People LIKE the process of making children and most of us like raising children, but it is very expensive: 233k in 2015, excluding college education.
Follow the money. Governments don't provide proper incentives to compensate us for it.
You change the laws so that childcare, health care for kids, lunchs, and college are all free, all without any paperwork and we will have a baby boom the likes you never saw.
Population starts going down, that is the kind of thing we will do.
Right now, immigration from poor countries to developed countries tends to stop us from having those kinds of laws. Partly because of racism, partly because the immigration means the problem is not as severe.
Funny how you confuse a government with an economic system. This is an action that Dictators do, the government happens to be socialism. Similarly, they also happen to be a Spanish speaking culture, are you going to blame ALL Spanish speaking cultures for this action by a dictator?
Because I got news you for there are a LOT of evil Dictators that claim to be running pure capitalism.
That is not even including the want to be dictators.
Facebook is over 14 years old. They already have a series of photos showing people ageing more than 10 years.
They are evil, untrustworthy and despicable, but this current program is in NO way an additional threat. They do not need to use this data for age regression algorithms, they already have the necessary data.
Stop complaining about people feeding the baby Dragon - it is already fully grown and eating whole herds.
I feel a similar way about red states. The difference is people exaggerate about what California does (presenting proposed law for example), while downgrade stupid stuff the red states. Of course, the fact that most red states have lots of land no population (for some reason.. smirk), also explains why we don't talk about their laws.
Because you won't know what the tech lets you do until they make it.
Consider the possibility that the rollup phone will have velcro on the back and stick to the outside of your clothing. Suddenly women can have their phone even when the fashion police won't give them pockets.
Or a cell phone that literally sticks to your skin - put it on your hand/jaw, etc.
The innovation is not the roll up, that the technology. The innovation comes after they create the roll up technology and innovate new products.
NYC metro area is over 13,000 square miles (including suburbs). And most people live in huge skyscrapers that increase livable square footage. They have a total population over 24 million people. GDP p[er capita is over 84,000.
Seattle covers 142 sq miles. Most people live in buildings without elevators. The metro area covers 8,186 square miles, with most . Their total population is around 3.7 million.
Yes, Amazon is a big deal, single-handedly raising the wealth in a city that AFTER the job increase is only 1/7 the population. The upper class in Seattle is dominated by Amazon.
We will barely see them in NYC. The idea that Amazon's 25,000 jobs will be more than a drop in the bucket for the Big Apple is a freaking joke.
It's like the captain of a 100 ft dinner cruise warning the captain of a cruise ship that those news passengers sure do eat a lot of food, and they better stock up on the steak.
I mean we JUST got a story about AT&T faking 5G, then Qualcomm announces how there will be all this 5G. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what is going on.
That is bullshit. The copycats do not say they are copycats, they pretend to be original inventions. Normal people do not know which is the 'original microwave popcorn popper", When they look for such a device they find:
The Original HOTPOP Microwave Popcorn Popper, Silicone Popcorn Maker, Collapsible Bowl BPA Free & Dishwasher Safe (Red) by HOTPOP
The Original Delizioso Microwave Popcorn Popper, 4 Popcorn Cups and Popcorn Recipes E-BOOK Included, Collapsible Bowl, FDA Approved, No BPA (Red) by Delizioso
The Original Salbree Microwave Popcorn Popper with Lid, Silicone Popcorn Maker, Collapsible Bowl BPA Free - 14 Colors Available (Red)
They can only differentiate based on price, they don't know is the real original, and which is the copycat. They go for the cheapest, and buy a copycat,not knowing that for less than $1 more they get the higher quality, actual invention from the guy that thought it up.
Wrong. The problem is not poor quality or fads, it is copycats.
Amazon's working principles make it VERY easy to find a good selling, patent protected product and copy them, selling via multiple amazon accounts. As the patent holders slowly shut down each of your copy cat accounts, they lose all their profit and eventually give up, as it costs them more to shut your accounts down then they gain in profit.
Amazon itself encourages this because they demand low prices, so you can't be the high quality product. Often, Amazon itself will sell the copy cats as the original,because they consolidate products sold under the same product name in their warehouses. This puts poor quality crap under YOUR brand name, even if you the actual manufacturer has a high quality product, destroying your reputation.
