The Pi was intended as an educational toy. It was supposed to be a dirt cheap way to get kids interested in computing and a bit of electronics. It does that quite well.
That system was figured out a long time before there was a US. Every city used to have somebody whose job it was to observe the sun and set the city's clock accordingly. The problem was, that effectively means you have near infinite timezones, with everybody running on solar time.
To be fair, most of that previously unrecoverable oil is still not economically recoverable, except for the fact that it's necessary to power our current infrastructure. The energy return on investment for a lot of the new oil sources make it uncompetitive with other energy sources. That's why, except for very special circumstances, nobody burns oil or oil products for electricity anymore. We burn it in our cars because we have a massive existing infrastructure set up to do so.
Humans are dirt cheap compared to space robots, never mind artificially intelligent space robots we can't build yet, provided you get their life support resources in space. Those resources will be the primary products of asteroid mining.
Most modern mathematicians use proof checkers though. Proofs take creativity to write, but the biggest obstacle to a computer checking if they're correct is usually typing them in.
Yes. You've outlined all the reasons why I think we need a backlash against advertising, and advertising supported goods and services.
Modern targeted advertising not only hides the true cost, but also hides the terms of the exchange from one party. Most people don't like it when they find out what those terms are. The whole system distorts the market and acts as a perverse incentive for marketers to engage in all kinds of shadiness. Then some of them have the nerve to try to convince people that they somehow have a moral obligation to watch their ads or buy their products.
Cell phones are a great example. The whole subsidy system was designed to take advantage of people who respond to instant gratification and have poor math skills.
And I've bought my last few outright, so no, the little supercomputer in my pocket is not subsidized by a monthly fee.
$0.30 a user seems much more reasonable. It's hard to believe Facebook manages to rake in almost $8. Perhaps this is investors realizing that can't last.
IIRC reporting large fund transfers is an international treaty requirement, so it applies no matter where you are. But it applies to ANY transfer. If you haul more than $10k over the border in a briefcase youâ(TM)re supposed to report it to customs, but your bank is also supposed to report movement of such amounts... like a withdrawal of $480k, or a subsequent deposit of same. Regardless though, itâ(TM)s a reporting requirement only, thereâ(TM)s no tax or anything, unless some of that money was paid under the table and he owed regular income tax on it.
Maybe he thought he was getting away with something, but the multiple transfers just made the whole operation look more suspicious from a reporting standpoint.
You've identified the difference: "The terminology 15 years ago was real time monitoring with language recognition heuristics."
Heuristics are a set of rules used for decision making. In the context of algorithms, those heuristics are designed by a human and programmed into the system.
"AI" is a nonspecific term, but if it means anything it means a system that learns from experience. Specifically, it does not use preprogrammed heuristics.
You neglected the next part, where they fine tuned it using hand labelled data. If you're training a system that learns (and that includes people) and you've got a automatic system that performs okay, it's often a good idea to do a first round of training on the automatic results. Then you come along with a smaller, higher quality training set to boost performance over what the existing automatic system can do.
And yes, the term "ground truth" is usually used in stupid way.
Assuming he's American, the US has erected tariffs on pretty much everybody, including their long time allies the UK and EU, and their "brothers," Canada.
Are you kidding? Parents can and do shell out hundreds, or thousands, for the latest hobby for their darlings.
The pi was conceived as an educational tool, and it fills that role quite well. A physical store isn't so much a place to sell things as it is a place to show them off. Hopefully they set it up with lots of user meetings, free courses and demos.
"This is a great system to be targetting if you are a nation-state. Lots of juicy correspondence between staffers about who is doing what and dirt files on politicians."
Perhaps such networks should be world readable so citizens can see who's wasting government resources gossiping.
Yeah, random data seems like a great idea. Nobody will do it though, because then they wouldn't be able to measure their browser market share stats....
Sounds like a great feature for a boutique browser based on webkit or chromium though.
This isn't really true. The religious like to believe that the non-religious are immoral monsters because they don't believe in the threat of eternal punishment, but it's a lie. People, religious or otherwise, get most of their morality from the people around them, particularly as children. Morality the world over is fairly uniform, and isn't really that different in any social species.
Yes, we're animals. Yes, religion is irrelevant. No, we're not naturally monsters.
It's generally considered that there is an ethical obligation to report security issues.
It may be illegal to disclose those flaws publicly without notifying the company first. It's almost certainly illegal pretty much everywhere to sell them. "Give me money or I'm going to publish/sell this flaw I discovered" is likewise illegal.
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$50k/year * 2 years is $100,000. Times 25,000 workers is 2.5 billion. That leaves $500 million left over.
And they'd still have half a billion dollars left over.
The Pi was intended as an educational toy. It was supposed to be a dirt cheap way to get kids interested in computing and a bit of electronics. It does that quite well.
Never heard of them. Do they run well on ARM?
Qt is pretty easy to use. And when you're done you've got a GUI app that runs on anything.
I realize .net technically might run on OS X and Linux as well, but it's a PITA to actually get working, and when you do it's fugly.
