In China (a few years before the Olympics) the bathrooms near the area were installing western toilets. The rooms would have a line of "local" stalls, and one (or more, but usually one) tourist toilet. The locals never used the tourist toilet. Seems dirty to sit, rather than squat, for the locals. Local toilets had no flushes. Some were outhouse style, others had a trough below that had a slow steady stream to wash into the sewer. I have no idea if the areas below had any regular cleaning.
soap and water without agitation won't clean, and is messy (water spraying around). Wiping minimizes mess, and the US is more keen on daily showers, where you clean that area more. Bidets are more common in places where daily showers aren't common.
Every US bathroom in houses I've lived in had space for a bidet next to the toilet (some would require shifting the toilet, others not). That may not be representative of all, but in the western US, outside CA (where tiny town houses aren't the norm), it seems that space isn't at such a premium.
Lots of people are exceptions. The mechanism given only works if the radio is on and tuned to FM. By a strict reading of the mechanism, AM (popular in the US) would prevent operation of RDS. As well as the growing number of people who play music from devices without using FM.
That I'm only one example doesn't mean I'm special. I see around 1% of drivers in the morning with headphones on. One would assume they aren't using their car's FM radio with headphones.
How could the monetize blockchain? Blockchain is used here to mean "secure central account data back-end". It's hard to charge a user for a back-end system.
And should we make it illegal to listen to anything that isn't RDS compliant? Will we start making phones RDS complaint, so if someone is using a phone (legally hands-free, or illegally hands-on) the calls will be interrupted as well?
How about people like me that don't even hook up the FM antenna? My "radio" is used primarily as a display for the rear camera, and secondarily for music for long trips, through bluetooth or USB. Am I now an illegal? Does it matter that I drive a special-edition car that has no soundproofing, and thinnner window glass, making the inside about as transparent to outside sounds as a "regular" car with the windows down? (noise being why I never use the radio in town, it's just so hard to hear)
Tesla will have a beta version next week, but will have to roll it back because it causes the car to drive into the nearest tree. Elon Musk will somehow blame both the driver and the tree in one fell tweet.
Try to change the subject all you like, but the history of Quant goes back to 1900. Are you going to tell me they were useing PCs in 1900 to do quantitative analysis of stocks?
In practice, it's using a few simple equations to find stocks of interest. Separate is analysis of a particular stock. At a trading house, they do quants regularly, and those are identifying "interesting" stocks based on value vs performance metrics. This is low-movement, slow, long-term process that is used by Warren Buffet and others to get consistent long-term gains. The "quant" you are talking about is looking for short-term patterns and exploiting them. They are used by HFT to exploit short-term and tiny swings. The original definition (from the invention of the practice in 1900) was about the long-term version only. Recently the term was adopted by the short-term speculators to give "short term speculation" a term to make it sound more respectable. It still isn't respectable.
Quants have made billions predicting changes in valuations.
Quants have been making those analysies since before computers existed. Running an analysis on 100% of the trading stock every 10 minutes required a computer.
That stuff you're calling "non-AI" is what AI researchers call "AI".
Like I said, to keep it sexy and keep the money flowing, AI researchers have changed the definition of AI to include "anything hard, done on a computer." Then AI, is everything, including the stuff people actually want.
As an aside, you do know that "quants" don't "predict" anything, right? There's a (or many) formula(e) that determine whether a stock is "undervalued". Finding a currently undervalued stock, based on P/E, market cap and past performance (or whatever is in the formula being used) isn't predictive. That it correlates strongly with future growth doesn't make it predictive. "Apple announced they are adding more RAM to the MBP, I'd better buy stock before it comes out, because it'll be a hot seller" is predictive. "AI" doesn't even attempt that.
In 1950, AI meant "strong AI" and nothing else. After lots of work in the '60s and into the '70s, they determined that they couldn't solve it, so "AI" changed definitions. To where today, "AI" means anything, and anyone who questions the overly-permissive definition isn't met with a clear definition, but insults and accusations.
