Reduced production costs mean more goods are produced cheaper. More goods produced cheaper means those items can be sold for less and used to create jobs. If Henry Ford had decided not to use automation less cars would have been made and while he may have had more workers fewer people would have been able to buy the cars because they would have been more expensive. The low cost of automobiles have made product delivery cheap and accessible.
Automation has created more jobs than it has "taken away".. if automation only takes jobs, how do we have more employed people in the world today than 100 years ago when women didn't even work. The workforce has increased even though manufacturing uses automation.
The more low cost products we have the more services and things around that product will be needed. If more people have smartphones more people will be needed for everything from setting up cell phone towers to making cat videos.
For every person losing their job assembling iPhones, there will be two new jobs for people making content for smartphones.
That sort of thing, predicting that a highway gets crowded at a certain time and choosing a different route is exactly the thing deep learning is good at.
If computers cant anticipate situations they would have failed in games like Chess and Go.
If only there was a way, or some kind of technology already existing, that someone could pay a few hundred dollars to go up thousands of feet in the air.
First off, not all cells replicate. Second, it's ridiculous to state the war on cancer is unwinnable. Cancer gets cured all the time. Cancer in stage I is curable 95% of the time. Cancer in stage 4 is also curable though that is cancer dependent on the type and only in 5% of cases currently. Curing cancer is a matter of, cell by cell:
1. Detecting that a cell is in a cancer state: This step is not impossible. All cancer cells have mutated versions of various genes, a normal cell has hundreds less mutations than a cancer cell. The DNA in a cancer cell bears a large number of mutations. Due to the fact that mutant versions of proteins are made by cancer cells, there are usually (actually probably always) surface markers indicating that a cell is cancerous. The immune system might have been made blind to it, but the markers are there. Once you get a sample of a tumor (biopsy), you can read the DNA and proteins in it. Then you can make molecules that can bind to DNA and detect a mutation or bind to the proteins on its surface directly. A normal cell has genes activated that commit suicide if something in the cell breaks, that is called apoptosis. Cancer cells have to break or those. All cancer cells have activated or de-activated genes that allow replication, error checking, cell suicide, and immune evasion. Can a cancer cell exist without all of those features? Maybe, but they MUST have most of them.
2. Neutralizing the cancer cell: The current fashionable trend is that this can be done by awakening the immune system to the surface markers on the tumor. The immune system consists a whole range of different types of immune cells that can be brought into the fight. You can get a list of surface markers, or the more contextually accurate term is "neoantigens" by sequencing the tumor cells. Once you have that list, you can retarget the immune system or your own molecules to target them. Another approach is blocking the signal cancer cells send to the immune system to call them off. A third approach is to have a viral capsid that encloses a nano-robot that can activate if, and only DNA sequence is in the cell. The hardest part of that approach is making an efficient and capsid or enclosure that can penetrate into cells. To detect and destroy based on the existence of mutant DNA or protein is trivial if you can get large cargo to infiltrate the cell -- oh and since they carry a huge metabolic burden all cancer cells have to release and allow in cargo.
TL;DR: All cancer cells have common features that can be targeted. The war is not unwinnable, there are many many paths to winning.
We need to do everything we can to ensure that the first and subsequent colonies are successful. That said, the first colony will definitely fail badly maybe even horrifically and we better have the stomach for that. There will be events or situations we didnt prepare for.
Exploration and pioneering is difficult but we need to do it or fall back into the tribalism and stupidity that plagues humanity.
There will always be jobs, unless anarchy or anti-jobs laws rule.
For one thing, even if robots do 99.9% of the work.. we will still have jobs. Whether it is in space exploration or finding cures for every disease. We still haven't colonized the oceans, we still haven't even put a person on Mars.. let alone colonized it with highways and houses. We still don't have deep space hotels or asteroid mining colonies. My biggest fear is that as humans get more prosperous they reproduce less.. every rich country has kids less than the replacement rate. Today the population growth in nearly all the wealthy countries is ENTIRELY from immigration and from the poor in those countries. Countries that dont allow immigration like Russia and Japan are seeing negative population growth. If everyone is prosperous and has access to good healthcare they won't have enough kids.
BS. More wishful thinking by the Android boy-Army. Lets not forget the iPhone X has about ten years of new features that can be added to it such as:
1. FaceID and Touch ID underneath the display. It is possible because OLED substrates are transparent when the OLEDs in a particular area are not lit up. 2. IR dot projection based generic 3D object scanner on back for enhanced AR and 3D object scanning. 3. Energous or equivalent whole room wireless charging. This will be a revolutionary feature â" you will never have to plug your phone into a charger or even need to use a charging pad.
