I think perhaps some suggestion that this can happen also comes from the much higher traffic death rate (corrected for miles driven) for the US than the UK. In the UK most people drive manual/stick shift vehicles, whereas in the US most drive automatics. It seems to me (having lived/driven in both places), that driving a stick shift forces you to continually pay rather more attention to your driving environment.
Although of course there are a huge host of other things that affect traffic death rates. It's interesting to see that the Japanese death rate is high, even if the absolute number of people killed is relatively low.
As far as we know, a brain stores ALL information in synapses. So you are using synapses to remember what your third grade teacher looked like, your mother's voice, and what freshly baked cookies smell like. None of that is useful when you are, say, trying to ride a bicycle, and none of those other synapses are being used. But a computer only needs to load the synaptic data needed for a particular task, and leave the rest on a HDD.
Actually, I tend to think that the availability of all the other "irrelevant" information is needed to allow a system/someone to make truly intelligent decisions in a flexible way.
On 1 January 1983, upon the coming into force of the British Nationality Act 1981, every citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies became either a British citizen, British Dependent Territories citizen or British Overseas citizen.
Use of the term British subject was discontinued for all persons who fell into these categories, or who had a national citizenship of any other Commonwealth country./quote.
Until 1949, nearly everyone with a close connection to the United Kingdom was called a ‘British subject’.
All citizens of Commonwealth countries were British subjects until January 1983.
Since 1983, very few people have qualified as British subjects. Who is a British subject
You became a British subject on 1 January 1983 if, until then, you were either:
a British subject without citizenship, which means you were a British subject on 31 December 1948 who didn’t become a citizen of the UK and Colonies, a Commonwealth country, Pakistan or the Republic of Ireland
a person who had been a citizen of the Republic of Ireland on 31 December 1948 and had made a claim to remain a British subject
You also became a British subject on 1 January 1983 if you were a woman who registered as a British subject on the basis of your marriage to a man in one of these categories.
The only thing that has been added in true dot com fashion "on the Intertubes". The question remains if we are real or not and what is real.
But the idea of computer simulations does go beyond Descartes by giving one the probabilistic argument that it's more likely that we live in a simulation than the "real" world.
The idea that we are living inside a simulation is far from original from Musk. Perhaps the most prominent contemporary proponent of this idea is the philosopher Nick Bostrom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Iridium and all other civilian satellite systems (to my knowledge - and clearly I don't know jack about the military and/or espionage satellites) do not cover all the oceans Most don't cover Antartica either.
Do you have a reference for that? Since Iridium satellites are in polar orbits they cross the entire Earth, and the wikipedia page at least claims global coverage including the poles.
And a page at the Iridium site claims:
Iridium is the only satellite communications provider capable of offering critical air-to-ground flight safety voice and data service to commercial aircraft around the globe.
A far simpler solution is to simply have all planes continuously broadcast their GPS location whenever they go below a certain altitude or descend too quickly. Have them broadcast using a satellite phone system that covers the ENTIRE world - including the oceans, of course. Yes this would require some new satellites - but it is a global problem that the UN could easily solve with money.
What is the reason existing Iridium satellites, or geostationary communication satellites can't be used to provide a near continuous transmission of at least basic data (position, speed, etc.) at a modest update rate? I'd guess even if few kbs rate would be plenty.
Just because you can rendezvous/retrieve one (or even a few) small asteroids, you still want to know the overall population statistics. i.e. how many of what size in what orbits etc.
it does say that they were reluctant to reveal any trade secrets about their device all along.
No, that's what they claimed was the reason they didn't publish anything. Normally companies let scientists publish results in refereed publications, and file patents to protect the money-making potential.
The lack of publications for a supposedly new technique was an enormous red flag.
When was this? This isn't new. As Ronald Reagan said: "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Actually, the words are mainly terrifying when the person from the government is Ronald Reagan...
They drive themselves, but I think you still have to open the door yourself.
Lazy bastard.
Actually, for disabled people you would want the doors to open for people. Japanese taxis already have mechanical-operated doors as standard. (Yes, I understand this was supposed to be a joke.)
You mean the convenience of walking 200 meters in the cold rain through a parking lot to get to your car, while the SDC-Uber customers are picked up at the curb, under an awning?
