And potentially all AIs will learn from a mistake made by just one of them. Similar to how Google replays all the millions of recorded self driving mileage through their self driving software whenever they have a new release, so they can assess how the new version holds up.
Crime statistics aren't racist; they are factual data... that completely ignore social and economic factors that may explain why certain groups are over-represented in the stats. Bias comes into play when the data is applied: giving a black guy a stiffer sentence because of such data (where a judgment is supposed to be about the individual). Or applying a higher insurance premium to certain races because they have a genetic propensity for diabetes or colon cancer. The latter example is fine from a purely actuarial point of view, though we as a society agreed that that's not ok either.
The danger of AI and applying "big data" is that it is really hard to find out why particular decisions or judgments are being made, so that we cannot correct for racial or other bias. Scrubbing all info on race, gender, creed, culture etc. from the data sounds like a neat solution, but it's something that is probably pretty difficult even in circumstances where you have decent control over the data set, but in cases where data is scraped automatically from sources not under your control it will be harder still. Especially as some of that data can be gleaned indirectly from other info: images, and audio recordings, language and dialect, etc.
Exactly. And this is nothing new, by the way; the same worry was expressed around 20 years ago after a proposal to use expert systems to assist judges with sentencing. Though when I see how some people plan to use "big data" today, I can only conclude we haven't learned anything since then.
The engineers certainly get plenty of attention. For example: when one of them donned a somewhat odd t-shirt, the entire world took notice (and offense)
That's only a problem up to a certain point; when (if ever) the self learning algo has learned enough and has logged a couple billion safe kilometers with a much better track record than the average human, then no one will care that they (or real scientists) do not understand exactly how the thing makes its decisions.
Quite possibly creating an artificial limit to your network will help it thrive – be it restricted to family members, friends from school, specific workplaces you get the idea. The key is to harness the power of the quality of your community and not the quantity.
Probably. Though one thing that set BBSes apart is that they often amounted to singular communities of people, like you describe. Not multiple (though overlapping) networks belonging to individual people each with their own circle of friends, like modern social networks. Nor communities of interest, like many FB groups, web boards, or Usenet groups.
Is that all they are offering? I've looked into co-worker spaces and "incubators" last year when I was working on some pet projects (working from home all the time wasn't as attractive as it sounds). Most places offered a lot of flexibility, i.e. widely spaced hot desks, quiet cells, meeting rooms, break rooms, fluffy creativity rooms, the inevitable pool / pingpong / foosball tables, up to private offices with leases from a day to a year. And tables as shown in TFA. For lone wolves and small startups it's a good deal: the facilities are generally decent and affordable, and you're bound to meet many other people working on interesting stuff, which can help your own efforts.
But yeah, if it's just a table in a Staples store, then I'd pass.
You figure out what's wrong by turning on the TV or radio. In fact isn't that what they advise you to do when the siren goes off? What do you expect froma call to the emergency number? "Yes, a nuclear strike was launched and you have about 10 minutes. Would you mind warning your neighbours? Oh, and remember to duck and cover, have a nice day".
The emergency number is for people with an actual emergency
I thought one of the advantages of the hyperloop idea was that you can have loads of intermediate stations. Because people travel in small pods, they don't need to stop at every intermediate station like a regular train. Unless you live in the city, you still need to travel quite a bit to catch a high speed train, but your suburb or village could have its own hyperloop station, allowing you to travel long distance from craphole to 2 horse town without changing transportation (which is the real time sink in travel, especially air travel).
Besides being good fun, paintball also teaches you how easy it is to get hurt in a firefight. Think you're under good cover with a buddy having your back, and still get hit in the head, shoulder or ankle. Now think what that would be like if those were real bullets...
Very nice job. This should serve as a stark reminder that when building a smart home, one should shop for IoT devices (intranet of things) rather than IoT devices (internet of things). Do not accept any device that needs an internet connection or the goodwill (or existence) of the manufacturer to function. Whether you are after smart light bulbs, thermostats or garage door openers, there are acceptable alternatives that work well, do not need the internet to function, and respect your rights and privacy.
The one thing that is better in the cinema is the 3D. You can have as big a screen as you want, but when it comes to 3D it's not field of view that counts, but distance to the screen. Good 3D is pretty much the only reason I go to the cinema, and there's the rub: not many movies get 3D right. Cameron is pretty good at it; Sanctum worked well in 3D and Avatar was spot on (even though it was a pretty average movie otherwise), but other than that there's only a few 3D movies worth watching.
I prefer eating noises while eating something nice myself, over idiots arguing on a cell phone or to each other, texting, or being otherwise disruptive. You'd visit a regular cinema with the expectation of watching a movie in peace (which often won't be the case). You'd visit an Alamo cinema with the expectation of having chow & beers with your movie, with the inevitable mild noise that comes with eating and serving meals. Your choice, nothing hypocritical about that.
I'd go watch movies there if we had one of those, by the way. We used to have something similar but it closed down years ago.
Also, what about non-Americans? Citizens and aliens don't have the same rights, privileges or obligations by law, but in most normal countries, foreigners enjoy the same protection as citizens when it comes to law enforcement. Foreigners might receive a bit more scrutiny, but the same rules apply. Or should, at least.
