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This is amazing. I've been thinking about doing something similar with one of the old Lubitel's I have laying around. Something simpler, twin lense of Lubitel allows me to bypass the whole screen thing which should make the entire build pretty straightforward due to having a lot of space just for a RPI, power and lense.

I probably won't get to building it, though, but this was a very interesting read nonetheless.
I guess it depends on how many places you navigate to and how important you think recalling each route (from memory) is. slow is good unless you have to prioritize what to remember I think...
In my experience, Sandisk have a much better warranty policy than the other cards that have failed on me. RMAs get approved, UPS prepaid sticker for return, and replacement sent by UPS (in Europe, at least). The failure rate of their cards doesn't seem different than others I've used.
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USB flash drives are the modern floppies really. You can get one with a few GBs for literally pennies to the point where you can even get some "promotional" flash drives for free, similar to how in the past people gave out "promotional" (writing) pens for free. On the high end side you can have flash drives with as high as 2TB of storage (though the only one i've found is a bit bulky and the more regular sized one has "only" 1TB of storage).

No satisfying chunk sound though :-P.
customs should be dealing with this, not fedex
> Essentially there's a class of programs that are performance sensitive, but also dev time sensitive. How do you choose between the set above? (The answer, if there is one, is probably Python, and then optimize the hotspots, but lets pretend we can indulge).

Only if you don't believe other languages can be more productive than Python. IME an ML-like language with type inference and good development tools will be faster to work with than Python, at least as soon as you have to edit code (for a script short enough that you can write it out and expect to be correct first time Python might still win).

I regard the ML featureset as table stakes for a language these days; while most languages (all serious languages?) have first-class functions, proper sum types are so useful that I don't want to use a language without them. That cuts the list of possibilities down quite a lot: in terms of having enough maturity/popularity for production use it probably comes down to OCaml (which becomes the default option by seniority), Haskell, F#, Scala, Rust, Swift, or Kotlin. D or Nim just don't offer anything compelling that's worth giving up sum types for, and while Swift or Kotlin can more or less equal OCaml they don't offer a compelling advantage.

Any of OCaml/Haskell/F#/Scala/Rust is a defensible choice. Haskell and Scala offer higher-kinded types, which are immensely useful once you get used to them. F# and Scala offer decent IDEs/tooling in a way that the others mostly don't. Rust offers a limited form of linear typing, but as a special case built into the language rather than as functionality emerging from a general type system; you can achieve a similar level of resource safety with a rank-2 type trick (famously used in ST) in a language that supports those (i.e. Haskell or Scala).

I use Scala for everything these days. Better-than-Python dev time, better-than-Rust type system, Nim/Java/C#/Go/D/Kotlin-like performance, and first-class Java interop (which I consider better than C/C++ interop, because using C/C++ interop makes your whole program memory-unsafe). Bonus of a compile-to-JS implementation that just works with the same code that you can run in your IDE.
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Dubiously claiming "I" have worked for many humans in many walks of life, I don't see dubiously claiming "AI" as much different!

A key problem is that AI is a very wide and vague concept.

What she might have is a simple "expert system", which a lot of systems called AI in the 80s were and many today probably are too, monitoring the inputs, and she may have programmed that initially in its knowledge acquisition phase with the aid of a machine learning arrangement. That would qualify as "using AI" depending on which interpretation of "AI" you are working by. An expert system can be called a rudimentary AI, and could be implemented as simple combinatorial logic if new learning during operation is not needed.
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Making students sit for hours in lectures still seems the most practical and efficient way to ensure they spend enough of their time learning something.

Expecting them to prepare the theory beforehand has not proven to be that practical. Lecturers who try this quickly learn to adjust their expectations downward, in my experience. And even then a lot of the "class" will be quite underprepared.
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"actually having to explain what I learned to my classmates/peers"

isn't that what well typed/formatted notes should. unless your explanation always involve a bunch of bak-and-forth?
Aside from the obvious horror stories circulating about customer service and culture, I don't see Revolut's offering as more compelling at all. They seem to offer all that stuff that I don't want from a retail banking service – "instant access to 5 cryptocurrencies" or "overseas medical insurance" or "LoungeKey Pass access" are just distracting noise. Each to their own of course, but the thing that really attracted me to Monzo was the simplicity. I'm already nervous about the introduction of the "plus" offering.
Couldn’t agree more. All these delusional discussions: Is it intelligence? Is it true intelligence? How far is it to become true...? Skynet rising?