âoeAlthough Ford did not need money from the $80 billion bailout program, Ford did receive $5.9 billion in government loans in 2009 to retool its manufacturing plants to produce more fuel-efficient cars, and the company lobbied for and benefited from the cash-for-clunkers program â" contrary to the adâ(TM)s testimonial that Ford is âoestanding on their own.â
Without showering, diseases will spread like hell. You need 19 gallons. One gallon to drink, the rest for showering, and keeping a clean house. What good is a tank of saved water if the plague gets you?
You boil the water in an enclosure or over a sheet of metal or glass and collect the condensate as it drips â" that should be obvious. Anyway, there are much cheaper and better ways to desalinate water though. For african villagers i bet the cheapest to setup/make is a solar still.. you just need some clear plastic and a cup (and the sun). Thats if they dont want to pool money together to buy or maintain a reverse osmosis system which btw is cheap nowadays even for household use. We have a system like that in my lab that if I recall correctly cost only around $500 (filters have to be changed periodically though).
Because kids got kidnapped or harmed all the time back then. It didnt happen to you so it seems like it wasnt so bad. Just because you didnt know about it doesnt mean it wasnt happening. The word kidnap wasnt invented recently. In fact it has been happening for centuries, for example people used to get kidnapped and forced to work on board ships.
It feels like 96% (non geeks, non disabled) of people would use these type of devices for about a week ot two at most and then it will sit idle. If homes were fully automated then some people may use it routinely if they could make it past the hump of getting used to it.
We do need to move to RISC V, the question is how.
The easiest way I see is to convince Apple, or Samsung, or Microsoft to release flagships supporting it. That seems really difficult. But then the other ways I see to get RISC V into the mainstream seem even harder or may take longer.
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Reduced production costs mean more goods are produced cheaper. More goods produced cheaper means those items can be sold for less and used to create jobs. If Henry Ford had decided not to use automation less cars would have been made and while he may have had more workers fewer people would have been able to buy the cars because they would have been more expensive. The low cost of automobiles have made product delivery cheap and accessible.
Automation has created more jobs than it has "taken away" .. if automation only takes jobs, how do we have more employed people in the world today than 100 years ago when women didn't even work. The workforce has increased even though manufacturing uses automation.
The more low cost products we have the more services and things around that product will be needed. If more people have smartphones more people will be needed for everything from setting up cell phone towers to making cat videos.
For every person losing their job assembling iPhones, there will be two new jobs for people making content for smartphones.
That sort of thing, predicting that a highway gets crowded at a certain time and choosing a different route is exactly the thing deep learning is good at.
If computers cant anticipate situations they would have failed in games like Chess and Go.
If only there was a way, or some kind of technology already existing, that someone could pay a few hundred dollars to go up thousands of feet in the air.
First off, not all cells replicate. Second, it's ridiculous to state the war on cancer is unwinnable. Cancer gets cured all the time. Cancer in stage I is curable 95% of the time. Cancer in stage 4 is also curable though that is cancer dependent on the type and only in 5% of cases currently. Curing cancer is a matter of, cell by cell:
1. Detecting that a cell is in a cancer state: This step is not impossible. All cancer cells have mutated versions of various genes, a normal cell has hundreds less mutations than a cancer cell. The DNA in a cancer cell bears a large number of mutations. Due to the fact that mutant versions of proteins are made by cancer cells, there are usually (actually probably always) surface markers indicating that a cell is cancerous. The immune system might have been made blind to it, but the markers are there. Once you get a sample of a tumor (biopsy), you can read the DNA and proteins in it. Then you can make molecules that can bind to DNA and detect a mutation or bind to the proteins on its surface directly. A normal cell has genes activated that commit suicide if something in the cell breaks, that is called apoptosis. Cancer cells have to break or those. All cancer cells have activated or de-activated genes that allow replication, error checking, cell suicide, and immune evasion. Can a cancer cell exist without all of those features? Maybe, but they MUST have most of them.
2. Neutralizing the cancer cell: The current fashionable trend is that this can be done by awakening the immune system to the surface markers on the tumor. The immune system consists a whole range of different types of immune cells that can be brought into the fight. You can get a list of surface markers, or the more contextually accurate term is "neoantigens" by sequencing the tumor cells. Once you have that list, you can retarget the immune system or your own molecules to target them. Another approach is blocking the signal cancer cells send to the immune system to call them off. A third approach is to have a viral capsid that encloses a nano-robot that can activate if, and only DNA sequence is in the cell. The hardest part of that approach is making an efficient and capsid or enclosure that can penetrate into cells. To detect and destroy based on the existence of mutant DNA or protein is trivial if you can get large cargo to infiltrate the cell -- oh and since they carry a huge metabolic burden all cancer cells have to release and allow in cargo.
