Comment Re:Mystical man month (Score 1) 129
But Then in 1975 neural networks were 4 orders of magnitude before birth (see Moore’s law).
Comment Mystical man month (Score 1) 129
Software people are not created equal. As Fred Brocks Stated in “The mythical man month“ the great software creators are an order of magnitude better than
Submission + - Facebook Will Ban Protests That Defy Government 'Guidance' On Distancing (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A Facebook spokesperson told Motherboard over the weekend that the social network would allow protest events as long as they do not fall afoul of government guidance on social distancing, but will ban ones that do. "Unless the government prohibits the event during this time, we allow it to be organized on Facebook," the spokesperson wrote in an email. "For this same reason, events that defy government's guidance on social distance aren't allowed on Facebook. "
According to a Facebook statement to the Washington Post, the company has removed protest events both in New Jersey and California. Facebook typically follows the law in whatever jurisdiction it happens to be operating within, which has led to numerous problems with moderating a global platform, but this has always been subject to change based on the social network's whims and priorities. For example, when the company was found to have violated the law in Canada, it simply said that it did not agree, and nothing happened. Now that Facebook appears to be deferring to government "guidance" during an unparalleled crisis with many fractured viewpoints, coronavirus is becoming yet another quagmire for the company.
According to a Facebook statement to the Washington Post, the company has removed protest events both in New Jersey and California. Facebook typically follows the law in whatever jurisdiction it happens to be operating within, which has led to numerous problems with moderating a global platform, but this has always been subject to change based on the social network's whims and priorities. For example, when the company was found to have violated the law in Canada, it simply said that it did not agree, and nothing happened. Now that Facebook appears to be deferring to government "guidance" during an unparalleled crisis with many fractured viewpoints, coronavirus is becoming yet another quagmire for the company.
Comment Who? Statistics compared for North America (Score 1) 580
USA
Total population (2016) 322,180,000
Gross national income per capita (PPP international $, 2013) 53,960
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2016) 76/81
Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births, 2018) 6
Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years m/f (per 1 000 population, 2016) 142/86
Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2014) 9,403
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP (2014) 17.1
Canada
Total population (2016) 36,290,000
Gross national income per capita (PPP international $, 2013) 42,610
Life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2016) 81/85
Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births, 2018) 5
Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years m/f (per 1 000 population, 2016) 76/49
Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2014) 4,641
Total expenditure on health as % of GDP (2014) 10.4
Latest data available from the Global Health Observatory
Comment Three basic rules. (Score 1) 34
First Law:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Journal Journal: Customers
“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” – Henry Ford
Journal Journal: Stupidity
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
Journal Journal: Conspiracy
Never attribute to malicious mischief what can easily be explained by simple incompetence.
Journal Journal: Voltaire
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
Journal Journal: Quote
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex 389
Velcroman1 writes "NASA has always been tight lipped on the subject of sex in space — which makes people all the more curious. How would it work? Has anyone done it before? Can a child be conceived in zero-G? With few animal tests (and virtually no human testing), there's been next to no scientific analysis of the issue. Until now. The Journal of Cosmology has published a special issue detailing the mission to Mars, which touches all the bases. In a chapter titled Sex on Mars, Dr. Rhawn Joseph from the Brain Research Laboratory in California discusses everything from the social conditions that would push astronauts to have sex to the possibility of the first child being born on another planet. Such an infant would be the first real Martian — at least by nationality, the researcher pointed out. 'On Mars, the light's going to be different, the gravity will be different, it's a completely different atmosphere,' he said. 'So if you put an infant on Mars, they would adapt to varying degrees of the new environment. And after several generations, you'd have a new species,' he said."
Scientists Fight Back In Canada 277
Trufagus writes "The current Canadian government is widely regarded as 'anti-science,' and this year they have stepped up their efforts to undermine scientists and control their contact with the media. But now the federal scientists are fighting back and have just launched their own website. Gary Corbett, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, said, 'If science isn't supported then you're going to find that decisions are going to be made more at the political level,' on Monday as the union launched their website."
Comment Not a car but a flying machine (Score 1) 606
This is a cool idea for getting around.
http://www.tiltplane.com/
Submission + - New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look (oooninja.com) 1
ahziem writes: "With the final release two months away and an alpha version available, it's time to look at OpenOffice.org 3.1's new features: eye candy, better charts, replying to notes in the margin, overlining, macros in Base, RTL improvements for Arabic and Hebrew, and (believe it or not) better sorting. Download and report any bugs you find."
Comment Why voice is bad for Input? (Score 1, Insightful) 268
The reason why voice is such a bad input is not that the recognition programs are so bad but it is in the way the brain works.
I use the same part of my brain to speak the sentence as I do to think about what I am going to say.
Where as with finger (keyboard) input I can think about what should be recorded and let a different part of the brain
control the fingers and let them do it. Like multi tasking the brain.
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