any women here who have never dated, never had a boyfriend?

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Wow! I'm impressed. Just think what you'll be able to do when you're a grad student.

Well it may be possible that the world ends first because I am only in the middle since I am doing two degrees at the same time (one engineer in electronic-computing science and a master in algorithm/ai) I got 6 years to do plus at least (depending of the money you get) 3 year of doctorate but with the world financial problems it is more like 4 or 5 currently and after that a lot of researchers have to do like 3 to 5 years of post doctorate which is just like being a doctorate student so the path is very very long and I only did 4.5 years so it is not for tomorrow

Wow! You're a genius!! !

Well if only it could be true but according to my parents I am more a girl taking all their money to have fun doing useless things on a computer so I guess they have another perception plus you have no real proof showing that what I did is that hard so trust me this is not the serious ai game just now because if we forget about money ai is very popular and a lot of people want to be part of it and there is a lot of real genius I will have to deal with. But at least it is stimulating I wish everyone could enjoy their job as I do

Ok lol. Well, your IT skills are far in advance of mine and one day you may be getting paid for your work. In the meantime, you're lucky to have parents are willing and able to fund your interests.

I am not sure it is really their will but whatever for sure I am lucky it is very hard to go through research path you need to pay years after years and international sometimes it is very hard for someone without a strong financial support to complete all this years and we have to live with almost anything since it is not my money I cannot afford buying things like videogames and in addition we cannot count on the states to pay the computers, the servers I need so my teenage room is now full of very old computers used as ftp server which I make my real pc believe they are ssd on which I installed lost of my programs because visual studio takes everything from my poor little pc. This is not good we cannot work with that each time there is no internet connection I cannot use my softwares and in some country they even have to pay licenses for things like visual studio and after all of this if you decide not to sell your soul to devil and work in public university you are well paid of course comparing to the global population but less than an ingeneer so I am not complaining for myself I do not need much but I cannot forget that I am probably taking the place of someone more skilled but who cannot afford this kind of life and it is not so fair

Your resourcefulness and capacity for self-sacrifice are remarkable. Why would your internet connection go down? Are you sure you wouldn't prefer to work for a corporation as a software engineer and get a higher salary?

The problem is my house is quite old and there is a lot of iron in here so it is impossible to make a good connection between the fiber and the server room under the roof (4th floor) so sometimes it crash at a critical moment.

The problem with big companies is ethical I think ai is the most powerful today's weapon at least in an economical point of view and the way those companies use it is terrible they steal money on financial market or track people to sell personal data. This is the only reason they want ai so badly because collecting data is very easy especially if your name is google facebook or amazon for example but this worth nothing if you cannot interpret them because they will be bought to create needs for people. For now we use analytic algorithms like statistic analyse genetic algorithm and some others coming from maths but nothing can understand better humain brain than a copy, faster (there is billions of billions) and cheaper. To me this is very agressive and I do not see the progress here. I love ai and my dream is trying to have an artificial brain capable of thinking of subjective things like beauty or humor. I find it amazing to try that is why I am here doing this and not to steal the placement some poor people made with their life money save or manipulate them to force them to buy a chimical shaving cream or an awful plastic donut.

I know I sound like a miss universe but what they call ai algo is nothing more than a thief to me so I do not want to have anything to do with this I prefer staying poor hoping that some day people will realize the need of an independant research and finance a little more.

The world is bad enough I will not make it worst

Really weird because in Argentina for exemple they have it.

I think France is in the middle we have fiber almost everywhere but some people have trouble like my family. This is not that common all our neighbours have perfect network but my house is a mystery my father says there is a very very important amount of iron in the wall which explicate the thing. I am not trying to understand anymore I am playing lottery instead if I win I will buy my own server room

Argentina is more advanced than Australia. Nearly every country in the world is more advanced then Australia. Our government is extremely corrupt. They cancelled plans to connect all Australian homes via fibre because the cable TV company bribed them too. They were worried that with better internet no one would want to pay for their overpriced cable TV service (owned by the infamous Rupert Murdoch).

The national phone company then bribed the government to by their worthless and poorly maintained network for a high price. The network was in such a poor state of repair that most of it will need to be rebuilt from scratch (meaning there was never any need to buy it because most of it will be scrapped).

