The deal is worth hundreds of millions to Google.

The deal is worth hundreds of millions to Google.

“I don’t know what would happen if the media starts picking up a theme that Google is secretly building AI weapons or AI technologies to enable weapons for the Defense industry,” she continued. “Google Cloud has been building our theme on Democratizing AI in 2017, and Diane and I have been talking about Humanistic AI for enterprise. I’d be super careful to protect these very positive images.”

The Google team noted that it has no press plan for the rollout of the contract and agreed that the company should work to set the “narrative” as quickly as possible. The “buzz” generated by the contract could be a positive, Black suggested.

The government sales team noted that Project Maven had been concealed through a contract awarded to ECS Federal, an arrangement first reported by The Intercept.

“The contract is not direct with Google but through a partner (ECS) and we have terms that prevent press releases from happening without our mutual consent,” wrote Black. The Defense Department “will not say anything about Google without our approval.”

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-drone-ai-pentagon-lucrative/

A useful map of working class discipline.

A useful map of working class discipline.

Originally shared by Teodor Poparescu

Mandatory minimum paid vacations around the world. The US seems to be the only OECD country. The only other nations on the planet which don’t have mandatory minimum vacations are Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, Tonga, Kiribati, Nauru.

Guess what county has the least unions.

Working to live or living to work?

Java 10 has var so the type of local variables can now be inferred instead of tediously and redundantly specified.

Java 10 has var so the type of local variables can now be inferred instead of tediously and redundantly specified. Welcome to being just a little bit less horrible, Java.

Actually Java had been on a trajectory of getting a bit more modern for a number years now (lambdas and closures* arrived in 2014). This probably won’t save it from its ultimate fate however as Oracle starts charging people money for the JVM and Android devs start looking at cooler languages like Kotlin.

* for byte code compatibility reasons, they are actually just syntactic sugar for a hack made out of nested inner classes.