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373∆24 Brasil and the world in crisis (draft)
Temas: Brasil and the world in crisis ( draft ) Sumário: Miríade e Distopia (2004-2024) Em construção: Coletânea de Poesias - draf...
quinta-feira, 2 de abril de 2020
Running and a long life
Five tips for teaching online
Don’t convert entire lecture to video;
Working together
Tyranny as an outcome of democracy?
Basic liberal assumptions to remember
daily meditation could slow brain aging
>8000 step a day could lower risk of early death, study finds
02apr20 26-24mar2020
Speech recognition racial bias
02apr20 26-24mar2020
On average, the systems misunderstood
35 percent of the words spoken by blacks but only
19 percent of those spoken by whites.
Automated speech recognition less accurate for blacks: study
- regional and
- non-native-English accents,
- Many companies now screen job applicants with automated online interviews that employ speech recognition.
- Courts use the technology to help transcribe hearings.
- For people who can't use their hands, moreover, speech recognition is crucial for accessing computers.
Coronavirus: what engineers could do?
- a public health (preventive) rather than
- a medical (restorative) setting,
- a public health (preventive) rather than
- a medical (restorative) setting,
Inequality Regimes
domingo, 29 de março de 2020
Desemprego estimulado
29/03/2020
24/08/2018
Inverter a espiral de desinvestimento e de desemprego avassalador: é necessário lembrar todo dia que esse desemprego foi programado.
Isso, ainda mais, depois de péssimas notícias, na área de economia, em relação ao desemprego recorde de:
- + de 11 milhões de desempregados;
- sobretudo chef@s de família;jovens;
Situação que só deve se agravar com a expansão da pandemia do Coronavirus.
Já dizia Manu d'Ávila, em 2018
''as medidas anticrise do desgoverno Temer exterminaram com o mercado de trabalho".
Eu digo, mais especificamente, que "exterminam os trabalhadores e outros precarizados".
Já que os trabalhadores estão cada vez mais:
desalentados de procurar trabalhos.
E aqueles poucos que conseguem serviço, encontram condições cada vez mais precarizadas com, entre outros aspectos:
- o avanço do trabalho informal;
- a terceirização irrestrita, inclusive de atividades fins.
- uberização;
O "precariado" ( conceito de Jessé de Souza) precisa estar consciente de que seu extermínio e degradação são programados.
Nessa conjuntura devastadora de mais de 11% de desempregados no Brasil, como não me lembrar de que até 2013, o Brasil vivia com desemprego, pelo menos oficial, de menos de 5%.
Lembro-me ainda mais de economistas neoliberais decretarem todo dia a necessidade de:
- aumentar o desemprego para diminuir o custo da mão de obra.
Você se lembra disso?
comente por favor:
o que pode ser feito para mudar essa desgraça?
robot advisers site crash
29/04/2020
05/01/2018
"The web sites of two of the country’s biggest robo-advisers -- Wealthfront Inc. and Betterment LLC -- crashed as the S&P 500 Index sank 4.1 percent. Complaints quickly spread across Reddit and other Internet sites from people who had trouble logging onto their accounts. "
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-05/robo-adviser-websites-crashed-cutting-clients-off-from-accounts
By
Peggy Collins
Updated on June 6, 2017 3:05 PM BR (Sao Paulo)
As a society, we’ve decided we trust robots to weld our cars together but we’re not ready to let them drive. How about investing our savings? Automated financial services, known as robo-advisers, are software programs that use algorithms to do what flesh-and-blood financial advisers do, but at a far lower cost. The startups that launched the industry said the rise of robo-advisers would both disrupt the $20 trillion field and give millions of investors access to the kind of smarts only the well-to-do have been able to afford. It’s not yet clear whether robo-advisers can outperform their human counterparts on anything other than price — no small matter. Either way, the big players in the field have decided the idea has enough promise for them to try to beat the newbies at their own game.
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Morgan Stanley is augmenting its 16,000 financial advisers with machine-learning algorithms that suggest trades, take over routine tasks and send reminders when your birthday is near.
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Many American investors have turned to advisers who charge a flat fee, most commonly 1 percent of a client’s assets under management. In general, traditional advisers only serve customers with significant savings, often at least $250,000, or in some cases millions. Betterment has no minimum; Wealthfront’s is $500. Online, potential clients answer a few questions about things like their age, salary and financial goals. Computer algorithms then propose one of several cookie-cutter portfolios — such as 40 percent in stocks and 60 percent in bonds for someone who said their first priority is having a safety net. The services usually use a range of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, which invest in stocks, bonds and other assets such as
natural resources and
corporate debt.
The programs periodically buy and sell securities to keep the mix matched to investors’ risk tolerance.
https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/robo-advisers