Google will do a deal with the content providers to pay them a very small fee to link to them. Content providers that do not agree will simply not be linked to.
Some of the big ones may drop off, and this might be an opportunity for little ones to gain traction. No big issue for Google, one site is much the same as another.
Google might also offer a paid service which lets users see links to more expensive sites.
Wikipedia, OTOH, will be in trouble. They will just not be able to include links to other sites at all. Nobody can negotiate for each and every link.
South Australa is a relatively poor state, one of whose major industries is a Uranium mine.
But one thing that it does have is a lot of nothing. Lots and lots of it. And much of it is not over the Great Artisan Basin aquifer, and on stable rocks.
There was a proposal to build a waste dump there to initially store the waste that is now stored in suburban Sydney. And then maybe import it.
Can you imagine the money that the USA, Japan etc. would pay? Suddenly that nothing would be extremely valuable.
But any argument with the word "Waste" or "Nuclear" is tough to make. Put them together, "Nuclear Waste" and it is dead. Everybody knows that it would destroy the state, if not the entire planet.
"Neural Network", "Deap Learning", "Watson" etc. are just vacuous marketing terms. Very few people on slash dot let alone the wider population have a clue how AI systems are built.
But as to the levels, remember that if the system can only drive down the freeway, that means that the last 20% of a long journey can be driven remotely by someone that is not in the car. That does require the car to have enough brains to stop safely if the remote linkage is cut for any reason. But it is a much lower bar than complete autonomy.
That is why students still buy limited graphics calculators.
The question arises as to why they use calculators at all in exams. I do know that I try to stop my kids from reaching for one when calculating 3 * 7, say.
> The science reporting in these articles is always awful. It assumes that the readers of such blogs are all retards, idiots, and profoundly uneducated, providing not one shred of meaningful scientific discussion and insight or even adequate reporting of technical facts from the primary source being reported on - you know, mentioning the actual science.
That is probably a fair assumption. And years of dumbing down has not improved the nation's intellect.
But there is another effect. News is created by journalists who are experts at appealing to a mass audience. It is neither their expertise nor remote interest to actually understand anything other than ratings demographics.
If you look at enough statistics then you will find one that correlates with your hypothesis, if only by chance.
But any proper analysis is far to sophisticated for the political system. And people use phones for navigation. They also text while stopped at traffic lights, illegal in Australia but hardly a concern.
The internet is better than cable, but Netflix is still an issue.
TVs only work properly on a few providers. There should be no need for a special app to view content. Just a URL. And maybe some sort of centralized billing.
Mao destroyed China. First the Great Famine. Then the Cultural Revolution removing the intelligencia. 1976 China was impoverished of both money and culture and any quality of life. India was democratic, free, and its economy growing due to the green revolution.
Then Mao dies, the Deng Xiaoping revolution happens and China takes off. From a base of nothing, to what it is today. Truly amazing.
There is something deeply ingrained in Chinese culture that Mao could not kill and India does not have to make money. And as a result, despite the authoritarian issues that we find repulsive, the average poor Chinese lives much better than the average poor Indian.
The future may not be so bright for China. Xi Jinping's counter-reformation cannot be good for Chinese business in the longer term. And certainly not if they take on an aggressive foreign policy, in which case he could take down the entire world.
But for now, something about China is much, much more effective than the way things are done in India.
China is powerful, growing, but also vulnerable. Dictatorships tend to be grossly inefficient, as without a civil society there is nothing to stop nepotism and corruption. Sure, Xi Jinping is trying to have both Dictatorship and Economy, but I think that it will eventually falter.
China also needs to import food if its people are to maintain the high protein diet to which they have recently become accustomed..
The real danger is that as China's economy reduces its growth rate from the currently very high rate, politics will become messy. And then Xi might pull the standard trick, produce an external enemy. And "Unify" Taiwan.
So do not be too sure about China. It is complex, and potentially dangerous. There is currently no quiet way to get rid of Xi, it would take bloody revolution.
Obviously we need complex multimedia formats that are decoded by C code complete with buffer overflows all running in Kernal mode.
