Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
I am looking for funding for the development of a bluetooth device to tell you when a shoelace has come undone. It will connect to your phone, indicate which is the loose lace and an algorithm will show a GIF that will show you how to adjust your stride according to its length, to save you from having to bend down and re-tie the lace.
I think it will go far.
Dumbing diagnosis down with emojis or any other simplistic pictorial system can only leave more room for incorrect diagnosis. A problem that is often bad enough using the spoken or the written word, which frequently fails to convey the symptoms a patient is trying to describe.
You only have to listen to an average conversation to realise a good percentage of people don't know how to construct an intelligible sentence most of the time, what chance do emojis have?
Back in the 70s, there were two high rise blocks of flats ib New Addington, Croydon that had a reputation for rough tough tenants.
An Australian colleague was renting a room in one of the flats and I had arranged to pick him up as his car was in for repair.
As I drove up to the tower block, a washing machine dropped from a top floor balcony, it was followed by a two seater sofa and a matching armchair, the fastest 'rapid furniture removals' I have ever seen.
I didn't go in to collect my mate, I stayed in the car and tooted the horn.
Correct, it doesn't make any difference whether the sizr is stated in centimeters, inches or bananas. What really matters is 'fit', fit is much more than style, it's the dimensional relationships between the standard measurements.
What is the distance vertically between waist and chest? Is there a simple taper or is it a concave or convex line between the two measurements and so on?
The fashion industry from the designers point of view does not want standards because it feels limiting to them and makes cooying or pirating easier, it also goes beyond simple numbers, fabric type, orientation, seams, all make a difference.
I got involved in a fashion project a decade back with an acquaintance, he spent several tens of thousands of euros and that was enough to tell him he needed a lot more, so he got out while he could still afford to.
Fashion software if it's any good is expensive but is still a fair way from getting you to a single solution that will produce a good fit on every size and shape.
One would think a world dominating software company would like to maintain that position by creating a system that is functional, elegant and designed to run smoothly on the widest range of kit, including older units.
Thereby appealing to the maximum percentage of the population.
The fact that MS doesn't give a hoot about that does tend to indicate an interest in everyone spending on new hardware as often as they adopt the latest software.
Air friers are great, mine has pushed my microwave to reserve position for quick cooking.
There is no better way to cook chips, tempura, chicken wings and all kinds of tasty treats.
I am surprised Considering it is cyclonic cooking that Dyson hasn't got one on the market for only £500.
Edibility doesn't seem to be a problem for the majority of fast food outlets, they seem to be able to sell ship loads of indeterminate, mostly organic mush.
A few weeks back I was out with friends who invited me to a Mac of some description, whether or not the patty had been a part of a formerly live cow was not discernable by taste, true also of the 'fries' with regard to potatoes.
One of the commonest results of people purchasing a Haynes manual, is the sucking of teeth done by a professional mechanic as he surveys your even less functional machine since you bought the manual.
Then he/she will utter something like "I dunno where you went wrong but that's gonna take a bit o' fixing"
This week my mate's wife dropped off her sewing machine for me to look at as she thought the motor had seized.
I had to take all the covers off in a weird sequence and finally found a square sectioned coil spring clutch that had slipped one end, fixed that and it went back together in five minutes, couldn't find a left over screw either.
Now I am convinced when she tries it out, it's going to go critical and take out the entire village.
A large number of UK sites that I visit have opaque or overly complicated opt outs for cookie invasion, I just close them and go elswhere.
What they need to decide is, which do they need more, to sell me their product and possibly gain repeat business or try to grab my data to make pennies from that? If the answer is my data, they make nothing because I go elsewhere.
I doubt the CPD would call them on it.
Let's face it, any time the cops get a shots fired alert, it gives them the right to go into the alleged target area in response mode.
They will also have probable cause to do whatever 'fishing' they need to do to investigate the reported shots.
I wonder how often shots are reported that are in proximity to persons of interest?
I am trying to get a picture in my head that makes sense.
The govuk through the OS offices wants some free solutions to a question it doesn't understand, once there is a solution/s, it will select a random publican to implement one or more of the solutions at a cost of billions.
Then abandon it a while later.
"I'm here to make space transparent: nothing hides in space," he said. "I want everybody to know where everything is all the time. And I want people's behaviours, and the intended and unintended consequences of their actions to also be very transparent. And I want to facilitate scientifically informed policy in law."
Good luck with all of that, I can imagine so many 'sensitive' projects from many nations not wanting to give any data at all on some items they have put into orbit, even if the items are visible with the naked eye.
"Technology innovation is a key enabler of competitive differentiation and is the catalyst for transforming many industries,"
Thank you Gartner! Thank you so much!
For stating the bleeding obvious.
I'll make a prediction; 'This prediction will be more likely to bear fruit than the next prediction from Gartner.'
Take the blue pill, climb into the Feacebook pod where you will be plumbed in and provided with everything FB thinks you need for the rest of your existence. You will watch virtual ads and buy virtual items from those ads while having virtually all of your energy and will extracted.
Then you will die.
I would suggest that the Isle of Unst, as a small island with a rich and comparatively rare number of species on and around it, is at greater risk from a space port being constructed there.
