Obama has been printing almost a Trillion dollars per year for the past several years; that's what Quantitative Easing is - adding to the quantity of dollars in the economy.
The reason it hasn't pushed up inflation is because there's still no demand, and there's no demand because so many employable people are either on Unemployment or out of the labor market. Changes to SSI Disability that were made a few years ago took over a million people who would otherwise have to work for a living off of the welfare and unemployment roles (and is trashing Social Security in the process). But SSSI and Disability are a bare minimum on which people can live so they can't consume much. Same with all the extensions to Unemployment Compensation, for a while people could collect for almost two years.
I can see the utility of better pattern recognition. But the article doesn't provide any real insight into what the chipset provides. Did they implement a standard algorithm in hardware so it's faster and cheaper? Or did they actually advance the state of the art in pattern recognition with something we didn't have before?
(NASA Chief Charlie) Bolden said President Barack Obama had charged him with three things upon becoming NASA administrator.
"One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering," Bolden said.
The Prez might get a Nobel Prize in Physics from this mission.
Modern materials like carbon fiber should be able to handle the motion. This could turn out to be a good design, take advantage of the harmonic rather than try to suppress it.
Actually, the Germans did give Greece a bailout. But instead of using the cash as a lifeline while they fixed their problems, the Greeks spent it and came back for more.
It just says the if someone can get to a non-terrestrial object the US government won't try to stop them from bringing something back, picking up some water, etc.
Do you really think that's a problem? It's not like the US is building a military base on the Moon
We kind of forget that most popular music of every generation sucks. Listen to the oldies station and you hear the few good songs from that era, the rest are thankfully forgotten. As you get older you don't want to listen to the current generation of crap until it ages a bit and the good stuff survives.
This sometimes happens, but even then, the implementation may not match the documentation
I disagree that it sometimes happens. Writing the manual before you write the code pretty much guarantees the manual will have little correlation with the code for all but the smallest applications.
I've worked on agile teams that accomplished little more than completing the required checklists, and I've worked on agile teams that were very productive. It all depends on the skills of the scrum master and the product owner; of course the same could be said for any development process - good people can make it work, incompetent people will make it fail.
Noncompete is different from nonsolicit. If a couple of them had just left A123, no problem. But when they recruited other top talent after signing a nonsolicit agreement - lawsuit.
However, it seems A123 was more about raising money than actually delivering any products anyway. Hope, spare me the change, and all that.
A123 Systems was supposed to be a leading light in the next phase of clean-energy innovation in the U.S.—hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants, state-government support in Massachusetts and Michigan, deals to supply the batteries for luxury electric cars.
In 2009, the Waltham, MA-based company registered the country’s biggest IPO, at $371 million. The company’s future, and the road ahead for cleantech manufacturing in the U.S., looked promising.
It didn’t quite work out that way. Today, A123 is in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings, with bids for its assets raising political alarm bells in Washington, DC.
Suppose your application says "20% of Americans can't find the United States on a map of the world.
You really should help the user understand what that means:
20% of Americans are too stupid to find the US on a map
20% didn't speak English well enough to understand the question
20% of the sample were infants, blind or otherwise had no chance of reading a map
This problem was solved a long time ago in Chicago. Just leave the password for the domain and your bank account with someone. Doesn't matter who you leave it with, you're dead.
All they gave it as inputs were the rules to the game. The AI had to make its own determinations after that for what the optimal strategy was,...
Yes, that was where the original question was going (despite someone thinking it was trolling and modding me down).
When the domain is constrained by a set of rules and the programmers (not really "the AI") have built a decision tree on how to act based on current conditions, it makes me wonder what is meant by intelligence. Obviously it takes some intelligence for a person to be good at the game; but it also takes some intelligence to multiply two numbers together. I don't think anyone claims multiplication is AI.
A few years ago "Expert Systems" were all the rage. We used to joke that the defining characteristic of an expert system was whether or not it could execute "if" statements. So, to repeat the question, at what point does "if" statements and decision trees become Intelligence?
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Obama has been printing almost a Trillion dollars per year for the past several years; that's what Quantitative Easing is - adding to the quantity of dollars in the economy.
The reason it hasn't pushed up inflation is because there's still no demand, and there's no demand because so many employable people are either on Unemployment or out of the labor market. Changes to SSI Disability that were made a few years ago took over a million people who would otherwise have to work for a living off of the welfare and unemployment roles (and is trashing Social Security in the process). But SSSI and Disability are a bare minimum on which people can live so they can't consume much. Same with all the extensions to Unemployment Compensation, for a while people could collect for almost two years.
Because so many eCompanies are valued mostly on vaporware and hype.
