Um, if you think psychohistory seems quaint because of quantum mechanics, you don't know how to read:
(1) The book itself says psychohistory is meant to work only with large numbers (the way quantum mechanics makes very precise predictions with large ensembles of quantum mechanical systems). (2) Asimov is a chemist by training. If there is one piece of modern science he understood, it's got to be quantum mechanics, or he would have been a pretty crappy chemist.
Maybe some people put Asimov on a pedestal that he can never live up to, but in your case, lack of reading comprehension is another big part.
Streets would be much safer if drivers learned to stop driving through San Francisco. Pedestrians are afforded the right-of-way, and they ought to exercise their right (if they were in a car, failure to take the right-of-way---i.e. impeding traffic---is a ticketable offence).
I found this completely decentralized social media system recently. As far as I can tell, everyone is on it (although you can't always easily search for them), and no one single entity controls it. It's called RealLife (TM).
Because there is no other place. I left for a while, wandered on the Interwebs, but in the end, there was no place like the old Slashdot. I mean yes, the new Slashdot is not the old Slashdot, but when you can't get the best, you settle for the second best.
Are you sure you have done a thorough enough job? Have you looked at any particular file hosted on Facebook? Do they all use *.facebook.com? If you have realized Facebook owns and uses other domains, are you sure you blocked them all?
With Amazon, at least we know we are the customers (if people stopped buying at Amazon, they'd soon go bankrupt).
With Facebook and their like, we are not the customers; we are the products (if advertisers stopped advertising at Facebook, they'd soon go bankrupt, or at least you hope).
I think it's more about the package management system. I use Bash on Windows regularly, and whatever I install on that subsystem comes in through Ubuntu repositories. That is, if it's something not in Ubuntu main repositories, they aren't going to be available on Bash on Windows.
Maybe there are people out there who use Redhat's system (yap or whatever; I haven't looked in a very long time), or maybe there is software package configured well in a Debian repository but for whatever reason not in Ubuntu repository.
There are use cases where the subset of tools you use are really only packaged for a subset of Linux distros, and it would make things easier not to have to compile them from source, which would require bringing in lots of dev packages into your Bash-on-Windows subsystem just to compile that one tool.
If I were in his position, and if somebody offered me big enough of an incentive (perhaps a massive fine on Uber), I would. Seriously, the conditions were such that any driver who wasn't DUI'ing wouldn't have hit the pedestrian, much less the "superior" autonomous car that can see in wavelengths we can't see.
Uber really messed up here, and Waymo is doing a good (corporate) job kicking Uber while it's down.
And the safety argument for the autonomous cars is that they would be that good driver, all the time.
Instead, if we accept the arguments of dozens of ACs on this thread, we have to settle for an autonomous car that is not as good a driver as I am on my best day (not DUI'ing, not sleep-deprived, and not needing to respond to an "urgent" text). That is an unacceptable compromise, and whoever is arguing for that side is saying that they don't really believe the safety argument for autonomous cars.
The truth is, a good driver would not have hit that pedestrian.
If autonomous cars are not as good as a good driver (but only good as an average or below-average driver), the whole safety argument for autonomous cars goes out the window. Uber must pay the consequences for this accident, as the video clearly shows that Uber's self-driving car did not meet the safety standards that all self-driving cars ought to meet.
I drive through Berkeley all the time where pedestrians routinely step into the street when I have the green light.
But that doesn't mean I can actually run them over and not suffer any consequences as Uber is apparently about to.
P.S. And a real, human driver learns to drive more defensively in areas where they suspect pedestrians might behave more unpredictably. Apparently AI isn't "intelligent" enough to have that sense.
You joke, but ads on Pandora is what ruined the service for me. The worst ones are ads with music/sound qualities that are just completely different in character from the music I was listening to (like a loud car ad in the middle of a classical station).
If I had to guess, it was required by the local government as part of allowing Facebook to do this new development in the first place. It's quite common in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here's an example in San Francisco.
Slashdot Mirror
Um, if you think psychohistory seems quaint because of quantum mechanics, you don't know how to read:
(1) The book itself says psychohistory is meant to work only with large numbers (the way quantum mechanics makes very precise predictions with large ensembles of quantum mechanical systems).
(2) Asimov is a chemist by training. If there is one piece of modern science he understood, it's got to be quantum mechanics, or he would have been a pretty crappy chemist.
