Yes lol. All their cars still have steering wheels. If it isn't upper-management who is trying to fool investors, then it is the director of the research program trying to convince his/her boss that they are getting their money's worth.
I guess we don’t use function keys, but it took a little getting used to the fact that F3 doesn’t mean F3 unless you hold down the Fn key at the same time.
Go to "System Preferences" -> "Keyboard" -> "Use all F1 F2, etc." Then all your F keys will be F keys again. I do this because I have a program that uses F keys to F things.
It drives me crazy that there's an option key on the right side of the keyboard, but no control key. I very rarely use the option key tbh. Basically only when I use emacs. And even in emacs, somewhat less than the control key.
Well, it's obvious that post-SDC somebody will be operating this huge fleet of self-driving taxi/transport vehicles
But it's not obvious SDCs will be here any time soon.
Sure, they lost 96% of their share value in two years when it popped but those who never got on the hype bandwagon mostly lost everything and are nowhere to be found. To be honest I don't really mind a SDC bubble where everyone goes crazy because it will also accelerate change, the dotcom boom/bust might not have been good for investors but the transition from offline to online went pretty snappy.
That's an interesting point. Bubbles aren't the worst thing.
I don't know where you are getting your data, did you read that on a blog somewhere? Here is an actual paper on the subject (which is built on some controversial assumptions, but anyway, it's written by highly respected scientists so let's go with it). They conclude that the actual number is somewhere between 350 and 385 ppm.
That's not scary for anyone, though, so there are many hypothetical feedbacks that will theoretically make the earth even warmer, but they are controversial, not well-understood (the error bars are gigantic), and involve plenty of math. Among scientists, the feedbacks are entirely where the controversy lies.
I think its abundantly clear these people ARE NOT in fact any more fit to lead than the usual poster here.
Yeah, actually, I don't have any doubt that I could be a better president than either of our current two candidates. And I don't mean that as boasting or anything, there are plenty of people here on Slashdot who could do better. It's pathetic, really.
Not to mention there was no traffic on the road that late at night, and more importantly, you don't learn anything scientific from doing this (and afaict, they don't even claim to have learned anything), it's just a publicity stunt.
And Uber has been doing a lot of these kinds of publicity stunts lately. My theory is that they are trying to pump up their valuation for an IPO (or another round of funding or whatever).
The CO2 acts immediately when it is in the atmosphere. It continues to act as long as it is in the atmosphere. There is no delay between when it enters the atmosphere and when it starts acting.
Uh, did you even read what I wrote? Read it again, because you missed the crucial point: CO2 that enters the atmosphere affects the temperature as soon as the sun starts shining. It doesn't have 100 year lag.
What most people don't get is that CO2 takes about 100 years to cycle out of the atmosphere. And about 20 years to impact the cycles.
The climate change you see today is from what we did from 1900 to 1990. It's already baked in. The changes we do today affect 2035 to 2135.
I think you're a little confused.....although the CO2 might persist in the atmosphere for a century, the affects of CO2 being released into the atmosphere are seen immediately (at least, as soon as the sun is shining). It takes a little while longer for the things like the ocean to warm up in response (exactly how long is unknown, but on the order of years, not decades).
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Pro - They misconfigured their own hardware, causing enormous useless trafffic and failures.
Con - A company that charges so much couldn't possibly make a simple configuration mistake!
No, not at all, because doing what you described is incorporating brand new data every year.
They kept adjusting the algorithm over and over until they got the right answer from 1980 onwards. The huge risk with that method is overfitting, and if you develop an algorithm this way, it's important to also show that you've managed to avoid overfitting.
You can do the same thing with stock market data: adjust it until you get nearly 90% correct returns on a test interval, then you will find that the next year, the model is completely wrong because of overfit. Even if you incorporate the next years data, you will still get incorrect results because the nature of the stock market is chaotic and also random.
As for the greater ramifications of the unprecedentedly broad warrant that was issued, well, I'm glad I'm not a US citizen and don't live there. And I'm increasingly reluctant to travel there as well, precisely because of things like this.
I don't think there's any way to stop gerrymandering other than the voters themselves waking up. California tried appointing a panel of retired judges to draw the boundaries, but it turns out judge panels can be rigged, too. Pretty much any system you can think of can be gamed.
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Yes lol. All their cars still have steering wheels. If it isn't upper-management who is trying to fool investors, then it is the director of the research program trying to convince his/her boss that they are getting their money's worth.
I guess we don’t use function keys, but it took a little getting used to the fact that F3 doesn’t mean F3 unless you hold down the Fn key at the same time.
Go to "System Preferences" -> "Keyboard" -> "Use all F1 F2, etc." Then all your F keys will be F keys again. I do this because I have a program that uses F keys to F things.
It drives me crazy that there's an option key on the right side of the keyboard, but no control key. I very rarely use the option key tbh. Basically only when I use emacs. And even in emacs, somewhat less than the control key.
Well, it's obvious that post-SDC somebody will be operating this huge fleet of self-driving taxi/transport vehicles
But it's not obvious SDCs will be here any time soon.
