And a douche bag of a president who drops bombs next to schools and kills 135 kids . Should resign on the spot for that.

Look up "human shields", the practice of siting military targets among (or in or under) large collections of non-military civilians, in order to deter strikes against them or produce propaganda claims of atrocities when they're attacked anyhow.

In such situations the fault for the "collateral damage" is assigned to the side that set up the arrangement, not the side that hit it.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the US has been trying very hard to use precision munitions and extreme military intelligence to take out military targets with as little harm to the innocents they're embedded among as possible, with impressive success. Compare the amount of collateral damage in this war to any of those conducted in the 20th century.

He's doing the bare minimum sniff test of verifying that *you* are the guy whose name is on the bookings and not someone sneaking in on someone else's name who can't even pronounce the name on your fake id.

At least in the case of people claiming to be returning citizens I've been told that they're comparing your accent to your claimed residence (or residence history).

Different words are acquired at different ages, and many are pronounced with regional variations. An expert can talk to you for a few minutes and come up with a pretty good age-map of where you lived as you grew up. An agent with a modicum of training can detect a mismatch between how you pronounce certain words and your claimed residence and pass you through quickly or keep you around and drill more deeply. (If you now live in an area with a regional accent wildly different from where you grew up it can help to answer a where-do-you-reside question with "Footown, but I grew up in Barstate".)

I presume they are doing something similar, though no doubt with lower resolution, on the world-wide level for visitors from other countries.

It hasn't been "autocomplete" in a long time. Sure, there's a training step based on a corpus of Human language, and the autoregressive process outputs a single token at a time, but reinforcement learning trains specific behaviors beyond merely completing a sentence.

Besides, the best way to write something indistinguishable from what a Human might write is to, well, "think" like a Human.

No, it's named for Roger Mellie.

Are we, as a sapient species facing an uncertain prospect of continuence in a world full of rapidly-advancing bullshit going to learn from this catastrophic and absurdly predictable failure of information security, personal and professional ethics, civilian government, market economics, basic common sense, and consumer psychology?

Eight-Ball-Based-On-Cursory-Reading-Of-Literally-Any-Slice-of-Human-History says "no".

What do you say, and why is it also "no"?

I don't care about a touchscreen, but if it folded over and took pen input, I'd be a big fan.

> It's like "The People's Car" (the Volkswagen)

Also, TIL that Nazi Germany was Marxist. /s

> If you did K-12 in the USA in public schools, there's a good chance you got your history from a book ("A People's History of the United States")

A good chance? Lol.

A *vanishingly small chance*. It's not approved as a primary textbook anywhere. It's not in the APUSH book list. Etc.

You'll find a few teachers that use it as a primary text, and a few more that use it as a supplementary source. I would wager that the latter group is well under 1%.

We might be hitting noise floors near physical limits, but there's plenty of room for innovation -- interfaces, processing, integration, etc. But little incentive for this to happen with so much concentration in the marketplace.

> And prices remain pretty low,

If you want a 12-ENOB 2.5GSPS DAC, you're paying hundreds of dollars; this isn't *extremely* high end, either. Prices haven't really been falling on the high end for several years.

> Monolithic Power Systems

They don't make any "high-spec" SKUs and it would be quite a lift for them to try to enter this market; they top out at 1 *MSPS* don't they? There's a lot of black magic to make it work.

We also need a SCO Unix version. To go with the statue of Natalie Portman, naked and covered in hot grits

First, we're down in the weeds down here. I replied to someone who said "SF median teacher salaries are between 100k and 150k" and "and that doesn’t even account for benefits", providing a source that shows mid-career teachers make $98k on average *including benefits*. So that was pretty much fail.

> And this doesn’t change the easily verified overall fact that the median teacher salary in virtually every state exceeds the states’ overall median salary

Given that all of the teachers have above-median education, it would be rather extraordinary if this *weren't* true.

On the other hand, teachers have above-median levels of education, too.

> and that doesn’t even account for benefits,

Actually, your source does account for benefits. It says mid-career teachers in San Francisco Unified make $98k in total compensation counting benefits. And, of course, mid-career is not median; a whole lot of teachers wash out of the profession early.

The irony here is -- on a properly designed exam the median student should be getting a 50-60 raw point score out of 100. This is what gives you the greatest statistical power to distinguish student performance. Then, a "C" at 41/100 is not unreasonable and entering it as 0.30 + sqrt(score) * 0.70 in the gradebook makes a lot of sense.

But this doesn't mean taking existing exams where students show mastery at 85-95% and then accepting 41% as a C.

Seen Youtube lately? I just watched a video on how to make nitroglycerin. Stuff like this has been available for over a decade.

Back in the days that home solar systems still mostly used lead-acid batteries - which in some cases of degradation could be repaired, at least partially, if you had some good strong and reasonably pure sulfuric acid - I viewed a YouTube video on how to make it. (From epsom salts by electrolysis using a flowerpot and some carbon rods from old large dry cells).

For months afterward YouTube "suggested" I'd be interested in videos from a bunch of Islamic religious leaders . (This while people were wondering how Islamic Terrorists were using the Internet to recruit among high-school out-group nerds.)

Software - AI and otherwise - often creates unintended consequences. B-)

It's kind of surprising it isn't all squealing nonsense.

Give it a little more time. B-b