I had no idea. I’m not even sure whether to call it a failure of us education system. We focus on our own country’s actions, which is probably appropriate, and there is mention of other countries, but we’re left with the impression the slave trade was predominantly us. Not to let our own history off the hook, but it would be better to understand the vast scale of slavery
And child rapist. Even if you want to be pedantic about what qualifies as pedophilia, statutory rape is still rape and some who’s not an adult is still a child.
And if you want to be extra pedantic, it’s worse. Following a response above, one is a mental disorder that can be lived with, whereas the other is taking action, actually sexually assaulting children
Realistically, the Epstein files are less important. They may identify some prominent people as sexual predators but it probably won’t surprise anyone, change any minds, or affect people’s quality of life. While we dhould keep up the pressure, this is not worth shutting down the government for.
ACA, and now SNAP, directly affects the lives and health of our most vulnerable. This is a line in the sand worth drawing. This is worth shutting down the government. This is worth indefinitely shutting it down
Even worse if this is just more games. Making everyone suffer for a year, clearly at the hands of MAGAts, in the hope of cementing votes next year.
The guy should have been arrested anyway. Even the supposed infraction, “she was following me!”, is not something you should be pulling a gun for
My grocery store has started carrying “hot dog pitas”! You can fit so many toppings!
(Or really just a lot of onions and chili)
You could even call it windmilling
Under. So the mustard is less likely to glop onto your shirt
Don’t forget the office vacancy rate in downtown Chicago matches his number. So someone told him there was 28% office vacancy, and someone told him there was a “Magnificent Mile” shopping district, and he conflated it to miracle mile shopping center 28% vacant because crime
I once read some detail about automated x-ray reading where you have similar life or death concerns. But the goal for ai was simply to highlight areas that looked suspicious, and it was still up to a human to read it.
I remember it included statistics that it resulted in both better accuracy and efficiency. More correct in less time.
Obviously there is a human tendency to just go with what was circled, so your process needs to encourage the human to look carefully
I agree. Without disagreeing with how evil some of the people in charge are, this behavior is entirely explained by unreasonable quotas and lack of accountability.
Individual agents struggle to meet an impossible quota, see a huge bonus dangled in front of them, and learn there are no consequences for taking shortcuts. Clearly designed to bring out the worst in people, to reward bad behavior, yet maintain a veneer of plausible deniability by those who intentionally created the situation
Yes, drones should use ai, but just like every other use case the key criteria is where and when. AI should never make a decision to kill someone.
AI is great for navigating, summarizing status, distinguishing targets, deciding when to highlight something of interest for the operator. There’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to tell a drone ai to fly in the vicinity of terrorist base x and notify me when something of interest happens. It should figure out how to get there, figure out how to be discrete, figure out how to avoid attacks/collisions, and maybe coordinate with its buddies for better coverage
I also like the descriptions I’ve seen of “loyal wingman”. If a pilot flies into a combat area, his drone wingmen should be able to keep up, stay stealthy, avoid attacks, and notify on alerts. From the pilots perspective, he should just have more weapons at his disposal without worrying about carrying them all or flying the aircraft that does. …. But the pilot decides, the pilot presses the button, the pilot is accountable
Or if you’re talking personal drones. If I’m some sort of streamer, yes my drone ai ought to be able to keep me in view and try to get some good video while I do whatever I’m doing.
I alternate between saying ai can be useful and I hate it 😁
I’ve found good use for it in coding, writeups, meeting summaries, ticket summaries. It can be genuinely helpful.
The negatives are mostly people not understanding what it’s good for and not. For every hour saved when ai helps with a template or context switch or writing unit tests, I lose ten hours because some idiot just acccepted ai slop as their final output. It’s not just coding, but writing as well. AI can be a great tool to make someone more efficient but it’s only a step (or steps). At the current state it’s almost never the final product, almost never something you can accept as-is. You still have to go over it, fix it, finalize it.
And I’m especially pissed off that my company has a quota for ai use, regardless of appropriateness. wtf is that? Even when I’m working on tasks where ai can’t be helpful, I still need my minimum two ai sessions a day
Here in my part of the US road design is usually decent for protecting pedestrians, and my family has been doing a lot of walking since pandemic.
But now my youngest is in college, and he’s continued the “long walk” tradition. But the town he’s in has no sidewalks outside of campus, has roads without even a shoulder. Now he’s at much higher risk of a moment of inattentiveness by some drunk or texting college kid
But the point of this video is whether the things you have control over make a significant difference.
You can if you just want the results but the value of a video like this is going over the process and the detail, so you know how much to trust it.
We just spend more and more time on our phones. I still charge every night. Each new phone I’ve gotten has had more battery life than the last but I also use the phone constantly, so it’s no more likely to last the day.
This is somewhat masked because my car has fast wireless charging. I just put my phone down and when I get somewhere my battery is topped off
While that seems obvious, I’ll disagree
That’s no longer true. As reporting quality continues to decline and headlines focus more and more on outrage clicks straying further and further from the content, all too many can now be answered with ”n/a”
I bet thats wrong, but I know ….
There’ve been usage changes
On a similar note, that’s something we seem to have lost with the move toward glass food storage. With plastic containers, there were always choices with a little rack at the bottom so something like a said can remain out of its drippings. But I haven’t seen anything similar for glass …. And containers big enough for a head of lettuce are heavy and expensive