The flashing red is the yellow phase. Many even have a timer, to let you know how long the "yellow" is. A young fit person can enter the crosswalk with 5 seconds left and be out before red. Granny, not so much.

If you're approaching the crosswalk too fast to stop if you need to, then you're clearly turning too quickly.

If you're so loaded that you're buying a 50 inch 4k TV and a $500+ graphics card, I'm sure you can shell out $20 for an adapter. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E9...

The summary is pretty misleading.

The crowdfunding project to sequence the black rhino genome is not a prerequisite to their goal of making rhino horns, no. If you click through, it appears to just research that they hope will lead to better understanding of black rhino subspecies:

Whether that last goal is at all realistic... that depends largely on whether they have DNA from the extinct rhinos on hand.

Every so often, I get email intended for some 40+ year-old guy who has [myemailaddress]@yahoo.com (instead of at gmail). Most of it is spam or websites that he's trying to sign up for, but occasionally it's a human being on the other end.

The first time this happened, it was information about his ongoing domestic violence court case (legal documents, copy of police report, etc). I notified them that they had the wrong address, and they proceeded to email me three more times with more information. Eventually I yelled at them enough and they corrected it.

The second time this happened was a few years later - it was some tiny ~20 year old girl who desperately wanted to convince him to get back with her (by sending him nudes). I can't say that I didn't take a little joy in telling her to check out his domestic violence record. I got a really angry email from him a couple days later (subject line: FUCKING IDIOT), so I think she must have heeded my advice (and dodged a bullet).

It was kind of wild.

There's no expectation that an Apple Store app is going to work on Android, or a windows laptop, or a PS3. When I look for Android apps, I check an android app store - I know that the vast majority of what I find will work on my device.

But everyone who visits a website expects that website to render and work for them - there's no segregation between "the apple web" and "the microsoft web" when you're at your computer, it's all just one big pile of sites. Users are aware that sometimes there are browser-specific issues, of course, but trying to load a site that is incompatible with your browser is *much* more frustrating than being unaware of an app that exists for another platform.

Personally, I'm rooting for a Sanders/Warren ticket. It's farther left than might be safe, but I don't think anyone the republicans have are any good this cycle, so I think it could work out.

Is that you, apk?

Exactly - a meritocracy would be great, if it existed. But instead it's a bunch of relatively well-off white guys looking around at their buddies, saying "Yep! We sure are all the best, that's why it's just people like me here. If a group is underrepresented, it's definitely because they're bad at tech - this is a meritocracy, after all!"

It's a self-perpetuating feel-good lie.

Thanks :) It got flipped back to insightful at some point, at least.

It's called an "apology" - did you skip that day in kindergarten?

Woah bud, calm down. You weren't on this development team, were you?

But the people writing the algorithm and choosing the input data *can* be racist. And even in the absence of malice, you can create racist outcomes.

If your training set has many photos of white people and few photos of black people, it's not going to be great at recognizing black people. If it doesn't know what black people look like, it's bound to misclassify them more often than white people.

Anecdotally, I noticed that the Microsoft "how old are you" site a while back recognized me (a white person) in every picture, but only detected my (black) partner in about a third of the pictures I fed it. In one instance, in a screenshot of a video chat, it recognized my little 100x100 picture in the bottom right, but failed to detect my partner's face in the center.

Your real-world performance can only be as good as your test/training data.

There really oughta be a rule banning all these unjustified rules.

See, you'd know that if you'd gone to college.