Yes, but you started with text and removed a layer of complexity. Also, as mentioned, the reverse operation is not as efficient as the forward operation. There is much more work done on spoken English recognition than any other language. I doubt the performance to convert spoken French to text will be as performant as spoken English to text.
In writing, you make an extra effort to make it clear. In spoken language, you have hesitation, slang, intonations, accent, prononciation, elusion, etc, that makes it hard to decipher by a language recognition system and hard to translate as well.
Given how shitty is the automatic closed captioning wherever you see it (TV, Youtube, etc) in English where most of the work and original research is done. Now imagine you then have to translate that into another langue where the translation performance is weak or so, so. Now, this is ony half of the equation, you then need to convert an foreign spoken language to text, then translate it back in English. I have reserves about the performance of such a system given the performance of all the individual components needed to make this a reality.
First of all, if the model cannot make correct predictions, you cannot predict the effect of taking action A to prevent global warming. No matter if you believe or not the global warming is real and caused by humans.
Second, by 2500 we will have exhausted cheap gas, oil and coal for a long time. Not that there will not have still any to burn, it will just no longer be cheap energy compare to renewable.
Third, that is perfectly true no rational actor would be willing to sacrifice something today for an uncertain outcome tomorrow, in particular if that tomorrow he will already be dead.
So, get the models right and stop whinning about people that are not ready to sacrifice anything for wrong models, incorrect models or not accurate enough models.
You will still be able to post your drunken pictures, the only thing this application will do is to ask you if you really want to do it given the content or the likely content to be at your disadvantage. You can still decide to post it anyway. It is just like a pat on the back: Are you sure you want to do this?
It doesn't work. It is proven that people with real weight problems will actually lose weight to just recover it and more after 2 to 3 years. The only thing that currently gives permanent results is stomach surgery, which is a bit radical. There is piles and tons of studies to prove that.It has nothing to do with self-discipline. You have no idea what you are talking about.
They have no choice here. The lectures and the material belongs to the offender, nobody can take over the same material and teach the course unless Lewin agrees with that and even in this case the strong image of the offender, due to the nature of the lectures will still stick to the whole courses no matter how good they are. MIT must first protect its respectability, second send a strong message to anyone else that may be on the slippery road within its staff. The material is unusable, unfortunately. The collateral damages to future students is theoretical, someone else can be as good as Lewin at teaching the same topics. It is up to MIT to find one.
Since for many users their smartphones are the interface to the Cloud and in some cases services are provided only through the Cloud, when permission is granted by the Supreme court to police officiers to search a phone, provided they document what they are doing, it may include going much further than the smartphone itself and it includes searching the web if someone has enable automatic login to web services. This decision from the Supreme court is flawn and very imprecise.
The problem is this isn't ridesharing, neither carpooling. The driver has no intention to go where the passenger wants to go and he will do so only because he is paid for. You are not pooling anything here, you are doing what taxis are doing and taxis don't do carpooling because carpooling is primarily intent to ease traffic jams and taxis don't want to take rides in traffic jams. Bottom line, yes, you are right Uber is trying to pull some business away from the traditional taxi industry. It is then perfectly understandable the industry is trying to protect itself from this threat. I don't know what is the compensation for someone enrolled into Uber to provide the service, but here, after doing the math, I don't see how someone can even break even provided the charges. The lower rates are at the expense of the car owner. You can do a little money only if in fact you are giving rides to someone going approximately where you are going anyway.
Another point that is of very concern to the customer, what will happen if you have an accident? Will the car owner insurance pay for the passenger? Can the passenger sue the driver? Can the passenger sue Uber? As far as I know, the standard insurance does not cover such activity as taking passenger for a fee on a regular basis.
You missed that whenever the plan is about sharing information, it doesn't mean the role of each organization involved is to grab the information. The sharing of the information amongst the interested parties implies third parties which will not have a right to look at the information itself but still have a role to make the plan a reality. http://www.weeklystandard.com/...!
The summary is written to let people think all these organization will have full access to health records of everyone in USA. That is simply not true and not what the article says.
"This week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the release of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020, which details the efforts of some 35 departments and agencies of the federal government and their roles in the plan to "advance the collection, sharing, and use of electronic health information to improve health care, individual and community health, and research."
They don't and the article never says they will. These are the 35 organizations involved into the project and it never means they all have access to personal health records of anyone. When your ISP is involved into providing virtual banking thru the internet, does it mean he has access to your banking records and accounts?
