Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21371 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
No need when everyone posts their opinion of the government on Facebook and uploads their storming of the winter palace to Instagram.
I suppose a network of secret microphones could be useful to find out what the driver of the pickup truck covered in swastikas, Confederate flags and Fuck Joe Biden stickers really thinks about the party
No but teaching them a little about how computers work might be important when a politician stands up and says that 'the algorithms' will predict all crime and do sentencing without any errors.
You don't have to teach advanced microbiology to teach people how diseases spread and that antibiotics or horse dewormer dont kill viruses
>how its magic trick of turning water into more water works in America
Massive pre-shift consumption of American beer ?
(Obviously speaking about mass produced stereotypical American beer. Not your local artisan Rhubarb and Elderflower infused IPA, which nobody could drink enough of to affect the water table)
>Instead of suggesting we stop peaceful scientific research, ask yourself how much money the world is wasting every year on arms and war. Now cutting that out could make a real difference.
Don't worry, a good chunk of the hardware and development cost went to defence companies
>have they not been hit with a massive anti-trust suit again?
Because they are sure that the current lot are dependant on Silicon Valley for funding
The lot who are going to take over in October are 'pro-business'
The big red flashing anti-trust light over Android and Apple mean that Microsoft can smile sweetly and say "why us?"
It's not just that Delaware has an accommodating attitude to taxes (companies still pay local tax where they operate) but it has very well understood and well tested corporate law.
Its courts aren't about to give a judgement based on tiktok likes for the lulz, because that would rock a lot of corporate boats. Its the same reason a lot of international companies were HQed in London. You could trust British courts not to do something crazy - future results may not reflect this
Except he doesn't get to decide this. The court in Delaware (assuming Twitter is a normal US corp) gets to decide.
Note for readers on the civilised aide of the pond. Delaware is the US equivalent of Switzerland, all US corporations are registered there because everyone knows and trusts Delaware law and courts. The tiny state also relies on corporate registrations for a lot if its income - it isn't about to sacrifice its neutrality for a shouty idiot
>whilst the N.S.O.group is Israeli owned it is a bad company.
No an Israeli company must be a good thing by definition. That its customers include the Saudi secret police just shows how it is a shining example of inter-faith cooperation.
By becoming an American company it will transcend this to become a world wide champion of peace and understanding - probably with Tony Blair on its board
What was the alternative ?
A message on the Jumbo-Tron at Roger's arena ?
Writing to all their customers and having Canada post deliver it ?
A giant flock of carrier pigeons ?
A Roger's executive drinking a lot of beer and writing a message in the snow ?
>Here in the UK there is little emphasis on some fields being more economically valuable than others
Because it doesn't really matter what field you studied, whether it was classics, history or PPE. So long as you went to Eton - you are getting a cabinet post anyway.
Nobody wants to study EE because CS makes more money
Nobody wants to study physics cos EE makes more money
In physics nobody studies optics because all the optics depts got axed 30 years ago because classical optics is old fashioned and boring.
All the optics experts are very old and retired
Guess what field you need expertise in to project a pattern of light into a handful of nanometers ?
>They have no idea what they want their AI or ML to achieve, but they all want to do it.
It avoids trying to understand the problem and possible algorithms to solve it.
In computer vision I have seen "AI" solutions to basically fitting a straight line to a bunch of points. If your onyl tool is TensorFlow - everything looks like a nail
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