I see them preferring curated computing over free computing so that the former succeeds in the marketplace and the latter is dying out. I see them having NO awareness of whether their data is held on their own device or transmitted to a hundred unknown companies. I see them being increasingly unable to use computing systems with UIs more complex than I see as appropriate for grade-school children. I see them manually repeating trivial actions a hundred times in a row because they lack any ability to automate the task with a device invented to automate tasks. I see blank looks if I ask them to copy this file to that directory, because a grid of canned icons to launch the Facebook app and "like" selfies is the only way they are able to interact with a computer.
That's the most depressing thing I've read all month.
Well the money laundering and racketeering are small time stuff, just charges to sweeten the pot. It's copyright infringement that's the real crime here.
Yes, but they are the most serious charges. Criminal copyright infringement won't get you any more than 5 years in prison for the first offense. Money laundering and racketeering could get each him 20 years in the slammer.
Incidentally, there are lots of things wrong with our criminal system, and the fact that you can put "money laundering" on almost any crime is ridiculous. Congress never intended for this to be more than a 5 year prison sentence.
That's rather bizarre. How do you know which union you have to pay dues to? Do you get to choose the union? In the US, you can only be a member of the union that is associated with your company (unless all the workers choose a different one).
It depends. If you want an AI that can handle any new road it's never seen before (like a human), then yes, we need to invent that kind of AI.
The Google/Tesla method is to have a very detailed 3D map of the area, and then the car can navigate through the pre-made map. It seems like Tesla is planning on creating a detailed 3D map of the entire United States, probably by collecting data from cars that are already on the road. I am fascinated to see if that is enough. I doubt it, but if I'm proved wrong, then great we have self-driving cars.
Previously reports were that Google car sensors couldn't handle certain weather conditions. Maybe they've solved that by now (they aren't very open at all about what their cars can do), but if not, then we'll need to improve that technology as well.
Indeed, at most, you can accuse the US system of not helping the dumb become rich(er). However, because the wealth is relative, that's the same thing as preventing the smart from achieving their full potential
It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between wealth and IQ (and bonus points for showing that correlation doesn't exist or does exist in European countries as well).
Now I was at a meeting, and I ran into a guy that had an acoustic mosquito identifier that worked on a slightly different principle: it did a fast fourier transform of the acoustic signal and attempted to distinguish between species based on the pattern of frequencies. I was intrigued; if you know anything about math you know this is very different from just taking the loudest frequency of a signal. It's more like telling the difference between a flute and a saxophone playing the same note by the instruments' timbre.
That's cool, but you left off the punchline! Did the FFT identification work?
This article is a good one, anyway. It's one of the best reports of what happened at the Paris accords. It talks about the different factions (the island nation coalition, the group of 77, etc), and discusses what negotiations went on, compromises made, and how it managed to come to something that looked like an agreement.
It's worth a read if you're interested in what goes on at these conferences.
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I see them preferring curated computing over free computing so that the former succeeds in the marketplace and the latter is dying out. I see them having NO awareness of whether their data is held on their own device or transmitted to a hundred unknown companies. I see them being increasingly unable to use computing systems with UIs more complex than I see as appropriate for grade-school children. I see them manually repeating trivial actions a hundred times in a row because they lack any ability to automate the task with a device invented to automate tasks. I see blank looks if I ask them to copy this file to that directory, because a grid of canned icons to launch the Facebook app and "like" selfies is the only way they are able to interact with a computer.
That's the most depressing thing I've read all month.
How about a commitment by the technology-pushers to obey the law to start with?
No one really obeys the law, it is too vague and imprecise.
it's hardly surprising that the union represents the interests of the management, rather than its members.
Yeah, that is exactly what happens.
Maybe that's why unions in Europe tend to be better than unions in the US.
Yeah. The US legal system is an unfair black hole. There's no way he deserves 45 years in prison for what he's done, but that's what he's facing.
Well the money laundering and racketeering are small time stuff, just charges to sweeten the pot. It's copyright infringement that's the real crime here.
Yes, but they are the most serious charges. Criminal copyright infringement won't get you any more than 5 years in prison for the first offense. Money laundering and racketeering could get each him 20 years in the slammer.
Incidentally, there are lots of things wrong with our criminal system, and the fact that you can put "money laundering" on almost any crime is ridiculous. Congress never intended for this to be more than a 5 year prison sentence.
- They made "reward" payments to US residents who provided copyrighted material.
Was that really true?
Good luck to him.
That's rather bizarre. How do you know which union you have to pay dues to? Do you get to choose the union? In the US, you can only be a member of the union that is associated with your company (unless all the workers choose a different one).
was shocked when we visited San Francisco. There was one particular street made entirely of shit - people just shitting all over the road everywhere.
Which street?
It depends. If you want an AI that can handle any new road it's never seen before (like a human), then yes, we need to invent that kind of AI.
The Google/Tesla method is to have a very detailed 3D map of the area, and then the car can navigate through the pre-made map. It seems like Tesla is planning on creating a detailed 3D map of the entire United States, probably by collecting data from cars that are already on the road. I am fascinated to see if that is enough. I doubt it, but if I'm proved wrong, then great we have self-driving cars.
Previously reports were that Google car sensors couldn't handle certain weather conditions. Maybe they've solved that by now (they aren't very open at all about what their cars can do), but if not, then we'll need to improve that technology as well.
What do you think it will take to get to level 4?
Two years.
That avoids answering the question. If you don't know what technological advances are still necessary, that's fine.
Because most programmers don't apply cryptographic techniques when making captchas.
Again, here are the self-driving technology levels. Where would you say were are currently on that list? What do you think it will take to get to level 4?
Here's the self-driving technology level list. Which level would you say we are at with current technology?
So what? They're safer than the average driver.
How can you know that about a technology that isn't even built yet?
In two years, didn't you read the summary? O_o
It often takes me several tries to complete a Capcha, while Google says that they've got AI that can solve their own capchas:
It's not particularly surprising that when text is distorted by a simple algorithm, it can also be "fixed" by a simple algorithm......
That happens all the time in mosquito control, which attracts way more than its share of Rube Goldberg inventions.
Like the bug zapper.
Indeed, at most, you can accuse the US system of not helping the dumb become rich(er). However, because the wealth is relative, that's the same thing as preventing the smart from achieving their full potential
It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between wealth and IQ (and bonus points for showing that correlation doesn't exist or does exist in European countries as well).
Now I was at a meeting, and I ran into a guy that had an acoustic mosquito identifier that worked on a slightly different principle: it did a fast fourier transform of the acoustic signal and attempted to distinguish between species based on the pattern of frequencies. I was intrigued; if you know anything about math you know this is very different from just taking the loudest frequency of a signal. It's more like telling the difference between a flute and a saxophone playing the same note by the instruments' timbre.
That's cool, but you left off the punchline! Did the FFT identification work?
Politics has NO place in Science.
Which is why science as an institution is always problematic.
This article is a good one, anyway. It's one of the best reports of what happened at the Paris accords. It talks about the different factions (the island nation coalition, the group of 77, etc), and discusses what negotiations went on, compromises made, and how it managed to come to something that looked like an agreement.
It's worth a read if you're interested in what goes on at these conferences.
Hilarious, but that's a fascinating hypothesis about time travel, nonetheless.
residential-grade fission
That's the coolest phrase I've heard all week. Put a smile on my face.