Who wants to work for a bunch of clowns who rely on certification to hire people? It is a clear sign the HR guys don't have a clue about skills and competences and decided to outsource the job to learn about it. So, seriously, do you believe such working environment can be of any value? Do you believe your skills will really be recognized?
Canadians & Mexicans get TN visas, not H1Bs. Australians get E3 visas. Unlike H1Bs, there are no caps on TN or E3 visas, so there're no issues getting people from Australia, Canada or Mexico.
No, Canadians are getting both types of visas. The TN visas are more restrictives on the admissible professions. They can replace a H-1B visa in some cases, but not in all.
| I believe it is something like three H1-B visas that were issued last year for Canadian workers.
Source ? I know more than 3 Canadians on h-1b, didn't census their year though.
You are right, after checking on the DHS website stats for 2013 are 59 451 H-1B visas were granted to Canadians. I stopped searching for the original source where I read only 3 visas were granted to Canadians. It was a newspaper and second hand information. However, the column beside Canada is showing 3 visas granted and me be this was a mixed up. Anyway, bottome line it is more encouraging than I believed.
| Obviously, the Canadians are not willing to go down USA to become cheap labor, they are looking for something else.
I'm Canadian on h-1b, making above 250k. I would not get comparable pay in Canada.
My point, Americans should stop seeing everyone asking for a H-1B visa as a job stealer or someone exerting pression to lower the wages. I'd like to get such a visa and surely not to work as cheap labor. I have relatives in USA with American citizenship and would like to seek for permanent status eventually.
And no wonder very few H1-B visas are issued for Canadians, I believe it is something like three H1-B visas that were issued last year for Canadian workers. Obviously, the Canadians are not willing to go down USA to become cheap labor, they are looking for something else.
"If you jack up the tax enough, then you can make the H1-B incentive much less attractive without having to argue case-by-case with the number fudgers."
Your "jackup the tax enough" suggestion is almost equivalent to stop issuing H1-B visas. What is enough? You cannot escape the necessity to qualify the "prevailing wages" either way. It is much more better the money goes into the employee's pocket than in the government's pocket. The government cannot pretend to have a right on this money. It will induce distortions in the legistlation in the future if this is seen as a source of revenue by the government.
The article doesn't refer to anything fundamentally different. This is a silly idea anyway in the language area. All known languages did evolve from other languages. Nothing is fundamental here and everything is relative and related to you environment and immediate neighbour, his power over you and his influence. The internet has changed many things here since the notion of immediate neighbour no longer hold. Surely the internet is having an influence on the languages and their evolution. I may not appear so important from people who are members of the dominant language group.
A more serious limiting factor with Twitter is the 140 characters limit. This prevent, AMHO, the evolution toward a complete language with its own grammatical rules and words. It forces the appartition of shortcuts or shorts versions of words, abreviations or entire sentences self-contained within a word like orthograph, but this can work only if you can map to a real, existing and widespreaded language.
The share of renewable or solar is so insignificant compare to the overall picture of the market the utilities do not need to worry at all. At the end, it is also far to be evident the customer can produce a positive balance of energy to sell back and if so, it is far to be evident he can do it at a competitive price taking into account distribution fees. It may be nice to reduce your bill where it applies and is cost effective, but there is nothing to fear here for the utilities.
In particular this quote from the article:
"The Tesla systems are arriving just as utilities begin to feel increasing pressure worldwide from the disruption posed by renewable energy."
is laughable. Renewable energy is less than 5% of the electricity market and it is much less if you take into account only the portion from independant producers which may be considered a threat to them.
Right on! It costs them something to accept electricity from such non-traditionnal sources. Every next door bozo believe he can just plug his stuff on the grid, feed it and collect money for it. That is not that simple.
Right in your computer and your mobile phone. It is no secret manufacturing of goods are done for a large part in China and Asia in general. Do not forget neither China is having success with its space program. The idea China is manufacturing only lower grade and cheap goods is wrong. It is not because they are still manufacturing such goods they are not doing other things right at the highest standards.
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Yes, but you started with text and removed a layer of complexity. Also, as mentioned, the reverse operation is not as efficient as the forward operation. There is much more work done on spoken English recognition than any other language. I doubt the performance to convert spoken French to text will be as performant as spoken English to text.