But what would be even better is if the PNG could contain JavaScript inside it. Why limit the output to just a few algorithms? With JavaScript running actually inside the PNG much greater compression could be achieved for many applications. More importantly, a whole new plethora of animation techniques could be developed.
Indeed, if that JavaScript within the PNG was used to implement a Virtual Machine, a whole sub operating system could run inside that image. Just think of the possibilities!
Sure both do dubious spying, and the USA is not perfect.
But the USA really is the land of the free compared to China. Try to express any political opinion in China and you will be penalized and end up in jail if you persist.
China has a aggressive foreign policy, with explicit eyes on Taiwan. That is quite different from the USA's bumbling incompetence in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they would love to be able to leave.
Indeed, you control a lot when you control all cash transactions. In the west, there is a least some privacy, even from governments. But in China they actually boast about how much they can help the government monitor people.
This then gets combined with complete control over all communications. That is where AI comes in. To monitor people's emails and worse phone calls is not practical to do except for specific suspects. But AI can do a lot of this automatically, particularly voice recognition. And mobile phones now give the government knowledge of where people are at all times. And then this vast amount of data can be correlated -- e.g. that two people in these groups lived near each other 20 years ago...
It would be very difficult to quietly organize any grass roots movement about anything in China today without approval from the government. There are some, e.g. people were complaining about some groups eating dogs. But anything to do with the government, like complaining about a school that collapased during an earthquake, is not possible.
Where it gets scary is that Xi Jinping is also talking about nationalism. He has the South China Sea. He wants Taiwan. And nobody on the ground nor in the citadel could stop him if he started doing crazy things.
History does not exactly repeat itself, but we do know what this type of thinking resulted in Germany in the 1930s. And Xi is far more entrenched in China than Hitler was before he invaded France. (Hitler faced substantial internal opposition before France.)
Some women will want large families despite education. That will be for some combination of genetic tendencies and social circumstances. But either way the children of those women will tend to have larger families on average than the general population. They will also tend to breed with like minded people (like strict Catholics).
We have introduced a bug in the system. Birth control. It enabled our desire for sex to be met as well as our desire for a good living standard. But over time Natural Selection will sort that out, and the fittest (for breeding) will dominate. There is no point in having a good living standard if you do not breed many grandchildren.
Now that process will take some time. Perhaps centuries. It is likely that over that timescale we will have built software that can program itself as well as we can program it. At that point humanity will become obsolete technology, and it is the robots that will do the breeding.
Of all the things that annoy me about Java unsigned bytes has never hit to top of the list. Normally they are just bytes, and we simply do not care about the sign because we do not do arithmetic on them. And if we do it is trivial to fix.
C# has many advantages. The inbuilt query language is very cool. But unsinged bytes?!!
And there is no search for interfaces for lambdas at all. It is in the declaration of the place you are adding it. Java is all explicit typing, Perhaps you are confusing it with Go?
In 1962 it was revolutionary. It could process a bank's load of transactions on a machine with less than 64K of memory. And fast. No garbage collections. No unnecessary data transforms, just suck the data in, map it to a record, process it, and spit it out.
Data section that properly described structures. And separate from the procedure section so that a compiler could run in two separate overlays, important on small machines.
The code was pretty easy to read. No nasty pointer arithmetic.
Watson won at Jeopardy also because it could press the button faster, which is considered the key skill. However, despite that, it still had to answer the questions, which was impressive.
I would say that this result is also impressive, even if the machine was not really quite as good as the humans.
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Because they are slightly less efficient. Maybe 10%.
And nobody would tolerate a computer that is 10% slower just because that is secure.
Google will do a deal with the content providers to pay them a very small fee to link to them. Content providers that do not agree will simply not be linked to.
Some of the big ones may drop off, and this might be an opportunity for little ones to gain traction. No big issue for Google, one site is much the same as another.
Google might also offer a paid service which lets users see links to more expensive sites.
Wikipedia, OTOH, will be in trouble. They will just not be able to include links to other sites at all. Nobody can negotiate for each and every link.
All the kool kids are using siloed messengers like facebook, instagram, imessage, signal, .....
When the likes of you and I drop off our perches nobody will remember what email was.
