You investigate and the guilty act guilty and run in a panic to cover everything up. More conspiracies form if they didn't already exist. The new mess of new crimes all has to be unraveled in the process. A minor rule violation or lesser crime involved in the primary investigation ends up as a huge distraction in the pursuit of the thing being investigated. GUILTY people do this and also innocent people who freak out over side issues that might come into view (could be as simple as attempting to hide an affair being disclosed which is completely unrelated to the investigation...)
It is not wrong to end up finding nothing went wrong or minor crimes instead of the primary purpose for the investigation but when everybody runs around in a panic and crimes are committed to PREVENT the investigation it is guilty and illegal as hell. Nobody knows if all that illegal activity is to obstruction of justice or simply unrelated or minor cover ups of tangential secrets. It's not like a warrant limiting a search, what they find can be referred for prosecution... it's an extremely powerful tool to dig at the truth. A jay walking stooge wanting to avoid a ticket could trade it for some useful information... It's how they take down organized crime, etc.
I only had critical thinking exposure in my education in the USA a few times. Some minor bits here and there may qualify but I can't recall any of them. Only twice, and 1 of the two was me actually taking a whole 4 credit philosophy course named "critical thinking." So I know how BS all the stuff is... We SAY critical thinking but we never do any of it.
We have weaponized and commercialized psychology being deployed on multiple fronts which heavily use modern technology to rob us of our ability to THINK. So you may have the training but if you let your emotions and impulsiveness take over, you've essentially put your brain to sleep. What NEEDS to be part of a REAL education in critical thinking is emotion and impulse control skill training... otherwise it's just an academic exercise.
1) Call tracing and source profiling -- perfect for a simple algorithm or AI to do, just as we do for email servers, black lists etc. Obviously, no black list but a bad source impacts confidence levels.
2) Spam-like filtering. Threat levels or confidence ranking on the credibility of the call. This can be pure statistics for the crime and the area involved, but time of day, time of year, observer type/location, incident type/location are things best done by machines. Going further one could analyze stress in the voice using AI and possibly even do a voice print (not recognition, this is easier.) Think about abusive households, reliable snitches, as well as pranksters. You might not know who the prankster is, but you'll spot them calling from multiple locations... again, this is all a confidence level ranking system.
3) Police get a SIMPLE EASY FAST % number on the credibility of the situation. They still make the judgement call but there is a world of difference between a 99% and 2% risk of an active shooter at the location.
Furthermore, multiple witnesses calling at the same location with different accounts are easier to quickly prioritize conflicting information.
4) VoIP needed to be better standardized and regulated. For example, I lost my long time number due to a 3rd party service agreement change when the law is actually that I own my phone number and they can't take it away. Still happened.
The NRA is owned by industry, the issue group front is just to make them more powerful lobbyist. The drug industry would love to hijack the AARP like the NRA has been.
They want you for the influence you can give them and nothing more.
Math skills are necessary to life. Education is NOT only about employment!
A functioning democracy REQUIRES a basic education for the people to be able to rule themselves and do some critical thinking. The REAL reason you need free public education is because it is a fundamental requirement for a healthy democracy. You may not have a functional democracy anymore, but you can not keep one without it.
Critical thinking, ethics, and civics are infinitely more important to bring back for the sake of democracy, society and possibly even humanity itself. We did not get to where we are today by evolution - there is nothing separating us from primitive societies 10,000 years ago except the momentum of society progressing forward.
If you want some basic CS conceptual coverage, integrate some of that into a better MATH education. People who are good at math have an easier time picking up CS (especially the real classic CS which IS math! CS started out from the math dept in most places.)
That is a nice estimate. A liberal estimate would broadly include underemployed putting the number over half the world.
We blame people for their poor situation as if it is their own fault and just as people are quick to cite somebody who deserves it, they fail to realize that it is more complex and their own position of blaming the poor is more flawed. (It's psychology, being argumentative can be a form of low-thought rationalization which is why a smart argument can be made while being blind to the hypocrisy.)
Technology has already eliminated MOST meaningful employment long ago. We have created many shallow jobs and a consumer culture (with addictions) to drive it. This has already reached it's limits in that we do not have the resources to sustain 7 billion people at 1st world living standards with our economic system. So we arrogantly make the arguments from our sheltered 1st world viewpoint that everybody just needs to do what we do and have done and they'd be ok too... blind to the fact much of our well being comes indirectly from the plight of those people and the luck of us being supported obvious to the fact we are not picking ourselves up by our own bootstraps.
MENTAL ILLNESS is completely mishandled and misunderstood by Americans it would be embarrassing if more people were educated.
Movies, Video Games, Speeches, and BOOKS can get crazy people to do crazy things. Crazy children usually grow up into crazy adults... we don't really care about children in this country, it's just lip service. If people actually cared they'd do something more than just get ribbon stickers and bracelets... like actually THINK and not just emote the same old rehash.
We should put psychologists into schools and make every kid get some work done... studies show middle school is the best age; a massive amount of problems begin at that age. You could skip 6-7th grades completely and it would easily be made up by the speed gains with well adjusted motivated teens.