In writing, you make an extra effort to make it clear. In spoken language, you have hesitation, slang, intonations, accent, prononciation, elusion, etc, that makes it hard to decipher by a language recognition system and hard to translate as well.
Given how shitty is the automatic closed captioning wherever you see it (TV, Youtube, etc) in English where most of the work and original research is done. Now imagine you then have to translate that into another langue where the translation performance is weak or so, so. Now, this is ony half of the equation, you then need to convert an foreign spoken language to text, then translate it back in English. I have reserves about the performance of such a system given the performance of all the individual components needed to make this a reality.
Everything can be conquered if resources justify.
First of all, if the model cannot make correct predictions, you cannot predict the effect of taking action A to prevent global warming. No matter if you believe or not the global warming is real and caused by humans.
Second, by 2500 we will have exhausted cheap gas, oil and coal for a long time. Not that there will not have still any to burn, it will just no longer be cheap energy compare to renewable.
Third, that is perfectly true no rational actor would be willing to sacrifice something today for an uncertain outcome tomorrow, in particular if that tomorrow he will already be dead.
So, get the models right and stop whinning about people that are not ready to sacrifice anything for wrong models, incorrect models or not accurate enough models.
It runs Linux, it is the year of Linux on the vertebrae!
You will still be able to post your drunken pictures, the only thing this application will do is to ask you if you really want to do it given the content or the likely content to be at your disadvantage. You can still decide to post it anyway. It is just like a pat on the back: Are you sure you want to do this?
It doesn't work. It is proven that people with real weight problems will actually lose weight to just recover it and more after 2 to 3 years. The only thing that currently gives permanent results is stomach surgery, which is a bit radical. There is piles and tons of studies to prove that.It has nothing to do with self-discipline. You have no idea what you are talking about.
They have no choice here. The lectures and the material belongs to the offender, nobody can take over the same material and teach the course unless Lewin agrees with that and even in this case the strong image of the offender, due to the nature of the lectures will still stick to the whole courses no matter how good they are. MIT must first protect its respectability, second send a strong message to anyone else that may be on the slippery road within its staff. The material is unusable, unfortunately. The collateral damages to future students is theoretical, someone else can be as good as Lewin at teaching the same topics. It is up to MIT to find one.
Since for many users their smartphones are the interface to the Cloud and in some cases services are provided only through the Cloud, when permission is granted by the Supreme court to police officiers to search a phone, provided they document what they are doing, it may include going much further than the smartphone itself and it includes searching the web if someone has enable automatic login to web services. This decision from the Supreme court is flawn and very imprecise.
The problem is this isn't ridesharing, neither carpooling. The driver has no intention to go where the passenger wants to go and he will do so only because he is paid for. You are not pooling anything here, you are doing what taxis are doing and taxis don't do carpooling because carpooling is primarily intent to ease traffic jams and taxis don't want to take rides in traffic jams. Bottom line, yes, you are right Uber is trying to pull some business away from the traditional taxi industry. It is then perfectly understandable the industry is trying to protect itself from this threat. I don't know what is the compensation for someone enrolled into Uber to provide the service, but here, after doing the math, I don't see how someone can even break even provided the charges. The lower rates are at the expense of the car owner. You can do a little money only if in fact you are giving rides to someone going approximately where you are going anyway.
Another point that is of very concern to the customer, what will happen if you have an accident? Will the car owner insurance pay for the passenger? Can the passenger sue the driver? Can the passenger sue Uber? As far as I know, the standard insurance does not cover such activity as taking passenger for a fee on a regular basis.
"unmanned drones" doesn't make sense. A drone is an unmanned aerial vehicule (UAV) by definition, hence an unmanned drone is a pleonasm.
Yep, this one has been written to escape anyone's understanding at NSA. After the cryptography, the steganography here is the slashdography.
You missed that whenever the plan is about sharing information, it doesn't mean the role of each organization involved is to grab the information. The sharing of the information amongst the interested parties implies third parties which will not have a right to look at the information itself but still have a role to make the plan a reality. http://www.weeklystandard.com/...!
The summary is written to let people think all these organization will have full access to health records of everyone in USA. That is simply not true and not what the article says.
"This week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the release of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020, which details the efforts of some 35 departments and agencies of the federal government and their roles in the plan to "advance the collection, sharing, and use of electronic health information to improve health care, individual and community health, and research."
