There is no excuse for professionally written code to suffer memory leaks.
Over time, the Chrome browser (on OS X) leaks more and more memory until it eventually loses screen synch and flickers on scrolling refresh. Eventually, it just locks up and crashes. This has been the case for at least 10 years.
I don't care what the excuse, professionally written programs should never crash due to memory leaks. Ever. Period.
I'm sure Bing has similar issues on Windows, but Google should do better w/ Chrome on OS X & Linux. They should be ashamed.
Telemarketers cannot lawfully call mobile phones.
Yet I get unsolicited telemarketer texts almost monthly.
So now they've found a slimy way to leave voicemail too?
I hope they get shut down entirely: simply change the law to say they cannot “contact” mobile phones. Period.
Then arithmetic. Then algebra. Then geometry. Then integral/differential calculus.
Then TRS-80 Basic. Then 6502 assembly language. Then Forth.
Then Scheme. Then dBase II. Then C on Unix w/ tcsh & bash. Then Java. Etc.
Note that the question was “programming language”, not computer “programming language”.
First order logic came into play fairly early on, too, but that's not a language per se so much as a technique/methodology.
No-one every seems to mention how medical device manufacturers often extort the device users via a delicate yet precarious conspiracy among physicians, the medical industrial complex, the insurance companies and the federal government.
Specifically, if a physician recommends (in order to limit their liability in compliance w/ medical malpractice insurance) that a patient use a specific device (e.g., a heart implant) then the insurance companies will generally threaten to cancel your insurance if you don't comply w/ the physician's orders (i.e., if you decline the device against your physician's medical advice). Often, physicians are specific about exactly what device they recommend for implantation (St.Jude model XYZ). If you don't comply then the federal government steps in to financially penalize you for not having “health insurance” (which is only incidentally related to actual health or health care).
These doohickies ain't cheap, and they often require on-going maintenance (e.g., periodic data downloading, software updates, etc.) as well as periodic surgical replacement—e.g., every five years or so when the batteries need replacing, it is often more cost effective to surgically replace the entire device than simply replace a removable battery pack. Such services don't come cheap, since (almost by definition) these devices are a matter of life and death yet price regulation is spotty, at best.
So imagine being threatened w/ cancellation of medical insurance if you don't agree to a lifetime contract of, say, $120,000 per year ($30,000 per quarter) for routine maintenance (that's $10,000 per month ($333/day) for insecure data upload/storage/analysis) and $30,000 every five years or so for surgical replacement. Oh, and you cannot service, maintain or otherwise upgrade/hack the electronic device yourself or through a trusted 3rd party, under penalty of violating the warranty and/or infringing a vague family of medical jargon rich patents and/or (again) losing your insurance. You cannot even legally review the details of just how the device and data are secured (or not) since the algorithms and data protection methods used are proprietary.
And security reviews as well as medical testing details are also not public, including both hardware and software updates, both of the devices themselves and of the monitoring & data analysis ecosystems.
This isn't merely predatory capitalism at it's worst: this is state-sanctioned economic & technical oligarchical totalitarianism at its pinnacle, courtesy of so-called ObamaCare. Welcome to the socialist nightmare. Resistance is futile: you will be assimilated.
Keep in mind: it isn't paranoia when the system really is conspiring against you for unrestrained compliance, control and profit, all complements of The Deep State.
“Welcome, my friends. Welcome... to The Machine.” –Pink Floyd
The US.gov won't re-make the mistake of classifying crypto as a munition, for one simple reason [...] If crypto is a munition, then it falls under the Second Amendment.
So instead of classifying it as a munition they will simply classify it as an “assault weapon” or a ”tool of terrorism” or ”racist” or ”hate speech” or ”freedom rape” or some such equivalently nonsensical hyperbolic paranoid political sensationalistic alarmist rhetoric. It's what they do. FUD is currency ($) in politics, and all politicians are rife with avarice: FUD = power. Etc.
The core problem is not w/ engineers nor CEO-level executives: the real root problem here, as usual, is a failure of low-level management & hiring policies.
Cryptographic digital signatures are a way to reliably sign the contents of a message or system update packet (and such) so that any attempt to tamper with the data can be easily detected, while any attempt to forge a valid signature on tampered data is extremely difficult. This way, for example, it becomes extremely difficult to broadcast bogus system updates which actually install malware from a third party, since it is easy to detect if the data is corrupted and/or if the signature was not generated by the purported authority.
