It's kind of funny that you say that. As the number of people on this planet has increased, the number who are starving has gone down.
We are getting better, but a lot of how we are getting better has to do with transparency: free flow of accurate information. The IoT supports that, in addition to talking toasters.
If you haven't heard the Jeff Foxworthy "you might be a redneck" bit, it's good.
Us, personally, our house is only 1/4 mile off the paved road, and 3 of our 4 vehicles are presently road-worthy. I don't know if that makes us pink-necks, or what?
40 years ago, I was taught in school that Homo sapiens was the only intelligent species on the planet, because of tool use, self awareness and language.
It isn't all that clear-cut. I liked my bio-professor's definition of "is it cruel?" - "if it doesn't try to get away from you while you do it, it's not cruel" said about passing an electrical current through sea urchins causing them to release their eggs and sperm into the water...
Is the fly intelligent? More than many people seem to give it credit for. I have observed territorial, investigative and defensive behavior in wasps - and they are supposed to have something like 100,000 neurons total, with under 10,000 in their brain. Until such time as we can "make" a fly or wasp analog with similar capabilities from scratch (not copying, designing from the ground up), I'd say that we should reserve judgement on just how intelligent the creatures are, or are not.
Does that mean that we should never harm a fly? Some people think so, not me, but they probably deserve a bit more respect than a speck of mud on your shoe.
Super small, maybe not, but super power efficient is absolutely key.
I installed wireless thermosensors with IR motion sensors in several rooms in my house, they're zigbee connected to a "smart" thermostat, and I'm quite pleased that they've been running for over a year on a single coin cell - if I had to replace the batteries in those things every 2-3 months, I'd rip the system out and replace it with something that required less maintenance.
There is no "need" for the IoT. We've been getting along fine w/o it and don't really see any point to 99% of it.
When there were only 3 billion people on the planet, no, they didn't need the IoT.
If we keep packing in, at some point we will need these kinds of management tools just to handle the logistics of keeping everyone fed, clothed, housed, and not killing each other too often.
What people don't know is that AI is already there, routing your phone calls, responding to your e-mails, advising your investment decisions, sorting your photographs, profiling you as a security risk and a potential customer, making front line decisions about whether or not your job application gets considered by humans...
It doesn't have to be implemented in a neural net to be AI. Some simplistic algorithms are still "smarter" and more efficient than your average employee...
And a true redneck wouldn't want to work for any pansy-ass shop that expects everyone to talk like they're from up north all day long. And they sure as hell aren't going ballin' to their congresscritters to make folks hire 'em regardless of how they sound.
Not sayin' that rednecks don't reform and learn how to talk like the rest of the world so they can get a job, just that they aren't really rednecks anymore after they do that.
Just imagine the translators, bots that read the news for you, then re-interpret it to fit your world view... we may yet have another world war if people start living with that much insulation from one another.
Yeah, the Atari cost me 2 months of full-time paychecks (more like 4 months with my schedules at the time), $600 is 3 days take-home after all the deductions now, and the phone is roughly 1000x the computer that the Atari was.
Or do you think some random teacher is the best person to decide on the social values or your child? Think about it..
I think that social values in the schools are a curriculum driven subject, decided at the regional level and driven to the teachers with approved core materials and testing metrics to verify adequate delivery. In other words, a total crock, like the rest of the system.
Teachers will teach social values, and not teach them, regardless of what you want, or what any curriculum specifies. The fact that you are handing your children over to the institution 6 hours a day 180 days a year for 13 years means that you are accepting the judgement of these random teachers, administrators, and everybody else in the system to "help you raise your kids."
My experience of school was 10% "factual education" and 90% social learning. On average, an hour of school had about 6 minutes of "material" to learn, and 54 minutes of learning how to deal with peers and authority.
When rednecks are being denied employment from jobs they desire, because they're readily identifiable as a redneck;
when rednecks are being denied entry to social clubs and bars they desire entry to, because they're readily identifiable as a redneck;
when rednecks realize that these things are happening, and they actually give a damn: they won't be true rednecks anymore.
