skooliers heavily tend towards being right-wing, trump-loving, gun-toting, immigrant-hating wankers.
Years ago my dad bought an old school bus because he wanted to convert it into a motor home with private bathroom and a garage in the back for his motorcycle for trips to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
Apart from the fact that he never got around to doing any work on the bus and eventually gave up and unloaded it on someone, your description would have been completely accurate.
Someone who wants to freak out the audience, obviously.
That 'r' is doing a lot of work.
Just because they are called "public" it doesn't mean they're owned by the public. It's a non profit created to produce media for public consumption, but they still have bills to pay, employees, etc.
If they have content for streaming or DVD sales or (probably more likely) licensing to other PBS stations, they need to get income from it to maximize their ability to continue to produce the free broadcasts they were created for.
From everything I've read, that's basically it. Babies get their linguistic start by just making babbling sounds "ba", "ma", "da", etc, because they are easy to produce. We as adults attribute meaning to them, that meaning is reinforced for the infant, and then it is accepted.
What I was curious about was why so many unrelated languages seem to use the "ma" sound for mother. If babies make random sounds and we assign the meaning to them, how did unrelated cultures agree on what each sound meant?
There's a section in this article that includes a suggestion of an explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa
Linguist Roman Jakobson hypothesized that the nasal sound in "mama" comes from the nasal murmur that babies produce when breastfeeding
But, if you can't put it in your mouth, where can you put it?
They shouldn't, but when has that ever stopped them? The (stupid) assumption they make is that the computer wouldn't make a mistake, so they assume it found the exact person they were looking for.
Judges shouldn't be issuing warrants solely because a face matching algorithm found someone who looked like the suspect, but they are probably as clueless about the technology as the police are.
I was listening to a podcast episode that was talking about AI-based face recognition and how it's being used.
The way it works, you take your shitty, off-center still from a security camera showing the suspect at an odd angle, and you feed it into the AI. The AI searches all the images it has access to to find people who look like the suspect.
Police take the results, pick up the person from that list that they think is the closest match, then they put them in front of a line-up, and ask the witnesses to identify the person who committed the crime. Once they have a positive ID, they use that to charge and convict the suspect.
The problem, of course, is that the AI is just finding people who look like the suspect. If they use the tool correctly, they would do some investigation to determine if there is any chance that anyone identified by the AI could actually be the suspect. Instead, they treat it like the AI identified the specific person they were looking for.
One example they used was a woman who was arrested. They arrested her despite the woman in the video not being pregnant and the woman they arrested being about 8 months along.
A few years after I got hired my boss mentioned that they had hundreds of applicants, but my resume stood out because I included a custom cover letter.
This was my first job after I graduated college in 1992. That was in the days when you could pick up a newspaper and see job listings in the classified section.
I admitted to my boss that the cover letter was a mail merge document. I had created a spreadsheet listing the name, address, etc. for dozens of positions from the classifieds and added one sentence specific to the job for every one.
The job was in IT, so it probably turns out that faking a custom cover letter counted as proof of qualifications.
Every job I've had since then was due to networking that all ties back to that first job.
I wrote HTML in EDIT, but my first webserver ran on an OpenVMS Alpha workstation.
Years ago I was playing Urban Terror on my server with my kids and their karate teacher. Me and the kids were at home, their karate teacher was at his home.
It was two teams, kids against the adults, and I was sitting there listening to the kids talking. While they were talking out loud about what they were doing, I was chatting online with their teacher and telling him where to find them. I'd keep them occupied while he snuck up behind them to take them out.
Played the whole night like that.