Damn, nevermind, apparently the website is using the canned generative model for generating faces and is dynamically creating new ones on the fly. I have no idea how you would license the output...
There's a generated sample set of images on the same site as the paper. I'm assuming the guy who set up the site is serving up those sample images.
Here's what the NVIDIA github repo has to say about the datasets:
"All material, excluding the Flickr-Faces-HQ dataset, is made available under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 license by NVIDIA Corporation. You can use, redistribute, and adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, as long as you give appropriate credit by citing our paper and indicating any changes that you've made."
Let's say you want to train some machine learning algorithms to recognize suspicious trading patterns. Here's a dataset that came from a known bad actor. Could it be useful in identifying patterns of suspicious behavior? I'd suggest it might be of some use...
The relevant clause was buried halfway into the article:
"Even if Verizon's throttling didn't technically violate the no-throttling rule, Santa Clara could have complained to the FCC under the now-removed net neutrality system, which allowed Internet users to file complaints about any unjust or unreasonable prices and practices. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's decision to deregulate the broadband industry eliminated that complaint option and also limited consumers' rights to sue Internet providers over unjust or unreasonable behavior."
So basically, not net neutrality, but the ability to complain about Verizon screwing with customers which was removed along with "net neutrality".
Age discrimination in the US is pretty much legal (at a Federal level at least) until you hit the magic age of 40. Some states may have different laws.
Do you really think the TSA would be able to remain funded and functional without having the airlines and airports actively consenting to their presence?
"The Passenger Fee, also known as the September 11 Security Fee, is collected by air carriers from passengers at the time air transportation is purchased. Air carriers then remit the fees to TSA. The fee is currently $5.60 per one-way trip in air transportation that originates at an airport in the U.S., except that the fee imposed per round trip shall not exceed $11.20."
Mind you, if people don't fly, Congress could just retask the TSA to collecting fees from buses, trains, and ordinary citizens trying to use the highway in order to keep their special interests afloat...
There's one other possibility that's a variation of the possibilities that you've listed:
Buy a used rocket fleet from Elon and launch those. That way ULA can leverage all of their launch provider infrastructure while getting the benefits of lower cost.
If SpaceX manages to continue cores, they're going to have a backlog to refly. If they successfully refly their cores multiple times (validating reuse), but are not able to step up launch cadence because of staffing/location issues, it creates a window for someone else to say, hey, do you mind if we buy some of your excess rocket inventory?
That was in 2004. As digitization has spread through healthcare, the practice has only gotten more prevalent.
If you can pipe the data to somewhere else and get someone accredited to sign off on your work so they are the professional of record, you can outsource anything to anyone anywhere. Use a nurse practitioner for in-office visits, outsource case review to a medical professional somewhere else.
Same deal for lawyers. For contracts, research, etc. you can outsource to paralegals. For discovery, have someone else scan, index, and cross correlate everything before you turn it over to the junior partners, but bill at the senior rate.
BTW there are a lot of unemployed/underemployed lawyers...
Free isn't free. If it costs more time and effort than the equivalent (because the equivalent is more reliable, gets you within a block of your destination, and runs 24 hours a day) then "free" public transportation is still more expensive than the equivalent. Even a poor person who can't really afford to own and operate a car (witness the predatory reposess-a-car loan scams) will drive a beater to commute because the alternative is losing their job because they aren't able to get to work consistently on time.
If on the other hand, public transit is reliable (trains every 5-7 minutes, so you don't have to arrive 10 minutes early to avoid missing a train and waiting another hour for one) and the alternatives have heavy costs (looking for parking downtown that doesn't cost $$$, and enduring traffic in/out of a venue) then public transit is a no-brainer. This unfortunately doesn't happen due to the chicken and egg dilemma of modern urban planning - mass transit is a money-loser until you hit a certain population density, but to achieve that level of population density, you already need to have mass transit (otherwise that level of density is unobtainable because you've locked it up in roads and parking lots in order to serve the levels of population density leading up to that point.)
Agreed. A manager who says that turnover is not a problem is a manager that has no inkling of what engineers do, what exactly their company produces, or how badly they are in trouble when knowledge and experience walk out the door. Either that, or they're lying to your face.
There's that tipping point when the work gets harder, the code is even more rotted, the "process" is even more constricting, because they know something is wrong but they need to "measure" everything to figure out why. That's when people are running, not walking out the door.
My observation has been that resort hotels (the ones with restaurants in them) charge an arm and a leg because they are targeting two type of customers:
In the case of #1, you're probably not a repeat customer (or at least, repeat often enough for them to care). They want to wring every last dollar out of you while they can.
In the case of #2, you're a captive customer (the con is nearby or in this hotel, unless you have a car you're not going to wander far), and you might possibly be able to expense things.