TL;DR: All cancer cells have common features that can be targeted. The war is not unwinnable, there are many many paths to winning.
I tend to agree with that, questions like this might make some people give up too easily or think math is stupid.
That makes no sense. Think about it, if what you claim is true, we can pay the robots to buy stuff from us genius.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/6...
See my comment from 2005.
One in 12 people reading this sentence have no idea what it means.
Given a person with the brain of an 8 year old convinced 46% of voters he is qualified to be president, anything is possible nowadays.
How much of your money and efforts have you donated to that cause?
We need to do everything we can to ensure that the first and subsequent colonies are successful. That said, the first colony will definitely fail badly maybe even horrifically and we better have the stomach for that. There will be events or situations we didnt prepare for.
Exploration and pioneering is difficult but we need to do it or fall back into the tribalism and stupidity that plagues humanity.
Yes it is, if you like your steak well done.
There will always be jobs, unless anarchy or anti-jobs laws rule.
For one thing, even if robots do 99.9% of the work .. we will still have jobs. Whether it is in space exploration or finding cures for every disease. We still haven't colonized the oceans, we still haven't even put a person on Mars .. let alone colonized it with highways and houses. We still don't have deep space hotels or asteroid mining colonies. My biggest fear is that as humans get more prosperous they reproduce less .. every rich country has kids less than the replacement rate. Today the population growth in nearly all the wealthy countries is ENTIRELY from immigration and from the poor in those countries. Countries that dont allow immigration like Russia and Japan are seeing negative population growth. If everyone is prosperous and has access to good healthcare they won't have enough kids.
BS. More wishful thinking by the Android boy-Army. Lets not forget the iPhone X has about ten years of new features that can be added to it such as:
1. FaceID and Touch ID underneath the display. It is possible because OLED substrates are transparent when the OLEDs in a particular area are not lit up.
2. IR dot projection based generic 3D object scanner on back for enhanced AR and 3D object scanning.
3. Energous or equivalent whole room wireless charging. This will be a revolutionary feature â" you will never have to plug your phone into a charger or even need to use a charging pad.
The Toshiba R-100 was thinner and more powerful.
âoeAlthough Ford did not need money from the $80 billion bailout program, Ford did receive $5.9 billion in government loans in 2009 to retool its manufacturing plants to produce more fuel-efficient cars, and the company lobbied for and benefited from the cash-for-clunkers program â" contrary to the adâ(TM)s testimonial that Ford is âoestanding on their own.â
Source: https://www.factcheck.org/2011...
The only way I can think of to make elections better using a computer is to play Call of Duty while the rest of the suckers are out voting.
What does that have to do with the price, or pronunciation, of tea in China?
Without showering, diseases will spread like hell. You need 19 gallons. One gallon to drink, the rest for showering, and keeping a clean house. What good is a tank of saved water if the plague gets you?
You boil the water in an enclosure or over a sheet of metal or glass and collect the condensate as it drips â" that should be obvious. Anyway, there are much cheaper and better ways to desalinate water though. For african villagers i bet the cheapest to setup/make is a solar still .. you just need some clear plastic and a cup (and the sun). Thats if they dont want to pool money together to buy or maintain a reverse osmosis system which btw is cheap nowadays even for household use. We have a system like that in my lab that if I recall correctly cost only around $500 (filters have to be changed periodically though).
As a privacy enthusiast, I am mad as hell about this.
Posted anonymously. Thank God the slashdot Post Anonymously square will protect me.
Because kids got kidnapped or harmed all the time back then. It didnt happen to you so it seems like it wasnt so bad. Just because you didnt know about it doesnt mean it wasnt happening. The word kidnap wasnt invented recently. In fact it has been happening for centuries, for example people used to get kidnapped and forced to work on board ships.
Hmm, I guess they had bad Karma.
Thank you, thank you. No applause necessary.
It feels like 96% (non geeks, non disabled) of people would use these type of devices for about a week ot two at most and then it will sit idle. If homes were fully automated then some people may use it routinely if they could make it past the hump of getting used to it.
We do need to move to RISC V, the question is how.
The easiest way I see is to convince Apple, or Samsung, or Microsoft to release flagships supporting it. That seems really difficult. But then the other ways I see to get RISC V into the mainstream seem even harder or may take longer.