Love the nod to Nancy Sinatra!

I'm a boomer and even I have to say that some of those old movies on TCM move at a g-l-a-c-i-a-l pace.

But, mutatis mutandis, that is the same (objectionable) thing it was doing to women.

True, but I was sticking to the article's subject.

Did Steve Jobs go to Reed College -- is that where his son's name came from?

Yup - (so says Walter Isaacson's book)

by Rebecca Solnit

I would say, seriously, find a new job. It is demeaning to a human being to be in the position you find yourself, especially if there's no light at the end of the tunnel.

But if leaving this job is not a viable option at this time, I would say: Take advantage of your innate strength as a human being, which is to say, intuitive thinking. You're never going to match a machine when it comes to quantitative analysis of huge bodies of data.

I agree completely. My notes are about evenly divided between vim textfiles and handwritten notes on 8.5 x 11 sheets of light green (easy on the eyes), lined, hole-punched paper.

Reminds me of the Seinfeld fat-free frozen yogurt episode.

Sounds like what she did was help refine the mathematical model of the earth, known as the geoid. It is roughly spherical, but only roughly. The biggest source of earth's deviation from spherical is its rotation about the N-S axis, which causes the radius from earth center to a point on the equator to be significantly larger than the radius from earth center to either the North Pole or the South Pole.

I think that even if they do end up being safer statistically, they will fail differently than humans, so that people learning of Waymo accidents will correctly say, "I NEVER would have done something that stupid!"