Yes, Google
This is absolutely the time to worry about website rankings. Congratulations for reminding us that you exist.
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In other words, pie-in-the-sky, Ai-is-wonderful, please-continue-funding-me papers that apparently have a diametrically opposite view from papers based on actual data.
Why am I not surprised ?
These are the kinds of papers that proclaim that facial recognition works almost perfectly, when actual trials come back with a success rate of less than 13%.
Look, I understand that theoretical physics is just as important as actual physics, but the difference is that theoretical physicists do not try to pass their musings as actual science. They ask science engineers to create the experiments that justify or invalidate their theories. Once a result is obtained, they review their theories and progress in their musings.
It seems that, as far as "AI" is concerned, there are no such updates. That means that actual AI is nowhere near being created because the pie-in-the-sky musing are not bothering to ground themselves in reality.
Oh well, it's for the better I guess. The longer we take to build an actual Skynet, the better.
The one going to jail, of course. I do feel sorry for the person who was just walking around, minding their own business, and found themselves before the pearly gates.
Accidents do happen, of course, and I understand that this was not a case of cold-blooded murder or a joyride that ended badly. But still, someone died. A price must be paid.
And, when he gets out in 18 months, he can remember that the other person is not getting out of their grave.
Sadness all around.
A Pi has crashed. In a standalone game thingy. I'm supposing it doesn't get updates, so it doesn't change. What can possibly have brought it to its knees ?
Given that each CPU failed to launch (apparently it has two), the problem shouldn't have anything to do with associated hardware (like spinning rust that failed to respond). Looking at the messages, each CPU has a stack exception, and then fails to complete startup.
So the question is : what threw a stack exception ?
Another possibility is that companies are going to want that project completed double-time, since they've had to wait for it to get done.
I'm not convinced project cancellations are going to be all that legion. Sure, there will undoubtedly be some, but I think there will be more that will request urgent finishing, or undertaking.
We'll see.
Well, they're working very well, are they ?
At the same time, this is Ebay we're talking about. I think it's a bit unfair to single out the guy who posted an offer at 0.01 and the offer reached 210. It's not the sellers' fault if people are nuts, even if it is rather obvious that he fully intended to take advantage of the nuts.
It seems obvious to me that, given the period, a judge will not rule in favor of a client complaining that the job wasn't done on time.
It should be useless to even try. Nobody is going to be on time for a few months at least. This lockdown is going to throw plenty of schedules into the shredder.
Sounds like paradise. And, made faster and easier means making more with the same resources means each unit costs less, so it's a win-win-win.
Except that they're going to want to recoup the costs of putting it in place, so we're not going to see price drops any time soon. And the gaming crowd won't care because it'd DDR5, man, look at those framerates !
a Podference is : "Downloadable or non-downloadable podcasts [..]; Downloadable or non-downloadable video recordings [..]; Downloadable or non-downloadable written articles"
In other words, videos or documents that can or cannot be downloaded. That the subject is supposed to be technical is irrelevant.
So, my question is : how can you trademark something based on stuff that is not only not yours, but pre-existing since practically the beginning of the Web ?
I might as well push for a trademark on Monettference, where I blather on about any specific subject. Who cares ? It's a video, like the gazillion other videos that are out there. Each and every YouTube channel could push for <channel>ference and what would change ? Nothing.
This is marketing at its finest. Requalify something that already exists for your own benefit. It costs nothing and changes nothing but might increase "brand awareness".
Yes, I have an increased awareness of just how stupid Dell is now, mission accomplished.
This should not be considered a COVID-19 response app, but a pandemic response app. The next time a pandemic occurs, the app should be quite capable of handling the info for that pandemic, no need to reinvent the wheel.
Of course, the timeframe for a response app to be actually useful for this round is limited, so consider that whatever you can cobble together is basically a trial run. Limit the functionalities to the bare minimum. Right now there is a perfectly functional website. People can go there, so it's not like we have no information to go on.
By all means, make an app if there's any chance that it can help get the right information out to people, but take the long view. COVID-19 is not the first pandemic to hit us, and it certainly won't be the last.
That means that the miscreant is sending me a mail with a document attached and expecting me to open it because COVID-19 or my bank or whatever.
