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Four Hot Areas for AI in Financial Services
Summary AI is making waves in almost all aspects of modern life; financial services is no exception. Learn how AI is revolutionizing customer experience and retention, credit approval, fraud detection, and more. There has been a great deal of interest in artificial intelligence (AI) for financial services recently—and for good reason. Abundant compute and storage resources, flexible development protocols and tools, and varied and abundant data promise to usher in a golden age of AI.
Pure Storage FlashBlade//S with Cohesity DataProtect: Your Secret Weapon against Ransomware
One of the most common ransomware attacks we see today is the destruction of backup data. The ability to recover quickly from this sort of destructive attack is a huge question mark for traditional backup systems or any purpose-built backup solution. Businesses cannot wait days or weeks to get their data back—they need to recover within hours from any sort of disaster to avoid incurring major downtime and the resulting loss of revenue.
IT Agility Delivered: Future-ready Storage Solutions to Meet Enterprise Data Growth
Being close to our customers and focusing on solving their strategic IT challenges has been a key tenet for Pure Storage since day one.
Carnivory as Conformity
I appreciate the calm and scholarly tone of Aeon Skoble’s defense of meat-eating, but as a piece of moral reasoning his commentary is disappointing in the way it repeats arguments that have long been subject to decisive criticisms. To cite but one example, the thought that we should eat meat because other animals do has obvious problems, as Peter Singer pointed out in the second edition of (1993).
Searching for Common Ground on Meat Eating and Public Policy
Michael Huemer’s essay is refreshing in its willingness to challenge genteel opinion regarding animals in the name of a more rigorous view. Two features of Huemer’s argument are especially attractive. First, it relies on parsimonious premises. The claim that pain and suffering are bad is much less controversial than its denial. Second, the argument is compatible with a range of political and moral philosophies.
The Conscience of a Human Being
I. The Test of Conscience Sometimes, I wonder whether average human beings possess a conscience—an ability to independently judge and be motivated by moral truths—or if they instead possess only the instinctive disposition to conform to social conventions and the demands of the powerful.
The Moral Status of Animal Suffering
Michael Huemer asks “are animals moral subjects?” I agree that this is an important question and that the treatment of animals is a significant moral matter. However, I think Huemer is wrong to base the argument on sentience and the intrinsic wrongness of pain. Sentience Huemer argues that animals are “moral subjects.” Though he doesn’t explicitly define what he means by being a moral subject, he seems to mean a being that has some kind of capacity to have experiences of pleasure or pain.
Can college football truly be fair?
College football is crossing over to the high-tech gridiron age, a new era that could end up making competition unbalanced — in football and other sports — with technological-haves outstripping the have-nots. But the reality of this modern athletic age is far more nuanced than that. Competition could not exist without opponents possessing advantages and disadvantages. If each team theoretically was equal, there would be almost no contest and each game essentially would end in a tie.
Commentary: Football programs that adopt cutting-edge technology may have a competitive advantage. Is that unfair? It depends.
College football is crossing over to the high-tech gridiron age, a new era that could end up making competition unbalanced — in football and other sports — with technological-haves outstripping the have-nots. But the reality of this modern athletic age is far more nuanced than that. Competition could not exist without opponents possessing advantages and disadvantages. If each team was theoretically equal, there would be almost no contest and each game would essentially end in a tie.
Commentary: Football high tech and fairness
By Shawn E. Klein/Los Angeles Times Wednesday Nov 27, 2019 at 6:37 PM Nov 27, 2019 at 6:37 PM College football is crossing over to the high-tech gridiron age, a new era that could end up making competition unbalanced - in football and other sports - with technological-haves outstripping the have-nots. But the reality of this modern athletic age is far more nuanced than that. Competition could not exist without opponents possessing advantages and disadvantages.
Commentary: Football high tech and fairness
By Shawn E. Klein/Los Angeles Times Wednesday Nov 27, 2019 at 6:37 PM Nov 27, 2019 at 6:37 PM College football is crossing over to the high-tech gridiron age, a new era that could end up making competition unbalanced - in football and other sports - with technological-haves outstripping the have-nots. But the reality of this modern athletic age is far more nuanced than that. Competition could not exist without opponents possessing advantages and disadvantages.
Commentary: Football programs that adopt cutting-edge technology may have a competitive advantage. Is that unfair? It depends.
College football is crossing over to the high-tech gridiron age, a new era that could end up making competition unbalanced — in football and other sports — with technological-haves outstripping the have-nots. But the reality of this modern athletic age is far more nuanced than that. Competition could not exist without opponents possessing advantages and disadvantages. If each team was theoretically equal, there would be almost no contest and each game would essentially end in a tie.
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