Moreover, encryption can be cascaded in various ways so that only the authorized sender could have generated an encrypted message (or signature) and only the authorized recipient can decode it (or them)... as well as only authorized intermediaries being allowed to transmit it from them to you (e.g., passed via Gmail to your specific ISP for delivery). This further stymies any efforts at man-in-the-middle attacks or forged document attacks (such as fake update patches).
This, for example, means that a sender can generate a single encrypted update packet to send to all its customers but use a unique cryptographic digital signature per customer message so that each customer in turn, and only that customer, can validate then install the signed update they receive. By using per-customer unique signatures, broad-based “shotgun” approaches to disseminating malware are no longer tenable.
Note that such use of encryption is not just about data privacy, it is also about verifying data integrity (the data was not corrupted) as well as authority/authenticity/provenance (it came from a specific authorized source who is who they claim to be).
Taxing innovation, efficiency & scientific/engineering progress is not a panacea: it is protectionist economic coercion.
Taxing things you fear (like the future) just because you can is called tyranny. It's the kind of thing decadent monarchs, totalitarian dictators and corrupt nations/states do. It constitutes taxation w/o (fair/honest/reasonable) representation. Hint: People fight revolutions over this sort of thing. Be careful. Stalin and Mao weren't.
Besides, this is about as silly as taxing math because, well, math is hard and only elitists can do math and math only enriches erudite upper-class twits and math gives smarty-pants snobs an unfair advantage over the unwashed masses, and so on.
Why don't we instead tax politicians at thrice the normal rate for income, donations, investments, etc.? Their inadequacies are the core problem with society, not the technology, so why not tax the proximal antecedent instead of the incidental consequent? That is, charge the villain, not the victim. And never elect an idle feckless poser gasbag like pseudo-populist Bill Gates to public office. Please?! Trump alone is enough for now.;-)
Oh, and while we're at it, we should also severely tax economists. This whole “economics” thingy is entirely their fault, no denying it. Sheesh! *wink* *smirk* *shrug*
All of this makes about as much sense as what Gates proposes, if you actually stop and think about it for even a moment. I suspect he's just trolling us, but maybe he's flirting w/ senility instead. Billionaire eccentrics with too much free time on their hands tend to do both.
If only we had some protection against this sort of oppressive Police State intrusion... oh, like, say, the 4th, 5th & 14th amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
Wake up and smell the freedom, please, We the People. Please?
Excellent observation. So the next time Microsoft (or Amazon or Expedia) announce layoffs beyond 75 employees, will this same judge issue a TRO?
Frik: Oh, but companies have a sovereign right to layoff employees at will and w/o advanced notice.
Frak: Yeah, well the Chief Executive (a.k.a. President) also has the right to limit entry into the U.S. at will and w/o notice.
So let me get this straight: a judge rules that since Microsoft in WA state relies on H-1B Visa slave labor—and Microsoft constitutes a large chunk of the WA state tax base—therefore the federal H-1B slave labor program cannot be suspended in the U.S. in any way because that would adversely impact some states' economies.
Didn't we already fight one civil war over this sort of issue? And this ruling was issued during Black History Month?
Consider my mind officially boggled by the blatant irony of this decision.
P.S. Lest you imagine I am just trolling, this was ironically the same appeals judge who proclaimed that “Black Lives Matter” in a hearing involving Seattle police reform.
Ref: http://www.washingtontimes.com... ...... Just sayin'. This judge has a tendency to preach from the bench.
WaPo had an article on the rogue re-tweeting at the National Park Service (part of the Department of the Interior).
Ref: The National Park Service’s Twitter Has Gone Rogue [washingtonpost.com].
And how was that re-tweeting "shitposting" or partisan?
The National Park Service retweeted a photo of the inauguration and a past inauguration. Both showed hundreds of thousands of attendees. Are facts, or comparisons of facts, now considered partisan?
Comparing apples to oranges is not valid data analysis: different weather, different security, different radical protest violence backdrop, different time of day, different TV & streaming audience, etc.
As for how the re-tweeting was “shitposting” or partisan, I refer you to the Miami Herald article that an anonymous poster linked above: https://science.slashdot.org/c...
...and I also refer you again to the Washington Post article I referenced above and which you also obviously didn't bother to read.