To be fair: The last question is certainly adequate regarding the application of unverified/-able algorithms in a life-changing incarnation as a virtually unsupervised decision making quality. This is horrible. But it is another question (and better answered skipping the pseudo-philosphical part)
I always liked the Collection object in VB but for large number of items access by index was very slow. And Scripting.Dictionary couldn't access by index. So I wrote "DictCollection", a mix of Collection and Dictionary that can emulate both. With sorting, filtering, subcollection nesting, .Copy(), .Clone(), .ToArray(), .ToTable() and lots of String/Array manipulation functions. It's a universal data structure just like the JavaScript object or LUA table. It can act as a list/array, a key-value-store or an object tree. Take a look here https://github.com/karstenheld3/WhizzyVBA
That bans fixed fees - (e.g. you get charged £1 a day when in overdraft)

Monzo has never had fixed overdraft fees, and can still charge a daily % interest rate as usual

Overdraft fees are also not their "one source of income"
C will outlive those languages as long as we keep POSIX and UNIX clones alive, that is all.
> So don't do that?

I didn't switch wholesale because I'm not fully convinced. I feel these new banks and bank-like offers will for some time search for a right fit and may change or disappear in the next few years.

Also, no-fees-abroad is a great feature, but perhaps not the 10x to spur (my) wholesale adoption.

Maybe I'm just not an early adopter (although I use them abroad, so in a way, I am).
I think it uploads the code for example to AWS and then that code can be executed as a lambda function. Why would anyone need that is another question.
Meh, don't worry about it. It's a mass produced consumer device, not a previously undiscovered dead sea scroll or something. You've done an amazing job of updating it while maintaining functionality and aesthetics. I think this project is very tastefully and sympathetically done. I really enjoyed the write-up too.
I suppose it's a lot like jay walking. Some people will care enough to observe the law and others will not. In reality, the problem only arises if you record something (say a lecture) and share it publicly and it exposes an individual whose identity is otherwise protected.

My experience has been, as someone that observes the law, I've been denied the opportunity to audio-record a lecture. In this instance, the person in question did not object but the professor did - stating that there was an individual that could be affected. Granted, it doesn't really make a difference if I use it for my own personal use but since everything is hosted in the cloud these days...
How is it similar?
VCG seems to be about time varying topologies for animation.
Ludigraphix seems to be about hierarchical relationships between geometries with a fixed topology.

Apart from both using curves to represent geometry I don't really see any overlap in features or application/target users.

Maybe I'm missing something?
Your example isn't quite as it seems : "trains" (cars running on rails) were used in mining for hundreds of years prior. The steam engine was first documented in 1698. What happened in 1804 was someone figured out the manufacturing processes to make a steam engine light enough and powerful enough to usefully pull a train of cars over some reasonable distance.
Customer support. It's absolutely light years ahead of HSBC etc
I agree. Extracting meaning is NOT a math problem, meaning comes from the human context and context is infinite. Hence different humans extract different meanings.

I think AI and ML are great for processing large amounts of data and looking for patterns. Patterns on their own don't mean anything though, it's always up to us to interpret them.
I imagine they are doing a sort of soft launch. It sounds like Monzo has lots of features lined upcoming in the future. The die-hard Monzo fans will all sign up (and will give good feedback).

A soft launch is a better idea compared to other companies launching new premium products, like the CityMapper Travel Pass, which is more like an Alpha than anything, and there have been lots of issues from the get-go.
There are likely more patients than doctors, so the inference is statistically correct.
yes, surely packages should go through customs before entering a country? these checks should be performed by govt. not private companies
> Also, the purpose of any funding program is complete the moment that a politician steps up to a TV camera to accept credit for creating it. Anything that happens after that is pointless/just a bonus.

This is the mechanism by which many decisions are made, be it in the government or in the Fortune 500 corporations.

I wish the theory and case studies of this mechanism were taught in high school or at least in college.
Oh God. Playing the game with browser tabs where after 30 or so you start getting casual. Then one comes up you need and you know you closed it but no other details.