I can see the utility of better pattern recognition. But the article doesn't provide any real insight into what the chipset provides. Did they implement a standard algorithm in hardware so it's faster and cheaper? Or did they actually advance the state of the art in pattern recognition with something we didn't have before?
but that is not the advertiser who put that coke bottle into a 14th century person's hand
Do you really think that? Product placement in movies is huge and has been there from the beginning.
(NASA Chief Charlie) Bolden said President Barack Obama had charged him with three things upon becoming NASA administrator.
"One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering," Bolden said.
The Prez might get a Nobel Prize in Physics from this mission.
Modern materials like carbon fiber should be able to handle the motion. This could turn out to be a good design, take advantage of the harmonic rather than try to suppress it.
it's because the Germans wouldn't bail them out
Actually, the Germans did give Greece a bailout. But instead of using the cash as a lifeline while they fixed their problems, the Greeks spent it and came back for more.
It just says the if someone can get to a non-terrestrial object the US government won't try to stop them from bringing something back, picking up some water, etc.
Do you really think that's a problem? It's not like the US is building a military base on the Moon
Doesn't this violate everything slashdotters hold dear regarding net neutrality?
The telecom providers are planning to put a filter on what they will transport, and then charge extra to let it through again.
But does he look as tough as Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou?
Secret Service Head: "If a drone gets near the President, shoot it."
[drone flies near President]
[Secret Service Agent shoots President]
Secret Service Head: "You misunderstood..."
We kind of forget that most popular music of every generation sucks. Listen to the oldies station and you hear the few good songs from that era, the rest are thankfully forgotten. As you get older you don't want to listen to the current generation of crap until it ages a bit and the good stuff survives.
This sometimes happens, but even then, the implementation may not match the documentation
I disagree that it sometimes happens. Writing the manual before you write the code pretty much guarantees the manual will have little correlation with the code for all but the smallest applications.
I've worked on agile teams that accomplished little more than completing the required checklists, and I've worked on agile teams that were very productive. It all depends on the skills of the scrum master and the product owner; of course the same could be said for any development process - good people can make it work, incompetent people will make it fail.
Noncompete is different from nonsolicit. If a couple of them had just left A123, no problem. But when they recruited other top talent after signing a nonsolicit agreement - lawsuit.
However, it seems A123 was more about raising money than actually delivering any products anyway. Hope, spare me the change, and all that.
A123 Systems was supposed to be a leading light in the next phase of clean-energy innovation in the U.S.—hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants, state-government support in Massachusetts and Michigan, deals to supply the batteries for luxury electric cars.
In 2009, the Waltham, MA-based company registered the country’s biggest IPO, at $371 million. The company’s future, and the road ahead for cleantech manufacturing in the U.S., looked promising.
It didn’t quite work out that way. Today, A123 is in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings, with bids for its assets raising political alarm bells in Washington, DC.
Suppose your application says "20% of Americans can't find the United States on a map of the world.
You really should help the user understand what that means:
20% of Americans are too stupid to find the US on a map
20% didn't speak English well enough to understand the question
20% of the sample were infants, blind or otherwise had no chance of reading a map
Might add some nice fireworks to the South Padre Island spring break.
Good thing AOL pissed away $100 billion dollars a few years ago, otherwise Verizon wouldn't have been able to buy them now.
Of course they were never really worth that $100 billion, but it must have been fun pretending they were.
I don't want to be reminded of either of them.
She wasn't working 24/7. She was paid a salary to be on call, not an hourly rate to work.
Just do what they do in Italy...lean on the horn and step on the gas pedal. It's up to the other car to get out of your way.
Predict an earthquake in Japan, Northern Italy, or Iran. It will never be a false positive, they have tremors all the time.
He ran an app store? I thought he hosted a music pirating site.
This problem was solved a long time ago in Chicago. Just leave the password for the domain and your bank account with someone. Doesn't matter who you leave it with, you're dead.
All they gave it as inputs were the rules to the game. The AI had to make its own determinations after that for what the optimal strategy was,...
Yes, that was where the original question was going (despite someone thinking it was trolling and modding me down).
When the domain is constrained by a set of rules and the programmers (not really "the AI") have built a decision tree on how to act based on current conditions, it makes me wonder what is meant by intelligence. Obviously it takes some intelligence for a person to be good at the game; but it also takes some intelligence to multiply two numbers together. I don't think anyone claims multiplication is AI.
A few years ago "Expert Systems" were all the rage. We used to joke that the defining characteristic of an expert system was whether or not it could execute "if" statements. So, to repeat the question, at what point does "if" statements and decision trees become Intelligence?