Now will the moderators kindly mod this up as `Informative' for providing specific evidence of the point I was raising, or are you folks on a kick to mod as `FlameBait' any posts that don't meet your standards for ideological purity? *wink* To me at least, dismissing someone's post as “alt-drumpf redneck gibberish” is clearly uber-troll flame baiting, bordering on racist, elitist hate speech, no?
Maybe it has something to do with partisans of the former administration being unable to simply DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS without smarmy anti-Trump shitposting?
Can you give an example - one example - of this "shitposting" by workers at these agencies? Can you even point to anything remotely partisan in any of the tweets that were deleted?
So then why was there no blackouts when Obama, Bush, Clinton, the other Bush, etc were elected and took over?
Twitter was founded in 2006 and IPO'd in 2013. It was not in widespread use w/in gov't until Obama's second term.
As for stifling other forms of communication, it was not until recently (i.e., under Obama) that federal agencies issued communication through informal channels, like personal statements or press releases not filtered through an official agency communications director. Federal agencies are also far more politicized ideologically under Obama then they were under previous administrations.
The temporary “stand down” order seems to address imposing some manner of coherence and message discipline so that each agency can speak w/ a single official voice rather than have partisan dissenters undermine policy via unauthorized communiques, like the anonymous coward quoted in the ProPublica article (referenced in the HuffPo article cited in the PopSci article referred to in the Slashdot summary). The worst offenders appear to be the far-left agitators w/in the EPA, HHS/NIH, USDA and the National Park Service, all of which have been told to cut it out until new cabinet picks can take the reins. This especially applies to rogue tweets and other social media releases on official agency accounts issued since Inauguration Day.
There is enough far-left hyperventilation being perpetuated already w/o operatives inside federal agencies pretending to be whistleblowers who are actually just bitter opponents of administrative executive decisions they wish to subvert or conspire to undermine. Working for the fed means you can lose funding on a moment's notice for purely political reasons. If you don't like that, then don't rely on federal funding. Academia had to learn that hard lesson when DARPA funding started drying up under Clinton due to the so-called “cold war peace dividend”, for example.
This appears to be yet more MSM hyperventilation, this time HuffPo & PopSci in league w/ Buzzfeed. Last time it was CNN & MSNBC in league w/ Buzzfeed, so this appears to be the printed media wing of the Alt-Left Brigade... last time it was the hot mic talking heads cable news wing. Note the common thread: Buzzfeed. Mystery solved. These Keystone Cops clowns generate noise, not signal; heat, not light; and political strife, not common consensus.
To wit:
1. This is a temporary freeze on dolling out new taxpayer cash (grants & contracts) during the administration transition period.
2. This is a temporary freeze on spewing official agency propaganda by extremists w/in the agencies who may resent their funds being cut.
E.g., EPA spox admits: “This may be a little wider than some previous administrations, but it’s very similar to what others have done,”
Existing grants, on-going work and publications and conferences will proceed as normal.
Policy statements and other non-scientific/factual commentary is merely suspended until new official spokespersons are appointed.
Read the core articles from credible sources before you pile on w/ paranoid disinformation, please—
viz., https://www.propublica.org/art...
Given the 11th hour sabotage salvos launched by Obama in his last weeks as POTUS, any rational person could sympathize w/ a “stand down” order from the new, in-coming administration to prevent far-left partisan policy loyalists from muddying the waters until the new Presidential cabinet members can take office and plot a course.
And don't pretend to try to paint me as a Trump fanatic: I'm a vehement independent and proud of it. I'm equally suspicious of any and all national parties: RNC, DNC, CNN, MSN, ABC, FOX, etc. The only political unit I trust is WTC (We the People), and even then things run off the rails from time to time. Such is the human condition. We are all mired in muck. Even Pope Francis says so.;-)
Fair enough. Thank you for that. I guess I just prefer they call this machine learning rather than artificial intelligence, but that's my own idiosyncrasy.
Am I the only one who cringes when they read what is (clearly?) a neural network conflated with artificial intelligence?
To me, an artificial intelligence method can explain/justify its ``reasoning''; neural networks cannot.
It's commonly referred to as ``reading the tea leaves''. Or am I just being a snob?
Slashdot Mirror
There is no excuse for professionally written code to suffer memory leaks.
Over time, the Chrome browser (on OS X) leaks more and more memory until it eventually loses screen synch and flickers on scrolling refresh. Eventually, it just locks up and crashes. This has been the case for at least 10 years.
I don't care what the excuse, professionally written programs should never crash due to memory leaks. Ever. Period.