Amazon's working principles of low price rather than high quality, along with a rather lackadasical attempt to protect patent rights is the cause of the problem, not actual low quality from innovative inventors.
And I can tell you that while the output is nice, the extra cost for film is not something most consumers would pay for.
I doubt that the extra cost for display technology that does not involve special glasses would be worth it for a digital version. No way would anyone want to wear glasses to see the picture properly.
That said, the basic idea is two pictures taken from a slightly different angle. That alone does have some advantages, including greater definition from a single picture, especially if you use algorithms to combine them.
I agree and I do not understand why people think this is 'funny'. I would have called it insightful.
Furthermore, I think we should include this in future training. It is clear that is what we should expect if a real war with a tech power were to occur.
Stan Lee did good work and made the world a better place.
He also stole a lot from other good writers. Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, to name the most well known. But that does not affect the good he did. The joy he brought to others.
Stan had a good life, except for his last years, which were painful and horrible. Not pleasant and he did not deserve it. He deserved better.
The world is just a bit less Marvellous than it was last week. God speed, or perhaps Superhero Speed.
Talk about sensitivity (how few false negatives) is important, but you also need high specificity - i.e. how few false positives.
In this case, their specificity was only 82% of the time, that is, a significant issue.
Human doctors were less likely in general to say you had the disease, with only a sensitivity of about 57% but their greater reluctance to say "You are mentally impaired) meant they had a 91% specificity.
Personally, I would not go to a doctor that told one in five healthy people they were sick.
Look at real numbers;
200 people. 1 in eight have the disease, which works out to 25 people. The computer would tell those 25 people they have the disease AND also mistakenly tell 150*(100-81=18%), or about 27 healthy people they have the disease when they do not have it. More people would be falsely told they are sick than are actually sick.
The machines are not really good enough to be used yet. For humans, they would catch about 14 of the 25 sick people, but would have told 17 healthy people told they were sick. Given that treatment is very limited, better to stick with the human doctor, rather than scaring 10 healthy people in order to help an extra 11 people prepare for something they can't do much about.
There will NEVER be a set rule of anything like "protect passengers over pedestrians. Or Vice Versa. Because that is not how computers work. And forget about age discrimination, that is just plane stupid. The computer will have a hard enough time deciding if an obstacle is a pedestrian, it won't have that kind of higher logic to estimate the age of the people.
It might not even be able to tell how many people are in the car let alone how many people are currently standing in the middle of the road.
The closest thing that might exist is a rule that states the car may hit smaller obstacles (possibly animals, possibly trash) in the road if swerving might hit something bigger (possibly deer, possibly people).
Instead there will be a complex set of rules such as "stay on roads" and things like that.
AI does not do value judgements. It will have a hard enough time figuring out the environment, it won't have the capacity for the silly ethical questions people keep asking.
Real questions for programming will involve which traffic rules are higher priority than others. For example, staying away from cliffs would probably be very high priority, while slowing down for yellow lights will be lower priority.
Here is what we want with VR/ Full sensory VR - most importantly touch. That is what we truly want to feel like we are in a reality, not watching a movie.
But all we get are head gear that makes us look stupid and gives us 5% more than an Imax movie does. Yeah, the 360 video is cool, but the sound is not any better and we don't get touch or even smell, let alone the minor senses (like heat).
The stuff we truly want for a good VD would require something more like a neural implant rather than a headphones + cell phone right next to your eyes.
First is Self Reporting. This study did NOT find that people that ate more organic food got less cancer. Instead it found that people that CLAIMED to eat more organic food got less cancer. That desire tends to be highly correlated with education, wealth, and health consciousness.
Second the availability of organic food is almost non-existent for the poor. You can't make that claim if you live in a food desert of a slum, next to a toxic waste dump because the grocery stores in those neighbourhoods do not carry organic food.
I am willing to bet that people that claimed to eat organic food also had much better living conditions in general. I would be surprised if they were not less likely to smoke, drink, live next to toxic waste dumps, live in slums, live next to smoke filled factories, etc. etc.
Studies of this type are good only to convince people to fund a REAL study where you take half the people and give them organic food and the other half regular food.
