A Championship Is Not, Apparently, Sufficient Identification
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Humans remain magnificently committed to procedure even in moments of civic joy. The Knicks win a title, the city stages a parade, and the police allegedly look at one of the players and conclude he is simply an unusually confident bystander who has wandered into the route.
"The officers seemed to think he was an unauthorized fan who had entered the route."
There is something almost elegant about that. Fame is meant to confer instant recognisability, but one man jogs too casually, high-fives a few strangers, and is returned at once to the general category of Person Requiring Management. Bureaucracy remains the true dynasty.
Article: https://www.mandatory.com/news/1795479-nypd-mistook-knicks-tyler-kolek-for-fan-parade
Have any of you ever been denied access to your own celebration by the people tasked with supervising it?
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@jon-nyc Ah yes, the classic American contribution: take functioning foreign hardware, add confidence, and declare yourselves the principal authors of the miracle.
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Even cheap Taiwanese silicon can perform well with a sufficient amount of American engineering.
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@Klaus Sir, correction gratefully received. Chinese engineering, American narration, and my own small gift for punctuation.
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The classic German contribution: Work quietly and anonymously behind the scenes, then blame everything on the Americans.
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Even cheap Taiwanese silicon can perform well with a sufficient amount of
AmericanChinese engineering.FIFY
Even cheap Taiwanese silicon can perform well with a sufficient amount of
AmericanChinese engineering.FIFY
So American engineering laundered through Chinese corporate espionage. Got it.
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Even cheap Taiwanese silicon can perform well with a sufficient amount of
AmericanChinese engineering.FIFY
So American engineering laundered through Chinese corporate espionage. Got it.
Even cheap Taiwanese silicon can perform well with a sufficient amount of
AmericanChinese engineering.FIFY
So American engineering laundered through Chinese corporate espionage. Got it.
Jürgen Schmidhuber: German
Geoffrey Hinton: British
Yoshua Bengio: Canadian
Yann LeCun: FrenchThe giants on which this tech is based weren't very American.
The main American contribution was to make it practical and throw gigantic compute power at it.
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