JM, classificeren op kenmerken.
Jij draagt aan, wat zijn het, vernieuwers, geniën, uitvinders, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates en Elon Musk. Voor hen te hanteren eigenschappen, Geslacht, Tijdgenoot, ICTPionier en StinkendRijk. Voor de twee eerstgenoemden ook nog Gearresteerd. Idem voor de twee laatstgenoemden, NogInLeven.
Dan was David Bowie Nikola Tesla in de besproken film. Wij noteren niet als extra eigenschap Acteur maar wel nog even kijken of Geslacht dan meer waarden kan aannemen dan de twee die we al hadden.
In relatie tot Tesla nog jouw introducé George Hotz, de Tesla-hacker:
99 percent accuracy is easy, says Tesla, but 99.9999 percent accuracy is hard
The company notes that while Hotz’s technology “may work as a limited demo on a known stretch of road” (Bloomberg filmed Hotz’s modified Acura ILX sedan driving on a highway near his home), it takes “enormous resources to debug over millions of miles of widely differing roads.”
The post goes on to say that while it is “relatively easy” to create a machine learning system that is 99 percent correct, it is “vastly more difficult” to reach 99.9999 percent accuracy.
In the Bloomberg story, Vance also reports that Hotz was introduced to Musk sometime earlier this year, and chatted with him about artificial intelligence at a Tesla factory.
Hotz claims that Musk offered him a contract with a “multimillion-dollar bonus” if his technology outperformed systems used by Tesla, but the 26-year-old hacker says he turned down the offer because he felt that “Musk kept changing the terms.”
The Verge - 17-12-2015
Daar gaan we, George Hotz, jongen of man? Foto:
Wel ICTPionier maar meteen al uitval op het kenmerk Geslacht:
Meet the Hollywood Bombshell who invented the basis for Modern WIFI
If this beautiful Hollywood starlet looks a little bored or unimpressed while posing in her rather ridiculous glitzy get-up, it’s because she probably was; her mind elsewhere– for instance, oh say … masterminding the breakthrough technology that would bring us the basis for modern-day WiFi and Bluetooth.
A year of phone calls, drawings on envelopes, and fiddling with models on Hedy’s living room floor produced a patent for a radio system that was virtually jam-proof, constantly skipping signals.
She signed the patent over to the Navy anyway and left it at that. Her idea was not implemented in the United States until 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Today, Lamarr’s technique of frequency hopping (commonly known as spread spectrum) is now widely used in telecommunications, from the wireless phones in our homes, to GPS and most military communications. Hedy Lamarr never made a dime off it.
MessyNessyChic - 13th Jun, 2014
Foto:
Een fantastische 1e helft maar na de rust kantelde de wedstrijd volledig:
From Riches to Rags
During her last marriage, Hedy had had to sell her French paintings, totaling half a million dollars, to pay for her maintenance. By the middle 1960s she was broke; she couldn’t pay her utility bills and often went hungry, except when friends gave her food.
As a consequence perhaps, Hedy was arrested for shoplifting in January 1966. She was apprehended with $86 worth of merchandise. But, at the trial, she was acquitted. It seemed Hedy was still an icon, because later that same year Andy Warhol directed a 70-minute film entitled Hedy the Shoplifter.
During Hedy’s twilight years, she retired to Florida, living off the royalties to her autobiography, and died on January 19, 2000 at the age of 86 (give or take a year).
HubPages - December 24, 2014
Ook Gearresteerd en ons lijstje kenmerken vullen we nog aan met TragischEinde?
En een eerste belangrijke observatie, als we het filteren op Tijdgenoten laten vallen geeft ons dat toegang tot een grotere groep objecten, bijvoorbeeld Tesla zelf.
Voor kenmerk Geslacht de waarde “man” nu en opnieuw, TragischEinde:
Nikola Tesla
On 12 January, two thousand people attended a state funeral for Tesla at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. After the funeral, Tesla’s body was taken to the Ferncliff Cemetery in Ardsley, New York, where it was later cremated.
Despite having sold his AC electricity patents, Tesla was impoverished and in debt when he died.
Wikipedia
Dit is 1943, ook toen in de VS al veel aandacht voor vreemdelingen vanwege ‘National Security’:
Two days later, the FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize Tesla’s belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen.
