Because we raise concentrations of CO2 in greenhouses significantly beyond what is in the normal atmosphere, as that makes plants much more efficient.
Not unless they have adequate water, and rising temperatures are likely to turn millions of hectares of arable land into parched desert. Thus, no food.
We are 100% dependent on the the availability of potable water to irrigate our crops, and you can't irrigate crops with water that has already evaporated due to rising temperatures worldwide.
Being a "professor" normally assumes a Ph.D. in the subject. He doesn't even have a master's.
Wadhwa is nothing but another blowhard "tech journalist".
I think it's clear we need far fewer historians than we do software engineers,
Yet the universities are churning out a dozen arts grads for every computer engineering grad. Supply and demand: huge supply of liberal arts grads, small demand.
There's no basic need we can't scale to meet at any population level - it's just a question of priorities.
Like the "basic need" to not have the earth turn into a furnace over the next century? Because if it does, you can forget agricultural efficiency because you can't have agriculture without water - and water is already getting scarce in many of the world's major food-growing regions.
They just keep going, sucking up resources and FBI labor hours until they become absolutely pointless.
Several guilty pleas and a half-dozen serious criminal charges is "pointless"? Only if you are terrified that the "Make Russia Great Again" president ends up in jail.
It would be great if all new long-haul cabs were required to be dual-fuel (Diesel and LNG). LNG is far cleaner in both CO2 and pollutants, cheaper per mile, and 100% domestic product.
It actually is pretty Boolean: Use it for anything real and you are a liar.
Who the fuck appointed you the arbitrator of what's
"intelligent" and what isn't?
Besides, anybody who has read your previous posts knows that you consider intelligence to be some kind of supernatural hocus-pocus, so of course a machine can't have it.
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Hitler because he promised to end the rampant Communist violence in Germany.
Which he made up.
People just don't want to spend the money.
AGW exists, it's just hyped beyond what the evidence warrants.
Well, you have moved beyond the "AGW doesn't exist. It's just an academic/ China conspiracy" lunacy.
I guess that is progress.
There should be a bipartisan congressional investigation
You'll have to wait until the midterm elections for that.
What ever happened to the guy at the top taking responsibility?
Uh, what happened?
November 2016 happened, that's what.
Because we raise concentrations of CO2 in greenhouses significantly beyond what is in the normal atmosphere, as that makes plants much more efficient.
Not unless they have adequate water, and rising temperatures are likely to turn millions of hectares of arable land into parched desert.
Thus, no food.
We're really not that dependent.
We are 100% dependent on the the availability of potable water to irrigate our crops,
and you can't irrigate crops with water that has already evaporated
due to rising temperatures worldwide.
It was the market that took down Enron and Bernie Madoff,
Only after they robbed millions of people of their life savings, and payed no price for it.
The author is an engineering professor.
Like fuck he is.
He's a journalist with a B.A. in "Computer Studies" and an MBA in marketing.
All this "engineering professor" stuff is just him marketing himself.
It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the Trump in general."
FTFY.
And yet critical analysis (an offshoot of postmodernist philosophy) is what libarts academics usually mean when they talk about "critical thinking".
Being a "professor" normally assumes a Ph.D. in the subject. He doesn't even have a master's.
Wadhwa is nothing but another blowhard "tech journalist".
Not even 50% of the slashdot readers with a science degree realize they have a liberal arts degree!
So you get to define what the phrase "liberal arts" means?
Today, it basically means "subjects that people can excel in even if they suck at math".
I think it's clear we need far fewer historians than we do software engineers,
Yet the universities are churning out a dozen arts grads for every computer engineering grad.
Supply and demand: huge supply of liberal arts grads, small demand.
And of course, you will need a civil engineer to build an information super-highway.
I don't think either side is "right" or "wrong".
If some slashdotters need to put others down to bolster their weak self-esteem, that's up to them.
There's no basic need we can't scale to meet at any population level - it's just a question of priorities.
Like the "basic need" to not have the earth turn into a furnace over the next century?
Because if it does, you can forget agricultural efficiency because you can't have agriculture without water -
and water is already getting scarce in many of the world's major food-growing regions.
We've figured out how to slow down an asteroid on a collision with Earth?
Sure, it will slow down a lot when it hits the earth.
Or did you mean "slow down an asteroid without killing everybody?
They just keep going, sucking up resources and FBI labor hours until they become absolutely pointless.
Several guilty pleas and a half-dozen serious criminal charges is "pointless"?
Only if you are terrified that the "Make Russia Great Again" president ends up in jail.
IIRC, it has to have at least four ounces of metal to be legal
No problem: embed a bunch of coins in the grip. It will look just like a wallet.
Oops. I meant CNG.
It would be great if all new long-haul cabs were required to be dual-fuel (Diesel and LNG).
LNG is far cleaner in both CO2 and pollutants, cheaper per mile, and 100% domestic product.
"I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention," Malarkey admitted.
Has there ever been a more perfect name?
Only if you subscribe to gweihir's superstitious concept of intelligence.
It actually is pretty Boolean: Use it for anything real and you are a liar.
Who the fuck appointed you the arbitrator of what's "intelligent" and what isn't?
Besides, anybody who has read your previous posts knows that you consider
intelligence to be some kind of supernatural hocus-pocus,
so of course a machine can't have it.