Autistic and Epileptic people are trained to avoid conditions that trigger them, they are not stigmatized or in denial. A nutty person should be able to avoid certain things; or their parents... but realistically, it's a matter of having services and education so they KNOW to get help after being exposed to anything that triggers them. If they can't learn to cope then they NEED to be institutionalized for their everybody's good
Pedophiles are a great example of the idiotic American system where it's a punishment instead of marking those people dangerously mentally ill and unsafe to be allowed to be free and unregulated. We've had state laws overturned because of the lack of jail term for pedophiles ("until they get better" was viewed as unconstitutional-- and for a crime it is, but this is not a crime & punishment paradigm; hence the problems fitting square pegs into round holes.)
Putin made an undisclosed amount for him and his friends by selling off government assets -- he was many many times more wealthy than Trump before he even became president and it was all by stealing from the public.
Government corruption costs a % of everything but it has public input that at least has to get lip service. Private corruption is called profit and it's at least 20% to even bother with stuff on that scale. Public input also gets some lip service and often the difference in lack of change is the same; monopoly services however are pretty much always worse than public monopolies.
GM is huge! They are linked to a million jobs; yes most would be temporarily impacts but it would have had a big impact on the economy... At the time we had a depression already wreaking global havoc which didn't recover until around the last few years.
Tesla couldn't expand and borrow enough to buy up all that GM junk, they are running on massive debts NOW and they are TINY compared to GM! JUST THINK ABOUT IT.
FOREIGN car companies that were all getting help from their governments because they are big parts of their economy. They prop up major industries - everybody does it (who can.) Those foreign car companies would buy up the best parts of GM for their use. GM also owns a lot in other countries and supposedly having them based in the USA is an advantage (it used to be but now lobbyists decoupling corporations from their nations.) Not all of it because they'd not want to over extend during a depression; so you'd have probably most of GM just sitting and rusting.
GM makes stupid decisions but they are not much different than Americans... possibly smarter.
This government couldn't do the right thing for a decade and it is even worse today.
They will practically write the new Federal Law to benefit them and prevent any locality from finding sensible regulations. Probably they'll try to slip in a ban for community internet (government or co-op.)
I don't think we could construct a national highway system in today's politics. Just imagine how that would play out today...
Don't complain if a browser is not compliant with HTML5;-)
HTML5 IS A LIVING STANDARD. There never will be HTML 6, the spec is constantly changing; it is alive. This was decided because of the history of compliance and the organic nature of new features being added between new standards which took a long time to formalize or ended up in many small sub-standards.
Some HTML5 standards begin as browser projects for new features which end up being accepted into the standard. The originating browser generally has a leap ahead on new feature additions; plus it helps Chrome that Google has some people working deep within the spec... Mozilla has been busy revamping their browser and coping with bad management which has put them behind (or working on new feature tangents.)
As far as Test scores... depends upon who is writing the tests. A solid set of tests on a feature would be better since Microsoft has a history of testing positive for a feature they do not properly implement. I would not be surprised if Edge tests highly on a widespread popular test set because they would tend to work towards that, given their prior history.
HTML5 draft was getting books and browser claims for support that were poor... and misleading. At draft, features were dropped and changed - I was there. Making it a living standard embraces how things actually operate in the real world.
It's a good sign that the man isn't into Twitter so he can forget his password.
There were other people going around doing their jobs; it's not his job-- that is why somebody doing their job INFORMED HIM of the problem because nobody can be all places at once.
Two parts to the job)
1) Explain what is going on (being in charge = informed or investigating) with some authority behind what you know (supposed to.)
2) Plan how to resolve the problem and prevent future repeats. This step is often skipped because people want #1 immediately and competent administrators are "wasting time" doing way more of part #2 than part #1.
If you judge leadership on quickness to please YOU with #1 you bias the system to promote people more talented at #1 than #2. Bullshit artists on into social media benefit greatly from you complainers - YOU people are part of the problem of poor government.
I would assume other staff doing their job would inform others BESIDES just me about the problem. The Governor is supposed to govern which does not mean covering breaking news-- there is was a whole profession for doing that... (have we forgotten what reporters are???)
A competent Governor should be the last person you hear from at the end of the event... and later on when they implement their plan to fix it.
Nailed it exactly. Government Investment Loans are supposed to create industries where no investor is crazy enough or rich enough to take the risk -- on something with potentially HUGE benefits. NASA produced many industries and none of them alone would be worth the cost of NASA - it's size, risk and broad benefits were outside even the richest most crazy venture capitalist.
The USA politically couldn't invest in better manufacturing of OLD silicon solar tech (which was invented here...and NASA gets some credit for it's involvement.) The USA approach was to find something better. If you can't make good paying US jobs from it, then it may as well go to China. We'd not be so excited with all robot made silicon cells at Chinese prices-- at the same price but no significant local benefits; may as well let them do it. There is NO WAY Obama could have sold "lets make old solar dirt cheap by replacing human labor with robots." That would have produced the robot revolution sooner; which would have bigger impact than anything in history and been incredibly unpopular for generations.
IBM clobbered the best Jeopardy players in history. Remember? Language didn't stop it. The reality is that even NOT understanding english, a powerful AI today is able to find patterns without understanding to beat human real understanding when evaluated in a Jeopardy! exam.
What they really did is learn the history of Jeopardy! questions and evaluate patterns that the limited set of question writers for that show use to create questions and answers and the syntax game for flipping answer/question Jeopardy does. If Jeopardy! had a larger more diverse approach to it's questions and answers IBM might have lost... (or more likely DELAYED until they were sure to win since it was really a marketing gimmick.) Eventually, AI will beat our evaluation methods and prove that unconscious pattern matching is how many things can be solved -- and how little of what we pride ourselves on requires real intelligence.
