if all its users hit its voice recognition services for three minutes a day, the company would need to double the number of data centers
The performance bottleneck in machine learning is training the system and the amount of training data, not the number of users running the model. Not sure I understand how usage is so directly proportional to computing costs.
Oath vs OAuth. I see absolutely zero room for any potential confusion there at all in the tech world!
I can't wait for some security hole to be exposed because someone wrote "import oauth; oauth.connect()" and got a company logo instead of a secure channel.
The part that shocks me is that humans are still placing items in boxes. That just seems ripe for automation.
Believe me, they've thought it. It sounds simple, but taking an item off a shelve and putting it into a box is a very difficult automation problem. You have to account for a myriad of packaging shapes, sizes, materials, weights, and quantity.
Desktop processors aren't advancing because there isn't a market that demands it.
Please. Remember "640kb of RAM should be enough"? Even if there isn't a known market for it, that processing power will get eaten up quickly if provided. From 3D video, to AR, to multiple streams of interactive HD video, to deep learning algorithms... there's plenty of market for more processing power. It's just getting harder and harder to get there. The move to mobile is a because of the death of Moore's law not the cause of it.
Westinghouse just filed for bankruptcy. There have been barely any fission reactors that have come online in the last few decades in the US. Fission is going nowhere fast.
While fusion may be safer from a meltdown, its so complex that it will likely be far more expensive than fission. Even if we created net energy with fusion tomorrow, we'd still be decades from seeing it in the marketplce.
It's not the H1B1s, it is the automation. I had the chance to visit a brand new Amazon warehouse. This massive facility, about the size of five to ten walmarts, was staffed by just a handful of people, maybe two dozen I could see altogether. Robots picked up and dropped off all sorts of products to the humans who would put them in a box with stuffing. I can't see how Walmart can compete with that.
It's a crazy new world we are in. At this rate... In the near future our phones will faster than our desktops lol
It's not crazy, it's tragic. The death of Moore's law is what's causing this. Desktop processors are not advancing anywhere near the speed that they were, and mobile processors are closing the gap. I'm afraid our tech is plateauing, or at least, approaching a more linear rate of improvement.
Nuclear power has gone from "too cheap to meter" to "too expensive to matter"
Everything (coal, gas, wind, solar) is cheaper than nuclear.
That's why I don't understand the current development of ITER. Even if it's scientifically successful, there's just no possibility that it'll economically successful in the next century.
Google is already doing this. My wife searches for a product online at home, and suddenly all the google ads I'm seeing at work are related to her searches.
Two major differences: (1) Google provides relatively easy opt-outs; (2) Google's services are free, there is an implicit understanding that it's ad supported, so we accept some intrusion. That isn't the case with internet providers.
Also, a third big reason: there are decent alternatives to Google search and mail who do respect privacy. In many places, there are only one or two internet operators.
Google is already doing this. My wife searches for a product online at home, and suddenly all the google ads I'm seeing at work are related to her searches.
Two major differences: (1) Google provides relatively easy opt-outs; (2) Google's services are free, there is an implicit understanding that it's ad supported, so we accept some intrusion. That isn't the case with internet providers.
We need to face it. Capitalism, while good in theory, is working out particularly badly...
I would say that this isn't true capitalism. True capitalism has competition. There's no or too little competition when only one or two players control a market (such as for internet services). True capitalists understand the risk of monopolies and oligopolies to capitalism and would work to break them up.
Let me guess, you are a Sanders or Stein supporter who's biggest concern is legal weed. Fuck right off.
I don't think Sanders gives a crap about weed. He cares about our system being owned by those already in power. Trump's campaign had a similar message, too bad he's a charlatan.
How do you afford the admission after paying the crazy rent?
The variety of free or inexpensive events in NYC is overwhelming: symphonies every week in central park in the summer, $20 rush tickets to the Met opera, the Met museum is free, many other major museums have a free day every week, dozens of free concerts literally every day, free public pools, free gallery tours, free yoga and a variety of exercise classes... it goes on and on, a quick look meetup.com can confirm it. If you want plush treatment, you pay, but being broke is no excuse for not doing stuff here. Besides, what good is money if you're not enjoying it.
...can you get Chinese food at 3am in the morning? Because seems to be the stock reason why people claim they love living in NYC.
Every weekend you can go to world class museums, operas, nightclubs, and virtually every crazy cultural niche you can imagine. The entire planet lives in NYC.
Please provide a list of other countries whose tech industries, graced with highly skilled female tech industry employees, will overtake the US "in the future."
Please stop putting a "sexism in tech" story on the front page.
It's a major problem in technology that really needs to be addressed if this country is going to be competitive in the future. It's unfortunate that it's so inflammatory, but it needs to be addressed.
The programmers of the cars can do a lot to alleviate the bad behaviors people have gotten in to...
Such as:...
Waiting until the absolute last second to merge when lanes are reduced.
Although frustrating for the driver being cut, this behavior has actually been shown to reduce overall traffic by making more use of the road area.
It's not entirely clear what Asian country everyone is from (or perhaps they're Asian-American), but assuming none of them are from the U.S., it should make those in government U.S. cybersecurity a bit anxious, and perhaps give pause to our new-found love of immigration restrictions.
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if all its users hit its voice recognition services for three minutes a day, the company would need to double the number of data centers
The performance bottleneck in machine learning is training the system and the amount of training data, not the number of users running the model. Not sure I understand how usage is so directly proportional to computing costs.
It matches supply with demand.
Yes, but that's not all it does. It shifts negotiating power, taking it away from the powerless and giving it to the powerful.
Oath vs OAuth. I see absolutely zero room for any potential confusion there at all in the tech world!
I can't wait for some security hole to be exposed because someone wrote "import oauth; oauth.connect()" and got a company logo instead of a secure channel.
