Initially, yes, but as algorithms and computing power improve there will come a time where it will be as good as, or better than, a human doing the same job. At this point AI censorship will be cheap and easy enough to do that pretty much anyone can do it.
It's even more problematic than that. If they have an AI algorithm which can understand human language they have the ability to filter out anything they do not like, not just hate speech and to misquote Agent Smith from the Matrix: "what good is the right to free speech if you are unable to speak?".
No, their kind needs to be educated as to why they are so wrong. Silencing them is the equivalent of taking painkillers, instead of antibiotics, for an infection: it might make the immediate symptoms go away but if you don't treat the cause things will end up going very badly.
Unless, of course, they had been moving between countries every few years while still working for a UK company or university. In such a case they would not qulifiy for citizenship anywhere else. Although with friendly, understanding attitudes like yours it is hard to see why anyone would ever want to leave the UK to work in another country.
Sorry - I clearly not did explain myself well enough. The implication is that if there is a large population of pulsars then the galactic, gamma ray haze, which some are claiming is evidence of Dark Matter annihilating, could instead be explained by a very large number of pulsars in the galactic centre. The reason that pulsars have typically been excluded as an explanation is that you would need so many but the evidence here seems to suggest that there might actually be that many.
While primordial BHs as a source of Dark Matter is certainly possible we'll need to see what rate of collisions LIGO detects when in comes online again with the new upgrades before we know whether this really is the nature of DM.
No, it does not depend. Betteridge's law of headlines holds strong in this case the answer is simply "no they have not". The paper uses our current understanding of the Standard Model to calculate the lifetime of the vacuum. However, we know with complete certainty that the Standard Model is wrong.
For a start there is no explanation of Dark Matter and Dark Energy which make up 95% of the universe and so are likely to have a very big impact on the vacuum state. Then there is a fine-tuning problem for the Higgs mass for which what we originally thought of as the most likely solution, Supersymmetry, is now starting to look decidedly unlikely so we really have no clue why the Higgs is so light. Then there are things like the source of Baryon number violation and the large amount of CP violation required to create the universe we see.
In short, we know that we have incomplete picture of the fundamental fields of the universe, not to mention the quantum nature of space-time itself. Hence any calculation on the lifetime of the vacuum based on this incomplete picture is going to be very wrong to the point where, as far as we know, the vacuum may just be stable. This calculation is equivalent to one of the ancient Greek philosophers before Pythagoras (who is sometimes attributed to coming up with the idea that the Earth was a sphere) calculating how long it would take to sail off the edge of the world.
This is a very interesting result since it may have implications for Dark Matter. There is a gamma ray 'haze' around the central core of the galaxy that has caused some interest because without what used to be thought of as an unfeasibly large number of pulsars it would be impossible to produce from known astrophysical and so the thought was that it could be due to Dark Matter annihilations. However, if there is a far higher population of BHs than originally thought presumably this also means there should be a lot more pulsars and, if so, then this haze could be just from all these pulsars.
Why would you store the first four characters of every password? Obviously, it is a serious security hole but what possible use is having four letters of a password for the company itself?
You can do random needling without doing acupuncture.
True, but you cannot do acupuncture without doing the equivalent of random needling hence if random needling works so too does acupuncture albeit for some as-yet-not-understood scientific reason and not because of whatever mystical mumbo jumbo acupuncturists claim.
Actually space really is flat to such an extent that it creates a serious "fine-tuning" problem for cosmology. A bit more matter or a bit less and space would be noticeably curved....at least on cosmological scales.
So what you expect is to have the right to have input into British politics without having to live with the consequences of those decision. It's the people still living in Britain that will have to live with the consequences.
If citizens in the UK were the only ones affected by this decision you would definitely have a very valid point and this why I've never really complained before about not being allowed to vote in general elections despite the fact that most countries do not disenfranchize citizens abroad. However, this decision affects every British citizen. Indeed the citizens most affected are those living in the rest of the EU and yet they were still excluded. This vote will result in EU citizenship being stripped from every British citizen. How can you possibly say that this does not hugely impact all of us?
Even kings did not used to be able to do this. To update the famous quote from Omar Khayyam:
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it, but thy request to Mr. Zuckerberg can obliterate it from history if he wills it.
But, if you are a true believer in democracy . . . it should be right of UK voters to decide to kick out foreigners . . . correct . . . ?
If you are a true believer in democracy then you should have a lot of trouble with the Brexit vote. Several million British citizens living outside the UK, many inside the rest of the EU, were denied the right to vote in the referendum. It is extremely likely that many of them would have voted to remain, especially those in the EU!
There is no doubt that this exclusion was legal. But you cannot exclude several million of your adult citizens from voting on an issue which directly affects them and then pretend that the result is democratic. As someone who has lived in Europe working at the CERN particle physics lab I always felt of myself as an EU citizen first and foremost and this is now being stripped away from me without my having any vote.
Fortunately, I had already moved to Canada before it was fashionable and I have now done my own personal Brexit and am a proud, new Canadian citizen. However, it is still sad to see the country you grew up in having names that are becoming increasingly ironic: "Great" Britain and the "United" Kingdom.