I'm sure Bing has similar issues on Windows, but Google should do better w/ Chrome on OS X & Linux. They should be ashamed.
...let's also ban TVs and calculators.” –Luddite Fascists
Telemarketers cannot lawfully call mobile phones.
Yet I get unsolicited telemarketer texts almost monthly.
So now they've found a slimy way to leave voicemail too?
I hope they get shut down entirely: simply change the law to say they cannot “contact” mobile phones. Period.
English.
Then arithmetic. Then algebra. Then geometry. Then integral/differential calculus.
Then TRS-80 Basic. Then 6502 assembly language. Then Forth.
Then Scheme. Then dBase II. Then C on Unix w/ tcsh & bash. Then Java. Etc.
Note that the question was “programming language”, not computer “programming language”.
First order logic came into play fairly early on, too, but that's not a language per se so much as a technique/methodology.
No-one every seems to mention how medical device manufacturers often extort the device users via a delicate yet precarious conspiracy among physicians, the medical industrial complex, the insurance companies and the federal government.
Specifically, if a physician recommends (in order to limit their liability in compliance w/ medical malpractice insurance) that a patient use a specific device (e.g., a heart implant) then the insurance companies will generally threaten to cancel your insurance if you don't comply w/ the physician's orders (i.e., if you decline the device against your physician's medical advice). Often, physicians are specific about exactly what device they recommend for implantation (St.Jude model XYZ). If you don't comply then the federal government steps in to financially penalize you for not having “health insurance” (which is only incidentally related to actual health or health care).
These doohickies ain't cheap, and they often require on-going maintenance (e.g., periodic data downloading, software updates, etc.) as well as periodic surgical replacement—e.g., every five years or so when the batteries need replacing, it is often more cost effective to surgically replace the entire device than simply replace a removable battery pack. Such services don't come cheap, since (almost by definition) these devices are a matter of life and death yet price regulation is spotty, at best.
So imagine being threatened w/ cancellation of medical insurance if you don't agree to a lifetime contract of, say, $120,000 per year ($30,000 per quarter) for routine maintenance (that's $10,000 per month ($333/day) for insecure data upload/storage/analysis) and $30,000 every five years or so for surgical replacement. Oh, and you cannot service, maintain or otherwise upgrade/hack the electronic device yourself or through a trusted 3rd party, under penalty of violating the warranty and/or infringing a vague family of medical jargon rich patents and/or (again) losing your insurance. You cannot even legally review the details of just how the device and data are secured (or not) since the algorithms and data protection methods used are proprietary.
And security reviews as well as medical testing details are also not public, including both hardware and software updates, both of the devices themselves and of the monitoring & data analysis ecosystems.
This isn't merely predatory capitalism at it's worst: this is state-sanctioned economic & technical oligarchical totalitarianism at its pinnacle, courtesy of so-called ObamaCare. Welcome to the socialist nightmare. Resistance is futile: you will be assimilated.
Keep in mind: it isn't paranoia when the system really is conspiring against you for unrestrained compliance, control and profit, all complements of The Deep State.
“Welcome, my friends. Welcome... to The Machine.” –Pink Floyd
Those over 40 are regularly discriminated against.
Over 50? Forget about it: they openly seek to push you out.
Been there; done that.
So instead of classifying it as a munition they will simply classify it as an “assault weapon” or a ”tool of terrorism” or ”racist” or ”hate speech” or ”freedom rape” or some such equivalently nonsensical hyperbolic paranoid political sensationalistic alarmist rhetoric. It's what they do. FUD is currency ($) in politics, and all politicians are rife with avarice: FUD = power. Etc.
The core problem is not w/ engineers nor CEO-level executives: the real root problem here, as usual, is a failure of low-level management & hiring policies.
Cryptographic digital signatures are a way to reliably sign the contents of a message or system update packet (and such) so that any attempt to tamper with the data can be easily detected, while any attempt to forge a valid signature on tampered data is extremely difficult. This way, for example, it becomes extremely difficult to broadcast bogus system updates which actually install malware from a third party, since it is easy to detect if the data is corrupted and/or if the signature was not generated by the purported authority.
Moreover, encryption can be cascaded in various ways so that only the authorized sender could have generated an encrypted message (or signature) and only the authorized recipient can decode it (or them)... as well as only authorized intermediaries being allowed to transmit it from them to you (e.g., passed via Gmail to your specific ISP for delivery). This further stymies any efforts at man-in-the-middle attacks or forged document attacks (such as fake update patches).
