Depends on what contracting work you are doing. The average web/mobile dev can't charge that much anywhere in the US. Company that I work for itself (an app dev company) does not charge more than $120/hour/dev to their SF clients.
"An always listening device that record all your private conversations, that may or may not have been compromised (or will be compromised) by the private and government entities for surveillance and profit purposes has been the best selling product in the USA (where people refuse to give-up rights to own guns because they don't trust the government)"
I think the main feature of Functional programming is not avoiding side effects but abstraction. You can compose different kinds of powerful abstractions and programmers are free to choose their "language" of abstractions, compared to "X Oriented" languages that forces programmer to think in certain terms and limits in ways you can create layers of abstractions.
So basically it will replace all heuristics/greedy optimization algorithms. I am wondering if ML can come up with better sorting algorithms, or I guess when you can use ML for end strategy of optimization you don't have to sort!
I feel like we need a permanent solution to this so that we don't have to panic and raise awareness every year. If we create a fund to protect Net Neutrality and "out-lobby" the ISPs in Washington would be great. If we just donate 10% of our internet bill every month we can definitely become a force they can't out-lobby without going bankrupt.
I wonder if the gravitation waves stretches the Space-time in such a way that it takes 2 seconds longer for the photons of GRB to travel "on top of it" and reach earth.
No amount of salary will give you clean air and tidy streets. Some people will just prefer that as part of their package. But I guess few months / years of experience won't hurt westerners.
I think innate intelligence/ animal intelligence is developed by evolutionary algorithm. You don't need to do back prop for it. If the network is wrong, the animal just dies.
I think Unsupervised Learning is fundamentally connected with the mission/goal of the AI. Whatever the mission is give to AI, it need to start learning information landscape by itself and make classification and use that knowledge to make predictions and act accordingly to optimized the outcome of the mission its given.
Can't we just have Sales tax only. People who buy more will pay more taxes. You can exempt certain items like food, education, healthcare. Why do we need complicated income tax model?
In the Sales Tax Only model, wealthy investors can invest as much money as they like but they will only be taxed if they liquidate their stocks and buy a fancy car or a yacht. I am trying to understand why we need Income tax at all?
- Quickest way to make more money is to reduce your expenses. See where you are wasting money and optimize for that. Work remotely for the same amount of compensation and move to a place that has very low cost of living/rent etc (even within US).
- Decide how much more you want to make? Is it purely a greed or do you really need that much money. You alway have to pay some cost to increase your income beyond certain point, it could be your time, safety, health. Calculate those factors in. Earning $50k more then if you end up spending that much on health would not be a good idea.
If you see a photo of an object that you have never seen in your life and have no analogy to draw from, it will indeed be very hard for you to accurately guess its volume. However as humans we come across millions of objects to learn from. Same way you can train a neural network to learn from millions of objects and that would enable them to make similar guesses.
If this algorithm manages to be as good as humans in estimating volumes of everyday objects, I can see it being helpful in Self Driving Cars.