* Posts by W.S.Gosset

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Boffins debunk study claiming certain languages (cough, C, PHP, JS...) lead to more buggy code than others

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Science

> This contrary result is how science is supposed to work

Hear hear!

Tired of people bleating that this or that is "proven" by "science!", where their understanding of science is people in white coats telling them they're scientists.

Fine, we'll do it the Huawei, says Uncle Sam: CFO charged with fraud, faces extradition to US over Iran trade claims

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Re: ->LDS

As per Reply below, I'll see if I can dig up the book -- it's in one of the piles of books in the spare room, intertwingled with other piles of stuff.

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Re: here ya go

I'll see if I can dig up the book for you. It's in one of the huge piles of books in the spare room.

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Re: I don't quite understand.

> And what is a 'phone testing robot' anyway? I've got images of a (probably chinese made) one-armed bot with a finger that presses the screen relentlessly until it fails ... not exactly rocket science, which would be more the realm of the FBI ...

No, that's pretty much exactly it, exactly what it was.

Rather precise physical robotics in order to mimic humans usefully, AND robustly-enough built to last. Hence the theft.

> As for working with the Iranians - why would risk using a US branch of the company? Surely you would use a home grown company that doesn't give a monkey's about US sanctions and is not under the jurisdiction of the US authorities?

> I have a nasty feeling involving smoke, mirrors, a bit more smoke and some distinctly orange muddied waters ...

The latter: no. Preceded Trump by many years.

The former: they DID, but then ran the money back into head office accounts. "Gotcha".

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Re: Coming out

> trade with Iran and US tells the world not to or to face retaliation

No, they're saying don't do it VIA the US.

That's what Huawei did, and they got caught by the BANK much later, who alerted the US govt.

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Re: ->LDS

> myth-making

Hear hear

> War with Japan was pretty much inevitable from the mid-30s on, it was only a matter of when.

Actually, this was CAUSED by the US. Not very well known. Most clearly spelled out in General Wossname's autobiography, chap who designed and set-up the blitzkrieg through Malaysia->Singapore. He was in on the top-level discussions and all were agreed that JP was basically stuffed due to the US's economic sanctions (due to invasion of CN etc.), choice was Capitulate or Charge, capitulating was Not On (cultural reasons), charge was high-risk but SOME chance, so they charged.

As with all blitzkrieg: works brilliantly while you have surprise, crumbles subsequently unless you have the economic grunt to support the gains. Cf. Germany WWII. (Interestingly, also China's standard policy for coupla thousand years, but combined with running away (if non-domination) then declaring "just teaching a lesson", then back to posturing brinksmanship of threats. Cf. Vietnam, Xinjiang (first coupla attempts pre genocide coupla centuries ago) )

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Errr... whut now?

> The US are still sore about being kicked out of Iran 50 years ago

You might mean "UK" rather than "US", there. Look up the original name of "BP".

> and now Trump won't accept any good-faith gestures from Iran as negotiated with Obama and the EU

"good-faith"? *snort*

Pay attention, mate.

Iran broke the (nuclear) treaty on Day 1 -- treaty inspectors including UN still have not been allowed by Iran to complete a single treaty inspection. Those (busted) centrifuges were wa-aaaaaaay past nuclear power's concentration requirements when halted.

US watchdog legal fight against Qualcomm and pushy chip deals closes with argument over how awful lawyers are

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Re: Q: Default mandatory Licensing in US?

(interestingly, so was ElReg's maintenance coder last night. The EditPost time-window is currently set to 1,500mins: 25 hours precisely. Whoops?)

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Q: Default mandatory Licensing in US?

Can anyone remind me what the (short) name is of the US law which provides for enforceable licensing of IP and at a fixed/standard rate ("formula" in lawyer-speak) ?

I'm having a brain fade moment (it's 35C and soakingwet humid here).

Forget snowmageddon, it's dropageddon in Azure SQL world: Microsoft accidentally deletes customer DBs

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ACID

Me, I'm thinking more about the horrific spaghetti that clients' DATA has turned into, if they have sequential/chronologically-dependent transactions (e.g, account balance-authorised changes such as bank withdrawals or credit sales) coming in on the as-of-5mins-ago db with 5mins missing.

