Yep, read up on "adversarial objects", and you can see how researchers fooled "AI" into thinking a turtle was a rifle. The level of overactive imagination and apparent breathless panic over long, steady gains in neural network and general computer processing is just beyond absurd at this point. It's almost embarrassing to watch.
From the article:
For example, the researchers suggest that central access licensing models could ensure that AI technologies don’t fall into the wrong hands, or instituting some sort of monitoring program to keep tabs on the use of AI resources.
This sort of authoritarian thinking scares me a hell of a lot more than their supposed "AI threats".
slimed down no nonsense interface. I mean tahts why we all started using google in the first place right?
People like me switched to Google because it worked better than anything else out there. The clean interface was just a bonus. Do you remember how crappy most search engines were back then?
Exactly. And when people's lives are on the line, you really want a slow refinement process. "Move fast and break things" is a terrible mantra for an aeronautical engineer.
You'll notice that the tips of wings have little wings themselves or actually curved upwards. That's to reduce drag due to wingtip vortices.
The flaring feathers on the tip of a bird's wings are the original prototype for those tips at the end of airline wings. Sort of neat how nature managed to solve some many of these problems first, even before we were aware it was a problem.
1 - It's just a few clicks to install a modern software development environment like Visual Studio, Xcode, NetBeans, whatever. If you can't get past that, you're probably going to have problems. Besides, that, there's already a development environment installed on any computer - just fire up a web browser, and you've got a basic interpreted Javascript programming environment.
2 - I learned C++ a few decades ago using Turbo C++. Never knew what was happening on the command-line, and didn't really care. Saved me a lot of fussing about that sort of thing, allowing me to focus on learning the language. Working from a command-line prompt doesn't magically make the job easier. It's just a different way of working.
3 - Most programming in general, even today, has jack-all to do with cloud computing. But the web has made getting good information about a hundred times easier than it used to be - not to mention for free. Overall, I'd still call it a win.
I think the author missed a big one. It's not that graphical interfaces make programming harder - in fact, I think the opposite is true. But programming for GUIs is harder than writing a simple command-line app or utility. I also think much more is expected of modern applications, and they're much more complicated in general, simply because they DO so much more than they used to.
So, yes, it probably takes longer to get up to professional speed, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's harder to learn how to program in general - there's just much more to learn about the environments you're programming for. Several decades ago, computers were vastly simpler than they are today, and so yes, young programmers now have a lot more to learn.
Well, I guess I agree, especially about the financial conflicts of interest, but the technical issues sound pretty daunting as well. Their database doesn't have a concept of layers - only tags? Node ID's can be reused or repurposed? Non-standardized/enforced/validated data entry schemes?
I admit I know nothing about mapping software and databases, but these types of features seem pretty inherently obvious to any sort of developer, simply based on how we've seen other map systems work.
I'm not sure why China got so much flak for for testing ASAT, when the US did the same thing a few years prior.
I did a bit of looking into this.
Are you talking about the US Navy shootdown in 2008? Ostensibly, the US brought down their malfunctioning satellite in order to prevent it from becoming a hazard due to a large amount of toxic fuel on board. In that case, the satellite was already on its way down, and the destruction just made sure it would completely burn up in the atmosphere. According to reports at the time, all the debris was expected to re-enter the atmosphere within 40 days.
There was a much earlier test in 1985, but since then, we've had a self-imposed ban on doing so, for precisely the reason we are now seeing with the Chinese test. In China's case, the hundred thousand pieces of debris from their test a decade ago is still orbiting the planet, and will continue to orbit for several more decades at least. It was destroyed at an altitude of 537 miles, so the debris will last much longer than what was caused by the US test, which was destroyed at 350 miles. Orbital decay is not linear, which means that the US test's debris likely had a significantly shorter time-to-decay than the Chinese test.
So, no, the US record isn't exactly spotless here, but hopefully everyone's learned their lesson about this sort of thing.