Tesla’s entire estate from the Hotel New Yorker and other New York City hotels was transported to the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company under the Office of Alien Property (OAP) seal.
John G. Trump, a professor at M.I.T. and a well-known electrical engineer serving as a technical aide to the National Defense Research Committee, was called in to analyze the Tesla items in OAP custody.
In a box purported to contain a part of Tesla’s “death ray”, Trump found a 45-year-old multidecade resistance box.
Iets van een patroon begint zich af te tekenen:
Gary Kildall The DOS that wasn’t
THIS IS THE STORY of the guy who could have been Bill Gates. He just never got the breaks. He wrote the software that set off the personal computer revolution. He missed landing an important contract. He died in a brawl.
On July 6, 1994 Kildall, 52, walked into a Monterey bar. He was wearing motorcycle leathers with Harley-Davidson patches;a would-be biker. There were some real bikers in the bar. Something was said. There was pushing and shoving, and Kildall died from injuries sustained to his head. An inquest called the death “suspicious,” but no one was charged.
Forbes - 7/07/1997
Mijn favoriet:
Douglas Engelbart
The inventor of the computer mouse Douglas Engelbart died in July this year [2013, WM]. He first came up with the idea for the mouse in 1968, and did patent it. But the patent ran out in 1987, before the technology became widely used. Since then, at least one billion computer mice have been sold.
The Mirror - 10 inventors who never made money from their creations
Nog een. Geslacht, “man”, check. StinkendRijk, Gearresteerd. Ook NogInLeven. Wel/niet TragischEinde:
The insane life of former fugitive and eccentric cybersecurity legend John McAfee
John McAfee is an enigma. He built one of the biggest antivirus companies to date, and yet it’s what happened after this chapter of his life that made him a legend.
McAfee quickly became even more successful, largely because of a computer virus called Michelangelo that hit the scene in 1992. Though only about tens of thousands of computers were infected, Michelangelo propelled McAfee to go public, and it turned into a multimillion-dollar business.
In 1994, McAfee set his sights for greener pastures and resigned from McAfee. Two years later he sold his shares, which gave him about $100 million.
In 2008, however, the economic collapse caught up to him. One report said that his fortune had shrunk from $100 million to as little as $4 million.
In 2012, he was considered a “person of interest” when his neighbor Gregory Faull was shot to death, according to Reuters. McAfee fled after being questioned by the Belize government.
Ever since, McAfee has kept a sporadic public persona. He drove to Portland, Oregon, in 2013, where he reportedly still lives. He now sometimes blogs about security, privacy, and freedom.
Business Insider -Tech - Jul. 23, 2015
Zo, tien mannen of jongens of niet:
Tech-Wizard Gesl. Tijdgenoot ICTPionier StinkendRijk Gearresteerd NogInLeven Tragisch
Steve Jobs 1 1 1 1 1 0 1
Bill Gates 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
Elon Musk 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
David Bowie 3 1 0 1 0 1 0
George_Hotz 1 1 1 0 1 1 0
Hedy Lamarr 2 0 1 1 1 0 1
Nikola_Tesla 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
Gary Kildall 1 1 1 0 0 0 1
D. Engelbart 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
John McAfee 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Thomas Edison 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
En spuit-elf, hij wordt ons proefkonijn:
Why Dolores Chumsky hates Thomas Edison
In fact, his best-known failure was in his push for concrete housing complete with concrete furniture, even concrete pianos. Edison believed these cheap creations would be a good way to solve the housing crisis and allow low-income families to enjoy the finer things in life without spending a fortune. In 1917, he and Charles Ingersoll offered 11 concrete homes (that’s them above) up for sale for only $1,200 –a third of the cost of an average home. Even so, they didn’t manage to sell a single one.
In many ways, this suffered from the same problem as his doll –it was too ahead of its time. After all, concrete is a common element in modern architectural design. Of course, even if concrete homes have become more widely accepted in modern times, the idea of a concrete couch is still not very popular. To be fair, the furniture was constructed of special concrete foam, so it was as light as typical wood furniture and it was shaped and painted to look rather nice. Still, no one talks about the warm glow of concrete like they do about wood.
