Call me a dinosaur if you want, but if we take away your calculator I bet I can run rings around you at math.
What calculator? Programming is my day job so I'll just use python or octave from an xterm if I need one. I mean sure you could probably run rings around me at doing arithmetic on paper if you take away my computer, but honestly what's the point?
The moment has passed. A lot of the new fangled tools, like github enterprise, whatever the latest chat client du jour is etc support emojis now.
The unprofessional youth of today will become old farts of tomorrow and in their turn will complain about how using emojis is the professional thing not whatever the kids of today are using (smell-o-vision?).
Thinking further: David Brin described an idea in his book "Earth", a policy that required people on the Internet to see opinions other than their own to re retain their right to vote. A brilliant heroine in the book tuned the necessary filter to receive the most _outrageious_ of the disagreeing postings, to keep her mind and her atttitudes fresh. I admit that I found the policy to be very tempting.
The thing is that idea fails for exactly the same reason communism, libertarianism and unregulated capitalism fail: it does not take into account that people are crap. I mean sure if everyone wasn't crap and all other opinions were well researched, locically coherent and grounded in some kind of facts then that would be a fine policy.
The problem is that other people's "opinions" also include the "perspective" that I ought to be murdered becuase I'm part of some evil, secret world controlling cabal.
Now the city introduces a more direct tax that can't be avoided and suddenly it's "hostile".
Any tax they can't wriggle out of is "hostile". They didn't have nice things to say about VATMOSS either when they were finally forced to pay the same tax as local retailers. Funnily enough they haven't reliably been the cheapest since then.
Yeah, Amazon will never leave. Why, if they were planning that, first they'd have to figure out how to open up a second headquarters somewhere more conducive, right? They'd never even consider that!
They're expanding but giving no indication that they're leaving.
Seattle is proposing a $275 tak per worker per year. How much do you think it costs to move a worker from Seattle to Texas even if you can persuade them to move?
Amazon already pays taxes like everyone else. This is a new, special tax which punishes only the most successful companies, i.e. those that are bringing the most wealth into the community. I think its highly counter-productive.
Bunishees, what hyperbolic bullshit. What it does is get the companies that have moste benefited from the vast amount of taxpayer fuded inrastructure to contribute back a bit more.
If it makes you feel any better, that is exactly the experience I had while entering the UK.
The UK border guards are fuckers. I've been asked obtuse, obscure questions where they wouldn't accept the truth for an answer and I'm fucking British with a valid passport.
It's ok to like what he built while also thinking he's a lousy person.
I'm not actually 100% sure it is. The thing is, it takes a certain kind of person to build something like wikileaks, and a person driven to do something like that is basically never going to be a nice person.
Basically. It's a reaction cultivated by people like you who made a big deal about every little thing. I mean, christ, the girl who wore a chinese styled dress to prom and people like you were screaming "cultural appropriation"
Ah I see you've been moded up for using the old Argumentum ad making shit up about me. I have never ever complained about cultural appropriation. You then segue smoothly from "people like me" to accuse me of all sorts of stuff.
Boy who cried wolf and all that.
Yeah the boy cried wolf. He was ignored by the villagers and got eaten by a wolf.
The same thing happened next week and the next and the next and boys kept getting eaten by wolves.
Finally someone says that it's a problem and here you are whining that people are just crying about wolves too much.
OK, let's run the argument from your citation. To insure domestic tranquility, we're going to post an armed and cranky soldier at your front door 24/7. Say you don't like it? You're disturbing domestic tranquility, and we'll lock you up.
That only works if you completely ignore the word "tranquiliy"
It's no more absurd
it really is much more absurd.
than your claim that "general Welfare" provides support for nationalized health care.
It's less absurd than the claim that the constitution precludes nationalised healthcare.
I suppose I could have a slightly higher salary if I jumped around more, but I don't know if I would be as happy.
Unless your company is unusual, probably substantially higher but what you say is still correct. Moving up the career ladder beyond a certain point involves getting more responsibilities which means more pay, more hours and more stress. It definitely becomes a career you do as part of your life rather than a job, and it will eat more into your other time as a result. You certainly get less time to enjoy the more money you earn.
Well, that's easy: no, healthcare is not a right. No hemming and hawing required.
If you read the US Constitution and its amendments
Like this bit?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare
Because experts disagree with each other in this field.
Not on the basics they don't provided you listen to actual experts not people selling fad diets. The basics are don't eat too much, avoid processed foods, eat a balanced diet and eat lots of vegetables.
