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Comment Re:You know what... (Score 1) 368

A very strict indicator that correlates with quality of healthcare is life expectancy, and according to Our World in Data , the US performance is very bad.

As you can see in the kinked chart, US life expectancy is 79.3 years for a per-capita health expenditure of $ 10,827 (PPP based on 2015 prices). Chile, for example, has a life expectancy of 81.17 years, spending $ 2,453 per capita. That's less than 23% compared to the US.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Printer recommendation for family with kids in elementary school? 3

jalvarez13 writes: My venerable HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus is showing its age and it has become expensive to operate due to the cost of the original cartridges. I tried some alternative cartidges but the printer rejects them.

Now that schools still require kids to print stuf at home (mine are in 2nd and 4th grade), and my wife also needs to use the priner, I think it may be wise to invest in a good quality printer that has a lower cost per page (maybe laser?).

I that context, I'd love to have unbiased information about brand quality, printing technology, cost efficiency, and other factors that I might have missed. Any thoughts?

Comment Re:Google Cached Web Pages (Score 1) 64

I have started turning most links in my lectures into archive.org links, it is just too much effort checking every time whether the pages are still there.

And, yes, I donate to them.

Thank you for sharing this tip. it's brilliant! Not just for lectures, but for many other use cases as well. Bookmarks, links sent by messaging apps, you name it.

Comment Not just the training (Score 1) 179

The training is just the tip of the iceberg. The underlying assumption is that autonomous systems "capture information from the environment", and this is completely wrong. The training --with labeled data-- takes the Shannon model at face value and simulates an environment that is sending messages tio the autonomous system. But then, when the system operates out in the wild, there is no tag in the images, so it resorts to pattern recognition. Those of you who know that error correction is a key aspect of Shannon's work can recognize that pattern recognition does not have anything remotely similar, so the confidence level on identifying an object or situation varies significantly along the way, sometimes catastrophically.

Comment Re:And if I had just... (Score 1) 34

Well... Blockbuster and Intel both had very profitable business models that would have concentrated the lion's share of resources, so there's a reasonable probability that the acquired companies could't have developed in the same way we see them now.

It is extremely hard for established companies to pivot towards innovative business models. And by innovative I don't mean "let's turn this product into a service and charge a monthly fee", but creating/developing markets that didn't exist before.

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