Man life is crazy.
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> b) Another partial solution could be to build shredder ships

Shredding the nets? Wouldn't this just make it a microplastics issue?
Don't worry, there will be a lot of profit to be had, the environment doesn't matter.
What you call UBEC is just a switch mode DC-DC buck converter. They are used everywhere in electronics, and you could probably save money buying general puprose 5V buck converter modules instead of modules made specifically for RC.
Anyway, that's very interesting info about supply voltage affecting Raspberry Pi speed and timekeeping, thanks!
Wait, what? Priority order on a device or the station?
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I see your point, and it's indeed valid : I do remember a tesla crash where the autopilot simply followed an old line on the road instead of the regular one, thinking all was fine until it hit a column, killing the passenger.

But in this specific case of snow, I think this could be handled in a decent way by AI, as I would not expect snow conditions to be too hard to detect. Even something like "grip is not good enough for autopilot/snow detected on/around the road, stop on the side or slow down to the point of being impossible to have a fatal car crash until driver takes over" would be good enough.
A system that can serve as archive, mathematician, calculator, can move a robot, drive a car and additionally make coffee from scratch. Oh and talks (speaks and understands and acts upon orders) in 3 human languages at decent levels plus can roughly explain what it's doing. Oh and can learn more unrelated skills.

I'm a bit unclear if this is supposed to be a definition of intelligence.

Stephen Hawking would fail this test, but no one would argue he isn't intelligent.
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It seems that holding an account registered since 2013 makes you proud enough to say ironic words about new accounts. We are not native English speakers but try to make our opinions heard ANYWHERE the article and the ridiculous conclusion mentioned.

By the way, how do u know we have not sent emails to Science Magazine and yelled at them?
God yes. Android was my first big experience with this issue, and it was like my first time working with a big name modern library.

The community was brutal. At least felt that way. Every other question met with snark and "wHy dOnT yoU rEaD documentation???"

I get that with aws too. It's like you aren't following it cuz it's trash.
So can I call it "second year linear algebra" now instead of "AI"?
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Can be nice for games, QUIC and DNSCrypt.
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No. But, as the parent post said, we don't always know why a human driver chose to act a certain way either. So that shouldn't be a blocker.
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It's easy to copy formulas from a blackboard without mentally processing them.
I can see advertisment very clearly on Instagram. The product is always conveniently placed in a way so you can clearly see it on photo.

The coffee photo in the article is a complete overkill, one must be an idiot to not realise it's an advertisment.
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Revolut offers lower ATM fees, lower foreign exchange fees, disposable virtual cards for online payments, and up to 1% cashback on all card payments.
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> Thinking about it, it's quite likely that this has already been done,

OpenNIC
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Bingo.

The fact that I can see all my transactions, automatically categorised, in an app that is much prettier, full-featured and simple than the crap that Halifax put out, is brilliant.

Combine that with a simple setup process, never having to interact with humans or call centres, and add tha bility to automatically save, interact with IFTTT etc and you have a very compelling package and I hope they continue to do well
Its savings products are other peoples, they are just a reseller. And the only insurance I've seen is travel insurance as part of a packaged bank account. Or did I miss something?
That's also a fair point - the idea of a bank account has been muddied. Monzo had "pots" which all gain interest, and they come from the same account. I'm not aware of any other bank accounts that offer embedded savings accounts.

I do think that comparing a bank account to a prepaid card is a little too much of a stretch thoigh.
What is intolerant is the existence of concentration camps, and people who support those concentration camps.
Just curious, what kind of firewalls are you running?
If we start calling sorting algorithms artifical intelligence, then the term losses its last bit of meaning and becomes synonymous with algorithm.
Among other things, I use it for a cycle-exact emulation of the Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive:

Firmware:
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Hardware:
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I can highly recommend the "Wemos D1 Mini" for starting with ESP8266 as it's tiny, cheap but can be plugged in to a PC to be programmed over USB and has pin headers and readily available shields for getting started quickly. I have one in each room of the house reporting back temperature\humidity to the pi that controls the central heating :-)
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Building an automated financial planning app targeting those early in their careers and underserved by traditional financial advisors (<£100k assets).