The copper network will be replaced with an identical copper network which will deteriorate in a few years unless expensive maintenance is performed. The greedy and corrupt communications minister (now our prime minister) fraudulently claimed that building a fiber optic network would be too expensive. He instead opted to convert the existing copper network from ADSL2+ to VDSL2.

However, most of the expense was not from the materials required to make the fibre optic cables but from the process of cable laying. Since most of the cables will have to be relayed anyway (replaced with identical cables) the expense of cable laying is the same.

VDSL2 has a much shorter range than ADSL2+, meaning that tens of thousands of nodes will have to be constructed, costing about one million dollars each and each one requiring large amounts of power and each being expensive to maintain.

While our corrupt and fraudulent prime minister continues to claim Australia can't afford to build a fibre optic network, his VDSL2 plan will actually cost many times more. The fibre optic network would have paid for itself after a few years due to much lower maintenance costs.

A cost / benefit analysis was conducted, revealing that the prime minister's plan would be far more expensive. The prime minister then had the results of this classified (after this incident Edward Snowden rightly compared our government to that of North Korea). He has waisted tens of billions of dollars and set the country back decades behind the rest of the world.

Future internet services will built with fibre optic speeds in mind. When we're unable to comply we'll be cut off from the rest of the world. The prime minister claims only gamers and nerds care about internet speeds but local businesses are the most reliant on them. He claims to support local businesses but in truth he doesn't support any company that hasn't bribed him.

I guess you should go to Argentina because I can promise you it is not. It is a country living out of the world there is only a very few imported product and they are crazy expensive and if you get a package from outside you will have to wait like a hole month to get it and you will pay pay and pay again. Supermarket often miss a lot of products the clothing is expensive as hell never seen something like that before and it is very very bad quality. There is no choice when you buy something each store have exactly the same poor quality products. There is no possibility to have illimited phone communication and texting is also very expensive especally from a city to another so event the institutions are using whatsapp. As a French I have a very secure visa with chip card and there was no device I could use it even on internet websites when I tried (I tried severals) it crashed and the same goes for the bank there was no bank taking my card so I could no get money except at hsbc but I could not have more than 150us each time maximum twice a day and each of this operation cost 7us no matter how much I transfered. Funny when you know one of the bank is called BBVA Frances and do not even take a french card. I also tried to transfer money from a French bank to an Argentina's to pay my rent and it costed 30% of the transaction to my landslord. I had to use western union like every one else and it was enormous enormous queues. And if I speak about corruption (I will not even speak about the general disorganisation) there are apparently a lot of people arrested for no reason and I saw a lot of people on stroke to protest aigainst their politics and finally last point no one speaks English even on planes, inn or whatever it is Spanish (very specific Spanish in addition) or Portuguese (Brazilian) so if you are not familiar with spannish it is very very hard to survive there. And the problems are increasing they getting more and more army in the street and economically it is more and more weak with the water and gaz price cray increasing (they almost not use electricity for the kitchen or heaters) and the cost of life cazy crazy crazy expensive (they buy everything with credit even if buy a bottle of milk you can pay in 2, 3,4,... times). Really sad for them because it is a wonderful country with wonderful people but they exclude themselves from the world and the progress so I can assure you Australia is more developped (my uncle lives in Sydney for like 35 years now)

Perhaps you're right but it just seems like Australia is woefully less advanced compared to much of the world. Our technology is laughable. Stuff here is overpriced. Our naval submarines aren't even nuclear.

They were thinking about building nuclear power plants which would be a good idea since we have much of the world's uranium reserves but the idiotic environmentalists were against it. Don't they realise nuclear power plants produce less carbon dioxide emissions than coal?

Compared to France, Australia is embarrassingly behind in nuclear technology. You have nuclear warheads, nuclear submarines and nuclear powerplants. We have none of these things, even though Australia has more uranium than France.

It's ridiculous when I see people here protesting against nuclear technology. If they don't want nuclear technology then perhaps they should move to Pennsylvania and become Amish.

I think this may be the most civil discussion I've ever seen in L & D.

The most civil discussion on L & D is pro nuclear weapons? Then just think how uncivil the other ones were

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The key to remaining civil would seem to be in not discussing the given topic at all.