The Aborigines would light big fires whenever conditions were right to clear eucalyptus trees (which produce no food) and encourage grass lands. And farmers burn of stubble to encourage new growth.
We should only need one image format, that automatically identifies the type of image that it is looking at. There is no format today that can take an image of, say, a newspaper page with both text and image on it. Different parts need different image compression techniques. Some lossless, some lossy.
That is something that would be useful. Particularly to non-technical people that do not understand the difference between JPeg and PNG. 15% better compression is a waste of time and certainly not worth confusing the standards space for.
Amonst other things, Danmore said that women in general are more prone to neurosis.
You will disagree, because that statement is politically incorrect. It does not matter what the actual evidence is. We deny what we do not want to hear.
When engineers deny what they do not want to hear, things do not work. Bridges fall down. So there is a different psychology between an engineer and most other people. Facts actually matter in engineering.
Details also matter. Danmore never said that all women are more prone to neurosis. Just that more are. Those are two different statements. But to a non engineer, they both mush to the same thing "Women...neurosis".
Pichai must be feeling some heat over this or he would have simply ignored it. As it is, he is putting it back on the news.
Good.
Sadly, Danmore is not naturally aggressive. I would have made very public statements that Prichai was a malicious liar. Google tells us what to read. We need to trust Google. You cannot trust a malicious liar. That would have got headlines. And if Prichai sued, he would have to attempt to justify his position publically. (The lie is that that Danmore denigrated women, or that he said that the women working for Google were not properly qualified.)
Two twins orbit around each other and then meet. They are both older than each other. Warping fundamental concepts of time and distance to make speed do weird things. As to General Relativity, those pretty pictures you see on TV are nothing like what it really is.
Newton is hard enough. Maybe by 16 a kid might be able to really understand it if they are smart.
Some things just cannot be explained in a meaningful way.
I have an slowish ADSL line. At regular intervals various Daemons on various computes wake up and decide to download gigabytes of junk. Microsoft update is the worst offender, but there are many others. They all do so at maximum speed, killing the internet access.
So on my Gargoyle router, I throttle all the download addresses that these services use. But they daemons are smart. They keep finding new servers to download from. I currently have about 50/24 sites throttled, but more appear every week or so.
Dropbox and Google Drive can be throttled locally nothing else seems to have that ability unless one gets into heavy group policy configs or jailbreak Apples.
This may have been the result of minor incompetence, but there is major incompetence happening further west.
We ignore North Korea and China at our peril. They will soon have capability to reach Hawaii. Then what will we do when they start attacking S. Korea? Nothing that is what. Cannot endanger Hawaii.
And anti missile missiles are only partially effective. They would need to be near 100% to risk it.
Sure, we could retaliate, but remember, N. Korea need not act rationally.
All votes counted in front of scrutineers, every time. And then independently tallied.
The USA's love of machinery combined with the complete lack of independent oversight looks like it has been deliberately designed so that it can be rigged.
Not entirely true that the Chinese students did not pick up anything about freedom, democracy and the civil society. That is why the Chinese government has started to actively discourage western education as leading to "cultural incompatibility".
China is changing again, fast. And this time not for the better. Xi Jinping is taking them towards a dark place. Total control by a hierarchical party, enforced by all encompassing technology. Social media is a tool for control, not freedom, if used "correctly". An the AI the Chinese want is to control.
What will happen when, inevitably, the economy stops growing so fast and corruption becomes more obvious? When a leader claws his way to the top that is not as cunning as Xi Jinping, and causes grief. Unlike Trump, they cannot be voted out.
PKI infrastructure required for every home wifi or Windows 15 will not connect. That's pretty tough.
That said, are people sure than "unsecured" WiFi is not encrypted today? Would fail against man-in-the-middle but not against evesdropping.
What happens when the password is written on the wall of the coffee shop? Can anyone with that password break encryption for others? Can anyone with that password be a man-in-the-middle?
Your post provides good support of my original comment. You have no idea about Iran, yet strong feelings. You are probably unaware, for example, that the USA actively supported Iraq in the war against Iran in which over a million people were killed, many by Iraqi poison gas. The point being that while those demonstrators want change, you can be sure that none of them see the USA as a beacon of light and democracy, instead, vitriol from Trump really helps the religious reactionary's cause.
As to North Korea, yes, should be dealt with far more forcefully, which means dealing with the USA's banker, China. But you are also probably unaware that N Korea was actually under control under Clinton. It was when Bush went to Iraq that the N Koreans saw their opportunity. And then, of course, Obama did nothing. And Trump will do nothing either except bluster, which may ultimately end up with a very bad result.
