Wouldn’t it be simpler to just stop offering takeout.
Restaurants should get out of any business that actually costs them money instead of making money.
If take-out orders are subsidized by dine-in customers, the restaurant is cutting it's own throat by offering take-out service.
If your customers don't want a sit-down meal and prefer take-out, then either find a way to offer take-out profitably, or close your doors. It is a cliché on TV to see restaurants that are mis-managed "circle the bowl" for years, eating up all the owners savings as they insist their clearly failing business model can work, they just need to take another cash advance from a credit card to make payroll...
Most of the overhead is in staffing and rent, so anything that lowers those substantially is a huge win.
What are you thinking?
Do you imagine that when a restaurant turns into a delivery service they don't need to rent a location near their customers, they can instead opt to locate their facilities in a low-rent section of town simply drive longer to deliver your food?
What staffing is eliminated? For every minimum wage worker that used to sweep the dining area, bus tables and clean the bathrooms a restaurant will likely need a team of "gig economy" drivers to hand-deliver your order.
That means if you are looking for one terrorist in a train station that services 300,000 a day your false positives are going to outnumber your actual hit 3000:1.
What about false negatives, a failure to match correctly?
You know that 99% probability resets with each new face - you aren't guaranteed a positive for every 100 comparisons, right?
If I am trying to catch 30 terrorists in a city of 1 million I am going to get ~100,000 false positives. My false positives will outnumber my valid hits over 3000:1.
No, you won't, unless you insist on submitting pictures of infants and senior citizens in your search for a dark-skinned middle eastern terrorist (you know, like in the movies).
In a city of 1 million, half of them are the wrong gender, and given an equal spread of the population aged between 0 and 75 years, when looking for a 35 year-old male, you can likely exclude 75 of all men as too old or too young. So now we're down to 1/8th of the city, only 125K possible matches BEFORE we factor in ethnicity - when looking for an Asian man, why include blacks?
Before I ever compare a picture that can be described as an Asian male roughly 35 years old, I've excluded up to 90% of the city before I ever start comparing faces. Having 1,000 faces to compare with a single face is a very workable number IMHO, given sufficiently important motivation (find the terrorist, stop an assassination of a world leader, you know - Jack Bauer-stuff).
Remember, this is facial recognition - you have a facial image to start with - eliminating opposite gender, other ethnicities, and folks half or twice the age of the fellow in the photo in not racist, xenophobic, or whatever - it's a practical first step.
some of the biases in the real world can seep into artificial intelligence, the computer systems that inform facial recognition
Maybe the issue is lighting? Why does a simple thing such as AI to identify gender from a facial camera have to be an example of latent racism? As if programmers subtly, unconsciously, monkeyed with the algorithm to only work for white faces.
Care to support the notion ThatcHer Neutrality, as it is being discussed here today, will shave up to $20/month off my internet bi!l? It really seems like you pulled that number out of your backside.
Also, I'm a little confused how most people don't care about $20/month, or $240/yr, when 40% of Americans have less than $1K in savings? Please explain that seeming contradiction...
Yea! Drag Ajit Pai's internet connection all the way back to those horrible early-2015 days - that'll show him!
Problem is, the internet in the US wasn't horrible before NN rules (not laws) went into effect in 2015, and for 99.9% of Americans the passage of NN rules (not laws) had zero impact on their life/on-line Internet experience.
The average American has no idea what Net Neutrality is, and a bunch of D-list websites organizing a 'day of action' that likely won't be reported on the evening news will have close to no impact, and will likely not result in 'flipping' that covered 51st senator, and I can't even begin to imagine the uphill battle this group will face in the House.
BTW, having 51 senators supporting a bill doesn't guarantee it will be brought up for a vote in the senate.
The average US homebuyer has a net worth approaching $0 yet somehow managed to secure a line of credit well into the mix six-figures based on the belief they will continue to collect paychecks that slightly exceeds their standard of living.
