Low-end AI? Translating user requirements into working software that actually meets their needs is in the same part of the AI difficulty list as cold fusion and solving world hunger.
If you can actually interpret the business specs without a human putting them into a formal language, you don't need to translate them into computer logic at all. By then the AI can just execute them anyway.
The moment you need that intermediary step involving a human and a formalised representation.. we call that programming.
Ah, I was thinking electric but human operated. Autonomous does change the dynamics somewhat, yes - the 'enough batteries in the back to drive from Alaska to Costa Rica' option suddenly becomes very viable, as you just coincide the day spent charging with valet/vehicle health check/washing activities and you're not paying a driver to sit idle through that period.
It's still higher utilisation due to the lack of rest periods during the driving.
Yeah, my two seater roadster that I do not drive economically averages 5.8l/100km. If I drove more slowly I'd get more and if I bought a car with half the power I'd get much much more.
Or I could buy a bigger car with faster acceleration and better fuel economy by switching to a hybrid. Tax incentives on that too, and the electric motor would handle the commute without needing to use petrol.
Pure electric? Just not on the radar yet. There just aren't any out there that would do 426km. Unless you want to spend £136k on a Tesla and drive it at golf buggy speeds. Sure.
At roughly 500 HP, semi trailers are not a big hurdle to go electric; it really just comes down to the economics when it comes to long-range applications.
I suspect torque is a key requirement rather than raw horsepower and the electric motors can certainly meet that need.
It's the battery technology. Even if you line the base of the trailer with batteries to give you multi-thousand mile range, is that commercially viable (and just how long do you need to park up to charge!)
Some of us don't need to bluff. I also didn't need four years in academia to build good relationships with the academics, which oddly enough I achieved by being polite and not by being subservient.
Also: In the UK a BSc at a good university is a three year course. I could have stayed on to get a Masters but was bored and wanted to earn a living instead.
Well, learn how to fucking make them then. I'm too busy with the career kickstarted by a BSc from one of the world's top five business schools.
I laughed at almost every one of the people teaching me at that university. Shit, I openly mocked several of them, including one to her face in front of three hundred people. Didn't even do it on purpose, just an instinctive response to her attempts to embarrass me.
I also showed many of them the respect they deserved. They showed respect to me and other students too, and made requests not demands.
Those requests weren't stupid things like "Call me Sir". They were sensible ones like, "Please have this paper finished by that date" or once, "Could you please turn up for the lecture on Friday? I don't care if you skip mine but I've asked your fellow students to present rather than me on this occasion."
But I don't do educational theory, so you go right ahead and tell me how I managed to get it so horribly wrong.
You appear to have completely, totally and embarrassingly missed his point.
If the skillset is that fucking hard to find then it's worth $250k. If you want to pay less, train someone.
You don't have to pay local staff $250k, you can hire them for less. You just can't use the fact that they wont join you to write cobol for a lower salary than they can get in Michigan using modern tools to justify importing foreign labour.
I suspect the cash (upfront, and from future employment) is significantly better by not putting the video on youtube and instead saving it for the court case.
If you keep calling someone who has earned a doctorate "Mister" then yeah, they're probably going to keep getting annoyed about it
Well, yeah, because they'll expect you to be calling them Rob (or whatever their name actually is).
If you can't even remember someone's title, you probably can't remember basic things relating to the technical problems at hand.
Shit, I can't remember all the letters that come after my own name, let alone the ones that come after everybody else. Then there are the stupid rules like using 'Mister' when someone's got FRCS even though they're also a doctor.
Fuck your title, lets focus on the shit that matters: the technical problems at hand.
"Your grammar needs improving and call me Sir" will get you laughed at. If my grammar needs improving then tell me that, don't go imposing your authoritarian power structures on me to do so.
Basic etiquette includes calling people by their first name. I can walk up to the CEO, CFO or the board Chair of my company (while wearing jeans & t-shirt), address them using their first name and get a civil constructive response that progresses our relationship to the benefit of the company.
I don't have to go all Sir This or Mrs That. No, I treat them as peers, they treat me as a valued individual, we all work professionally together.
They just happen to earn twenty times more than me.
It's just sad that they didn't learn such basic skills earlier.
To be fair to the professor it was a different era when he was being educated. The world has moved on, lets not embarrass him for not moving with it. Just educate him and help him understand that using his first name is infinitely preferable to calling him "Stupid old cunt".
Sorry but I fear you're missing his point: When did leaving a system running overnight justifiably ever need you to fix the bootloader the next morning?
No. Video of Farage saying £10bn/year should be spent in the UK.
Shit, he even mentioned schools explicitly. Remind me which part of the NHS budget pays for schools?
What did the bus say then?
Lets fund our NHS instead. It didn't say, "Lets put £350m/week extra into the NHS" no matter how much you want it to. Remain voters appear to suffer from poor reading comprehension.
As you bring up the Army though did you catch Fallon straight up lying on TV
Nope, missed that. I don't watch much TV. I am very aware of the challenges facing the armed forces though, yes.