Technically, the definition of "intelligence" used in AI classifies your household automatic thermostat as intelligent. It gets hard to specify intelligence exactly in a non-human oriented scientific way. If consciousness is involved, then you can remove probably all AI forever but then try to define consciousness...
Ignorant. There was serious debate about global warming being more important and realism about how it is not a big deal outside of patents. They invested in NEW tech in as much as allowed (by the GOP;) with some failures (less failure than most investment banks-- but all we heard about was Solyndra over and over from Fox. Never mentioning Tesla or other government investment successes.)
Solar boomed with Obama's help despite it being hampered.. Obama couldn't subsidize the US solar industry like China was doing. The GOP was against doing ANYTHING except helping their lobbyists for fossil fuels. (no big government etc. except for those who bribe them.) Nobody could compete without doing similar investments which is why almost the whole planet moved Silicon Cell manufacturing over to China... Yes, there are other nations who are also similar in that they have heavy government supports. Panel assembly is what happens outside China; many other panels still have Chinese cells in them (see Canadian solar.)
The resale market is just a middleman market which is already at risk in all sectors. Installers can go online and buy in bulk from China too. Dropping prices made inventory a nightmare and many US companies were dying from such things. The US had new tech companies trying to compete with old tech -- doomed... it takes a lot of time and luck to refine manufacturing for a new tech as quickly as old tech. Old silicon tech was what China bet on manufacturing as cheap as possible and they revised it down to where nothing comes close. The US was aiming for the next big thing as if we had time to burn before the plant burned... (and because our government is so dysfunctional we can't legislate any practicality or common sense.) Solyndra had great ideas but it could be decades or maybe impossible to get that tech to 0.50 per watt... which is a high price today... except in the USA, where now that is cheap.
PERFECT EVIL PLAN: claim to be saving US jobs while acting on the BRIBES from fossil fuel industry! Everybody saw this coming. What is odd is that it is not the maximum, didn't happen in December, and they phase it out rather quickly. This looks more like the typical industry shakedown -- they want lobbyist "donations" from this growing sector-- this is a warning shot for money.
American solar manufacturing is DEAD and has been-- the two US companies behind this are foreign owned. The time period given is not enough to start up and compete with Chinese solar (plus 1 of the two "US" companies is Chinese.)
China can be the "Saudi Arabia" of solar but anybody can startup their own PV industry if China becomes a problem. The ONLY lock-in are the patents. We need to focus on research patents or buy and kill off solar patents. Solar is NOT a geologically bound resource!!! It replaces them but is nothing like them.
If you really want to help US solar you'll get rid of the 30% overhead costs in the USA that Germany does not have for the same tech. In my area alone there is a ton of BS and 15% tax (aka "permit fees") for solar plus grid tie games and fees that do not exist in Germany. The system is geared AGAINST solar and all we have is a weak tax write off that only helps people who pay significant taxes and want to do the paperwork. (Goal: make it harder for the median income.)
Get into AI and you'll have a definition of intelligence early on which is extremely broad. Get in far enough to realize where things are today and you'll see that it really stands for Applied Intelligence where nothing even begins to come close to what people think of as AI in sci-fi.
Furthermore, what all such experiments demonstrate is the EVALUATION system and how well it can be gamed. An AI can figure out your exams or gameshows and learn to do better than the average human at them (and the average human isn't so bright to begin with.) The REAL thing being demonstrated is how much humans inflate how great our brainpower --- chess is such a mighty hard skill only a true brain can be good at it... nope. Not as complex a skill as we thought it was; so the machines beat us as easily as mechanical machines made the mighty weight lifters look weak centuries ago.
With the state of education and it's continuation downhill into more wrote learning and googling I won't be surprised when within 10 years an AI earns a diploma (from an all online school, since those have an almost zero risk of a decent evaluation.)
There is much to learn from others and this is something we could use over here in the USA. The biggest problem in the USA is we think we are #1 (we are not by almost every metric) and nobody can teach us anything; it's actually worse, we don't even bother to think about anybody else except who to bomb (and not even where to bomb, an embarrassing number of Americans couldn't find Iraq on a map; I think back during the war it was one third.)
We raise over confident students who are not very motivated (or lazy; you pick,) not creative, have short attention spans, and zero shame about ignorance. I often wonder if they even grasp what understanding/learning actually is. Recently, I observed a teen say "I'm smart, I know that" and then they googled it! I helped a teen in math a few years ago, it was unbelievable-- the textbook and the student were simply pathetic.
All these traits were a problem for my generation X but have only gotten worse with the subsequent generations. Education has been hammered with propaganda that it is a business and students are both (or either) the customer or the product. This change predates my time but is quite clear to older observers. Educators should teach but they must also be the gatekeepers and not be pressed either way on pass/fail decisions, including being subjective. I can evaluate somebody far more accurately with a short talk than any exam or homework. Think about it: An expert human brain vs a simple static paper that AT BEST is analogous to a simple computer program. Same issue becomes blatantly clear when evaluating doctors, trade skills, and martial arts. You don't want a dentist who wasn't an apprentice or get into a fight using your black belt in Kung Fu from a correspondence school! (oh, I forgot correspondence school is now called "online education" and is more acceptable. I hope they don't rename it again to "cloud learning," for the sake of humanity.)
