Posts by drunk.smile

Without knowing the why there are differences the researchers need to be clearer.

The problem with a lot of AI algorithms is they are a black box without showing why the algo determines a certain label. This causes huge issues with potential bias and shitty models. So, what were the researchers actually detecting from their algorithm for it to recognise race based on Xray scans? Without this information it's hard to say if their algorithm suffers from bad data selection (did they just use americans or a selection of Xrays from around the world?) what are the differences it found and how can they be explained?

Taken to extremes you can have examples like this article shows with the algorithm using the font of the Xray scan to determine if someone has covid or not.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/30/1030329/machine-learning-ai-failed-covid-hospital-diagnosis-pandemic

Wait, she said that she just gave the computers that the NSA needed?

So why increase military spending? Why not just encourage corporate America to donate computers & hardware to the military? Surely it will be good for their image as this demonstration of their red, white & blue blood will encourage many private businesses and patriotic citizens in America to buy their products. Right?

Or is it just like the way the republicans banned the US government from negotiating the price of drugs from pharma companies? Politicians forcing the government to spend big on their buddies.

This sounds like the basis for an El Reg Special Projects Bureau competition...

Reg readers must submit their proposals (ideally with diagrams or working demonstrations) on how they would 'hack' their car & take control of the systems... the best examples win... a mug.

Car in question must not be a new model variety, but given that this is the Reg forum it's likely cars will be older than 1995 anyway.

Bonus points for use of Paris Hilton in 'hack'.

At some point...

the U.S. govt is really going to need to sort of their security.

Or is it really just too late for them to bother now.

Too expensive? Just as well they have a backup.

Funny how during this period one of Salesforce's competitors was announcing a move from AWS to Azure... almost as though they are making themselves a more attractive acquisition target, don't you think?

For me in China this is a good thing.

There are lots of interesting projects hosted on googlecode that I can't access without a VPN.

Actually not that odd, and also... already exists.

In most of Asia karaoke (or KTV) is huge.

And the Changba app is one of many available in China that does exactly what this patent does.

I have no idea about Japan or Korea, but would bet they also have their own apps too.

http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2012/08/changba-the-viral-ktv-app/

Tiptoes - Gary Oldman as a dwarf

If Matthew McConaughey as the leading love interest in a movie wasn't bad enough, this film combines it with Kate Beckinsale as his partner.

Gary Oldman also method acts as a dwarf spending much of the film walking around on his knees Yoda style. Peter Dinklage does put in an amusing, although too brief a performance to redeem this film.

It was so bad I actually bought several copies of the DVD so that I could distribute it to friends, much the same way that Two Girls One Cup was shared.

Other than a memo & putting fixes in place to stop it happening again

what is Sony doing for their employees who have had their personal data exposed?

Why did an employee have to sign up to a credit protection agency himself? Shouldn't Sony really have done this for every exposed person as a way of both buying goodwill and crisis management?

People of the West!

Get rid of your eWaste guilt free by sending it to slums in India for reuse!

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is reading this and thinking it's a potential ecological disaster?

Is it an egg?

Yes, I know the new Dr Who is terrible, but at least it's relevant to current events.

So this system searches for more words

And surprisingly returns more results.

Who'd'a'thunk it?

I don't really find them annoying personally

There are plenty more people 'walking' the streets without paying attention than those with smartphones.

Great, because what every SAP installation needs is a way to make warehouse data entry even more inaccurate.

I wonder how many accents they have tested it on, if it's anything like the workplaces I know then it will meet at least 20 incomprehensible accents per 300m2

How long now some anarchic hacker takes a mini-drone

attaches a radio antenna, computer, mirror ball & sound system to it.

Then sets the drones on-board computer to hack into the nearest lights to flash them on and off in a disco style based on whatever tune is coming from the drones speakers.

This I can see someone attempting.

Very dangerous and irresponsible, lets hope for good sense.

I've googled every name in the article as

"<Name>" Merrill site:bbc.co.uk every single name comes up linking to the article. So I clearly need to be less specific with my searching.

Is the voice of Seth MacFarlane an optional extra?

Can already do this where I am, Shanghai

Which might be where tfl got the idea from.

You can use your transport card for buses, taxis & the metro here, but most folk just use cash for the taxi or pay via smartphone apps or WeChat.

It's probably going to be no different in London.

As a P6 user I can vouch for the heat,

it's particularly bad during video calls when I have actually had to put in into the freezer for a bit to keep it from shutting down.

The build quality isn't too great as, although smooth at first the plastic around the corners has chipped away after several months of heavy use.

What I'd like to know is if the volume buttons have moved further away from the power button? I've tried to take a photo a number of times and accidentally turned the screen off.

Possibly not just their adverts? Apple could branch out into another revenue stream.

Maybe additionally if you want to advertise on an Apple device you'll also be offered services from Apple's own advertising & creative experts.

Why would I not be surprised

If each of those completed forms end up stuck in limbo waiting on the data protection agency of each country to confirm that the links can be removed?

Get rid of the problem by passing it on to someone else, GOFH style.

It just couldn't handle the additional traffic

Downloading all that user data to Facebook servers before the customers deleted their accounts uses a lot of bandwidth.

How well does it work at getting round restrictions in say China or Iran on the interweb?

It's been unblocked for at least a year, maybe longer

I use it all the time to transfer files from the UK to China and back to my family. They understand it more than the mostly Chinese language alternatives.

How many likes does it have amongst popular Russia sites like VK?

Just nobody

show my wife where she needs to strike.

I do hope they also combine it with Google maps

so I can see how far RyanAir airports are from their actual destination.