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Coincidentally Ars has an article on setting up your own bit of AI on a Ubuntu PC.
Bob, AI will never sort out bad and lazy management, especially when they are given the authority to sabotage any progress that threatens their own fiefdoms. That can only be improved when someone is put in charge who has a clear vision of the requirements and has both power AND accountability over the final result.
Imo the NHS has been completely screwed over by the Conservative Government’s failures to grasp the nettle of Social Care. It is now too busy trying to drain a swamp of high priority issues and I’m afraid getting systems to interface is way down the list when they are still struggling with XP era computer kit and a dire shortage of staff caused by Brexit.
Actually Bob, one of the hardest challenges is one that HMG have just mandated must be done by any Financial/Government AI and that is proving and explaining the logic used in arriving at an AI’s decision. (very hard when ‘hidden’ factors are used in neural networks). Even then it is difficult to rationalise, for example many of the vaunted object identification programs do not actually see objects but instead find differences in textures – a recent discovery that explains many of the idiot outcomes from such programs.
I would have thought personally that the first rule of investigation might well have been evidence.
If you read the links, you would see that there is too much contradictory evidence. In fact it appears the biggest challenge of the Cyber-criminals is to figure out just how hard they should make it to uncover their spurious evidence. Unlike physical evidence it appears that the world of bits and bytes is fairly easy to manipulate without leaving any traces, and even the potentially traceable origins of the initial foray onto the Internet is an anonymous site(s) hosted by an unfriendly Government and paid for in Bitcoin.
Via Bloomberg I picked up an article on the multi-million pound London based XTX Markets. This is a Trading Company/Market Maker that runs with ZERO Merchant Wankers, and is essentially staffed by a small team of mathematicians and computer programming/AI wonks. They probably have the highest productivity/profitability per head in the City and point to the future of City jobs that AI will gobble up.
Taking it one step further, other than a tiny London marketing office, there really is no need for such a team to be based in London. It could be anywhere nice with a friendly tax regime and a huge Internet pipe.
Perhaps not, but you can have huge numbers of batteries but not many fuel tanks.
Move over to super-capacitor storage and the potential energy stored becomes dangerously large in a very small volume. On their own, the super-capacitor self discharge rate is a problem, but use them combined with regenerative braking on an electric car and this then becomes a very different animal.
I just wish they would take the huge number of restrictions off Formula E then we could see the development value that racing cars bring to the industry.
Hate to be a nay-sayer, but is F1 even relevant in today’s political environment?
At one time it could be argued that it was the bleeding edge of car design — but in today’s world of climate scaremongering, I really wonder. In any case the higher torque of electric cars means that all they need do is fix battery weight/technology to quietly beat the pants off any internal combustion engined car.
Ah COBOL, so many systems are still built on it, and so few people know how to program it that there are still cases of companies having to drag old pharts out of retirement to fix interface problems or help with migrating the programs to an on-line system. Remembering how some of the programmers used to cram data/flags into spare fields with minimal/no documentation the problems are unsurprising!
Hate to say it, but the auto-immune aspects of your troubles seems to have worsened under treatment compared with your first post, and some of the things you are ingesting definitely impact the gut.
Perhaps it may be worthwhile looking at some of the research on the role of the gut biome and autoimmune diseases. This link for example. Although it does not carry any practical advice it is known that soluble bran (for example oat bran) feeds the lower intestine, and insoluble bran (e.g. wheat & others) act as road sweepers and keep the colon healthy. Perhaps adding a dessert spoon of each to your breakfast cereal may over time favour the good guys in your gut over the bad ones. Although worth discussing with your specialist it should not harm you and in the worst case is in line with general medical advice.
Les I bow to your superior knowledge, and I delved into wikipedia images to jog my memory.
As it was a very ‘raw’ 998cc bike without fairings, it was probably the earlier Vincent Black Shadow.The fairings etc would have made him think of a Vespa, so the ‘Knight’ would definitely not have made the ‘macho’ cut, and been too mod-like.
At least I probably got the ‘black’ bit right!
Mate of mine had a really rorty and macho, second-hand Norton Black Knight (around 500lbs weight). One 1960 icy day while kick-starting, he slipped and pulled the bike onto himself. The foot-rest punched right through his calf. Lucky for him his mates could get him out from under, tourniquet his leg and run to a phone-box to dial 999.
Bye-bye the big black beast, hello the much lighter Duc. The one thing he noticed was getting a lot less ‘helpful’ attention from the boys in blue.😉
They probably used a car auction to shift them.
In the past the police were known to use auctions to sell off their old cars, and stuff they had seized. Not sure that is the case now as they make a big play of crushing cars instead. Seems a waste of potential income to me, but there must be good reasons.
December 1, 2019 at 7:07 pm in reply to: HP Warning – we will kill your drive after 32,768 hours of operation, unless – ! #38647Good job I read the article. It prompted me to run CrystalDiskInfo, and one of my larger drives is now in the yellow! I need to see if there is an opportunity to replace it with a larger drive and rationalise some vm storage/backups.
December 1, 2019 at 4:49 pm in reply to: HP Warning – we will kill your drive after 32,768 hours of operation, unless – ! #38644Apologies, I made a complete Ars of myself. The Link goes of course to El Reg and not Ars
. . . the British 1957 horror film Night of the Demon
That brings memories of a sub-16 year-old brazening his way into the cinema with his mates only to spend most of the evening cowering away behind the 1s/9d seats! Iirc that film used a lot of near sub-sonics squeaky violinish sounds heralding the demon, in order to heighten the terror.
However we were not alone in our cowardice as the row of 17-18 year old NS REME squaddies in front of us were equally terrified.
Ta – I was attacking the problem from the wrong end.
Although this is how I’d like my cremation service to end, the start of the song is probably too tough for many over 70s in the congregation, I suspect my survivors will ignore my wishes!
I just hope that ‘details’ Johnson does not kow-tow to Trump over the FAA when surrendering everything to the Yanks.
Despite a catastrophic failure which split open the 777X test aircraft while still within the parameters of the test. The FAA will accept Boeings back of the envelope mods to reinforce the failure places. Boeing will not be asked to do the obvious retest in case it fails. (there can be no other reason!)
Bob, how do you insert a clip such as ‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs’
Every time I try it pulls up an old Bing search then barfs out a WordPress dialog with ‘Potentially Illegal Action detected — naff off, or words to that effect.’
I plan on a cremation – disappearing to the strains of ‘Tom Lehrer’s We’ll all go together when we go’
<video controls=”controls” width=”600″ height=”300″>
<source src=”https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tom+lehrer+wel+all+go+together&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dtom%2blehrer%2bwel%2ball%2bgo%2btogether&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=A5DE952FEEEAE46B7D3DA5DE952FEEEAE46B7D3D&FORM=WRVORC” /></video>I should have given the link, but basically you need to be under the care of a Doctor for the last two weeks of the illness he/she certifies kills you, to have a chance of avoiding an Inquest.
It cannot otherwise be avoided, and the Coroner sets the requirement.
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