The Donkey to Shrek "you don't care what anybody thinks" attitude is central to being a redneck, they don't have to be ignorant of how the label limits them socially, they just have to not care; being proud of it is sort of redneck level 2, flying a big rebel flag on the back of your pickup truck would make level 3.
I write automatic code generators professionally. It keeps me quite busy. Sure, if you put a LOC metric on the output from the generator (and, especially if you count lines every time you run an iteration), it's a beast, cranking out LOC 10 to 1000x faster than a human coder. But, in terms of solving problems, automatic code generators are still solving problems at a human scale pace.
Describe a problem, implement a solution, test the solution, discover problems in the solution (or, as often, in the original problem description), describe those problems, rinse, lather, repeat. Doesn't matter if there are "automatic code generators" in the loop, compilers have been automatically generating code since the 1960s, that hasn't decreased the available programming work, just the level of detail that people work at.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to make after hours work available to employees, if they're inclined to deal with it... as long as there is an acknowledgement of the after hours work and some compensation - if not overtime pay, then comp time during core hours.
To me core hours are those times when your professional colleagues should expect you to be available, responsive to questions. If you're doing significant after-hours work, then there should be significant on-call time during core hours when you're readily available, but not specifically working for the company to compensate.
My parents were high school teachers, so we weren't exactly rolling in money, but I bought my Atari 800 with my "life savings" of $700, and by the time I got a disk drive and a couple of other accessories for it, I was in over $1200. Back then, families with money didn't buy PCs just because they could afford them, it was more of an interest thing - even the poorer families with an interest could afford one if they really wanted it, but most people thought that $1000 for a computer was insane.
Today, I still think $600 for a mobile phone is insane, but lots of people are doing it.
In 1983, I went to a high school with 250 seniors - of those 250 seniors, I think we had 2 homes with PCs. The previous year was a bit more computer savvy, there might have been 4 home computers, but the following year maybe only had 1. So, yeah, there were "loads" of us, but we were in a distinct minority.
Back when minimum wage was $3.35/hr and a new Apple II was upwards of $1000, yeah, computer programming was a little esoteric.
Even the "lower quartile" of income families commonly carry smartphones today, and you can set yourself up with a "learn to code" development kit for under $100 (+ the HDMI input TV). Whether or not you get employment with the skill, it's something you can learn, do, and show your friends on your phone - way different from 1983 when you had to go to a special computer lab, or visit the less than 1% of homes that had a home computer.
Hell, I just set up a free AWS EC instance the other night, and with a few weekends of "learning to code" that could run one hell of a BBS that people could access from their phones - become the next Mark Zuckerberg, or just share a few text messages with your friends using your own homebrew social network.
You would be amazed at the stuff that doesn't get done for bureaucratic reasons, the things that engineers know that don't get put into practice - like: knowing that the O-Rings on the shuttle boosters are vulnerable to freezing pre-launch temperatures and could lead to a loss of vehicle incident, yeah, engineers knew that.
Sometimes, when the "unwashed masses" start crying out for the obvious, the "powers that be" start moving in the direction of doing something, they have far too much practice ignoring engineers' "good ideas" - less so fending off an angry mob asking them why they aren't doing the obvious.
So, then, after submersion, seawater would be expected to ingress on a rearward facing port, while normal flying would not bring water in a rear-facing hole?
Ever pull the drainplug on a motorboat while it is running?
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In a world of 7 billion people, a 0.01% problem has the potential to adversely affect seven hundred thousand people.
No doubt, cell phones aren't killing a great number of people, but...
It's kind of funny that you say that. As the number of people on this planet has increased, the number who are starving has gone down.
We are getting better, but a lot of how we are getting better has to do with transparency: free flow of accurate information. The IoT supports that, in addition to talking toasters.
If you haven't heard the Jeff Foxworthy "you might be a redneck" bit, it's good.