Alphabet's aggressive expansion in New York follows a growing trend of tech giants taking over cities.
WTF? It one company buying one facility - was there a similar outpouring of rage when Wall Street 'took over' NYC? When Publishing 'took over' NYC? Or what about when Broadcast networks 'took over' NYC? Let's not forget about the Fashion industry 'taking one's NYC...
Contraception in America is free - see Obamacare debates - and I'm not aware of the US abortion rate going down.
Democrats like to talk about making/keeping abortions "Safe, Legal, and rare." Next time a democrat spews that party line, ask the man what they do to help make abortion "rare"...
The man has absolute say over where his 'boy parts' go, and if/how to TRY and prevent conception... Likewise the woman has absolute say over what goes into her 'lady parts' and how to TRY and prevent conception.
A woman that learns how to provoke a man into hitting her - possibly even by hitting the man first - will invariably 'win' in the both the court of public approval AND the court of law.
It's not fair, but it is the truth - there is no defense in any but the most extreme and well-documented cases for striking a woman.
Getting laid off from a professional, salaried career, does not explain generational poverty in families where 34 year old women are called 'Grandma' and all three generations are living on public assistance.
But, as outlined in the article summary, the women typically aren't doing 'equal work' so their per hour pay is not 'equal' to their male co-workers.
The moment a woman decides not to work a late night shift, to only take fares near her home, or to only work the hours her children are in school she's chosen to limit her income potential.
The only way something like Ãoeber can offer 'Equal pay for equal work' is to shift to an hourly pay structure instead of their current commission-based/per-mile compensation model.
Walking into a hospital saying you want to kill yourself will likely result in medical attention regardless of cost.
If you live in America, you either have so-called Obamacare, Medicare, or private insurance - all three of which provide for free/low co-pay psychiatric care.
But yes, if you want to schedule an hour of story-time each week with a psychiatrist in a downtown office building and explore your parents feelings toward you, yes, it can get expensive.
As Vaishali Thakker, a 23-year old open source programmer looked over the hall filled with around 200 people, she didn't know how to react to what she had just heard. Thakker was one of the five women on the stage at PyCon India 2017, a conference on the use of the Python programming language, in New Delhi. The topic of the discussion was "Women in open source."
200 (mostly?) men fill a conference room to hear five women talk about "Women in open source".
I suspect the hall was filled because it was the only session that guaranteed there would at least be women presenting, if not attending.
Was his girlfriend involved in the project? I suspect not.
Eponymous doesn't mean 'named after someone, anyone' - where is the relationship? Ian's (romantic?) relationship with his girlfriend Debra doesn't create a relationship between Debra and the Debian Distribution project.
Well, the person described in this article was born a woman in India, so her experience might be a little different than your "12 Years A Nerd" experience as a male in America.
I find it hard to believe that a room filled with techies, people that are typically glued to their wireless devices (phones, tablets, laptops), just never noticed the conference WiFi SSID were those insulting phrases... Are we to believe they all just clicked to join a WiFi network called "Shut the f$ck up" and thought nothing of it?
No.
The more likely explanation is that someone in the room set their WiFi device to an ad hoc mode and set their SSID to the offensive term. I find it hard to believe someone cracked into their WiFi APs, reset the SSIDs, and no one noticed it until one guy stood up and pointed it out in the middle of the talk.
Is this proof of gender bias globally or a localized gender bias in India?
Also let's not lose sight of the fact that the conference room at a programming conference in India was full of men (presumably) listening to five women talk about the struggles women programmers face in open source projects.
I contend the issue may not be as wide-spread as some would have you believe, the packed conference room points to a general sensitivity/openness to the issue.
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If your customers want takeout, and you don't offer it, then they go elsewhere and you go bankrupt.
If all your customers demand take-out, and you lose money on each take-out meal, you still go bankrupt.
Wouldn’t it be simpler to just stop offering takeout.
