I had been working at a company whos draconian monolith called Data Processing Department had no clue how to run a manufacturing plant. We had asked for 6 years to have a report for a fully expanded bill of materials (supposedly an impossible task) for our products so we could get a jump on the purchasing and inventory analysis of long lead items, and yet we were stuck with the hand entry on paper, whch was hand typed twice by data processing operators, which generated reams of paper,. That initial process fed the next level of hand entry on paper for all the subassemblies, which gave the next level of product, and at the end, we humans got out a calculator to total up what was needed to actually build something. To make matters worse, each run of that program was overnight and filled reams of paper we had to sift through, just to get a clue what we needed to complete the orders.
One day I stayed late to play with my dual-floppy IBM 8088 PC 4.77 mhz with an interface board that let it act as a terminal to the mainframe. I had just bought a Pascal compiler and reprogrammed that interface board so to teach it how to pull up the interactive programs that displayed our parts catalogs, read the virtual screen data, and then to switched to the non-interactive mainframe partition where the same "report" jobs could be submitted through a virtual card deck, and then receive those paper reports as text data from those same programs". I now had access to all the information we needed to do our own fully nested bill of materials. The next day I sat down at lunch and threw together a recursive routine to do exactly that, and it submitted those batch jobs during the day and compiled the results from each job submission. This program cut an entire week from the time to deliver, and it took me half an afternoon to write. A week later I had that same program checking inventory and produced a consolidated list of what needed to be purchased.
When my boss saw the output I created he grabbed my report and ran down to data processing to ask, no tell, them once again to write this 'impossible' report he now had in his hand. The data processing department took 6 man months to write that exact same report, and they had direct access to the database, and didn't have to reprogram any hardware, or write libraries, or to make the tail wag the dog. They just wrote straight COBOL
In summary Pascal: 6 hours (once the libraries were written) COBOL: 6 man-months with no special development required
You get to decide
They could have set up a Ski lodge with built-in GPU miners for free heat. Or a getaway lovers chalet with heated jacuzzi. It would be a shame if all they did with that free heat was melt snow off the roof of a warehouse. They could be raking in the bitcoin in multiple ways.
I would volunteer, but then that would probably require me to actually get an account on Facebook, and throw what is left of my privacy out the window. On second thought, I'd rather be an impartial non-observer of Facebook policy.
For this price it should use regenerative breaking (hydro-static pressure from gravitational forces, turning a small turbine) to charge a bank of batteries so it can paddle you back out to catch the next wave. An autopilot should then figure out the best route to maximize the remaining battery pack and the exact amount of energy, to consume in charging the batteries, needed to maximize the actual surfing time.
Not so fast. Switching off all cells in the body from creating new cells, while it will certainly retard the cancers ability to proliferate, when ALL cells stop dividing you are essentially at the end-game of life. "No new cells" == "dying". They still need to identify which cells need killing before they can allow everything to be switched back on, until then you are in a physical decline and unable to repair any new injuries. The drug is merely delaying the inevitable problem long enough that personalized genetic analysis and custom cures may then be possible.
If he had any "feelings" before getting caught paying his employees to spread disinformation to deliberately throw the election to Trump, then he should have just done nothing instead. Zuckerberg, Its too late for feeling sorry. It would be bad enough for him to let other people spread lies and disinformation, but actually paying your own employees to do it for you is just inexcusable.
Who knows, I might be Ok with a lobotomy too, after it's all over. But it's the strapping me down to that operating table that is completely another matter altogether.
They cant be serious. They would have to remove quite a few more IQ points to get even the lobotomized version of me to go along with this.
Heaven forbid someone might be making money, through some devious and illegal means, and Congress is not in on it yet? These days, without a significant payoff to the right reelection campaign this kind of behavior will never be allowed. What were they thinking?/s
This next one is, or at least a radar base on this principal. The Chinese are the ones doing this particular experiment, so they are likely ahead of the pack already.
Here is the basis for my concept:
Cao, Y., Li, Y.-H., Cao, Z., Yin, J., Chen, Y.-A., Yin, H.-L., Pan, J.-W. (2017).