I have a very fine bullshit detector and I can assure you that your mail will be filed in SPAM faster than you can blink and your document will not be opened or previewed in any way.
That settles that problem.
Now, I've checked my Win 7 installation and it has, in perfect Microsoft form, no less than 12 copies on disk. Two that are in Windows\System32 and \SysWOW64, and ten copies in \winsxs\ followed by a slew of characters that would take way too much time for me to type here and nobody cares about reading that anyway.
Then there are two more copies in \winsxs\Backup, in which the file names start by "amd64_microsoft_windows_gdi_" and another slew of characters etc etc.
Which ones can I get rid of, anybody know ?
Just how much is enough ? Windows has long been the specialist in eating up the disk space, nice to see that the latest version is keeping with tradition.
Microsoft has always considered that it has the entire disk to itself. Partitions ? Yeah, it's heard of them - there's even a built-in tool since, I think, Vista, but if you actually want your OS on one partition and your data on another it's a world of nuisance to get it done, and there are still parts that cannot be elsewhere than on C: - whether you like it or not.
So yeah, dumping all the security updates on C:, what can possibly go wrong ?
A big red flag indeed. It likely means they weren't there before, but cobbled something together in a hurry to profit from the situation.
There are no products "for COVID-19". There are videoconferencing products, there are networking products and there are calendar and planning products and all of them have existed before this pandemic. Analyze one of those for suitability and steer clear from the ones who have just popped up now.
I agree that it does seem that CO-OP missed a crucial step : a tech demo of the alleged whitebox product.
I'm pretty sure that it should not have taken much time for actual experts in UK tax law to sniff out the major issues, and then tech wizards would have had a field day explaining how difficult it would be to get stuff changed.
Not really blaming CO-OP, but hey : if you didn't find any ready-made package in your own country, why did think going to foreign source was a good idea ?
Sophisticated pattern matching. Sounds about right. When I did the Google Beginners Course in AI, I followed a dozen lectures in statistics. There wasn't a hint of AI, it was just how to define a slice of dataset to get the desired result.
Now a head of company has finally called it. Good. I'm not expecting that to actually change the media's mind, but I'm glad that somebody is putting "AI" back into its place.
Well, there's at least somebody else that agrees with you concerning the markets.
Personally, I wouldn't set foot in such an area. I need my meat to be cut, cleaned and lay in a refrigerated enclosure without flies or anything running around.
What ? But that's not how you do things these days ! You go Agile, you Scrum around and create lots and lots of functionality that you break fast and often ! You make sure that your customers are regularly complaining about stuff because that means that dialog is well and alive !
In the old days, programmers would hole up for months and years, carefully crafting a monolith of functionalities that, when released, would work out of the box with only minor adjustments needed. In the old days, nobody knew who was working on the project because nobody ever saw them ; they were in their office, coding.
But that's not how it's done anymore. These days you engage with the customer, you meet to explain why what broke and how the next release will not only correct that issue but include new things that are broken. Then you meet again, after release, to explain that the issue is not solved because a side-channel in the new functionalities is having an unforeseen effect that the next release will correct for, as well as correcting the new broken stuff and adding yet more stuff that nobody asked for that won't work anyway.
That's how developers have become visible, and that's important to show everyone that they are working. Of course, meanwhile nobody else gets to work because the tools are broken, but hey, the developers are working.
I have a new revenue opportunity for you : make Thorium reactors work.
Nuclear is not going to go away, not when we all have at least one smartphone, not when electric or hybrid cars are being sold at the rate of half a million a year, going up.
We are continually pushing the grid to do more and more things. Once, it was just the lights, now its lights, heating, kitchen appliances, computers, handhelds, washing machines, water purifiers, and soon electric cars everywhere.
We need nuclear, and we need safe nuclear. Thorium is safe. Let's get that running.
How does that work ?
Unless I missed something in science class, in space you need some form of propulsion to go faster. This quasar tsunami (as awesome as it is named) is just gas and particles hurtling across a galaxy and encountering other gas and particles.
Those are not conditions that are favorable to acceleration.
Please use official sources to report on this pandemic. WHO's situation report indicates 8778 deaths globally as of yesterday.
Let's not go rounding up for no reason, shall we ?