It's when you peel away the EU flag and look at individual countries you see that some economies are in the gutter pretty much due to countries having vastly different needs.
Whats in say Germany's interests isn't in Italy/Greece's interest economically, economies are having crisis points constantly and continuous band aids instead of enacting policy that will fix it with a solid foundation.
I personally don't know whats needed to fix this, even Europe-wide economic policy is a hard sell because of the vastly different needs of individual countries within the union.
Something needs to happen, there's a generation of young people being left behind with unemployment/underemployment and their future is becoming more and more murky.
I personally think the social changes, coupled with gold standard being dropped are good part of the culprit.
For example I am in Brazil, that have "nothing to do" with EU and US.
Yet I have a mountain of debts, negative net worth, finished university in 2009, and I am yet to get a legal job.
Brazil, even at its "height", when people were praising Lula because it reached 7% of GDP growth and "Full Employment", if you looked into other numbers closely, would find out that most of the money went to the wealthiest, and that underemployment, illegal employment, self-employment, etc... that were on the rise, out of desperation of the people. Or you think I went since 2009 without eating? Of course if people offer me shady deal I accept it! Otherwise I can't even buy potatoes!
Similarly, every single friend I have, except 1, are still single, of all friends I have, only 2 have kids, noone owns his own house and car, most of my friends never got legal full-time jobs either...
This situation in turn removed lots of rights to me.
For example, election rules say you can only use money you declared in your tax returns, and that donors can only use up to 10% of their tax return, since I, and my friends never did tax returns (because our income is not exactly legal), we can't join politics in any way.
Similarly, since we never had a legal job, we can't claim unemployment benefits.
Since we have no tax return, neither legal job history, we can't apply for more loans.
And the list goes on...
And this is not just in Brazil, people of my age I know in other western countries, are mostly in the same situation.
What exactly does the gold standard have to do with economic troubles around the world? All the gold standard would do is subject any country that adheres to it to crippling deflation whenever the economy grows and crippling inflation whenever it contracts.
> All the gold standard would do is subject any country that adheres to it to crippling deflation whenever the economy grows and crippling inflation whenever it contracts.
If that was true, then why US, that of course had a recessions and booms at the time, still had prices mostly stable for more than a hundred years, while its population was expanding very quickly?
Or the same, for several other countries.
Gold, doesn't mean the money supply is completely static and constant. You can still have fractional reserve, can still debase your coins physically to cause inflation (Roman Empire in its last throes did that for example), Gold is still mined, and used to non-monetary products.
But Gold Standard also means you can't "inflate your way" out of problems 100% of the time, as is the default right now, we are seeing central banks all over the world with balooning balance sheets, while if you look the numbers for individual income since 1970s in advanced countries, you see the individual income is falling, meanwhile various financial items that are out of reach of the "average" person are balooning in value, and making the wealthy look even more wealthy (only "look" more wealthy, most of that wealth is purely theoretical, mostly money tied up in stocks, bonds, derivatives...)
From my point of view, all the lack of gold standard did was increase overall inflation, and create the most gigantic debt bubble in history, where all countries are accumulating ever increasing amounts of debt, not only from the governments, but individuals being more and more indebted.
I fully expect that the entire debt house of cards will collapse some time soon (ie: in decades scale at most, not centuries scale as most other major social change), and that people will realize how stupid it was to create an entire civilization based on debt and trust, something that breaks down when serious war show its head (I mean, why country A, would honor debts to country B during a war? Those are only numbers and derivatives, there is no "real" assets there!)
The global financial crisis was engineered to transfer more wealth to the elites and slow down population growth by making housing unaffordable to the millenial generation.
I said that the figures were wrong, the cause of the Recession is not only the fault of Europe since it was already the case before.
I life and work in the recession since the beginning. I can't handle anymore. Old people need to pay for the all the shit they have done.
The Europe need to collapse, I mean the EU economy but not in the mentality. I'm Swiss, I'm EU but only for the map, not for the economy. We are not together and like you say we will always see was it benefit for us, not for other. It's an human behavior. If they really want a global united EU, they need to make a big unique country but this will never happen.