If you were a high-roller that stayed regularly, I'll bet you they wouldn't nickle and dime you, not unless they were morons and wanted to drive you into the hands of the competition. The rest of us are just sheep to be fleeced.
For the lower cost hotels (like the Holiday Inn Expresses), where there is no built in restaurant, and they offer amenities like free wifi and free continental breakfast, they're targeting repeat business and price sensitive travelers. They often don't have the best location compared to the resort hotels (you *will* need a car), but as a consequence their expenses are probably lower. The more extreme version of this are the Extended Stay type hotels, which have kitchens and refrigerators.
The really dumpy hotels have no choice. Their plant is run down, and they may be a no-name. Unless they offer free amenities, nobody in their right mind is going to stay at their place (assuming similar nightly rents) unless there's no choice.
So... Getty Images, instead of using the power of image-matching algorithms to get more customers for its library by setting up a checkout point at the end of the auto-slideshow and/or tack on advertising (ala YouTube) just torpedoed the whole thing instead.
You figure they had the tech to identify the infringing images to begin with. Why not just say to Microsoft "hey, we have this set of algorithms that you're welcome to use to improve your widget. Let's talk about blanket licensing for Bing in exchange for downstream revenue."
Chris Hadfield is a Canadian.
Of course he wants international cooperation, otherwise, how is any non-US or non-Russian governmental astronaut/cosmonaut supposed to hitch a ride up and get a berth in orbit?
So... why not small claims?
If every person who was in the right on YouTube filed a small claims case against a media entity, they could be bled to death through a thousand cuts, and it would either put a stop to the practice, or make judges aware that the big media companies are abusing their power, which could be very helpful once someone wants to do a class action to stop what is essentially private taxation (running ads on independently produced content) for the benefit of corporations.
I mean, seriously - we've seen this before. Independent artist releases album. Independent artist's track gets licensed and used for some big movie studio trailer. Big movie studio trailer gets uploaded to YouTube by big movie studio. Next thing you know, independent artist's promo videos get banned or adjacked because some idiot matching algorithm looks at big movie studio trailer, automatically assumes big movie studio owns the independent artist's works, and now independent artist is screwed and has to do double the work to reclaim the rights to their own work.
How long before the next incoming majority party decides to use the NSA data to clean house?
Just to make sure that their government is free of ties to terrorism, foreign governments, and corruption, of course... and to ensure that everyone is loyal and pure of ideology.
Just tell them that your machine got virused and you had to use the restore disk...
Seriously though, if it gets that bad, they'll detain you for not having a cellphone for them to suck all your contacts out of. At that point, better not to even travel.
"There's a reason we create police forces and military forces. They represent an elite group of people with the proper training and psychological stability to use firearms for the public good."
And who trains these people?
Someone who is a good shot (as opposed to someone who carries a sidearm simply because it is a condition of their job) must train and practice on a regular basis. Exceptional shooters can be drawn from all walks of life, but like athletes, the younger you start, the sharper your skills can be.
I don't see military or police budgets being used to train the next generation of shooters in this art. I do see private organizations dedicated to fostering competition and martial skill providing the coaching, training, and support of youth sport shooting. Do not forget that the USA fields competitors and teams for firearms competitions in the Olympics. Where do you think the raw talent comes from?
Civilian shooters provide an important pool of talent, not only in times of emergency, but as a community dedicated to maintaining and advancing the shooting arts.
Uh... no.
What you do is take the position so you have the title. Then you take your resume, beef it up and THEN look for solid offers for positions elsewhere. Once you get the position... leave.
Don't bother to educate your organization. Let the market do that. You need to look after yourself and your career.
I spent a long time fighting the fight you're proposing to do, in the end, it wasn't worth it. Too much bureaucratic crap that basically condemns you to pay increases that are pegged to your base salary, and not to any real world metric of what you're worth.
1. Go to the woods, record birdsong.
2. Make a bunch of videos and post to YouTube
3. Wait for takedown
4. Sue Rumblefish in small claims court for the ad revenue they got from Google.
5. Profit!!!!
The breakdown of the fine is quite interesting:
$1.4M was for not handing over the patient records in a timely manner when requested by the patient.
$3M was for not cooperating with the investigation. This was $1.5M a year for two years. It would have been tens of millions more, but the maximum per year was capped at $1.5M.
The only reason the fine was even levied was because the company in question didn't even bother to offer an explanation of why their process was fubar.
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Damn, nevermind, apparently the website is using the canned generative model for generating faces and is dynamically creating new ones on the fly. I have no idea how you would license the output...
There's a generated sample set of images on the same site as the paper. I'm assuming the guy who set up the site is serving up those sample images.