Were anything ecologically threatening to occur there, such a small ecology could be devastated overnight with little hope of it ever recovering.
Care about the environment like charity begins at home.
Perhaps the AI company gets paid per conviction and has a deal with the DA for a minimum number of convictions per year, this is after all, capitalism.
Your apparent innocence is nothing compared to filling quotas and keeping the wheels of commerce turning.
In my experience, when a government or one of it's departments is required to be transparent, the language and methods it uses are, to a lesser or greater extent, opaque.
When a goverment or its ministers are effectively stealing from the citizenry they as individuals should be answerable in a court of law.
A self entitled twat, he wants to hold back an ongoing project just to satisfy his own vanity.
Even if bozos forces NASA to give him some kind of contract, he has nothing that is near ready so there will be further delays.
Looked at from some angles he is acting against the national interest.
Humaniform, is just that, shaped like a human, I don't think there is a need for a fully aware and automomous robot just yet. All they need is to be relatively versatile and programmable for various tasks that require limited autonomy.
Positronic brains or whatever equivalent develops are not that necessary and way too complicated for what will amount to a tool.
I recently re-read the I robot series Asimov was way off on his ideas for robot psychology and cognition.
Musk's fantastic statements are not intended for the consumption of techno-savvy individuals, it is put out there to inspire the less well informed to part with their hard earned currency.
As far as his humaniform bot is concerned, conventional thinking may be more aligned with the idea of more or less built to purpose forms for robots but nature has already shown the human form to be a useful general purpose design.
Musk doesn't need millions of years to come up with something approximating a human as he has models to look at as a basis for applying existing tech to make something similar and then improve subsequent models.
So long as it can recognise pedestrians and trucks......
Aside from the second house I ever lived in, all of the others have disappeared and the sites redeveloped. My personal belief is that the Langoliers are eating my past, that might explain why I have such a bad memory at times.
The French chap murdering the Buggles song can't play the guitar in addition to his other lacks of talent. Couldn't decide if he was wearing a wig helmet or had a deal for industrial sized containers of hair spray.
Considering this is a free download, it is certain that you will be made to pay one way or another.
With the facehugger eyeball tracking and the announced hand and keyboard tracking they may not be literally downloading your thoughts but may be using the app to provide a lot of behavioural data for an ML project.
FB are at pains to make clear there will be no targetted ads or data used to inform FB ads but the detail is in what they haven't said it will be used for.
To Feaceborg all data has value and is their 'Precious'.
The bottom line is having paid 2.4 billion for OR they want it to provide some kind of return.
I really dislike the concept of financial settlements made that allow the guilty to get away without admission of guilt.
It may free up court time and the cost of prosecution but it does so at the cost of truth and justice. It also benefits those with means to fight in the courts with armies of lawyers, something denied for the most part to ordinary people.
I think it goes deeper than uses for catching yhe bad guys, how difficult is it going to be to adapt it for commercial purposes?
I can't honestly say I fully understand how the software works but if can surveil one set of information wiith it you can surveil anything with some tinkering.
Banning is effectively meaningless since the concept is out of the box, there will be many asking 'how can this work for me?'
Exactly right.
If you can't climb in and give a verbal destination to the vehicle and sit back and relax until you have reached the destination, you are not in a Fully Self Driving vehicle.
Basically it should be a ground version of a Johnny Cab.
Tesla is not the only offender as most of the people marketing autonomous vehicles are talking up their capabilities beyond actuality but Tesla made a mistake in calling their system Autopilot because its very name misleads drivers into thinking it can do more than it is able to.
As things are AVs need much stronger legislation and accident investigation to encourage makers to put safety before sales.
If you should ever find yourself down and out in Ibiza, go to Kilties Bar in San Antonio, they have a chippy attached to the bar that will provide a range of deep fried items.
In fact, the only limitation really is if the item is too big to fit in the frier.
If you turn up after about ten o clock in the evening it can be very entertaining just to people watch but be prepared to run.
"Wha' you lookin' a'?"
The boss is a petit Scots lass who is harder than Jimmy Boyle.
I strongly suggest that Mr Zuckerborg should go to Kabul and engage with the Taliban leaders in order to get a full on the ground picture of their aims and social media needs.
Withdrawing the account now looks to me more like a publicity move that is somewhat late in the day rather than an ethical move.
Can anyone in the FB empire even spell ethics?
Consumers pay VAT, companies for the most part do not.
Regarding infrastructure costs, they are a normal part of any business and are not taxed, profits are.
Any business that is unable to account for operating costs and build payment for them into its pricing structure will not be viable as a business .
I am fairly sure that the right statistics could demonstrate that toilet paper contributes to economies so perhaps the manufacturers of TP should get special consideration too.
"Restore fairness"
"Create competition"
Because of course that's exactly how Jeff does business; behaves fairly and encourages competition.
I mean just look at how well he treats his lucky employees abd never undercuts the sellers who have been crucial in the building of his platform.
If bozos has his way there will be Chinese, Hindi and Russian speaking bases on Mars before NASA gets to the moon, but he will have won in court.
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