Posts by I am David Jones 202 publicly visible posts • joined 6 May 2012
Bilingual countries can actually be a treasure trove of source data for machine translation. E.g. parliament proceedings of Canada which are all human-translated. No doubt all laws too. Maybe caselaw. So no reason why one cannot have a model for each language.
In any case, I’d just assume that a model will only be taught in one language, with input and output machine-translated accordingly.
And stop those apps (banking in my case) that refuse to run on jailbroken phones. Even if the phone has been un-jailbroken.
If you can access your bank account from practically any web browser running on practically any OS, I can’t think there is any genuine technical justification.
Isn’t persistent RAM a security threat?
AFAIK there is at least one attack which takes advantage of the little persistence that normal RAM has, so this would make the attack a lot easier (“shall we have a cup of tea first?”).
Unless they keep some volatile RAM and somehow manage to keep all the juicy stuff there.
Re the kettle: yes, on the face of it it is daft. Is it actually a thing or just a proposal?
But I always wondered if the Brits would along with it because it would smooth the corrie-st-ad-break-cup-of-tea electricity demand spike. Which was (is?) a thing.
But I can’t imagine that being an issue for any other eu country, and presumably it is dropping off here as the use of streaming services increases.
All I read were weasel words, meeting the EU reqs “should” or “would probably” be ok in the UK. That doth butter no parsnip. A business would imo be foolish to make the assumption.
It could be fixed with a something like a statutory legal fiction along the lines of ‘businesses that meet the EU reqs are deemed to meet the UK reqs’. But that wasn’t the point of Brexit now, was it?
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