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One of the most interesting things about the pandemic, at least from an employment perspective, is that productivity didn’t suffer as a result of remote work. I guess people do like to work in their pyjamas
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Doesn't surprise me. Commuting takes a physical toll on people. Working from home eliminated this source of energy drain.
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Scenario 1: Wake at 7, quickly rinse and prepare, prepare the cat's paraphenalia for the day, take the car, swear in traffic, get to work at 8:20, coworkers stop you for coffee until 9:00, then again at 11. Get out at 12:30, find something to eat in the city taht doesn't cost a kidney, get back, coffee, 16:00 coffee again, 18:00 get back in the car, swear in traffic until almost 19:00.
Scenario 2: Wake at 8:15, calmly rinse and prepare, spend time with the cat while fixing it for the next hours, start working at 9:00, at 12:00 start boiling water for a nice fresh pasta at 12:30, 13:00 back again to work or a short nap / free time, at 17:30 stop working and already home, waiting for the unlucky wife who doesn't smart work.
Oh gosh, how come Scenario 1 is less productive??? :confused pikachu face:
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Mine was similar. Not only did I get time back from my 45 minute (each way) commute I spent my lunch hour cleaning the kitchen (unloading the dishwasher from the night before) and loading anything newly used into it.
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Today, taking small breaks to think about a problem or what next to tackle, I did some laundry, watered the plants, trimmed the outdoor hanging plants of dead stuff, played with the cat, took a short walk, had a nice conversation with a friend that I encountered while running an errand, found out another friend is about to die of cancer  and still got a ton of work done because I could take breaks that were productive and let the brain stew on work problems.
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den2k88 wrote: Scenario 2
You would think that managers would "get it", that people want dignity and a life and that that makes them more productive. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: You would think that managers would "get it",
Marc... your are definitivelly an optimist.
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Scenario #1: Blood pressure of 190/100
Scenario #2: Blood pressure of 120/80
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." -- Adam Savage
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Well, I'm actually doing work when I otherwise would have been showering, eating breakfast, and spending 30 minutes in traffic. Oh, and let's not forget the busload of people who find my cube and interrupt me with their problems all day.
Now? Wake up, grab something for breakfast and spin up the laptop. Oh, and look, no line of people dumping their problems on me all day.
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But managers still want to install [insert your favourite spyware here] in your laptop to check if you are working or not when in home office...  
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Let’s break down the process of migrating legacy data, outline the pros and cons, and highlight considerations that industry professionals wish they knew before moving legacy data to an advanced system. Why migrate when you can just write a new app on the new database?
Who needs all that old data anyway?
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Quote: Legacy database migration: What to know before you start
Try to get another one to do it (and to blame later). 
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Sunshine streaming through a window could be directly harnessed for wireless data transmission to electronic devices. "We've got a line in the sky"
Ugh moment: "Basem Shihada had been exploring data encoding into an artificial light source when he had the lightbulb moment to use sunshine."
"According to the team's calculations, the proposed setup could transmit data at a rate of 16 kilobits per second" <-- OK, not replacing my Wi-Fi anyway
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AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce them. It's a system of tubes. Of switch statements.
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And that's why in my first job AI was explicitly forbidden: people's lives were on the line and you had to be capable of explaining every single incident.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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This is why we need to teach our AI systems human ethics and morals. Without this we'll end up with Terminator, Dune's Omnius, and Microsoft Tam (Tay?). Only with human ethics and morals embedded deeply in our AI offspring will we be able to coexist with them.
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How would you teach ethics and morals to a large table of data-points that have no meaning? Really, AI as intended these days is a simple correlation between variables calculated automatically to fit the data given as input. There is no intelligence, it's truly a multidimensional best-fit algorithm.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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In other words, we really haven't reached true AI yet. (I happen to agree with you on this.)
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The big problem: Which human ethics and morals?
The simple answer: Ours! Mine!
The world isn't that simple. Not even "The good guys" (that is: us!) agree on the "right" ethics/morals. It varies greatly from the one end of the political scale to the other. It varies greatly from culture to culture, even today. It varies greatly through the centuries. The only really significant argument in favor of "our" culture/ethics (and I might add: whatever that would be, after we have fought through all the necessary internal wars) is that it is ours.
Probably an unfounded anecdote: Gandhi was once asked his thought of Western civilization, and he responded: That would be a great idea! Even though the story most likely is made up, quite a few people get the message: There are lots of value systems where our Western 'culture' (that includes ehtics/morals) come out on top.
Since we are the masters of digital technology and AI, any attempt to implement ethics/morals into AI systems, is likely to be our Western variant. That is of course OK as a weapon of cultural imperialism, but not necessarily the best for global ethics/moral. Except in our own eyes.
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TL;DR;
As if human ethics and morals were something to be taught...
Addition (to avoid more misunderstandings) copied from my answer below:
Quote: Let me rephrase it:
As if human ethics and moral were good enough to be used as role model to be taught.
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modified 2-Nov-22 19:47pm.
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When 12 lines (at my current window width) is "TL;", then you put a mark on yourself as someone who cares zero about serious discussions.
And, as with a great number of "TL;DR;" reactions: I am quite sure that you did read all of it, but disliked it. Your "dr;" simply says: I close my eyes for this part; I find it more convenient to ignore it.
Yes: Ethics and morals are something to be taught. You may believe that what you have been taught in those areas are "god given" or "natural", but then, why don't everybody agree with you? They don't. That is not because they have no moral/ethics, but because they have a different moral/ethics. Your ethics/morals is taught, just as much as theirs.
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Yes, I read your whole message.
But you didn't understand mine. I was not criticizing your message. I was criticizing "human ethics and moral" (did you read my following message[^]? I think that would have helped to avoid the missunderstanding)
Let me rephrase the one you have answered:
As if human ethics and moral were good enough to be used as role model to be taught.
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obermd wrote: This is why we need to teach our AI systems human ethics and morals.
As it would do a difference... do you lately see the news? 
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obermd wrote: This is why we need to teach our AI systems human ethics and morals.
Trump's version or Biden's version or Putin's version or Kim Jong-un version? Heck, even my neighbor and I disagree on ethics and morals.
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