The workers in the job/school metaphor are the STUDENTS not the educators and the product in the metaphor is educated people with a side of research (which is supposed to be free to benefit society.) Money is not the motivator and if it does anything, it harms the whole process. Free education and moderate pay without any strings attached has worked best -- and it is unthinkable to the MBA mentality that any institutions could operate in such socialist ways, for centuries.
Standardized entrance exams have always been idiotic and frankly I wonder why so many educated people mindlessly failed to question their use (outside of extreme situations where an additional filter is required.) High school transcripts and school reputations never disappeared, both existed before computers and rating services. Given that teens are still developing, it always has been short sighted to pigeonhole somebody from their less mature years. My experience has nearly always been that older more mature students are far more productive and while they may not perform much better on paper, their understanding of the material is far greater than traditional students because they are mature and serious while traditional students are playing the grade system like a rental video game.
With a similar enough network or access to the targeted network, simply create a network that learns to fool the other one. Loosely like two computers playing chess but more like a spam generator to defeat filters.
Adversarial network learning... just not an official use of it... The solution is to add this kind of learning to the network... except it won't be fool proof until the network is quite good; since the adversary could have as many variations of attack as the classifier has in recognition.
If you created the adversarial network used to train it, you could leave INTENTIONAL holes for future exploitation. Even going so far as to purposely train in holes if you had that kind of access. It's not like anybody is going to spot your code in the AI -- only the training setup... which could be long gone after years of training... In the future, I would expect to have VALUE in AI training whereby the cost of "reboot" would be quite significant... finding bad training data over millions of samples and years of experience could be difficult and who's to say all that would be retained? You take the resulting network from last week and retrain from that point-- you'd not go back years ago and restart. I'm talking way out... because AI is so simple now you can just archive all input data... maybe by that point we can still archive it all and learning hardware will be faster... anyhow, it makes for interesting Sci-Fi possibilities even if it may never become an issue (even if it doesn't, there would still be a cost involved in retraining from scratch.)
I observed just about ever middle school kid knew or had just learned how to blame others for their transgressions.... Remember back when every kid knew when they farted to blame somebody else 1st... and most realized the 1st to blame likely were guilty.
Seems that the greater lesson is rarely learned by a great many people; however, if Trump farted and blamed Obama sitting next to him, somehow I think most people would get it and yet still not translate it to anything else.
The only practicality is if you can't force stubborn Americans to use metric. Metric is far more practical! Real-world amounts can work better with metric as well:
1 centimeter is about a fingernail. Measure your finger and round to integer millimeters, then you can memorize that and do multiples... or round to centimeters then do multiples of that. Inches you end up in fractions. Who measures by finger joints anyway? 1 inch is useless.
Decimeter = 10 centimeters or about a palm width or fist or foot width... (about 4 inches.) Decimeter is completely forgotten in the USA. Not that people use them much in english as far as I know, people just use decimals of a meter, big ints of millimeters or centimeters.
Feet differ greatly. 1ft long foot? 150 years ago that would be a freakish clown foot; not average. measure your foot with shoe and do multiples. pick your units... mm, metric, depending on your math ability and desired precision. remember decimeters too.
Practical? convert fractional units with differing unit scales... 12 inches in a foot. Inches are fractions of powers of 2. Meters are 3 feet... Miles are a mess plus they have two kinds of mile! Metric is extremely practical to shift... Sure it would be ideal not to use base 10, better to use base 60 for math but it's practical to use base fingers.
I am not a fan of bitcoin even though I have some. I am not a fan of any monetary systems either. I make the arguments because I don't see others making them.
Blockchain doesn't work for a shared commerce system and I never thought it would from the start; I have a CS degree. Why others with CS degrees jumped on it so quickly puzzles me.
In our present economic systems, I think government controlled inflation in necessary but I object strongly with banks taking over as they have. Economics is too powerful a weapon to allow to be controlled by private parties; unless you dislike democracy...
Fiat currencies are collective agreements; they change as the vast majority of the populace changes (which means very rarely.) Blockchain works by collective agreement upon the chain to be used-- the method is set in mathematical stone. Getting rid of bankster middle men is the appeal of such systems.
I thought somebody would take bitcoin as a great application of chained encryption and invent a workable variation but I've yet to read about a real solution. I don't think there is one which handles everybody's commerce... not with blockchain. I'm not convinced it needs to handle the whole planet at once... although the strength of a decentralized system is how many people support it... (trusted proxies seem necessary... or proxies we give authority not completely trust... which is what government and banks do already.)
ownership is an interesting application. transaction levels are lower but government enforces and decides ownership how government records it does not really matter a great deal. it is far more important they use digital signing to verify their fancy paper documents and make copies. a constantly changing private key to prevent a hack or corrupt official from altering or creating conflicting documents... sounds like a better place to explore.
You are not trading actual gold at those transaction rates. You are trading virtual gold, or promises of gold... a note... or marker... a debt of gold. Actual real gold transactions involve serious fees to make sure somebody isn't gold plating lead or something like that. It is not simple or easy or cheap process, just look into actual real gold investing. a gold coin can be faked, a bar even easier. You are better off with a proxy like a number in a computer... and the more heavy the trading more obvious the tedium of exchange becomes as we physically swap and test each other's gold bars.