Here's what the NVIDIA github repo has to say about the datasets:
"All material, excluding the Flickr-Faces-HQ dataset, is made available under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 license by NVIDIA Corporation. You can use, redistribute, and adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, as long as you give appropriate credit by citing our paper and indicating any changes that you've made."
Let's say you want to train some machine learning algorithms to recognize suspicious trading patterns. Here's a dataset that came from a known bad actor. Could it be useful in identifying patterns of suspicious behavior? I'd suggest it might be of some use...
Damnit, you're right...
*hands in geek card*
The whole article can be summed up in a single sentence... Americans are eating out less?
Why is this on Slashdot?
The relevant clause was buried halfway into the article:
"Even if Verizon's throttling didn't technically violate the no-throttling rule, Santa Clara could have complained to the FCC under the now-removed net neutrality system, which allowed Internet users to file complaints about any unjust or unreasonable prices and practices. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's decision to deregulate the broadband industry eliminated that complaint option and also limited consumers' rights to sue Internet providers over unjust or unreasonable behavior."
So basically, not net neutrality, but the ability to complain about Verizon screwing with customers which was removed along with "net neutrality".
Age discrimination in the US is pretty much legal (at a Federal level at least) until you hit the magic age of 40. Some states may have different laws.
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/type...
AC is correct, the summary should have said that T. Rowe Price is going to miss out because they did not oppose the buyout when it came time to vote.
Do you really think the TSA would be able to remain funded and functional without having the airlines and airports actively consenting to their presence?
https://www.tsa.gov/for-indust...
"The Passenger Fee, also known as the September 11 Security Fee, is collected by air carriers from passengers at the time air transportation is purchased. Air carriers then remit the fees to TSA. The fee is currently $5.60 per one-way trip in air transportation that originates at an airport in the U.S., except that the fee imposed per round trip shall not exceed $11.20."
Mind you, if people don't fly, Congress could just retask the TSA to collecting fees from buses, trains, and ordinary citizens trying to use the highway in order to keep their special interests afloat...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08...
There's one other possibility that's a variation of the possibilities that you've listed:
Buy a used rocket fleet from Elon and launch those. That way ULA can leverage all of their launch provider infrastructure while getting the benefits of lower cost.
If SpaceX manages to continue cores, they're going to have a backlog to refly. If they successfully refly their cores multiple times (validating reuse), but are not able to step up launch cadence because of staffing/location issues, it creates a window for someone else to say, hey, do you mind if we buy some of your excess rocket inventory?
The outsourcing is already in progress. Look up the term "nighthawk radiologist".
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org...
That was in 2004. As digitization has spread through healthcare, the practice has only gotten more prevalent.
If you can pipe the data to somewhere else and get someone accredited to sign off on your work so they are the professional of record, you can outsource anything to anyone anywhere. Use a nurse practitioner for in-office visits, outsource case review to a medical professional somewhere else.
Same deal for lawyers. For contracts, research, etc. you can outsource to paralegals. For discovery, have someone else scan, index, and cross correlate everything before you turn it over to the junior partners, but bill at the senior rate.
BTW there are a lot of unemployed/underemployed lawyers...
This is a Reuters news story - why is the submission linking to Newsweek, which locks the article behind their ad wall?
Here's a Reuters link:
http://www.reuters.com/article...
This.
Free isn't free. If it costs more time and effort than the equivalent (because the equivalent is more reliable, gets you within a block of your destination, and runs 24 hours a day) then "free" public transportation is still more expensive than the equivalent. Even a poor person who can't really afford to own and operate a car (witness the predatory reposess-a-car loan scams) will drive a beater to commute because the alternative is losing their job because they aren't able to get to work consistently on time.
If on the other hand, public transit is reliable (trains every 5-7 minutes, so you don't have to arrive 10 minutes early to avoid missing a train and waiting another hour for one) and the alternatives have heavy costs (looking for parking downtown that doesn't cost $$$, and enduring traffic in/out of a venue) then public transit is a no-brainer. This unfortunately doesn't happen due to the chicken and egg dilemma of modern urban planning - mass transit is a money-loser until you hit a certain population density, but to achieve that level of population density, you already need to have mass transit (otherwise that level of density is unobtainable because you've locked it up in roads and parking lots in order to serve the levels of population density leading up to that point.)
Agreed. A manager who says that turnover is not a problem is a manager that has no inkling of what engineers do, what exactly their company produces, or how badly they are in trouble when knowledge and experience walk out the door. Either that, or they're lying to your face.
There's that tipping point when the work gets harder, the code is even more rotted, the "process" is even more constricting, because they know something is wrong but they need to "measure" everything to figure out why. That's when people are running, not walking out the door.