You can do that already with a human-driven Uber. Where's the benefit from a self-driving version?
OSF has now suspended the entire repository, not just deleted the user datafile. Not sure why this is the case. So for now, the paper PDF will be available here: OKCupid_public_dataset_paper Edited to add: The repository is closed due to a DMCA request sent by OKCupid which is currently being investigated.
A good use of the DMCA in this case IMO. (Though surprised it worked overseas.)
As "devil's advocate": This is probably what we want! If wages are just increased with no change in output and little redistribution of wealth, then you just end up with inflation and no increase in real wages.
Once food making machines become a mature technology, they'll be much *better* than human employees. A machine doesn't have enough imagination to get tired, distracted or forget things. If it's programmed to cook something for 178 seconds, that's exactly how long it gets cooked for, every single time.
Which is not what you want, since each item cooked will be slightly different (slightly different moisture content, temperature, size, etc.)
> Sergio Marchionne, an Italian-Canadian executive who is currently the CEO
I don't see any relevance at all to mentioning Marchionne's nationalities. Particularly when there's no mention of nationality for the second person mentioned:
> Jim McBride, technical leader in Ford's autonomous vehicles team
I don't think most people drive for lyft/uber as a long term option, and there's little career development. So, if it works for you now, why not continue doing it until there's something better for you.
And it seems highly doubtful there will be mass replacement of drivers in complicated/messy city driving for quite a number of years.
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I think perhaps some suggestion that this can happen also comes from the much higher traffic death rate (corrected for miles driven) for the US than the UK. In the UK most people drive manual/stick shift vehicles, whereas in the US most drive automatics. It seems to me (having lived/driven in both places), that driving a stick shift forces you to continually pay rather more attention to your driving environment.
Although of course there are a huge host of other things that affect traffic death rates. It's interesting to see that the Japanese death rate is high, even if the absolute number of people killed is relatively low.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But it is electrically powered rather than by chemical reactions.
So I think it's still a pretty good description.
As far as we know, a brain stores ALL information in synapses. So you are using synapses to remember what your third grade teacher looked like, your mother's voice, and what freshly baked cookies smell like. None of that is useful when you are, say, trying to ride a bicycle, and none of those other synapses are being used. But a computer only needs to load the synaptic data needed for a particular task, and leave the rest on a HDD.
Actually, I tend to think that the availability of all the other "irrelevant" information is needed to allow a system/someone to make truly intelligent decisions in a flexible way.
And also;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On 1 January 1983, upon the coming into force of the British Nationality Act 1981, every citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies became either a British citizen, British Dependent Territories citizen or British Overseas citizen.
Use of the term British subject was discontinued for all persons who fell into these categories, or who had a national citizenship of any other Commonwealth country. /quote.
https://www.gov.uk/types-of-br...
There are 6 different types of British nationality. These are:
British citizenship
British overseas territories citizen
British overseas citizen
British subject
British national (overseas)
British protected person
https://www.gov.uk/types-of-br...
Until 1949, nearly everyone with a close connection to the United Kingdom was called a ‘British subject’.
All citizens of Commonwealth countries were British subjects until January 1983.
Since 1983, very few people have qualified as British subjects.
Who is a British subject
You became a British subject on 1 January 1983 if, until then, you were either:
a British subject without citizenship, which means you were a British subject on 31 December 1948 who didn’t become a citizen of the UK and Colonies, a Commonwealth country, Pakistan or the Republic of Ireland
a person who had been a citizen of the Republic of Ireland on 31 December 1948 and had made a claim to remain a British subject
You also became a British subject on 1 January 1983 if you were a woman who registered as a British subject on the basis of your marriage to a man in one of these categories.
There's no such thing as a British citizen. The correct term is SUBJECT.
Nonsense.
I'm a British citizen, not a subject.
If you don't believe me, take a look at my passport and see what it says there.
don't need to know.
But British citizens do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I could go back a bit further https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
1637.
The only thing that has been added in true dot com fashion "on the Intertubes". The question remains if we are real or not and what is real.
But the idea of computer simulations does go beyond Descartes by giving one the probabilistic argument that it's more likely that we live in a simulation than the "real" world.
The idea that we are living inside a simulation is far from original from Musk.