Direct counterfactual communication via quantum Zeno effect.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.16...
Basically, you set up a special inferometer where one channel *could* theoretically propagate to the target (Alice->Bob) and potentially reflect back, while the other channel is actually measured (Alice->Alice). The changes on the target side (e.g. Bobs remote configuration) then changes the measured value as seen on the originating side (Alice), but no photons are physically required nor measured propagating to the target! In essence, you now have a radar that does not radiate, thus it isn't giving away your position. It is able to sense changes on the other side using no actual photons. Its a stealth radar, and perfect for my next basement F-35 upgrade project.
So, if I got this straight,in order to get a decent resolution on a cellular connected laptop or tablet, one now needs to first stream it to their desktop at home, and then through a VPN it to another endpoint site, and then finally to their laptop. Yes, I can really see this improving service quality. Thanks Comcast./s
Now that Net Neutrality is no more, why bother to throttle the many many customers directly, when they can first extort money from the major sources of the data, and have those companies up their rates of your service. That way Comcasts great PR machine can indirectly extract more money from your wallet while simultaneously putting the blame on the data-service provider, not themselves. The customer will have no idea why they are paying more for the same services, and no recourse for getting that fee lowered. You can't just pick up the phone to Comcast and renegotiate you bill, because the additional cost is not on your Comcast bill. Arguing with Netflix to tell them to renegotiate a better deal with Comcast has no hope of ever changing anything. You now have no recourse other than finding another network provider, and for customers like me, there is no other provider and they know it.
This is an unfortunate fact. While many in our society live by the mantra "surround yourself with brilliance" in order to be a most effective leader, Trump decided to do exactly the contrary. Inevitably, Trump is then doomed to talk to somebody, anybody, in his own cabinet, just before tweeting his wizardly worded brain numbing decision. It usually comes down to "What can I do to get myself on the front page today?" rather than anything remotely close to "getting it right".
Its not enough that they get my photograph in my passport folder. They then take my photograph as I hand them my photograph found in that passport. Now they want to take more photographs to do facial recognition, because they don't have enough photographs to be completely sure that I was the same person that just handed them my passport?
And I thought I was the one that was supposed to be paranoid at the border crossing?
We all know that the very first thing that Cyber warriors bring to bear is to fill all database with fake comments using other peoples names. The writing is on the wall. It says FCC too intellectually challenged to know what is happening, whenever the DC lobbyists shiny money blinds their eyes and the fluffy dollar bill pillows muffle all the voiced complaints. Its a wonder that any work gets done there anymore, with all that silence going on.
Two years after it "first went on sale"is insufficient and ridiculous. Try more like Four Years after it was Last On Sale and you are talking about a more reasonable solution. When someone buys a phone for $800+ you expect more than one year of software support, especially for the security updates. At those prices expecting an average invesment of $400 per year extortion fee is completely unreasonable for the abverage user.
This was the inevitable outcome of permitting electronic currency trading on the investment market. These guys are idiots for even allowing this trading to happen!
The users of any electronic currency want a currency to be stable so that it gets wide adoption and every one can be comfortable with using and saving it for retirement, etc.
The market investors want the currency to be unstable. If the currency was stable nobody could fleece any money out of all the other traders, so the investment market desires the currency to be unstable.
The problem is the currency only has a subjective value based upon what other people think it is worth, and that value is always going to be undermined by the investment market where big chunks of currency can be gamed to force market swings, which is exactly what the users do not want!!!
AI is statistical in nature. It does not suddenly fail, it fails as its data degrades past a certain point or when presented with data it has never seen before. We need to embrace this concept and design our systems and expectations accordingly. There should always be a driver who can take over if the vehicle does not understand what the sensors are saying, or in the case that a single sensor is starting to fail or is marginalized by the environment. The system itself needs to be trained on how to deal with failure modes and the driver be given audible queues early as to the "certainty" of the computers decisions. Garbage in (data) - Garbage out (the car and one life lost).