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You investigate and the guilty act guilty and run in a panic to cover everything up. More conspiracies form if they didn't already exist. The new mess of new crimes all has to be unraveled in the process. A minor rule violation or lesser crime involved in the primary investigation ends up as a huge distraction in the pursuit of the thing being investigated. GUILTY people do this and also innocent people who freak out over side issues that might come into view (could be as simple as attempting to hide an affair being disclosed which is completely unrelated to the investigation...)
It is not wrong to end up finding nothing went wrong or minor crimes instead of the primary purpose for the investigation but when everybody runs around in a panic and crimes are committed to PREVENT the investigation it is guilty and illegal as hell. Nobody knows if all that illegal activity is to obstruction of justice or simply unrelated or minor cover ups of tangential secrets. It's not like a warrant limiting a search, what they find can be referred for prosecution... it's an extremely powerful tool to dig at the truth. A jay walking stooge wanting to avoid a ticket could trade it for some useful information... It's how they take down organized crime, etc.
I only had critical thinking exposure in my education in the USA a few times. Some minor bits here and there may qualify but I can't recall any of them. Only twice, and 1 of the two was me actually taking a whole 4 credit philosophy course named "critical thinking." So I know how BS all the stuff is... We SAY critical thinking but we never do any of it.
We have weaponized and commercialized psychology being deployed on multiple fronts which heavily use modern technology to rob us of our ability to THINK. So you may have the training but if you let your emotions and impulsiveness take over, you've essentially put your brain to sleep. What NEEDS to be part of a REAL education in critical thinking is emotion and impulse control skill training... otherwise it's just an academic exercise.
1) Call tracing and source profiling -- perfect for a simple algorithm or AI to do, just as we do for email servers, black lists etc. Obviously, no black list but a bad source impacts confidence levels.
2) Spam-like filtering. Threat levels or confidence ranking on the credibility of the call. This can be pure statistics for the crime and the area involved, but time of day, time of year, observer type/location, incident type/location are things best done by machines. Going further one could analyze stress in the voice using AI and possibly even do a voice print (not recognition, this is easier.) Think about abusive households, reliable snitches, as well as pranksters. You might not know who the prankster is, but you'll spot them calling from multiple locations... again, this is all a confidence level ranking system.
3) Police get a SIMPLE EASY FAST % number on the credibility of the situation. They still make the judgement call but there is a world of difference between a 99% and 2% risk of an active shooter at the location.
Furthermore, multiple witnesses calling at the same location with different accounts are easier to quickly prioritize conflicting information.
4) VoIP needed to be better standardized and regulated. For example, I lost my long time number due to a 3rd party service agreement change when the law is actually that I own my phone number and they can't take it away. Still happened.
The NRA is owned by industry, the issue group front is just to make them more powerful lobbyist. The drug industry would love to hijack the AARP like the NRA has been.
They want you for the influence you can give them and nothing more.
Math skills are necessary to life. Education is NOT only about employment!
A functioning democracy REQUIRES a basic education for the people to be able to rule themselves and do some critical thinking. The REAL reason you need free public education is because it is a fundamental requirement for a healthy democracy. You may not have a functional democracy anymore, but you can not keep one without it.
Critical thinking, ethics, and civics are infinitely more important to bring back for the sake of democracy, society and possibly even humanity itself. We did not get to where we are today by evolution - there is nothing separating us from primitive societies 10,000 years ago except the momentum of society progressing forward.
If you want some basic CS conceptual coverage, integrate some of that into a better MATH education. People who are good at math have an easier time picking up CS (especially the real classic CS which IS math! CS started out from the math dept in most places.)
That is a nice estimate. A liberal estimate would broadly include underemployed putting the number over half the world.
We blame people for their poor situation as if it is their own fault and just as people are quick to cite somebody who deserves it, they fail to realize that it is more complex and their own position of blaming the poor is more flawed. (It's psychology, being argumentative can be a form of low-thought rationalization which is why a smart argument can be made while being blind to the hypocrisy.)
Technology has already eliminated MOST meaningful employment long ago. We have created many shallow jobs and a consumer culture (with addictions) to drive it. This has already reached it's limits in that we do not have the resources to sustain 7 billion people at 1st world living standards with our economic system. So we arrogantly make the arguments from our sheltered 1st world viewpoint that everybody just needs to do what we do and have done and they'd be ok too... blind to the fact much of our well being comes indirectly from the plight of those people and the luck of us being supported obvious to the fact we are not picking ourselves up by our own bootstraps.
THINK about it.
MENTAL ILLNESS is completely mishandled and misunderstood by Americans it would be embarrassing if more people were educated.
Movies, Video Games, Speeches, and BOOKS can get crazy people to do crazy things. Crazy children usually grow up into crazy adults... we don't really care about children in this country, it's just lip service. If people actually cared they'd do something more than just get ribbon stickers and bracelets... like actually THINK and not just emote the same old rehash.
We should put psychologists into schools and make every kid get some work done... studies show middle school is the best age; a massive amount of problems begin at that age. You could skip 6-7th grades completely and it would easily be made up by the speed gains with well adjusted motivated teens.
Autistic and Epileptic people are trained to avoid conditions that trigger them, they are not stigmatized or in denial. A nutty person should be able to avoid certain things; or their parents... but realistically, it's a matter of having services and education so they KNOW to get help after being exposed to anything that triggers them. If they can't learn to cope then they NEED to be institutionalized for their everybody's good
Pedophiles are a great example of the idiotic American system where it's a punishment instead of marking those people dangerously mentally ill and unsafe to be allowed to be free and unregulated. We've had state laws overturned because of the lack of jail term for pedophiles ("until they get better" was viewed as unconstitutional-- and for a crime it is, but this is not a crime & punishment paradigm; hence the problems fitting square pegs into round holes.)
