so high that you need a scissor lift to get to the bulbs, it was a big multi-day production to put them in. You can imagine how any improvements in consistency, efficiency, and duty cycle would be very welcome.
Not sure if the "you" in your post was me or the Googles of the world making self-driving cars. If it's me, I'll just point out that I never proposed that handwringing over decisional ethics was the one thing holding SDCs back.
My point was that questions like the one in TFS are matsurbation. The question ought to be, are we at a point where they're safer (aggregate) than humans, driving in real world conditions? You and I both agree that currently the answer is no. For optics and liability reasons, they'll probably have to be an order of magnitude safer than the average human driver before they gain wide traction. I think that day is closer than you seem to, but that's just fortunetelling.
I disagree about rushing to a blanket ban, and I don't grok your main complaint about jackasses with half capable systems. Is there a big mod/DIY community out there outfitting their Suburbans with hand-rolled CarLinux or something?
FWIW I agree the whole "don't worry the driver's gonna be right there to take over at a moments notice" line is absurd. I buy it for these early test runs where the drivers are paid to make sure no one gets flattened by a Google logo, but a real self-driving future actively discourages engagement and driving skill.
1) Cars are not technologically at a point where they have omnipresent awareness of the constituents of every vehicle around them and the locations of every pedestrian (add in crowded street-facing cafés, structural members for buildings, and everything else you could possibly think of). Neither, for that matter, are people.
2) The most brilliant philosophers still disagree over the ethics of choosing who dies when someone's gotta go. See also the Trolley Problem, most other ethical dilemmas, and generally the eternal struggle between various consequentialist and deontological systems of ethics.
3) This precise scenario is highly contrived and seems (1st approximation) to be vanishingly rare.
Given the above, maybe the question shouldn't be if a robot can make a perfect (or any) ethical decision. Maybe for now it should just be if the robot can do better than a human at not killing anyone at all in these sorts of situations. Maybe "I did my best to protect my owner from death and just happen to average out safer for everyone" will have to be ok for now.
Turn both cockpit seats into toilets. Call them Craptains Chairs. Problem solved!