Category: Technical Labour

>I decided to dig through open source to examine the state of Google’s upcoming Andromeda OS.

Originally shared by Matt Uebel

>I decided to dig through open source to examine the state of Google’s upcoming Andromeda OS. For anyone unfamiliar, Andromeda seems to be the replacement for both Android and Chrome OS (cue endless debates over the semantics of that, and what it all entails). Fuchsia is the actual name of the operating system, while Magenta is the name of the kernel, or more correctly, the microkernel. Many of the architectural design decisions appear to have unsurprisingly been focused on creating a highly scalable platform.

https://techspecs.blog/blog/2017/2/14/googles-not-so-secret-new-os

An exercise from my daughter’s Japanese class passed through Google Translate.

An exercise from my daughter’s Japanese class passed through Google Translate.

Professor Yamada: Today. You are Mr. Susan. Are you kinky?

Susan: Yes. My heart is pounding. Thank you for your consideration.

My daughter’s translation:

Professor Yamada: Good afternoon. You’re Susan, right? Are you well?

Susan: Yes, I’m really nervous. Thank you for your consideration.

Despite Google making a big fuss about their machine learning breakthroughs in translation it seems clear that they are still making pretty laughable translations. My daughter points out that translating konnichiwa as “today” is a noob level mistake (in fact most English speakers already know this word).

Sounds like Google needs to start employing some actual language experts because their approach up to now has been to ignore domain specific knowledge and to try to crack this nut in a completely context free manner. That might work well for European to European languages but doesn’t work well at all for more distant ones.

Now that we have the prospect of robots routinely utilising the airspace directly overhead, expect all kinds of new…

Now that we have the prospect of robots routinely utilising the airspace directly overhead, expect all kinds of new and surprising implications. Our cities have been designed pretty much on the basis that the third dimension was mostly unavailable. Opening up this degree of freedom will be a boon for many applications. It will remain however a finite resource with all kinds of constraints on it which will by necessity need to be strictly regulated. Naturally some places will manage this easily while others will become a hellscape of delivery, advertising and surveillance drones.

Originally shared by Vlad Markov

This is really cool! I can actually recieve packages in my back yard in France, and it is very safe! More over, most the people in the small town where I live capable to drone drops.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/-france-becomes-first-federal-postal-service-to-use-drones-to-deliver-mail?trk_source=recommended

My Nexus 7 2012 has been pretty much unusable since I upgraded it to Android Lollypop.

My Nexus 7 2012 has been pretty much unusable since I upgraded it to Android Lollypop. I think KitKat was the last usable version of Android for low powered devices so I’m thinking of flashing it and downgrading it. Either that or maybe trying to install something else.

So does anyone have any experience in using a different OS with an old Nexus tablet? Any tips or suggestions?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_7_(2012)