How many AI:s do you need to have in a company to keep them fully occupied by only sending pointless messages to each other? If I remember correctly, the number of humans is 200.
Posts by Petalium
68 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Aug 2011
'AI divide' across the US leaves economists concerned
China – which surveils everyone everywhere – floats facial recognition rules
China succeeds where Elon Musk has failed with first methalox rocket
Astroscale wants to be the world's friendly neighborhood space garbage collector
BT is ditching workers faster than your internet connection with 55,000 for chop by 2030
EU passes world's first regulatory framework for cryptocurrency
Wednesday 17th May 2023 13:41 GMT
The money laundering excuse again, the only thing it accomplishes is the to make it harder to move legal money around.
I recently moved 300k euros from an Asian country to a European country, legal , taxed money. One of the banks where I’ve been a customer for 50 years flat out refused to do it, didn’t even wanted to tell me what their requirements to allow is. My other bank required a lot of paperwork including a personal letter from the manager of my Asian bank, with a verified translation and the complete transaction history. I bet if I was a billionaire drug runner it would have been much easier…
Astronomers say they've seen the largest explosion yet – and we just had to talk to them
Florida folks dragged out of bed by false emergency texts
Saturday 22nd April 2023 01:46 GMT
First time I lived through an alert was 3 in the morning: A very loud siren in the apartment followed by a recorded message through a speaker in the apartment. The message was in Chinese, I had no idea there was a speaker inside my home and I don't speak Chinese.... It however became apparent what was happening a few seconds later when the bed started shaking.
Exactly what I should do with a four second warning when I live on the 11th floor remains unclear, wake up and kiss your ass goodbye?
Pentagon advised to get agile if it wants to keep up with evolving threats
Cardboard drones running open source flight software take off in Ukraine and beyond
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word
DigitalOcean waves goodbye to 11 percent of staff
Musk says he ain't going anywhere as Twitter CEO until at least late 2023
Chinese surveillance balloon over US causes fearful gasbagging
China unveils massive blockchain cluster running homebrew tech
Meta axes two Danish datacenters amid shift to AI infrastructure
NASA's Orion Moon capsule to splash down this Sunday
Sunday 11th December 2022 03:51 GMT
Is the Reg making a subtle joke with the unit conversions ? Or have they hired a liberal arts student to write this?
I especially like the “ Slowing down from km/s to m/s” forcing me to some math in my head to get the scale right.
I’m on vacation damn it, yes that’s my brain floating in the gin and tonic, please don’t take it away my dear waiter.
Google's Dart language soon won't take null for an answer
Sunday 11th December 2022 03:38 GMT
Re: NULL is just the pointer analog to NaN
That’s a problem with the language you are using, not the DB. If you don’t want nulls reaching your code it’s trivial to write your queries so they don’t return null.
And in real implementations there will always be data that is unknown, hence Null, how else would you distinguish between a real value and an unknown value? Using some “placeholder” value like -1 for integers? What if your integer can be negative? For strings?
You would have to make assumptions about what value will be stored and handle them individually for each field, and that, imho, is more error prone than a consistent handling of null values.
Microsoft: Whoops, Patch Tuesday might screw your database connections
TSMC triples spending on Arizona advanced chip site with extra 3nm fab
Thursday 8th December 2022 09:07 GMT
That was in the local elections and they are all about local issues, the current president made a big tactical error and tried to make it about international politics. KMT may want to reunite with mainland China, but they most certainly don’t want to do it on Xi:s terms ( and they mostly want to hang the communists in the nearest lamp post)
China reminds world shock and ore can hurt tech supply chains
Friday 4th November 2022 11:43 GMT
Re: An interesting game of tug-of-war has started
There is no lack of rare earth material in the rest of the world, it's just cheaper to buy it from China. China has been dumping the prices (and polluted the environment https://hir.harvard.edu/not-so-green-technology-the-complicated-legacy-of-rare-earth-mining/ ) making it unprofitable to mine and refine it in the rest of the world. Worstall wrote about it in a column in this very publication https://www.theregister.com/2015/09/02/western_worlds_only_rare_earth_mine_closes/
Microsoft highlights 'productivity paranoia' in remote work research
GitHub's AI code assistant Copilot takes flight. And that'll be $10 a month, please
China details relocation plan for up to five million datacenter racks
New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage
RAF shoots down 'terrorist drone' over US-owned special ops base in Syria
UK Space Agency wants primary school kids to design a logo for first Brit launches
Computacenter, one of Europe's largest resellers, struggling with data centre kit, up to 6-month lead times
Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount
Ever wondered how much data web giants generate? Singaporean super-app Grab says 40TB a day
Funny how Sir Tim Berners-Lee, famous for hyperlinks, is into NFTs, glorified hyperlinks
ZFS co-creator boots 'slave' out of OpenZFS codebase, says 'casual use' of term is 'unnecessary reference to a painful experience'
It's time to track people's smartphones to ensure they self-isolate during this global pandemic, says WHO boffin
This AI is full of holes: Brit council fixes thousands of road cracks spotted by algorithm using sat snaps
Cisc-o-no! 'We’re being uninvited to bid' on China deals admits CEO as Middle Kingdom snub freaks out investors
Humans may be able to live on Mars within halls of aerogel – a wonder material that can trap heat and block radiation
Facebook's new always-listening home appliance kit Portal doesn't do Facebook
NASA's Kepler telescope is sent back to sleep as scientists preserve fuel for the next data dump
How do some of the best AI algorithms perform on real robots? Not well, it turns out
Click this link and you can get The Register banned in China
Experts build AI joke machine that's about as funny as an Adam Sandler movie (that bad)
Birds can feel Earth's magnetic fields? Yeah, that might fly. Bioboffins find vital sense proteins
Shaking up the Nad Men: Microsoft splits up into 'cloud' and 'edge'
Apple 'wellness' unit launched for staff: The genius will see you now
Happy 4th of July: Norks tests another missile
CERN boffins see strange ... oh, wait, that's just New Zealand moving 2m north
Microsoft patent filing confirms existence of 3D Jedi gesture phone
Net neutrality-lovin' Sweden mulls law to censor the internet
Saturday 23rd January 2016 08:23 GMT
Advertising on television was forbidden so when satellite broadcasting was becoming mainstream, companies set up shop abroad in order to send adverts to the Swedish public.
Gambling is heavily regulated and almost a monopoly for the government. If I remember correctly only half of the income is returned to the gambling audience as winnings, so quite a substantial margin.
There is of cause quite a substantial number of politicians that is convinced that gambling is bad for the populace, and therefore should be banned.
The same breed of politicians also wanted to ban satellite dishes, Internet and all other means of getting information that was not approved by the government, all in the name of keeping swedes pure of thought. The same politicians usually keep North Korea and Cuba in high regards.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