It is not apples and oranges; keep thinking, don't stop before it gets uncomfortable.
Where did you learn to write such good english? I went to American schools but clearly Russian schools can do better
Putin made an undisclosed amount for him and his friends by selling off government assets -- he was many many times more wealthy than Trump before he even became president and it was all by stealing from the public.
Government corruption costs a % of everything but it has public input that at least has to get lip service. Private corruption is called profit and it's at least 20% to even bother with stuff on that scale. Public input also gets some lip service and often the difference in lack of change is the same; monopoly services however are pretty much always worse than public monopolies.
GM is huge! They are linked to a million jobs; yes most would be temporarily impacts but it would have had a big impact on the economy... At the time we had a depression already wreaking global havoc which didn't recover until around the last few years.
Tesla couldn't expand and borrow enough to buy up all that GM junk, they are running on massive debts NOW and they are TINY compared to GM! JUST THINK ABOUT IT.
FOREIGN car companies that were all getting help from their governments because they are big parts of their economy. They prop up major industries - everybody does it (who can.) Those foreign car companies would buy up the best parts of GM for their use. GM also owns a lot in other countries and supposedly having them based in the USA is an advantage (it used to be but now lobbyists decoupling corporations from their nations.) Not all of it because they'd not want to over extend during a depression; so you'd have probably most of GM just sitting and rusting.
GM makes stupid decisions but they are not much different than Americans... possibly smarter.
This government couldn't do the right thing for a decade and it is even worse today.
They will practically write the new Federal Law to benefit them and prevent any locality from finding sensible regulations. Probably they'll try to slip in a ban for community internet (government or co-op.)
I don't think we could construct a national highway system in today's politics. Just imagine how that would play out today...
Don't complain if a browser is not compliant with HTML5 ;-)
HTML5 IS A LIVING STANDARD. There never will be HTML 6, the spec is constantly changing; it is alive. This was decided because of the history of compliance and the organic nature of new features being added between new standards which took a long time to formalize or ended up in many small sub-standards.
Some HTML5 standards begin as browser projects for new features which end up being accepted into the standard. The originating browser generally has a leap ahead on new feature additions; plus it helps Chrome that Google has some people working deep within the spec... Mozilla has been busy revamping their browser and coping with bad management which has put them behind (or working on new feature tangents.)
As far as Test scores... depends upon who is writing the tests. A solid set of tests on a feature would be better since Microsoft has a history of testing positive for a feature they do not properly implement. I would not be surprised if Edge tests highly on a widespread popular test set because they would tend to work towards that, given their prior history.
HTML5 draft was getting books and browser claims for support that were poor... and misleading. At draft, features were dropped and changed - I was there. Making it a living standard embraces how things actually operate in the real world.
It's a good sign that the man isn't into Twitter so he can forget his password.
There were other people going around doing their jobs; it's not his job-- that is why somebody doing their job INFORMED HIM of the problem because nobody can be all places at once.
Two parts to the job)
1) Explain what is going on (being in charge = informed or investigating) with some authority behind what you know (supposed to.)
2) Plan how to resolve the problem and prevent future repeats. This step is often skipped because people want #1 immediately and competent administrators are "wasting time" doing way more of part #2 than part #1.
If you judge leadership on quickness to please YOU with #1 you bias the system to promote people more talented at #1 than #2. Bullshit artists on into social media benefit greatly from you complainers - YOU people are part of the problem of poor government.
I would assume other staff doing their job would inform others BESIDES just me about the problem. The Governor is supposed to govern which does not mean covering breaking news-- there is was a whole profession for doing that... (have we forgotten what reporters are???)
A competent Governor should be the last person you hear from at the end of the event... and later on when they implement their plan to fix it.
Nailed it exactly. Government Investment Loans are supposed to create industries where no investor is crazy enough or rich enough to take the risk -- on something with potentially HUGE benefits. NASA produced many industries and none of them alone would be worth the cost of NASA - it's size, risk and broad benefits were outside even the richest most crazy venture capitalist.
The USA politically couldn't invest in better manufacturing of OLD silicon solar tech (which was invented here...and NASA gets some credit for it's involvement.) The USA approach was to find something better. If you can't make good paying US jobs from it, then it may as well go to China. We'd not be so excited with all robot made silicon cells at Chinese prices-- at the same price but no significant local benefits; may as well let them do it. There is NO WAY Obama could have sold "lets make old solar dirt cheap by replacing human labor with robots." That would have produced the robot revolution sooner; which would have bigger impact than anything in history and been incredibly unpopular for generations.
IBM clobbered the best Jeopardy players in history. Remember? Language didn't stop it. The reality is that even NOT understanding english, a powerful AI today is able to find patterns without understanding to beat human real understanding when evaluated in a Jeopardy! exam.
What they really did is learn the history of Jeopardy! questions and evaluate patterns that the limited set of question writers for that show use to create questions and answers and the syntax game for flipping answer/question Jeopardy does. If Jeopardy! had a larger more diverse approach to it's questions and answers IBM might have lost... (or more likely DELAYED until they were sure to win since it was really a marketing gimmick.) Eventually, AI will beat our evaluation methods and prove that unconscious pattern matching is how many things can be solved -- and how little of what we pride ourselves on requires real intelligence.