Think of it this way. A man is told by his doctor that his blood sugar is too high, and he is in danger of diabetes. So he changes what he eats and reducers his A1C blood sugar from 8 to 6. He feels great. He has lost weight, looks good and thinks "Wow, if this is so good, I should do it some more. He cuts his food again and reduces his A1C down to 4.7. He feels even better, being in the mindset of more is better, changes his diet again, bringing his A1C down do 3, whereupon he falls into a comma, from starving himself to death.
For a very very long time now, the Conservatives have had a death grip on taxes and wages. 60 years ago taxes may have been too high, and the minimum wage is similar. But they have lowered those values so much that they are no longer solving the problem, they are creating new ones.
And I mean real capitalism, not the fake stuff the nationalists talk about.
If you buy something, you have the right to modify it, repair it, and use it with other people's products. That is what OWNING it means. If you want to rent stuff instead of sell, that's fine, but you don't have the right to rent it while pretending you are selling it.
Actually pretty typical - IF you capitulate. Most people accused of a crime can settle it with a single conversation. The Prosecutor looks things over, makes an offer and if you take, you are done.
It only gets dragged on for years if you try to fight it in court.
Badly named, but that is not the problem. The problem is something called FakeGPSFree, which lets you set your GPS to whatever you want.
Or in other words, reclaim the privacy from people that try to steal it from you.
Spotify etc. do not have a right to your location or other information, have no business taking it, and they can't stop you from giving them false information.
The problem was the concept itself. It should not exist. You want a Family/Household plan? Let one person pay for everyone. That is how you do it right. Much better than requiring GPS information and then abusing it.
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You (or your parents) could fund a similar program for many of the world's poorest villages.
If you don't give away more money than someone does, you have no right to complain about them not spending more on charity.
The problem is not rich people not being charitable, it is the laws that allow them to get rich without paying their fair share of taxes.
People LIKE the process of making children and most of us like raising children, but it is very expensive: 233k in 2015, excluding college education.
Follow the money. Governments don't provide proper incentives to compensate us for it.
You change the laws so that childcare, health care for kids, lunchs, and college are all free, all without any paperwork and we will have a baby boom the likes you never saw.
Population starts going down, that is the kind of thing we will do.
Right now, immigration from poor countries to developed countries tends to stop us from having those kinds of laws. Partly because of racism, partly because the immigration means the problem is not as severe.
Funny how you confuse a government with an economic system. This is an action that Dictators do, the government happens to be socialism. Similarly, they also happen to be a Spanish speaking culture, are you going to blame ALL Spanish speaking cultures for this action by a dictator?
Because I got news you for there are a LOT of evil Dictators that claim to be running pure capitalism.
That is not even including the want to be dictators.
Facebook is over 14 years old. They already have a series of photos showing people ageing more than 10 years.
They are evil, untrustworthy and despicable, but this current program is in NO way an additional threat. They do not need to use this data for age regression algorithms, they already have the necessary data.
Stop complaining about people feeding the baby Dragon - it is already fully grown and eating whole herds.
To de-mystify:
Scientists are planting samples of giant Californian Redwood Trees, around the world in appropriate climates.
Global warming means California is no longer the best environment for them, so they are hand picking locations where it is the best environment.
I feel a similar way about red states. The difference is people exaggerate about what California does (presenting proposed law for example), while downgrade stupid stuff the red states. Of course, the fact that most red states have lots of land no population (for some reason .. smirk), also explains why we don't talk about their laws.
You don't know what you want until they make it.
Because you won't know what the tech lets you do until they make it.
Consider the possibility that the rollup phone will have velcro on the back and stick to the outside of your clothing. Suddenly women can have their phone even when the fashion police won't give them pockets.
Or a cell phone that literally sticks to your skin - put it on your hand/jaw, etc.
The innovation is not the roll up, that the technology. The innovation comes after they create the roll up technology and innovate new products.
Companies must get express permission, revocable at any time to sell any data obtained from a paying client.
You want to sell my data? You can't charge me a penny. Because that penny establishes a legal responsibility to protect my privacy.
NYC metro area is over 13,000 square miles (including suburbs). And most people live in huge skyscrapers that increase livable square footage. They have a total population over 24 million people. GDP p[er capita is over 84,000.
