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  1. I'll wait for the Amazon Intravenous service that will deliver glucose directly to my blood.

  2. No different than 30 years ago on Many Junior Scientists Need To Take a Hard Look at Their Job Prospects (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    That's life

  3. Re:student loans need chapter 11 and 7 on Many Junior Scientists Need To Take a Hard Look at Their Job Prospects (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can't get someone else to pay for your phd, then you probably shouldn't get one,

  4. Re:Bigger priorities on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Ross Perot

  5. Re:Pidgeons vs helicopter on Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent (santafenewmexican.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are talking about being comprehendable, run an FFT or wavelet transform on a large data set. This is done all of the time. No one can see the big picture (no pun), but a tiny chunk is easy enough to understand. See also, fractal compression.

  6. Re:Pidgeons vs helicopter on Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent (santafenewmexican.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a math for that. And there was a mathematica add on package, I think having to do with signals and systems in the late 90's that analyzed correlations between independent I/Os...drew lot's of multi-dimensional curves. Helicopter control was given an example. Now create a million helicopters and their aerodynamic interactions and if you had a large enough computer, it would still work, although locally because aerodynamics is non-linear, though you could extend the lines out and pretend that it would work everywhere.

  7. Why is scaling a big thing. If it works with N parameters, it will work with N+1. Also, optimal control is a thing and not exclusive, although optimal control for a data set is not necessarily optimal for another, or even piecewise continuous. But this comes down to how much computing power you want to throw at it.

    Anyway, this stuff is 70+ years old and the mathematics is well understood and common.

  8. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No you didn't, you watched tv. And electrical tape works wll for those cameras (I still need to find a way to disable the microphone though because it's makes me paranoid when I start seeing advertisements for things that I've been talking about, but not searching for).

  9. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hard to lean back in a laze-boy chair and type fast on a tablet computer. Even my mom got rid of hers after a month and went back to a laptop. Also easier to read when taken into the kitchen.

  10. Re:AI is just brute force and speech-to-text on Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent (santafenewmexican.com) · · Score: 1

    There aren't 10,000 people

    Back in the prehistoric days of /., I remember reading something from I think Linus about Linux saying something along the lines of...when Microsoft started, there were fewer than 1,000 people who knew what an operating system was and they had a limited talent pool to choose from. Now hundreds of thousands, millions, of people do

  11. Hey, Microsoft changed the meaning of operating system from it's original definition. I remember when people go upset when MS claimed that a web browser was integral to their OS. Today, not only do most people expect it, they mostly believe that a web browser is the same as an OS. This cases some consternation to the people who are working on OS's (in the traditional sense). Marketing sucks and lies.

  12. Applying knowledge and skills is within the grasp of a neural net

    It's also within the grasp of a couple of balls.

  13. This is revolutionary.

    Back in the 80's I worked on a system to analyze customer requirements to verify that there were no conflicting requirements, both internally or legally. This was because the requirements took up a small room full of documents. As part of the analysis process, this program also spit out compile-able and executable code.

    Not that revolutionary.

  14. Re: More AI hype on Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent (santafenewmexican.com) · · Score: 1

    It just if you grew up in the 80's, it was beaten into you that a CPU is not intelligent whereas today people claim it is.

  15. So why isn't a web page AI if it's only a matter of scale?

  16. the knobs twiddle themselves alone.

    So how is this different from adaptive control that uses on-line identification of the process parameters, or modification of controller gains, thereby obtaining strong robustness properties. Adaptive controls were applied for the first time in the aerospace industry in the 1950s, and have found particular success in that field. Adaptive control.

    Common methods of estimation include recursive least squares. Hmm,who knew I had thirty years of AI experience.

  17. Re:The problem is not the schools on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    You can still recognize the importance of education, even when you don't have any. I have a lot of immigrant friends who are first generation to have completed college, even high school for that matter, and know growing up their parents beat into them that they had to do well in school to get a good job so they wouldn't have to mow people's lawns for a living. And most of them are very well off today.

  18. Re:The internet doesn't force anyone to be a nitwi on Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    People have demonstrated that it's easy to manipulate what is popular on sites like reddit?

  19. Re:The internet is an amplifier on Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1
    Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

    The essential premise of the book, which Postman extends to the rest of his argument(s), is that "form excludes the content," that is, a particular medium can only sustain a particular level of ideas.

  20. Re: Newsweek is evil AND stupid on Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Saying that identify politics exists is basically like saying that water is wet.

    Back in the 70's, they used to run public ad campaigns with Saturday morning cartoons.Wagon Wheel, I'm only a Bill, conjunction junction, what's your function. One of the ads that I remember stressed that people were not labels. Brown, black, tall, short, handicapped, four eyes, etc. Today, everyone wants to be a label,

  21. The problem is not the schools on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's parents and culture. Nothing will overcome this.

  22. Re:Why trust any vendor's claims?! on Japanese Metal Manufacturer Faked Specifications To Hundreds of Companies (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    How much do you destroy

    A few cm^3.

  23. Re:Maybe one of these days people will actually vi on Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes For Human Colonisation of Moon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    A lot of people did, but then we went there and all of the smart people realized there was nothing there for us, at least in the foreseeable future and concentrated on other things.

  24. What precisely would humans do there?

    Moon jobs because there won't be any left on Earth.

  25. Re:No they shouldn't on Nobel Prize Winner Argues Tech Companies Should Be Changing The World (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet you wouldn't notice if someone took a few dollars from you to send their kid to school in Zanzibar.