Western companies are generally excluded from the Chinese market by The Great Firewall and state sanctioned discrimination. So, there is probably little incentive to spend precious resources Chinese consumers.
Furthermore the differences in English dialects are very small compared to e.g. Chinese and Arabic. So it may be a stretch to compare the numbers directly and furthermore not taking purchasing power into account.
Regarding the discussion of native versus foreign languages: We are in fact a huge proportion of the world population who live in countries where we speak a language which has no chance in hell to come on a priority list for assistants. And many of us speak English with co-workers on a daily basis. An I guess many of us will be happy to use an English speaking assistant as opposed to not being able to have one.
In 2015 28.8% of the EU (EU-28) electricity (not energy) production was renewable and had doubled compared to 2005. So EU is on a fast trajectory towards renewable electricity consumption. A reasonable estimate may be that by 2030 40-50% of the electricity production in the EU is renewable.
This will of course mean that a similar proportion of the energy spent by electric cars is from renewable sources. Furthermore a large number of people die due to particle pollution from cars in Europe (we have a lot more diesel cars than in the US). When the tailpipes are substituted by tall chimneys these numbers will also drop dramatically.
"In terms of waste, Okin noted, feeding pets also leads to about 5.1 million tons of feces every year, roughly equivalent to the total trash production of Massachusetts."
But how many Libraries of Congress does that correspond to? If we only count the shitty books...
"Does each country have it's own set of what is extremist, or do they all contribute to a global set of extremism, until al that is left is sponsored content from paying advertisers?"
Welcome to the World State in our Brave New World. Our AI will ensure a harmonic and conflictless society without the tensions of previous barbaric societies.
Friedrich Hayek: The Road to Serfdom. Reading this book earlier would have enabled me to understand some of the developments in the World much better. The most recent example being the miserable fate of Venezuela.
Some objects in an open source project of mine has an attribute named "primadonna" to signal that the object wants the stage for itself and other "primadonna" objects are removed from the stage when it is added to the stage. I actually thought that the attribute name was quite good since it is quite clear for other developers what it means without any further explanations. And code is easier to read when it contains "living language".
But I guess my code will not go through a political correctness test without serious remarks.
Computers do not need to be able to navigate the car in all circumstances for self-driving cars to be useful. I would be happy if they could simply take over when driving on the freeway and warn me when it is time to leave the freeway again.
The end goal is of course to let the AI control the car at all times. But a more modest start is just fine.
All that yelling, the ignorance, the incompetence, the rudeness, the anti-social behavior, the complete disregard for the feelings of the employees is hard to duplicate with software.
I do of course realize that your comment is a joke. But I will write a serious reply in any case:-)
I am pretty sure that large parts of management will be overtaken by computers. Many of the decisions that management are currently responsible for are more or less trivial and could be better performed by applying machine learning once enough data has been collected and the algorithms are in place. There will of course still be a need for human managers. But their role will change and there might be fewer of them since they will only be needed in the areas where humans can outperform machines.
I would really like to get my hands on a live ADS-B feed like FlightAware and FlightRadar24 apparently have. Does anyone know what I would need to do to do that? Global data would be ideal but European or Arctic coverage would also be very interesting. But others might be interested in other areas.
"How much slower do you think it is okay to get work done in order to put it in a completely free software framework? How many people is it okay to have die from the additional time?"
By all means use the tool that provides the best value for you and your company. Personally I find Python much more productive than MatLab for scientific work in my field. But I guess it depends on which features you need and what kind of software you are developing.
The above case is not about inciting violence or terrorism. Let me cite a bit of the official court press release about the conviction* (google translate, with small corrections):
"The district court writes in the judgment that those who exercise their freedom of expression - in the picture, voice or text - also have a duty to the extent possible, to avoid statements that are unjustifiably offensive to others and statements that do not contribute to any form of public debate. The judgment is that Dan Parks and gallery owner aim of the exhibition have not been to bring an informed debate, but rather to provoke. On the way they spread the pictures, they have not taken responsibility. Protection of the individual to avoid insults and slurs are therefore in this case of higher priority than freedom of expression and the right to freedom of art."
But to be honest, freedom of speech is somewhat more limited in Europe than in the USA. But even between European countries there are som marked differences. Sweden is for example jailing (provocative) artists for hate speech while neighbouring Denmark has no such tradition (although Denmark does also have hate speech legislation). See for example Dan Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Park).
