Watching TV news is a horrible use of time. TV news has negative value -- if you consume it, your life will be worse than if you don't. And your net knowledge of the world ("net" meaning information - misinformation) may go down.
I generally agree with this, but there are certain things that can be conveyed much more clearly through television, such as body language, tone of voice, sarcasm, among others. These can help you make judgment calls about a person's credibility.
It's not a contradiction at all, just because something is legal doesn't mean it's well advised. Even if it was legal, it was insanely stupid to break Israel's trust and give their sensitive information to Russia. The fact that Trump did it in such a careless way shows further how unprepared Trump is to lead the nation.
If your parents are tall there's a higher chance you will be tall. If your ethnicity is known for having dark hair the high chances are your hair will be dark. Similarly with IQ.
But the problem with that argument is that heritability is not the same as genetics. If your parents have tattoos, their children are more likely to have tattoos. If the parents drive a fancy car, the children are more likely to drive a fancy car. Same can be said of IQ.
Didn't facebook recently open up much of its hardware architectures and data center designs? This seems like a knee jerk response so LinkedIn can get their own hardware standardized.
What about the 92 million unemployed Americans who are waiting for new coal mining jobs?
I find it so sad that the rest of the world is rapidly moving towards renewable technologies, building entire industries, and America is stuck looking backwards on a dead-end technology (carbon capture, notwithstanding). It's as if America has given up on competition with China and Europe, even as the president argues that we can and should compete.
Now, I think it would be great if... we got a basic income in the six digit figures range
That is equivalent to saying I wish everyone was paid nothing, but got the same quality of life of someone being paid a six figure salary. Unless automation can bring us a quality of life such that living a comfortable lifestyle is practically free, this is not going to happen ever. Instead of focusing on universal basic income, we should focus on universal basic healthcare, housing, and education.
Done properly, this could be used as a way to prevent profiling. An algo can only make decisions based on the data provided to it. If race isn't provided as an input, it won't affect the decision. Humans can't make the same claim, as prejudices can sneak into our decisions unconsciously.
There are so many ways that the algorithm can introduce bias, even if race isn't provided as an input, if other factors that may be highly correlated by race are (e.g., home zip code, occupation, income, etc.).
And you can look at this report another way... 36% of students in India can write code that properly compiles. I'd be the average rate in the US would be far lower.
The report says that it "is based on a sample of more than 36,800 students from 500+ colleges across India". It doesn't say what degree they're in, how much experience they have, or a variety of other factors to conclude the 36% of Indian engineers can't code. This is just a racist hit job piece.
Doesn't anyone else see the death of Moore's Law as the elephant in the room? For the past 50 years, we have seen true exponential growth in processing speed and efficiency, yielding quite a bit of justifiable optimism about AI. But now that we see mounting evidence that Moore's law is either dying or dead, it's only natural to adjust our definition of what's possible. Without exponential growth of processing power, I don't see how we could get to general AI in the next few centuries.
It makes no sense today, most people have options.
Actually, most people have fewer options than ever. Most media companies are controlled by Walt Disney, Time Warner, CBS Corporation Viacom, or 21st century fox.
A robots.txt file is a nice way of telling another, "please don't copy my site." However, the more mature and sophisticated answer is "if you copy this portion of my site, you may liable for copyright infringement." This whole problem is really a problem with the limitations of robots.txt. Telling someone "please do this" or "please don't do that" is not nearly as significant as "you have a right to do this" and "I will sue you if you do that".
For someone who railed against the "mainstream media", it's surprising that Trump would support a policy allowing the largest media companies to become even larger.
When I google a movie name and "rotten tomatoes", the snippet does not show the single most important piece of information: the score. Instead, you have to click into the page. I would bet Google intentionally decided to not show the score in their snippet, either through an agreement with Rotten Tomatoes, or because they didn't want to undercut the support of a great site.
Maybe the solution isn't an either/or (either full index, or no index). Maybe the solution is to allow indexing to a certain point (or depth, if you will), but allow it no further.
It seems that some are successful at this. Searching by googling the movie name and "rotten tomatoes" does not show the score, you have to click into it. It would be trivial for Google to show the Rotten Tomatoes score in the results. I bet Google made the intentional decision to not show the score in their search results, either through an agreement with Rotten Tomatoes, or because they didn't want to undercut the support of a great site.
Why would that make it better? It's interesting to see wildly different conceptions of alien life and communication. It expands your own definitions of the terms.
If you really dig down into the root cause of instability in this portion of the Middle East, I'd blame the Europeans for carving up the region after they defeated the Ottoman Empire in the first World War. They drew those borders with little to no consideration for the indigenous cultural, lingual, and political boundaries.
They intentionally split cultures across countries and placed minority cultures in power to weaken the country and keep the ruling minority class beholden to the UK. So while they may have created this mess, they didn't do it out of disregard, they did it by design.
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Watching TV news is a horrible use of time. TV news has negative value -- if you consume it, your life will be worse than if you don't. And your net knowledge of the world ("net" meaning information - misinformation) may go down.
I generally agree with this, but there are certain things that can be conveyed much more clearly through television, such as body language, tone of voice, sarcasm, among others. These can help you make judgment calls about a person's credibility.