Our ignorance about Iran is overwhelming. How many times have we heard news reports about what "The Government" in Iran is doing without even mentioning that there are two governments in Iran. The (fairly) democratic one and the repressive Islamic one. Without understanding that, and the resulting conflicts, you understand nothing about Iran.
Ignorant vitriol from the US and Trump does not help the difficult situation on Iran. But they are not meant to. Their purpose is purely to whip up ignorant anger in the US.
Slavery would indeed have died anyway. Without the Southern senators the North would have repealed all its pro-slavery legislation and actively campaigned to end it. Probably including a naval blockade.
But the civil war was never about slavery. It was about preventing the Southern states from leaving.
Much of the opposition to entering world war I came from the South. The North would have joined, but in a reduced capacity. But that said, the war was largely won by the time the US entered. For WW 2, the US would have entered earlier, possibly preventing it. The Cold war could have ended differently though.
Today, of course, you would not have Bush or Trump.
The critical thing is that most of the people in Crimea are Russian and want to be part of Russia.
We should never have made such a fuss about it. Because screaming about marginal cases weakens your ability to scream if Russia becomes truly aggressive. It also strengthens Putin politically.
There is a feeling that national borders are sacrosanct, even though they are often the result of arbitrary historical processes and have little to do with ethnic boundaries. Particularly where colonial powers were concerned. Borders should follow ethnic lines, and locals should be able to chose. Kurdistan should exist.
Imagine what the USA would be today if the southern states had been allowed to succeed.
They lost so many men in WW1 that there was a population shortage of soldiers by WW2. Those men that survived WW1 should have done the right thing and taken on mistresses.
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The Aborigines would light big fires whenever conditions were right to clear eucalyptus trees (which produce no food) and encourage grass lands. And farmers burn of stubble to encourage new growth.
We should only need one image format, that automatically identifies the type of image that it is looking at. There is no format today that can take an image of, say, a newspaper page with both text and image on it. Different parts need different image compression techniques. Some lossless, some lossy.
That is something that would be useful. Particularly to non-technical people that do not understand the difference between JPeg and PNG. 15% better compression is a waste of time and certainly not worth confusing the standards space for.
BTW. Try finding a link to this article by searching google
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
Could find it on Bing.
Amonst other things, Danmore said that women in general are more prone to neurosis.
You will disagree, because that statement is politically incorrect. It does not matter what the actual evidence is. We deny what we do not want to hear.
When engineers deny what they do not want to hear, things do not work. Bridges fall down. So there is a different psychology between an engineer and most other people. Facts actually matter in engineering.
Details also matter. Danmore never said that all women are more prone to neurosis. Just that more are. Those are two different statements. But to a non engineer, they both mush to the same thing "Women...neurosis".
Hence the disconnect.
Pichai must be feeling some heat over this or he would have simply ignored it. As it is, he is putting it back on the news.
Good.
Sadly, Danmore is not naturally aggressive. I would have made very public statements that Prichai was a malicious liar. Google tells us what to read. We need to trust Google. You cannot trust a malicious liar. That would have got headlines. And if Prichai sued, he would have to attempt to justify his position publically. (The lie is that that Danmore denigrated women, or that he said that the women working for Google were not properly qualified.)
You did not actually read the memo, did you.,
Q. But why would and AI *want* to get rid of mankind? Why would it want to do anything?
A. Natural Selection.
http://www.computersthink.com/
You do not really understand it.
Two twins orbit around each other and then meet. They are both older than each other. Warping fundamental concepts of time and distance to make speed do weird things. As to General Relativity, those pretty pictures you see on TV are nothing like what it really is.
Newton is hard enough. Maybe by 16 a kid might be able to really understand it if they are smart.
Some things just cannot be explained in a meaningful way.
I have an slowish ADSL line. At regular intervals various Daemons on various computes wake up and decide to download gigabytes of junk. Microsoft update is the worst offender, but there are many others. They all do so at maximum speed, killing the internet access.
So on my Gargoyle router, I throttle all the download addresses that these services use. But they daemons are smart. They keep finding new servers to download from. I currently have about 50 /24 sites throttled, but more appear every week or so.
Dropbox and Google Drive can be throttled locally nothing else seems to have that ability unless one gets into heavy group policy configs or jailbreak Apples.
This may have been the result of minor incompetence, but there is major incompetence happening further west.
We ignore North Korea and China at our peril. They will soon have capability to reach Hawaii. Then what will we do when they start attacking S. Korea? Nothing that is what. Cannot endanger Hawaii.