This, for example, means that a sender can generate a single encrypted update packet to send to all its customers but use a unique cryptographic digital signature per customer message so that each customer in turn, and only that customer, can validate then install the signed update they receive. By using per-customer unique signatures, broad-based “shotgun” approaches to disseminating malware are no longer tenable.
Note that such use of encryption is not just about data privacy, it is also about verifying data integrity (the data was not corrupted) as well as authority/authenticity/provenance (it came from a specific authorized source who is who they claim to be).
Caution: sarcasm & satire follow...
Taxing innovation, efficiency & scientific/engineering progress is not a panacea: it is protectionist economic coercion.
Taxing things you fear (like the future) just because you can is called tyranny. It's the kind of thing decadent monarchs, totalitarian dictators and corrupt nations/states do. It constitutes taxation w/o (fair/honest/reasonable) representation. Hint: People fight revolutions over this sort of thing. Be careful. Stalin and Mao weren't.
Besides, this is about as silly as taxing math because, well, math is hard and only elitists can do math and math only enriches erudite upper-class twits and math gives smarty-pants snobs an unfair advantage over the unwashed masses, and so on.
Why don't we instead tax politicians at thrice the normal rate for income, donations, investments, etc.? Their inadequacies are the core problem with society, not the technology, so why not tax the proximal antecedent instead of the incidental consequent? That is, charge the villain, not the victim. And never elect an idle feckless poser gasbag like pseudo-populist Bill Gates to public office. Please?! Trump alone is enough for now. ;-)
Oh, and while we're at it, we should also severely tax economists. This whole “economics” thingy is entirely their fault, no denying it. Sheesh! *wink* *smirk* *shrug*
All of this makes about as much sense as what Gates proposes, if you actually stop and think about it for even a moment. I suspect he's just trolling us, but maybe he's flirting w/ senility instead. Billionaire eccentrics with too much free time on their hands tend to do both.
If only we had some protection against this sort of oppressive Police State intrusion... oh, like, say, the 4th, 5th & 14th amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
Wake up and smell the freedom, please, We the People. Please?
Hexadecimal: what it is, why it is and how & why it evolved from octal.
That, and why real computer scientists often confuse Halloween w/ Christmas: 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
Excellent observation. So the next time Microsoft (or Amazon or Expedia) announce layoffs beyond 75 employees, will this same judge issue a TRO?
Frik: Oh, but companies have a sovereign right to layoff employees at will and w/o advanced notice.
Frak: Yeah, well the Chief Executive (a.k.a. President) also has the right to limit entry into the U.S. at will and w/o notice.
Check mate.
So let me get this straight: a judge rules that since Microsoft in WA state relies on H-1B Visa slave labor—and Microsoft constitutes a large chunk of the WA state tax base—therefore the federal H-1B slave labor program cannot be suspended in the U.S. in any way because that would adversely impact some states' economies.
Didn't we already fight one civil war over this sort of issue? And this ruling was issued during Black History Month?
Consider my mind officially boggled by the blatant irony of this decision.
P.S. Lest you imagine I am just trolling, this was ironically the same appeals judge who proclaimed that “Black Lives Matter” in a hearing involving Seattle police reform.
...... Just sayin'. This judge has a tendency to preach from the bench.
Ref: http://www.washingtontimes.com...
See: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06...
And how was that re-tweeting "shitposting" or partisan?
The National Park Service retweeted a photo of the inauguration and a past inauguration. Both showed hundreds of thousands of attendees. Are facts, or comparisons of facts, now considered partisan?
Comparing apples to oranges is not valid data analysis: different weather, different security, different radical protest violence backdrop, different time of day, different TV & streaming audience, etc.
As for how the re-tweeting was “shitposting” or partisan, I refer you to the Miami Herald article that an anonymous poster linked above: https://science.slashdot.org/c...
And, finally, this from WaPo:
USDA scrambles to ease concerns after researchers were ordered to stop publishing news releases
There, so have I redeemed myself sufficiently by backing up my accusations that this was exaggerated reporting, or are you unpersuaded by facts?