Perhaps the most prominent contemporary proponent of this idea is the philosopher Nick Bostrom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's also peripherally related to the idea of a Boltzmann brain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just because they were forced to retract something doesn't mean there is no story.
But I would like to see the original message that was supposed to be taped to doors to see the exact wording.
Iridium and all other civilian satellite systems (to my knowledge - and clearly I don't know jack about the military and/or espionage satellites) do not cover all the oceans Most don't cover Antartica either.
Do you have a reference for that? Since Iridium satellites are in polar orbits they cross the entire Earth, and the wikipedia page at least claims global coverage including the poles.
And a page at the Iridium site claims:
Iridium is the only satellite communications provider capable of offering critical air-to-ground flight safety voice and data service to commercial aircraft around the globe.
https://www.iridium.com/soluti...
A far simpler solution is to simply have all planes continuously broadcast their GPS location whenever they go below a certain altitude or descend too quickly. Have them broadcast using a satellite phone system that covers the ENTIRE world - including the oceans, of course. Yes this would require some new satellites - but it is a global problem that the UN could easily solve with money.
What is the reason existing Iridium satellites, or geostationary communication satellites can't be used to provide a near continuous transmission of at least basic data (position, speed, etc.) at a modest update rate? I'd guess even if few kbs rate would be plenty.
Just because you can rendezvous/retrieve one (or even a few) small asteroids, you still want to know the overall population statistics. i.e. how many of what size in what orbits etc.
Wouldn't that be some beautiful irony, if the NASA research was wrong because of a bug in software Myhrvold's company had a hand in developing?
Except 99% of physicists and astronomers use MacOS and/or some flavor of Linux....
it does say that they were reluctant to reveal any trade secrets about their device all along.
No, that's what they claimed was the reason they didn't publish anything.
Normally companies let scientists publish results in refereed publications, and file patents to protect the money-making potential.
The lack of publications for a supposedly new technique was an enormous red flag.
Moore's law relates to the number of components in an integrated circuit.
I really doubt these things put more transistors onto a piece of silicon.
When was this? This isn't new. As Ronald Reagan said: "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Actually, the words are mainly terrifying when the person from the government is Ronald Reagan...
this new technology opens doors for me.
They drive themselves, but I think you still have to open the door yourself.
Lazy bastard.
Actually, for disabled people you would want the doors to open for people. Japanese taxis already have mechanical-operated doors as standard.
(Yes, I understand this was supposed to be a joke.)
You mean the convenience of walking 200 meters in the cold rain through a parking lot to get to your car, while the SDC-Uber customers are picked up at the curb, under an awning?
You can do that already with a human-driven Uber.
Where's the benefit from a self-driving version?
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/
OSF has now suspended the entire repository, not just deleted the user datafile. Not sure why this is the case. So for now, the paper PDF will be available here: OKCupid_public_dataset_paper Edited to add: The repository is closed due to a DMCA request sent by OKCupid which is currently being investigated.
A good use of the DMCA in this case IMO. (Though surprised it worked overseas.)
As "devil's advocate":
This is probably what we want!
If wages are just increased with no change in output and little redistribution of wealth, then you just end up with inflation and no increase in real wages.
Once food making machines become a mature technology, they'll be much *better* than human employees. A machine doesn't have enough imagination to get tired, distracted or forget things. If it's programmed to cook something for 178 seconds, that's exactly how long it gets cooked for, every single time.
Which is not what you want, since each item cooked will be slightly different (slightly different moisture content, temperature, size, etc.)
SanDisk, for example, revealed a 200GB microSD card back in March,
which implies this year, except it was 2015
https://www.sandisk.com/about/...
> Sergio Marchionne, an Italian-Canadian executive who is currently the CEO
I don't see any relevance at all to mentioning Marchionne's nationalities.
Particularly when there's no mention of nationality for the second person mentioned:
> Jim McBride, technical leader in Ford's autonomous vehicles team
Seriously, they should leave NOW.
Ummm... why?
I don't think most people drive for lyft/uber as a long term option, and there's little career development.
So, if it works for you now, why not continue doing it until there's something better for you.
And it seems highly doubtful there will be mass replacement of drivers in complicated/messy city driving for quite a number of years.