"Space junk" is only a problem in Earth orbit, where it has a significant chance of colliding with other important objects. The smaller, scattered debris left behind by launches or collisions is the real problem, as it's harder to track. When the Chinese intentionally blew up one of their own satellites in an anti-satellite missile test around a decade ago, it caused a real uproar, because they intentionally created thousands of pieces of debris that would be a problem for many decades to come.
This solar-orbiting Roadster is not any sort of real problem worth complaining about, unless you just want to grump about something.
My idea of a la carte was to still get the media delivered by the cable company
Well, it would have been nice. The cable companies had decades to offer this sort of service, and never did, because they have no real competition. A company in a near-monopoly position is never going to be responsive to customers' wishes.
While the current situation isn't ideal, it's at least better to have some actual competition in this space. I subscribe to a few different streaming services, and still pay far less per month than basic cable. Annoying, sure, but I get more content than I'm actually interested in.
There's very little a company can do to prevent a determined programmer from leaking source code. Source is easily copied, and relatively small, and a module's source has to be present in its entirety on a local machine to compile. Thumb drives are tiny and easily hidden. Programmer's machines, by nature, can't easily be locked down.
What exactly would you suggest they do to prevent leaks like this?
Yeah, I've been playing through the Uncharted pack (1-3), and then will tackle Uncharted 4. Fantastic franchise. Also purchased FF X and X-2, and FF XII. I never ended up playing Last of Us (yes, I know how good it's supposed to be), so I'll need to pick that up before I play Last of Us 2.
Dragon Quest Builders is essentially a direct Minecraft ripoff, but Dragon Quest themed, and with a stronger narrative structure, which is a bit nice if you feel Minecraft to be a bit aimless. I've found it to be a lot of fun, and seems appropriate for kids as well.
I can't believe management felt the need to fire someone over this. I mean, it was a bit of an embarrassing mistake, but it's not like any real damage was done, other than letting everyone know that some procedures needed to be reworked.
I'd say that this whole firing and subsequent lawsuit is more embarrassing than the original mistake.
Persona 5, Disgaea 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nier, and Dragon Quest (both upcoming RPG and Builders) are why I have a PS4. Been solid for me so far - no issues to speak of.
MS Office is actually pretty lightweight compared to most modern applications. That's because it's still one of those "old fashioned" native apps, unlike the current Electron craze. MS Word 2010 takes up all of 15MB in memory (and maybe another 30MB in shared services) when opening an empty doc, and opens in about half a second on my computer, which itself is nine years old. I'm betting the current versions aren't much worse.
I'd love to know what historical form of patronage allowed the artist to bad-mouth the patron. We even have a pithy phrase for it: "Biting the hand that feeds you."
I agree that it would be ideal if this wasn't required of artists, but we hardly live in an ideal world. It's the megacorps that make the rules if you want to play in their park.
I'd have to double-check to be certain, but I seem to remember him being described that way in the first book, when he was first introduced (which would be the logical place to do so).
I actually read her works for the first time perhaps a year or two ago - the Earthsea trilogy, that is. A lot of fun to read. Not quite as groundbreaking in modern times, but I can see how they really veered away from convention when they were written. A brown-skinned protagonist? Shocking! Note: she grumbled a bit that they still insisted on painting him as a white-skinned character for the original book cover, which I found both hilarious and slightly sad.
Having recently tried out Chrome on my machines at home, I can assure you that Firefox is most assuredly NOT a Chrome clone. It's far better. I was amazed at how many more small quality-of-life issues Firefox beat Chrome in, and the speed difference was quite noticeable.
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Yep, read up on "adversarial objects", and you can see how researchers fooled "AI" into thinking a turtle was a rifle. The level of overactive imagination and apparent breathless panic over long, steady gains in neural network and general computer processing is just beyond absurd at this point. It's almost embarrassing to watch.
From the article:
For example, the researchers suggest that central access licensing models could ensure that AI technologies don’t fall into the wrong hands, or instituting some sort of monitoring program to keep tabs on the use of AI resources.
