Posts by Pascal Monett 19394 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I remember the page-feed printers from way back when I was a wee operator. When someone launched a rather intensive print, they could end up visibly shaking from side to side as the print head moved along and swung violently back.
No wonder they were so heavy. If HP were making them today, they would literally shake themselves apart.
If they have something that is actually working, then why not apply it to another domain where it could be useful ?
It's not because it's called AI that it is automatically useless, after all. I'm sure Nippon scientists are going to make it work and, when they do, it will certainly be beneficial for all satellites. Corporate secrets (or National Security) aside, I'm sure every satellite managing company would like to have advanced warning of when things might go wrong.
Is it really impossible for Chinese scientists to have made a breakthrough ? No.
To be fair, given the number of high-profile scientific breakthroughs announced by China that have proven to be nothing but damp squib, there is a good chance that this be another one but still, they just might have made a genuine discovery.
Or this is just another round of playground "mine is bigger than yours" politics.
Time will tell.
"Together, we are setting the foundation for a future where AI deeply respects, enhances, and upholds the standards of world-class journalism"
Love the idea. Now all we need is to find some world-class journalism.
News outlets today are owned by billionnaires who shape the news and the way it is broadcast. Gone are the days when the news was actual news, with facts and nothing but. Today it's all about shaping the message. Facts are carefully selected. Not everything is said, and some things are said without proper sourcing (which doesn't keep those things from being repeated).
Sometime in the far future, the human stellar empire will have entire specially-formatted agricultural planets run on JohnDeer automated machines, providing pesticide-free crops to all of Humanity.
But that ain't today. Today, we only have Earth, and it has not yet been terraformed for John Deer.
I'm not sure this is the future we're looking for.
Just did a test on my laptop. Screen is 1920 x 1080. JPG compression is set to 75%. Resulting file size is 250KB (using Paint.net).
My home PC has two screens, both which are much larger in pixel weight. I'm guessing that that GB limit would be reached way before noon.
Don't want it. Period.
Nice to know that in one specific case it is working well. I'm happy for your father.
The engineer has to concern himself with global usefulness, not just specific cases, and I find his remarks insightful, although I am definitely not in any way associated with the industry.
So, we have activist investors, and now we have anchor investors.
An anchor is a heavy metal object destined to keep a ship from moving, so I guess an anchor investor is a deep pockets kind with plenty of cash. Except that, it only needs cash to buy shares. Is Atos expecting an investor to lend money as well ?
No matter. Why aren't there any activist investors lining up ?
Oh, I forgot. Atos is already on the brink of bankruptcy. There's not much left for activists to plunder.
Silly me.
Okay, pitch, no problem. That is purely mathematical and easy to determine.
Speaking rate, no problem there either.
Energy ? How is that qualified ? Someone screaming at the top of their lungs makes a lot of noise, to be sure, but someone looking you in the eye at less than a meter from you with a gun in their hand pointed towards you can softly say "DON'T. MOVE.", and there will be a heck of lot of energy in there that I don't see a computer detecting . . .
You're using a power-guzzling, GPU-enhanced platform to make emoji recommendations ?
Please shut that shit down forthwith and bend over while I administer a sound Oxford-prefect beating to your lilly-white behind to educate you in what is acceptable as far as ML is concerned.
I beg to differ.
I am not at all convinced that people are "keenly aware" of the violation of their privacy. I will barely acknowledge that people are aware of it at all.
Because, if people were so keenly aware, they would stop with Facebook, block Google at every turn and campaign for their rights to be respected at the legal level.
I'm not seeing that happening.
Yes, there are people who are aware. For starters, all of those who, like me, do not have social media account. I can phone or mail my firneds, I don't need a life-raping platform to help me stay in touch.
But those are far from the majority, otherwise we wouldn't be talking about Facebook, Tik-Tok, Instagram et al.
So no. People are certianly not "keenly aware".
i agree completely with hard prison sentences for this kind of scum.
I'm just not convinced that any Russian national is going to give up one of his compatriots to the country that has been Russia's enemy since the Cold War.
Would you give up some hacker you knew to Xi Ping ?
Plus : a reward in dollars isn't going to be much of an incentive to a Russian, these days . . .
Nice to see that US multinational behemoths are bowing to the law of the land where they operate.
I mean, sure, Redmond and Fruitzilla kowtow to Beijing but, hey, if you don't, you're either banned or the CEO goes to jail. Not fun, eh Cook ?
There's no Congressional Hearing where El Zuck can pretend he gives a fuck and continue as before.
So, given that the EU is still a market that is comparable to the US, with a bit of leeway as far as lobbying is concerned, they will make an effort.
In this case, an effort of about $8 billion, to be able to continue to milk a market that is otherwise captive.
Yeah, I think I'd do the same . . .
Well at least they aren't just throwing them out.
Japan still has a semblance of recognition for decades of work and loyalty.
No doubt that, in the next few decades, they will join the more "enlightened" likes of Musk & Co, who consider employees like tissues, to be sneezed in and discarded when used . . .
Why ? The hospital goofed, the machine died. Did they think that they would sue to get a new one for free ?
I doubt they could blame the contractor in any way. The glass doors were added for silence, so hospital management knew where it was going. If they knew that, they should have also been aware that there were drains with various liquids coming down there. The contractor hardly could.
I think this is all the hospital's fault. They didn't give all the specifics, or they moved the chemistry lab after the computer was installed, or they just didn't think the problem through.
I don't see how it could be the contractor's fault.
Reward his mistakes and unprofessionalism by giving him yet more control over the company.
Fine, go ahead.
Then watch as he burns that value by spouting more nonsense and making more stupid decisions.
Tesla is a private company. Its shareholders can drive it into the ground if they wish.
SMBs may be negligeable, individually, but their volume far outstrips ten major contracts.
Broadcom will learn that to its detriment, but by then, it will be too late.
And the good thing for everyone else is that alternatives to VMWare will have bulked up, meaning the market will be more mature.
So, I guess, thanks Broadcom ?
