Their implementation in hardware can be patented everywhere, in software it can be patented in the USA at least
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Experts: AI inventors' designs should be protected in law
Re: 'Creative' Artificial Intelligence
Ok suppose there you are using a CFD package that uses neural nets/genetic algorithms/adiabatic solvers/magic pixies etc, and it outputs some hull design which is more efficient and you can't explain why - have you 'invented' it ?
Should you get the patent, or the software, or the software creator ?
Re: 'Creative' Artificial Intelligence
Also a question of why it's a $.
If there has to be 'a consideration' for it to be a contract (which arguably it isn't - i'm effectively signing the assignment under the threat of being fired) it could be a coffee from our free machine or a sweetie from the bowl in reception
When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer
Re: Einstein was right.
>Or navies have more admirals than ships?
I think that's because admirals are much cheaper than ships and defence funding cuts never seem to get as far as the pink gin supply.
But navies do suffer from importance = size of crew commanded. So a small highly automated stealthy missile platform capable of wiping out an entire fleet, but with a crew of 3 , never seems to get funding
Re: Dogs
Airbus aircraft make a characteristic growling noise from under the floor when they push back.
Legend is that since Airbus are so automated it's extra important that the pilot doesn't touch the computers, so they have a kennel with a spare dog.
(It's a backup hydraulic reservoir or something equalising when the engines start)
Re: Next time
>And... invest in a lock on the door that no-one but you has access to until such time that the hardware/software is handed over?
Or some sort of tag that locked out the equipment and allowed mutliple people to all fit their own padlock so the equipment can't be turned on/off until everyone is done and removes their padlock.
BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?
Re: We had a copier engineer once...
Had that with a certain 3 letter word cable ISP in the UK
We don't service your address.
There is a box with your name moulded in it and a coax cable coming out of the wall
Nothing to do with us.
OK, I have in my hands a PATT tester with a 5kv insulation test. If I were to hook it up to the bit of cable that is nothing to do with you - you wouldn't mind?
Er, can i take your address again
Despite global uncertainty, $500m hit doesn't rattle Nvidia execs
IBM-powered Mayflower robo-ship once again tries to cross Atlantic
Re: What is the actual goal?
>pleasure vessels, less than 24m... stuff that aren't boats, like partially submerged shipping containers, drifting old fishing nets, etc., etc.
And the bridge watch on a 400m container ship doing 24knts is going to spot these and be able to manoeuvre to avoid them ?
Foxconn factory fiasco could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m
Re: A lesson learned...
Because the deal was that this plant was going to create squillions of highly paid semiconductor engineering jobs.
If you don't have a local semiconductor industry you need to lure those semiconductor engineers from California or Austin, or somewhere habitable, to Wisconsin.
It's the usual problem when a local council decide to create Silicon-GeologicalFeature, and assume that all the best people will all move from San Francisco because you have GeologicalFeature
Foxconn will claim they met their part of the deal.
They said they planned to open a factory and would receive $M in tax breaks if they employed a certain number of people. They didn't open the plant and didn't receive the tax breaks.
The city decided to spend $300M trying to cash in on the plant by building other infrastructure to attract other companies, they didn't come because Foxconn didn't.
Here Seattle spent $MM on infrastructure to persuade Boeing to keep manufacturing in the state. Boeing then shipped a lot of the assembly, for models which coincidentally have a high rate of falling out the sky, to another state that has lower wages, no unions and lower taxes.
A lesson learned...
In other news, a small rust belt city announced they were "investing" $Bn in attracting a Taiwanese semiconductor company to build a $Bn plant there - it will bring 100,1000s of jobs and make $small rust belt city$ the centre of a global high tech enterprise zone said $local politician$
'Sharp' chip inventory correction looms on horizon, warns investment banker
Re: Free investment advice
The difference is that nobody believes Gartner, not the people paying for the research and definitely not the people reading it. Nobody knows why anybody still pays them
The 'chief economist' of XYZ bank goes on CNN to tell the public something in the definite hope that enough people will believe it and act on it to change the price in the banks favour. If this didn't work they wouldn't pay him.
Re: Shortage
>These chips are build on old 40nm+ nodes. Why can't we build something like that in the UK?
Because even a 40nm fab costs $$$
Then you have to find workers. If you aren't allowed to import workers and you have an economy where all your skilled workers are concentrated in one city you are going to have a job getting 1000s of engineers to work in your desolate former industrial size 'new enterprise zone'
then the parts you are making at 40nm are going to go to 3rd world country for packaging/integration so you haven't improved your strategic situation very much
FTC urged to protect data privacy of women visiting abortion clinics
Twitter founder Dorsey beats hasty retweet from the board
Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers
Re: On a more serious note....
The Chinese are killing their own Muslims who don't have oil because they might be an insurgency threat in the future.
This is totally unacceptable compared to killing Muslims without oil on behalf of the Muslims with oil because they gave a different edition of the fairy tale book
UK opens national security probe into 2021 sale of local wafer fab to Chinese company
Re: We welcome overseas investment, but it must not threaten Britain's national security
Start your new fabless CPU company in Global Britain.
Admittedly you will be limited by not being able to hire any european employees but at least when you come to sell we will block the sale if we need a distraction in the tabloids that week.
But don't worry you can continue as a purely British company benefiting from our trade deals with the Faroe isles and Narnia
Elon Musk needs more cash for Twitter buy after Tesla margin loan lapses
Genuine question
Why are there complex rules like this for buyouts?
Why aren't you just allowed to buy on the open market and then place your people on the board once you have 51%
Then the free market will set the price that you pay, as people see the quantity of available shares remaining the price will rise without silly over the top bids.
Perhaps just some rule that you can buy out the remaining shares at the current price once you reach some 51-75% ownership.
Vehicle owner data exposed in GM credential-stuffing attack
Microsoft veteran on how he forged a badge to sneak into a Ballmer presentation
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