So Deep AI is the same as Deep Learning? Deep Learning isn't AI, though those that like it call it that. When Deep Learning can predict a future trend, then it will be useful. Identifying the start of a trend because something does what something else once did isn't the same.
When Deep Learning can look at the economy and predict the valuation curve of a house as it goes up and down over 20 years, that'd be something interesting. "Bob lives in ZIP 90210 and has previously bought blue boat shoes, his firstborn is likely gay." Is simple probabilities using more data than a human can sift through conveniently, and has no "intelligence" at all, and is not a path to anything that would have been called AI 20 years ago.
AI will exist only when we've finally shifted the definition far enough to allow non-AI to be classified as AI.
Extrapolation using Big Data is AI. Extrapolation using small data is extrapolation. Didn't they teach you this in AI school? The AIs that "learn", don't. They just cull wasted CPU when the requests fit patterns. If something is outside the pattern, it's as dumb as the first time it was run. Data tends to group into a normal curve (or something like it) and "AI" as they describe, groups things into similar bundles.
If a smart programmer were to spend years with BI/BAs and work out the value of the parameters, the AI would be 100% useless. AI (in this context, which isn't an actual AI) doesn't do anything other than look at past trends and apply them to new data. Being human, we assume it's doing it the way we would, which would be actual intelligence. But it does so in a computer-like itterative manner than has no "insight" into the patterns, and could *never* predict a pattern, but counts simple numbers.
Doing lots of math fast looks like AI. So call it AI and claim your AI is the best AI, and nobody does it like you. Smoke and mirrors.
Every other player at the table, including the casino, had the same information. Like card counting, they made better use of it than anyone else. That is all.
When creating a new device, I make a new shortcut. One double-click and I'm connected and logged in (or at the password prompt). Getting behind on management is a separate problem you need to work on.
When everyone in the house had a computer, a house would have 4 computers. Now, the personal device for everyone is the phone, and the PC is one per house. So the demand dropped to a lower (but still healthy) baseline. And the cost of the computer dropped as well, with the average computer being cheaper than the premium phone.
The death of the PC is over-stated. Fear-mongering by those who benefit from the one-PC per person numbers we saw near 2000.
The two solutions to this are to have PuTTY shortcuts for all your devices. This eliminates the "need" to open a window to re-type anything. The other easy solution is to SSH from box to box, without closing everything between sessions.
Seems Linux is for the inflexible who want to do something in one and only one way and that one way works on Linux. For those that are more flexible, we don't care.
Changing the EV isn't illegal. Counting cards has shown us that "recognizing" the odds of a win to beat random chance is legal. So I don't see how this was an illegal act. If anything, the casino using marked cards should be the only ones prosecuted. And the players can't be punished for the casino using marked cards.
Road projects never improve traffic, because they never consider one until it's too late for it to be useful. The enviro-nuts use this as an example of how roads cause cars, when the truth is that with enough proper transportation, everything, including cars, would move more efficiently. But we are so far out of the middle of the curve that none of the regular rules apply.
It isn't a keylogger? I only ever used it as such, and it made a great one, configured to send every keystroke to a central server in real time, or saving a local log with every keystroke. Used it to catch a person who clocked in for overtime, then went on Yahoo Chat and did things that would have gotten him fired without the outright theft of company time.
Atlantic City was supposed to have the NYC billionaires fly down in their private aircraft for a weekend of losing millions. The problem was that AC never drew the crowds. And the working class loves blowing all their money in Vegas. Losing money in AC, and you are just another loser in NJ.
Without the middle class, the place never took off. And the billionaires didn't gamble in AC. If you gotta get on a plane, 20 minutes to AC or 4 hours to Vegas, what would you choose?
The people that invested in AC were simply idiot failures. Coney Island 2. Sounds like fun, but loses money (hoping New Yorkers will come out to play with them).
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In China (a few years before the Olympics) the bathrooms near the area were installing western toilets. The rooms would have a line of "local" stalls, and one (or more, but usually one) tourist toilet. The locals never used the tourist toilet. Seems dirty to sit, rather than squat, for the locals. Local toilets had no flushes. Some were outhouse style, others had a trough below that had a slow steady stream to wash into the sewer. I have no idea if the areas below had any regular cleaning.
soap and water without agitation won't clean, and is messy (water spraying around). Wiping minimizes mess, and the US is more keen on daily showers, where you clean that area more. Bidets are more common in places where daily showers aren't common.
