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Stolen,my @rse!
"Imported illegally to an AI on the orders of a a certain-coloured person who lives in a certain-coloured house", more like.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It’s the holiday season for data nerds: That is, Mary Meeker is delivering her annual Internet Trends Report — the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley — again at Code Conference 2019. I hear this internet thing might work out
Just in case you have time for 333 slides
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Object recognition algorithms sold by tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, perform worse when asked to identify items from lower-income countries. GIGO
As for that sample photo, nothing should identify as SPAM.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: nothing should identify as SPAM.
Even SPAM.
(Several years ago, I bought SPAM for the first time in my life--yes, had it as a kid, but had never actually bought it. To put it mildly, it wasn't what I remembered. More harshly, it was awful. On the other hand, if you have a salt deficiency....)
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It's rather nice if you grill it (but on health grounds I'm not recommending it to anybody!)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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That might help to get the fat content down to  , yes.
Now I have to try it at some point.
TTFN - Kent
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So the current generation of techbro's have apparently never seen a bar of soap. /too easy
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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All this demonstrates is that the "very intelligent person" who built the AI didn't do enough work on delineation and image trimming.
This is going to get worse and worse, and culminate in completely useless -- even damaging and dangerous -- AIs going commercial.
And it's not the AIs themselves that are the problem; it's that the infrastructure that surrounds an AI is nowhere near mature enough -- because no-one wants to work on that, when "Creating the Next Great AI!" is the holy grail that gets all the attention.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Exactly - someone's going to sell some half-ar*ed solution to a government as a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Then people will suffer as a result, likely the ones that don't look like the developer.
TTFN - Kent
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Do you want to play a game?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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We’re moving towards a world in which developers are no longer as loyal to their chosen programming languages as they were. Instead, they are more flexible and open minded about the languages they use. Don't be a {foo} programmer, be a programmer
Something, something, right tool, something job
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The "right language" canard is mostly bullshit hand waving by incompetent developers.
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I guess that makes me an incompetent developer, thank you (always great to learn about yourself). 
I'll get right back to working on that OS service using VB then. And the DB query app using Assembly. etc.
TTFN - Kent
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 There is a difference between moving to a new language and claiming (and acting on) every new language that shows up has a "right" usage. It reminds me of that person who knows how to count to ten in dozens of languages, but can't ask where the bathroom is.
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BTW, I did qualify my snark with "mostly". ASP.NET is a far better choice than going native. But how is, for example, Kotlin better than Java in any practical get-the-project-done sense, other than Oracle doesn't own it (which may be reason enough.)
(Oh, and yes, you need to go back to VB.NET. Sorry, but that's how it goes.  )
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Joe Woodbury wrote: how is, for example, Kotlin better than Java in any practical get-the-project-done sense, other than Oracle doesn't own it (which may be reason enough.
That would be my answer, yes. Any move away from Oracle is 'right' 
For most solutions (there's that dang most again!), I think there are a load of right answers. You can write your basic "screens over data" app in just about anything - and that's 'right'. There are some 'wrong' answers though. So, the canard is a first approximation of the truth, IMO.
When people swing it around to justify today's hot language over yesterday's, they're wrong. So, I guess we agree there?
Shuffling back to VB. 
TTFN - Kent
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Nine out of ten times, the "right" tool for the job is the tool that you know.
Perhaps MongoDB would be better for your job than SQL, but since you know SQL and SQL is sufficient it's a far safer bet than first messing up with what's supposed to be "the right tool".
Besides, it needs to be done yesterday, so there's no time to learn MongoDB anyway.
On a side note, none of the "full stack" developers I've met actually master the full stack.
They write JavaScript as if it's C# or Java (which it isn't) and they don't go beyond the basics of HTML and CSS.
I recently talked to a programmer who said he only wanted people with at least 10 years of experience, unless they were full stack developers, because then they knew enough.
So you want 10 years of experience in one technology, but less in a dozen combined?
Polyglot is just really hard, because each technology is hard by itself and can take years to master.
Of course, if your definition of "sufficient" or even "mastery" is being able to run Hello World, things get a little easier...
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Sander Rossel wrote: They write JavaScript as if it's C# or Java
You lucky guy! I know people who do it the other way round...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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... and many recruiters who fervently believe that Javascript is Java.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Or that people have 20 years of experience in Node.js 
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Don't knock it, my next CV will say that I've been doing F# since 1862. It will fool somebody!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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That's brilliant!
I'm still at the struggling with consistent theory of quantum gravity bit but I reckon I'll get there in another year or two!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: consistent theory of quantum gravity
That's a pretty heavy subject, but if you get it right you'll be enlightened
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Maybe I'm just focused too much on edge cases - that while there are many right tools for most jobs, there are also wrong tools that get used.
Back in the day, I had to work on way too many "solutions" that were PowerShell via Citrix. The devs knew PowerShell, but they needed a remote solution. Every single one of those could have been simple websites, but the devs were unwilling to learn the new technology. Then, because they were stuck with a desktop app, they had to shove it in Citrix to get it out to customers. Adding yet another wrong tool for the job (IMO).
Most languages are perfectly fine for most solutions, but I still assert that there are definite wrong tools for some solutions. By knowing more than a single language, you at least can identify why another tool might be the right one for a specific job. (and it avoids writing one language in the idioms of another).
TTFN - Kent
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