Imagine a state where a drug company said that it would refuse to allow government health organizations to examine all aspects of their products before approving of their sale.
There must be balance between security by obscurity and complete openness.
Blade Runner AKA Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is set in a dystopian future where the ultra wealthy corporate types have amazing resources and the masses have next to nothing.
Did he even see the movie or read Phil Dick's book? We are already headed towards a future where corporations have AI and the masses would be lucky to find a phone of any kind.
My son lost an election to an (IMHO) unqualified candidate who was backed by a local union here in Chicago. They spent more than $500,000 on a election where the total salary for the term was $160,000. Clearly they want influence on the budget and contract process. It is their money to spend and their right to free speech that defends their actions, even if it horrible public policy. There are no simple solutions.
Without common sense campaign finance rules, corruption is defined by the highest bidders.
>...but it is my understanding that the system was originally put into place to safeguard a takeover by a tyrant...
The electoral college is an attempt to balance political power between rural and urban voters. Its an adjustment to a pure democracy designed to weaken the "Tyranny of the majority".
The biggest challenge the founding fathers faced was balancing power between urban and rural constituents. This is arguably our greatest challenge today. This is why each state has 2 senators regardless of population and representatives based on population. The number of electors in the electoral college in each state is the sum of its U.S. senators and its U.S. representatives.
In our last election, rural voters preferred Trump and that is why the rural voter trumped the urban voter to override the popular vote.
DARPA money funded the invention of the Internet. I'd argue that the Internet certainly helps the efforts of curing cancer, mitigating climate change, and colonizing Mars. Computers that do critical tasks 1000 time more efficiently would be a fundamental breakthrough that could help all these efforts and many more.
High performance computing is important to national defense. In fact, most computer technology was developed for weapons systems and national defense. Short term profit driven corporate group-think precludes taking the necessary risks to develop new computer architectures that are orders of magnitude faster and more efficient. It is government funded research that often makes important advances possible.
BTW, I have mod points but think you have a fair question.
Now if you are going to question why we need to spend so much on weapons, we'll that would be a fair question...
Very happy ardent electric vehicle supporter here.
But I have to admit - If you cannot charge your car at your home overnight, an EV is simply not for you.
The airline industry has a ridiculously bad track record for deploying reliable software. The next thing we will wringing our hands over will be runway neutrality where monopolistic airlines will cause their competitors to circle the airport until they run out of fuel.
Don't many countries already have a variation of this?
Here is an oversimplified thought experiment. Currently a minority productive subset of the population supports the rest of the population; i.e. 0 to 18 years kids are supported by their parents; 67 and up people are retired; students, disabled people and those who do not work for whatever reason are all provided for by the rest of society.
If non-human production takes over *all* jobs, automation will necessarily need to take the place of the productive subset. This would logically be implemented as a value added business tax. Whether a human or a machine produces something or provides a service, some portion of that value would need to be redistributed to provide for basic needs, otherwise there would be a complete systemic collapse.
The sooner we recognize this as a society and implement a simple value added product and service tax, the smoother the transition will be.
Fast + Done Right = Our budget deficit will be what?
It would be worth getting Space-X's estimate for the goal though. An internationally funded commercial project could be worth considering. A coalition of European, Middle Eastern, American and Asian countries could go a long way promoting world peace through cooperation towards achieving a truly inspirational goal.
I think its a very good idea to be sure policies are set in writing for everyones protection.
If a company wants unbridled and uncontrolled employees doing work not to the benefit of the company and pay them for it, well ok. I doubt there are many companies that could survive a situation like that.
There should be written policies of what company resources including time are used for, and in the event of violations appropriate disciplinary actions (also defined in writing) should be applied.
Don't allow developers to promote code - that should be done by a specific role responsible for change management, code review and deployment. Use file system monitoring software to alert and log all changes.
Ahh those heady years when my kids graduated from college and I had some extra money... Now it's a priority to put more money away for retirement. Frivolous maybe - enjoyment definitely.
We aren't selling our 4 year old Tesla because we bought the 4 year extended warranty, so ours has 8 years everything but tires warranty. We don't have the hardware needed for autopilot though so we can't enjoy any self driving goodies the newer models have. If we weren't in belt tightening mode, we might trade it in anyway to get the self driving stuff...
My effort to be brief was made at the expense of clarity. All your points are valid, and point to the fact that some applications are difficult but not impossible to understand and debug. See https://deeplearning4j.org/vis... for an example of such tools.
I have to cry bullshit though when "experts" imply that machine learning (often referred to as AI) is magic that cannot be explained. If it were true, it could never be trusted - certainly when lives are at stake.
Slashdot Mirror
to " Should Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy?"
"Allow listing in friends you may know" checkbox
Imagine a state where a drug company said that it would refuse to allow government health organizations to examine all aspects of their products before approving of their sale.
There must be balance between security by obscurity and complete openness.
>>Why should customers be forced to have an artificially crippled product, dragging around extra dead weight of artificially disabled battery cells?
All the batteries are used, just not to the extreme level of charge. This increases battery life and makes a great warranty practical.
More limits on charge/discharge extremes = longer battery life = lower warranty cost passed on to the consumer
Blade Runner AKA Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is set in a dystopian future where the ultra wealthy corporate types have amazing resources and the masses have next to nothing.
