Re: Hey...
'Special relationship' or SpeshRel 1.
(In the artist's impression it does look a little like one aircraft is being mounted by another.)
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'the highest [performing] deploy only 46 times more often than the lowest ... They also deploy code less frequently than the bottom rung'.
I'll save that for my next performance review. 'I may be making mistakes more often, but they're less frequent.'
I maybe have different fingers because I find the iPhone 6 Plus fingerprint sensor a pain. I usually have to try two or three times before it lets me in, and often it activates voice control instead.
In my experience the rear-mounted scanner on a Google Nexus is better placed and works much more reliably.
That's the issue. Did doctors rely on the AI's diagnosis to provide treatment?
Test data is no good without an outcome: you feed in 1.6m sets of symptoms, 1.6m treatment regimes and 1.6m outcomes (eg died, got better etc). The AI learns what treatments work best for a given set of symptoms. The hope is that eventually it can give a better diagnosis than a human.
So how do we get from this to Google's AI being used to treat real people? If Google simply flagged anomalous results for clinicians to follow up, that seems fine. As Mark 110 says above, they would presumably rather know. But clearly the project has greatly exceeded its original scope if the still under-development AI was blindly used to direct treatment, either for patients in the initial data set or others.
Except they don't need to be big all the time. At rush hour, yes. In the middle of the day, not so much. One of the dispiriting things about travelling in central London is seeing all the near-empty buses clogging the roads.
So ... expandable buses. Some sort of concertina section, but not like the bendy buses - something that can be fixed in an expanded or contracted configuration. Or inflatable modules, maybe. I'm only half joking here: I'm sure someone ingenious could come up with something that might work.
You don't have to click through to a fake news story to be influenced by it. We're more subconsciously susceptible than we think. Don't discount the cumulative effect of half-forgotten headlines.
After skimming my favourite news sites at breakfast I usually consider myself updated on quite a few current events just from having read the home page.
Comp-sci majors will learn enough other things to avoid being spoiled by this. The hope is that it could tempt people from other disciplines.
The big advantage of JavaScript is its low cost of entry. Notepad and a browser? You're ready to program. It's so straightforward to start that students who are mainly interested in another subject might give it a go.
The result could be that graduates in, say, literature, philosophy and economics leave university with at least some understanding of programming in addition to their other skills. Contrast this with the situation in the UK where the Classics and history graduates who run the country seem to think that any kind of technical knowledge is best avoided in case it somehow dirties their minds.
As has been pointed out above, fresh juice can be healthy and tasty.
I regularly throw a few handfuls of fruit and veg into the juicer and fondly imagine it's doing me some good. But how much? I can see some value in an app which could immediately tell me something like, 'You've just had 50% of your RDA of vitamin D - why not have some carrots? But you're at 100% for vitamin C: well done you.'
Next up: an augmented reality app that surrounds me with a dazzling Ready Brek glow.
And I might be prepared to share my consumption stats with a health insurer in return for reduced premiums. Although they'd have no way of knowing I wasn't following my kale smoothie with half a dozen deep-fried Mars bars and a bottle of Scotch.
Maybe I'm just getting squeamish, but I can't believe that what's holding us back from conquering the solar system is the fact that we don't know what'll happen if someone breaks their leg half way to Mars.
And I'm sure there would have been some actual people with broken limbs who would have liked a free trip into space. The euthanising might have been a bit of a harder sell, mind.
This is a blatant attempt at protectionism. The driver knows where you want to go because you entered your destination when you booked. If you want to freestyle/change your mind/get emergency medical help then don't book an Uber in the first place.
The arguments made on safety grounds are totally spurious and could apply equally in many other situations that have nothing to do with hiring transport. The fact that the hapless but unharmed Aaron Wray is the best example the Sun could come up with indicates that it's unlikely passenger safety is being compromised.
I feel like I've stumbled into an episode of the Radio 4 panel game where contestants have to spot the five truths hidden among the lies. All that's missing is Henning Wehn claiming that 'der iPhone vas invented by Jesus', whereupon Stephen Fry buzzes and David Mitchell says sarcastically, 'So you think the iPhone was invented by Jesus ... well you're absolutely right.'
The word 'craft' has essentially become meaningless in this context. It can be applied to anything: craft muesli; craft knitting.
As a craft programmer I offer hand-coded, artisanal if-blocks and for-loops that are only marginally more expensive than their mass-produced counterparts.
Use Java. Call them lambda functions. It's an even less meaningful name, so at least you don't make any assumptions about what they're supposed to do. Which is, er, let me get back to you on that.
"the link between a reduction in inflammation and caffeine is not causal"
Yes, I got a bit confused by that. I think it means the research doesn't prove that caffeine causes a reduction in inflammation, but it does show a correlation between caffeine consumption and longevity. Since inflammation impedes longevity it may be that caffeine is reducing the inflammation.
Sounds like more research is required. In the meantime - put the kettle on, mine's a doppio.