Sure, they lost 96% of their share value in two years when it popped but those who never got on the hype bandwagon mostly lost everything and are nowhere to be found. To be honest I don't really mind a SDC bubble where everyone goes crazy because it will also accelerate change, the dotcom boom/bust might not have been good for investors but the transition from offline to online went pretty snappy.
That's an interesting point. Bubbles aren't the worst thing.
To put it perhaps more succinctly, "graphed data without error bars are deceptive"
Can you convince 51% of the voters of that?
Yeah, I think so. The problem will be convincing them that they aren't throwing their vote away.
We may biologically survive 1000ppm with only chronic nausea and headache
No, you're off by an order of magnitude. For those symptoms you'd need more than 10,000ppm in the air.
I don't know where you are getting your data, did you read that on a blog somewhere? Here is an actual paper on the subject (which is built on some controversial assumptions, but anyway, it's written by highly respected scientists so let's go with it). They conclude that the actual number is somewhere between 350 and 385 ppm.
The math of climate change is fairly straightforward.
No it's not. The basic part (how much extra warmth is absorbed by the 'blanket' is simple, and a little more complex but still understandable (when you include the extra energy radiated by a warmer object) , showing that doubling CO2 will warm the earth between .7 and 1.5 degrees.
That's not scary for anyone, though, so there are many hypothetical feedbacks that will theoretically make the earth even warmer, but they are controversial, not well-understood (the error bars are gigantic), and involve plenty of math. Among scientists, the feedbacks are entirely where the controversy lies.
I think its abundantly clear these people ARE NOT in fact any more fit to lead than the usual poster here.
Yeah, actually, I don't have any doubt that I could be a better president than either of our current two candidates. And I don't mean that as boasting or anything, there are plenty of people here on Slashdot who could do better. It's pathetic, really.
We find that the proxies do not predict temperature significantly better than random series generated independently of temperature.
Not to mention there was no traffic on the road that late at night, and more importantly, you don't learn anything scientific from doing this (and afaict, they don't even claim to have learned anything), it's just a publicity stunt.
And Uber has been doing a lot of these kinds of publicity stunts lately. My theory is that they are trying to pump up their valuation for an IPO (or another round of funding or whatever).
Yeah, maybe I should say something like, "both parties are populated by people who believe they are sane"
The CO2 acts immediately when it is in the atmosphere. It continues to act as long as it is in the atmosphere. There is no delay between when it enters the atmosphere and when it starts acting.
Uh, did you even read what I wrote? Read it again, because you missed the crucial point: CO2 that enters the atmosphere affects the temperature as soon as the sun starts shining. It doesn't have 100 year lag.
What most people don't get is that CO2 takes about 100 years to cycle out of the atmosphere. And about 20 years to impact the cycles. The climate change you see today is from what we did from 1900 to 1990. It's already baked in. The changes we do today affect 2035 to 2135.
I think you're a little confused.....although the CO2 might persist in the atmosphere for a century, the affects of CO2 being released into the atmosphere are seen immediately (at least, as soon as the sun is shining). It takes a little while longer for the things like the ocean to warm up in response (exactly how long is unknown, but on the order of years, not decades).
So the lag time is a few years, not a century.
There's more. In 1989, we only had ten years to fix the problem.
There are some people who are climate deniers, who say that humans can't affect the climate. Those people are fools.
There are other people who refuse to believe that there is plenty of propaganda going on. Those people are also fools.
Dyn
Pro - They misconfigured their own hardware, causing enormous useless trafffic and failures.
Con - A company that charges so much couldn't possibly make a simple configuration mistake!
No, not at all, because doing what you described is incorporating brand new data every year.
They kept adjusting the algorithm over and over until they got the right answer from 1980 onwards. The huge risk with that method is overfitting, and if you develop an algorithm this way, it's important to also show that you've managed to avoid overfitting.
You can do the same thing with stock market data: adjust it until you get nearly 90% correct returns on a test interval, then you will find that the next year, the model is completely wrong because of overfit. Even if you incorporate the next years data, you will still get incorrect results because the nature of the stock market is chaotic and also random.
Sweden won't force you to unlock your phone with your finger? Are you sure?
Actually it's trivial. Make each vote have the same weight, and there is no more point to gerrymandering.
Uh, no, I don't even know why you think that. You can still gerrymander even if each vote gets the same weight
As for the greater ramifications of the unprecedentedly broad warrant that was issued, well, I'm glad I'm not a US citizen and don't live there. And I'm increasingly reluctant to travel there as well, precisely because of things like this.
Where do you live that you think is better?
It happens in nice areas, too. This is one of the richer areas on the Penninsula, , here is an earlier one. I've had my own home invaded as well, but the invader was unarmed, so I asked him to leave.
Yes, it could. If you favor leaks from one party and not the other, then you are a partisan hack and I hate you.
I don't think there's any way to stop gerrymandering other than the voters themselves waking up. California tried appointing a panel of retired judges to draw the boundaries, but it turns out judge panels can be rigged, too. Pretty much any system you can think of can be gamed.