There has always been and will always be pressure to make nice with China.
I understand that Harper facing the same political pressure as anyone else is entirely unfair because only white people face discrimination and climate change is a hoax.
Oh hemer-HOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your nasty delusional fantasies are exposing LIE-berals as the vile hypocrite, nasty, anti white................................
SOVIET STYLE dictators I have claimed they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for your help in exposing your VILE MASTERS for what they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And for exposing the LIE-beral capacity to TWIST THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an interesting article that suggests we are moving in costly directions that DO NOT serve the public interest!
With some comments of my own in brackets):
An AI's Carbon Footprint Is 5 Times Bigger Than a Car's
By David Grossman, Popular Mechanics
Published June 7, 2019
Subaru, Toyota join to develop Evs.
In any number of industries, from transportation to medicine to defense, advocates are calling on artificial intelligence to play increasingly large roles as the fields look to the future. But a new study shows there's a dirty side to AI: energy consumption.
The act of training a neural network, according to the study led by Emma Strubell of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, creates a carbon dioxide footprint of 284 tonnes-five times the lifetime emissions of an average car.
(Given this one lone fact - maybe we should ask if we want autonomous vehicles on our roads at all? For one thing they STEAL blue collar delivery jobs- in a society where jobs are getting harder to find!)
(Then add in this revelation about energy consumption and the question grows even bigger! Then throw in the fact that autonomous vehicles are ALL battery powered - and WE KNOW that Lithium battery production is a FILTHY business and then add in serious questions about HOW electricity is generated, with coal and natural gas being very often used for generation - and then ask HOW messy a job it is to dispose of old Lithium batteries- and at this point even an optimist must admit that battery power IS NOT nearly as green as its promoters are admitting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Makers of autonomous vehicles are road testing them in several south western Yankee cities- and the operators report that local people often throw rocks and debris at the machines!! Locals are JUSTIFIABLY PISSED that their streets should be turned into laboratories for mechanical LAB RATS!!)
(After all- the machine owners CANDIDLY ADMIT- THEY ARE TESTING the machines in real world conditions to see if they can hack it!! Local people are being turned into accessories AT RISK OF INJURY in a science experiment that WILL NOT profit them if it works -but MAY HARM THEM if it fails!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And yet LIE-berals find it hard to understand our opposition to their mouldy green propaganda, electricity price gouging, and the LIE-beral OBSESSION with electric TOY cars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Neural networks are sometimes considered the "brute force" hammers of the AI world, effective but inefficient. Strubell's study examined four different AIs all involved in understanding written words: Transformer,ELMo, BERT, and GPT-2. GPT-2, for example, is trained to predict the next word in 40 gigabytes of Internet text. It was trained to process words from 8 million web pages.
Strubell's team measured each AI for one day and sampled the energy consumption throughout. That figure was then multiplied by the length of time it took to train the AIs, according to their original builders. From there, the carbon footprint was based on average carbon emissions used in American power production.
Scientists identified a process known as a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) as the main offender. Using trial and error, NAS automates the design of a neural network. Referred to as one of the "new kings of the deep learning castle," NAS is seen as a "quick and dirty way of getting great accuracy for your machine learning task without much work."
(In other words- science is trying to computer mimic -in a day or two- the development of a machine with human brain capability - with the human brain taking MILLIONS of years to evolve! No wonder the electricity bill is BIG!!!!!!!)
However, training the Transformer AI, which is focused on translating between languages like French and English, with NAS is vastly more time-consuming. It only takes 84 hours to train the Transformer without NAS; with the process, it can take over 270,000 hours.
NAS is fine-tuned for extremely specific tasks within the AI framework-translating German or French, for example-meaning that expends 3,000 times the amount of energy.
(One really has to ask if it would not be cheaper to hire competent human translators for such tasks??????????)
There are limits to Strubell's study, which will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computer Linguistics in Florence, Italy in July. Giant companies like Google and Amazon present the option to researchers of paying for cloud-based platforms that can be used to remotely train AIs. Understanding how Google and Amazon use these cloud platforms would paint a fuller picture.
(There is a further concern beyond mere power usage- which is WHO - in the end- is paying for this stuff since Google and Amazon are tacking their research costs onto our products while learning how to manipulate us? How much of the cost is being sneaked out of OUR POCKETS by companies like Google and Amazon?? Do we want a couple of private companies to have near TOTAL CONTROL of all online activity?? AND have access to all manner of retail records of what you bought, where you traveled and how??????????????????????????)
(Allowing for LIE-beral climate hysteria- which they are using as an EXCUSE to price gouge us on electricity; then throw in their love of electric TOY cars that cannot be sold unless LIE-berals offer up HUGE subsidies in that selfish economy manipulating and careful vote buying way beloved of LIE-berals; then discuss the huge electrical bills and carbon foot print of A.I. And then consider that public roads and the people on them are being treated as UNPAID LAB RATS and it all looks like a VERY UNHEALTHY convergence of corporate and LIE-beral interests!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Still, the data poses enough of a concern.
“From an energy perspective, and from a carbon reduction perspective, we should be thinking about designing the services and making sure the algorithms are efficient as possible,” says Chris Priest at the University of Bristol, speaking to New Scientist.
Given the dire warning presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-the world has only 12 years to limit the damage of global warming-large carbon footprints should be examined closely. Because simply planting more trees likely won't cut it.
Source: New Scientist
(And as we KNOW - the LIE-beral carbon crap and trade tax SCAM WILL NOT CUT IT either!! ALL CURRENT LIE-beral environmental “initiatives” have GROSS GRAVY GRAB stamped all over them!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(If LIE-berals were serious about climate change they would IMMEDIATELY call a halt to air travel- the most DIRTY WAY to move either people or cargo!! And whatever happened to the Chretien LIE-beral plan to push for having more cargo delivered between provinces and states by TRAIN? Since trains are more fuel efficient than trucks!! Too costly or inconvenient I guess????????????????)
(LIE-berals claim to fret about the environment - and then ENCOURAGE drive through service at banks and fast food joints- in a society where obesity and Diabetes are reaching epidemic proportions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And LIE-berals seem not to care about the carbon foot print of a company like Amazon- that promises next day service from ACROSS the continent - even as Amazon ERODES the amount of tax money paid by local biz that is being bypassed for online shopping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Do LIE-berals hold any solid values or have any real plans they can follow for more than one day at a time?????????????????????????????)