Fancy using your own wife's account to short. Surely he must have known some other wives that he could have used? And only $2K with a hot tip like that?
I bet his much smarter managers made a hell of a lot more than that. With no record of whose wives they used.
I've known several VPs of engineering who would do a much better job if they had an outside interest. It would limit the amount of damage they could do inside.
They have gone through the transition from a small, cool, outwardly facing start up to a huge bureaucratic, inwardly facing monster. Happens to all successful companies.
The Damore memo incident is a good indicator of this. Not because I care about Damore but because it gave a rare insight into the thinking and priorities of Google's CEO.
Alphabet was a good idea as a way to try to escape it. Not sure whether it will succeed.
Once Google starts up in China, it is only a matter of time before someone accuses Google of censoring US search results to please China. It will be very hard to defend against such claims, especially as China will want something in return for allowing Google in.
Google will never become more than a niche player in China, they will simply not allow it.
Bing is already there.
I bet they are sipping Champagne at Duck Duck Go. Finally, a solid reason to exist.
A centralized place to store all a sytem's configuration, with a security model and lots of magic redirection that is different from the file system. All wired together with GUIDs.
SystemD is weak. It is a Registry would make *nix truly great.
First you need a proposal. Then get funding approved. Then have lots of meetings determining the spec. Then they subcontract it out to India and something comes back that is useless. Ten more iterations and it might barely work.
The Excel user is done and finished with less work than writing the initial proposal.
Most of the problems with Excel can be corrected with good tools.
Nobody can know what is really inside the chips on a board. That China could do something like this, and get away with it domestically, means we need to be very careful in dealing with them.
The main thing that stops this happening too much in the west is internal leaks. But there will not be any leaks from China.
I think that the ability to file a request to have a patent reviewed is very new. And good. There are still restrictions, I think there is a short time limit for such reviews.
Previously, I think the only way to have a patent reviewed was to have the owner sue you, and you lose everything if the jury in E. Texas rules against you.
In Australia, scrutineers are appointed by the candidate (random member of public only used if no scrutineers available). They seal the box.
Then at the end of the day the votes are counted at the polling booth. By hand. By the same staff that manned the booth. IN FRONT OF THE SCRUTINEERs. I have done the scruitneering a couple of times, it is a quick and friendly process.
Normally there is a quick pass in which the votes are stacked into piles. Then they are gone through one by one, to confirm, and bundled into packets of 20 with a rubber band. In the unlikely event of unresolved disputes, those votes are put into a separate pile for adjudication later, if they would make a difference to the result. All over in an hour or so.
And we have a better system, where you write 1, 2, 3. So you do not have to vote according to how you think other people will vote. All counted quickly and efficiently by hand, including the preferences.
The AI does not need to be perfect. Not nearly. We already have tech to remotely control trucks. So the AI just needs to do the easy bit, keep them in a lane, stop if things go wrong and they lose contact with their remote driver.
One remote driver in Mexico can then easily monitor several trucks driving down the interstate.
AI vision can do some things that no human can do. Quickly and accurately identify handwritten postcodes on envelopes was an early win. Matching colours happens at every paint shop.
It is certainly not human capable, yet. But it has improved dramatically over the last decade, and is likely to do so. And tricks such as stereo vision, wider colour sense, and possibly Lidar help a lot.
The one elephant example seems to be a shitty AI. There is a modern tendency to leave everything to a simplistic Artificial Neural Network, and then wonder why weird things can happen. Some symbolic reasoning is also required, ultimately.
When AI approaches human capability, it will not lose its other abilities. So it will be far better than human vision, eventually.
Ask yourself, when the computers can eventually program themselves, why would they want us around?
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The article itself is probably bullshit. Trump isn't smart enough to download malicious aps on his iPhone. And aids will check it from time to time.
But the Chinese might well be monitoring the phones of the people that he is calling.
Fancy using your own wife's account to short. Surely he must have known some other wives that he could have used? And only $2K with a hot tip like that?
I bet his much smarter managers made a hell of a lot more than that. With no record of whose wives they used.
Detroit may continue to make the physical cars at low margins. All looking exactly the same as each other.
But most of the value add, and most of the profit, will be in the software they buy from tech companies.
I've known several VPs of engineering who would do a much better job if they had an outside interest. It would limit the amount of damage they could do inside.
Put it in geostationary orbit. Not difficult to focus a light beam to within a few hundred meters.
And maybe not even need many batteries as the satellite is normally outside earth's shadow.
But still a crazy idea.
They have gone through the transition from a small, cool, outwardly facing start up to a huge bureaucratic, inwardly facing monster. Happens to all successful companies.
The Damore memo incident is a good indicator of this. Not because I care about Damore but because it gave a rare insight into the thinking and priorities of Google's CEO.
Alphabet was a good idea as a way to try to escape it. Not sure whether it will succeed.
Aint nobody gettin' in here without a visa, filled out in triplicate.
