Posts by shortfatbaldhairyman 16 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Mar 2020
I have never understood why things are made super easy. Most people do not realise the risks and we cannot expect them to. Jewellery will be secured, a piece of paper? Yes, even now quite a few do not realise what that means.
So, Either make it not so easy (no QR code and all), Or preemptive actions and make people aware of the risks.
And, from exhausted experience, most do not realise until it is too late.
obviously, what else can I say?
The problem is if you decide that you need to look at every statement and action and behaviour, practically nobody is left.
How dare anybody be allowed to do any good if they have done bad.
By that logic, maybe we should destroy all Caravaggios (murder and more I believe), destroy all Louis Ferdinand Celine (Fascist) and many many more such.
But we allow so many others, vile, in public life. Not that I expect anything better.
Cannot agree more! Wish I could up vote it a million times.
Universities seem to have lost their bearings, how many have compromised by agreements with less than free governments? Apart from the problems of industry influenced research.
Maybe they never had any bearings, maybe we were being naive.
Reminds me of my research days. I was trying to figure out HOW to show that a particular neural net (not that that was the name used) did learn. A friend suggested that I look even more closely at some standard optimisation techniques I was using, and all seemed well.
Until I realised that I was essentially showing how fragile the whole shit was.
Repeat after me, neural nets are not generic.
And a few years ago started reading about this deep learning and had smoke out of my ears. Called a friend who is still in academia and asked him about "old wine in new bottles". He laughed and said "It is not that bad".
Indeed.
Oh well, here goes. At a tangent, yea yea.
How can an algorithm be anything else but dumb? Quoting Dijkstra "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
So yes, may or may not be yesterday's algorithms (they mostly are, with slightly better understanding of structure, FAR better hardware and maybe minor algorithm extensions) but that word intelligence is overused.
And, when I started reading about deep learning, called up a friend asking what the fuss was about, old wine in new bottles and all. His response was that it was not as bad as that. Maybe not.
Oh well, can go on and on.
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