This sort of authoritarian thinking scares me a hell of a lot more than their supposed "AI threats".
Yea, your suffering shall exist no longer; it shall be washed away in Atom's Glow, burned from you in the fire of his brilliance.
slimed down no nonsense interface. I mean tahts why we all started using google in the first place right?
People like me switched to Google because it worked better than anything else out there. The clean interface was just a bonus. Do you remember how crappy most search engines were back then?
Exactly. And when people's lives are on the line, you really want a slow refinement process. "Move fast and break things" is a terrible mantra for an aeronautical engineer.
You'll notice that the tips of wings have little wings themselves or actually curved upwards. That's to reduce drag due to wingtip vortices.
The flaring feathers on the tip of a bird's wings are the original prototype for those tips at the end of airline wings. Sort of neat how nature managed to solve some many of these problems first, even before we were aware it was a problem.
What next having to show federal and state photo ID to "internet"?
Surely ID is not required to vote, though. After all, that would be discriminatory.
1 - It's just a few clicks to install a modern software development environment like Visual Studio, Xcode, NetBeans, whatever. If you can't get past that, you're probably going to have problems. Besides, that, there's already a development environment installed on any computer - just fire up a web browser, and you've got a basic interpreted Javascript programming environment.
2 - I learned C++ a few decades ago using Turbo C++. Never knew what was happening on the command-line, and didn't really care. Saved me a lot of fussing about that sort of thing, allowing me to focus on learning the language. Working from a command-line prompt doesn't magically make the job easier. It's just a different way of working.
3 - Most programming in general, even today, has jack-all to do with cloud computing. But the web has made getting good information about a hundred times easier than it used to be - not to mention for free. Overall, I'd still call it a win.
I think the author missed a big one. It's not that graphical interfaces make programming harder - in fact, I think the opposite is true. But programming for GUIs is harder than writing a simple command-line app or utility. I also think much more is expected of modern applications, and they're much more complicated in general, simply because they DO so much more than they used to.
So, yes, it probably takes longer to get up to professional speed, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's harder to learn how to program in general - there's just much more to learn about the environments you're programming for. Several decades ago, computers were vastly simpler than they are today, and so yes, young programmers now have a lot more to learn.
Well, I guess I agree, especially about the financial conflicts of interest, but the technical issues sound pretty daunting as well. Their database doesn't have a concept of layers - only tags? Node ID's can be reused or repurposed? Non-standardized/enforced/validated data entry schemes?
I admit I know nothing about mapping software and databases, but these types of features seem pretty inherently obvious to any sort of developer, simply based on how we've seen other map systems work.
I'm not sure why China got so much flak
Also, I see what you did there...
I'm not sure why China got so much flak for for testing ASAT, when the US did the same thing a few years prior.
I did a bit of looking into this.
Are you talking about the US Navy shootdown in 2008? Ostensibly, the US brought down their malfunctioning satellite in order to prevent it from becoming a hazard due to a large amount of toxic fuel on board. In that case, the satellite was already on its way down, and the destruction just made sure it would completely burn up in the atmosphere. According to reports at the time, all the debris was expected to re-enter the atmosphere within 40 days.
There was a much earlier test in 1985, but since then, we've had a self-imposed ban on doing so, for precisely the reason we are now seeing with the Chinese test. In China's case, the hundred thousand pieces of debris from their test a decade ago is still orbiting the planet, and will continue to orbit for several more decades at least. It was destroyed at an altitude of 537 miles, so the debris will last much longer than what was caused by the US test, which was destroyed at 350 miles. Orbital decay is not linear, which means that the US test's debris likely had a significantly shorter time-to-decay than the Chinese test.
So, no, the US record isn't exactly spotless here, but hopefully everyone's learned their lesson about this sort of thing.