Did he even see the movie or read Phil Dick's book? We are already headed towards a future where corporations have AI and the masses would be lucky to find a phone of any kind.
Make it general purpose. What we really need is "Alexa, remember ..." (or OK google, remember..., or whatever)
People with dementia could really benefit from a voice activated assistant that helps them remember important facts of all kinds.
My son lost an election to an (IMHO) unqualified candidate who was backed by a local union here in Chicago. They spent more than $500,000 on a election where the total salary for the term was $160,000. Clearly they want influence on the budget and contract process. It is their money to spend and their right to free speech that defends their actions, even if it horrible public policy. There are no simple solutions.
Without common sense campaign finance rules, corruption is defined by the highest bidders.
>...but it is my understanding that the system was originally put into place to safeguard a takeover by a tyrant...
The electoral college is an attempt to balance political power between rural and urban voters. Its an adjustment to a pure democracy designed to weaken the "Tyranny of the majority".
The biggest challenge the founding fathers faced was balancing power between urban and rural constituents. This is arguably our greatest challenge today. This is why each state has 2 senators regardless of population and representatives based on population. The number of electors in the electoral college in each state is the sum of its U.S. senators and its U.S. representatives.
In our last election, rural voters preferred Trump and that is why the rural voter trumped the urban voter to override the popular vote.
DARPA money funded the invention of the Internet. I'd argue that the Internet certainly helps the efforts of curing cancer, mitigating climate change, and colonizing Mars. Computers that do critical tasks 1000 time more efficiently would be a fundamental breakthrough that could help all these efforts and many more.
DARPA is an acronym for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They spend our money on defense and weapons research.
I'm not saying your other priorities are unimportant, but you shouldn't expect DARPA to fund non defense related research.
High performance computing is important to national defense. In fact, most computer technology was developed for weapons systems and national defense. Short term profit driven corporate group-think precludes taking the necessary risks to develop new computer architectures that are orders of magnitude faster and more efficient. It is government funded research that often makes important advances possible.
BTW, I have mod points but think you have a fair question.
Now if you are going to question why we need to spend so much on weapons, we'll that would be a fair question...
Very happy ardent electric vehicle supporter here. But I have to admit - If you cannot charge your car at your home overnight, an EV is simply not for you.
The airline industry has a ridiculously bad track record for deploying reliable software. The next thing we will wringing our hands over will be runway neutrality where monopolistic airlines will cause their competitors to circle the airport until they run out of fuel.
I prefer machine learning because it clearly states that systems can learn to do something without implying that it has human intelligence.
Don't many countries already have a variation of this?
Here is an oversimplified thought experiment. Currently a minority productive subset of the population supports the rest of the population; i.e. 0 to 18 years kids are supported by their parents; 67 and up people are retired; students, disabled people and those who do not work for whatever reason are all provided for by the rest of society.
If non-human production takes over *all* jobs, automation will necessarily need to take the place of the productive subset. This would logically be implemented as a value added business tax. Whether a human or a machine produces something or provides a service, some portion of that value would need to be redistributed to provide for basic needs, otherwise there would be a complete systemic collapse.
The sooner we recognize this as a society and implement a simple value added product and service tax, the smoother the transition will be.
Fast, Cheap, Done Right - Pick Two
Fast + Cheap = Dead People
Fast + Done Right = Our budget deficit will be what?
It would be worth getting Space-X's estimate for the goal though. An internationally funded commercial project could be worth considering. A coalition of European, Middle Eastern, American and Asian countries could go a long way promoting world peace through cooperation towards achieving a truly inspirational goal.
I think its a very good idea to be sure policies are set in writing for everyones protection.
If a company wants unbridled and uncontrolled employees doing work not to the benefit of the company and pay them for it, well ok. I doubt there are many companies that could survive a situation like that.
There should be written policies of what company resources including time are used for, and in the event of violations appropriate disciplinary actions (also defined in writing) should be applied.
The line between man and machine is already blurry. We have been and will continue to endure pain. It makes us who we are.
don't fix it.
Don't allow developers to promote code - that should be done by a specific role responsible for change management, code review and deployment. Use file system monitoring software to alert and log all changes.
I'm not sure you can even go to a baseball game these days without the use of the Internet.
Ahh those heady years when my kids graduated from college and I had some extra money... Now it's a priority to put more money away for retirement. Frivolous maybe - enjoyment definitely.
We aren't selling our 4 year old Tesla because we bought the 4 year extended warranty, so ours has 8 years everything but tires warranty. We don't have the hardware needed for autopilot though so we can't enjoy any self driving goodies the newer models have. If we weren't in belt tightening mode, we might trade it in anyway to get the self driving stuff...
I recommend the Stanford Course on Machine Learning. You can go at your own pace and you'll learn enough linear algebra to get by.
My effort to be brief was made at the expense of clarity. All your points are valid, and point to the fact that some applications are difficult but not impossible to understand and debug. See https://deeplearning4j.org/vis... for an example of such tools.
I have to cry bullshit though when "experts" imply that machine learning (often referred to as AI) is magic that cannot be explained. If it were true, it could never be trusted - certainly when lives are at stake.