Posts by andrewj

pointer to a pointer even

Freudian slip? "requests for memory locations that contain pointers to to memory locations"

r/enshittification

At least it was bolted on, so no Boeing involved

If the flight recorder is perfectly capable of over 2 hours storage, why is it even an option to write over after 2 hours?

I'm tired of this whole fatuous argument that just because I am out of the house in public, I have no expectation of not being constantly surveilled and have no right of privacy.

It's seem currently that all tech companies are like chimps lined up to throw AI poo at users and see what sticks.

"People want to understand the arrangements to ensure the NHS does not find itself locked into a relationship with any specific vendor."

No. People want to ensure that the NHS is not providing their health information to invasive data slurping operations without permission.

TL;DR. Nobody knows what "intelligence" is or how it works. Nobody knows if the current fad in deep learning is capable of generating "intelligence" in silico.

"Next, it verifies the person pictured on the identification card is the same person standing at the TSA podium, while also verifying the person is, in fact, traveling in the next 24 hours, and whether they have PreCheck, regular screening status, or are on a list to receive additional screening, Langston said."

None of which require facial recognition technology.

Given that a significant proportion of drivers can't handle 2 dimensions, this doesn't seem like it will end well.

Somewhat of a kwasi-wing then.

I'm confused. Zuckerberg was released into the wild years ago.

Well, Windows is well beyond iteration 7 and...

I'd like to play around with ChatGPT a bit, but refuse to give them my mobile phone number. Oh well.

For free? Funny hos Musk has forgotten the billions in corporate welfare lavished on him by the government over the year.

By the time the dust settles I suspect the overall contribution will be similar to Watson, namely a rounding error in spacetime.

This type of behaviour will never stop until they start charging and imprisoning the CEOs of these companies who commit theft. Guarantee there'll be a quick change in tunes then.

I'll wager that most of these gains and losses are sampling fluctuations, not meaningful changes. Much the same as the hapless ventilating over miniscule changes in polls over political campaigns.

Do they really expect this sort of rollout babble to convince my mother to upgrade?

"On November 30, 2022, an out-of-band update was released to improve the Windows 10, version 2004, 20H2, 21H1, 21H2, and 22H2 out-of-box experience (OOBE). It provides eligible devices with the option to upgrade to Windows 11 as part of the OOBE process. This update will be available only when an OOBE update is installed."

Regardless of what you think of Meta (and I don't think highly) all this smacks of is short-sighted investor greed. They present no alternative vision other than to milk the cash cow.

The description here, which is straight out of the press release, does a poor job representing the study. What they did is to take skin-derived fibroblasts from Parkinson patients with one of two very specific gene mutations. They then grew them up in a dish and trained a neural net to tell the difference from microscopy images. So the take away is that a) it's detecting influence/presence of a mutation not Parkinsons - in skin cells, it's not even in brain cells; b) while interesting it will never be used clinically - 79% accuracy is not useful for screening given the false positives. Also, with only 91 samples using internal cross-validation (no external validation data) the model is likely overfit.

Will the Flash at least be around to deal with Harrison Zuck?

I remember back in the 80s as a 6th Form student doing a summer job at Marchwood Engineering Labs. Some of the 1st year university student interns were working on software for a robot to decommission nuclear stations. Occasionally it would have whoops moments where it rotated the opposite direction from expected to reach a position. I on the other hand was merely allowed to rewrite the database software in Clipper for how to weld the stations together. Those were the days....

And at the same time the employees subsidize Google's costs for power, water, internet etc. Nice.

You mean randomly pumping your arms in the air and babbling incoherent nonsense in Latin did not result in a trade deal? I'm shocked.

The biggest reveal of 2020 has been that maybe Corbyn wasn't the worse option after all.

So that's what the champagne bucket is for...