Technically, the definition of "intelligence" used in AI classifies your household automatic thermostat as intelligent. It gets hard to specify intelligence exactly in a non-human oriented scientific way. If consciousness is involved, then you can remove probably all AI forever but then try to define consciousness...
Ignorant. There was serious debate about global warming being more important and realism about how it is not a big deal outside of patents. They invested in NEW tech in as much as allowed (by the GOP;) with some failures (less failure than most investment banks-- but all we heard about was Solyndra over and over from Fox. Never mentioning Tesla or other government investment successes.)
Solar boomed with Obama's help despite it being hampered.. Obama couldn't subsidize the US solar industry like China was doing. The GOP was against doing ANYTHING except helping their lobbyists for fossil fuels. (no big government etc. except for those who bribe them.) Nobody could compete without doing similar investments which is why almost the whole planet moved Silicon Cell manufacturing over to China... Yes, there are other nations who are also similar in that they have heavy government supports.
Panel assembly is what happens outside China; many other panels still have Chinese cells in them (see Canadian solar.)
The resale market is just a middleman market which is already at risk in all sectors. Installers can go online and buy in bulk from China too. Dropping prices made inventory a nightmare and many US companies were dying from such things. The US had new tech companies trying to compete with old tech -- doomed... it takes a lot of time and luck to refine manufacturing for a new tech as quickly as old tech. Old silicon tech was what China bet on manufacturing as cheap as possible and they revised it down to where nothing comes close. The US was aiming for the next big thing as if we had time to burn before the plant burned... (and because our government is so dysfunctional we can't legislate any practicality or common sense.) Solyndra had great ideas but it could be decades or maybe impossible to get that tech to 0.50 per watt... which is a high price today... except in the USA, where now that is cheap.
PERFECT EVIL PLAN: claim to be saving US jobs while acting on the BRIBES from fossil fuel industry! Everybody saw this coming. What is odd is that it is not the maximum, didn't happen in December, and they phase it out rather quickly. This looks more like the typical industry shakedown -- they want lobbyist "donations" from this growing sector-- this is a warning shot for money.
American solar manufacturing is DEAD and has been-- the two US companies behind this are foreign owned. The time period given is not enough to start up and compete with Chinese solar (plus 1 of the two "US" companies is Chinese.)
China can be the "Saudi Arabia" of solar but anybody can startup their own PV industry if China becomes a problem. The ONLY lock-in are the patents. We need to focus on research patents or buy and kill off solar patents. Solar is NOT a geologically bound resource!!! It replaces them but is nothing like them.
If you really want to help US solar you'll get rid of the 30% overhead costs in the USA that Germany does not have for the same tech. In my area alone there is a ton of BS and 15% tax (aka "permit fees") for solar plus grid tie games and fees that do not exist in Germany. The system is geared AGAINST solar and all we have is a weak tax write off that only helps people who pay significant taxes and want to do the paperwork. (Goal: make it harder for the median income.)
Get into AI and you'll have a definition of intelligence early on which is extremely broad. Get in far enough to realize where things are today and you'll see that it really stands for Applied Intelligence where nothing even begins to come close to what people think of as AI in sci-fi.
Furthermore, what all such experiments demonstrate is the EVALUATION system and how well it can be gamed. An AI can figure out your exams or gameshows and learn to do better than the average human at them (and the average human isn't so bright to begin with.) The REAL thing being demonstrated is how much humans inflate how great our brainpower --- chess is such a mighty hard skill only a true brain can be good at it... nope. Not as complex a skill as we thought it was; so the machines beat us as easily as mechanical machines made the mighty weight lifters look weak centuries ago.
With the state of education and it's continuation downhill into more wrote learning and googling I won't be surprised when within 10 years an AI earns a diploma (from an all online school, since those have an almost zero risk of a decent evaluation.)
There is much to learn from others and this is something we could use over here in the USA. The biggest problem in the USA is we think we are #1 (we are not by almost every metric) and nobody can teach us anything; it's actually worse, we don't even bother to think about anybody else except who to bomb (and not even where to bomb, an embarrassing number of Americans couldn't find Iraq on a map; I think back during the war it was one third.)
We raise over confident students who are not very motivated (or lazy; you pick,) not creative, have short attention spans, and zero shame about ignorance. I often wonder if they even grasp what understanding/learning actually is. Recently, I observed a teen say "I'm smart, I know that" and then they googled it! I helped a teen in math a few years ago, it was unbelievable-- the textbook and the student were simply pathetic.
All these traits were a problem for my generation X but have only gotten worse with the subsequent generations. Education has been hammered with propaganda that it is a business and students are both (or either) the customer or the product. This change predates my time but is quite clear to older observers. Educators should teach but they must also be the gatekeepers and not be pressed either way on pass/fail decisions, including being subjective. I can evaluate somebody far more accurately with a short talk than any exam or homework. Think about it: An expert human brain vs a simple static paper that AT BEST is analogous to a simple computer program. Same issue becomes blatantly clear when evaluating doctors, trade skills, and martial arts. You don't want a dentist who wasn't an apprentice or get into a fight using your black belt in Kung Fu from a correspondence school! (oh, I forgot correspondence school is now called "online education" and is more acceptable. I hope they don't rename it again to "cloud learning," for the sake of humanity.)