AMP will accelerate this process. By embedding siloed message servers into the "surface" of the emails.
Back in the day. When people laughed at people that thought they could be infected by emails.
Then put in a ESC sequence that, when the email was read, programmed their function keys to bounce back a message.
5 bit telex seems OK though.
South Australa is a relatively poor state, one of whose major industries is a Uranium mine.
But one thing that it does have is a lot of nothing. Lots and lots of it. And much of it is not over the Great Artisan Basin aquifer, and on stable rocks.
There was a proposal to build a waste dump there to initially store the waste that is now stored in suburban Sydney. And then maybe import it.
Can you imagine the money that the USA, Japan etc. would pay? Suddenly that nothing would be extremely valuable.
But any argument with the word "Waste" or "Nuclear" is tough to make. Put them together, "Nuclear Waste" and it is dead. Everybody knows that it would destroy the state, if not the entire planet.
"Neural Network", "Deap Learning", "Watson" etc. are just vacuous marketing terms. Very few people on slash dot let alone the wider population have a clue how AI systems are built.
But as to the levels, remember that if the system can only drive down the freeway, that means that the last 20% of a long journey can be driven remotely by someone that is not in the car. That does require the car to have enough brains to stop safely if the remote linkage is cut for any reason. But it is a much lower bar than complete autonomy.
That is why students still buy limited graphics calculators.
The question arises as to why they use calculators at all in exams. I do know that I try to stop my kids from reaching for one when calculating 3 * 7, say.
> The science reporting in these articles is always awful. It assumes that the readers of such blogs are all retards, idiots, and profoundly uneducated, providing not one shred of meaningful scientific discussion and insight or even adequate reporting of technical facts from the primary source being reported on - you know, mentioning the actual science.
That is probably a fair assumption. And years of dumbing down has not improved the nation's intellect.
But there is another effect. News is created by journalists who are experts at appealing to a mass audience. It is neither their expertise nor remote interest to actually understand anything other than ratings demographics.
If you look at enough statistics then you will find one that correlates with your hypothesis, if only by chance.
But any proper analysis is far to sophisticated for the political system. And people use phones for navigation. They also text while stopped at traffic lights, illegal in Australia but hardly a concern.
Well, they write the articles. Do you?
Draconian copyright is the scourge of trying to build a free dictionary. So it is directly relevant to what they do.
The internet is better than cable, but Netflix is still an issue.
TVs only work properly on a few providers. There should be no need for a special app to view content. Just a URL. And maybe some sort of centralized billing.
We would not let our enemies have guns. So why would we let them have ideas?
Stalin.
You made the amazing point.
Mao destroyed China. First the Great Famine. Then the Cultural Revolution removing the intelligencia. 1976 China was impoverished of both money and culture and any quality of life. India was democratic, free, and its economy growing due to the green revolution.
Then Mao dies, the Deng Xiaoping revolution happens and China takes off. From a base of nothing, to what it is today. Truly amazing.
There is something deeply ingrained in Chinese culture that Mao could not kill and India does not have to make money. And as a result, despite the authoritarian issues that we find repulsive, the average poor Chinese lives much better than the average poor Indian.
The future may not be so bright for China. Xi Jinping's counter-reformation cannot be good for Chinese business in the longer term. And certainly not if they take on an aggressive foreign policy, in which case he could take down the entire world.
But for now, something about China is much, much more effective than the way things are done in India.
China is powerful, growing, but also vulnerable. Dictatorships tend to be grossly inefficient, as without a civil society there is nothing to stop nepotism and corruption. Sure, Xi Jinping is trying to have both Dictatorship and Economy, but I think that it will eventually falter.
China also needs to import food if its people are to maintain the high protein diet to which they have recently become accustomed..
The real danger is that as China's economy reduces its growth rate from the currently very high rate, politics will become messy. And then Xi might pull the standard trick, produce an external enemy. And "Unify" Taiwan.
So do not be too sure about China. It is complex, and potentially dangerous. There is currently no quiet way to get rid of Xi, it would take bloody revolution.
That is NOT about credit card fees!
How much of that cash do you think gets reported for income tax!
It would be interesting to see what progress has been made over 50 years, if anyone has some figures.
