"a dodgy 3rd world country that you think is about to be taken over by communist rebels"
Or in the UK case by a bunch of ex PSB's who seem to want to revive the British Empire.
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IIRC roughly 2008-2015 the UK put £5.5Bn in the Science & Research pot for the EU.
They got out £8.8Bn out.
But hey maybe the UK Govt will increase that chunk of it's Science & Research budget 60% to compensate.
The developers said it was buggy and clumsy but it showed (sort of) what could be done.
What I never understood was if that was the case why didn't they run a copy of it through itself and have the system make itself better ?
For gas (for example) British Gas has never come out cheaper AFAIK.
They may not agree on the "winner" but all agree on the loser.
The theory of the report demonstrates a fair grasp of ways to make the market "fairer."
Sadly it fails to realize the UK energy market is an oligopoly run by a group of companies whose default corporate behavior is psychopathic.
What can go wrong?
I presume the Aus govt will take the view that its a A$Bn so only the very big boys can tender, despite it being more like A$150m a year.
They'd better make sure they've really well mapped that database Schema. WTF is a "204" database anyway? IIRC IBM are known for mainframe IDBMS and DB/2 for the big apps.
The fail is strong in this one....
I think it would come under "incitement." But then him and "Dobby" do seem to see eye to eye on many things.
Personally I'd rather like Donald (or "The D" as I like to think of him, since so many of his supports just can't seem to get enough of him) to win.
Like Brexit for the British.
But without it being so completely impossible to reverse.
Good question.
Given the UK was regularly slated as having the weakest data protection laws in Europe I think anyone else in Europe would be thinking about re-locating any UK data centres somewhere else.
The joker would be any US businesses with UK data centres but I think most of the Googles, Amazons and Apples opted for Ireland, so BAU for them.
At least that's what the managers want it to be.
As for the staff who are expected to use it....
Who cares what they think? How would they know what is needed?
and worst of all..
If they do know what's needed WTF should they tell their managers, who treat them with contempt?
In normal world low risk == low profit margin but in BT land low risk== high margin?
Think of BT like the Treasury when they owned things like British Steel and the British Rail.
Any profit you make we keep. We may reinvest in you, if nothing more important shows up.
Those decisions are no longer the Treasury's to make, but they are BT Groups to make.
The nearest model would be Railtrack (or whatever it's called now) combined with Lessons Learned from their relations with the companies who used their infrastructure regarding scheduling repair and maintenance.
I'm not sure there's one on Congresspeople.
Presumably on the theory that somehow "age" == "wisdom."
One made the century as a Senator from some Southern state.
I think he's the reason when film makers want to depict a crooked senior politician (Brian Cox seems a popular choice for such tasks) they give him a Southern accent.
They're not a monopoly, they're just better at making stuff than their competitors
Oh, there isn't really a "Chinese wall" between app and OS developers? Well so what
Charge for every PC sold, regardless of wheather a MS OS was on it. Well that seems fair.
Etc.
That last seems to be a Google specialty, Individual components appear harmless but working together to trap pretty much anyone into making their take other products and paying them.
This is not a new phenomenon. Tom Watson Jr went to jail for monopolist practices while at NCR. When he got involved with IBM he never saw the inside of another jail.
That was in the 1910's.
There is.
It's a cabal of senior civil servants who believe access to more data is always better data and access to all data (forever) is best of all. It has nothing to do with "security" "money laundering" or paedophiles.
It has every thing to do power. the ability to find out at will what anyone, anytime has done online throughout their life.
It is Cardinal Richelieu line about "Give me 6 lines from an honest man and I'll find something with which to hang him."
Excellent idea.
But that's really hard. :(
Personally I'd like to start by English language parsing of the description because if the parse fails due to ambiguity it means the user does not understand their problem well enough in the first place.
Incidentally deterministic parsing of English is possible and has been so for the last 30 odd years. Search "parsifal" for an example, while a PhD at Edingburgh demonstrated that a 2 word lookahead and evaluation stack was adequate to get the job done.
I don't have the time to wade through the full 16 pages that AI reports usually run that seems to be the core of it.
The big thing seems to be that they demonstrate that you can do everything in the UI that you can do raw SQL in terms of logic and set manipulation.
IOW it's the MS Access SQL wizard done completely instead a bodge job of the most common tasks. :(
And note this is all about questioning a DB.
It has nothing to do with structuring data within one, or paraphrasing the query so it asks what you think it asked.A classic case would be the library query "Give me everything by Smith and Jones," which most people would actually want as author = Smith || Jones ||Smith && Jones.
Underwhelmed in every way, despite the epic amount of grunt work this probably took to get working.
"in black turtlenecks, have her enroll in a fancy school to drop out of, can she also get billions of dollars in funding by holding a press conference?"
You forgot the near psychopathic levels of self confidence in herself she'll need, coupled with the utter lack of self doubt.
And of course she'll have to be comfortable blaming everyone but herself when it all goes t***sideways.
Funny how that works.
They risk a slapped wrist for pulling someone's life history
You are guaranteed to have your life history spewed out of the all the computer systems they have access to.
That's your idea of "balanced" ?
Doesn't sound too balanced to me.
Yes that did put me in mind of The Climate "Research" Unit and the harryreadme file.
I've heard people comment that functional MRI has been used by drinks companies to identify brain activation and response to various drinks. Yes that really is your brain on Coke.
That research has been very quietly done and is obviously worth billions in a global market.
"Know your tools" is a good moto but of course with tools this complex there is a reason for "we have to trust the developers knew what they were doing."
This looks like the situation in CFD,but without the approach. In that field no software (or new major release) gets accepted without multiple test runs amongst known test cases (many from live wind tunnel tests). First they test, then they trust.
BTW doing it with dead samples brought up the interesting factoid that about 500 genes were firing after death, presumably as part of the organisms last ditch attempts to self heal.
Plus I'm loving the "Double Brutus" nick name.
I think "Double B" sounds appropriately gangster, don't you? Let's be honest the Tory party love someone with demonstrated ruthlessness, who's not afraid to stab a friend in the back make the hard choices.
Meanwhile the lurking Boris bides his time before getting ready to pounce like a giant floppy haired bear....