"Space junk" is only a problem in Earth orbit, where it has a significant chance of colliding with other important objects. The smaller, scattered debris left behind by launches or collisions is the real problem, as it's harder to track. When the Chinese intentionally blew up one of their own satellites in an anti-satellite missile test around a decade ago, it caused a real uproar, because they intentionally created thousands of pieces of debris that would be a problem for many decades to come.
This solar-orbiting Roadster is not any sort of real problem worth complaining about, unless you just want to grump about something.
My idea of a la carte was to still get the media delivered by the cable company
Well, it would have been nice. The cable companies had decades to offer this sort of service, and never did, because they have no real competition. A company in a near-monopoly position is never going to be responsive to customers' wishes.
While the current situation isn't ideal, it's at least better to have some actual competition in this space. I subscribe to a few different streaming services, and still pay far less per month than basic cable. Annoying, sure, but I get more content than I'm actually interested in.
There's very little a company can do to prevent a determined programmer from leaking source code. Source is easily copied, and relatively small, and a module's source has to be present in its entirety on a local machine to compile. Thumb drives are tiny and easily hidden. Programmer's machines, by nature, can't easily be locked down.
What exactly would you suggest they do to prevent leaks like this?
Never even heard of any of these. /me goes back to PC to continue gaming.
Nothing wrong with prime rib, but szechuan is delicious as well.
I'm an equal-opportunity gamer. Also, I'm sort of hungry now.
I'd be more apt to fire the person who put "This is not a drill" in the message when it was clearly a drill.
Yeah, I've been playing through the Uncharted pack (1-3), and then will tackle Uncharted 4. Fantastic franchise. Also purchased FF X and X-2, and FF XII. I never ended up playing Last of Us (yes, I know how good it's supposed to be), so I'll need to pick that up before I play Last of Us 2.
Dragon Quest Builders is essentially a direct Minecraft ripoff, but Dragon Quest themed, and with a stronger narrative structure, which is a bit nice if you feel Minecraft to be a bit aimless. I've found it to be a lot of fun, and seems appropriate for kids as well.
I can't believe management felt the need to fire someone over this. I mean, it was a bit of an embarrassing mistake, but it's not like any real damage was done, other than letting everyone know that some procedures needed to be reworked.
I'd say that this whole firing and subsequent lawsuit is more embarrassing than the original mistake.
Persona 5, Disgaea 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nier, and Dragon Quest (both upcoming RPG and Builders) are why I have a PS4. Been solid for me so far - no issues to speak of.
MS Office is actually pretty lightweight compared to most modern applications. That's because it's still one of those "old fashioned" native apps, unlike the current Electron craze. MS Word 2010 takes up all of 15MB in memory (and maybe another 30MB in shared services) when opening an empty doc, and opens in about half a second on my computer, which itself is nine years old. I'm betting the current versions aren't much worse.
A "sandwish", then?
Now I'm worried about a sudden gamma ray burst from space too.
I'd love to know what historical form of patronage allowed the artist to bad-mouth the patron. We even have a pithy phrase for it: "Biting the hand that feeds you."
I agree that it would be ideal if this wasn't required of artists, but we hardly live in an ideal world. It's the megacorps that make the rules if you want to play in their park.
-- And Slashdot is OK with that!
I'd have to double-check to be certain, but I seem to remember him being described that way in the first book, when he was first introduced (which would be the logical place to do so).
I actually read her works for the first time perhaps a year or two ago - the Earthsea trilogy, that is. A lot of fun to read. Not quite as groundbreaking in modern times, but I can see how they really veered away from convention when they were written. A brown-skinned protagonist? Shocking! Note: she grumbled a bit that they still insisted on painting him as a white-skinned character for the original book cover, which I found both hilarious and slightly sad.
Having recently tried out Chrome on my machines at home, I can assure you that Firefox is most assuredly NOT a Chrome clone. It's far better. I was amazed at how many more small quality-of-life issues Firefox beat Chrome in, and the speed difference was quite noticeable.