Posts by flactem 4 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2018
Okay okay...!!!! I get it now Trump pseudonyms in chronological order; "John Barron" (or "John Baron"), "John Miller" and "David Dennison"...
Now it's: ooFie !!
Mr. president I would think you'd more important things to do than post self-congratulatory comments on the registry....
I stopped reading the comments after I saw your post... And if I may be so bold ak-565 you're right on point. The FBI and the news media are blaming the Russians for hacking and loading up social media with garbage.... Okay I understand that...
The media also takes a swipe at Trump for rhetoric that stirs the lowest common denominator of the soulless 30 to 40% of the American electorate... But I don't blame the Russians or Trump or social media.... I think the people know that they're voting for a bigot and a liar and make up excuses to mitigate their choice.....
I live here in this great country America and was shocked that a third of our electorate can be so easily punk'd... So it's really not Trump's fault or Russia's fault for Facebook's fault you have your own free will when you go into the voting booth.... I honestly believe that you can come out here to the Midwest and sell a bunch of Brooklyn Bridges..... Or Eiffel Towers....
And ak-565 your statement regarding the Trump's hatred for Obama is barely mentioned in the media, an issue that I think they should bring more attention too... The pendulum really swamp in the opposite direction after Obama's 8 years it's an absolute shame....
Duggarchild,
the IBM exec Comment notwithstanding... I think you've nailed it.. I don't work in marketing and advertising but I love commercials Watson has been around for at least 10 years in game shows and playing chest... And now that I think about it the Crux of this could be the fact that they've never Associated ( game show ) Watson with artificial intelligence or machine learning... Maybe the tag lines too long... But I believe there's an product placement/association issue... Only until recently I've discovered that Watson can go in there and fix an elevator or fix a problem with the plane prior to the problem being an issue...
I am not very familiar with the aspects of artificial intelligence or machine learning but I do understand { strategically and financially viable) any software or product has to be practical and somewhat easy to apply for crushing large amount of data quickly considering the medical Acquisitions is Watson only relegated to the healthcare field? Moreover, you still have to program via algorithms to complete any specified task...
This may be a simple case of (IBM getting out ahead of their skis) trying to initiate a large artificial intelligence footprint in conjunction with Acquisitions in the medical field in order to give the impression that they are on the floor front of something w/out practical direction.... I am speculating, but given the marketing and media blitz regarding artificial intelligence one would assume that it was ready to take the place of human beings in the next 5 years....
I do admire IBM that is one Institution that is maintained its leadership at the Forefront of Technology... It could just be as simple as not having the AI mathematician core to support the administrative side that they are given the AX too...
To the Anonymous individual that receives all of the thumbs down...... It's unfortunate and that your position is correct but yet most people disagree...
I've worked at Hewlett-Packard; FMC defense contract; Cisco Systems; Apple and Google... At the early part of my career I got the unqualified excuse for not being hired... That's the safest way to keep individuals that don't look like the majority from obtaining an opportunity... Fortunately from being turn down so many times I got so good at interviewing that I practically eliminated all excuses for not being hired... After getting my start as usual I had to work twice as hard in order to make sure that my performance did not become a disqualifying aspect to continued employment...
After observing over a period of a decade coworkers from different companies and watching their performance and their works of my counterparts... In my estimation the overwhelming amount of caucasians that occupied these jobs are not qualified... But since they don't hire anybody else and use that excuse to keep others from being hired you never really find out that there are no more smarter than anyone else they just don't have to try so hard... And I mean that with all sincerity and not an ounce of malicious intent... To be quite honest I'm not saying that all of my counterparts don't meet the highest standard of qualification there are a lot of gifted individuals out there.... But to label somebody unqualified just because they are not white to me is quite convenient and to assume that Caucasians are qualified is the epitome of folly....
I can assure you the reason why there's not more diversity in the workforce has nothing to do with qualifications it has all to do with who people want to work next to everyday... I found that there is no job that you cannot be trained to do over a period of time... There have been individuals that have degrees that don't have common sense to think outside the box and use some imagination and believe me there are a lot of those individuals with good paying jobs.... I've now started making sure that I do phone interviews or video cops is so they can see exactly who they're getting in addition to my experience because the last thing I'm going on as another courtesy interview I can tell within 5 minutes whether they want me or not and if they don't know what I look like coming in that's the beginning of a disaster.... And working for a company that has less than 50 people is absolutely a non-starter....
So truly unfortunate soul in here that thinks only Caucasians are qualified and no one else is you're obviously one of the hiring managers then I'm going to have to go see in order to get a job and then before I sit down you've already precluded that I'm not qualified thanks a lot...... And I've had a good look at you guys too and most you guys 70% or not qualified and I mean that..... The only reason I've been as successful as I have is because I have some imagination and I care about what I do and I'm not preoccupied with keeping my Stranglehold on economic domination.....
Again qualifications is just a code word for All American white only... How can you call somebody unqualified before you can even see what they can do...?? Believe me I was put in some situations that were absolutely untenable as far as the percentage of success.. I was given situations professionally which were designed for me to fail however I turn those instances around I even surprise myself some of the times.. The very fact that this article was even written by an individual from Google just shows of the hubris and the insecurities most individuals have about protecting their hold on power... Don't tell me no one here has been trained on their job cuz every company is different even though the Departments are similar if they don't train you you will fail if they train you you will succeed.... For the most part I wasn't trained and that became a guarantee if I couldn't pick up the job after 3 weeks I will quit most of my job for contract... I was fortunate enough to understand that they weren't going to train me I had to read process and procedures on my own qualifications my butt.....
PS... I have about 3 years of college no degree....
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