Not that I like Dan Parks views (even though he says that the court in Sweden is misunderstanding his art pieces). But I do believe that Sweden is on a dangerous path when they prosecute artists for hate speech (who draws the line).
"Keep in mind that wasn't an accidental difference. In Germany, the publishers that opted out of the scheme (and kept their presence in Google News) benefited from absence of those who didn't opt out, which created a motive for all publishers to opt out in a sort of tragedy of the commons situation. The Spanish lawmakers wanted to prevent that."
The legislation is an attempt to create a law mandated news cartel:
"In economics, a cartel is an agreement between competing firms to control prices or exclude entry of a new competitor in a market. It is a formal organization of sellers or buyers that agree to fix selling prices, purchase prices, or reduce production using a variety of tactics." (Wikipedia).
If they had been succesful the consequence would be that Spanish media consumers would have to pay more for their news. Fortunately it seems like they will not be succesful and hopefully Spanish consumers can use foreign media outlets that are not part of the cartel.
You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on it's back. The tortoise lays on it's back, it's belly baking in the hot sun, beating it's legs trying to turn it'self over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
in combination with the article you will see that the city is in fact more colored now than in 2000. The original poster is cherry picking statistics to prove his/her point. Seattle is less white now than in 2000. You could say that after a prolonged browning of the city it is now whitening slightly. The long term trend is however not clear.
I am also a bit confused by the article. It seems like Amazon is only hiring from Seattle itself and not the suburbs. Otherwise they would not employ 5-7% of the city population. Is that really true or is it another one of the authors mind tricks?
Slashdot Mirror
"Your toilet will flush AFTER it authenticates with our servers to get our say so."
The future is coming:
https://www.techinasia.com/chi...
I am stunned that it is the reverse in the US. Sounds pretty stupid to me. And here in Denmark we don't get robocalls either.
Western companies are generally excluded from the Chinese market by The Great Firewall and state sanctioned discrimination. So, there is probably little incentive to spend precious resources Chinese consumers.
Furthermore the differences in English dialects are very small compared to e.g. Chinese and Arabic. So it may be a stretch to compare the numbers directly and furthermore not taking purchasing power into account.
Regarding the discussion of native versus foreign languages: We are in fact a huge proportion of the world population who live in countries where we speak a language which has no chance in hell to come on a priority list for assistants. And many of us speak English with co-workers on a daily basis. An I guess many of us will be happy to use an English speaking assistant as opposed to not being able to have one.
Now we just need a way to breed or engineer cockroaches into a practical size for milking. Maybe a healthy dose of radiation will do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just make sure not to overdo the radiation part...
No more travelling for them...
Not anymore...
In 2015 28.8% of the EU (EU-28) electricity (not energy) production was renewable and had doubled compared to 2005. So EU is on a fast trajectory towards renewable electricity consumption. A reasonable estimate may be that by 2030 40-50% of the electricity production in the EU is renewable.
This will of course mean that a similar proportion of the energy spent by electric cars is from renewable sources. Furthermore a large number of people die due to particle pollution from cars in Europe (we have a lot more diesel cars than in the US). When the tailpipes are substituted by tall chimneys these numbers will also drop dramatically.
"In terms of waste, Okin noted, feeding pets also leads to about 5.1 million tons of feces every year, roughly equivalent to the total trash production of Massachusetts."
But how many Libraries of Congress does that correspond to? If we only count the shitty books...
"Does each country have it's own set of what is extremist, or do they all contribute to a global set of extremism, until al that is left is sponsored content from paying advertisers?"
Welcome to the World State in our Brave New World. Our AI will ensure a harmonic and conflictless society without the tensions of previous barbaric societies.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have."
- Thomas Jefferson
This should be a reminder that an omnipresent government like the Swedish government has some inherent risks.
Friedrich Hayek: The Road to Serfdom. Reading this book earlier would have enabled me to understand some of the developments in the World much better. The most recent example being the miserable fate of Venezuela.
Some objects in an open source project of mine has an attribute named "primadonna" to signal that the object wants the stage for itself and other "primadonna" objects are removed from the stage when it is added to the stage. I actually thought that the attribute name was quite good since it is quite clear for other developers what it means without any further explanations. And code is easier to read when it contains "living language". But I guess my code will not go through a political correctness test without serious remarks.
