I agree with you. Vulgarity is justified despite what this place has to say about it.
This is something I also noticed about these articles. Some of them not even mention the name of the person, and most of them go into details about self driving cars and stuff. Also most people here..Of course people die everyday. But when you are talking about a specific incident, please don't treat the person involved as if they were just an inanimate object...
I think what happened is that the lady saw the car, and started crossing any way in expectation that the car ll slow down, as a human driver would have. But the car didn't and hit her at full force..
>Although it's comforting that this exact situation shouldn't happen again in an Uber autonomous car.
Let me ask something. Did it take a human life to show that "a pedestrian crossing unexpectedly" is a probably thing to happen while driving? I mean, seriously?
Maybe they have trained the cars for this, but this particular incidence was just different enough, which means that your initial implication will not hold ie "Although it's comforting that this exact situation shouldn't happen again in an Uber autonomous car" given that no two situations are exactly the same, and it won't apply even for similar situations...
A human being would have honked the horn while driving past something behind which someone can appear suddenly..But I doubt you can add those kinds of logic into a machine learning system...
>Typically, at first everyone assumes I'm an idiot.
Idk man..Humble bragging aside, If every one thinks of you as an Idiot, How did you get the job in the first place then?
Also, how do you infer other peoples perceptions? If at first everyone think of you as an Idiot, how do you get to work on hard problems?
I think you are reading too much into what others are thinking of you. Probably, not every one works with you gives a shit about your "level"...
>5. The UK had a single dose measles vaccine program since 1967. The
single rubella and mumps vaccines became available in the early seventies.
The MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988. When parents started requesting
the monovalent vaccines in increasing numbers, the DOH decided in August
1998 to withdraw their license. Those who could afford it crossed the
Channel to get their children vaccinated or purchased the single vaccines
at private clinics.
>measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, linked, by a sketchy and quickly refuted study, to autism. The supposed connection made a bigger impression than the refutation, and, while I didn’t actually know anyone who failed to get their children immunized for MMR, plenty of parents did refuse the shot;
According to Andrew Wakefield, what he suggested was just that people use single, separate shots instead of the cocktail MMR vaccine. And then people started switching to single shots and sale of MMR dropped, which made the government (or someone forced them as he says) stopping the import of single vaccines and thereby depriving people of that option...According to him, then and only then did the vaccination rates dropped.
>We already accept the impact of millions a year dying as a result of industrial pollution...
We accept them because the mainstream narrative does not make a big issue of it. On the other side, we make a big deal when there is a measles death, calling for death of anti-vaxxers, because the mainstream narrative suggests so...
In other words, the public, including the people here. is a bunch of morons who won't jump away from the path of a slow moving road roller, unless the mainstream narrative tells us to do so...
As for who decides the main stream narrative, I would say the ones with the most resources...
This is a commonly touted statistics. But it is like saying banning a Car of type 'X' will save Y lives because for the past few years Y lives were lost in accidents involving car X.
Sadly it is so easy to fool people into falling for this and turn them to ardent vaccine supporters.
A vaccines does not prevent death. It just, if it works, prevents the incidence of a single disease. Try to see the difference. If 5000 kids were dying of Measles, introducing a Measles vaccine will not save 5000 lives. It just prevents incidence of Measles. Kids with poor health/immune system will still be dying. But they won't show up in measles statistics, showcasing a huge win for the vaccine.
If you look at the Mortality rate of kids, you won't find any drastic drop in MR corresponding to the introduction of any vaccine...But you ll find drop in disease incidence..But as I described it, I think it is quite meaning less..
btw. I was not starting a debate on if vaccines are actually saving lives. What I was asking was the validness of the claim that vaccines (yes people, eh..I mean doctors say "vaccines", instead of specifying any single one, for some reason generalizing all vaccines to be similar) are safe. And since vaccinations are done to every single child, what if we might be again subtly damaging generations of children..
This is something I also noticed about these articles. Some of them not even mention the name of the person, and most of them go into details about self driving cars and stuff. Also most people here..Of course people die everyday. But when you are talking about a specific incident, please don't treat the person involved as if they were just an inanimate object...