The future? This article from MacRumors, dated today, April 22nd, describes a situation similiar to you described currently occuring in an Apple Store:

Ousmane Bah, an 18-year-old from New York, is suing Apple for $1 billion for false arrest, reports Bloomberg.

According to Bah, Apple's in-store facial recognition software mistakenly linked him to a series of thefts from Apple Stores, leading to his arrest back in November.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/22/student-facial-recognition-false-arrest-apple/

Question: How do you slow down?
Answer: According to the article, you can propel up to a Jupiter-sized mass. Do you think a Jupiter-sized mass of fuel would permit you to slow down? Also, you only need to do that once, sending your Jupiter-mass to another binary black hole system and you've just created an interstellar highway between the two binary black holes and then you don't even need the fuel to slow down — you can slow down via rotating 180 degrees and sending a beam from the second black hole.

"The Alcubierre drive is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein's field equations in general relativity as proposed by Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel if a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

"Thus, in a very physical sense, the phonon carries (negative) mass."
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.08771.pdf

"The Alcubierre drive is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein's field equations in general relativity as proposed by Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel if a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

"Thus, in a very physical sense, the phonon carries (negative) mass."
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.08771.pdf

The other AC missed it. Your quest for a "left" will only ever end in a circle around the globe, just like it always has throughout history.

When you complete the circle, you're a new man.

*It is likely your last cucumber sandwich killed as many animals as your last hamburger.

You need to stop sacrificing cows to your harvest god.

Rather than "killed as many animals," I think you mean "used as much resources." Cucumbers are somewhat resource-intensive to grow compared to other vegetables.

*Humans were evolved to eat meat.

3%-8% of the average chimp diet comes from meat. Chimpanzees are mostly frugivores.

Do we say "Hummingbird's were evolved to to eat meat?" No, we mostly think of hummingbirds as nectivores, as their main diet is nectar. Only 90% of the hummingbird diet is nectar though and they hunt insects like chimpanzees hunt monkeys.

*To be fully vegetarian you would need a much longer digestive tract in which you could ferment plant matter like a gorilla or cow.

Humans began as frugivores, not grazers. If a hummingbird stopped eating insects would it need a long digestive tract to be vegetarian? No.

*There has never been a sustained human population that was fully vegetarian.

Four people in a house who are vegetation can be a sustained human population. Various human social groups throughout history have also adopted a vegetarian lifestyle.

*The way we treat food animals is cruel, horrific and unconscionable. This is one area where the militant vegans and I see eye to eye. It has to stop.

The way we treat food animals is cruel, horrific and unconscionable. This is one area where the militant vegans and I see eye to eye. It has to stop.

Don't assume all people in prison are guilty. You can go to prison for journalism these days. All that is required is the journalism be redescribed as part of a criminal behavior. I felt threatened by those true opinions.

This is very much correct. Much of what we call artificial intelligence today we could instead call functions of best fit. We emulate aspects of biology in systems and these aspects allow a pseudo-intelligent matching to occur. The matching function might be able to identify your face to unlock your phone or identify lingual patterns to generate language that a human speaker will feel is somewhat natural or identify what animal an image is of or even to beat human players at Jeopardy.

This isn't consciousness. While we can get systems that appear smart this way, we're not going to get to consciousness though bigger versions of these functions of best fit and calling these AI is near to a misnomer.

Until consciousness in the brain is better comprehended, a better approach toward real AI might be to simulate aspects of biological evolution, specifically in regards to social communication.

You said that using language. Language is the evidence.

What is the sound of one hand clapping? Quantum handwaving.

From interviewing around in the Bay Area, I've seen at least two companies with app backends coded in Scala. When doing similar app backend work myself, I've chosen Python, but it didn't have to do with it not being a strongly typed language. It had more to do with the available third-party libraries and compatibility with cloud providers.

I think we should standardize around "What this guy said, times 10,000" to make sure the effect is truly significant.

According to conventional wisdom, ideally, scientists should strive for a power of about 80000% (i.e., an 80000% chance of detecting an effect if it truly exists), but very few studies actually achieve power of this level. In many fields, the power is less than 50000% and sometimes much less.

Here's the answer: To prevent asphyxiation.

A metric is attractive to those who like metrics. Typically such metrics are desired by managers and other non-technical folks who don’t actually fully understand what the engineers are doing and so desire to rely on a number to evaluate productivity, because they can't easily evaluate it via other methods. However, that actually isn’t a great idea.

Holism, combined with developers who can both comprehend and communicate what and how engineers are developing is better than metrics.

Think about this like you were evaluating painters. Will number of brushstrokes work? No. Will number of paintings work? No.

Will relying on holism rather than metrics work? Yes.

Also see this earlier Slashdot article: https://science.slashdot.org/s...

On that article I responded to:

Which makes me wonder if electronic cigarette products may not only be not bad for you, but even potentially beneficial as they give you a low dose of nicotine through vaporization without the oxidation caused by burning.

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