Maybe some people put Asimov on a pedestal that he can never live up to, but in your case, lack of reading comprehension is another big part.
Not if you eliminate all other alien races that could compete with humans. Maybe you should read the book.
I'm pretty sure it's from 23andMe. That is, some BS statistic for people with more money than sense.
Quite the opposite. The non-human always yields to the human. No exceptions.
Streets would be much safer if drivers learned to stop driving through San Francisco. Pedestrians are afforded the right-of-way, and they ought to exercise their right (if they were in a car, failure to take the right-of-way---i.e. impeding traffic---is a ticketable offence).
Exactly my thought. Until AI can handle the concept of "yielding," it will never be street legal on its own.
C!
I might have believed you if you were an AC. But alas, you are not an AC and I can't believe you are that stupid.
I found this completely decentralized social media system recently. As far as I can tell, everyone is on it (although you can't always easily search for them), and no one single entity controls it. It's called RealLife (TM).
Why the fuck are we still on slashdot?
Because there is no other place. I left for a while, wandered on the Interwebs, but in the end, there was no place like the old Slashdot. I mean yes, the new Slashdot is not the old Slashdot, but when you can't get the best, you settle for the second best.
Are you sure you have done a thorough enough job? Have you looked at any particular file hosted on Facebook? Do they all use *.facebook.com? If you have realized Facebook owns and uses other domains, are you sure you blocked them all?
In other words, they are privileging Liechtenstein over United Kingdom. Logical and sensible! This is not at all retaliatory!
With Amazon, at least we know we are the customers (if people stopped buying at Amazon, they'd soon go bankrupt).
With Facebook and their like, we are not the customers; we are the products (if advertisers stopped advertising at Facebook, they'd soon go bankrupt, or at least you hope).
I think it's more about the package management system. I use Bash on Windows regularly, and whatever I install on that subsystem comes in through Ubuntu repositories. That is, if it's something not in Ubuntu main repositories, they aren't going to be available on Bash on Windows.
Maybe there are people out there who use Redhat's system (yap or whatever; I haven't looked in a very long time), or maybe there is software package configured well in a Debian repository but for whatever reason not in Ubuntu repository.
There are use cases where the subset of tools you use are really only packaged for a subset of Linux distros, and it would make things easier not to have to compile them from source, which would require bringing in lots of dev packages into your Bash-on-Windows subsystem just to compile that one tool.
If I were in his position, and if somebody offered me big enough of an incentive (perhaps a massive fine on Uber), I would. Seriously, the conditions were such that any driver who wasn't DUI'ing wouldn't have hit the pedestrian, much less the "superior" autonomous car that can see in wavelengths we can't see.
Uber really messed up here, and Waymo is doing a good (corporate) job kicking Uber while it's down.
You mean something like this?
Two words: tort liability.
And the safety argument for the autonomous cars is that they would be that good driver, all the time.
Instead, if we accept the arguments of dozens of ACs on this thread, we have to settle for an autonomous car that is not as good a driver as I am on my best day (not DUI'ing, not sleep-deprived, and not needing to respond to an "urgent" text). That is an unacceptable compromise, and whoever is arguing for that side is saying that they don't really believe the safety argument for autonomous cars.
Except, of course, we are not talking about introducing autonomous pedestrians into the world. Burden is on the autonomous car.
The truth is, a good driver would not have hit that pedestrian.
If autonomous cars are not as good as a good driver (but only good as an average or below-average driver), the whole safety argument for autonomous cars goes out the window. Uber must pay the consequences for this accident, as the video clearly shows that Uber's self-driving car did not meet the safety standards that all self-driving cars ought to meet.
I drive through Berkeley all the time where pedestrians routinely step into the street when I have the green light.
But that doesn't mean I can actually run them over and not suffer any consequences as Uber is apparently about to.
P.S. And a real, human driver learns to drive more defensively in areas where they suspect pedestrians might behave more unpredictably. Apparently AI isn't "intelligent" enough to have that sense.
I can't find the setting. Can you tell me the page of TFM that tells me how to expand the iris?
You joke, but ads on Pandora is what ruined the service for me. The worst ones are ads with music/sound qualities that are just completely different in character from the music I was listening to (like a loud car ad in the middle of a classical station).
If I had to guess, it was required by the local government as part of allowing Facebook to do this new development in the first place. It's quite common in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here's an example in San Francisco.
From TFS: "almost one-fifth entered their user ID and password."
The headline probably should have led with that.