Except those pesky Kiwis, but we have been sending them back pretty sharply recently.
And there are so many other countries that charge us for nasty visas when they do not charge anyone else...
Ca(OH)2 + CO2 --> CaCO3
Hydrated Lime + Carbon Dioxide becomes Limestone
Not sure what happens to the H
Obama would analyze the situation from 100 different angles. Focus on forming a consensus. And have a dozen sophisticated reasons for saying nothing.
Pence and Trump just say the first thing that enters their small minds.
Sometimes, I prefer Pence and Trump.
Because it is much more likely that China will change Google than Google will change China.
Once Google starts up in China, it is only a matter of time before someone accuses Google of censoring US search results to please China. It will be very hard to defend against such claims, especially as China will want something in return for allowing Google in.
Google will never become more than a niche player in China, they will simply not allow it.
Bing is already there.
I bet they are sipping Champagne at Duck Duck Go. Finally, a solid reason to exist.
We should use robots. But we waste our budget putting men into the space station.
And for the funds wasted on the Shuttle, there could be dozens of space telescopes. Well a few anyway.
And the Webb would already be launched.
A centralized place to store all a sytem's configuration, with a security model and lots of magic redirection that is different from the file system. All wired together with GUIDs.
SystemD is weak. It is a Registry would make *nix truly great.
Tools can help tame a spreadsheet. Have a look at
http://www.spreadsheetdetectiv...
First you need a proposal. Then get funding approved. Then have lots of meetings determining the spec. Then they subcontract it out to India and something comes back that is useless. Ten more iterations and it might barely work.
The Excel user is done and finished with less work than writing the initial proposal.
Most of the problems with Excel can be corrected with good tools.
http://www.spreadsheetdetectiv...
Is the best one, although I am somewhat biased...
Anyone suggesting it has not ever built a substantial quantitative model. Which is probably everyone on Slash dot.
The equivalent Python program would be huge. And difficult to write and debug. With lots of noise code to deal with UI issues.
Excel does need extra tools to help review them
http://www.spreadsheetdetectiv...
is the best one IMHO, although I may be biased...
Nobody can know what is really inside the chips on a board. That China could do something like this, and get away with it domestically, means we need to be very careful in dealing with them.
The main thing that stops this happening too much in the west is internal leaks. But there will not be any leaks from China.
I think that the ability to file a request to have a patent reviewed is very new. And good. There are still restrictions, I think there is a short time limit for such reviews.
Previously, I think the only way to have a patent reviewed was to have the owner sue you, and you lose everything if the jury in E. Texas rules against you.
Who scrutineers? And why does it take 8-10 hours?
In Australia, scrutineers are appointed by the candidate (random member of public only used if no scrutineers available). They seal the box.
Then at the end of the day the votes are counted at the polling booth. By hand. By the same staff that manned the booth. IN FRONT OF THE SCRUTINEERs. I have done the scruitneering a couple of times, it is a quick and friendly process.
Normally there is a quick pass in which the votes are stacked into piles. Then they are gone through one by one, to confirm, and bundled into packets of 20 with a rubber band. In the unlikely event of unresolved disputes, those votes are put into a separate pile for adjudication later, if they would make a difference to the result. All over in an hour or so.
And we have a better system, where you write 1, 2, 3. So you do not have to vote according to how you think other people will vote. All counted quickly and efficiently by hand, including the preferences.
I think that you said the right thing but did not understand what you posted.
They are not "unmeasurable" because they are so rare. They are unmeasurable because given the system, there is no realistic way to measure them.
The system is not auditable.
Barrister? Medical Specialist?
Indeed. Google the Malthusian Trap.
The great plague was actually good for mankind because it let those that survive live decent lives for a few generations.
When you can now outsource the driving to Mexico.
The AI does not need to be perfect. Not nearly. We already have tech to remotely control trucks. So the AI just needs to do the easy bit, keep them in a lane, stop if things go wrong and they lose contact with their remote driver.
One remote driver in Mexico can then easily monitor several trucks driving down the interstate.
AI vision can do some things that no human can do. Quickly and accurately identify handwritten postcodes on envelopes was an early win. Matching colours happens at every paint shop.
It is certainly not human capable, yet. But it has improved dramatically over the last decade, and is likely to do so. And tricks such as stereo vision, wider colour sense, and possibly Lidar help a lot.
The one elephant example seems to be a shitty AI. There is a modern tendency to leave everything to a simplistic Artificial Neural Network, and then wonder why weird things can happen. Some symbolic reasoning is also required, ultimately.
When AI approaches human capability, it will not lose its other abilities. So it will be far better than human vision, eventually.
Ask yourself, when the computers can eventually program themselves, why would they want us around?
The program is really simple. Here it is:-
$ cat Hamlet.txt
A lot of claimed AI is not much more than that, Eliza being the classic example. That is the problem with AI, very hard to define.