So you are not going to be able to lug huge amounts of fresh stuff (for your four kids and spouse) home on the bus once a week, even if it would keep. You'll have to do it every day, or almost every day. Not very practical.
I love it when people swing on to the thread to tell Londoners that we don't exist. Plenty of people live here and have kids and don't own a car what with them being expensive and impractical in a a lot of places.
No, you don't have to spend the entire time on the bus lugging ingredients daily. We have these amazing things called deliveries. It's sort of like Amazon except they deliver fresh food in a narrow time slot and have been doing so reliably for over 15 years from a variety of vendors.
Also, you can buy bags with wheels on in which you can fit a lot of stuff.
AI/Machine learning is very very very much not unbiased. The most simple and common and annoying case is unbalanced classes. If you want to build a classifier to classify data as A or B and have 2x the number of samples for B, then most algorithms will rapidly head in the direction of classifying everything as B because they quickly get 70% correct, so that's where all the gradients point.
That's the most simple case and it still has to be mitigated. From there it gets worse and more subtle. These algorithms are excellent at finding correlations in data. And correlation is not causation as any fule kno.
The upshot of that is the results tend to reflect biases in your training data, and have a hard time finding conditional independence which is what you often need. People aren't good at that too.
For a simple example let's say 95% of te terrorists you capture wear Casio F91-W watches. A dumb algorithm (or person) might assume then that if you see someone with an F91-W there's a high chance they're a terrorist. What they missed in the data is that if you capture people at random there's still a 95% chance they're wearing a Casio F91-W. An algorithm (or person) might notice they've just got 95% classifier performance on training data without realising the results are utter bullshit.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't be evil. Do the right thing. Everyone agrees with those words
clearly you've never done business with Oracle.
If a generic fleshlight app asks for every permission under the sun,
There can't be a fleshlight app any more, not after they removed the headphone jack anyway.
Oh, a "hashtag".
I thought it was an IRC channel :(
"snap" is a packaged application distributed by the Ubuntu store, which runs in a container to isolate its dependencies.
Surely it's more than that: you can ship a package with its dependencies using RPATH and have been able to do so for years!
Call me a dinosaur if you want, but if we take away your calculator I bet I can run rings around you at math.
What calculator? Programming is my day job so I'll just use python or octave from an xterm if I need one. I mean sure you could probably run rings around me at doing arithmetic on paper if you take away my computer, but honestly what's the point?
For the moment...
The moment has passed. A lot of the new fangled tools, like github enterprise, whatever the latest chat client du jour is etc support emojis now.
The unprofessional youth of today will become old farts of tomorrow and in their turn will complain about how using emojis is the professional thing not whatever the kids of today are using (smell-o-vision?).
Thinking further: David Brin described an idea in his book "Earth", a policy that required people on the Internet to see opinions other than their own to re retain their right to vote. A brilliant heroine in the book tuned the necessary filter to receive the most _outrageious_ of the disagreeing postings, to keep her mind and her atttitudes fresh. I admit that I found the policy to be very tempting.
The thing is that idea fails for exactly the same reason communism, libertarianism and unregulated capitalism fail: it does not take into account that people are crap. I mean sure if everyone wasn't crap and all other opinions were well researched, locically coherent and grounded in some kind of facts then that would be a fine policy.
The problem is that other people's "opinions" also include the "perspective" that I ought to be murdered becuase I'm part of some evil, secret world controlling cabal.
That's not correct. I am a Daily Mail reader, so I know that everything both causes and cures cancer.
Except for immigrants: they only cause cancer.
A super-liberal company
Inigo Montoya would like a word with you.
Now the city introduces a more direct tax that can't be avoided and suddenly it's "hostile".
Any tax they can't wriggle out of is "hostile". They didn't have nice things to say about VATMOSS either when they were finally forced to pay the same tax as local retailers. Funnily enough they haven't reliably been the cheapest since then.
Yeah, Amazon will never leave. Why, if they were planning that, first they'd have to figure out how to open up a second headquarters somewhere more conducive, right? They'd never even consider that!
They're expanding but giving no indication that they're leaving.
Seattle is proposing a $275 tak per worker per year. How much do you think it costs to move a worker from Seattle to Texas even if you can persuade them to move?
It makes no financial sense to leave
Amazon already pays taxes like everyone else. This is a new, special tax which punishes only the most successful companies, i.e. those that are bringing the most wealth into the community. I think its highly counter-productive.
Bunishees, what hyperbolic bullshit. What it does is get the companies that have moste benefited from the vast amount of taxpayer fuded inrastructure to contribute back a bit more.
If it makes you feel any better, that is exactly the experience I had while entering the UK.
