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Comment Re:A bit overpriced compared to the human competit (Score 5, Insightful) 112

You missed the forest for the trees. The current cost is there to artificially limit the load. Only the places that have [near] unlimited money to throw at problems will use it.

Once the P[seudo]hD is shown to be capable and sustainable...it will be a-PhD-ocalypse.

Maybe not, but the endgame is in sight.

Comment Re:Short term gains for long term pain (Score 5, Insightful) 148

These pronatalism arguments are such bullshit. These "fertility level" studies only deal with economic consequences, not the survival of the species. The human race is in no danger of going extinct due to birthrates. We can kill ourselves with greater success in many other ways, thank you very much.

The economic model relying on parabolic fertility rates, on the other hand...

Comment Re:Modern smartphone photos are AI doctored (Score 2) 104

There is an emotional response from photo effects. Things like bokeh, contrast, lighting, over/under exposure, over/under saturated, etc all produce an emotional response from people. The phone automatically picks out elements of the composition using machine learning (aka AI) to detect how many people are in the photo, skin tones, etc. Using this information, the photo is adjusted to maximize the emotional impact.

My point is that while some photos might actually look like an accidental renaissance, but a lot of engineering has gone into emotionally manipulating photos from your phone. Just because you did not tell the phone to make these adjustments does not mean the adjustments are not being made.

In terms of a contest, I think winning should be the result of active decision making, not your phone making decisions for you.

Comment Modern smartphone photos are AI doctored (Score 2) 104

This has been the case for well over 5 years already. Smartphone photos are already automatically edited and have filters applied. Many photo effects that are only possible with certain lens combinations like bokeh/depth-of-field effects are basically generated in software on a smartphone. Apple and Google have put significant effort into making the pictures taken with their products by people with no real skills extremely professional looking.

The pictures you take with a smartphone are not good because you are good photographer. It was also the thousands of software engineers building algorithms that automatically fix your crappy photos.

Comment Re:No (Score 5, Insightful) 153

It really is not solvable. Security in IT is a journey, not a destination. There is never a point where you can declare yourself 100% secure.

You can do all the right things, implement all the security controls possible, and you can still be hacked.

A better way of stating the question would be "Can you eliminate all IT Security risk?"

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