Underfunded HCI startup Maxta hits the buffers as VC cash runs out

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Trim Page...

... sounds like a job for a printshop apprentice.

Should the super-rich pay 70% tax rate above $10m? Here's Michael Dell's hot take for Davos

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Re: Simple solution to Dell's problem

Yup.

And when France tried the same supertax thing ~7 years ago, a lot of rich French people became rich nonFrench people. For example, the actor Gérard Depardieu.

Disk drives suck less than they did a couple of years ago. Which is nice

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> Mirroring across identical drives (from the same batch) seems like a recipe for trouble.

Yup. I've seen a couple of RAID5 setups collapse for precisely this reason. "Go to backup."

> RAID10

Suggest you look at ZFS rather than RAID. Step-change in what you can do, and serious step-change in reliability, at the bit-level.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/

Check out the 1-bit error examples in the photos there. (I lost 99% of 20yrs' photos to these errors, coming back from UK to Aus).

But note the ability to, eg: decide to upgrade OS, do Snapshot, Upgrade, discover nightmare, do RevertToSnapshot, and continue as-was In Under A Second without faff. (vastly better lowlevel approach than LVM, btw)

You like JavaScript! You really like it! Scripting lingo tops dev survey of programming languages

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the current Web is a prototype

Well, to be fair, that WAS kinda the original purpose of the world-wide web -- to provide a new hardware-independent semi-platform for interacting with each other & information. (Also the purpose of .net, in order to provide Billiam a $$fallback in the event he lost the antitrust case, in case anyone's wondering why .net came in a huge rush, then petered out sideways into a mere devel environment.)

Interestingly, what we currently regard as The Web, is in fact no more than a fraction of the original intent.

We are using only the Read-Only version, a quick prototype hacked out quickly as Proof Of Concept.

All this client-side gubbins/coding is hardwired localdev to get around/bodge around the lack of the core functionality originally intended. Plus some later wanderings off-piste.

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You are reading this on a MVP v.2.0.

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Re: I like JavaScript because... PHP!

Quite.

I always find it amusing when people bleat about JavaScript's scoping, when in PHP called-functions choose what scope they want from their caller. JS is rather a nice approach to OO, and in many ways preferable to the C++/Java/etc approach, but OOO! don't say that anywhere near anyone who was brought up on Java (I had a Java "professional" throw toys out of pram permanently when I pointed out that Java was PassByValue not PassByReference, then proved it).

Worried about Brexit food shortages? North Korean haute couture has just the thing

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Re: A raft of new reality TV shows...

Bare Grills

Mozilla security policy cracks down on creepy web trackers, holds supercookies over fire

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Re: Supercookie

(%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[PROFILENAME]\what-he-said.txt)

(*nix users: %APPDATA% == ~/AppData/Roaming)

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Re: Supercookie

My. Goodness. Me.

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Re: Shame they ruined the brower before they got a clue

Hear hear. Anyone on Firefox, AVOID the last 2 "up"grades offered by the auto-update. Its already-terrible (non)ability to handle more than a couple of simultaneous javascript threads goes to pieces. As in: goes from teeth-grinding to 2 or 3 full restarts per day to recover your ability to get anything done on your machine. As in: mouse frozen for 5mins at a time, etc.

'Numpty new boy' lets the boss take fall for mailbox obliteration

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Re: 100% honesty 90% of the time

Bloodie Eddy

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Re: Principles..

fun

Miscreants sweep internet for unpatched Cisco kit, fears over bugged Chinese parts, Roger Stone nabbed...

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Chinese-bugged rail-cars -- not as silly as it sounds

> this latest episode of infosec scrutiny might be a bit much even for Washington, DC.

> A report from NextGov examines how Senators have become concerned that the planned overhaul of the District's metro rail system with new carriages could put national security at risk.

Not as silly as it sounds.

Bear in mind, France's security service got sprung big time many many moons ago (40yrs?), having bugged every Air France plane's seats, monitoring passenger lists, and keeping the recordings of anyone of interest.

And it's a LOT cheaper & simpler to do, nowadays.