The part that shocks me is that humans are still placing items in boxes. That just seems ripe for automation.
Believe me, they've thought it. It sounds simple, but taking an item off a shelve and putting it into a box is a very difficult automation problem. You have to account for a myriad of packaging shapes, sizes, materials, weights, and quantity.
Desktop processors aren't advancing because there isn't a market that demands it.
Please. Remember "640kb of RAM should be enough"? Even if there isn't a known market for it, that processing power will get eaten up quickly if provided. From 3D video, to AR, to multiple streams of interactive HD video, to deep learning algorithms ... there's plenty of market for more processing power. It's just getting harder and harder to get there. The move to mobile is a because of the death of Moore's law not the cause of it.
Westinghouse just filed for bankruptcy. There have been barely any fission reactors that have come online in the last few decades in the US. Fission is going nowhere fast.
While fusion may be safer from a meltdown, its so complex that it will likely be far more expensive than fission. Even if we created net energy with fusion tomorrow, we'd still be decades from seeing it in the marketplce.
It's not the H1B1s, it is the automation. I had the chance to visit a brand new Amazon warehouse. This massive facility, about the size of five to ten walmarts, was staffed by just a handful of people, maybe two dozen I could see altogether. Robots picked up and dropped off all sorts of products to the humans who would put them in a box with stuffing. I can't see how Walmart can compete with that.
It's a crazy new world we are in. At this rate... In the near future our phones will faster than our desktops lol
It's not crazy, it's tragic. The death of Moore's law is what's causing this. Desktop processors are not advancing anywhere near the speed that they were, and mobile processors are closing the gap. I'm afraid our tech is plateauing, or at least, approaching a more linear rate of improvement.
Nuclear power has gone from "too cheap to meter" to "too expensive to matter" Everything (coal, gas, wind, solar) is cheaper than nuclear.
That's why I don't understand the current development of ITER. Even if it's scientifically successful, there's just no possibility that it'll economically successful in the next century.
Google is already doing this. My wife searches for a product online at home, and suddenly all the google ads I'm seeing at work are related to her searches.
Two major differences: (1) Google provides relatively easy opt-outs; (2) Google's services are free, there is an implicit understanding that it's ad supported, so we accept some intrusion. That isn't the case with internet providers.
Also, a third big reason: there are decent alternatives to Google search and mail who do respect privacy. In many places, there are only one or two internet operators.
Google is already doing this. My wife searches for a product online at home, and suddenly all the google ads I'm seeing at work are related to her searches.
Two major differences: (1) Google provides relatively easy opt-outs; (2) Google's services are free, there is an implicit understanding that it's ad supported, so we accept some intrusion. That isn't the case with internet providers.
We need to face it. Capitalism, while good in theory, is working out particularly badly ...
I would say that this isn't true capitalism. True capitalism has competition. There's no or too little competition when only one or two players control a market (such as for internet services). True capitalists understand the risk of monopolies and oligopolies to capitalism and would work to break them up.
Let me guess, you are a Sanders or Stein supporter who's biggest concern is legal weed. Fuck right off.
I don't think Sanders gives a crap about weed. He cares about our system being owned by those already in power. Trump's campaign had a similar message, too bad he's a charlatan.
You're okay with powerful government already busted several times for spying on Americans, but should BigTelCo do it, you're OUTRAGED!!!!
Why cant we be "OUTRAGED" at both?
two countries where its still legal to treat women like refrigerators. Yeah ok pal.
And yet, India sent a probe to Mars with a team made up with a large contingent of women.
How do you afford the admission after paying the crazy rent?
The variety of free or inexpensive events in NYC is overwhelming: symphonies every week in central park in the summer, $20 rush tickets to the Met opera, the Met museum is free, many other major museums have a free day every week, dozens of free concerts literally every day, free public pools, free gallery tours, free yoga and a variety of exercise classes... it goes on and on, a quick look meetup.com can confirm it. If you want plush treatment, you pay, but being broke is no excuse for not doing stuff here. Besides, what good is money if you're not enjoying it.
None of them are in tech, though. Why should bankers and oil guys care about hurting silicon valley?
Their anti-science stance (e.g., 20% cut to NIH funding), will have ripple effects throughout silicon valley.
...can you get Chinese food at 3am in the morning? Because seems to be the stock reason why people claim they love living in NYC.
Every weekend you can go to world class museums, operas, nightclubs, and virtually every crazy cultural niche you can imagine. The entire planet lives in NYC.
It's a major problem in technology
Can you cite any evidence that sexism is worse in technology than in other industries?
Yes, I can.
Please provide a list of other countries whose tech industries, graced with highly skilled female tech industry employees, will overtake the US "in the future."
India and China, duh.
Please stop putting a "sexism in tech" story on the front page.
It's a major problem in technology that really needs to be addressed if this country is going to be competitive in the future. It's unfortunate that it's so inflammatory, but it needs to be addressed.
The programmers of the cars can do a lot to alleviate the bad behaviors people have gotten in to ...
Such as: ...
Waiting until the absolute last second to merge when lanes are reduced.
Although frustrating for the driver being cut, this behavior has actually been shown to reduce overall traffic by making more use of the road area.
Is it just me, or was every single winner in pwn2own asian? Here's the youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's not entirely clear what Asian country everyone is from (or perhaps they're Asian-American), but assuming none of them are from the U.S., it should make those in government U.S. cybersecurity a bit anxious, and perhaps give pause to our new-found love of immigration restrictions.
What else is there to say?
I'm starting to feel bad for MS these days. They've gotten so much better and are no longer truly evil, but just can't win.
And humans always pronounce perfectly and exactly the things they intended to.
It doesn't make sense without the "a", it's a self-contradiction. Even if he didn't actually say "a", that's what he was saying.