The UK border guards are fuckers. I've been asked obtuse, obscure questions where they wouldn't accept the truth for an answer and I'm fucking British with a valid passport.
It's ok to like what he built while also thinking he's a lousy person.
I'm not actually 100% sure it is. The thing is, it takes a certain kind of person to build something like wikileaks, and a person driven to do something like that is basically never going to be a nice person.
Basically. It's a reaction cultivated by people like you who made a big deal about every little thing. I mean, christ, the girl who wore a chinese styled dress to prom and people like you were screaming "cultural appropriation"
Ah I see you've been moded up for using the old Argumentum ad making shit up about me. I have never ever complained about cultural appropriation. You then segue smoothly from "people like me" to accuse me of all sorts of stuff.
Boy who cried wolf and all that.
Yeah the boy cried wolf. He was ignored by the villagers and got eaten by a wolf.
The same thing happened next week and the next and the next and boys kept getting eaten by wolves.
Finally someone says that it's a problem and here you are whining that people are just crying about wolves too much.
It's a reaction to drama queens.
Definition of drama queen: anyone who doesn't just shut up and toe the line.
What we're thinking
So when someone tells you about being harassed or assulted, your reaction is more or less "fuck you"?
At least you're keeping it classy.
A balanced diet....What is that?
Pizza AND beer.
OK, let's run the argument from your citation. To insure domestic tranquility, we're going to post an armed and cranky soldier at your front door 24/7. Say you don't like it? You're disturbing domestic tranquility, and we'll lock you up.
That only works if you completely ignore the word "tranquiliy"
It's no more absurd
it really is much more absurd.
than your claim that "general Welfare" provides support for nationalized health care.
It's less absurd than the claim that the constitution precludes nationalised healthcare.
I suppose I could have a slightly higher salary if I jumped around more, but I don't know if I would be as happy.
Unless your company is unusual, probably substantially higher but what you say is still correct. Moving up the career ladder beyond a certain point involves getting more responsibilities which means more pay, more hours and more stress. It definitely becomes a career you do as part of your life rather than a job, and it will eat more into your other time as a result. You certainly get less time to enjoy the more money you earn.
Minor correction:
They will dispose of excellent employees as soon as they can hire 1.5 college grads to do what they believe is the same work for the same money.
Only his most unhinged comments go against what his friends at Fox want to hear.
Or in the case of Fox and Freinds, his incessant rambling was what they didn't want to hear. They almost had to cut him off.
Well, that's easy: no, healthcare is not a right. No hemming and hawing required.
If you read the US Constitution and its amendments
Like this bit?
Because experts disagree with each other in this field.
Not on the basics they don't provided you listen to actual experts not people selling fad diets. The basics are don't eat too much, avoid processed foods, eat a balanced diet and eat lots of vegetables.
So you are not going to be able to lug huge amounts of fresh stuff (for your four kids and spouse) home on the bus once a week, even if it would keep. You'll have to do it every day, or almost every day. Not very practical.
I love it when people swing on to the thread to tell Londoners that we don't exist. Plenty of people live here and have kids and don't own a car what with them being expensive and impractical in a a lot of places.
No, you don't have to spend the entire time on the bus lugging ingredients daily. We have these amazing things called deliveries. It's sort of like Amazon except they deliver fresh food in a narrow time slot and have been doing so reliably for over 15 years from a variety of vendors.
Also, you can buy bags with wheels on in which you can fit a lot of stuff.
Adding an AI means there is now an unbiased process looking for alternative interpretations.
Since when is AI unbiased.?
AI/Machine learning is very very very much not unbiased. The most simple and common and annoying case is unbalanced classes. If you want to build a classifier to classify data as A or B and have 2x the number of samples for B, then most algorithms will rapidly head in the direction of classifying everything as B because they quickly get 70% correct, so that's where all the gradients point.
That's the most simple case and it still has to be mitigated. From there it gets worse and more subtle. These algorithms are excellent at finding correlations in data. And correlation is not causation as any fule kno.
The upshot of that is the results tend to reflect biases in your training data, and have a hard time finding conditional independence which is what you often need. People aren't good at that too.
For a simple example let's say 95% of te terrorists you capture wear Casio F91-W watches. A dumb algorithm (or person) might assume then that if you see someone with an F91-W there's a high chance they're a terrorist. What they missed in the data is that if you capture people at random there's still a 95% chance they're wearing a Casio F91-W. An algorithm (or person) might notice they've just got 95% classifier performance on training data without realising the results are utter bullshit.
AI is biased as fuck.