watermanio

4 ms·

1.
by watermanio 6y ago
This feels especially true when you have access to things like BigQuery ML. It's very easy for an average engineer (like me) to start using ML using these tools, but a lot harder to explain how it works, or exactly which type of models
2.
by watermanio 6y ago
My Dad was too cheap for Encarta. We had a shareware version called something like Infopedia. I remember doing a homework project at a friend's house and being quite jealous of the proper version!
3.
by watermanio 6y ago
My last home was built about 5 years ago, and the house builder had fitted fibre ducting to the curb, but when OpenReach turned up they came with a ladder and slung up a copper cable. Maybe on a massive development they will install brand n
4.
by watermanio 7y ago
There are probably simpler ways - for example, if an accident report states there was only one person in the car, it was probably the driver using his phone.
5.
by watermanio 8y ago
> dangerous misinformation Oh come on, making a V sign is not dangerous. Most likely, someone shouts an original insult to you.
6.
by watermanio 9y ago
But you still have to give the Verify companies enough data that a breach of their systems would be very serious. Eg. If the Post Office (an organisation that recently falsely sent a load of employees to prison due to their own cocked up IT
7.
by watermanio 9y ago
I still can't believe people are happy using Verify. I very reluctantly tried to use it as I don't want to give all my data to any of the companies you listed, and yet it failed to identify me using the two companies I was allowed
8.
by watermanio 9y ago
There was a good article on the vast money charged by these journals in the Guardian last week. Although the publishers business does seem pretty robust, there are at least winds of change from universities and governments who fund this res
9.
by watermanio 10y ago
On the other hand, if you are lucky enough to work somewhere in the UK that grants options, those options are likely void the moment you leave the company so this entire discussion wouldn't even take place. I've been granted optio