Jacobs said the goal of the Miami board, and all civilian review boards, is to build trust. He added while the civilian panel itself couldn’t solve all police-community relationship issues, the trust it created would.

“It was never about sticking it to the police officers,” Jacobs said. “I have two kids. I want to raise them in a city where we don’t need police accountability or police oversight because they do the right thing all the time.”

Well there’s your problem, wanting accountability for people with authority. Those people got into positions of authority so there wouldn’t be any accountability, how dare you try to hold them responsible for their actions

This is also true because truly random number generation on computers doesn’t really exist. https://youtu.be/tP-Ipsat90c. Numberphile has a couple neat videos on randomness, here’s one

IIUC the calculation of GDP doesn’t factor in whether the produced goods serve a human need - the system can in theory continue to optimize for ever-increasing GDP while every human on earth starves to death.

There’s an old joke I remember about economists and the GDP.

Two economists are walking through the jungle and come across a gigantic pile of lion scat. One turns to the other and said I’ll pay you 100$ to eat a bite of that shit.
Being an economists and 100$ being worth a lot, the guy eats the shit and gets paid.
A little while later they come across a pile of rhino dung. The now richer economist turns to the first and offers 100$ for him to take a bite out of this pile. 100$ is again a lot of money so he does it and eats the shit.
As they’re walking along, both picking their teeth, one turns to the other and asks “did we both just eat shit for nothing?” And the other days “of course not, now the GDP of the jungle has increased by 200$!”

Your analogy to mechanical systems are exactly where the breakdown to comparison with the human brain occurs, our brains are not like that, we don’t only have the blocks of text loaded into us, sure we only learn what we get exposed to but that doesn’t mean we can’t think of things we haven’t learned about.
The article I linked talks about the separation between the formation of thoughts and those thoughts being translated into words for linguistics.

The fact that you “don’t even know why the how the brain creates an articulated spoken word is even relevant here” speaks volumes to how much you understand the human brain, particularly in the context of artificial intelligence actually understanding the words it generates and the implications of thoughts behind the words and not just guessing which word comes next based on other words, the meanings of which are irrelevant.

I can listen to a song long enough to learn the words, that doesn’t mean I know what the song is about.

Funny to me how defensive you got so quick, accusing of not reading the linked paper before even reading it yourself.

The reason OP was so rude is that your very premise of “what is the brain doing if not statistical text prediction” is completely wrong and you don’t even consider it could be. You cite a TV show as a source of how it might be. Your concept of what artificial intelligence is comes from media and not science, and is not founded in reality.

The brain uses words to describe thoughts, the words are not actually the thoughts themselves.

https://advances.massgeneral.org/neuro/journal.aspx?id=1096

Think about small children who haven’t learned language yet, do those brains still do “stastical text prediction” despite not having words to predict?

What about dogs and cats and other “less intelligent” creatures, they don’t use any words but we still can teach them to understand ideas. You don’t need to utter a single word, not even a sound, to train a dog to sit. Are they doing “statistical text prediction” ?

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) was a draft agreement negotiated in secret between members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) between 1995 and 1998.[1][2] It sought to establish a new body of universal investment laws that would grant corporations unconditional rights to engage in financial operations around the world, without any regard to national laws and citizens’ rights. The draft gave corporations a right to sue governments if national health, labor or environment legislation threatened their interests.

Literally designed to put the interests of corporations above the interests of nations and their citizens

How many was too many?
I’ve got birds and while they’ve slowed laying I’m still eating 3-4 eggs a day and can’t say I’ve noticed any ill effects

I’d guess like any other mold prevention, moisture control.

I have about 9 crowns currently, and my wife is a dental assistant with implant and surgery experience. I asked about this one time and got this explanation.

Implants are a highly invasive, long, and expensive process, like over 10k each expensive, and months of procedures and recovery. Granted, usually implants aren’t done to healthy teeth, but they usually have to build up the bone material after extracting the tooth and let that heal, drill into the bone and set the post then let that heal, then fit the implant and adjust everything because your teeth have been moving while it’s been healing.
One of the reasons the dentist doesn’t want to just pull a tooth and do an implant is the even when root canaled, that tooth is a better support than the implant post would be, and the implant is a lot more work.

The process of fillings, then crown, then root canal and crown don’t usually happen in sequence like that, and if you do preventative maintenance you can keep a tooth with a filling from ever needing to be crowned or root canal’d

You wanna know what’s a hell of a lot cheaper and easier than getting any dental work? Flossing and brushing!

I have hated flossing my entire life because it hurts my fingers to wrap the floss enough not to slide, but a couple months back I discovered I could tie a figure 8 knot and make a loop to pull tension on and now find i can’t stand the feeling of anything in-between my teeth so I end up flossing after every meal.

Moral of the story is: floss and brush your teeth and you won’t need to worry about crowns or implants. Always before bed and especially after anything with sugar or starches

Making them deal with the linguistic juggling of the Fey is how to have fun with rules lawyer players

Should be holding a flood, there’s even an outtake from one of the voice actors.

Croc_hunter.mp3

http://web.archive.org/web/20041011232719/http://www.bungie.net/Games/Halo/page.aspx?section=AudioVideo&subsection=VoiceOuttakes&page=1

What’s the name of the game?

Drink

Sounds like it’s time to take those skills to another party

“self inflicted” gunshot to the head, in his truck at the hotel he was staying at, just before going to testify more

Broken arms, jolly rancher…

Oh man I haven’t read QC in a long time, what happened?

You practically need tech bro money to afford a ticket though don’t you? The article says tickets are up to $2750, and while I know they go for less if you get lucky in the lottery or something like that they’re still like 800-1000$ just to get in. Who can afford that just as the entry fee, let alone what ever you need to survive the desert for a week?

I use my enamel pan for anything acidic, but mostly for slow cooking caramelized onions

I remember spending weeks searching for a copy of it years ago, Q1 and Q3 were everywhere but I wanted to play the story of 2. I finally managed to find a copy but it wouldn’t work on my computer. Getting remade as open source is great news