Every US bathroom in houses I've lived in had space for a bidet next to the toilet (some would require shifting the toilet, others not). That may not be representative of all, but in the western US, outside CA (where tiny town houses aren't the norm), it seems that space isn't at such a premium.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... Someone else posted a link to a toilet control panel. Seems pretty complicated, even with pictures.
How do you use the three seashells?
Lots of people are exceptions. The mechanism given only works if the radio is on and tuned to FM. By a strict reading of the mechanism, AM (popular in the US) would prevent operation of RDS. As well as the growing number of people who play music from devices without using FM.
That I'm only one example doesn't mean I'm special. I see around 1% of drivers in the morning with headphones on. One would assume they aren't using their car's FM radio with headphones.
How could the monetize blockchain? Blockchain is used here to mean "secure central account data back-end". It's hard to charge a user for a back-end system.
That's why if you give someone your wallet so you can accept a payment, they have your home address and SSN.
And should we make it illegal to listen to anything that isn't RDS compliant? Will we start making phones RDS complaint, so if someone is using a phone (legally hands-free, or illegally hands-on) the calls will be interrupted as well?
How about people like me that don't even hook up the FM antenna? My "radio" is used primarily as a display for the rear camera, and secondarily for music for long trips, through bluetooth or USB. Am I now an illegal? Does it matter that I drive a special-edition car that has no soundproofing, and thinnner window glass, making the inside about as transparent to outside sounds as a "regular" car with the windows down? (noise being why I never use the radio in town, it's just so hard to hear)
Tesla will have a beta version next week, but will have to roll it back because it causes the car to drive into the nearest tree. Elon Musk will somehow blame both the driver and the tree in one fell tweet.
That was Paul Walker, and it was a Porsche.
No, that's the opposite of what a quant does, as those terms are normally used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analyst#History
Try to change the subject all you like, but the history of Quant goes back to 1900. Are you going to tell me they were useing PCs in 1900 to do quantitative analysis of stocks?
In practice, it's using a few simple equations to find stocks of interest. Separate is analysis of a particular stock. At a trading house, they do quants regularly, and those are identifying "interesting" stocks based on value vs performance metrics. This is low-movement, slow, long-term process that is used by Warren Buffet and others to get consistent long-term gains. The "quant" you are talking about is looking for short-term patterns and exploiting them. They are used by HFT to exploit short-term and tiny swings. The original definition (from the invention of the practice in 1900) was about the long-term version only. Recently the term was adopted by the short-term speculators to give "short term speculation" a term to make it sound more respectable. It still isn't respectable.
Quants have made billions predicting changes in valuations.
Quants have been making those analysies since before computers existed. Running an analysis on 100% of the trading stock every 10 minutes required a computer.
That stuff you're calling "non-AI" is what AI researchers call "AI".
Like I said, to keep it sexy and keep the money flowing, AI researchers have changed the definition of AI to include "anything hard, done on a computer." Then AI, is everything, including the stuff people actually want.
As an aside, you do know that "quants" don't "predict" anything, right? There's a (or many) formula(e) that determine whether a stock is "undervalued". Finding a currently undervalued stock, based on P/E, market cap and past performance (or whatever is in the formula being used) isn't predictive. That it correlates strongly with future growth doesn't make it predictive. "Apple announced they are adding more RAM to the MBP, I'd better buy stock before it comes out, because it'll be a hot seller" is predictive. "AI" doesn't even attempt that.
In 1950, AI meant "strong AI" and nothing else. After lots of work in the '60s and into the '70s, they determined that they couldn't solve it, so "AI" changed definitions. To where today, "AI" means anything, and anyone who questions the overly-permissive definition isn't met with a clear definition, but insults and accusations.
