There's a huge difference between operating an elevator and operating a fly-by-wire airbus.
Having seen a lot of strange things happening on the airbus that required human intervention - we are a very long way from pilotless airliners imho.
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Computers have a way of changing at
frightening speed. What you're using
right now looks like this:
[img width=500 height=380]http://www.techjailbreak.com/wp-content ... mputer.jpg[/img]
They won't always look like that. Ignore
them at your peril.
[quote]Your i7 processor operates at around 100 gigaflops while your top of the line graphics card operates in the low teraflop (1000 gigaflops) range. A Samsung Galaxy S2 has a ARM Cortex A9 processor which runs at around 2.5 gigaflops.
So a high-end PC CPU now has the computing power of the top 500 supercomputers in 1988, while a high-end cell phone is equivalent of the total of the top 500 supercomputers in the late 70s/early 80s.[/quote]
Airbus has probably read this wiki page:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning[/url]
Ask any TC Inspector to explain this to you:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_lear ... ropagation]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_lear ... ropagation[/url]
because they know everything. Didn't a TC Inspector
come up with Moore's Law?
frightening speed. What you're using
right now looks like this:
[img width=500 height=380]http://www.techjailbreak.com/wp-content ... mputer.jpg[/img]
They won't always look like that. Ignore
them at your peril.
[quote]Your i7 processor operates at around 100 gigaflops while your top of the line graphics card operates in the low teraflop (1000 gigaflops) range. A Samsung Galaxy S2 has a ARM Cortex A9 processor which runs at around 2.5 gigaflops.
So a high-end PC CPU now has the computing power of the top 500 supercomputers in 1988, while a high-end cell phone is equivalent of the total of the top 500 supercomputers in the late 70s/early 80s.[/quote]
Airbus has probably read this wiki page:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning[/url]
Ask any TC Inspector to explain this to you:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_lear ... ropagation]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_lear ... ropagation[/url]
because they know everything. Didn't a TC Inspector
come up with Moore's Law?
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Colonel
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Large aircraft used to have human flight engineers,
radio operators, navigators and two pilots.
Technology has replaced everything but the two
pilots, you may have noticed. Many people here
training to be navigators, radio operators or
flight engineers?
The next step will be to get rid of one of the pilots.
The last step will be to get rid of the last pilot.
radio operators, navigators and two pilots.
Technology has replaced everything but the two
pilots, you may have noticed. Many people here
training to be navigators, radio operators or
flight engineers?
The next step will be to get rid of one of the pilots.
The last step will be to get rid of the last pilot.
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Colonel
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One last note:
This man is a god. No one here knows his name,
but he profoundly improved your life.
[quote]He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.
Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence[/quote]
A wartime hero, in fact.
[quote]Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic;
it has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and [b]saved over fourteen million lives[/b][/quote]
In return, he was hated and crushed by the government assholes.
As usual.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
[quote]Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts, when by the Labouchere Amendment, "gross indecency" was still criminal in the UK. He accepted chemical castration treatment, with DES, as an alternative to prison. Turing died in 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning.
In 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for "[b]the appalling way he was treated[/b]." Queen Elizabeth II granted him a posthumous pardon in 2013[/quote]
When the PM and the fucking Queen publicly
apologize, you know they screwed up big time.
Nice work, government assholes. Keep it up.
This man is a god. No one here knows his name,
but he profoundly improved your life.
[quote]He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.
Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence[/quote]
A wartime hero, in fact.
[quote]Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic;
it has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and [b]saved over fourteen million lives[/b][/quote]
In return, he was hated and crushed by the government assholes.
As usual.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
[quote]Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts, when by the Labouchere Amendment, "gross indecency" was still criminal in the UK. He accepted chemical castration treatment, with DES, as an alternative to prison. Turing died in 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning.
In 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for "[b]the appalling way he was treated[/b]." Queen Elizabeth II granted him a posthumous pardon in 2013[/quote]
When the PM and the fucking Queen publicly
apologize, you know they screwed up big time.
Nice work, government assholes. Keep it up.
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Colonel
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[quote]it wasn't until only a short time ago that homosexuality was not a crime[/quote]
You're completely missing the point. This isn't
about the sexual orientation of a one of the greatest
heroes of the 20th century, that made John Wayne
look like a pansy in comparison.
J. Edgar Hoover was a notorious homosexual, and
that didn't slow his career down in the least. He
was a meticulous clerk that kept files on everyone
and no one would dare touch him, because he had
worse dirt on everyone.
He knew how to deal with government assholes.
And he got his name on all sorts of building and
is revered as the founder of the prestigious FBI.
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/05/us/ta ... oover.html]http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/05/us/ta ... oover.html[/url]
[quote]Richard M. Nixon chose in 1971 not to remove J. Edgar Hoover as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in part because he feared that [b]Mr. Hoover would "bring down the temple" by releasing damaging information[/b] about him, according to newly released transcripts of the former President's White House tape-recorded conversations.[/quote]
Whatever the sexual sins of Hoover, Nixon's
were far, far worse. As we found out a couple
years later.
