It looks to me like some foolish and greedy people were taken in by a scam.
That's because you are using imagination rather than experience. I contracted under a similar system for 12yrs in Australia (95-07), good money, no problems with payments. Here in Oz. large corporates rarely employ an individual contractor who is not represented by an agency. Most agencies are relatively small operations and use payroll companies to handle the payments. Basically, if you want to be an independent contractor in Oz you need these services to get your foot in the door. I only gave up contracting because my current employer matched the contract rate and then some to go permanent.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter if you are a contractor or an employee, US or AU. The little guy is last in line when the court appointed receivers turn up.
"Hard AI" actually refers to an AI that has consciousness, not just intelligence. It's a pointless distinction since there is no test for consciousness. It's the same problem that zoologists are confronted with when they try to claim great apes are conscious, intelligent, creatures.
If your definition of intelligence is so narrow that it only admits conscious human intelligence, then of course there's no such thing as AI, and there never will be. No matter how intelligent it becomes you will always be able to pull out the "it's just mimicking humans" card and can never be shown to be wrong.
AI definitely displays "intelligence" in the same way as an ants nest does. I think what you really mean is that AI does not perfectly mimic the stupidity of humans.
Great story, but this year there is no el-nino, last year there was an el-nino.All 4 known bleaching events have occurred since 1980, 3 since 2000, the last two back to back. Also, Indonesia is several thousand kilometers NW of the GBR, so they are "close" in the same way alaska and florida are "close"
The problem that I see is that taser have a vested interest as to how taser equipment and cameras are perceived by the courts and the general public. Sure, give the contract for cameras to taser but give the evidence handling and image processing to a competent competitors. One company doing the whole thing from filming to court presentation is just corruption waiting to happen.
If you don't remember acid rain it's because of the very successful cap and trade treaty that won international agreement in the 1980's. Oddly the treaty was the brainchild of the conservative heros Thatcher and Reagan. (Thatcher read chemistry at Oxford and was also the first "world leader" to accept AGW was a serious problem). If mankind is convinced it is a common threat, it will be fixed, but not before we lose some nice stuff like; the Arctic ice cap, coral reefs, Bangladesh, Miami, Seychelle Islands,... (ok, Miami is not really a "nice thing" but some people like it)
And yet we can (and do) plan a century or two ahead when it comes to something like the leaning tower of pizza, a hydro dam, a leve bank,... But you don't have to wait that long, levels will reach 550 ppm in 30-40 years. The geological record indicates 550 ppm is the trigger point for the "clathrate gun". In 30yrs my first born will be 70, how old will you be? Have you met your grandkids yet?
Labour spent the money on "economic stimulus" in the wake of the GFC, in much the same way as Obama did in the US. The mining boom has ended and none of "leaders" saw it coming. Unlike Norway that experienced a similar boom from North Sea oil and invested it in infrastructure, education. and health, John Howard pissed ours away on tax cuts for the people in the top tax bracket who didn't need them (people like me). We haven't learnt our lessons, it's now more profitable for natural gas companies to ship gas half way around the word than it is to sell it locally. How fucked up is when local industry are complaining about gas shortages, in a nation that prides itself in being the world's #1 gas exporter?
Keating was right, the conservatives ate the golden goose and led us down the path to a "banana republic".
Yes, I was taught in 1970's HS that all maps are a compromise in geometry and that Mercator's projection (and cylindrical projections in general) are popular because they have the useful navigational property that a straight line represents a true bearing. If you don't want to compromise, you want a globe, not a map.
The most common map in western schools is a variation on Mercantor (the axis of the cylinder is different), it has the added feature that the "Land Hemisphere" (where most of the land and people are) is "magnified", so you can fit in more detail. Sure there is less detail in the "Water Hemisphere" but it is 90+% water. Water doesn't really have any details of interest to someone reading a map.
The notion that it was drawn/chosen for political/propaganda purposes is "historical revisionism" from people with an axe to grind. They, not Mercantor are the ones engaging in (not so subtle) political propaganda.
Apparently real world data and scientifically proven facts are not considered "truth" any more.
In the philosophy of Science they never were, science deals with observation and evidence, if you want a philosophy that claims "truth" join a religion.
Uber are the racketeers here, the politicians did nothing while Uber broke numerous laws and dramatically devalued the retirement savings of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of small business owners around the globe.
If you go out into the Rockies or Appalachians you can drink most surface water untreated
Sure, there are many places here in Australia where you can still drink from a mountain stream. However the vast majority of our ancestors over the last 5-10,000yrs did not live in next to a pristine mountain stream. They lived in towns and villages with open sewers running thru the streets and into the waterways. The local water was not fit for human consumption, people did not drink it because even though they knew nothing of germs they knew that dirty water could/would give them cholera and/or dysentery, they also knew that turning it into beer/wine prevented that agonising fate from happening to them. .
Beer was popular because of the difficulty obtaining potable water and keeping it from turning stagnant. For example, the pilgrims were forced to land at Plymouth rock because they were running out of beer/wine and had to go find some fresh water.
Last time I checked, FB and twitter were not charging users $7 per month. There is a great deal of difference between subscribers, active subscribers, and paying customers. 25 million paying customers is the kind of "problem" most software companies can only dream of.
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It looks to me like some foolish and greedy people were taken in by a scam.
That's because you are using imagination rather than experience. I contracted under a similar system for 12yrs in Australia (95-07), good money, no problems with payments. Here in Oz. large corporates rarely employ an individual contractor who is not represented by an agency. Most agencies are relatively small operations and use payroll companies to handle the payments. Basically, if you want to be an independent contractor in Oz you need these services to get your foot in the door. I only gave up contracting because my current employer matched the contract rate and then some to go permanent.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter if you are a contractor or an employee, US or AU. The little guy is last in line when the court appointed receivers turn up.
