Re: Free service, but expensive hardware, delivered by van to a disaster zone?
Careful, he'll be calling us all paedos next!
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Maybe it is because Musk's alleged eco credentials are actually not that great. For example, he flies *everywhere* all the time in his private jet. He hates trains and actively blocked the creation of the HS train between San Francisco and LA by lying about hyper loop and spends a great deal of time blowing up millions of litres of hydrogen in his rockets as well as littering low earth orbit with space junk.
I think we are now entering the phase of consumer AI where progress is asymptotic. We have seen all the party tricks but expectations are now far higher than the technology will be able to deliver. We last saw this with self driving cars of course... Oooh all that investment; is a bubble about to burst?
I think what actually happens (and this is a very common architecture) is a few REST requests over HTTP from the app to an API aggregator, server-side, that then uses RPC to call the microservices. So the Android guy is correct from his POV but there may well be many RPC (or infra REST) calls to microservices that he doesn't know about. However Musk is well known to have been an appalling developer so is probably out of his comfort zone here..
Don't most people use devices like this on a NATed subnet (i.e. the way most routers are set up)? So unless the STB is actively opening port forwards via UPnP then they can't be reached from the open Internet. These stories always seem more like publicity for the boutiques that release them. I'd certainly never heard of the one here!
That article is a shameless plug for the Chrtismas Lectures. The problem I have wuth her assertion that the developers should take an oath is that it is the VCs and business types that are pushing 'AI' (or 'statistics' as I tend to call it) - or narrowly capable and unready technologies - on the masses.
What is really needed is an NHS National Analytics Institute where researchers are invited to use the vast NHS datasets but where all analysis happens in house and the data never leave the premises. In this way the huge data pot could be exploited without leakage and without the Googles and Facebooks benefitting. I imagine that monetising it could be very lucrative for the NHS too.
The best bit about Mr Robot is the use of the Unix Command 'astu' - defined as:
NAME astu -- act similar to unix
SYNOPSIS astu [-command] […plotpoint]
DESCRIPTION Approximate a Unix shell like series of commands for the purposes of simulating an actual shell session in a Hollywood movie or television show. Specify a number of operands that simulate Unix commands and output critical plot points and text specific to the story or scene.
RETURN VALUES Returns a set of pseudo-Unix like responses to commands which furthers plot or scene in a way that is mostly understandable to non-technical audiences.