What argument is there in support of "net neutrality", which would not apply to "road neutrality" and "parking neutrality"
There are some _really_ good arguments for height and weight restrictions on roads involving passing over or under a bridge. If you want to compare the network to vehicles the analogy with lorries vs. cars is in regard to the size of the vehicle and the equivalent for the network would be the network packet size. This is something which is strictly limited and controlled and networks will not treat all network packet sizes the same e.g. ethernet is usually limited to 1500bytes unless you have "jumbo frame" support.
The analogy with network neutrality for roads would be if speed limits for a road were dependent on how much you paid and where you were going from an to on the same stretch of road. Current speed limits are based on maximum safe speeds for vehicles (or at least that's the claim). Would you be happy using a road system which imposed an artificial slower speed limit on you (which was rigorously enforced) unless you paid a lot more to be able to drive at the full, safe speed limit? That's the analogy.
Translation: We couldn't be bothered to get off our ass and work on this before now because we make all our money from iPhones these days.
Not only that but they are still selling the 2013 model at full price despite the fact that it is 5 years old. Jobs' reality distortion field still seems to live on even though Jobs himself is no longer with us.
Which is why I said visible light. Indeed UV, not IR, has enough energy to break bonds that causes the damage. This is why you do not get sunburn from a regular light bulb and why there is no known mechanism for radio waves to give you cancer.
The only new thing is the crack. The fact that Africa is splitting up along the rift valley has been known for decades - I learnt about it in a first year geology lecture as an undergrad.
Over a long enough timeframe any chip maker is an incompetent asshole.
That's too specific, over a long enough timeframe any company is an incompetent asshole...and it is becoming increasingly apparent that Apple is no exception.
For the technology to have promise it either needs to have some theory showing that, at least theoretically, it can generate better images with lower doses than the conventional approach or it needs to have some clear practical advantage over the conventional approach. With ever cheaper and better CCD devices the later is not at all clear and there was no mention of the former anywhere I could find (indeed it currently uses orders of magnitude more radiation!). So I am left wondering what the motivation for this new technology is.
But they don't have to little energy to break chemical bonds, how did you come to that idea?
If radio waves had enough energy to break the chemical bonds in our bodies then exposure to visible light or infrared radiation, both of which have more energy than radio, would do the same only more-so making visible light and room temperature deadly to us.
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Initially, yes, but as algorithms and computing power improve there will come a time where it will be as good as, or better than, a human doing the same job. At this point AI censorship will be cheap and easy enough to do that pretty much anyone can do it.
It's even more problematic than that. If they have an AI algorithm which can understand human language they have the ability to filter out anything they do not like, not just hate speech and to misquote Agent Smith from the Matrix: "what good is the right to free speech if you are unable to speak?".
No, their kind needs to be educated as to why they are so wrong. Silencing them is the equivalent of taking painkillers, instead of antibiotics, for an infection: it might make the immediate symptoms go away but if you don't treat the cause things will end up going very badly.
Is that how laws work now? We can which ones we want to comply with and which we don't or does that only work for large corporations?
Unless, of course, they had been moving between countries every few years while still working for a UK company or university. In such a case they would not qulifiy for citizenship anywhere else. Although with friendly, understanding attitudes like yours it is hard to see why anyone would ever want to leave the UK to work in another country.
Sorry - I clearly not did explain myself well enough. The implication is that if there is a large population of pulsars then the galactic, gamma ray haze, which some are claiming is evidence of Dark Matter annihilating, could instead be explained by a very large number of pulsars in the galactic centre. The reason that pulsars have typically been excluded as an explanation is that you would need so many but the evidence here seems to suggest that there might actually be that many.
While primordial BHs as a source of Dark Matter is certainly possible we'll need to see what rate of collisions LIGO detects when in comes online again with the new upgrades before we know whether this really is the nature of DM.
No, it does not depend. Betteridge's law of headlines holds strong in this case the answer is simply "no they have not". The paper uses our current understanding of the Standard Model to calculate the lifetime of the vacuum. However, we know with complete certainty that the Standard Model is wrong.
For a start there is no explanation of Dark Matter and Dark Energy which make up 95% of the universe and so are likely to have a very big impact on the vacuum state. Then there is a fine-tuning problem for the Higgs mass for which what we originally thought of as the most likely solution, Supersymmetry, is now starting to look decidedly unlikely so we really have no clue why the Higgs is so light. Then there are things like the source of Baryon number violation and the large amount of CP violation required to create the universe we see.
In short, we know that we have incomplete picture of the fundamental fields of the universe, not to mention the quantum nature of space-time itself. Hence any calculation on the lifetime of the vacuum based on this incomplete picture is going to be very wrong to the point where, as far as we know, the vacuum may just be stable. This calculation is equivalent to one of the ancient Greek philosophers before Pythagoras (who is sometimes attributed to coming up with the idea that the Earth was a sphere) calculating how long it would take to sail off the edge of the world.
