Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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

Re: 'Creative' Artificial Intelligence

RP obviously had more influence with the bosses of the Manhattan Project than I have at $MEGACORP$

Re: 'Creative' Artificial Intelligence

>but the patent should belong to the creators or programmers of the AI,

Just like regular patents, the inventors almost always assigns them to their employer.

For weird contract reasons it is in consideration for $1 - which you never seem to actually get

Re: Don’t know about you

>1. to protect you from what you are handling/working on.

That's why she is always infuriated with people walking around outside the lab with presumably the same gloves they were wearing in the lab, which can be assumed to be covered in $NASTY_CHEMICAL$

Re: Don’t know about you

When you see someone wearing gloves in the corridor - think about what that means

Re: never underestimate the stupidity of people...

>Curiosity is not stupidity.

Curiosity is wondering what would happen if you inserted a body part in some unfamiliar industrial equipment.

Wisdom is observing what happens when somebody else does it first

Re: Don’t know about you

Partner is a Chemist - never touch any door handles in the lab.

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: Dogs

She went to live on a farm in upstate right ?

Re: Einstein was right.

> why do we need these astronauts again?

So they can run for $political-office$ because they are "heroes" and ensure funding for the next generation of vehicles. It's why every modern armed forces have so many more expensive jet fighters than useful kit.

Re: Dogs

There is A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison - but that's a slightly different story, with a happier ending

Re: Next time

The old adjutants lament:

50% ignore the notice

30% read it but don't understand it

20% read it, understand it, and ignore it

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.

Re: We had the opposite ...

Of course that is in a fantasy world on the back of a giant turtle - in the real world there is no way that annual budgets would be based on such a ridiculous premise

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 ?

Re: What is the actual goal?

If it truely had AI it would turn around when it realised it was approaching America

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.

Re: If Foxconn has promised to pay the bonds

Not only are local councils in the USA expected to sell bonds to fund everything it's encouraged by making the interest on the bonds tax-free to anyone who buys them, so there is always a big demand

Re: Giant Ball is Storage

Monorail terminal

How exactly is Wisconsin gonna force Foxconn to pay up

Send a gunboat

Re: If something sounds too good to be true

Nobody had to believe that. One person just had to believe that the halo effect of being photographed with the shovel would last long enough for the next election news, and the fallout would come after they were elected

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

Re: Free investment advice

The free advice to the public is to get the public to react in a way favourable to their paying clients.

I suspect there is a lot of small print with lots of ambiguous clauses that basically boil down to "who has the most money+lawyers"

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

Re: On a more serious note....

I was promised thermonuclear war with the USSR

Living in Sheffield it was considered an upgrade....

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

Re: And???

>did Dave's wife enjoy the show?

Until she took a chair to the knee

Re: IBM Catering

> it is possible to construct a perfectly logical path to somewhere very silly indeed.

It's the very foundation of our industry