Why is it seem you think Armed Forces, Education and NHS should be cut to ribbons just to square the books?
What are you asking me for? You're the one bitching about Government borrowing.
Here's Gove and Johnson standing infront of a completely different line to give the NHS millions more a week.
I don't see the digits 3, 5 or 0 in that statement.
Hopefully you now understand why I disregard people talking shit about promises that weren't made.
did you see the goddam bus they were driving around in?
The one that didn't say what you're saying was said?
You do realise this government has borrowed more than every previous labour gov combined.
I do. Would you rather we cut the armed forces budget, the NHS budget, the education budget or local council funding to zero to better square the books?
Yeah, something's going wrong with the budget. I lack the inputs to properly understand what; it's not going to be as straightforward as simple mismanagement, but it's not due to reduced funding.
You only need to look at brexit, one of the big claims was the £350m a week for the nhs
Who made that claim? Please quote someone representing one of the Leave campaigns because I can't find it anywhere. Just a shitload of fake news from across the media pushing the remain agenda.
The fact is the tories want it privatised, like they want everything privatised.
I recall Labour introducing the private finance initiatives that started NHS privatisation.
If you want to vote tory fine
Fuck no, I'm not voting for fascist totalitarianism.
Can you take the tory challenge?
Oh look, someone bleating on about shit they don't like. Show me any government and a comparable list is possible. Fuck me, a full half of that list is the legacy of Labour's borrow & spend policy that left the country totally fucked.
All that shit about cuts and austerity in that list but everybody's still bitching about the increases in debt. Forgive me for not bothering to reply to people so unwilling to have an adult conversation.
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Well, there is a causal link between a body's energy supplies and mortality rates. I fear it may not be the way the US President believes.
Sadly my body does have spare energy and I'd be delighted to donate it to reducing my electricity bill.
Ions in my blood stream are not the way.
that specify much more precisely
Or as we call it, programming.
Nicely put.
Low-end AI? Translating user requirements into working software that actually meets their needs is in the same part of the AI difficulty list as cold fusion and solving world hunger.
If you can actually interpret the business specs without a human putting them into a formal language, you don't need to translate them into computer logic at all. By then the AI can just execute them anyway.
The moment you need that intermediary step involving a human and a formalised representation.. we call that programming.
erm. There are a lot of happy parents that would disagree with you on this.
Ah, I was thinking electric but human operated. Autonomous does change the dynamics somewhat, yes - the 'enough batteries in the back to drive from Alaska to Costa Rica' option suddenly becomes very viable, as you just coincide the day spent charging with valet/vehicle health check/washing activities and you're not paying a driver to sit idle through that period.
It's still higher utilisation due to the lack of rest periods during the driving.
My total car ownership cost is $900/year just on insurance, brake pads and tyres.
Financially owning a car is far from the optimal choice. I own mine for other reasons.
Yeah, my two seater roadster that I do not drive economically averages 5.8l/100km. If I drove more slowly I'd get more and if I bought a car with half the power I'd get much much more.
Or I could buy a bigger car with faster acceleration and better fuel economy by switching to a hybrid. Tax incentives on that too, and the electric motor would handle the commute without needing to use petrol.
Pure electric? Just not on the radar yet. There just aren't any out there that would do 426km. Unless you want to spend £136k on a Tesla and drive it at golf buggy speeds. Sure.
At roughly 500 HP, semi trailers are not a big hurdle to go electric; it really just comes down to the economics when it comes to long-range applications.
I suspect torque is a key requirement rather than raw horsepower and the electric motors can certainly meet that need.
It's the battery technology. Even if you line the base of the trailer with batteries to give you multi-thousand mile range, is that commercially viable (and just how long do you need to park up to charge!)
Some of us don't need to bluff. I also didn't need four years in academia to build good relationships with the academics, which oddly enough I achieved by being polite and not by being subservient.
Also: In the UK a BSc at a good university is a three year course. I could have stayed on to get a Masters but was bored and wanted to earn a living instead.
Blame my lower class upbringing.
Well, learn how to fucking make them then. I'm too busy with the career kickstarted by a BSc from one of the world's top five business schools.
I laughed at almost every one of the people teaching me at that university. Shit, I openly mocked several of them, including one to her face in front of three hundred people. Didn't even do it on purpose, just an instinctive response to her attempts to embarrass me.
I also showed many of them the respect they deserved. They showed respect to me and other students too, and made requests not demands.
Those requests weren't stupid things like "Call me Sir". They were sensible ones like, "Please have this paper finished by that date" or once, "Could you please turn up for the lecture on Friday? I don't care if you skip mine but I've asked your fellow students to present rather than me on this occasion."
But I don't do educational theory, so you go right ahead and tell me how I managed to get it so horribly wrong.
You appear to have completely, totally and embarrassingly missed his point.
If the skillset is that fucking hard to find then it's worth $250k. If you want to pay less, train someone.
You don't have to pay local staff $250k, you can hire them for less. You just can't use the fact that they wont join you to write cobol for a lower salary than they can get in Michigan using modern tools to justify importing foreign labour.