Us, personally, our house is only 1/4 mile off the paved road, and 3 of our 4 vehicles are presently road-worthy. I don't know if that makes us pink-necks, or what?
40 years ago, I was taught in school that Homo sapiens was the only intelligent species on the planet, because of tool use, self awareness and language.
It isn't all that clear-cut. I liked my bio-professor's definition of "is it cruel?" - "if it doesn't try to get away from you while you do it, it's not cruel" said about passing an electrical current through sea urchins causing them to release their eggs and sperm into the water...
Is the fly intelligent? More than many people seem to give it credit for. I have observed territorial, investigative and defensive behavior in wasps - and they are supposed to have something like 100,000 neurons total, with under 10,000 in their brain. Until such time as we can "make" a fly or wasp analog with similar capabilities from scratch (not copying, designing from the ground up), I'd say that we should reserve judgement on just how intelligent the creatures are, or are not.
Does that mean that we should never harm a fly? Some people think so, not me, but they probably deserve a bit more respect than a speck of mud on your shoe.
http://journals.plos.org/ploso...
Security will never be "fixed," it's a moving target, arms race.
Super small, maybe not, but super power efficient is absolutely key.
I installed wireless thermosensors with IR motion sensors in several rooms in my house, they're zigbee connected to a "smart" thermostat, and I'm quite pleased that they've been running for over a year on a single coin cell - if I had to replace the batteries in those things every 2-3 months, I'd rip the system out and replace it with something that required less maintenance.
The "smart refrigerator" won't make sense until there are automatons delivering food to it directly from the distribution channel.
However, cheap distributed sensors in all kinds of industrial equipment _do_ make a lot of sense, as in strong ROI dollars sense.
The consumer side is just plinking away at every possible idea, hoping to be the next fad that catches fire.
There is no "need" for the IoT. We've been getting along fine w/o it and don't really see any point to 99% of it.
When there were only 3 billion people on the planet, no, they didn't need the IoT.
If we keep packing in, at some point we will need these kinds of management tools just to handle the logistics of keeping everyone fed, clothed, housed, and not killing each other too often.
What people don't know is that AI is already there, routing your phone calls, responding to your e-mails, advising your investment decisions, sorting your photographs, profiling you as a security risk and a potential customer, making front line decisions about whether or not your job application gets considered by humans...
It doesn't have to be implemented in a neural net to be AI. Some simplistic algorithms are still "smarter" and more efficient than your average employee...
He's already indistinguishable from a chatbot. Zing!
(I'm actually kidding.)
Took long enough, I thought that was an obvious setup but nobody was following through (until you.)
And a true redneck wouldn't want to work for any pansy-ass shop that expects everyone to talk like they're from up north all day long. And they sure as hell aren't going ballin' to their congresscritters to make folks hire 'em regardless of how they sound.
Not sayin' that rednecks don't reform and learn how to talk like the rest of the world so they can get a job, just that they aren't really rednecks anymore after they do that.
Just imagine the translators, bots that read the news for you, then re-interpret it to fit your world view... we may yet have another world war if people start living with that much insulation from one another.
Yeah, the Atari cost me 2 months of full-time paychecks (more like 4 months with my schedules at the time), $600 is 3 days take-home after all the deductions now, and the phone is roughly 1000x the computer that the Atari was.
It's Eliza 3.0... they will continue to improve, but I'm skeptical that we'll be seeing "original thought" from them in the next 40 years.
This is actually how Ray is going to achieve immortality, he's going to get Google to create a chatbot that is indistinguishable from himself.
Or do you think some random teacher is the best person to decide on the social values or your child?
Think about it..
I think that social values in the schools are a curriculum driven subject, decided at the regional level and driven to the teachers with approved core materials and testing metrics to verify adequate delivery. In other words, a total crock, like the rest of the system.
Teachers will teach social values, and not teach them, regardless of what you want, or what any curriculum specifies. The fact that you are handing your children over to the institution 6 hours a day 180 days a year for 13 years means that you are accepting the judgement of these random teachers, administrators, and everybody else in the system to "help you raise your kids."
