It's meant to collect information on the users of Google's products so the company can better target them with ads
After all those billions spent, I am still waiting for my first relevant ad. I either see ads for products I have no interest in at all, or ads for products I have already looked at.
Or do you think that a parent shouldn't ever talk to their children while they are driving?
I know I have used the words "keep quiet for a minute, I need to concentrate" to my kids in the back seat. You can't say that as easily when you're talking to your boss on the phone.
why can't it be a star which is 4k times (or any other size) the size of our sun?
Because there's no room to fit such a big star in such a small orbit.
why it has to become that matter-less, light-/time-trapping elucubration basing all sorts of apocalyptic-like assumptions whose scientific foundation seems very weak to me?
Why would it seem weak ? I'm not a physicist, but the concept of having an object that's so massive that gravity becomes the dominant force is fairly easy to grasp. And once that happens, there's nothing that can stop it from collapsing.
Why could you know that there was a black hole there?
The best way to confirm a black hole is by looking at the red/blue shift of the orbiting material. This allows you to calculate orbital speed, and that tells you about mass and radius.
No, the actual DNA is not changed, but it is tagged in certain places, so the cells can adjust the amount of proteins they generate depending on requirement. This happens all the time. If you go exercising or change your diet, then your gene expression is also modified.
Mr. Musk might just be one of the greatest men of our time. First man to establish a company that makes successful electric cars (and finally kicking the traditional car manufacturers in the groin to get up and do their own homework, finally) and first man to establish a successful private space launch company.
it's extremely difficult to provide completely unbiased training data.
The problem is that a lot of these biases are actually real. In order to get unbiased data, you have to artificially shape it by applying an opposite bias.
Data science uses training data that often contains factors like race, sex, income, and education level that when included cause an algorithm to train to moderate or recommend people differently based on your assigned group.
But even if you leave out factors like race and sex, it is possible that the machine learning application figures it out for itself, and creates an internal pattern that happens to produce a good match to race or sex, or any other factor, and then discriminates based on that internal pattern.
If an investigator then looks at the result, it appears that the AI has certain biases.
Right, but you look silly when you compare antitrust laws to McDonalds selling their own hamburgers. However, I must admit you are fully in your right to look silly, if you so desire.
Even before they looked at anything though, there had to be some basis to start looking into this claim, right? So what was THAT basis? Also not reported on by article.
Maybe they don't want to say before they've build a case.
Does it matter what preferences I have control over ? Why can't I just find a date that matches my preferences, whether they are inherent or created by social norms ?
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All you have to do to prove that the flat Earth theory is wrong is watch a sunset, while talking to a buddy who's watching a sunrise at the same time.
I suspect that Google doesn't really care too much about accuracy, as long as they can convice the advertisers that the ads are targeted.
I've noticed that their recommended links from the home screen align much better with my interests than the ads I see, so they do have the data.
It's meant to collect information on the users of Google's products so the company can better target them with ads
After all those billions spent, I am still waiting for my first relevant ad. I either see ads for products I have no interest in at all, or ads for products I have already looked at.
As a thought experiment, think of of Episode 7 and 8 with the addition of Jar Jar Binks and even more little children
How about they burst into song and dance a few times ?
I never figured the heebs for being anti vax.
They are also anti foreskin (that God gave them) for no particular good reason.
Or do you think that a parent shouldn't ever talk to their children while they are driving?
I know I have used the words "keep quiet for a minute, I need to concentrate" to my kids in the back seat. You can't say that as easily when you're talking to your boss on the phone.
No, a chimera is when you end up with different genetic material between groups of cells. In this case, each cell will inherit the same set of DNA.
If I add up all your delays, it's still much less than 20 ms. It's even less than the 7-8 ms I get right now, pinging my ISP over VDSL.
Mind you half the money in that fund will probably end up in the pockets of telco executives as bonuses
That's not socialism, though.
for fucks sake we need to leave before we finish destroying this place and rendering it uninhabitable.
What makes you think we wouldn't make any other place uninhabitable just as quickly ?
Five boosters and an extra aloe strip that lathers.
why can't it be a star which is 4k times (or any other size) the size of our sun?
Because there's no room to fit such a big star in such a small orbit.
why it has to become that matter-less, light-/time-trapping elucubration basing all sorts of apocalyptic-like assumptions whose scientific foundation seems very weak to me?
Why would it seem weak ? I'm not a physicist, but the concept of having an object that's so massive that gravity becomes the dominant force is fairly easy to grasp. And once that happens, there's nothing that can stop it from collapsing.
Why could you know that there was a black hole there?
The best way to confirm a black hole is by looking at the red/blue shift of the orbiting material. This allows you to calculate orbital speed, and that tells you about mass and radius.
No, the actual DNA is not changed, but it is tagged in certain places, so the cells can adjust the amount of proteins they generate depending on requirement. This happens all the time. If you go exercising or change your diet, then your gene expression is also modified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Mr. Musk might just be one of the greatest men of our time. First man to establish a company that makes successful electric cars (and finally kicking the traditional car manufacturers in the groin to get up and do their own homework, finally) and first man to establish a successful private space launch company.
You forgot PayPal.
Since TB drives are common now, 5000 TB would have been easier to understand for most people.
To be fair, SpaceX throws away their 2nd stage.
I already have copies at home of all three Star Wars movies, so I have no need for this subscription.
it's extremely difficult to provide completely unbiased training data.
The problem is that a lot of these biases are actually real. In order to get unbiased data, you have to artificially shape it by applying an opposite bias.
One would have to spend considerable time and effort designing tests to determine bias
Simple. If result is not 50% male, 50% female, it's biased and needs to be corrected.
Data science uses training data that often contains factors like race, sex, income, and education level that when included cause an algorithm to train to moderate or recommend people differently based on your assigned group.
But even if you leave out factors like race and sex, it is possible that the machine learning application figures it out for itself, and creates an internal pattern that happens to produce a good match to race or sex, or any other factor, and then discriminates based on that internal pattern.
If an investigator then looks at the result, it appears that the AI has certain biases.
Right, but you look silly when you compare antitrust laws to McDonalds selling their own hamburgers. However, I must admit you are fully in your right to look silly, if you so desire.
I think you'll find that your government is a violent monopoly that needs to be busted up.
No, I actually prefer it that way.
Even before they looked at anything though, there had to be some basis to start looking into this claim, right? So what was THAT basis? Also not reported on by article.
Maybe they don't want to say before they've build a case.
Does it matter what preferences I have control over ? Why can't I just find a date that matches my preferences, whether they are inherent or created by social norms ?