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When the AI is 100% certain in what actions it needs to take, this is good. When it has a varying probability driving all its actions the driver must be alerted so they can be aware of the situation and ready to take the wheel. If the AI is not capable of knowing it is being fed bad data or that components of the system are starting to fail, then this system should not be driving any more than you or I should be driving while down and out with the flu. For AI to be successful at something like driving the system must be "self aware" enough as to know if they are "sick" (bad data, failing components) or not. The term "self aware" in a loaded statement, but anything less than a full "self assessment" mode and we will continually be discussing AI's failures to match our expectations.
The sad thing in AI at the moment is that even with complete "Safety aware" feedback in our systems, a properly trained Neural-Net model simply can not tell you why it made a bad decision, and we need to solve that problem before we rely on that technology for the protection of a human life. Redundancy with parallel use of other technologies for self assessment of boundary conditions could go a long way.
"While we understand and agree with the need to protect individuals' privacy," Note this does not include those that are impersonating real people whom you are actually required to protect. The scoundrels that posted many times using our names using several fake addresses around the country can be drawn and quartered and then boiled in oil on the spot. -- your Senator
An aquatic environment is certainly the first place I would think that an intellectual species would master the art of designing, building, and launching really big rocket motors. Its just natural to think this. After all, electrical production, machinery, and autonomous transportation is so easy to come by in the natural world, especially those species capable of doing all that under water, where the fuel to power that kind of industry burns so well./s
Welcome to the "slow lane", where any other competing video service is sure to suck worse than ours. Brought to you by the "Because we can" administration..
No, actually I think its because Google had already analyzed everything that all the Stone Temple employees said and did via email, chat, orders on the web, and past web search history.
Google Assistant already figured out who was doing the study and what questions they were going to ask, so they had the answers ready for them before hand. The web searches were just to make the competition look legit to the judges so they would not catch on.
Alexa on the other hand only knows what Stone Temple employees ordered online from Amazon, and last I checked you still could not order "test questions" from Amazon, even with Prime Membership.
Yes, you know China is no longer a backwards country anymore when you can measure them in the "total patent lawyers" metric. China, welcome to the 21st Century!
Will they have the necessary CO2 scrubbers and sequestering technology to make it pass the Australian pollution regulations? Or is it that this Anti-Science intelligence deficit disease (ASIDD) is just as contagious over there as it is here in the US?
Slashdot Mirror
I tuned it down without any hesitation.
I had been working at a company whos draconian monolith called Data Processing Department had no clue how to run a manufacturing plant. We had asked for 6 years to have a report for a fully expanded bill of materials (supposedly an impossible task) for our products so we could get a jump on the purchasing and inventory analysis of long lead items, and yet we were stuck with the hand entry on paper, whch was hand typed twice by data processing operators, which generated reams of paper,. That initial process fed the next level of hand entry on paper for all the subassemblies, which gave the next level of product, and at the end, we humans got out a calculator to total up what was needed to actually build something. To make matters worse, each run of that program was overnight and filled reams of paper we had to sift through, just to get a clue what we needed to complete the orders.
One day I stayed late to play with my dual-floppy IBM 8088 PC 4.77 mhz with an interface board that let it act as a terminal to the mainframe. I had just bought a Pascal compiler and reprogrammed that interface board so to teach it how to pull up the interactive programs that displayed our parts catalogs, read the virtual screen data, and then to switched to the non-interactive mainframe partition where the same "report" jobs could be submitted through a virtual card deck, and then receive those paper reports as text data from those same programs". I now had access to all the information we needed to do our own fully nested bill of materials. The next day I sat down at lunch and threw together a recursive routine to do exactly that, and it submitted those batch jobs during the day and compiled the results from each job submission. This program cut an entire week from the time to deliver, and it took me half an afternoon to write. A week later I had that same program checking inventory and produced a consolidated list of what needed to be purchased.
When my boss saw the output I created he grabbed my report and ran down to data processing to ask, no tell, them once again to write this 'impossible' report he now had in his hand. The data processing department took 6 man months to write that exact same report, and they had direct access to the database, and didn't have to reprogram any hardware, or write libraries, or to make the tail wag the dog. They just wrote straight COBOL
In summary
Pascal: 6 hours (once the libraries were written)
COBOL: 6 man-months with no special development required
You get to decide
They could have set up a Ski lodge with built-in GPU miners for free heat. Or a getaway lovers chalet with heated jacuzzi. It would be a shame if all they did with that free heat was melt snow off the roof of a warehouse. They could be raking in the bitcoin in multiple ways.
