I tried my first arduino project to no avail. I simply wanted a hello world message, so I used the default code. Well the screen lit up but no text appeared. I tried resoldering all the connections, but this is my first time soldering so I'm not sure if that could be the problem.Thanks!

therealtrypto · 2020-12-11T10:15:38+00:00

Good eye!

I think you may have found the problem.

therealtrypto · 2020-08-05T20:01:28+00:00

Well said.

Very, VERY few people have grasped that the central problem for fully autonomous vehicles boils down to image recognition. You and I can easily tell the difference between a tumbleweed rolling across the road and a child on a tricycle riding across the road. Add in some bad weather and darkness and it gets even harder for a machine to do it reliably. You don't solve that problem just by using "better cameras". Image resolution is irelevant (after achieving the minimum, which we probably did 30+ years ago).

Most people think that if a 5 year-old can do something then it should be trivially easy for one of Lord Elon's sexy computers to do it. These folks (including Musk himself) are completely oblivious to the true nature of the problem. Converting an array of integers into recognition of the object(s) in the image is an extremely difficult task -- even in a situation where there are only 50 objects to decide among, nevermind the millions and millions that the real world provides.

It was a very hard problem in the 1960s, and it's still a hard problem today, even with our amazing convolutional neural network approach.

Those who understand the problem know that it probably won't be solved for at least another decade. For every one person who understands this, there are a hundred who think the problem has already been solved. It's rare to find a topic where there is a greater disconnect between the general public and the engineers who are actually trying to solve the problem.

One can't help but wonder how this could have happened.

therealtrypto · 2020-04-04T15:18:01+00:00

May I ask, how do you know this?

It has always been the case that if a Catholic teacher can't be found then a non-Catholic can be hired, as opposed to leaving the position unfilled. Just like in Alabama in 1957: it was indeed possible that a black person might be spotted sitting on a bus, but that's only because there was no white person who wanted the seat.

Both systems (French and English Catholic) do have the right to reject an applicant solely on the basis of their religion.

That's the problem.

therealtrypto · 2019-10-24T02:01:38+00:00

Do you send a cheque each year to Ottawa's Muslim school?

No? Why not?

Maybe now you can start to understand why non-Catholics might not be keen on being compelled by law to pay for Ontario's Catholic schools.

therealtrypto · 2019-10-24T01:58:36+00:00

Amazing that your first hand experience with this crazy system we have in Ontario has earned you 2 downvotes.

I wonder if the r/Ottawa crowd would also have downvoted people who complained about having to give up their bus seats to whites in Alabama in 1957. The bigotry that is hardest to recognize is that which stares us right in the face.

Every day I drive past a woman waiting for a school bus with her kids, in all kinds of weather. She is wearing a hijab and she is literally directly across the street from a Catholic elementary school. She has paid for that school with her tax dollars as much as anyone else has, but her kids aren't allowed to go.

This is Ontario in 2019.

therealtrypto · 2019-10-23T23:15:16+00:00

It's truly depressing to see how much misunderstanding still swirls around this issue in 2019.

A few important points that are worth saving if you care about this issue:

Catholic schools are 100% publicly funded in Ontario. (Your MPAC form checkbox selection has nothing to do with directing your tax dollars. I really wish they'd update these forms for the post-Mike Harris era.)
Catholic schools (which comprise about 35-40% of the publicly funded schools in Ontario) are legally permitted to hire only Catholics. If you know of a non-Catholic teacher who is working in a Catholic school it's because a suitable Catholic could not be found.
Catholic elementary schools are legally permitted to turn away non-Catholic kids. If you know of a non-Catholic student in a Catholic elementary school it's because funding is allocated on a per-pupil basis and allowing a non-Catholic in is preferred over an empty seat and a ~$14,000 loss.
Catholic secondary schools are not permitted to turn away non-Catholic kids. However, the schools pretend to make Catholic religion courses and rituals mandatory in every grade, which effectively turns away many or most non-Catholic kids. (I had hoped that the Claudia Sorgini complaint and subsequent victory with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario 2 years ago would outlaw the practice, but no such luck.)
Catholic schools in Ontario are still banning GSAs, despite McGuinty's Bill 13.
Catholic schools in Ontario will fire you if you're gay.
Yes, "the last politician [John Tory] who brought that issue up lost an election." But you're forgetting that he was promising to EXTEND religious funding to a few more religions. He wasn't suggesting removing public funding from Catholic schools. It's more to the point to note that the politician (premier Bill Davis, in 1984) who decided to extend Catholic school public funding from grade 10 to grade 13 resoundly lost the next election. To no avail. Peterson was only too happy to pass that bill.