The workers in the job/school metaphor are the STUDENTS not the educators and the product in the metaphor is educated people with a side of research (which is supposed to be free to benefit society.) Money is not the motivator and if it does anything, it harms the whole process. Free education and moderate pay without any strings attached has worked best -- and it is unthinkable to the MBA mentality that any institutions could operate in such socialist ways, for centuries.
Standardized entrance exams have always been idiotic and frankly I wonder why so many educated people mindlessly failed to question their use (outside of extreme situations where an additional filter is required.) High school transcripts and school reputations never disappeared, both existed before computers and rating services. Given that teens are still developing, it always has been short sighted to pigeonhole somebody from their less mature years. My experience has nearly always been that older more mature students are far more productive and while they may not perform much better on paper, their understanding of the material is far greater than traditional students because they are mature and serious while traditional students are playing the grade system like a rental video game.
With a similar enough network or access to the targeted network, simply create a network that learns to fool the other one. Loosely like two computers playing chess but more like a spam generator to defeat filters.
Adversarial network learning... just not an official use of it... The solution is to add this kind of learning to the network... except it won't be fool proof until the network is quite good; since the adversary could have as many variations of attack as the classifier has in recognition.
If you created the adversarial network used to train it, you could leave INTENTIONAL holes for future exploitation. Even going so far as to purposely train in holes if you had that kind of access. It's not like anybody is going to spot your code in the AI -- only the training setup... which could be long gone after years of training... In the future, I would expect to have VALUE in AI training whereby the cost of "reboot" would be quite significant... finding bad training data over millions of samples and years of experience could be difficult and who's to say all that would be retained? You take the resulting network from last week and retrain from that point-- you'd not go back years ago and restart. I'm talking way out... because AI is so simple now you can just archive all input data... maybe by that point we can still archive it all and learning hardware will be faster... anyhow, it makes for interesting Sci-Fi possibilities even if it may never become an issue (even if it doesn't, there would still be a cost involved in retraining from scratch.)
I observed just about ever middle school kid knew or had just learned how to blame others for their transgressions.... Remember back when every kid knew when they farted to blame somebody else 1st... and most realized the 1st to blame likely were guilty.
Seems that the greater lesson is rarely learned by a great many people; however, if Trump farted and blamed Obama sitting next to him, somehow I think most people would get it and yet still not translate it to anything else.
The only practicality is if you can't force stubborn Americans to use metric. Metric is far more practical! Real-world amounts can work better with metric as well:
1 centimeter is about a fingernail. Measure your finger and round to integer millimeters, then you can memorize that and do multiples... or round to centimeters then do multiples of that. Inches you end up in fractions. Who measures by finger joints anyway? 1 inch is useless.
Decimeter = 10 centimeters or about a palm width or fist or foot width... (about 4 inches.) Decimeter is completely forgotten in the USA. Not that people use them much in english as far as I know, people just use decimals of a meter, big ints of millimeters or centimeters.
Feet differ greatly. 1ft long foot? 150 years ago that would be a freakish clown foot; not average. measure your foot with shoe and do multiples. pick your units... mm, metric, depending on your math ability and desired precision. remember decimeters too.
Practical? convert fractional units with differing unit scales... 12 inches in a foot. Inches are fractions of powers of 2. Meters are 3 feet... Miles are a mess plus they have two kinds of mile! Metric is extremely practical to shift... Sure it would be ideal not to use base 10, better to use base 60 for math but it's practical to use base fingers.
Thank you for letting me know I made my point.
I am not a fan of bitcoin even though I have some. I am not a fan of any monetary systems either. I make the arguments because I don't see others making them.
Blockchain doesn't work for a shared commerce system and I never thought it would from the start; I have a CS degree. Why others with CS degrees jumped on it so quickly puzzles me.
In our present economic systems, I think government controlled inflation in necessary but I object strongly with banks taking over as they have. Economics is too powerful a weapon to allow to be controlled by private parties; unless you dislike democracy...
Fiat currencies are collective agreements; they change as the vast majority of the populace changes (which means very rarely.) Blockchain works by collective agreement upon the chain to be used-- the method is set in mathematical stone. Getting rid of bankster middle men is the appeal of such systems.
I thought somebody would take bitcoin as a great application of chained encryption and invent a workable variation but I've yet to read about a real solution. I don't think there is one which handles everybody's commerce... not with blockchain. I'm not convinced it needs to handle the whole planet at once... although the strength of a decentralized system is how many people support it... (trusted proxies seem necessary... or proxies we give authority not completely trust... which is what government and banks do already.)
ownership is an interesting application. transaction levels are lower but government enforces and decides ownership how government records it does not really matter a great deal. it is far more important they use digital signing to verify their fancy paper documents and make copies. a constantly changing private key to prevent a hack or corrupt official from altering or creating conflicting documents... sounds like a better place to explore.
You are not trading actual gold at those transaction rates. You are trading virtual gold, or promises of gold... a note... or marker... a debt of gold. Actual real gold transactions involve serious fees to make sure somebody isn't gold plating lead or something like that. It is not simple or easy or cheap process, just look into actual real gold investing. a gold coin can be faked, a bar even easier. You are better off with a proxy like a number in a computer... and the more heavy the trading more obvious the tedium of exchange becomes as we physically swap and test each other's gold bars.