I suppose that the key one is actually total thrust per kg of fuel. And then kg of engine required to produce a kg of thrust.
My guess is not much, given that by the 1960s the physics has been worked out pretty well and the materials have not changed markedly.
Obviously we need complex multimedia formats that are decoded by C code complete with buffer overflows all running in Kernal mode.
But what would be even better is if the PNG could contain JavaScript inside it. Why limit the output to just a few algorithms? With JavaScript running actually inside the PNG much greater compression could be achieved for many applications. More importantly, a whole new plethora of animation techniques could be developed.
Indeed, if that JavaScript within the PNG was used to implement a Virtual Machine, a whole sub operating system could run inside that image. Just think of the possibilities!
We need more, Lots more. Of stuff.
Sure both do dubious spying, and the USA is not perfect.
But the USA really is the land of the free compared to China. Try to express any political opinion in China and you will be penalized and end up in jail if you persist.
China has a aggressive foreign policy, with explicit eyes on Taiwan. That is quite different from the USA's bumbling incompetence in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they would love to be able to leave.
That said, I would be considering Ericson.
Indeed, you control a lot when you control all cash transactions. In the west, there is a least some privacy, even from governments. But in China they actually boast about how much they can help the government monitor people.
This then gets combined with complete control over all communications. That is where AI comes in. To monitor people's emails and worse phone calls is not practical to do except for specific suspects. But AI can do a lot of this automatically, particularly voice recognition. And mobile phones now give the government knowledge of where people are at all times. And then this vast amount of data can be correlated -- e.g. that two people in these groups lived near each other 20 years ago...
It would be very difficult to quietly organize any grass roots movement about anything in China today without approval from the government. There are some, e.g. people were complaining about some groups eating dogs. But anything to do with the government, like complaining about a school that collapased during an earthquake, is not possible.
Where it gets scary is that Xi Jinping is also talking about nationalism. He has the South China Sea. He wants Taiwan. And nobody on the ground nor in the citadel could stop him if he started doing crazy things.
History does not exactly repeat itself, but we do know what this type of thinking resulted in Germany in the 1930s. And Xi is far more entrenched in China than Hitler was before he invaded France. (Hitler faced substantial internal opposition before France.)
Some women will want large families despite education. That will be for some combination of genetic tendencies and social circumstances. But either way the children of those women will tend to have larger families on average than the general population. They will also tend to breed with like minded people (like strict Catholics).
We have introduced a bug in the system. Birth control. It enabled our desire for sex to be met as well as our desire for a good living standard. But over time Natural Selection will sort that out, and the fittest (for breeding) will dominate. There is no point in having a good living standard if you do not breed many grandchildren.
Now that process will take some time. Perhaps centuries. It is likely that over that timescale we will have built software that can program itself as well as we can program it. At that point humanity will become obsolete technology, and it is the robots that will do the breeding.
Indeed, instead it had much of the internet inside it. Certainly all of wikipedia. Pre-indexed.
But the big issue remains, that Watson could play at all is impressive.
Of all the things that annoy me about Java unsigned bytes has never hit to top of the list. Normally they are just bytes, and we simply do not care about the sign because we do not do arithmetic on them. And if we do it is trivial to fix.
C# has many advantages. The inbuilt query language is very cool. But unsinged bytes?!!
And there is no search for interfaces for lambdas at all. It is in the declaration of the place you are adding it. Java is all explicit typing, Perhaps you are confusing it with Go?
In 1962 it was revolutionary. It could process a bank's load of transactions on a machine with less than 64K of memory. And fast. No garbage collections. No unnecessary data transforms, just suck the data in, map it to a record, process it, and spit it out.
Data section that properly described structures. And separate from the procedure section so that a compiler could run in two separate overlays, important on small machines.
The code was pretty easy to read. No nasty pointer arithmetic.
Then came Object Cobol...
Watson won at Jeopardy also because it could press the button faster, which is considered the key skill. However, despite that, it still had to answer the questions, which was impressive.
I would say that this result is also impressive, even if the machine was not really quite as good as the humans.
They will blow up, melt, and sink all the way to China!
hmm...