And anti missile missiles are only partially effective. They would need to be near 100% to risk it.
Sure, we could retaliate, but remember, N. Korea need not act rationally.
I might add that it is very quick. Takes about an hour to count all votes in a booth completely by hand. No scanning involved.
All votes counted in front of scrutineers, every time. And then independently tallied.
The USA's love of machinery combined with the complete lack of independent oversight looks like it has been deliberately designed so that it can be rigged.
Not entirely true that the Chinese students did not pick up anything about freedom, democracy and the civil society. That is why the Chinese government has started to actively discourage western education as leading to "cultural incompatibility".
China is changing again, fast. And this time not for the better. Xi Jinping is taking them towards a dark place. Total control by a hierarchical party, enforced by all encompassing technology. Social media is a tool for control, not freedom, if used "correctly". An the AI the Chinese want is to control.
What will happen when, inevitably, the economy stops growing so fast and corruption becomes more obvious? When a leader claws his way to the top that is not as cunning as Xi Jinping, and causes grief. Unlike Trump, they cannot be voted out.
Taiwan is toast. But what about the rest of us?
For the tech elite, quality is good. Main issues is uneasiness about the government and being able to breath.
But for the bottom 80%, they are still an underdeveloped and struggling.
Mind you, I would not want to be poor in the USA either. But certainly the bottom 50% of non-US western countries lives better than most Chinese.
The article said Tougher, not Better.
PKI infrastructure required for every home wifi or Windows 15 will not connect. That's pretty tough.
That said, are people sure than "unsecured" WiFi is not encrypted today? Would fail against man-in-the-middle but not against evesdropping.
What happens when the password is written on the wall of the coffee shop? Can anyone with that password break encryption for others? Can anyone with that password be a man-in-the-middle?
Updated version:-
"I disapprove of what you say, but I defend your right to agree with me."
Your post provides good support of my original comment. You have no idea about Iran, yet strong feelings. You are probably unaware, for example, that the USA actively supported Iraq in the war against Iran in which over a million people were killed, many by Iraqi poison gas. The point being that while those demonstrators want change, you can be sure that none of them see the USA as a beacon of light and democracy, instead, vitriol from Trump really helps the religious reactionary's cause.
As to North Korea, yes, should be dealt with far more forcefully, which means dealing with the USA's banker, China. But you are also probably unaware that N Korea was actually under control under Clinton. It was when Bush went to Iraq that the N Koreans saw their opportunity. And then, of course, Obama did nothing. And Trump will do nothing either except bluster, which may ultimately end up with a very bad result.
Nope, did not see that on CNN. Just a common sense reaction to the nonsense seen elsewhere.
Our ignorance about Iran is overwhelming. How many times have we heard news reports about what "The Government" in Iran is doing without even mentioning that there are two governments in Iran. The (fairly) democratic one and the repressive Islamic one. Without understanding that, and the resulting conflicts, you understand nothing about Iran.
Ignorant vitriol from the US and Trump does not help the difficult situation on Iran. But they are not meant to. Their purpose is purely to whip up ignorant anger in the US.
Those undersea cables will be high voltage DC, which is difficult to generate. Can the turbines directly generate the DC and avoid a conversion step?
Slavery would indeed have died anyway. Without the Southern senators the North would have repealed all its pro-slavery legislation and actively campaigned to end it. Probably including a naval blockade.
But the civil war was never about slavery. It was about preventing the Southern states from leaving.
Much of the opposition to entering world war I came from the South. The North would have joined, but in a reduced capacity. But that said, the war was largely won by the time the US entered. For WW 2, the US would have entered earlier, possibly preventing it. The Cold war could have ended differently though.
Today, of course, you would not have Bush or Trump.
The critical thing is that most of the people in Crimea are Russian and want to be part of Russia.
We should never have made such a fuss about it. Because screaming about marginal cases weakens your ability to scream if Russia becomes truly aggressive. It also strengthens Putin politically.
There is a feeling that national borders are sacrosanct, even though they are often the result of arbitrary historical processes and have little to do with ethnic boundaries. Particularly where colonial powers were concerned. Borders should follow ethnic lines, and locals should be able to chose. Kurdistan should exist.
Imagine what the USA would be today if the southern states had been allowed to succeed.
Incidentally, that is one of the reasons you do not send women to war traditionally -- do not endanger your breeding stock.
They lost so many men in WW1 that there was a population shortage of soldiers by WW2. Those men that survived WW1 should have done the right thing and taken on mistresses.
The totally biased media may be one reason for this. But Russians like a "strong" man and Putin would easily win even if the elections were fair.