Archive for July, 2018
Wealthy Worried About Keeping Control of Their Minions After “The Event”
July 6th, 2018Via: Medium: The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down. This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would […]
U.S.-China Trade War Underway
July 6th, 2018Via: Guardian: A long-threatened trade war between the US and China has got under way after the world’s two largest economies imposed tariffs on each other. The US implemented tariffs on $34bn in Chinese goods, to which Beijing responded with levies on a similar quantity of US imports. Minutes after the US tariffs went into […]
Self-Driving Cars Are Headed Toward an AI Roadblock
July 4th, 2018Via: The Verge: If you believe the CEOs, a fully autonomous car could be only months away. In 2015, Elon Musk predicted a fully autonomous Tesla by 2018; so did Google. Delphi and MobileEye’s Level 4 system is currently slated for 2019, the same year Nutonomy plans to deploy thousands of driverless taxis on the […]
China: 3 Year Old High End Villas
July 2nd, 2018Winston and C-Milk are great. I’ve been watching both of them for about a year. They have both lived in China for over a decade, have Chinese wives and speak the language. Their individual channels are: serpentza laowhy86 Their partnership “Adventure” channel is: advchina Very interesting viewing! Via: Advchina:
More States Opting to ‘Robo-Grade’ Student Essays by Computer
July 2nd, 2018Via: NPR: Department Of Education Deputy Commissioner Jeff Wulfson cited “huge advances in artificial intelligence in the last few years” and cracked, “I asked Alexa whether she thought we’d ever be able to use computers to reliably score tests, and she said absolutely.”
California: The Poverty Capital of the U.S.
July 1st, 2018Via: City Journal: California—not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia—has the highest poverty rate in the United States. According to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure—which accounts for the cost of housing, food, utilities, and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income—nearly one out of four Californians is poor. Given […]
