The Trump fans and the Trump haters will, once he's been in office office a while, be all disappointed and relieved to learn he wasn't all they had hoped and feared he was going to be, respectively.
Or maybe they'll both be disappointed. Seems like some of them really enjoy being afraid of The Next Hitler (sm).
Nothing to keep hobbyists from creating Arduino gadgets that do such a thing.
First the range-sensing features, mounted in the front and rear license plate frames and connected to the gadget. Connect it into the car's diagnostic port to get speed and perhaps other information.
Even without interacting with other cars' gadgets, it could still announce useful things, like "Yikes! That car's slowing down fast!" or "You're tailgating more than usual." or "You've been averaging 27 MPH in stop-and-go. You might want to back off a little and just drive 27 for a while."
After more cars in a vicinity have it, adding car-to-car features starts to make sense.
Get enough of them, and reporting of bumper-to-bumper conditions becomes (at least sometimes) available.
I'd love to know about a slowdown (or a speed-up) that was over the next hill or around the bend, and adjust my speed and following distance to save on braking and accelerating before it became obvious it was a good idea -- 30 seconds ago.
With adequate shared data and appropriate algorithms, maybe we could avoid those damn standing-wave blockages that persist long after the original cause has been removed. It might help even if the gadgets were not on all cars.
Actually, the word you're looking for is "leak", not "hack".
"Leak". As in, a dirty secret is revealed to the world.
They (whoever "they" are) obtained information without permission and revealed it to voters.
If that's an effective way of potentially changing the outcome of an election, what's the problem?
I mean, doesn't acquiring more information turn a "low information voter" into a "high information voter", and isn't that supposed to be a good thing?
Sure, when it's embarrassing information for about candidate, golly, what a bummer for that candidate, and those who are relying on that candidate getting elected.
Look at the crop circles fad that happened in the 90s, etc. That ended up proving several new geometric proofs (in relationship between circles and triangles IIRC)
Want to know if a site is a real news site or a fake news site? If the site refers to Castro as a "leader" or "controversial figure" but not as a dictator, it's a fake news site.
The only news reporting that is 100% objective and without bias is the raw info about sports or stocks: box scores and stock listings. (Though I don't know when was the last time a newspaper actually printed stock prices.) It is about verifiable facts, not opinions. No "Sources close to the first base coach state that...". No "It is believed that McDuck's repurchase of outstanding shares..."
The facts to be reported are selected before the events occur. Hits, runs, errors, etc. Stocks, prices, volumes.
It's because they're filling in a template, essentially.
For a lot of news, there is no template.
But for a lot of news, there could be.
An example. Murder: victim's name, approximate address, occupation, demographic info. List of suspects, if any. Each suspect's name, approximate address, occupation, demographic info. If no list, the explanation given by the police for the absence.
I wonder a bunch of things. It looks like the internal representation of language the GNMT uses (if there is one) could come in handy, if we could just figure out how to use it without understanding it.
A 2D Fourier transform of anything non-trivial is incomprehensible, but they can be used to reconstruct the original, as-is or with some tweaking. Tweaking of the FT, tweaking of the reconstructing process.
Perhaps something somewhat analogous could be done with these internal language representations. What, I surely don't know.
Maybe humans can reverse-engineer it by treating it as a cryptography problem. Like with known plaintext, and the ability to create new plaintext-cyphertext pairs as needed.
What's the difference in that internal representation between "Spike is a cat" and "Spike is a dog", and how does that differ from the difference between "Mike is a cat" and "Mike is a dog"? Throw in "Fluffy is a wolverine" and "Fluffy is a cat", and see if you can now synthesize "Spike is a wolverine".
Planting trees would help. So would sequestering paper in landfills rather than recycling it. And it's easier to not recycle than it is to recycle, so this seems an underappreciated approach. (Too bad recycling is more of a religious act in so many minds, rather than an ethical or pragmatic one.)
Sprinkling iron oxide and/or other nutrients in the ocean to encourage photosynthesis is another promising approach that has spawned "religious" objections.
Whatever happened to OTEC? The "waste" cold seawater was claimed to be chock-full of nutrients. Generate electricity while making nutrients more accessible sounds like a win-win. And it's of a (more) natural origin, which could reduce the "religious" objections. Or so an optimist might think.
Maybe that would be more nutrition than the local ecosystem could handle. In that case, don't dump it in the ocean directly. Use it to grow algae (or algae and what, indirectly, eats algae) first, then harvest the fish or crabs or lobsters or whatever, then dump the nutrient-depleted seawater in the ocean.
Sounds expensive to set up, with no certainty of payoff. I may have just answered my own question. Or so a pessimist might think.
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I can't detect sarcasm when people use terms like Trumptards or Killery. No matter which way I guess, I'm often wrong.
The Trump fans and the Trump haters will, once he's been in office office a while, be all disappointed and relieved to learn he wasn't all they had hoped and feared he was going to be, respectively.
Or maybe they'll both be disappointed. Seems like some of them really enjoy being afraid of The Next Hitler (sm).
All the drama about recounts and "renegade electors" meant that Hillary Clinton lost three times. Which is great.
Too bad that meant Donald Trump won three itimes.
Nothing to keep hobbyists from creating Arduino gadgets that do such a thing.
First the range-sensing features, mounted in the front and rear license plate frames and connected to the gadget. Connect it into the car's diagnostic port to get speed and perhaps other information.
Even without interacting with other cars' gadgets, it could still announce useful things, like "Yikes! That car's slowing down fast!" or "You're tailgating more than usual." or "You've been averaging 27 MPH in stop-and-go. You might want to back off a little and just drive 27 for a while."