Sometimes it is, just like sometimes (for example) electrical engineering isn't engineering. Sure, there's plenty of things wrong with the software development profession, but please stop repeating that empty, useless statement. Unless you have something of substance to back it up.
That's even worse, dear god not another "fiction universe" movie (or more likely: series of movies). So we'll probably see reboots of all these characters followed by the inevitable "league" and "versus" stories. And crossovers with the DC and Marvel universes perhaps? Sounds like at least a decade of shit entertainment.
This is not for rural but for suburban deliveries. Guy in truck can make, what, one delivery per 5 minutes if he's lucky, with that time decreasing a little if he has a lot of deliveries in the same small area. Guy in a truckful of drones can make many more. Perhaps to the point where he can make his rounds several times a day. You've just made 2-4 hour delivery not just a possibility, but a reality than can be had at little extra cost. Imagine if Amazon makes this the default delivery option.
And then you get tired or get a cramp mid-flight, great. I suppose that's why the jets aren't on his back; that's (hopefully) where the parachute will go.
Yeah, that was exactly what I thought of. Of course right now they are mostly thinking about ads on loading screens and about product placement: they put a can of Slurm in your VR scene, and get paid if your eyes linger long enough on that can. But I can also imagine how tempting it must be to resume the advertising arms race, and require viewing of the ad. Or, since the revenue stream requires you to at least glance at the ad, make it as obnoxious as possible: think bouncing buttons and flashing colors.
Because that's all this is: an arms race. Companies aren't magically going to increase their advertising budgets; they might spend more on one particular platform if it proves to be more effective, but it most likely means they are spending less elsewhere. And can we please kill this lie about "targeted, engaging" ads? No one wants ads when they interrupt or interfere with the viewing experience. Not even when it's a single, relevant ad, let alone the customary scattershot of crap this will inevitably devolve into.
India has been recognized as a separate region in the App store for ages. Availability and price can be set separately for India, and pricing is in rupees. I've no doubt that popularity of iPhones in India is low, but that's due to its rather high price compared to the average disposable income. But many, many Indians in IT working overseas for a while seem to posess iPhones and iPads (new models too). Some get paid (partly) in € or $ while abroad, and they get to keep and spend some of that if they manage to save on their living expenses. In that case it appears that iStuff is pretty high on their wish list.
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And potentially all AIs will learn from a mistake made by just one of them. Similar to how Google replays all the millions of recorded self driving mileage through their self driving software whenever they have a new release, so they can assess how the new version holds up.
Seriously, this region crap has got to end.
Crime statistics aren't racist; they are factual data... that completely ignore social and economic factors that may explain why certain groups are over-represented in the stats. Bias comes into play when the data is applied: giving a black guy a stiffer sentence because of such data (where a judgment is supposed to be about the individual). Or applying a higher insurance premium to certain races because they have a genetic propensity for diabetes or colon cancer. The latter example is fine from a purely actuarial point of view, though we as a society agreed that that's not ok either.
The danger of AI and applying "big data" is that it is really hard to find out why particular decisions or judgments are being made, so that we cannot correct for racial or other bias. Scrubbing all info on race, gender, creed, culture etc. from the data sounds like a neat solution, but it's something that is probably pretty difficult even in circumstances where you have decent control over the data set, but in cases where data is scraped automatically from sources not under your control it will be harder still. Especially as some of that data can be gleaned indirectly from other info: images, and audio recordings, language and dialect, etc.
If you feed it biased data it learns the bias.
Exactly. And this is nothing new, by the way; the same worry was expressed around 20 years ago after a proposal to use expert systems to assist judges with sentencing. Though when I see how some people plan to use "big data" today, I can only conclude we haven't learned anything since then.
The engineers certainly get plenty of attention. For example: when one of them donned a somewhat odd t-shirt, the entire world took notice (and offense)
That's only a problem up to a certain point; when (if ever) the self learning algo has learned enough and has logged a couple billion safe kilometers with a much better track record than the average human, then no one will care that they (or real scientists) do not understand exactly how the thing makes its decisions.
Can't they settle with their clients in BTC?
Quite possibly creating an artificial limit to your network will help it thrive – be it restricted to family members, friends from school, specific workplaces you get the idea. The key is to harness the power of the quality of your community and not the quantity.
Probably. Though one thing that set BBSes apart is that they often amounted to singular communities of people, like you describe. Not multiple (though overlapping) networks belonging to individual people each with their own circle of friends, like modern social networks. Nor communities of interest, like many FB groups, web boards, or Usenet groups.
a 20,000-square-foot Starbucks
Also known as the 3rd circle of hell.
Is that all they are offering? I've looked into co-worker spaces and "incubators" last year when I was working on some pet projects (working from home all the time wasn't as attractive as it sounds). Most places offered a lot of flexibility, i.e. widely spaced hot desks, quiet cells, meeting rooms, break rooms, fluffy creativity rooms, the inevitable pool / pingpong / foosball tables, up to private offices with leases from a day to a year. And tables as shown in TFA. For lone wolves and small startups it's a good deal: the facilities are generally decent and affordable, and you're bound to meet many other people working on interesting stuff, which can help your own efforts.
