Rov_Scam
2hr ago
I heard a radio interview on the way home from work where the guy said that all the AI system does is give suggestions to the controllers about weather, traffic conditions, etc. It's added on top of the system and doesn't have any control over it. I think the second possibility is more likely.
Rov_Scam
2hr ago
I'm not sure there's anything specifically to blame on Trump, but the Commerce Department was aware of this whole situation over a year ago, and Trump told them to back off, during which time he continued engaging in deals that probably violated export restrictions.
Rov_Scam
2hr ago
That's not really the point, since few people are claiming women are objectively as good as men at sports. The point is that quality of competition doesn't necessarily equate to how much money and respect the public is willing to give you. College football isn't more popular than the NFL, but it is more popular than any of the various B-leagues that have come and gone over the past few decades, despite a lower quality of play. Serena Williams would probably lose handily to a guy like David Ferrer, but she's made a lot more money, and Ferrer only made as much as he did because guys like Federer, Nadal, and Novak were able to draw interest. Novak may be pushing 40, but he's still better known than anyone ranked above him.
Rov_Scam
2hr ago
No, it was never true. Even top prospects have trouble adjusting to the speed of the NFL, and a lot of little things are exponentially tougher; for instance, the open windows for receivers are a lot smaller and shorter. But let's take a closer look at the players:
QB Tim Tebow: The defense kept every game close, and he was able to pull off late-gem heroics. But he wasn't an NFL caliber player, and was out of the league in a few years. Jon Kitna at least had a solid career as a backup and occasional starter. WR Riley Cooper: Spent a few years at the bottom of the depth chart on the Eagles WR Percy Harvin: Made the Pro Bowl and was Offensive Rookie of the Year, but he was no Calvin Johnson. Admittedly, his career may have gone differently if he weren't a locker room cancer. C Maurkice Pouncey: Solid career at an important position. RG Mike Pouncey: His bullying aside, he was very good TE Aaron Hernandez: His murdering aside, he was very good RB Jeff Demps: Was a freshman in '08 and barely had an NFL career. RB Chris Rainey: Fun Fact—a friend of mine was once on lockdown at his house after he caused a DV incident that led to a SWAT team shutting down the whole street. Before that, he couldn't beat out such luminaries as Jonathan Dwyer and Isaac Redman. The following year he got cut from the Colts for an unspecified violation of team rules after 2 games and no touches. DE Jermaine Cunningham: The Pats moved him to LB and then benched him after a disappointing rookie season. Also had a PED suspension somewhere in there. DE Carlos Dunlap: Had a decent career, but couldn't crack the starting lineup of a mediocre Bengals team for several years LB Brandon Spikes: Another guy with an okay but unmemorable NFL career CB Joe Haden: I always liked Joe Haden. Good career. CB Jackrabbit Jenkins: Decent career despite the legal issues. FS Ahmad Black: Practice squad/special teams guy SS Will Hill: Slightly better career than Ahmad Black
The only true NFL caliber players on this list are Harvin, the Pouncey brothers, Hernandez, Spikes, Haden, and Jenkins. Dunlap did too, but his history suggests that he wasn't anywhere close to that level while in college. That's 7 of 22 guys who can hang, and another 7 who were fringe NFL players with short careers. The remaining 8 didn't play in the NFL at all. Most notably, all but two of their O-line, including both tackles, half their D-line, and 2 of 3 linebackers were not good enough to play for a team as bad as the '08 Lions. As awful as that team was, they were still mostly starting journeymen who were able to hang around the league for a while.
Rov_Scam
5hr ago
Microsoft says that the outage happened after a server update, so while there's no reason to believe it was a cyberattack, saying it wasn't AI-related involves a lot of throat clearing—I guarantee that AI was used to generate at least part of the code for the update, and there's a good chance that shitty AI code is what brought the server down.
I was not kidding when I said that Jensen could end up as the greatest traitor to America since the Rosenbergs. I believe that he personally will face criminal charges at some point.
I'm curious how this will affect the Trump administration. Obviously the Republicans were already in worse shape than anyone realized without this scandal, but not that Trump's aura of invincibility has been shaken, does this do real damage?
Rov_Scam
6hr ago
I know it went out of business. I'll admit that my entire knowledge of it comes from what a friend of mine told me 15 years ago so I can't provide too many details.
Rov_Scam
7hr ago
You obviously don't remember the World Basketball League, which had a 6' 5" height limit. I think the CEO of Giant Eagle was behind it.
Rov_Scam
7hr ago
There's men's college football and basketball. Why should these get the respect and money they do when at least 60% of the athletes involved couldn't crack a CFL or NBA Europe roster? Why do I occasionally hear equally ridiculous things like the idea that the college championship team could beat the Browns or whatever the consensus-worst NFL team is?
Rov_Scam
9hr ago
That's not true. If a school only offers a sport for girls and a boy wants to play, they have to let them. This happened about a decade ago at a school near me when a couple boys joined the field hockey team. My cousin was attending the school at the time and said that the boys that did it were both pricks who only did it because they wanted to cause a controversy.
Rov_Scam
10hr ago
If you're talking about a competition that has separate categories for men, women, juniors, masters, sport, first-time participants, and people who weigh more than 200 lbs., you're not talking about a serious competition but an event designed to attract the widest participation possible. I've been semi-involved with the organization of these kinds of competitions (I wasn't part of the organizing committee but involved with the host organization), and I can assure you that the resources don't exist to do any kind of verification beyond the honors system. A 25-year-old who "feels old" isn't going to sign up for the masters division just to increase his chances at a trophy for the same reasons that people who are actually good don't sign up for the sport division.
And these categories don't matter much for the average participant. I pulled the results for the Great Race, a 10k held in Pittsburgh every September. The top men's time this year was 31:05, and the top women's time was 34:46. The top men's master was 33:49, and the top women's master was 38:33. If the top woman raced in the men's category, she'd have finished in 30th place, which doesn't sound impressive until you consider that the men's category had 2,458 participants with a median time of 56:26. For comparison, the women had 2,671 participants and a median finish time of 1:03:02. The median man could certainly increase his success by racing with women, but going from 1,229th place to 671st place isn't the kind of improvement most people think of.
Right, but if the AI gave an individual controller bad advice, it would only affect that controller's decisions, it wouldn't cause the communication system between airports to stop working entirely.
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