>Unlike DSSTNE, Tensorflow or CNTK, our deep learning library is neutral, and not designed with the intention of locking people into to a cloud service.
How do any of these lock you into a cloud service?
And to reinforce Fenntrek's point: One of the core reasons for open sourcing TensorFlow is to make sure people have the ability to take their code and run it somewhere else. The exact opposite of lock-in. (I can say that with some knowledge - I'm working there right now.) In fact, the cloud service for "hosted" TF isn't even out of alpha yet, but there are many people already using TF on their own hardware.
I can't speak for MSFT or AMZN, but all three of these frameworks are completely open source with permissive licenses.
I seriously doubt that any of these three providers has lock-in as a goal by releasing their stuff OSS. Goodwill? Absolutely. Getting people to learn the technology they care about internally? Certainly. Hoping that people will play with it and find that they want to run their models on 100 nodes rented from a cloud service? Seems likely. For MSFT, wanting to make sure there was a high-performance DNN framework for Windows? Would make sense to me.
But lock-in by giving away your stuff in a way that lets anyone run it on their own hardware or a competitor's cloud? The DSSTNE benchmarks, for example, ran TensorFlow on AWS...
I've spoken with the TF team and they've been clear that open-sourcing the lib was part of strategy to make Google Cloud more appealing. It was conceived as a lure, among other things.
There's a big difference between "TensorFlow is great, and Google Cloud is great, and you can bet your butt that TensorFlow will run well on GCE" than "Run TF and get locked in to GCE". In fact, as I read it, the selling point is actually much closer to:
"TensorFlow is great, GCE is great, the two work great together, and it's open source so you can trust that you _won't_ get locked in." In other words, no-lockin is a deliberate part of the value proposition of TF+GCE.
I'm gonna get in trouble saying this. But IMO OpenCL needs to die. IMO it's a half-baked open standard that's hard to use relative to CUDA. IMO what needs to happen is that AMD and Intel need to provide CUDA runtime (just say no to the driver API) API interfaces to their hardware.
Evidence: OpenGL is a wonderful open standard. But OpenGL happened after nearly a decade of evolution of closed IrisGL that ironed out a lot of weird quirks that infest OpenCL to this day.
I joined the CUDA team in March of 2006 (that's why I have 14 single-inventor CUDA patents, including one that is the basis of persistent RNNS by Baidu). IMO CUDA is a mature API. And CUDA needs to escape NVIDIA's vendor lock. AMD is attempting to make this happen with HIP and ROC.
IMO as CUDA team member #6, we need to help AMD with this effort. To that end, we need to let go of OpenCL: I'm sorry but it's a dead-end. And we need to get as much of the existing CUDA code out there running on AMD hardware as we can. And I hope (but I don't think they'll agree because reasons(tm)) that Intel will provide a CUDA runtime API to Xeon Phi (Knights Landing or better) because CUDA is a better API for parallel computation than any other existing contender at this point.
And that's my story and I'm sticking to it. But don't get me started on both Google and Apple refusing to expose OpenCL on mobile where it could have once made a real difference. That time has now passed. CUDA won, but we still don't have a CUDA or OpenCL interface on either Android or IOS.
It went to Court and went through the due process, that process hasn't prior to this case and it wont after this case and the constitution remains the same.
If you publish, you deal with the repercussions, whether positive or negative.
The only thing I dislike is that it takes a billionaire to help a millionaire financially to give the case a fair chance while the less wealthy are powerless and without aid to even start a similar battle.
Seems Gitlab are moving fairly fast (compared to competition) and going for that all in one ecosystem (If you want it) from SCM to deployment with the range of products they've introduced.
We are thinking big. The integrated Container Registry is part of our plan. We will soon have an integrated deployments with easy to access environments. We also plan to introduce manual actions on pipelines allowing you to execute arbitary things, ex. promote to production, but also merge it back to the master.
Tried using different bookmarking apps etc but always prefer native saving of items on actual sites, great addition!
...Also welcome Scott!