Seattle covers 142 sq miles. Most people live in buildings without elevators. The metro area covers 8,186 square miles, with most . Their total population is around 3.7 million.
Yes, Amazon is a big deal, single-handedly raising the wealth in a city that AFTER the job increase is only 1/7 the population. The upper class in Seattle is dominated by Amazon.
We will barely see them in NYC.
The idea that Amazon's 25,000 jobs will be more than a drop in the bucket for the Big Apple is a freaking joke.
It's like the captain of a 100 ft dinner cruise warning the captain of a cruise ship that those news passengers sure do eat a lot of food, and they better stock up on the steak.
I mean we JUST got a story about AT&T faking 5G, then Qualcomm announces how there will be all this 5G. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what is going on.
Is it made by Quovadis, in China, using inferior materials, rather than the US, as claimed?
That is bullshit. The copycats do not say they are copycats, they pretend to be original inventions. Normal people do not know which is the 'original microwave popcorn popper", When they look for such a device they find:
The Original HOTPOP Microwave Popcorn Popper, Silicone Popcorn Maker, Collapsible Bowl BPA Free & Dishwasher Safe (Red)
by HOTPOP
The Original Delizioso Microwave Popcorn Popper, 4 Popcorn Cups and Popcorn Recipes E-BOOK Included, Collapsible Bowl, FDA Approved, No BPA (Red)
by Delizioso
The Original Salbree Microwave Popcorn Popper with Lid, Silicone Popcorn Maker, Collapsible Bowl BPA Free - 14 Colors Available (Red)
They can only differentiate based on price, they don't know is the real original, and which is the copycat. They go for the cheapest, and buy a copycat,not knowing that for less than $1 more they get the higher quality, actual invention from the guy that thought it up.
Wrong. The problem is not poor quality or fads, it is copycats.
Amazon's working principles make it VERY easy to find a good selling, patent protected product and copy them, selling via multiple amazon accounts. As the patent holders slowly shut down each of your copy cat accounts, they lose all their profit and eventually give up, as it costs them more to shut your accounts down then they gain in profit.
Amazon itself encourages this because they demand low prices, so you can't be the high quality product. Often, Amazon itself will sell the copy cats as the original,because they consolidate products sold under the same product name in their warehouses. This puts poor quality crap under YOUR brand name, even if you the actual manufacturer has a high quality product, destroying your reputation.
Amazon's working principles of low price rather than high quality, along with a rather lackadasical attempt to protect patent rights is the cause of the problem, not actual low quality from innovative inventors.
And I can tell you that while the output is nice, the extra cost for film is not something most consumers would pay for.
I doubt that the extra cost for display technology that does not involve special glasses would be worth it for a digital version. No way would anyone want to wear glasses to see the picture properly.
That said, the basic idea is two pictures taken from a slightly different angle. That alone does have some advantages, including greater definition from a single picture, especially if you use algorithms to combine them.
I agree and I do not understand why people think this is 'funny'. I would have called it insightful.
Furthermore, I think we should include this in future training. It is clear that is what we should expect if a real war with a tech power were to occur.
Stan Lee did good work and made the world a better place.
He also stole a lot from other good writers. Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, to name the most well known. But that does not affect the good he did. The joy he brought to others.
Stan had a good life, except for his last years, which were painful and horrible. Not pleasant and he did not deserve it. He deserved better.
The world is just a bit less Marvellous than it was last week. God speed, or perhaps Superhero Speed.
Talk about sensitivity (how few false negatives) is important, but you also need high specificity - i.e. how few false positives.
In this case, their specificity was only 82% of the time, that is, a significant issue.
Human doctors were less likely in general to say you had the disease, with only a sensitivity of about 57% but their greater reluctance to say "You are mentally impaired) meant they had a 91% specificity.
Personally, I would not go to a doctor that told one in five healthy people they were sick.
Look at real numbers;
200 people. 1 in eight have the disease, which works out to 25 people. The computer would tell those 25 people they have the disease AND also mistakenly tell 150*(100-81=18%), or about 27 healthy people they have the disease when they do not have it. More people would be falsely told they are sick than are actually sick.