Moreover, the hyperbole by HuffPo, PopSci, Buzzfeed and others has now been walked back by actual journalists at WaPo & Reuters:
WashPo: Interior Department reactivates Twitter accounts after shutdown following inauguration
Reuters: USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit
Uhm, except that the inconvenient truth is that it actually happened, sadly:
The National Park Service’s Twitter Has Gone Rogue
Now will the moderators kindly mod this up as `Informative' for providing specific evidence of the point I was raising, or are you folks on a kick to mod as `FlameBait' any posts that don't meet your standards for ideological purity? *wink* To me at least, dismissing someone's post as “alt-drumpf redneck gibberish” is clearly uber-troll flame baiting, bordering on racist, elitist hate speech, no?
Can you give an example - one example - of this "shitposting" by workers at these agencies? Can you even point to anything remotely partisan in any of the tweets that were deleted?
WaPo had an article on the rogue re-tweeting at the National Park Service (part of the Department of the Interior).
Ref: The National Park Service’s Twitter Has Gone Rogue.
So then why was there no blackouts when Obama, Bush, Clinton, the other Bush, etc were elected and took over?
Twitter was founded in 2006 and IPO'd in 2013. It was not in widespread use w/in gov't until Obama's second term.
As for stifling other forms of communication, it was not until recently (i.e., under Obama) that federal agencies issued communication through informal channels, like personal statements or press releases not filtered through an official agency communications director. Federal agencies are also far more politicized ideologically under Obama then they were under previous administrations.
The temporary “stand down” order seems to address imposing some manner of coherence and message discipline so that each agency can speak w/ a single official voice rather than have partisan dissenters undermine policy via unauthorized communiques, like the anonymous coward quoted in the ProPublica article (referenced in the HuffPo article cited in the PopSci article referred to in the Slashdot summary). The worst offenders appear to be the far-left agitators w/in the EPA, HHS/NIH, USDA and the National Park Service, all of which have been told to cut it out until new cabinet picks can take the reins. This especially applies to rogue tweets and other social media releases on official agency accounts issued since Inauguration Day.
There is enough far-left hyperventilation being perpetuated already w/o operatives inside federal agencies pretending to be whistleblowers who are actually just bitter opponents of administrative executive decisions they wish to subvert or conspire to undermine. Working for the fed means you can lose funding on a moment's notice for purely political reasons. If you don't like that, then don't rely on federal funding. Academia had to learn that hard lesson when DARPA funding started drying up under Clinton due to the so-called “cold war peace dividend”, for example.
This appears to be yet more MSM hyperventilation, this time HuffPo & PopSci in league w/ Buzzfeed. Last time it was CNN & MSNBC in league w/ Buzzfeed, so this appears to be the printed media wing of the Alt-Left Brigade... last time it was the hot mic talking heads cable news wing. Note the common thread: Buzzfeed. Mystery solved. These Keystone Cops clowns generate noise, not signal; heat, not light; and political strife, not common consensus.
To wit:
1. This is a temporary freeze on dolling out new taxpayer cash (grants & contracts) during the administration transition period.
2. This is a temporary freeze on spewing official agency propaganda by extremists w/in the agencies who may resent their funds being cut.
E.g., EPA spox admits: “This may be a little wider than some previous administrations, but it’s very similar to what others have done,”
Existing grants, on-going work and publications and conferences will proceed as normal.
Policy statements and other non-scientific/factual commentary is merely suspended until new official spokespersons are appointed.
Read the core articles from credible sources before you pile on w/ paranoid disinformation, please— viz., https://www.propublica.org/art...
Given the 11th hour sabotage salvos launched by Obama in his last weeks as POTUS, any rational person could sympathize w/ a “stand down” order from the new, in-coming administration to prevent far-left partisan policy loyalists from muddying the waters until the new Presidential cabinet members can take office and plot a course.
And don't pretend to try to paint me as a Trump fanatic: I'm a vehement independent and proud of it. I'm equally suspicious of any and all national parties: RNC, DNC, CNN, MSN, ABC, FOX, etc. The only political unit I trust is WTC (We the People), and even then things run off the rails from time to time. Such is the human condition. We are all mired in muck. Even Pope Francis says so. ;-)
Ya know, Einstein, that's what they said to... uhm... Einstein. ;-)
Fair enough. Thank you for that. I guess I just prefer they call this machine learning rather than artificial intelligence, but that's my own idiosyncrasy.
Am I the only one who cringes when they read what is (clearly?) a neural network conflated with artificial intelligence?
To me, an artificial intelligence method can explain/justify its ``reasoning''; neural networks cannot.
It's commonly referred to as ``reading the tea leaves''. Or am I just being a snob?