It's not a contradiction at all, just because something is legal doesn't mean it's well advised. Even if it was legal, it was insanely stupid to break Israel's trust and give their sensitive information to Russia. The fact that Trump did it in such a careless way shows further how unprepared Trump is to lead the nation.
If your parents are tall there's a higher chance you will be tall. If your ethnicity is known for having dark hair the high chances are your hair will be dark. Similarly with IQ.
But the problem with that argument is that heritability is not the same as genetics. If your parents have tattoos, their children are more likely to have tattoos. If the parents drive a fancy car, the children are more likely to drive a fancy car. Same can be said of IQ.
Didn't facebook recently open up much of its hardware architectures and data center designs? This seems like a knee jerk response so LinkedIn can get their own hardware standardized.
Apples image is suffering! Let's run out and bury ourselves in the hills!
Can I bring my iPhone into the hills?
What about the 92 million unemployed Americans who are waiting for new coal mining jobs?
I find it so sad that the rest of the world is rapidly moving towards renewable technologies, building entire industries, and America is stuck looking backwards on a dead-end technology (carbon capture, notwithstanding). It's as if America has given up on competition with China and Europe, even as the president argues that we can and should compete.
Now, I think it would be great if ... we got a basic income in the six digit figures range
That is equivalent to saying I wish everyone was paid nothing, but got the same quality of life of someone being paid a six figure salary. Unless automation can bring us a quality of life such that living a comfortable lifestyle is practically free, this is not going to happen ever. Instead of focusing on universal basic income, we should focus on universal basic healthcare, housing, and education.
Done properly, this could be used as a way to prevent profiling. An algo can only make decisions based on the data provided to it. If race isn't provided as an input, it won't affect the decision. Humans can't make the same claim, as prejudices can sneak into our decisions unconsciously.
There are so many ways that the algorithm can introduce bias, even if race isn't provided as an input, if other factors that may be highly correlated by race are (e.g., home zip code, occupation, income, etc.).
And you can look at this report another way... 36% of students in India can write code that properly compiles. I'd be the average rate in the US would be far lower.
The report says that it "is based on a sample of more than 36,800 students from 500+ colleges across India". It doesn't say what degree they're in, how much experience they have, or a variety of other factors to conclude the 36% of Indian engineers can't code. This is just a racist hit job piece.
Doesn't anyone else see the death of Moore's Law as the elephant in the room? For the past 50 years, we have seen true exponential growth in processing speed and efficiency, yielding quite a bit of justifiable optimism about AI. But now that we see mounting evidence that Moore's law is either dying or dead, it's only natural to adjust our definition of what's possible. Without exponential growth of processing power, I don't see how we could get to general AI in the next few centuries.
Yik Yak was always trash.
Apparently three million dollar trash.
$3M for a failed company? Doesn't seem fair.
This stack exchange article calculates the power needed to hover:
https://physics.stackexchange....
At perfect efficiency, you need about 10 watts to hover 1kg. Assuming around 20% efficiency, carry 300kg is 15k watts, or 20 horsepower.
It makes no sense today, most people have options.
Actually, most people have fewer options than ever. Most media companies are controlled by Walt Disney, Time Warner, CBS Corporation Viacom, or 21st century fox.
A robots.txt file is a nice way of telling another, "please don't copy my site." However, the more mature and sophisticated answer is "if you copy this portion of my site, you may liable for copyright infringement." This whole problem is really a problem with the limitations of robots.txt. Telling someone "please do this" or "please don't do that" is not nearly as significant as "you have a right to do this" and "I will sue you if you do that".
For someone who railed against the "mainstream media", it's surprising that Trump would support a policy allowing the largest media companies to become even larger.
I doubt Google is breaking captchas to index sites.
Interestingly they have not yet done it to Rotten Tomatoes. I wonder if it's just a matter of time or if there's something else going on.
When I google a movie name and "rotten tomatoes", the snippet does not show the single most important piece of information: the score. Instead, you have to click into the page. I would bet Google intentionally decided to not show the score in their snippet, either through an agreement with Rotten Tomatoes, or because they didn't want to undercut the support of a great site.
Maybe the solution isn't an either/or (either full index, or no index). Maybe the solution is to allow indexing to a certain point (or depth, if you will), but allow it no further.
It seems that some are successful at this. Searching by googling the movie name and "rotten tomatoes" does not show the score, you have to click into it. It would be trivial for Google to show the Rotten Tomatoes score in the results. I bet Google made the intentional decision to not show the score in their search results, either through an agreement with Rotten Tomatoes, or because they didn't want to undercut the support of a great site.
Were there aliens and spaceships in dances with the wolves? Shared themes and concepts... yes. Remake... no.
Primer may be my favorite Sci-fi of all time, certainly in the time-travel sub genre.
Why would that make it better? It's interesting to see wildly different conceptions of alien life and communication. It expands your own definitions of the terms.
If you really dig down into the root cause of instability in this portion of the Middle East, I'd blame the Europeans for carving up the region after they defeated the Ottoman Empire in the first World War. They drew those borders with little to no consideration for the indigenous cultural, lingual, and political boundaries.
They intentionally split cultures across countries and placed minority cultures in power to weaken the country and keep the ruling minority class beholden to the UK. So while they may have created this mess, they didn't do it out of disregard, they did it by design.