I would volunteer, but then that would probably require me to actually get an account on Facebook, and throw what is left of my privacy out the window. On second thought, I'd rather be an impartial non-observer of Facebook policy.
For this price it should use regenerative breaking (hydro-static pressure from gravitational forces, turning a small turbine) to charge a bank of batteries so it can paddle you back out to catch the next wave. An autopilot should then figure out the best route to maximize the remaining battery pack and the exact amount of energy, to consume in charging the batteries, needed to maximize the actual surfing time.
Not so fast. Switching off all cells in the body from creating new cells, while it will certainly retard the cancers ability to proliferate, when ALL cells stop dividing you are essentially at the end-game of life. "No new cells" == "dying". They still need to identify which cells need killing before they can allow everything to be switched back on, until then you are in a physical decline and unable to repair any new injuries. The drug is merely delaying the inevitable problem long enough that personalized genetic analysis and custom cures may then be possible.
If he had any "feelings" before getting caught paying his employees to spread disinformation to deliberately throw the election to Trump, then he should have just done nothing instead. Zuckerberg, Its too late for feeling sorry. It would be bad enough for him to let other people spread lies and disinformation, but actually paying your own employees to do it for you is just inexcusable.
TreasonBook(tm) anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/result...
Who knows, I might be Ok with a lobotomy too, after it's all over. But it's the strapping me down to that operating table that is completely another matter altogether.
They cant be serious. They would have to remove quite a few more IQ points to get even the lobotomized version of me to go along with this.
...for the kids to install a TOR plugin into the entertainment system, leaving the adults to be the ones who can't figure out the blocking system.
Heaven forbid someone might be making money, through some devious and illegal means, and Congress is not in on it yet? These days, without a significant payoff to the right reelection campaign this kind of behavior will never be allowed. What were they thinking? /s
This next one is, or at least a radar base on this principal. The Chinese are the ones doing this particular experiment, so they are likely ahead of the pack already.
Here is the basis for my concept:
Cao, Y., Li, Y.-H., Cao, Z., Yin, J., Chen, Y.-A., Yin, H.-L., Pan, J.-W. (2017).
Direct counterfactual communication via quantum Zeno effect.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5.
http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.16...
Basically, you set up a special inferometer where one channel *could* theoretically propagate to the target (Alice->Bob) and potentially reflect back, while the other channel is actually measured (Alice->Alice). The changes on the target side (e.g. Bobs remote configuration) then changes the measured value as seen on the originating side (Alice), but no photons are physically required nor measured propagating to the target! In essence, you now have a radar that does not radiate, thus it isn't giving away your position. It is able to sense changes on the other side using no actual photons. Its a stealth radar, and perfect for my next basement F-35 upgrade project.
Any investors out there?
So, if I got this straight,in order to get a decent resolution on a cellular connected laptop or tablet, one now needs to first stream it to their desktop at home, and then through a VPN it to another endpoint site, and then finally to their laptop. Yes, I can really see this improving service quality. Thanks Comcast. /s
Where is the thumbs up button when you need one?
Now that Net Neutrality is no more, why bother to throttle the many many customers directly, when they can first extort money from the major sources of the data, and have those companies up their rates of your service. That way Comcasts great PR machine can indirectly extract more money from your wallet while simultaneously putting the blame on the data-service provider, not themselves. The customer will have no idea why they are paying more for the same services, and no recourse for getting that fee lowered. You can't just pick up the phone to Comcast and renegotiate you bill, because the additional cost is not on your Comcast bill. Arguing with Netflix to tell them to renegotiate a better deal with Comcast has no hope of ever changing anything. You now have no recourse other than finding another network provider, and for customers like me, there is no other provider and they know it.
This is an unfortunate fact. While many in our society live by the mantra "surround yourself with brilliance" in order to be a most effective leader, Trump decided to do exactly the contrary. Inevitably, Trump is then doomed to talk to somebody, anybody, in his own cabinet, just before tweeting his wizardly worded brain numbing decision. It usually comes down to "What can I do to get myself on the front page today?" rather than anything remotely close to "getting it right".
