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What is 5G and when is it coming to the UK?
ReplyDeleteI would like to present you an article about 5G networks:
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-5g-launch-date-mobile-networks-uk
For some time we have been hearing about the new generation of mobile networks - 5G technology. 5G networks have been demonstrated that run at up more than 100 times faster than 4G network’s speed. In theory, it means that with a good 5G connection, it would be possible to stream a 4K video straight to our smartphones with no lag at all. 5G network is faster because it uses bits of the electromagnetic spectrum that aren’t currently being used by other kinds of network. This technology is also very important for connecting together lots of Internet of Things devices.
In this article you will find everything you need to know about the slow shift to 5G. The main problem is that there’s not a single 5G-ready smartphone on the market yet… It’s likely that we’ll have 5G-ready devices a while before network providers are ready to actually roll out widespread coverage but not before 2019 year.
For sure it will be a breakthrough in wireless transmission (bandwidth up to 100 Gb/s). Don’t you think that the reason for such a distant date of implementation of this technology is something completely different, as in the case of graphene processors or cars with water engines…? Is not this another case of perfidious blocking of technology development for business reasons?
In my opinion this is definitely a business trick. We talk about 5G with in full version in 2020, so this is definitely too early to predict anything, especially in the conditions of indisputable fast technology development we observe for last several years.
DeleteI have watched a YT video, which explained 5G in even greater detail than the aforementioned article on Wired, but unfortunately I don't remember its title nor channel.
ReplyDeleteThe strategy for a consumer like me and most people is actually independent from the 5G standard progress - buy a new phone every two years, and finally a new icon appears on the mobile broadband status bar. I only noticed LTE when I saw my phone downloading files faster than my residential Internet connection.
As far as I remember, it was not just the evil business people keeping the goodies away from the public. The current technology needs to pay for itself for sure, but they just didn't have it yet. Agreeing on a standard is not the same as developing the actual technology.
BTW, the article was only talking about "100 times faster than 50 Mbit", which is not exactly 100 Gbps. I think we need to wait somewhat longer for bandwidths matching that of a HPC interconnect bus (like Infiniband).
There are a lot of technical problems with the extra frequencies - some of them may have even shorter ranges than the current ones, requiring a much denser network of transmitters to provide adequate coverage.
I expect the advances to come to flagship phones initially, after some time to only be usable at airports or large conference centers, then maybe in Singapore, and finally gradually coming to the masses.
If 5G set the bar too high, I predict some 4.5G will emerge as an intermediate step.
Article: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/machine-learning-ai-explained
ReplyDeleteMachine learning versus AI: what's the difference?
This article is not very fresh but it is quite interesting. Basically what it tries to explain is difference between AI and Machine Learning.
Maybe for some people this difference is obvious but if you go deeper into to meanings of this words you can get really confused.
I usually thought about this difference as AI is science about learning machines and making them intelligent and Machine Learning is branch if it.
But is it? This article shows some very basic examples of Machine Learning (like self driving cars, word correction) and also quotes people people which did something in this field. For me the most accurate statemnt was made by head of Intel's Machine Learning "AI is basically the intelligence – how we make machines intelligent, while machine learning is the implementation of the compute methods that support it. The way I think of it is: AI is the science and machine learning is the algorithms that make the machines smarter" and I must say that I totally agree with it. So Machine Learning is bunch of algorithms made by Machine Learning experts to make AI scientists dream come true. To be short AI is science field and Machine Learning (Deep Learning too) is set of algorithms. What do you think about my statement?
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-fuchsia-chrome-os-android-demo
ReplyDeleteI’ve just read an article about the new system which Google is working on.
The name of the system is Fuchsia.
The mentioned system is a way for Google to equalize its chance with other competitors, mainly Apple - with its iOS and MacOS, and Microsoft with its Windows 10. The possible release date is 2019. Unofrtunately, it is still in porgress, so there is not a lot of information about it. There will be two different versions of the system – one names Capybara for the desktops and one named Armadillo for the mobile devices. The Fuchsia will enable integration between devices and probably will allow to synch messages, files, photos and music. It won’t be using on Linux, but on the new kernel named „Zircon”. Google brings new programming language for developers called Flutter. Right now you can develop apps in Flutter for Android devices In the future It will be possible to create apps in flutter for Fuchsia’s applications.
