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Comment Re:That's not AI failure! (Score 4, Informative) 91

No. If you want to avoid false positives, you have to accept false negatives, and conversely. Set the recognition to be "super cautions" and it's going to make mistakes that say "Maybe a gun there". This is literally inevitable.
What's really stupid is that the police looked at the picture of a Doritos bag and a couple of fingers and didn't realize it was a false positive. (Or more likely didn't even bother to look at the evidence before flying off the handle.)

Comment Re:Clueless Journalism (Score 1) 40

The Phoenix was originally a myth of an Egyptian bird, originally named, I believe, in Greek.
The Chinese have their own mythological history, and "phoenix" doesn't exactly map onto it. Saying that the phoenix is the same as the Zhuque is analogous to saying that Jehovah is the same as Zeus...they were/are both storm gods, but they were/are significantly different. (I'm not sure what tense to use in that sentence.)

Comment Re:Alaska has lots of mosquitos (Score 2) 39

FWIW, Iceland has recently had some volcanic activity which ought to have resulted in large areas with warmer than usual rock. I wouldn't be surprised if in some area ponds of water stay melted over the winter (at least at the bottom).

You've got climate, weather, and terrain...and really local micro-climate.

Comment Re:Time to find another distro... (Score 1) 15

*IF* that's correct (I think it's oversimplified) then that's part of why the responsibility must remain on the submitter.

More to the point, when the project receives the code or documentation, it can't tell what process was used to construct the code or documentation. So the responsibility must remain with the submitter.

Comment Re:What is allowed is healthy. (Score 1) 20

"Organic" means there is a specific list of SUBSTANCES that are allowed.

That's exactly what's wrong with USDA Organic and other similar labels. The founders of the Organic gardening movement absolutely did not mean that. Organic farming was envisioned as a cyclical system where human feces returned to fields and soil health and community health supported one another. We kind of, sort of do that with sewage sludge, but it's terrible. Even if you didn't mix in all the various stuff people pour down their drains (which is pretty much everything you can imagine, if it will go down a drain, someone is pouring it there) you'd still have to deal with modern pharmaceuticals, many of which survive intact through both the human body and the sewage processing system.

You cannot successfully reduce a concept like organic farming to a list of approved products and still have it be true to that concept.

Comment Remakes and Revisions bah (Score 1) 17

Perhaps I'm salty because Bethesda just let the world down with announcement of a Fallout 4 rerelease (which is just going to fuck up all the mods and implement a little more eye candy, and fix almost no bugs, if history is any indication) but I'm pretty tired of rehashes of old games. Halo CE also has the problem that a significant percentage of the game is just fucking boring, namely the part where you're going through a maze of twisty passages, all alike. They're not likely to change that part substantially. The rest of the game is great, I'm not a Halo hater and in fact I bought the MCC edition on Steam, but introducing a new generation of gamers to one of the series' greatest misses is a poor substitute for a new title in it.

Comment Re:The reason you don't enjoy work (Score 1) 80

Maybe this is why our supervisors don't have to be shitty to us where I work. We have metrics that make it immediately obvious who's doing what. For example, I just had a performance review, and I meet a month's obligations in a week. So nobody has to ride my ass or count the minutes I spend taking breaks.

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