I suspect the cash (upfront, and from future employment) is significantly better by not putting the video on youtube and instead saving it for the court case.
I'll just drop this in here and hope you educate yourself.
http://www.popsci.com/science/...
First name basis should only exist once both parties, particularly the one in a position of stature/authority clearly says its ok first.
Don't try that one on me. Stop me using your first name and you'll be very distressed by the name I use instead.
I don't respect authority. Never have. Shit, I use your title it's almost guaranteed I'm doing so to show disrespect.
I respect people. I talk to them. They can like it or fuck off.
Prepare to be horrified:
https://heatst.com/culture-war...
If you keep calling someone who has earned a doctorate "Mister" then yeah, they're probably going to keep getting annoyed about it
Well, yeah, because they'll expect you to be calling them Rob (or whatever their name actually is).
If you can't even remember someone's title, you probably can't remember basic things relating to the technical problems at hand.
Shit, I can't remember all the letters that come after my own name, let alone the ones that come after everybody else. Then there are the stupid rules like using 'Mister' when someone's got FRCS even though they're also a doctor.
Fuck your title, lets focus on the shit that matters: the technical problems at hand.
Using a first name is being polite.
"Your grammar needs improving and call me Sir" will get you laughed at. If my grammar needs improving then tell me that, don't go imposing your authoritarian power structures on me to do so.
Basic etiquette includes calling people by their first name. I can walk up to the CEO, CFO or the board Chair of my company (while wearing jeans & t-shirt), address them using their first name and get a civil constructive response that progresses our relationship to the benefit of the company.
I don't have to go all Sir This or Mrs That. No, I treat them as peers, they treat me as a valued individual, we all work professionally together.
They just happen to earn twenty times more than me.
It's just sad that they didn't learn such basic skills earlier.
To be fair to the professor it was a different era when he was being educated. The world has moved on, lets not embarrass him for not moving with it. Just educate him and help him understand that using his first name is infinitely preferable to calling him "Stupid old cunt".
Sorry but I fear you're missing his point: When did leaving a system running overnight justifiably ever need you to fix the bootloader the next morning?
Yeah, my Windows 8.1 machine had Windows Update disabled in June 2015.
Comically I can't re-enable it. Just hangs there now, waiting for updates, hammering a CPU core.
Yeah, you're right. A fake gun is a lump of metal and mostly harmless.
A phishing attempt is an explicit attempt to access secure credentials and could potentially have succeeded.
Cynically I have to ask whether Gizmodo would have used the credentials had they succeeded, and so whether this was even a fake attack at all.
It's much more akin to telling security that you were testing them with the very real and fully loaded gun that they found.
Video of Farage giving the line.
No. Video of Farage saying £10bn/year should be spent in the UK.
Shit, he even mentioned schools explicitly. Remind me which part of the NHS budget pays for schools?
What did the bus say then?
Lets fund our NHS instead. It didn't say, "Lets put £350m/week extra into the NHS" no matter how much you want it to. Remain voters appear to suffer from poor reading comprehension.
As you bring up the Army though did you catch Fallon straight up lying on TV
Nope, missed that. I don't watch much TV. I am very aware of the challenges facing the armed forces though, yes.
Why is it seem you think Armed Forces, Education and NHS should be cut to ribbons just to square the books?
What are you asking me for? You're the one bitching about Government borrowing.
Here's Gove and Johnson standing infront of a completely different line to give the NHS millions more a week.
I don't see the digits 3, 5 or 0 in that statement.
Hopefully you now understand why I disregard people talking shit about promises that weren't made.
fuck off, they were all saying it
Then why is nobody able to source a quote?
did you see the goddam bus they were driving around in?
The one that didn't say what you're saying was said?
You do realise this government has borrowed more than every previous labour gov combined.
I do. Would you rather we cut the armed forces budget, the NHS budget, the education budget or local council funding to zero to better square the books?
Yeah, something's going wrong with the budget. I lack the inputs to properly understand what; it's not going to be as straightforward as simple mismanagement, but it's not due to reduced funding.
You only need to look at brexit, one of the big claims was the £350m a week for the nhs
Who made that claim? Please quote someone representing one of the Leave campaigns because I can't find it anywhere. Just a shitload of fake news from across the media pushing the remain agenda.
The fact is the tories want it privatised, like they want everything privatised.
I recall Labour introducing the private finance initiatives that started NHS privatisation.
If you want to vote tory fine
Fuck no, I'm not voting for fascist totalitarianism.
Can you take the tory challenge?
Oh look, someone bleating on about shit they don't like. Show me any government and a comparable list is possible. Fuck me, a full half of that list is the legacy of Labour's borrow & spend policy that left the country totally fucked.
All that shit about cuts and austerity in that list but everybody's still bitching about the increases in debt. Forgive me for not bothering to reply to people so unwilling to have an adult conversation.
What the fuck does nationalisation have to do with slavery?
The civil service in pretty much every country is nationalised. Are you saying they're all slaves?
Federal law enforcement in the US is nationalised. Are FBI agents all slaves?
Or are you just stupid?