My experience of school was 10% "factual education" and 90% social learning. On average, an hour of school had about 6 minutes of "material" to learn, and 54 minutes of learning how to deal with peers and authority.
When rednecks are being denied employment from jobs they desire, because they're readily identifiable as a redneck;
when rednecks are being denied entry to social clubs and bars they desire entry to, because they're readily identifiable as a redneck;
when rednecks realize that these things are happening, and they actually give a damn: they won't be true rednecks anymore.
The Donkey to Shrek "you don't care what anybody thinks" attitude is central to being a redneck, they don't have to be ignorant of how the label limits them socially, they just have to not care; being proud of it is sort of redneck level 2, flying a big rebel flag on the back of your pickup truck would make level 3.
I write automatic code generators professionally. It keeps me quite busy. Sure, if you put a LOC metric on the output from the generator (and, especially if you count lines every time you run an iteration), it's a beast, cranking out LOC 10 to 1000x faster than a human coder. But, in terms of solving problems, automatic code generators are still solving problems at a human scale pace.
Describe a problem, implement a solution, test the solution, discover problems in the solution (or, as often, in the original problem description), describe those problems, rinse, lather, repeat. Doesn't matter if there are "automatic code generators" in the loop, compilers have been automatically generating code since the 1960s, that hasn't decreased the available programming work, just the level of detail that people work at.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to make after hours work available to employees, if they're inclined to deal with it... as long as there is an acknowledgement of the after hours work and some compensation - if not overtime pay, then comp time during core hours.
To me core hours are those times when your professional colleagues should expect you to be available, responsive to questions. If you're doing significant after-hours work, then there should be significant on-call time during core hours when you're readily available, but not specifically working for the company to compensate.
My parents were high school teachers, so we weren't exactly rolling in money, but I bought my Atari 800 with my "life savings" of $700, and by the time I got a disk drive and a couple of other accessories for it, I was in over $1200. Back then, families with money didn't buy PCs just because they could afford them, it was more of an interest thing - even the poorer families with an interest could afford one if they really wanted it, but most people thought that $1000 for a computer was insane.
Today, I still think $600 for a mobile phone is insane, but lots of people are doing it.
In 1983, I went to a high school with 250 seniors - of those 250 seniors, I think we had 2 homes with PCs. The previous year was a bit more computer savvy, there might have been 4 home computers, but the following year maybe only had 1. So, yeah, there were "loads" of us, but we were in a distinct minority.
Back when minimum wage was $3.35/hr and a new Apple II was upwards of $1000, yeah, computer programming was a little esoteric.
Even the "lower quartile" of income families commonly carry smartphones today, and you can set yourself up with a "learn to code" development kit for under $100 (+ the HDMI input TV). Whether or not you get employment with the skill, it's something you can learn, do, and show your friends on your phone - way different from 1983 when you had to go to a special computer lab, or visit the less than 1% of homes that had a home computer.
Hell, I just set up a free AWS EC instance the other night, and with a few weekends of "learning to code" that could run one hell of a BBS that people could access from their phones - become the next Mark Zuckerberg, or just share a few text messages with your friends using your own homebrew social network.
You would be amazed at the stuff that doesn't get done for bureaucratic reasons, the things that engineers know that don't get put into practice - like: knowing that the O-Rings on the shuttle boosters are vulnerable to freezing pre-launch temperatures and could lead to a loss of vehicle incident, yeah, engineers knew that.
Sometimes, when the "unwashed masses" start crying out for the obvious, the "powers that be" start moving in the direction of doing something, they have far too much practice ignoring engineers' "good ideas" - less so fending off an angry mob asking them why they aren't doing the obvious.
So, then, after submersion, seawater would be expected to ingress on a rearward facing port, while normal flying would not bring water in a rear-facing hole?
Ever pull the drainplug on a motorboat while it is running?
Sealed on the front, open vent on the back?