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Very disappointed at missing an AMAZING opportunity to say "shut up and multiply" about the funding

Think bigger. Not photo display like "pictures on the end table"... photo display like "teenager has band posters on the wall" or even like "changing the wallpaper on my actual wall to match the new pintrest trend"

Good luck filling out all the SARs. I shudder to think of the volume

tl;dr : it's not an EMP and it's not a nuke

A computer system is not a decision maker. It does not have agency, it is a tool. This is an IT use of the exonerative tense. i.e. "The suspect died due to bullet caused wounds"

Well, if you start from the position that rural living is a hellhole, I don't know what to tell you buddy. Plenty of people enjoy it just fine, just different costs and benefits

>> Walking to and from the platform of my nearest tube station is about 2.5k steps....

There are no side walks where I live. The roads have 55mph speed limits and are lined with drainage ditches even if I wanted to walk them. Working from home, I might get ~900 "organic" steps/day unless I go somewhere explicitly to walk (15+ minute drive each way). It's a structural issue more than personal choice

Either this uses the word "information" in a way that is 99% divorced from common usage or the philosophical implications of this are massive. It would essentially mean that truth or falsity is an inherent property of the universe. Is this string gibberish or is it information? Might even change cryptography forever, too

In France, when you get married or have a kid you get a family book and it is the official record of your family. If you don't put a kid in, they don't have the same rights and vice versa. Really leans into the "family is a social construct" angle

Been playing Space Exploration mod with some friends for a little over a year on the same map now. Mabye ~300-400 hours into it and just starting to get naquitie feeling solid. Absolutely enormous scale to it

Of all organizations, NASA is the one I least want to tell me about a bad gateway

My cousin's laptop from 2015 with 50 chrome tabs open will definitely earn more ETH than it costs for electricity </sarcasm>

The entire US physically cannot have one big blackout. There are 3 separate interconnects: East, West, and Texas. There are DC ties which connect them, but even if the tie was left open it's not enough to cascade the blackout.

To your larger point: sure if power was out over large swaths of the US for weeks on end, things would be difficult. But the power outage wouldn't be the problem, the problem would be whoever is causing the power to keep going back out (or the radioactive fallout from a nuclear war in the EMP scenario)

My point is that a blackout won't last 2 weeks unless you've got major structural damage to the electrical system. We had a dang near worst case scenario (of no damage) and it was only 2 days

Also, I present Hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico as hard evidence that when the power is out for 2 weeks the society doesn't descend into violence

In 2003 there was a major blackout that started in Ohio and took out the power grid for most of Ohio east to New York and up into Ontario. Around 55 million people lost power. This is the same as a hypothetical EMP (blackouts without structural damage) because there is no real EMP, just a full on nuclear bomb. Within 2 days the entire grid was back up like nothing happened. No civilization collapsed. This is fear mongering nonsense.

The key point I see in this is that, given the current ecosystem, attacks are systemic. Plus, given the nature of ML training and datasets, it's expensive to bug fix an attack, if it's even possible.

This right here is the real underlying long term danger:

> the most popular CV datasets are so embedded in development cycles around the world as to resemble software more than data; software that often hasn’t been notably updated in years

The field is called Organizational Behavior if you're looking for scholarly info

Base rate effect. Also, those NN's are less accurate than a sticky note that just says "straight"

Read this expecting the AI to be just mechanical turk all the way down, but (spoiler), it was pure vaporware. Nice to read a new angle on the problem!

Oops. My brain parsed that last part as an email signature and I didn't read it. I meant to support the claim that the author describes empathy as a negative.

I wasn't in a military, but just a "basic training" is far more than I ever got at work, so I've always assumed cultural emphasis on training was much higher in military orgs

this comment is getting down voted, but I think it's correct. The author later states:

> "professionalism means being able to knuckle down and shift your mindset into one focused on working, one aimed at achieving an objective or mission success"

Which explicitly removes dealing with "the whole person" from the definition of professionalism. If a co-worker's spouse died last night, the professional thing to do is compartmentalize. This is the opposite of empathy

I'm sorry. What?

> "In basic training, we had to shout everything and repeat every instruction we were given." ... "So that one day, if we’re getting shot at or shelled, we’d repeat instructions we were given clearly so that the message could be passed down the line without the individuals passing it on having to think about it."

The reason for repeating is maybe someday help a dude pass along a shout ... as opposed to confirming the accurate receipt and understanding of the order? Maybe the shout thing is a nice side benefit, but in no way is it the primary reason

The Aibo. Famous for indicating Roast Beef's transition from circumstances to confidence. http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11122004

Robotic masonry is the "faster horses" version of cars. It's everything humans do easily but is nearly impossible for machines

seems like having a discussion like that in front/with management would be a great way to suss out the way management will respond to future differences of opinion. A very valuable thing to know in deciding whether to accept a position

The proposals presented here basically boil down to: You give up your privacy and I promise I won't use my big brother like knowledge of everything about you to force you under my thumb even further.

I've seen this movie before and the deal always gets altered further

Can confirm using "plug" for both male and female ends interchangeably

The scientists used here are poor examples for supporting the authors thesis. Someone like Shakespeare is a far better example to find a Lone Genius because he didn't participate in an accumulative field.

If you're interested in being a business mentor, I recommend looking into SCORE: https://www.score.org/

I say this with all the love and compassion in my heart: have you tried bookmarks?

Not trying to be snide, but having that many tabs open and expecting to ever come back to the same one twice is 100% incomprehensible to me. But, I freely admit, I start trying to pare down when my tabs get narrower than the default width. I've gathered that I'm an anomaly