If you live in the EU you have a "right to be forgotten":
Right to be forgotten
My suggestion would be to change profession to something more suitable for life in the forests:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Computers do not need to be able to navigate the car in all circumstances for self-driving cars to be useful. I would be happy if they could simply take over when driving on the freeway and warn me when it is time to leave the freeway again.
The end goal is of course to let the AI control the car at all times. But a more modest start is just fine.
From the video it seems like robots and drunk people behave somewhat similar. Or maybe the robots were in fact drunk. We will probably never know.
"What job is hardest for a robot to do?"
Obviously management.
All that yelling, the ignorance, the incompetence, the rudeness, the anti-social behavior, the complete disregard for the feelings of the employees is hard to duplicate with software.
I do of course realize that your comment is a joke. But I will write a serious reply in any case:-)
I am pretty sure that large parts of management will be overtaken by computers. Many of the decisions that management are currently responsible for are more or less trivial and could be better performed by applying machine learning once enough data has been collected and the algorithms are in place. There will of course still be a need for human managers. But their role will change and there might be fewer of them since they will only be needed in the areas where humans can outperform machines.
I would really like to get my hands on a live ADS-B feed like FlightAware and FlightRadar24 apparently have. Does anyone know what I would need to do to do that? Global data would be ideal but European or Arctic coverage would also be very interesting. But others might be interested in other areas.
"How much slower do you think it is okay to get work done in order to put it in a completely free software framework? How many people is it okay to have die from the additional time?"
By all means use the tool that provides the best value for you and your company. Personally I find Python much more productive than MatLab for scientific work in my field. But I guess it depends on which features you need and what kind of software you are developing.
The above case is not about inciting violence or terrorism. Let me cite a bit of the official court press release about the conviction* (google translate, with small corrections):
"The district court writes in the judgment that those who exercise their freedom of expression - in the picture, voice or text - also have a duty to the extent possible, to avoid statements that are unjustifiably offensive to others and statements that do not contribute to any form of public debate. The judgment is that Dan Parks and gallery owner aim of the exhibition have not been to bring an informed debate, but rather to provoke. On the way they spread the pictures, they have not taken responsibility. Protection of the individual to avoid insults and slurs are therefore in this case of higher priority than freedom of expression and the right to freedom of art."
*) Official press release
But to be honest, freedom of speech is somewhat more limited in Europe than in the USA. But even between European countries there are som marked differences. Sweden is for example jailing (provocative) artists for hate speech while neighbouring Denmark has no such tradition (although Denmark does also have hate speech legislation). See for example Dan Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Park).
Not that I like Dan Parks views (even though he says that the court in Sweden is misunderstanding his art pieces). But I do believe that Sweden is on a dangerous path when they prosecute artists for hate speech (who draws the line).
"Keep in mind that wasn't an accidental difference. In Germany, the publishers that opted out of the scheme (and kept their presence in Google News) benefited from absence of those who didn't opt out, which created a motive for all publishers to opt out in a sort of tragedy of the commons situation. The Spanish lawmakers wanted to prevent that."
The legislation is an attempt to create a law mandated news cartel:
"In economics, a cartel is an agreement between competing firms to control prices or exclude entry of a new competitor in a market. It is a formal organization of sellers or buyers that agree to fix selling prices, purchase prices, or reduce production using a variety of tactics." (Wikipedia).
If they had been succesful the consequence would be that Spanish media consumers would have to pay more for their news. Fortunately it seems like they will not be succesful and hopefully Spanish consumers can use foreign media outlets that are not part of the cartel.
. As a long time C hack (still am) I concur.
Behold. A C program that has gained sentience.
You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on it's back. The tortoise lays on it's back, it's belly baking in the hot sun, beating it's legs trying to turn it'self over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
But C++ is a thousand times more than "C with objects".
I believe the above quote speaks for itself...
If you look at:
Seattle demographics
in combination with the article you will see that the city is in fact more colored now than in 2000. The original poster is cherry picking statistics to prove his/her point. Seattle is less white now than in 2000. You could say that after a prolonged browning of the city it is now whitening slightly. The long term trend is however not clear.
I am also a bit confused by the article. It seems like Amazon is only hiring from Seattle itself and not the suburbs. Otherwise they would not employ 5-7% of the city population. Is that really true or is it another one of the authors mind tricks?