And could Washington DC be considered potentially a riper richer area of interest than most?...

Data hackers are like toilet ninjas. This is not a clean crime, you know

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We did Nazi see this coming... Internet will welcome Earth's newest nation with, sigh, a brand new .SS TLD

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We did Nazi see this coming

First time I saw this line/phrase, in some comment thread or other, I laughed like a drain.

Then I saw it a lot.

Realised it was a cliche.

But, you know, it never gets old. It's spot on.

Well, except in this instance. Topic's nothing directly to do with veiled totalitarianism. But still... still made me laugh...

Holy crappuccino. There's a latte trouble brewing... Bio-boffins reckon 60%+ of coffee species may be doomed

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Re: Starbucks

Ahhhh.... what a lovely picture: curses -- no IMG tag support

Civet coffee's raw materials

Sumatran kopi luwak farmer gathers up the droppings of civet cats which eat coffee cherries, digest them, then egest them in their feces.

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Re: Temperature?

> You also need the source of power to be at the same spot as the source of water.

Unless, instead of it being a water wind-pump, it was an electricity wind-pump.

In which case, you just need the source of power to be at the same political spot as the source of subsidies.

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(currently running a bit over 100%, even after the last decade's savage cost-reductions. not counting the savage grid costs.)

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Re: Coffee :- someone who has been coughed upon

Let's award points to BOTH of them.

And what do POINTS mean?!

PRIZES!!

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Re: Umm... nope.

Actually, the worst-case predictions for 2100 still fall below the earth's temperature when William the Conqueror invaded England. (And those worst-case predictions have massively overshot all subsequent _actual_ temperatures.)

Hell, even by about 1350 it was still so warm that when it snowed once in Norfolk, no one had ever seen anything like it before.

If you have an interest in this stuff, which it seems you do, then be aware that A GREAT DEAL of the graphs presented are subsequent to numbers of "layerings" of models. A good clue is to look for known extreme periods or patterns : if they're not there, you're not looking at data. Just on this chart you've put here, note that the VERY well-known post-WWII drama of 30yrs sharp global cooling ... does not exist. That is, this chart is not data. It's the result of people --to use the celebrated phrase of the tiny tiny core team @ Hadley+CRU-- "fiddling" with the data to get the "correct" result.

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Re: Temperature?

Yes, that possibility has been well researched. The results surprised even the most blase: even in utterly still water, it diffuses away to almost nothing in almost no distance.

To be clear: that idea/alarm exists only as a thought-experiment, it's not real.

A picture tells a 1,000 words. Pixels pwn up to 5 million nerds: Crims use steganography to stash bad code in ads

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Re: Should be easy to ban

> There is no good reason to read data from a image.

And yet humans keep thinking pretty people must be NICE people. People to aspire to.

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Re: Adblockers

Just thinking with my black hat on: how could this be subverted?

And nope, I can't think of a way to not subvert it online -- only by pseudoalphachannel offline knowledge/trust.

Can anyone think of a way for a site to proclaim provably that it's taking this approach?

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Adblockers

> (Don't forget that in this day and age, ads are fetched as a package of images and code

Yup. And it's abuse of the LATTER which pisses people off (by crippling their machine) and has created the rise of the AdBlockers which has led to drop in the revenues which sites really need which has led to aggressive workaround tactics which has led to people getting MORE pissed off which...

I think there's a real argument for sites taking a stand, and "advertising" that they will only SHOW ads, not inject code into your machine. Pics, text, whatever, people are OK with that. Code, no, even for people who don't know what code is -- they CAN see their machine grind to a halt.

It'd need a Badge, and a strict emphasis on Trust. And a different negotiation tactic with advertisers. But one which would have power if explained properly, and implemented properly/trustworthily.

And I think sites would see a pickup in ad revenue.

You're an admin! You're an admin! You're all admins, thanks to this Microsoft Exchange zero-day and exploit

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Dirk-jan

Make your mind up

Under Armour and Virgin Galactic team up so tourists can stay on-trend throughout white-knuckle ride into space

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Goddammit! It's 2019! WHERE ARE MY FLYING UNDERPANTS!?!?!