But yeah, if it's just a table in a Staples store, then I'd pass.
You figure out what's wrong by turning on the TV or radio. In fact isn't that what they advise you to do when the siren goes off? What do you expect froma call to the emergency number? "Yes, a nuclear strike was launched and you have about 10 minutes. Would you mind warning your neighbours? Oh, and remember to duck and cover, have a nice day".
The emergency number is for people with an actual emergency
I thought one of the advantages of the hyperloop idea was that you can have loads of intermediate stations. Because people travel in small pods, they don't need to stop at every intermediate station like a regular train. Unless you live in the city, you still need to travel quite a bit to catch a high speed train, but your suburb or village could have its own hyperloop station, allowing you to travel long distance from craphole to 2 horse town without changing transportation (which is the real time sink in travel, especially air travel).
It's Facebook, so no.
Besides being good fun, paintball also teaches you how easy it is to get hurt in a firefight. Think you're under good cover with a buddy having your back, and still get hit in the head, shoulder or ankle. Now think what that would be like if those were real bullets...
Very nice job. This should serve as a stark reminder that when building a smart home, one should shop for IoT devices (intranet of things) rather than IoT devices (internet of things). Do not accept any device that needs an internet connection or the goodwill (or existence) of the manufacturer to function. Whether you are after smart light bulbs, thermostats or garage door openers, there are acceptable alternatives that work well, do not need the internet to function, and respect your rights and privacy.
The one thing that is better in the cinema is the 3D. You can have as big a screen as you want, but when it comes to 3D it's not field of view that counts, but distance to the screen. Good 3D is pretty much the only reason I go to the cinema, and there's the rub: not many movies get 3D right. Cameron is pretty good at it; Sanctum worked well in 3D and Avatar was spot on (even though it was a pretty average movie otherwise), but other than that there's only a few 3D movies worth watching.
I prefer eating noises while eating something nice myself, over idiots arguing on a cell phone or to each other, texting, or being otherwise disruptive. You'd visit a regular cinema with the expectation of watching a movie in peace (which often won't be the case). You'd visit an Alamo cinema with the expectation of having chow & beers with your movie, with the inevitable mild noise that comes with eating and serving meals. Your choice, nothing hypocritical about that.
I'd go watch movies there if we had one of those, by the way. We used to have something similar but it closed down years ago.
Also, what about non-Americans? Citizens and aliens don't have the same rights, privileges or obligations by law, but in most normal countries, foreigners enjoy the same protection as citizens when it comes to law enforcement. Foreigners might receive a bit more scrutiny, but the same rules apply. Or should, at least.
note software development is NOT engineering
Sometimes it is, just like sometimes (for example) electrical engineering isn't engineering. Sure, there's plenty of things wrong with the software development profession, but please stop repeating that empty, useless statement. Unless you have something of substance to back it up.
I'd call book adaptations "original content" as well. Original to the screen is good enough for me
That's even worse, dear god not another "fiction universe" movie (or more likely: series of movies). So we'll probably see reboots of all these characters followed by the inevitable "league" and "versus" stories. And crossovers with the DC and Marvel universes perhaps? Sounds like at least a decade of shit entertainment.
This is not for rural but for suburban deliveries. Guy in truck can make, what, one delivery per 5 minutes if he's lucky, with that time decreasing a little if he has a lot of deliveries in the same small area. Guy in a truckful of drones can make many more. Perhaps to the point where he can make his rounds several times a day. You've just made 2-4 hour delivery not just a possibility, but a reality than can be had at little extra cost. Imagine if Amazon makes this the default delivery option.
And then you get tired or get a cramp mid-flight, great. I suppose that's why the jets aren't on his back; that's (hopefully) where the parachute will go.
Yeah, that was exactly what I thought of. Of course right now they are mostly thinking about ads on loading screens and about product placement: they put a can of Slurm in your VR scene, and get paid if your eyes linger long enough on that can. But I can also imagine how tempting it must be to resume the advertising arms race, and require viewing of the ad. Or, since the revenue stream requires you to at least glance at the ad, make it as obnoxious as possible: think bouncing buttons and flashing colors.
Because that's all this is: an arms race. Companies aren't magically going to increase their advertising budgets; they might spend more on one particular platform if it proves to be more effective, but it most likely means they are spending less elsewhere. And can we please kill this lie about "targeted, engaging" ads? No one wants ads when they interrupt or interfere with the viewing experience. Not even when it's a single, relevant ad, let alone the customary scattershot of crap this will inevitably devolve into.
India has been recognized as a separate region in the App store for ages. Availability and price can be set separately for India, and pricing is in rupees. I've no doubt that popularity of iPhones in India is low, but that's due to its rather high price compared to the average disposable income. But many, many Indians in IT working overseas for a while seem to posess iPhones and iPads (new models too). Some get paid (partly) in € or $ while abroad, and they get to keep and spend some of that if they manage to save on their living expenses. In that case it appears that iStuff is pretty high on their wish list.