Its not enough that they get my photograph in my passport folder. They then take my photograph as I hand them my photograph found in that passport. Now they want to take more photographs to do facial recognition, because they don't have enough photographs to be completely sure that I was the same person that just handed them my passport?
And I thought I was the one that was supposed to be paranoid at the border crossing?
We all know that the very first thing that Cyber warriors bring to bear is to fill all database with fake comments using other peoples names. The writing is on the wall. It says FCC too intellectually challenged to know what is happening, whenever the DC lobbyists shiny money blinds their eyes and the fluffy dollar bill pillows muffle all the voiced complaints. Its a wonder that any work gets done there anymore, with all that silence going on.
Two years after it "first went on sale" is insufficient and ridiculous. Try more like Four Years after it was Last On Sale and you are talking about a more reasonable solution. When someone buys a phone for $800+ you expect more than one year of software support, especially for the security updates. At those prices expecting an average invesment of $400 per year extortion fee is completely unreasonable for the abverage user.
This was the inevitable outcome of permitting electronic currency trading on the investment market. These guys are idiots for even allowing this trading to happen!
The users of any electronic currency want a currency to be stable so that it gets wide adoption and every one can be comfortable with using and saving it for retirement, etc.
The market investors want the currency to be unstable. If the currency was stable nobody could fleece any money out of all the other traders, so the investment market desires the currency to be unstable.
The problem is the currency only has a subjective value based upon what other people think it is worth, and that value is always going to be undermined by the investment market where big chunks of currency can be gamed to force market swings, which is exactly what the users do not want!!!
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When the AI is 100% certain in what actions it needs to take, this is good. When it has a varying probability driving all its actions the driver must be alerted so they can be aware of the situation and ready to take the wheel. If the AI is not capable of knowing it is being fed bad data or that components of the system are starting to fail, then this system should not be driving any more than you or I should be driving while down and out with the flu. For AI to be successful at something like driving the system must be "self aware" enough as to know if they are "sick" (bad data, failing components) or not. The term "self aware" in a loaded statement, but anything less than a full "self assessment" mode and we will continually be discussing AI's failures to match our expectations.
The sad thing in AI at the moment is that even with complete "Safety aware" feedback in our systems, a properly trained Neural-Net model simply can not tell you why it made a bad decision, and we need to solve that problem before we rely on that technology for the protection of a human life. Redundancy with parallel use of other technologies for self assessment of boundary conditions could go a long way.
"While we understand and agree with the need to protect individuals' privacy," Note this does not include those that are impersonating real people whom you are actually required to protect. The scoundrels that posted many times using our names using several fake addresses around the country can be drawn and quartered and then boiled in oil on the spot. -- your Senator
An aquatic environment is certainly the first place I would think that an intellectual species would master the art of designing, building, and launching really big rocket motors. Its just natural to think this. After all, electrical production, machinery, and autonomous transportation is so easy to come by in the natural world, especially those species capable of doing all that under water, where the fuel to power that kind of industry burns so well. /s
Welcome to the "slow lane", where any other competing video service is sure to suck worse than ours. Brought to you by the "Because we can" administration..
No, actually I think its because Google had already analyzed everything that all the Stone Temple employees said and did via email, chat, orders on the web, and past web search history.
Google Assistant already figured out who was doing the study and what questions they were going to ask, so they had the answers ready for them before hand. The web searches were just to make the competition look legit to the judges so they would not catch on.
Alexa on the other hand only knows what Stone Temple employees ordered online from Amazon, and last I checked you still could not order "test questions" from Amazon, even with Prime Membership.
This is being measured entirely by patents.
Yes, you know China is no longer a backwards country anymore when you can measure them in the "total patent lawyers" metric. China, welcome to the 21st Century!
Will they have the necessary CO2 scrubbers and sequestering technology to make it pass the Australian pollution regulations? Or is it that this Anti-Science intelligence deficit disease (ASIDD) is just as contagious over there as it is here in the US?