From the U of Helsinki:
Because AI is a discipline, you shouldn't say "an AI", just like we don't say "a biology". This point should also be quite clear when you try saying something like "we need more artificial intelligences." That just sounds wrong, doesn't it? (It does to us.)
Why do you quote the University of Helsinki when they're dead wrong?
Of course AI is a discipline, and the noun phrase is uncountable when referring to said discipline; however, it also serves as a countable noun meaning "something man-made which has intelligence". When we discuss whether Alexa, Google, etc. are expert systems or artificial intelligences, we're quibbling over definitions, but the grammar itself is fine. Finns should stick to Finnish, and being attractive, and programming AI - hands off my English!
I paid hundreds of dollars for an airline seat, only to have a screen flashing only advertisements in my face. Then if I want to watch something of my own choosing, I have to pay to access the in-flight programming.
Wait, what? I've flown as much as anyone, but have never seen this. Is there seriously an airline this shitty?
I don't think anyone WANTS to be part of damaging something beautiful.
As soon as the government shut down, people drove into Joshua Tree National Park and started cutting down Joshua trees. People would pulverize coral with sledgehammers and then dissolve it in acid if it weren't so inaccessible. A certain portion of humanity is simply shit.
A key there is something like chemical pesticides wouldn't typically target just the species. Hence the search for a very targetted approach.
What we need is a way to target only mosquitoes that carry malaria. Surely we can crispr up a malaria-HIV hybrid virus that gives them skeeter-aids. Maybe throw in some polio for good measure.
I can see the point of autonomous taxis, but in larger public transport (buses, trams, trains) the cost of the drivers wages is not that significant.
Napkin math disagrees. A typical downtown streetcar probably averages 20 kph including stops. A quick google search says the typical streetcar driver makes about $20/hour. That's $1/km in wages to run one car. Google also says a bus burns 25l/100km. At $1/liter, that's $0.25/km in fuel costs to run one diesel bus (and so presumably diesel streetcar), and electric will be cheaper to run.
If the cost of wages disappears, formerly unprofitable hours and routes become viable. Less viable routes could even be served by small, lightweight streetcars - maybe even light enough that a pedestrian could survive a low-speed collision (especially given the quick braking response possible in a driverless system).
I'm actually not the biggest fan of streetcars, but if we're going to do them, driverless will be a higher-value system given the same infrastructure investment.
They left out the other significant development in cheap calculators, the built-in solar power which meant no batteries at all.
You must have missed it. From tfa, solar power was the next innovation for the calculator: Teal introduced the Photon in 1977, no batteries required or supplied!
This is followed by an image of an advertisement for the Photon.
Surprising is an error in the ad copy:
[Because of our awesome QC process,] the defect rate is an unprecedented low of less than one out of every 200 pieces (or.05%)!
One might expect a calculator company to avoid arithmetic errors.
WTF does that even mean? Of course the US is a republic. It's also a democracy. These are hardly polar opposites. A republic is run by and for the people, not the monarch/church/military. Democracy's a natural fit. What you probably meant was "Yes, but the US is an indirect democracy."
Japanese regnal years are not used for any significant calculations. Behind the scenes it's YYYY, with regnal years used only for display. This is an aesthetic issue only, and hardly unforeseen.
Obviosly this could be seen coming, but how to do you program for it?
Update your datetime libraries, I guess. That's where this should be programmed for. You shouldn't be figuring out regnal years in your own code. Any system that cannot be updated will simply be doomed to display the wrong regnal year forever, though it'll be perfectly clear what year is being referred to.
The next emperor is a high probability, but perhaps not a certainty.
And regardless of who the next emperor is, their reign is going to have a different name, and we still don't know what it is.
Would it kill anyone were their 2020 ticket to say 32-5-12? There's no ambiguity, even though it's technically wrong. Hey, it's Showa 93 right now! But seriously, a train machine printing an unambiguous but technically wrong date on a ticket is hardly a problem.
Japanese regnal years are not used for any significant calculations. Behind the scenes it's YYYY, with regnal years used only for display. This is an aesthetic issue only, and hardly unforeseen.
The last US Civil War was not about slavery it was about states rights. At the time the decision to declare slavery illegal at the federal level was just one example of the federal government trying to dictate laws that the states believed was a matter to decided at the state by state level.
The US Civil War was over the right of States to secede, and the States that seceded made it very clear that the "State's Right" over which they seceded was the right of a State to permit slavery.
What's really racist is the idea that minorities are just incapable of getting an ID.
I support voter ID, but a California driver license costs $35. A California ID card (drinker's license) is $30. At the very bottom of the socioeconomic ladder are those for whom this is too much of an expense. Demanding payment in exchange for the privilege of voting is an illegal poll tax. Either change the Constitution or offer free IDs.
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And what was Nixon convicted of?
The Second Amendment applies to people here illegally? Sounds like it needs a rewrite.
An order of magnitude more than instantaneous? Please explain.
Holy fucking whoosh!
Misread as TPB. anakata's coming for you!
From the U of Helsinki: Because AI is a discipline, you shouldn't say "an AI", just like we don't say "a biology". This point should also be quite clear when you try saying something like "we need more artificial intelligences." That just sounds wrong, doesn't it? (It does to us.)
