{"id":6517,"date":"2019-04-24T23:56:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T23:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2019-04-24T23:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T23:56:07","slug":"recent-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/recent-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AIs have a problem with seeing something for the first time. Facebook says their AI had a problem detecting NZ shooting video because for first time it was from first-person POV. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/04\/24\/facebook-christchurch-videos-ai\/\">Link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My prediction: Greater than 50% of US consumers (majority) won&#8217;t see 5G coverage &#8212; defined as 20Gbps and 1 ms latency &#8212; until 2023 earliest. Probably 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2019\/04\/millimeter-wave-5g-will-never-scale-beyond-dense-urban-areas-t-mobile-says\/\">Link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A legendary designer works with AI to design a minimal chair. The teamwork is known as a centaur. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2019\/04\/11\/ai-chair-philippe-starck-kartell-autodesk-artificial-intelligence-video\/\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s foremost electric car manufacturer is not Tesla, but BYD, in China. They started out making batteries, now make cheap electric cars. Running fast for the big prize. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2019-04-16\/the-world-s-biggest-electric-vehicle-company-looks-nothing-like-tesla\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While China has some 18,000 miles of high-speed rail, the U.S. has wasted, I think, $3 trillion on military spending. Since 1979 China has not wasted a single penny on war, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re ahead of us. In almost every way,\u201d says Jimmy Carter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-jimmy-carter-china-war-infrastructure-economy-trade-war-church-1396086\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paying for cyberwar with stolen Bitcoins.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/north-korea-hackers-apt38-cryptocurrency\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIs have a problem with seeing something for the first time. Facebook says their AI had a problem detecting NZ shooting video because for first time it was from first-person POV. Link. My prediction: Greater than 50% of US consumers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/recent-readings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6518,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions\/6518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}