The reasonable tradeoff, in this case, would be to continue using the third-party analytics saas, but exclude personally identifiable information, or at the very least, exclude this extremely sensitive information.
I've personally found this to work great, the only exception being the moment of surprise and confusion when I asked the driver to pull around to the emergency entrance.
I write Swift code every day, and I can't count the number of times thats its type system has saved me, at compile time, from errors that would have otherwise shown up in QA or quite possibly production. In general, Swift makes iOS apps perform more reliably than Objective-C.
Great looking app. I'm an iOS dev, and I need to implement a similar color picker for picking a color within an image in my app. Any tips or example code you can point me to for how to performantly target a screen pixel and get the hex?.
Heady Topper is a great beer, but make no mistake, the astronomical esteem for it stems not from its merits, but from its status as the progenitor of New England style (cloudy) IPAs.
I'm a t1 diabetic; I of course share your feelings on progress. That said, I'm unconvinced that technological progress is necessarily dependent on long work weeks (to start, most people working long weeks are totally uninvolved with this sort of innovation).
The system is likely capable of distinguishing a lit green light from a sign painted like one. If you're simply asking "would the system be fooled if someone nefariously hung an always green light where a red one should be" surely that is a circumstance that would fool a human as well.
The first iOS app I built used parse for the entire backend. We basically used it as a database in the cloud accessible by multiple clients (it can accommodate fancier uses as well). We didn't really run any custom code on the server side, Parse basically provided access to a shared db across our client instances. It allowed us to build a simple location sharing app in a few hours.
I use my sous vide machine around 3 times a week (I bought it about a year ago). For most preparations, sous vide is not more convenient than conventional cookery–the long cook times are almost never worth it.
But convenience is not the benefit; with sous vide I can prepare expensive steaks without risk of ruining them (in fact without risk of falling short of perfection). Were I Daniel Boulud, I would not have much need for it, but as a mere mortal, I imagine I will continue to love sous vide.
It's not about neutrality, it's about ease of understanding. For me at least, when speaking about something that can be entered into a keyboard ^D is less obvious than Ctrl+D–I need to press the key labeled "control" to issue the proper command, the key labeled "^" will not suffice.
There is certainly no scientific consensus that GMO/transgenic food causes cancer; if anything the community believes it does not. Perhaps we currently have flaws in implementation (e.g., Roundup-ready crops could lead to increased human exposure to the herbicide), but why is GMO itself a problem? Adding genes from harmless cold water fish to harmless standard tomatoes in order to produce cold resistant tomatoes, for example, seems to be a safe procedure. I would love to be pointed to credible studies that contradict my way of thinking about this.
I've made this same argument myself, but I've come to believe that there is a difference of kind between the two revolutions you cite and the coming of AI: each of those found a way to replace a large number of human jobs, but humans were able to find refuge in employment at tasks that the new technologies were ill suited for. To you I ask, what is a human able to do that a sufficiently good AI cannot?
As a software engineer in Boston this only confirms my feelings that we are a world leader in innovation. I'm looking forwards the the smart people that this will bring to my great city.
Information on the web is distributed in an even more skewed manner than Pareto's law would have you believe. I would bet 1% of the sites on the web provide 99% of the useful information. Thusly, this laptop may prove very useful for many things (excepting the wonders of web based interpersonal communication).
In arguments over the relative safeness of the world it is often pointed out that relatively few people have died recently in terrorist attacks, but as N. N. Taleb points out, the distribution of deaths by terrorist attacks is a fat tailed one: the current average does not preclude much higher future numbers.
It is almost insane that we still use TI-84's when we have all the power of smart phones in our pockets. I would love to see an app that can function as the calculator but also notify the teacher if it is backgrounded (to prevent illicit notes/internet access).
In arguments over the relative safeness of the world it is often pointed out that relatively few people have died recently in terrorist attacks, but as N. N. Taleb points out, the distribution of deaths by terrorist attacks is a fat tailed one: the current average does not preclude much higher future numbers. Such devices as this in the hands of such actors as NK give us more concrete feelings for the real risks involved. More focus needs to be paid to these sorts of risks, we will be lucky to live out our lives without a major nuclear terrorism event.