The machines are not really good enough to be used yet.
For humans, they would catch about 14 of the 25 sick people, but would have told 17 healthy people told they were sick. Given that treatment is very limited, better to stick with the human doctor, rather than scaring 10 healthy people in order to help an extra 11 people prepare for something they can't do much about.
There will NEVER be a set rule of anything like "protect passengers over pedestrians. Or Vice Versa. Because that is not how computers work. And forget about age discrimination, that is just plane stupid. The computer will have a hard enough time deciding if an obstacle is a pedestrian, it won't have that kind of higher logic to estimate the age of the people.
It might not even be able to tell how many people are in the car let alone how many people are currently standing in the middle of the road.
The closest thing that might exist is a rule that states the car may hit smaller obstacles (possibly animals, possibly trash) in the road if swerving might hit something bigger (possibly deer, possibly people).
Instead there will be a complex set of rules such as "stay on roads" and things like that.
AI does not do value judgements. It will have a hard enough time figuring out the environment, it won't have the capacity for the silly ethical questions people keep asking.
Real questions for programming will involve which traffic rules are higher priority than others. For example, staying away from cliffs would probably be very high priority, while slowing down for yellow lights will be lower priority.
Here is what we want with VR/ Full sensory VR - most importantly touch. That is what we truly want to feel like we are in a reality, not watching a movie.
But all we get are head gear that makes us look stupid and gives us 5% more than an Imax movie does. Yeah, the 360 video is cool, but the sound is not any better and we don't get touch or even smell, let alone the minor senses (like heat).
The stuff we truly want for a good VD would require something more like a neural implant rather than a headphones + cell phone right next to your eyes.
First is Self Reporting. This study did NOT find that people that ate more organic food got less cancer. Instead it found that people that CLAIMED to eat more organic food got less cancer. That desire tends to be highly correlated with education, wealth, and health consciousness.
Second the availability of organic food is almost non-existent for the poor. You can't make that claim if you live in a food desert of a slum, next to a toxic waste dump because the grocery stores in those neighbourhoods do not carry organic food.
I am willing to bet that people that claimed to eat organic food also had much better living conditions in general. I would be surprised if they were not less likely to smoke, drink, live next to toxic waste dumps, live in slums, live next to smoke filled factories, etc. etc.
Studies of this type are good only to convince people to fund a REAL study where you take half the people and give them organic food and the other half regular food.
Then measure the result in 10 years.
Think of it this way. A man is told by his doctor that his blood sugar is too high, and he is in danger of diabetes. So he changes what he eats and reducers his A1C blood sugar from 8 to 6. He feels great. He has lost weight, looks good and thinks "Wow, if this is so good, I should do it some more. He cuts his food again and reduces his A1C down to 4.7. He feels even better, being in the mindset of more is better, changes his diet again, bringing his A1C down do 3, whereupon he falls into a comma, from starving himself to death.
For a very very long time now, the Conservatives have had a death grip on taxes and wages. 60 years ago taxes may have been too high, and the minimum wage is similar. But they have lowered those values so much that they are no longer solving the problem, they are creating new ones.
And I mean real capitalism, not the fake stuff the nationalists talk about.
If you buy something, you have the right to modify it, repair it, and use it with other people's products. That is what OWNING it means. If you want to rent stuff instead of sell, that's fine, but you don't have the right to rent it while pretending you are selling it.
Actually pretty typical - IF you capitulate. Most people accused of a crime can settle it with a single conversation. The Prosecutor looks things over, makes an offer and if you take, you are done.
It only gets dragged on for years if you try to fight it in court.
Badly named, but that is not the problem.
The problem is something called FakeGPSFree, which lets you set your GPS to whatever you want.
Or in other words, reclaim the privacy from people that try to steal it from you.
Spotify etc. do not have a right to your location or other information, have no business taking it, and they can't stop you from giving them false information.
The problem was the concept itself. It should not exist. You want a Family/Household plan? Let one person pay for everyone. That is how you do it right. Much better than requiring GPS information and then abusing it.
What it comes down to is that I want a robot more than I want a job.
The foolish unions are working hard to prevent robots from being created out of fear that jobs will vanish.