Straight outta Blighty: Readers, if you were a tech billionaire, what would you do?

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Holmes

Let's have another go

Bit bemused by the numbers of thumbsdown followed by responses which suggest people haven't had much corporate exposure and are kinda guessing based on newspaper alarums, and on the basis of Dyson= uberbaddy screwing everyone over haharrrr.

So let me try putting it another way. Let's ASSUME that basis: that Dyson is an uberbaddy of utter selfishness and f*ckyouness.

POSIT:

* Dyson's a c*nt

* Dyson's selfish and only cares about what's good for him: UK can go get f*cked

* Dyson's smart

THEN:

* post-referendum-barracking, he suddenly does a 180, thinks Brexit's a BAD thing (for him) (the c*nt)

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WHAT WOULD HE DO? :

Well, immediately post-Brexit-vote, he'd immediately move everything offshore. He'd be able to do it in a nice relaxed fashion, with no risk of being squeezed on timing or costs. Total bonus.

--> He didn't do that.

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So... maybe he read any newspaper or saw any TV or internet, and thought: "wait, there's a very real chance the politicians/poliwonks will overturn the people, and Brexit won't happen. OR that a deal might be struck that's better than the WTO-Standard/'No Deal', which might mean I can stay in Britain and still keep all the economic advantages." The latter is what was very much on the table at the outset before May-time; the former is what became apparent over time was being attempted.

--> Well, in that case, he'd wait till AFTER the final result was known.

--> Because to move before then would guarantee incurring big costs&hassle, when there's a material probability of it being completely pointless, or wasted, or even negative. "Well, I'd be a bloody idiot to jump before it's certain."

To be clear:

Since he didn't move immediately post-vote :

To move before the final outcome is decided is economically irrational when some of the possible outcomes provide EU-alike access to EEC.

To move just a handful of months before that decision is made would be outright irrational. Actually, very stupid.

Any sane person at this point, with this potential decision on the table and in his low-{regulatory/sovereign}-faff industry (unlike finance), would sit on his bum and wait for the imminent deadline. And THEN decide what to do.

Dyson is not stupid.

If this decision was Brexit-related, he wouldn't be moving now -- he'd wait a couple of months.

To put it another way:

If this WAS Dyson being a two-faced c*nt, GAMING Brexit:

he wouldn't be doing this now, he'd wait just a couple of months.

He hasn't. Therefore it's either:

* he's a STUPID c*nt, or

* something else is going on.

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Re: Dyson

> Whilst it may make sense to have a regional HQ in Singapore, it doesn't really make sense moving the legal HQ to the country of production; if it did, I'm sure Apple and others would have done it already.

Well, Apple HAS. How do you think they kept so many $$billions offshore sheltered from US tax for so long? Magic?

Disney, VW, Caterpillar, Fiat, just off a quick google just on Luxembourg. eBay is Swiss. PayPal is Singapore. Facebook used to be Irish but ISTR it's now either Liechtenstein or Luxembourg.

> "doesn't really make sense"

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Shutting down a company (here, the UK one) can potentially have all sorts of nasty implications: tax, regulatory, structuring, simple ball-achery, etc., so yes there are potential frictions&costs.

But yes, companies DO do it, WHEN it makes sense. Common term is "re-domiciling", such as Starbucks shifting HQ from Netherlands to UK, or for a funky version kinda like 2 amoebae merging then both nuclei oozing into one end: "Tax Inversion", such as Burger King shifting from USA to Canada via its merger with Horton's. Pfizers pfuckup trying to shift out of the US and getting nobbled mid-stream by the Treasury's another one.

Here's an example of a lot of US companies which had redomiciled offshore, returning to the US:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-inversions-idUSKBN1KO2HH

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Re: Dyson

Here's a quick easy one from what the responders here might consider a surprising source:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/22/dyson-to-move-company-hq-to-singapore

Rowan said Dyson would “continue to pay tax in the UK”. Weybourne Group, through which Sir James holds his business interests including Dyson plc, paid £185m of tax in 2017, according to accounts filed at Companies House.