This is a very interesting result since it may have implications for Dark Matter. There is a gamma ray 'haze' around the central core of the galaxy that has caused some interest because without what used to be thought of as an unfeasibly large number of pulsars it would be impossible to produce from known astrophysical and so the thought was that it could be due to Dark Matter annihilations. However, if there is a far higher population of BHs than originally thought presumably this also means there should be a lot more pulsars and, if so, then this haze could be just from all these pulsars.
Why would you store the first four characters of every password? Obviously, it is a serious security hole but what possible use is having four letters of a password for the company itself?
You can do random needling without doing acupuncture.
True, but you cannot do acupuncture without doing the equivalent of random needling hence if random needling works so too does acupuncture albeit for some as-yet-not-understood scientific reason and not because of whatever mystical mumbo jumbo acupuncturists claim.
Space is flat.
Actually space really is flat to such an extent that it creates a serious "fine-tuning" problem for cosmology. A bit more matter or a bit less and space would be noticeably curved....at least on cosmological scales.
So what you expect is to have the right to have input into British politics without having to live with the consequences of those decision. It's the people still living in Britain that will have to live with the consequences.
If citizens in the UK were the only ones affected by this decision you would definitely have a very valid point and this why I've never really complained before about not being allowed to vote in general elections despite the fact that most countries do not disenfranchize citizens abroad. However, this decision affects every British citizen. Indeed the citizens most affected are those living in the rest of the EU and yet they were still excluded. This vote will result in EU citizenship being stripped from every British citizen. How can you possibly say that this does not hugely impact all of us?
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it, but thy request to Mr. Zuckerberg can obliterate it from history if he wills it.
But, if you are a true believer in democracy . . . it should be right of UK voters to decide to kick out foreigners . . . correct . . . ?
If you are a true believer in democracy then you should have a lot of trouble with the Brexit vote. Several million British citizens living outside the UK, many inside the rest of the EU, were denied the right to vote in the referendum. It is extremely likely that many of them would have voted to remain, especially those in the EU!
There is no doubt that this exclusion was legal. But you cannot exclude several million of your adult citizens from voting on an issue which directly affects them and then pretend that the result is democratic. As someone who has lived in Europe working at the CERN particle physics lab I always felt of myself as an EU citizen first and foremost and this is now being stripped away from me without my having any vote.
Fortunately, I had already moved to Canada before it was fashionable and I have now done my own personal Brexit and am a proud, new Canadian citizen. However, it is still sad to see the country you grew up in having names that are becoming increasingly ironic: "Great" Britain and the "United" Kingdom.
What argument is there in support of "net neutrality", which would not apply to "road neutrality" and "parking neutrality"
There are some _really_ good arguments for height and weight restrictions on roads involving passing over or under a bridge. If you want to compare the network to vehicles the analogy with lorries vs. cars is in regard to the size of the vehicle and the equivalent for the network would be the network packet size. This is something which is strictly limited and controlled and networks will not treat all network packet sizes the same e.g. ethernet is usually limited to 1500bytes unless you have "jumbo frame" support.
The analogy with network neutrality for roads would be if speed limits for a road were dependent on how much you paid and where you were going from an to on the same stretch of road. Current speed limits are based on maximum safe speeds for vehicles (or at least that's the claim). Would you be happy using a road system which imposed an artificial slower speed limit on you (which was rigorously enforced) unless you paid a lot more to be able to drive at the full, safe speed limit? That's the analogy.
Whoosh! In Europe, bank checks will never go away but bank cheques probably will. Check != cheque in Europe or anywhere else that is not the US.
Translation: We couldn't be bothered to get off our ass and work on this before now because we make all our money from iPhones these days.
Not only that but they are still selling the 2013 model at full price despite the fact that it is 5 years old. Jobs' reality distortion field still seems to live on even though Jobs himself is no longer with us.
That is yet another reason why we do not use checks.
I think you'll find that a lot of people in Europe use plenty of checks when banking. However, cheques are becoming a lot rarer.
So light bulbs should only give you skin cancer then?
Yes, exactly. And IR and UV exactly do that.
Which is why I said visible light. Indeed UV, not IR, has enough energy to break bonds that causes the damage. This is why you do not get sunburn from a regular light bulb and why there is no known mechanism for radio waves to give you cancer.
The only new thing is the crack. The fact that Africa is splitting up along the rift valley has been known for decades - I learnt about it in a first year geology lecture as an undergrad.
Over a long enough timeframe any chip maker is an incompetent asshole.
That's too specific, over a long enough timeframe any company is an incompetent asshole...and it is becoming increasingly apparent that Apple is no exception.
Yes, but the other components - X-ray source and shielding - are the same for both technologies.
For the technology to have promise it either needs to have some theory showing that, at least theoretically, it can generate better images with lower doses than the conventional approach or it needs to have some clear practical advantage over the conventional approach. With ever cheaper and better CCD devices the later is not at all clear and there was no mention of the former anywhere I could find (indeed it currently uses orders of magnitude more radiation!). So I am left wondering what the motivation for this new technology is.
But they don't have to little energy to break chemical bonds, how did you come to that idea?
If radio waves had enough energy to break the chemical bonds in our bodies then exposure to visible light or infrared radiation, both of which have more energy than radio, would do the same only more-so making visible light and room temperature deadly to us.