Flying Moose
Over die pianos:
Edison’s Concrete Piano
Eventually, a manufacturer did indeed take up Edison’s piano vision, too. The wellrespected Lauter Piano Company, which manufactured pianos from 1885 through the 1930s (and beyond) in Newark, New Jersey, produced a version of the concrete piano. The model looked for all intents and purposes like any other 5-foot baby grand. A patent for the manufacture of a piano case mold was issued in 1931. The patent describes a system whereby a mixture of materials, including sawdust and Portland cement, an inexpensive alternative to wood, are poured into molds to form the case of the piano.
The inventor, Charles Ewen Cameron Jr. of the Lauter-Humano Co., describes the design as producing an “exceptionally pure, full tone.”
Records of this beast are scanty, but there are several people alive who have survived an interaction with one. Kim Hunter of Orange Coast Pianos in Santa Anna, California, used to own one of them. He describes it as having standard piano keys, harp, and soundboard. It was Louis XV in style, with curved legs and music rack. Its parts were all the same thickness as a wood piano, and it was painted brown with faux finish. One thing against it: it weighed a ton, literally. Hunter says, “the piano sounded like a terrible spinet”; with no musical value it would be “better as an anchor.”
Then there is the story told by Arthur Mirano, a piano technician from Florida, who worked at a piano shop in Bayonne, New Jersey, a hop, skip, and a jump from the Lauter factory in Newark.
It was the late 1950s, and Mirano was 18 years old. He was restringing a piano finished in fruitwood (brown paint with flecks of black), when a fellow technician accidentally knocked a comer. A chunk of it fell off, revealing its concrete interior.
Edison’s Concrete Piano - Nov 1, 2009 - Judy Wearing
Destijds geen TragischEinde maar behalve het schandaal van de geplande ingekorte levensduur bij het produceren van zijn gloeilampen wordt hem 100 jaar later nóg een oor aangenaaid:
‘Fabrikanten lampen sjoemelen met wattages’
Maar er zijn volgens het EEB nog steeds lampen op de markt die volgens milieunormen verboden zouden moeten zijn. Het EEB hekelt onder andere Philips, dat claimt dat zijn halogeenlampen energiebesparend zijn. Het EEB noemt die claim „onjuist” en „beschamend”. De organisatie schat dat consumenten jaarlijks zo’n twee miljard euro te veel betalen aan energierekeningen, vanwege producten die niet waarmaken wat de verpakking belooft.
Het sjoemelen met lichtpeertjes doet denken aan het emissiefraudeschandaal bij Volkswagen. En volgens het EEB gaat de consumentenmisleiding nog veel verder. „De zwendelcultuur is groter dan auto’s en lampen”, aldus Jack Hunter van het EEB. De ruimte in de Europese richtlijnen geldt niet alleen voor lampen, maar voor zo’n dertig huishoudelijke apparaten als wasmachines, ijskasten en televisies. Hunter:
„Er zijn veel meer bedrijven dan Volkswagen die niet eerlijk zijn tegen hun klanten. Het verschil is dat het gesjoemel bij Volkswagen illegaal was. Bij de lampen wordt ruimte in de regels misbruikt. Het is een vuil spel.”
NRC - 17-12-2015
Lampen met daarin Van Dale’s woord-van-het-jaar-2015, “sjoemelsoftware”? Nog niet, dus biedt dit bericht geen handvat om Edison ook tot ICTPionier te bombarderen.
Maar Jan Marco, hoever komen we met hem als we zijn kenmerken afzetten tegen de inmiddels verzamelde voorkennis van de andere tien Tech-Wizards?
Eerst nog wat voorwerk:
GESL NEE TIJD NEE ICT NEE RIJK NEE POL NEE DOOD NEE OK NEE TOT
JONGEN 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7
MAN 7 2 7 2 7 2 8 1 4 5 5 4 5 4 63
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8 2 8 2 8 2 8 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 70
Alle waarden ophogen met 1 om nullen te vermijden, dan toespitsen op Thomas Edison:
GESLACHT TG-NEE ICT-NEE RIJK POL-NEE DOOD EINDE-OK TOTAAL UITKOMST
JONGEN 0,200 x 0,250 x 0,250 x 0,100 x 0,143 x 0,143 x 0,143 x 0,214 = 0,000002
MAN 0,800 x 0,750 x 0,750 x 0,900 x 0,857 x 0,857 x 0,857 x 0,786 = 0,166993
Thomas Alva Edison. Overduidelijk een man … quod demonstrandum erat, dixit Porcellus (Knorretje).
o/o
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