That amount of tax, btw, implies about £1bn Earnings continuing to be run thru UK. Normal tax structuring (Apple, Facebook, Google, etc) which can be done in a few days, would be to have Dyson himself Resident offshore in a lowtax regime (eg Monaco)(actually this doesn't work for US passport holders: global tax regardless of residency), all his holdings offshore, the holding company parked in Dublin for the double-irish or in Liechtenstein (or Malta, or BVI, or Bermuda, or etc.etc.), and all the local activity parked in matched-local subsidiaries. Pretty basic stuff, guys. Splitting legal-residency and actual-residency of the HQ can have nasty repercussions depending on jurisdiction, so if it's already run out of Singapore IRL, pushing the paper residency over at that point is near-mandatory.

And what makes you think he's restricting his global exposure to UK? He's clearly not and never has: he started exporting as soon as he could. Same as every company with ambition. Dyson-the-company, his asset, has been global for yonks.

Yes, his source-of-wealth has been and is global. Same as any exporter. But he's still running HIS share of it, into the UK. If he was worried about Brexit, he'd have taken some action related to Brexit.

Having said that, whatever the hell the UK comes out with at this point, it's not any sane version of any of the originally-agreed models for Brexit. I haven't seen such a collossal cockup by politicians in years.

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Dyson

> Just yesterday, for example, it emerged that Brexit backer billionaire and founder of eponymous tech firm Sir James Dyson had decided to move the HQ from the UK to Singapore

In the article's context & tone, that's a completely upside-down (mis)representation.

Dyson the company has been moving its production to Singapore for yonks and now makes nearly ALL its stuff there. So shifting the HQ is simple commonsense/rational management, despite the cost and friction.

Dyson the person is keeping his entire financial stake in Britain -- no change. Yet that would have been a near costless and near instantaneous move to make, should he have wanted to avoid personal consequences from Brexit.

Dyson's choices here are actually a vote of confidence in Brexit.

Sprint subscribers: What do your updated iPhone and Tonga have in common? Both are cut off from the world

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Happy

Re: Break?

Yeah I know, I just liked the chosen wording's mental image of a country physically breaking a major trunk cable by accident. ["Yeah awrigh' Trev, just lift that bit up so we can get the new server in and.... Oh for f*ck's sake, Trev."]

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Break?

How does one "break" an undersea cable?

"Kids! Get away from the...! Oferchrissake"

World's favourite open-source PDF interpreter needs patching (again)

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Re: "Tavis wants people to stop using PostScript"

Yeah. Even PDF itself only came into existence to get around a sharp memory-constraint problem in the first laserprinter.

See this very prestigious e-journal's own take on it:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/21/how_a_tax_form_kludge_gave_us_25_years_of_pdf/

[Demo]

The page took 2 minutes 45 seconds to print. Jobs was horrified at how slow that was.

Looking over his lines of PostScript later, Warnock tried a different tack. As he recounted to digital prepress newsletter The Seybold Report in 2001: "You can redefine the operators to have different semantics than the original operators. So I took all of the basic graphics commands in my original program, reprogrammed just a capture of their parameters and wrote those parameters out to a file." This effectively "flattened" the file out.

His new version of the IRS tax form printed on the LaserWriter in 22 seconds.

Fight, fight, fight. Gloves are off again between Nutanix and VMware

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Re: Memories - 1990s flash back...

And Apple declaring at a conference with Adobe's Warnock sitting behind them (joint presentation) that they were close to eliminating/replacing PostScript entirely with their own stuff. Warnock went white. He loved the Macintosh, found Windows execrable, and at huge personal $$opportunitycost had steadfastly refused to port PostScript to Windows. Apple was absolutely dominant in DTP, graphics, etc as a result, and those markets were booming hard.

And then they turned around and stuffed him. He who not only gave them that market, but was maintaining it for them.

Warnock ordered the immediate port to Windows when he got back to the office.

And Apple lost the one market it was making serious headway in vs Microsoft.

[insert 5% marketshare for decade+ about here]

So this is how that terrifying killer AI will end us... by pushing us down hospital wait lists?

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Re: Misclassification- actually 24-52%

Yes, if you look at Table 2 you'll see the results of their separate/preceding NLP work on interpreting the clinician's own notes, and it has much much better results.