Restaurants should get out of any business that actually costs them money instead of making money.
If take-out orders are subsidized by dine-in customers, the restaurant is cutting it's own throat by offering take-out service.
If your customers don't want a sit-down meal and prefer take-out, then either find a way to offer take-out profitably, or close your doors. It is a cliché on TV to see restaurants that are mis-managed "circle the bowl" for years, eating up all the owners savings as they insist their clearly failing business model can work, they just need to take another cash advance from a credit card to make payroll...
Most of the overhead is in staffing and rent, so anything that lowers those substantially is a huge win.
What are you thinking?
Do you imagine that when a restaurant turns into a delivery service they don't need to rent a location near their customers, they can instead opt to locate their facilities in a low-rent section of town simply drive longer to deliver your food?
What staffing is eliminated? For every minimum wage worker that used to sweep the dining area, bus tables and clean the bathrooms a restaurant will likely need a team of "gig economy" drivers to hand-deliver your order.
That means if you are looking for one terrorist in a train station that services 300,000 a day your false positives are going to outnumber your actual hit 3000:1.
What about false negatives, a failure to match correctly?
You know that 99% probability resets with each new face - you aren't guaranteed a positive for every 100 comparisons, right?
If I am trying to catch 30 terrorists in a city of 1 million I am going to get ~100,000 false positives. My false positives will outnumber my valid hits over 3000:1.
No, you won't, unless you insist on submitting pictures of infants and senior citizens in your search for a dark-skinned middle eastern terrorist (you know, like in the movies).
In a city of 1 million, half of them are the wrong gender, and given an equal spread of the population aged between 0 and 75 years, when looking for a 35 year-old male, you can likely exclude 75 of all men as too old or too young. So now we're down to 1/8th of the city, only 125K possible matches BEFORE we factor in ethnicity - when looking for an Asian man, why include blacks?
Before I ever compare a picture that can be described as an Asian male roughly 35 years old, I've excluded up to 90% of the city before I ever start comparing faces. Having 1,000 faces to compare with a single face is a very workable number IMHO, given sufficiently important motivation (find the terrorist, stop an assassination of a world leader, you know - Jack Bauer-stuff).
Remember, this is facial recognition - you have a facial image to start with - eliminating opposite gender, other ethnicities, and folks half or twice the age of the fellow in the photo in not racist, xenophobic, or whatever - it's a practical first step.
Rather than:
some of the biases in the real world can seep into artificial intelligence, the computer systems that inform facial recognition
Maybe the issue is lighting? Why does a simple thing such as AI to identify gender from a facial camera have to be an example of latent racism? As if programmers subtly, unconsciously, monkeyed with the algorithm to only work for white faces.
So Tuvalu only has what, 590 more years before it's under water?
Care to support the notion ThatcHer Neutrality, as it is being discussed here today, will shave up to $20/month off my internet bi!l? It really seems like you pulled that number out of your backside.
Also, I'm a little confused how most people don't care about $20/month, or $240/yr, when 40% of Americans have less than $1K in savings? Please explain that seeming contradiction...
Yea! Drag Ajit Pai's internet connection all the way back to those horrible early-2015 days - that'll show him!
Problem is, the internet in the US wasn't horrible before NN rules (not laws) went into effect in 2015, and for 99.9% of Americans the passage of NN rules (not laws) had zero impact on their life/on-line Internet experience.
#BringBackOurGirls, for example.
The average American has no idea what Net Neutrality is, and a bunch of D-list websites organizing a 'day of action' that likely won't be reported on the evening news will have close to no impact, and will likely not result in 'flipping' that covered 51st senator, and I can't even begin to imagine the uphill battle this group will face in the House.
BTW, having 51 senators supporting a bill doesn't guarantee it will be brought up for a vote in the senate.
The average US homebuyer has a net worth approaching $0 yet somehow managed to secure a line of credit well into the mix six-figures based on the belief they will continue to collect paychecks that slightly exceeds their standard of living.