Nowadays You can test the simplyfy version of this operating system, by downloading preview of Fuschia for google’s Pixelbook, or just click the link below for try a web version of a bare bones demo :
https://mgoulao.github.io/fuchsia-web-demo/
Do you think it would be more popular than Android and IOS?
Article: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/delete-facebook-movement-brian-acton-leave-aleksandr-kogan
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of discussion about data privacy in media during last few weeks. Are you ready to cancel your fb account to show dissatisfaction caused by disonest policies of this company? Are you ready to pay fee instead sharing your personal data? Are you aware of fact that mining of this data can influence world we live in?
Many thanks, very interesting article and moving issue as such.
DeleteIn fact, I've started to think lately that it could be much safer not to exist in state or bank registers, but it is extremely difficult.
I guess the vision of removing account to protest against dishonest policies can be unavoidable future; on the other hand I've heard it can be sometimes difficult to get out of such system...
Probably it is even imposible because you can stop providing new data but the historical data will be used. In some cases probably legal actions could help but most of people don't have money and time to act in this way.
DeleteArticle: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/twitter-false-news-elections-scientific-study
ReplyDeleteI’ve just read an article about Twitter and fake news on this platform. Academic journal “Science” published study showing that fake news are not mostly generated by bots but by humans. People tend to share information that seems different and surprising and they don’t check whether they are true or not. Study also shown that the most popular subject among fake news is - not surprisingly - politics. Usually they are very controversial and opposite to well known truth, which makes them interesting for readers. While individual tweets about truthful stories only rarely reached an audience of more than 1,000 people, the top one per cent of false news stories routinely reached between 1,000 and 100,000 people. Truthful tweets also spread much more slowly than false ones, taking on average six times as long to reach an audience of 1,500 people. It is difficult to clearly determine how these messages affect people during the presidential elections and how they affect their political preferences, which significantly hinders legal regulations.
Don't you think, that it is another evidence for higher value of real contacts in reference to those developed in social media?
Deletewe just don't know and we cannot know, if someone writing something is honest towards us.... what's more - we are not able to require that.
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteI’d like to encourage you to read the following article:
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/how-vehicle-electrification-will-evolve-in-2018#gs.ZbPbdwY
This is interesting for many reasons. First of all I always like reading such things, because I am curious, how much of that is going to fulfill in the future.
Next, this is a subject still inappropriately developed in Poland. Comparing to the other countries, neighboring to us, we are far from using this in everyday life. On one hand it is being explained by too high electrical cars’ prices. On the other – by lack of charging stations.
It is very interesting, who and when will break this vicious circle. What do you think about it?
With kind regards :-)
Marta
Thanks for interesting article. It is important topic. I'm affraid of deterioration of global economical situation. In this case probably global ECO revolution will stop, and in Poland not even start :(
DeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI would like to present you an interesting article that describes 10 Chrome addons that make our life easier. Most of us know Adblock addon, which is able to block thousands of advertisements present on the websites. Unfortunately it has negative impact for authors of this content (they share content but puts advertisement of partner / sponsor).
RICHARD PRIDAY that is the author of the article “11 of the best Google Chrome extensions to make your life easier” presents 11 interesting addons for Chrome. Most of them were completely unknown for me :).
Sometimes we are struggling with problems with our Internet connection (or we suppose it). TO check it easily, we can install an addon that is able t check our connection parameters (aka speed test).
Next positions balance between security concerns and privacy concerns. I am not sure can I trust third party partners that will store all my passwords, or will encrypt whole my connections. Do you think it is safe? Do you know any interesting Chrome / Firefox addons?
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-chrome-extensions
A little about an ontology ;)
ReplyDeleteI would like to suggest to read the interesting article about a guide to creating your first ontology. The AI literature contains many terms of an ontology.
The article provides an answer to questions: why it's so crucial for AI to know how to develop an ontology? what is it?, and a pure knowledge for the engineering methodology (determine the domain and scope of the ontology, consider reusing existing ontologies, enumerate essential terms in the ontology, define the classes ant the class hierarchy etc.)