Why do you quote the University of Helsinki when they're dead wrong? Of course AI is a discipline, and the noun phrase is uncountable when referring to said discipline; however, it also serves as a countable noun meaning "something man-made which has intelligence". When we discuss whether Alexa, Google, etc. are expert systems or artificial intelligences, we're quibbling over definitions, but the grammar itself is fine. Finns should stick to Finnish, and being attractive, and programming AI - hands off my English!
Wait, what? I've flown as much as anyone, but have never seen this. Is there seriously an airline this shitty?
I don't think anyone WANTS to be part of damaging something beautiful.
As soon as the government shut down, people drove into Joshua Tree National Park and started cutting down Joshua trees. People would pulverize coral with sledgehammers and then dissolve it in acid if it weren't so inaccessible. A certain portion of humanity is simply shit.
So they'll shoot her down with missiles? Seriously?
A key there is something like chemical pesticides wouldn't typically target just the species. Hence the search for a very targetted approach.
What we need is a way to target only mosquitoes that carry malaria. Surely we can crispr up a malaria-HIV hybrid virus that gives them skeeter-aids. Maybe throw in some polio for good measure.
I can see the point of autonomous taxis, but in larger public transport (buses, trams, trains) the cost of the drivers wages is not that significant.
Napkin math disagrees. A typical downtown streetcar probably averages 20 kph including stops. A quick google search says the typical streetcar driver makes about $20/hour. That's $1/km in wages to run one car. Google also says a bus burns 25l/100km. At $1/liter, that's $0.25/km in fuel costs to run one diesel bus (and so presumably diesel streetcar), and electric will be cheaper to run.
If the cost of wages disappears, formerly unprofitable hours and routes become viable. Less viable routes could even be served by small, lightweight streetcars - maybe even light enough that a pedestrian could survive a low-speed collision (especially given the quick braking response possible in a driverless system).
I'm actually not the biggest fan of streetcars, but if we're going to do them, driverless will be a higher-value system given the same infrastructure investment.
They left out the other significant development in cheap calculators, the built-in solar power which meant no batteries at all.
You must have missed it. From tfa, solar power was the next innovation for the calculator: Teal introduced the Photon in 1977, no batteries required or supplied!
This is followed by an image of an advertisement for the Photon. Surprising is an error in the ad copy:
[Because of our awesome QC process,] the defect rate is an unprecedented low of less than one out of every 200 pieces (or .05%)!
One might expect a calculator company to avoid arithmetic errors.
At least give a warning like for PDFs. I'm on mobile and every link wants to open the Twitter app.
On mobile, I long-press every link on /. to see the URL first. It's the only way to be safe.
Not really. I picked up a pack of 3 for $5, led bulbs, from the dollar store 2 years ago. Those bulbs are still going strong.
That cashier ripped you off.
How long before the first ent wedding gets accidently bombed?
Yes, but the US is a republic.
WTF does that even mean? Of course the US is a republic. It's also a democracy. These are hardly polar opposites. A republic is run by and for the people, not the monarch/church/military. Democracy's a natural fit. What you probably meant was "Yes, but the US is an indirect democracy."
Japanese regnal years are not used for any significant calculations. Behind the scenes it's YYYY, with regnal years used only for display. This is an aesthetic issue only, and hardly unforeseen.
Obviosly this could be seen coming, but how to do you program for it?
Update your datetime libraries, I guess. That's where this should be programmed for. You shouldn't be figuring out regnal years in your own code. Any system that cannot be updated will simply be doomed to display the wrong regnal year forever, though it'll be perfectly clear what year is being referred to.
The next emperor is a high probability, but perhaps not a certainty.
And regardless of who the next emperor is, their reign is going to have a different name, and we still don't know what it is.
Would it kill anyone were their 2020 ticket to say 32-5-12? There's no ambiguity, even though it's technically wrong. Hey, it's Showa 93 right now! But seriously, a train machine printing an unambiguous but technically wrong date on a ticket is hardly a problem.
Japanese regnal years are not used for any significant calculations. Behind the scenes it's YYYY, with regnal years used only for display. This is an aesthetic issue only, and hardly unforeseen.
The last US Civil War was not about slavery it was about states rights. At the time the decision to declare slavery illegal at the federal level was just one example of the federal government trying to dictate laws that the states believed was a matter to decided at the state by state level.
The US Civil War was over the right of States to secede, and the States that seceded made it very clear that the "State's Right" over which they seceded was the right of a State to permit slavery.
What's really racist is the idea that minorities are just incapable of getting an ID.
I support voter ID, but a California driver license costs $35. A California ID card (drinker's license) is $30. At the very bottom of the socioeconomic ladder are those for whom this is too much of an expense. Demanding payment in exchange for the privilege of voting is an illegal poll tax. Either change the Constitution or offer free IDs.
Windows 2000 was the first and last version worth installing. Microsoft almost got it right. Shame there was no 64 bit release.
Good point. Guess I'd forgotten about the radio switch on my old laptop.
What devices used to have hardware switches for the microphone, radio, and camera?
When cops lie under oath, you must acquit. Even for murder and child porn, sadly. There can be no justice without truth.