So Deep AI is the same as Deep Learning? Deep Learning isn't AI, though those that like it call it that. When Deep Learning can predict a future trend, then it will be useful. Identifying the start of a trend because something does what something else once did isn't the same.
When Deep Learning can look at the economy and predict the valuation curve of a house as it goes up and down over 20 years, that'd be something interesting. "Bob lives in ZIP 90210 and has previously bought blue boat shoes, his firstborn is likely gay." Is simple probabilities using more data than a human can sift through conveniently, and has no "intelligence" at all, and is not a path to anything that would have been called AI 20 years ago.
AI will exist only when we've finally shifted the definition far enough to allow non-AI to be classified as AI.
Extrapolation using Big Data is AI. Extrapolation using small data is extrapolation. Didn't they teach you this in AI school? The AIs that "learn", don't. They just cull wasted CPU when the requests fit patterns. If something is outside the pattern, it's as dumb as the first time it was run. Data tends to group into a normal curve (or something like it) and "AI" as they describe, groups things into similar bundles.
If a smart programmer were to spend years with BI/BAs and work out the value of the parameters, the AI would be 100% useless. AI (in this context, which isn't an actual AI) doesn't do anything other than look at past trends and apply them to new data. Being human, we assume it's doing it the way we would, which would be actual intelligence. But it does so in a computer-like itterative manner than has no "insight" into the patterns, and could *never* predict a pattern, but counts simple numbers.
Doing lots of math fast looks like AI. So call it AI and claim your AI is the best AI, and nobody does it like you. Smoke and mirrors.
It is. AI now means "useful program". The spellcheck is AI, the car ECU that "learns" driving patterns is AI. Everyone has an AI.
So if a player marks cards, it's a crime, and if the casino does it, it's an invalid game. The house always wins.
Every other player at the table, including the casino, had the same information. Like card counting, they made better use of it than anyone else. That is all.
When creating a new device, I make a new shortcut. One double-click and I'm connected and logged in (or at the password prompt). Getting behind on management is a separate problem you need to work on.
When everyone in the house had a computer, a house would have 4 computers. Now, the personal device for everyone is the phone, and the PC is one per house. So the demand dropped to a lower (but still healthy) baseline. And the cost of the computer dropped as well, with the average computer being cheaper than the premium phone.
The death of the PC is over-stated. Fear-mongering by those who benefit from the one-PC per person numbers we saw near 2000.
The two solutions to this are to have PuTTY shortcuts for all your devices. This eliminates the "need" to open a window to re-type anything. The other easy solution is to SSH from box to box, without closing everything between sessions.
Seems Linux is for the inflexible who want to do something in one and only one way and that one way works on Linux. For those that are more flexible, we don't care.
Changing the EV isn't illegal. Counting cards has shown us that "recognizing" the odds of a win to beat random chance is legal. So I don't see how this was an illegal act. If anything, the casino using marked cards should be the only ones prosecuted. And the players can't be punished for the casino using marked cards.
Road projects never improve traffic, because they never consider one until it's too late for it to be useful. The enviro-nuts use this as an example of how roads cause cars, when the truth is that with enough proper transportation, everything, including cars, would move more efficiently. But we are so far out of the middle of the curve that none of the regular rules apply.
It isn't a keylogger? I only ever used it as such, and it made a great one, configured to send every keystroke to a central server in real time, or saving a local log with every keystroke. Used it to catch a person who clocked in for overtime, then went on Yahoo Chat and did things that would have gotten him fired without the outright theft of company time.
By your logic, counting cards is illegal cheating. It isn't. Thus your logic must be wrong.
Atlantic City was supposed to have the NYC billionaires fly down in their private aircraft for a weekend of losing millions. The problem was that AC never drew the crowds. And the working class loves blowing all their money in Vegas. Losing money in AC, and you are just another loser in NJ.
Without the middle class, the place never took off. And the billionaires didn't gamble in AC. If you gotta get on a plane, 20 minutes to AC or 4 hours to Vegas, what would you choose?
The people that invested in AC were simply idiot failures. Coney Island 2. Sounds like fun, but loses money (hoping New Yorkers will come out to play with them).