They don't and the article never says they will. These are the 35 organizations involved into the project and it never means they all have access to personal health records of anyone. When your ISP is involved into providing virtual banking thru the internet, does it mean he has access to your banking records and accounts?
And that's not what the article says neither. Maybe many of you should read it before posting. Oh! Crap! I forgot it's /.!
Who wants to work for a bunch of clowns who rely on certification to hire people? It is a clear sign the HR guys don't have a clue about skills and competences and decided to outsource the job to learn about it. So, seriously, do you believe such working environment can be of any value? Do you believe your skills will really be recognized?
Canadians & Mexicans get TN visas, not H1Bs. Australians get E3 visas. Unlike H1Bs, there are no caps on TN or E3 visas, so there're no issues getting people from Australia, Canada or Mexico.
No, Canadians are getting both types of visas. The TN visas are more restrictives on the admissible professions. They can replace a H-1B visa in some cases, but not in all.
| I believe it is something like three H1-B visas that were issued last year for Canadian workers.
Source ? I know more than 3 Canadians on h-1b, didn't census their year though.
You are right, after checking on the DHS website stats for 2013 are 59 451 H-1B visas were granted to Canadians. I stopped searching for the original source where I read only 3 visas were granted to Canadians. It was a newspaper and second hand information. However, the column beside Canada is showing 3 visas granted and me be this was a mixed up. Anyway, bottome line it is more encouraging than I believed.
| Obviously, the Canadians are not willing to go down USA to become cheap labor, they are looking for something else.
I'm Canadian on h-1b, making above 250k. I would not get comparable pay in Canada.
My point, Americans should stop seeing everyone asking for a H-1B visa as a job stealer or someone exerting pression to lower the wages. I'd like to get such a visa and surely not to work as cheap labor. I have relatives in USA with American citizenship and would like to seek for permanent status eventually.
And no wonder very few H1-B visas are issued for Canadians, I believe it is something like three H1-B visas that were issued last year for Canadian workers. Obviously, the Canadians are not willing to go down USA to become cheap labor, they are looking for something else.
"If you jack up the tax enough, then you can make the H1-B incentive much less attractive without having to argue case-by-case with the number fudgers."
Your "jackup the tax enough" suggestion is almost equivalent to stop issuing H1-B visas. What is enough? You cannot escape the necessity to qualify the "prevailing wages" either way. It is much more better the money goes into the employee's pocket than in the government's pocket. The government cannot pretend to have a right on this money. It will induce distortions in the legistlation in the future if this is seen as a source of revenue by the government.
The article doesn't refer to anything fundamentally different. This is a silly idea anyway in the language area. All known languages did evolve from other languages. Nothing is fundamental here and everything is relative and related to you environment and immediate neighbour, his power over you and his influence. The internet has changed many things here since the notion of immediate neighbour no longer hold. Surely the internet is having an influence on the languages and their evolution. I may not appear so important from people who are members of the dominant language group.
A more serious limiting factor with Twitter is the 140 characters limit. This prevent, AMHO, the evolution toward a complete language with its own grammatical rules and words. It forces the appartition of shortcuts or shorts versions of words, abreviations or entire sentences self-contained within a word like orthograph, but this can work only if you can map to a real, existing and widespreaded language.
The share of renewable or solar is so insignificant compare to the overall picture of the market the utilities do not need to worry at all. At the end, it is also far to be evident the customer can produce a positive balance of energy to sell back and if so, it is far to be evident he can do it at a competitive price taking into account distribution fees. It may be nice to reduce your bill where it applies and is cost effective, but there is nothing to fear here for the utilities.
In particular this quote from the article:
"The Tesla systems are arriving just as utilities begin to feel increasing pressure worldwide from the disruption posed by renewable energy."
is laughable. Renewable energy is less than 5% of the electricity market and it is much less if you take into account only the portion from independant producers which may be considered a threat to them.
Right on! It costs them something to accept electricity from such non-traditionnal sources. Every next door bozo believe he can just plug his stuff on the grid, feed it and collect money for it. That is not that simple.
Canada may sue you for defamation if you are in USA. Beware!
Right in your computer and your mobile phone. It is no secret manufacturing of goods are done for a large part in China and Asia in general. Do not forget neither China is having success with its space program. The idea China is manufacturing only lower grade and cheap goods is wrong. It is not because they are still manufacturing such goods they are not doing other things right at the highest standards.