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Re: Worse Case 1% - Isn't That 3000 Fails Per Month?

> The training set is obviously way too small (according to the article, it's only ingested what equates to a month's worth of data)

Actually, it was trained on 12+yrs data, but from "only" 3 hospitals: "January 2005 to May 2017 at our institution, a publicly funded university hospital network consisting of three hospitals"

So yes, you have geographical/localcultural bias, but pretty good otherwise in terms of dataset design/acquisition given budget constraints.

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Misclassification- actually 24-52%

I just had a quick glance at the research, but noted this:

> In terms of misclassifications, of the 545 radiographs classified as normal by our AI system, five (1%) had critical and 95 (17%) had urgent findings detailed within the reports. On rereview of these five critical radiographs, the AI interpretation of normal was unanimously believed to be correct in four instances. Similarly, for the 95 urgent radiographs, 36 (38%) were normal on rereview.

The good news is, the AI was RIGHT and the humans initially WRONG for 4 of the 5 'critical' misclassifications. Not so good: the AI was wrong for 60% of the 'urgent' cases misclassified as 'normal'.

Me, I'm liking that humans-in-a-hurry tended to be over-cautious: false-positive rather than false-negative.

But if you want to really spook yourself re the AI's non-usefulness, have a look at the FULL misclassification data in Table 3.

24-52% misclassification rates. Meep.

France wants in on the No Huawei Club while Canuck infosec bloke pretty insistent on ban

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Re: Already a problem

Not trolling, mate, just dropping a few bald facts on the table rather than hysterical memes. See, I actually worked in commodities for many years.

The Congo has been "at war" with itself and its neighbours for one HELL of a lot longer than half a century. Suggest you do a bit of research, which to be clear does NOT include goggling at the Guardian, but actually reading original documents wherever possible -- they're available for several centuries that I've seen so far.

And if you SERIOUSLY think that "oligarchs" would deliberately threaten what is almost the ONLY economic global resource utterly critical for every bit of high-tech electronics we have (the bulk of the world's supply comes from a single mine) (eg, the computer you're reading this on, your phone, all PV solar power, your building's elevator, the train network's signalling, aircraft, cars, etc.etc. and nowadays a surprising amount of household and whitegoods stuff) ,

you are out of your freaking mind.

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I mean, just this simple statement of fact (catastrophic global cost to "oligarchs" from supply interruption) flatly requires by your own conspiracy theory that "Western oligarchs" would be doing everything in their damn power to ELIMINATE conflict in Congo. Hells bells mate, it's routinely cited as the overwhelming risk factor by EVERY damn mining company that looks at it.

Get a grip. Make your mind up: either they're shadowy superpowers utterly dominated by the profit motive, in which case the Congo would utterly free of war, or maybe there's "a bit" more going on than you've had exposure to. And/or you've been fed a crock of shit by mummy's boys sitting in an airconditioned office in the Docklands typing drama pieces.

And to try to recast deep and longlasting local intercultural conflict as purely created by WhiteBoys shows a staggering level of racist wannabe-superiority. "Awwww... those pore lil black boys, they'd all live happily in peace singing the whole dingdong day because they're all so simple and lovely, if it wasn't for EVIL white men manipulating them. They just don't KNOW any better, they just can't be RESPONSIBLE for their actions." Whereas actually they're human beings, with their own lives and their own preferences. You'll note that the UN Security Council's investigation found Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi fielding military in DRC to secure minerals, and that money going straight into those locals' pockets. "By one estimate, the Rwandan army made at least $250 million over a period of 18 months through the sale of coltan, even though no coltan is mined in Rwanda."

'Nun' drops goat head on pavement outside Cheltenham 'Spoons

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Re: Proves that Cheltenham

genius

Starship bloopers: In touching tribute to Tesla shares, Musk proto-craft tumbles – as Bezos' Blue Origin rocket lifts off

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Re: What counts?

> getting rich people to buy over-priced crap which they don't need

Another way of putting it: they're voluntarily taxing themselves!

"It's not enough to pay tax ; you have to WANT to be taxed."

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Re: >> land the bits in known large empty spaces

> fish lack legal standing

This is because they lack legal legs.