Isn't Google/Alphabet an international company?
Alphabet's aggressive expansion in New York follows a growing trend of tech giants taking over cities.
WTF? It one company buying one facility - was there a similar outpouring of rage when Wall Street 'took over' NYC? When Publishing 'took over' NYC? Or what about when Broadcast networks 'took over' NYC? Let's not forget about the Fashion industry 'taking one's NYC...
"Aggressive expansion"? Puh-leze.
Contraception in America is free - see Obamacare debates - and I'm not aware of the US abortion rate going down.
Democrats like to talk about making/keeping abortions "Safe, Legal, and rare." Next time a democrat spews that party line, ask the man what they do to help make abortion "rare"...
The man has no say.
The man has absolute say over where his 'boy parts' go, and if/how to TRY and prevent conception... Likewise the woman has absolute say over what goes into her 'lady parts' and how to TRY and prevent conception.
A woman that learns how to provoke a man into hitting her - possibly even by hitting the man first - will invariably 'win' in the both the court of public approval AND the court of law.
It's not fair, but it is the truth - there is no defense in any but the most extreme and well-documented cases for striking a woman.
It's majority white, but not 'Norway' white.
Getting laid off from a professional, salaried career, does not explain generational poverty in families where 34 year old women are called 'Grandma' and all three generations are living on public assistance.
Equal pay for equal work
But, as outlined in the article summary, the women typically aren't doing 'equal work' so their per hour pay is not 'equal' to their male co-workers.
The moment a woman decides not to work a late night shift, to only take fares near her home, or to only work the hours her children are in school she's chosen to limit her income potential.
The only way something like Ãoeber can offer 'Equal pay for equal work' is to shift to an hourly pay structure instead of their current commission-based/per-mile compensation model.
Suicide hotlines are free and plentiful.
Walking into a hospital saying you want to kill yourself will likely result in medical attention regardless of cost.
If you live in America, you either have so-called Obamacare, Medicare, or private insurance - all three of which provide for free/low co-pay psychiatric care.
But yes, if you want to schedule an hour of story-time each week with a psychiatrist in a downtown office building and explore your parents feelings toward you, yes, it can get expensive.
As Vaishali Thakker, a 23-year old open source programmer looked over the hall filled with around 200 people, she didn't know how to react to what she had just heard. Thakker was one of the five women on the stage at PyCon India 2017, a conference on the use of the Python programming language, in New Delhi. The topic of the discussion was "Women in open source."
200 (mostly?) men fill a conference room to hear five women talk about "Women in open source".
I suspect the hall was filled because it was the only session that guaranteed there would at least be women presenting, if not attending.
Was his girlfriend involved in the project? I suspect not.
Eponymous doesn't mean 'named after someone, anyone' - where is the relationship? Ian's (romantic?) relationship with his girlfriend Debra doesn't create a relationship between Debra and the Debian Distribution project.
Well, the person described in this article was born a woman in India, so her experience might be a little different than your "12 Years A Nerd" experience as a male in America.
I have my doubts about this.
I find it hard to believe that a room filled with techies, people that are typically glued to their wireless devices (phones, tablets, laptops), just never noticed the conference WiFi SSID were those insulting phrases... Are we to believe they all just clicked to join a WiFi network called "Shut the f$ck up" and thought nothing of it?
No.
The more likely explanation is that someone in the room set their WiFi device to an ad hoc mode and set their SSID to the offensive term. I find it hard to believe someone cracked into their WiFi APs, reset the SSIDs, and no one noticed it until one guy stood up and pointed it out in the middle of the talk.
Is this proof of gender bias globally or a localized gender bias in India?
Also let's not lose sight of the fact that the conference room at a programming conference in India was full of men (presumably) listening to five women talk about the struggles women programmers face in open source projects.
I contend the issue may not be as wide-spread as some would have you believe, the packed conference room points to a general sensitivity/openness to the issue.