You can use in practice the article; it's a crucial advantage for me when I read something interesting.
If you like it, below you can find a link to the one.
https://protege.stanford.edu/publications/ontology_development/ontology101-noy-mcguinness.html
Thank you for this article. Partly I agree with previous comments of my classmates. 5G is really a step in future development of mobile network.
ReplyDeleteDue to the improvement of world technology appearance of 5G network was only the question of the time. Yesterday we couldn’t imagine 4K video or autopilot vehicle, but even today it is the simple reality for us. Moreover, 5G internet can be used not only in entertainment sphere. It is useful in military and government.
However there are some disadvantages. Most of current devices can’t support the new technology. So most of people are not able to rate it fully.
But I think its appearance on IT market will make production of devised with 5G access faster. Some countries have already implemented this technology, such as South Korea and Japan. This mean that not so far ago 5G network will be usual at whole world market.
I've read an article "To work for society, data scientists need a hippocratic oath with teeth" http://www.wired.co.uk/article/data-ai-ethics-hippocratic-oath-cathy-o-neil-weapons-of-math-destruction. The author of this artcile describes the problem of the effect of artificial intelligence have on making decisions that influence society. She gives an examples where measuring accuracy of the algorithm is not enpugh to say that this algorithms improves the quality of the job it is doing. The article states that data scientst should think not only about improving performance but also about ethical aspects. She propose a ethical matrix rows represents stakeholders which are influenced by algorithm and columns represents aspects in which they are represented. It could be used to evaluate ethical aspects. Author says that many algorithms work for particular companies but are not good for public. Even facebook admits that they need regulations to control them. I partially agree with that article. For sure data scientist should think about the impact on public but restrict regulations are never good idea. It is better to propagate the attitude of responsibility of what we are working on. It is not a new problem and it exist in every job that effects may influence public.
ReplyDeleteBad habits are something that everyone dream to fight with successfully. It is not so easy, is it? But what if there are some simple tactics, simple ways of making this fight easier and even funnier? Would you like to know these ideas or you want to stick with bad habits you have for eternity? What do you say?
ReplyDeleteIf you want to know how to get rid of bad habits, read this article: https://hbr.org/2017/02/break-bad-habits-with-a-simple-checklist
If not, do not read 😉
Hello everyone.
ReplyDeleteI encourage you to read the article at: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/delete-facebook-movement-brian-acton-leave-aleksandr-kogan
In recent days, there was an outbreak of Facebook-related scandal. Serious accusations have been made for unauthorized access to information about millions of users (estimate 81 million) to Cambridge Analytica - the firm who is dealing with political consultancy. The #DeleteFacebook action breaks popularity records on Twitter.
1) Do you think it's time to delete your Facebook account?
2) Will Facebook survive this scandal?
3) Do people who have not looked after the information they provide on the internet suddenly start to care more about privacy?
Hello everyone.
ReplyDeleteAfter every what I can hear about facebook I read a article :
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-to-delete-your-facebook-account (How to delete Facebook).
Do you think you can delete your facebook account?
I think, NO!!!
I read "Account deletion can take up to 90 days." How long you delete another account? - no facebook account! two three minutes.
Please think about it!
Best regards
I've read the article "http://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-gender-pay-gap-reporting-news-how-is-it-calculated". This topic is especially close to my heart as I am leader of Polish chapter Girls in Tech a global non-profit focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology. When it's illegal to pay men and women differently for doing the same job, there is still a marked gap between the genders' pay, primarily, it's thought, because women are typically in lower-paid positions within an organisation. Women earn a mean average of 85p an hour for every pound a man earn, a median of 82p for every point, and they receive bonuses that are around 35 per cent lower. The UK has risen five places since last year to 15th on the index, largely as a result of improvement in the political indicators after the appointment of Theresa May as prime minister in 2016. Active policies to close wage gaps are required. The European Commission recommendations point to several possible directions, from pay transparency where workers can compare their wages with others, to improving legal frameworks, like the recently approved law in Iceland aimed at closing the gender pay gap. There is still much more to be done to continue to improve hiring and wage policies across the European region.
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