Yawn, another article which hand picks success stories. What about the failures? Where's the graph of flying cars? Humanoid house servant robots? 3D TVs? Crypto decentralized banking for everyone? Etc.
Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is shoveling shit in his mouth then smiling brown teeth at the audience. 10 years from now there's a real possibility of "AI" being remembered as that "stuff that almost got to a single 9 reliability but stopped there".
> the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts
That is also possible and even usual with open source. The difference is you can choose the provider for each of those things, they can be different, you are not locked in.
> It feels like we have sometimes accreted an amalgam of these pithy takes based on very small, one off, studies (never replicated) that let us comfortably assemble an affirmation of our broader takes.
The patterns are there and are hard to deny. The reasoning and explanations of these types of books? Don't take them for granted, do your own research if anything is of particular interest, think for yourself, etc. The books can be of value without being 100% correct.
> “It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.”
If we go by the above then Sagrada Familia is far from perfect. I guess it depends on taste but I found it extremely kitschy. The lighted signs inside make me think more of a bar than a church. And I found the actual Barcelona Cathedral beautiful. There's also a pretty heavy discussion if the present thing is what Gaudi intended.
This one is sufficient for me. And I think classifying it as genocide is a big mistake if your goal is protecting the civilians in Gaza. An easily proven wrong accusation overshadows the fact Israel could have taken things more slowly an carefully. Which I think (with little experience or knowledge) they could since the power difference is huge between the sides.
If you watch TheQuantifiedScientist you must have found out by now that optical sensors on the wrist have no chance of ever being accurate enough for health and fitness tracking. No matter how much they massage their algorithms they simply don't have the right sensors at the right positions on the body.
At the same time the fitness features add cost, bulk, the uncomfortable sensor bump and cost battery life. The original Pebble didn't have any of that and in my opinion was better for it. I also see little point in competing with the already existing numerous options for fitness tracking, even if you only look at the ones without a subscription.
I personally hope they stay well away from fitness stuff. I think all those big companies having a go at it for years has sufficiently proved that a wrist device can not be accurate enough at tracking steps, sleep or even heart rate. While GPS is better served by a phone which has a more accurate chip and also the battery to sustain it.
And orienting towards fitness means compromises for size, weight, comfort and battery life. The original Pebble was slim, light, didn't have a sensor bump, wrapped nicely around the wrist.
The intentions are always good but the devil is always in the details. Victorian morality or the Prohibition had perfectly valid concerns but their implementation had serious unintended consequences that arguably made things worse.
It's a all a question of balance. Regarding Victorian prudishness or the Prohibition, I think right now we might have gone too far in the other direction. You can see the damage that alcohol and substances as well as pornography and general promiscuity are doing to society. And there are already growing movements against these things, composed of young people even, see NoFap for example. And of course they try to swing the pendulum too much in the opposite direction. Always out of balance, always overreacting.
There is no recipe to making money so what generally applicable advice can be given is more often what _not_ to do. I find this applies to most areas, from losing weight to romantic relationships. And judging by my anecdotal evidence of people who failed to make money I can find pretty much all the traps listed in there. Many, including me, would have avoided a lot of pain if they would have kept these rules in mind at all times.
Why didn't they ask the "AI" itself to filter the results? Isn't AI going to offer medical and legal advice soon? How will it do such things when it can't tell what is child abuse? Rhetorical question, at least for me.
There's a lot of not very technical consumers who buy based on these kind of numbers. The way the camera pixel count wars used to be. It's an easy fallacy to fall into if you don't understand the tech, to "want the most for my money".
> Wiki Education Foundation Executive Director Frank Schulenburg: "there have been serious concerns expressed about the ROI and ethics of funding grantees not doing any work that has a direct measurable impact on Wikimedia projects"
I think this is the best criticism as it avoids going into politics and addresses the practical issue.
> As the air shrinks in volume (and as you say, speeds up) it goes up in temp.
It does not shrink in volume, it does not compress, it only speeds up so the debit remains the same. If anything it would expand as an effect of the Venturi, because the pressure drops.
> Jaali’s cooling feature relies on the Venturi effect in a similar way to an air conditioning unit. "When air passes through holes, it picks up velocity and penetrates afar. Due to the small apertures, air gets compressed and when released it gets cooler," says Pandya.
When the air passes through the holes, yes, it picks up velocity, but that velocity is lost immediately upon exiting so it can't penetrate further than if the restriction wasn't there. In fact it must lose some energy due to the restrictions so it will penetrate less and you can easily observe this when using a mosquito net in window.
Secondly the air is not compressed through the holes, the pressure actually drops as the speed increases. Unless I completely misunderstand the Venturi effect, in which case please correct me.
The purpose of the lattices is to let in air and light while restricting direct sunlight. That is important enough especially since it's passive, but shades are being used in modern buildings, it's not some lost art, and it is clearly nothing like AC. It's not even like modern ventilation or mobile shades which can let air only during the cool nights.
> Are you going to try to tell me that The Witcher 3 was developed by having everyone work a standard 8 hour day and that the team was given as much time as they felt was needed to produce it?
No, and it showed. Witcher 3 was a success because of previous games. 3 was a dissapointment for a lot of people, they took the Ubisoft formula of repetitive content and diluted the experience until I got bored after about 100 hours.
W3 was a huge financial success but the writing was on the wall and only people who did not pay attention where surprised at Cyperpunk disaster. They tried to force a good game out with W3 and even more so with Cyberbunk. The results where clearly different than W2 which I personally think was their peak - a human curated story pace that left you dreaming for more.
Compare this with GTA games. Rockstar knows you can't rush things nor can you force industry revolutions in AI over night. Slow and steady wins the race. To which company do you think will the investor money go next?
I see no difference in results, only in interface, Duck being even cleaner than Bing, reason why I use it (the privacy part sounds nice but is not actually verifiable)
I find weird to say, but I actually like Bing. It has a LOT less bullshit compared to google. It searches for what I asked it, not about what it thinks I actually want, image search and in general the interface has less dark patterns.
My main SE is duckduckgo, but using Bing out of curiosity I was surprised to say "not bad". Compared to google without adblocker which is just awful.
If you blame gpg for efail you can blame anything really for a virus on one of the endpoints of any form of encryption.
Next you will hold rensponsible tech for social engineering and mandate users should not know their own secrets because that causes vulnerabilities in protocols :p
Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is shoveling shit in his mouth then smiling brown teeth at the audience. 10 years from now there's a real possibility of "AI" being remembered as that "stuff that almost got to a single 9 reliability but stopped there".