>The disorder is characterized by "impaired control" with increasing priority given to
Oh please, then I assume every hobby in the world can be considered "hobby-name disorder". If it's something that help the millennium generation to relax and free their mind a few minutes /hours and if the society doesn't find something to come and reach the same level of satisfaction we found the "solution", it's a mental disorder... We really evolved... NOT
What really frustrates me when I watch this kind of demonstrations with bionics is the delay and inaccuracy between desired action and the real effect. I know it's not that simple, but from my perspective since the desired actions are transmitted through our nerves at 100 m/s and we can send an message thousands of kms away in milliseconds, I think there is always space for improvement. I am curious which is the real bottleneck in all the process.
As you can see in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjW1kIt5iQg there is some latency. Weinberg and Barnes are working to fix that, but I don't know details. Weinberg said he wants to gather more data from more users so the arm is more useful to more people.
But why should one rely on the termination of the nerves instead of the implating an electrode on the main cortex which controls the motor activity? Can't they translate directly the actions from the energy flow at that level?
What really surprises me it's how well Elon Musk handles everything so far. In most of the companies I see some steps : create a product, announce it, release it, take a break and enjoy the hard work, repeat. I don't see that at Elon Musk, he is just going and going and developing and bringing new products over products, there is no visible break. .. I am picturing him skiing with an avalanche behind, and he keeps going and with each new product, more snow is gathering behind him. At one moment, a simple mistake will cause the avalanche to catch him.
>This can be seen from increase in placements in IITs this year.
That's probably because they are pushed by their families, "go and study IT, this is the best paid job at the moment". That doesn't mean that the value, skills, abilities of the new graduates will increase, I tend to believe the opposite.
What do you mean by pushed by their families? You don't seem to have a good understanding of educational institutions in India. IIT entrance exams are one of the toughest exams out there. Please read this page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Entrance_Examination_–_A...
So even if families pressure their kids, they will not be able to get an admission in these institutes unless they demonstrate required skills.
>Well, yeah, entry-level IT stuff was always a target for automation
I see this as a progress. Since you replace the first-level IT stuff with automated processes, the now second-level IT stuff will sooner or later become first-level and so on. Therefore all the levels are pushed upwards and we tend to go to higher levels, no matter if we speak about developing, researching, improving etc.
At least in this case, 56,000 people in the 1st level lost their jobs. What's the total number of level 1's who matriculated to level 2? And is there a net job loss or are the laid off people finding other jobs that pay as well or better?
Without answers for these and related questions, it's uncertain if this is good progress.
> Preparing the ground for layoffs, each of these seven companies has already put a higher number of employees on notice by awarding them the lowest ratings. Cognizant has placed more than 15,000 employees in the lowest category (bucket IV), and Infosys has placed more than 3,000 senior managers in the category of employees needing improvement.
This isn't 56k entry level jobs. This is 56k jobs up and down the structure of the companies.
> As IT companies start working on newer technologies such as cloud computing, they are fast moving from a people-led model, which means they need fewer employees. Meanwhile, many of the IT companies have embraced automation tools to perform the mundane, repeatable tasks that were performed by an army of engineers earlier.
> “The entire pyramid structure (organizational structure) is getting disrupted,” the second HR head cited earlier added.
> That speaks of a bigger problem, said an expert.
> “What required 50 programmers, analysts or accountants 5 years ago can be done by a handful of smart thinkers and much smarter systems,” said Phil Fersht, CEO of US-based HfS Research, an outsourcing-research firm. “If I were Prime Minister Narendra Modi, I would be very concerned that a whole workforce generation needs reorienting to address work activities that are growing in demand.”
None of the articles speak to where the people who have lost their jobs are going.
How much do you guys think current DevOps roles will be automated within the next 10 years? I think about this a lot but then I remember that back when most of these functions were called "sysadmin" tasks, they were always supposed to get automated out but never really did.
Oh please, then I assume every hobby in the world can be considered "hobby-name disorder". If it's something that help the millennium generation to relax and free their mind a few minutes /hours and if the society doesn't find something to come and reach the same level of satisfaction we found the "solution", it's a mental disorder... We really evolved... NOT