After more cars in a vicinity have it, adding car-to-car features starts to make sense.
Get enough of them, and reporting of bumper-to-bumper conditions becomes (at least sometimes) available.
I'd love to know about a slowdown (or a speed-up) that was over the next hill or around the bend, and adjust my speed and following distance to save on braking and accelerating before it became obvious it was a good idea -- 30 seconds ago.
With adequate shared data and appropriate algorithms, maybe we could avoid those damn standing-wave blockages that persist long after the original cause has been removed. It might help even if the gadgets were not on all cars.
They were wrong, but they MADE Iraq about 9/11.
Not to me.
For what that's worth.
Which is approximately nothing.
Actually, the word you're looking for is "leak", not "hack".
"Leak". As in, a dirty secret is revealed to the world.
They (whoever "they" are) obtained information without permission and revealed it to voters.
If that's an effective way of potentially changing the outcome of an election, what's the problem?
I mean, doesn't acquiring more information turn a "low information voter" into a "high information voter", and isn't that supposed to be a good thing?
Sure, when it's embarrassing information for about candidate, golly, what a bummer for that candidate, and those who are relying on that candidate getting elected.
Look at the crop circles fad that happened in the 90s, etc. That ended up proving several new geometric proofs (in relationship between circles and triangles IIRC)
Do tell. With links, preferably.
We're only about 20 or 25 years away from practical fusion power. Still. Again. Always.
Nobody's interested in hearing about your mental problems.
Are ya kiddin'? ObamaCare is what caused the decline.
Well, they're funding a war on some fake news sites.
One way to identify a fake news site: did they refer to Fidel Castro as a "leader" or "revolutionary" and not as a dictator?
I'm guessing the NYT is not one of the sites they'll be gunning for.
You do know he's not president yet, right?
Not this American's.
Want to know if a site is a real news site or a fake news site? If the site refers to Castro as a "leader" or "controversial figure" but not as a dictator, it's a fake news site.
The program had good intentions but got mixed results.
Hell's pavement! Who could possibly have predicted that?
Anyone with even an elementary understanding of economics. So, yeah, almost nobody in elected office in D.C.
The only news reporting that is 100% objective and without bias is the raw info about sports or stocks: box scores and stock listings. (Though I don't know when was the last time a newspaper actually printed stock prices.) It is about verifiable facts, not opinions. No "Sources close to the first base coach state that ...". No "It is believed that McDuck's repurchase of outstanding shares ..."
The facts to be reported are selected before the events occur. Hits, runs, errors, etc. Stocks, prices, volumes.
It's because they're filling in a template, essentially.
For a lot of news, there is no template.
But for a lot of news, there could be.
An example. Murder: victim's name, approximate address, occupation, demographic info. List of suspects, if any. Each suspect's name, approximate address, occupation, demographic info. If no list, the explanation given by the police for the absence.
I wonder a bunch of things. It looks like the internal representation of language the GNMT uses (if there is one) could come in handy, if we could just figure out how to use it without understanding it.
A 2D Fourier transform of anything non-trivial is incomprehensible, but they can be used to reconstruct the original, as-is or with some tweaking. Tweaking of the FT, tweaking of the reconstructing process.
Perhaps something somewhat analogous could be done with these internal language representations. What, I surely don't know.
Maybe humans can reverse-engineer it by treating it as a cryptography problem. Like with known plaintext, and the ability to create new plaintext-cyphertext pairs as needed.
What's the difference in that internal representation between "Spike is a cat" and "Spike is a dog", and how does that differ from the difference between "Mike is a cat" and "Mike is a dog"? Throw in "Fluffy is a wolverine" and "Fluffy is a cat", and see if you can now synthesize "Spike is a wolverine".
Other ideas, anyone?
Not to worry. Practical fusion power -- cold or regular -- is just around the corner, about 20 to 25 years away. Still. Again. Always.
And the world will see you right back.
A limit to how many all-CAPS words a post can contain? Excellent.
I wish FB would do that.
Or not. All-Caps is a pretty solid indicator that a post can almost certainly be ignored.
So much for complaints about government inefficiency. They got a lot of mileage out of just one warrant.
I hear the FBI also economizes in its use of the truth, too. Truth is valuable. They don't use it unless absolutely necessary.
More efficiency. These guys are wizards!
Planting trees would help. So would sequestering paper in landfills rather than recycling it. And it's easier to not recycle than it is to recycle, so this seems an underappreciated approach. (Too bad recycling is more of a religious act in so many minds, rather than an ethical or pragmatic one.)
Sprinkling iron oxide and/or other nutrients in the ocean to encourage photosynthesis is another promising approach that has spawned "religious" objections.
Whatever happened to OTEC? The "waste" cold seawater was claimed to be chock-full of nutrients. Generate electricity while making nutrients more accessible sounds like a win-win. And it's of a (more) natural origin, which could reduce the "religious" objections. Or so an optimist might think.
Maybe that would be more nutrition than the local ecosystem could handle. In that case, don't dump it in the ocean directly. Use it to grow algae (or algae and what, indirectly, eats algae) first, then harvest the fish or crabs or lobsters or whatever, then dump the nutrient-depleted seawater in the ocean.
Sounds expensive to set up, with no certainty of payoff. I may have just answered my own question. Or so a pessimist might think.
Thank you for your helpful comment.
That is not what this message thread is for, as it happens.
Is "/s" the long-awaited "sarcasm mark"?
If so, I hope it catches on. I'm tired of including "Golly!" in my posts where someone might not recognize it as sarcastic.
Or "Republicans". Turnout for the statutory duopoly parties was down this presidential election.
Turnout for opposition party candidates was way, way up.