[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/pers ... oover.html]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/pers ... oover.html[/url]
[quote]When President Nixon was told that Hoover had died, he apparently exclaimed, “Jesus Christ. That old c***sucker!â€[/quote]
The government assholes were frightened and
jealous of Alan Turing, and used his weakness
(and it didn't matter what it was) to attack and
destroy him. Assholes in power are always
threatened by brilliant agents of change, and
destroy them if at all possible.
Scully managed to flare an Airbus with no power
and save a couple hundred lives and he's a
goddamned legendary international hero.
Alan Turing saves 14 million, invents the computer
that everyone uses today, and in return is prosecuted
and poisoned and forgotten.
Fucking revolting.
One of the greatest geniuses of all time, Galileo,
was attacked and jailed by the powers that be
at the time, that were frightened of him. Accused
of heresy, he spent the rest of his life in house arrest
for one of the greatest astronomical discoveries.
That was a wonderful "thank you" from the assholes in
charge, for his brilliance.
Spot the pattern?
Contrast these men with Errol Flynn, who was a
bisexual alcoholic pedophile drug addict. He's a
regular hero in Hollywood. As if his off-screen
antics mattered. They didn't threaten anyone.
You're completely missing the point. This isn't
about the sexual orientation of a one of the greatest
heroes of the 20th century, that made John Wayne
look like a pansy in comparison.
J. Edgar Hoover was a notorious homosexual, and
that didn't slow his career down in the least. He
was a meticulous clerk that kept files on everyone
and no one would dare touch him, because he had
worse dirt on everyone.
He knew how to deal with government assholes.
And he got his name on all sorts of building and
is revered as the founder of the prestigious FBI.
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/05/us/ta ... oover.html]http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/05/us/ta ... oover.html[/url]
[quote]Richard M. Nixon chose in 1971 not to remove J. Edgar Hoover as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in part because he feared that [b]Mr. Hoover would "bring down the temple" by releasing damaging information[/b] about him, according to newly released transcripts of the former President's White House tape-recorded conversations.[/quote]
Whatever the sexual sins of Hoover, Nixon's
were far, far worse. As we found out a couple
years later.
[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/pers ... oover.html]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/pers ... oover.html[/url]
[quote]When President Nixon was told that Hoover had died, he apparently exclaimed, “Jesus Christ. That old c***sucker!â€[/quote]
The government assholes were frightened and
jealous of Alan Turing, and used his weakness
(and it didn't matter what it was) to attack and
destroy him. Assholes in power are always
threatened by brilliant agents of change, and
destroy them if at all possible.
Scully managed to flare an Airbus with no power
and save a couple hundred lives and he's a
goddamned legendary international hero.
Alan Turing saves 14 million, invents the computer
that everyone uses today, and in return is prosecuted
and poisoned and forgotten.
Fucking revolting.
One of the greatest geniuses of all time, Galileo,
was attacked and jailed by the powers that be
at the time, that were frightened of him. Accused
of heresy, he spent the rest of his life in house arrest
for one of the greatest astronomical discoveries.
That was a wonderful "thank you" from the assholes in
charge, for his brilliance.
Spot the pattern?
Contrast these men with Errol Flynn, who was a
bisexual alcoholic pedophile drug addict. He's a
regular hero in Hollywood. As if his off-screen
antics mattered. They didn't threaten anyone.
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Colonel
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Coincidence: in the news today:
[url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world ... nerability]http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world ... nerability[/url]
[quote]Two decades before John F. Kennedy became president, he met a suspected Nazi spy at a Charleston, S.C., hotel.
Her name was Inga Arvad, and they “engaged in sexual intercourse on numerous occasions,†according to the FBI agents who had bugged the room.[/quote]
People don't understand how powerful Hoover was,
because he had dirt on everyone.
Regardless of what they might tell you, politicians
are not angels. And the man who knows the truth
is very powerful indeed.
The truth brought down Hilary Clinton in the last
election. An expert politician with an unprecedented
near-half-century of experience, the election was hers
to lose against a completely inexperienced and unusual
candidate (to say the least) and she did, when someone
dumped all the DNC private emails.
She blames those leaked emails for her loss. The truth
took her down, according to her. Interestingly, she gave
up claiming that they were altered, because of the intact
digital signatures.
Note to self: "password" is not a secure password.
[url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world ... nerability]http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world ... nerability[/url]
[quote]Two decades before John F. Kennedy became president, he met a suspected Nazi spy at a Charleston, S.C., hotel.
Her name was Inga Arvad, and they “engaged in sexual intercourse on numerous occasions,†according to the FBI agents who had bugged the room.[/quote]
People don't understand how powerful Hoover was,
because he had dirt on everyone.
Regardless of what they might tell you, politicians
are not angels. And the man who knows the truth
is very powerful indeed.
The truth brought down Hilary Clinton in the last
election. An expert politician with an unprecedented
near-half-century of experience, the election was hers
to lose against a completely inexperienced and unusual
candidate (to say the least) and she did, when someone
dumped all the DNC private emails.
She blames those leaked emails for her loss. The truth
took her down, according to her. Interestingly, she gave
up claiming that they were altered, because of the intact
digital signatures.
Note to self: "password" is not a secure password.
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