You're right! Should rebrand it. Maybe call it something like "social credit." Maybe work with China on implementing it.
That system was figured out a long time before there was a US. Every city used to have somebody whose job it was to observe the sun and set the city's clock accordingly. The problem was, that effectively means you have near infinite timezones, with everybody running on solar time.
To be fair, most of that previously unrecoverable oil is still not economically recoverable, except for the fact that it's necessary to power our current infrastructure. The energy return on investment for a lot of the new oil sources make it uncompetitive with other energy sources. That's why, except for very special circumstances, nobody burns oil or oil products for electricity anymore. We burn it in our cars because we have a massive existing infrastructure set up to do so.
Humans are dirt cheap compared to space robots, never mind artificially intelligent space robots we can't build yet, provided you get their life support resources in space. Those resources will be the primary products of asteroid mining.
"As a tech guy, I would love my Phone, to be able to install any App I want."
It can. You just have to compile or sign it yourself. Apple used to charge $99 a year for that ability, but it's been free for a while.
They specifically state "arithmetic."
Most modern mathematicians use proof checkers though. Proofs take creativity to write, but the biggest obstacle to a computer checking if they're correct is usually typing them in.
Yes. You've outlined all the reasons why I think we need a backlash against advertising, and advertising supported goods and services.
Modern targeted advertising not only hides the true cost, but also hides the terms of the exchange from one party. Most people don't like it when they find out what those terms are. The whole system distorts the market and acts as a perverse incentive for marketers to engage in all kinds of shadiness. Then some of them have the nerve to try to convince people that they somehow have a moral obligation to watch their ads or buy their products.
Cell phones are a great example. The whole subsidy system was designed to take advantage of people who respond to instant gratification and have poor math skills.
And I've bought my last few outright, so no, the little supercomputer in my pocket is not subsidized by a monthly fee.
$0.30 a user seems much more reasonable. It's hard to believe Facebook manages to rake in almost $8. Perhaps this is investors realizing that can't last.
Bravo to them. Less materialistic, resistant to marketers. Perhaps the advertising backlash is finally starting.
IIRC reporting large fund transfers is an international treaty requirement, so it applies no matter where you are. But it applies to ANY transfer. If you haul more than $10k over the border in a briefcase youâ(TM)re supposed to report it to customs, but your bank is also supposed to report movement of such amounts... like a withdrawal of $480k, or a subsequent deposit of same. Regardless though, itâ(TM)s a reporting requirement only, thereâ(TM)s no tax or anything, unless some of that money was paid under the table and he owed regular income tax on it.
Maybe he thought he was getting away with something, but the multiple transfers just made the whole operation look more suspicious from a reporting standpoint.
You've identified the difference: "The terminology 15 years ago was real time monitoring with language recognition heuristics."
Heuristics are a set of rules used for decision making. In the context of algorithms, those heuristics are designed by a human and programmed into the system.
"AI" is a nonspecific term, but if it means anything it means a system that learns from experience. Specifically, it does not use preprogrammed heuristics.
You neglected the next part, where they fine tuned it using hand labelled data. If you're training a system that learns (and that includes people) and you've got a automatic system that performs okay, it's often a good idea to do a first round of training on the automatic results. Then you come along with a smaller, higher quality training set to boost performance over what the existing automatic system can do.
And yes, the term "ground truth" is usually used in stupid way.
Assuming he's American, the US has erected tariffs on pretty much everybody, including their long time allies the UK and EU, and their "brothers," Canada.
Are you kidding? Parents can and do shell out hundreds, or thousands, for the latest hobby for their darlings.
The pi was conceived as an educational tool, and it fills that role quite well. A physical store isn't so much a place to sell things as it is a place to show them off. Hopefully they set it up with lots of user meetings, free courses and demos.
Betcha some MP clicked on a bad link.
I love the second last paragraph of the article:
"This is a great system to be targetting if you are a nation-state. Lots of juicy correspondence between staffers about who is doing what and dirt files on politicians."
Perhaps such networks should be world readable so citizens can see who's wasting government resources gossiping.
Yeah, random data seems like a great idea. Nobody will do it though, because then they wouldn't be able to measure their browser market share stats....
Sounds like a great feature for a boutique browser based on webkit or chromium though.
See, when I said "I'm curious" I meant that I was curious why you did that. I assume the smartass reply means you don't want to share the reason?
This isn't really true. The religious like to believe that the non-religious are immoral monsters because they don't believe in the threat of eternal punishment, but it's a lie. People, religious or otherwise, get most of their morality from the people around them, particularly as children. Morality the world over is fairly uniform, and isn't really that different in any social species.
Yes, we're animals. Yes, religion is irrelevant. No, we're not naturally monsters.
I'm curious... why do you single out a particular word as "actually hurting people" and dismiss everything else?
It's generally considered that there is an ethical obligation to report security issues.
It may be illegal to disclose those flaws publicly without notifying the company first. It's almost certainly illegal pretty much everywhere to sell them. "Give me money or I'm going to publish/sell this flaw I discovered" is likewise illegal.