"Hard AI" actually refers to an AI that has consciousness, not just intelligence. It's a pointless distinction since there is no test for consciousness. It's the same problem that zoologists are confronted with when they try to claim great apes are conscious, intelligent, creatures.
If your definition of intelligence is so narrow that it only admits conscious human intelligence, then of course there's no such thing as AI, and there never will be. No matter how intelligent it becomes you will always be able to pull out the "it's just mimicking humans" card and can never be shown to be wrong.
AI definitely displays "intelligence" in the same way as an ants nest does. I think what you really mean is that AI does not perfectly mimic the stupidity of humans.
Exactly and now the companies that bought "targeted adverts" are pretending they don't know how they work.
Was thinking the same thing last night when lag killed me on WoT - from Australia every game server is 250ms away.
The words are different, the end result is the same.
Great story, but this year there is no el-nino, last year there was an el-nino.All 4 known bleaching events have occurred since 1980, 3 since 2000, the last two back to back. Also, Indonesia is several thousand kilometers NW of the GBR, so they are "close" in the same way alaska and florida are "close"
Today's equivalent - right click in a web browser and start hacking. Curiosity is the driver, the tools you use are all but irrelevant.
I didn't really notice the people trying to monetize the web until around 2006
What do you think caused the 2000 dot com crash?
The problem that I see is that taser have a vested interest as to how taser equipment and cameras are perceived by the courts and the general public. Sure, give the contract for cameras to taser but give the evidence handling and image processing to a competent competitors. One company doing the whole thing from filming to court presentation is just corruption waiting to happen.
If you don't remember acid rain it's because of the very successful cap and trade treaty that won international agreement in the 1980's. Oddly the treaty was the brainchild of the conservative heros Thatcher and Reagan. (Thatcher read chemistry at Oxford and was also the first "world leader" to accept AGW was a serious problem). If mankind is convinced it is a common threat, it will be fixed, but not before we lose some nice stuff like; the Arctic ice cap, coral reefs, Bangladesh, Miami, Seychelle Islands, ... (ok, Miami is not really a "nice thing" but some people like it)
I do however agree it's "old news".
And yet we can (and do) plan a century or two ahead when it comes to something like the leaning tower of pizza, a hydro dam, a leve bank,... But you don't have to wait that long, levels will reach 550 ppm in 30-40 years. The geological record indicates 550 ppm is the trigger point for the "clathrate gun". In 30yrs my first born will be 70, how old will you be? Have you met your grandkids yet?
"To bake a cake you first have to understand terms such as flour, butter, milk" - Einstein (paraphrased)
The relativity of wrong
Quick goggle tells me that rust compiler is written in C.
Labour spent the money on "economic stimulus" in the wake of the GFC, in much the same way as Obama did in the US. The mining boom has ended and none of "leaders" saw it coming. Unlike Norway that experienced a similar boom from North Sea oil and invested it in infrastructure, education. and health, John Howard pissed ours away on tax cuts for the people in the top tax bracket who didn't need them (people like me). We haven't learnt our lessons, it's now more profitable for natural gas companies to ship gas half way around the word than it is to sell it locally. How fucked up is when local industry are complaining about gas shortages, in a nation that prides itself in being the world's #1 gas exporter? Keating was right, the conservatives ate the golden goose and led us down the path to a "banana republic".
Yep, but the idea you can recommend a particular configuration by a simple percentage is just silly.
Yes, I was taught in 1970's HS that all maps are a compromise in geometry and that Mercator's projection (and cylindrical projections in general) are popular because they have the useful navigational property that a straight line represents a true bearing. If you don't want to compromise, you want a globe, not a map.
The most common map in western schools is a variation on Mercantor (the axis of the cylinder is different), it has the added feature that the "Land Hemisphere" (where most of the land and people are) is "magnified", so you can fit in more detail. Sure there is less detail in the "Water Hemisphere" but it is 90+% water. Water doesn't really have any details of interest to someone reading a map.
The notion that it was drawn/chosen for political/propaganda purposes is "historical revisionism" from people with an axe to grind. They, not Mercantor are the ones engaging in (not so subtle) political propaganda.
Apparently real world data and scientifically proven facts are not considered "truth" any more.
In the philosophy of Science they never were, science deals with observation and evidence, if you want a philosophy that claims "truth" join a religion.
A jerk is still a jerk, regardless of who he does/doesn't offend.
...because nobody on the tube can eavesdrop?
an excuse to protect their racket?
Uber are the racketeers here, the politicians did nothing while Uber broke numerous laws and dramatically devalued the retirement savings of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of small business owners around the globe.
If you go out into the Rockies or Appalachians you can drink most surface water untreated
Sure, there are many places here in Australia where you can still drink from a mountain stream. However the vast majority of our ancestors over the last 5-10,000yrs did not live in next to a pristine mountain stream. They lived in towns and villages with open sewers running thru the streets and into the waterways. The local water was not fit for human consumption, people did not drink it because even though they knew nothing of germs they knew that dirty water could/would give them cholera and/or dysentery, they also knew that turning it into beer/wine prevented that agonising fate from happening to them. .
Beer was popular because of the difficulty obtaining potable water and keeping it from turning stagnant. For example, the pilgrims were forced to land at Plymouth rock because they were running out of beer/wine and had to go find some fresh water.
Last time I checked, FB and twitter were not charging users $7 per month. There is a great deal of difference between subscribers, active subscribers, and paying customers. 25 million paying customers is the kind of "problem" most software companies can only dream of.