My observation has been that resort hotels (the ones with restaurants in them) charge an arm and a leg because they are targeting two type of customers:
1. Tourists/Vacationers
2. Convention/Conference goers
In the case of #1, you're probably not a repeat customer (or at least, repeat often enough for them to care). They want to wring every last dollar out of you while they can.
In the case of #2, you're a captive customer (the con is nearby or in this hotel, unless you have a car you're not going to wander far), and you might possibly be able to expense things.
If you were a high-roller that stayed regularly, I'll bet you they wouldn't nickle and dime you, not unless they were morons and wanted to drive you into the hands of the competition. The rest of us are just sheep to be fleeced.
For the lower cost hotels (like the Holiday Inn Expresses), where there is no built in restaurant, and they offer amenities like free wifi and free continental breakfast, they're targeting repeat business and price sensitive travelers. They often don't have the best location compared to the resort hotels (you *will* need a car), but as a consequence their expenses are probably lower. The more extreme version of this are the Extended Stay type hotels, which have kitchens and refrigerators.
The really dumpy hotels have no choice. Their plant is run down, and they may be a no-name. Unless they offer free amenities, nobody in their right mind is going to stay at their place (assuming similar nightly rents) unless there's no choice.
So... Getty Images, instead of using the power of image-matching algorithms to get more customers for its library by setting up a checkout point at the end of the auto-slideshow and/or tack on advertising (ala YouTube) just torpedoed the whole thing instead.
You figure they had the tech to identify the infringing images to begin with. Why not just say to Microsoft "hey, we have this set of algorithms that you're welcome to use to improve your widget. Let's talk about blanket licensing for Bing in exchange for downstream revenue."
Chris Hadfield is a Canadian. Of course he wants international cooperation, otherwise, how is any non-US or non-Russian governmental astronaut/cosmonaut supposed to hitch a ride up and get a berth in orbit?
So... why not small claims? If every person who was in the right on YouTube filed a small claims case against a media entity, they could be bled to death through a thousand cuts, and it would either put a stop to the practice, or make judges aware that the big media companies are abusing their power, which could be very helpful once someone wants to do a class action to stop what is essentially private taxation (running ads on independently produced content) for the benefit of corporations. I mean, seriously - we've seen this before. Independent artist releases album. Independent artist's track gets licensed and used for some big movie studio trailer. Big movie studio trailer gets uploaded to YouTube by big movie studio. Next thing you know, independent artist's promo videos get banned or adjacked because some idiot matching algorithm looks at big movie studio trailer, automatically assumes big movie studio owns the independent artist's works, and now independent artist is screwed and has to do double the work to reclaim the rights to their own work.
How long before the next incoming majority party decides to use the NSA data to clean house? Just to make sure that their government is free of ties to terrorism, foreign governments, and corruption, of course... and to ensure that everyone is loyal and pure of ideology.
Just tell them that your machine got virused and you had to use the restore disk... Seriously though, if it gets that bad, they'll detain you for not having a cellphone for them to suck all your contacts out of. At that point, better not to even travel.
"There's a reason we create police forces and military forces. They represent an elite group of people with the proper training and psychological stability to use firearms for the public good."
And who trains these people?
Someone who is a good shot (as opposed to someone who carries a sidearm simply because it is a condition of their job) must train and practice on a regular basis. Exceptional shooters can be drawn from all walks of life, but like athletes, the younger you start, the sharper your skills can be.
I don't see military or police budgets being used to train the next generation of shooters in this art. I do see private organizations dedicated to fostering competition and martial skill providing the coaching, training, and support of youth sport shooting. Do not forget that the USA fields competitors and teams for firearms competitions in the Olympics. Where do you think the raw talent comes from?
Civilian shooters provide an important pool of talent, not only in times of emergency, but as a community dedicated to maintaining and advancing the shooting arts.
Crap, to clarify, once you get a better *offer*, which values you at market, leave.
Uh... no. What you do is take the position so you have the title. Then you take your resume, beef it up and THEN look for solid offers for positions elsewhere. Once you get the position... leave. Don't bother to educate your organization. Let the market do that. You need to look after yourself and your career. I spent a long time fighting the fight you're proposing to do, in the end, it wasn't worth it. Too much bureaucratic crap that basically condemns you to pay increases that are pegged to your base salary, and not to any real world metric of what you're worth.
1. Go to the woods, record birdsong.
2. Make a bunch of videos and post to YouTube
3. Wait for takedown
4. Sue Rumblefish in small claims court for the ad revenue they got from Google.
5. Profit!!!!
The breakdown of the fine is quite interesting: $1.4M was for not handing over the patient records in a timely manner when requested by the patient. $3M was for not cooperating with the investigation. This was $1.5M a year for two years. It would have been tens of millions more, but the maximum per year was capped at $1.5M. The only reason the fine was even levied was because the company in question didn't even bother to offer an explanation of why their process was fubar.