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Comment Re:BS: Look at the other car companies (Score 2) 198

by RevDobbs (#57908976) Attached to: What Happened When Automation Came To General Motors?

Yes, GM was behind the trends. No one wants the vehicles that were being produced at the plants that are closing down. "Cars" have fallen out of favor for truck-like vehicles.

Frankly so much has changed since the 70's that comparisons to them are pointless unless done really well, with a level of analysis beyond Quartz. Armchair comparisons may reflect inflation but do they consider all the other quality of life improvements that many of the US's "poor" have these days?

Submission + - Prosecution of journalist collapses after recording disproves police testimony 2

Submitted by Andy Smith
Andy Smith writes: Slashdot reported last September how I was arrested while standing in a field near a road accident, as I photographed the scene for a newspaper. I was initially given a police warning for "obstruction", but the warning was then cancelled and I was prosecuted for resisting arrest and breach of the peace. These are serious charges and I was facing a prison sentence. Fortunately we had one very strong piece of evidence: A recording of my arrest. Not only did the recording prove that two police officers' testimony was false, but it caught one of them boasting about how he had conspired with a prosecutor to arrest and prosecute me. Yesterday the case was dropped, and now the two police officers and the prosecutor face a criminal investigation.

Submission + - Why Thousands of AI Researchers Re Boycotting the New Nature Journal (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Machine learning has demonstrated that an academic field can not only survive, but thrive, without the involvement of commercial publishers. But this has not stopped traditional publishers from entering the market. Our success has caught their attention. Most recently, the publishing conglomerate Springer Nature announced a new journal targeted at the community called Nature Machine Intelligence. The publisher now has 53 journals that bear the Nature name. Should we be concerned? What would drive authors and readers towards a for-profit subscription journal when we already have an open model for sharing our ideas? Academic publishers have one card left to play: their brand. The diversity and quantity of academic research means that it is difficult for a researcher in one field to rate the work in another. Sometimes a journal’s brand is used as a proxy for quality. When academics look for promotion, having papers in a “brand-name journal” can be a big help. Nature is the Rolex of academic publishing. But in contrast to Rolex, whose staff are responsible for the innovation in its watches, Nature relies on academics to provide its content. We are the watchmakers, they are merely the distributors.

Many in our research community see the Nature brand as a poor proxy for academic quality. We resist the intrusion of for-profit publishing into our field. As a result, at the time of writing, more than 3,000 researchers, including many leading names in the field from both industry and academia, have signed a statement refusing to submit, review or edit for this new journal. We see no role for closed access or author-fee publication in the future of machine-learning research. We believe the adoption of this new journal as an outlet of record for the machine-learning community would be a retrograde step.

Comment Re:The fuck are you talking about? (Score 1) 5

by RevDobbs (#56633790) Attached to: Win10 Developers (poorly) Reinvent Display Settings
I'm wondering the same thing. Don't get me wrong, there are a million niggling issues with Win10's UI/UX, not just "changed conventions" but a real problem of hiding settings and features. That said, the premise posted is factually incorrect and it is entirely possible to run different resolution monitors and control (or at least disable) scaling.

Comment No, the duopoly is not ripe for disruption (Score 1) 210

As stated in the article:
1) Off-brand sucks
2) People are too lazy to think ahead and buy on-line.

Most goods are available cheaper/better on-line, but if you're going to wait until you absolutely need it you will be stuck with whatever local pricing and availability is.

... this doesn't even pertain explicitly to batteries, it is a fact of life about most consumables.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What does YOUR data mean to the google? (google.com)

Submitted by shanen
shanen writes: Due to the recent kerfuffles, I decided to try again to see what the google had on me. This time I succeeded and failed, in contrast to the previous pure failures. Yes, I did find the google's takeout website and downloaded all of "my data", but no, it means nothing to me. Here are a few sub-questions I couldn't answer:

(1) Much more data than I ever created, so where did the rest come from?
(2) How does the data relate to the characteristic vector the google uses to characterize me?
(3) What tools do the googlers use to make sense of the data?

Lots more questions, but those are the ones that are most bugging me right now. Question (2) is probably heaviest among them, since I've read that the vector has 700 dimensions... So do you have any answers? Or better questions? Or your own takeout experiences to share?

Oh yeah, one more thing. Based on my own troubled experience with the download process, it is clear that the google doesn't really want us to download the so-called "our own" data. My Question (4) is now: "What is the google hiding about me from me?"

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