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Looking for another technical co-founder, ideally with FinTech background and experience with Open Banking API's.

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> This is in Montréal
Official language is french. So Bus 55 is coming in 5 mins!
Imho it has gone further. In a way, all the things described as not actually AI now "are" AI, because the term AI has been used in that way so many times.

I don't think we'll ever use a better (more accurate) term for the ML- and data-driven value current systems create. Instead "true" AI will get a new fancy name to build the next hype around in several year.
That's larger than mine. Sizes are getting smaller. Can't comment for the rest of Europe but the UK has quite a bad homeless problem, it's very visible at the moment. Rents are prohibitively high, and getting onto the housing ladder is very difficult. Small houses - even semi-detached bungalows around our way are at least £300k (edit: oops missed a 0 originally!). The housing stock is shockingly bad in the UK, and very expensive.
> Making students sit for hours in lectures still seems the most practical and efficient way to ensure they spend enough of their time learning something.

I don't believe the onus is on the educational institute to ensure that students learn anything when it comes to higher education.

The student is paying tuition or taking a student loan to be there, I think it should be reasonable to expect them to exercise their own responsibility and learn the source-material.

The fact that they do not might be indicative that they should be studying something else, and catering to them only exascerbates the issue rather than leading to a Darwinian solution.
How cool are you! Great idea.
As a developer, they probably had inferred his profession correctly from his search history.
A decent C++ compiler will also inline the sorting for something like:

constexpr size_t N = 3;
void sort_N(std::array<int, N> a){
std::sort(std::begin(a), std::end(a));
}

but I haven't checked if it does the same with qsort. But I agree with your larger point; I find the efficiency claims for C++ frequently overblown and the compile time burden substantial (OTOH it's still very hard, but slightly easier to write robust code in C++ compared to C).
Rudimentry machine learning algorithms are indeed AI, by common usage.

Try typing into Google Images something like "ai machine learning deep learning venn diagram" and you'll see that by common usage, machine learning is a strict subset of AI.
> There is little room for the application of machine learning

You see people trying to shoehorn ML into many such system though, and there is money in it, which is why people are chasing it to have it on their CVs.

Like the noSQL hype of a some years ago it'll settle down and people will gravitate back more towards the right tool for the job (which will sometimes be ML based, but often not, just as "noSQL" is sometimes the right tool or right enough). ML will survive where it is the best tool for the job, or at least where it can be genuinely useful and not significantly sub-optimal.

> our problems are CRUD at modest scale.

I see some of our client base looking into ML and "Big Data", and I despair a little because they often fail badly at getting "little data" correct. It is actually part of the sales pitch for ML: let the AI filter out the crap in your inputs and give you something approximating a decent answer as output. They'd be much better served working on fixing the data sources or using more traditional cleansing methods, but that seems like harder work compared to the new magic some consultant is extolling. ML isn't a magic bullet, but it is currently being sold as one.
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I'm not sure the claim is that consciousness doesn't exist. More that it is an emergent property of complex systems rather than something that is (or can be) deliberately programmed.
You're falsely equating the voters and the supporters.
I use Barclays. I have a USD account that I can't see, but all the operators can see. Really quite frustrating.
What are the tax implications of holding digital assets?
That's slightly smaller than ours probably all in all. But I've seen smaller, like the one up, one down back to backs in Leeds/Woodhouse and many modern flats apartments, are just broom cupboards - but then you look at down town Japan and this feels palacial.
> plastic is actually mostly just an aesthetic issue.

It's like saying burning oil is mostly bad because of the visual aspect of smog. It's not.

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> wants to allow everyone to be able to sell their compute power

> corporations to make super-DRM on your computer

Well, who else are you going to sell it to? This is the sort of thing that I used to think was cool but now am merely weary of; combining the "everything is a leasable asset" view of Uber and AirBnB with the "don't look at the electricity costs" view of bitcoin. It's going to end up with idle televisions crunching the personal data of unrelated people in order to pay the TV manufacturer some penny shavings.
>Does GDPR apply to this sort of data?

The GDPR applies to any information about an identified or identifiable natural person.

So, in a word, yes.

However: Data ownership is a red herring. It doesn't matter who owns what data, what matters is if they have the legal authority to process that data.
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