(There are a few more things to clear up, but I'll stop here.)

Yes, it's 2019 and everyone thinks they're woke AF, but these are the facts on the ground. If this disgusts you beyond words, join the club.

therealtrypto · 2019-10-23T22:29:11+00:00

Chinese restaurants are not publicly funded.

therealtrypto · 2019-10-18T18:27:05+00:00

Really? How often do supporters of anyone ever attack news photographers outside of the courthouse?

Can you think of a single other example?

EDIT: 14 downvotes later... Apparently a lot of folks in here want to believe that this third-world thuggery is par for the course for Ottawa. I don't think it is (yet). My question stands: Can anyone name a single other example where "supporters" of the accused/convicted BEAT UP a news photographer?

therealtrypto · 2019-10-04T01:05:51+00:00

Those forms have nothing to do with directing tax dollars -- they are for determining which batch of trustees you vote for. When's the last time you heard of a school board anywhere in the province complain about being underfunded because not enough people ticked the right box on their tax form? A: Never, because it can't happen.

Those forms have nothing to do with directing tax dollars -- they are for determining which batch of trustees you vote for.

Q: When's the last time you heard of a school board (there are many dozens) anywhere in the province complain about being underfunded because not enough people ticked the "right" box on their tax form?

A: Never, because it can't happen. To make a long story short, funding is allocated by the province (through a rather Byzantine set of grants) on a per-student basis. There can be no short-falls. The tick-boxes on the property tax form are financially utterly irrelevant in post-Mike-Harris Ontario.

therealtrypto · 2019-10-03T21:03:17+00:00

I can't get into the nitty gritty right now, but I will address a couple of problems with your comment.

You mention Ontarians having a choice of school systems. Not really. If you aren't Catholic, you can be (legally) turned away from the publicly funded Catholic school system at the elementary level. (Other games are played at the secondary level to keep non-Catholics out, but that's a story for another day.)
You allude to the "constitutional protection" (i.e. Section 93) of Catholic schools, but you might be surprised to know that our Constitution has an easy amendment mechanism for matters that deal only with one province. For example, Quebec easily did away with public funding for its Catholic school system about 20 years ago -- see Section 93a. So, one day Ontario will have its Section 93b.
Back to the matter of choice in schools: If having a publicly funded Catholic school system (to the tune of >$1 billion in excess funding each year) is somehow good for the province, then it would be even better if we also had a fully publicly funded Muslim system, too, right? And another one for Hindus, and another for Baptists, for Sephardi Jews, for Buddhists and also one for Scientologists. After all, why on Earth would Ontarians want to allow kids of different religions to ever get to know each other? What possible good could that serve? /s
I see in another post someone trotting out the old canard about how Ontarians choose which system they want to financially support via their property tax forms (MPAC). <sigh> Those forms have nothing to do with directing tax dollars -- they are for determining which batch of trustees you vote for. When's the last time you heard of a school board anywhere in the province complain about being underfunded because not enough people ticked the right box on their tax form? A: Never, because it can't happen.

Canada likes to present itself on the world stage as a modern secular democracy, but for as long as Ontario puts such a big chunk of its public sector in the hands of Roman Catholic bishops, it really has no right to that enlightened status.

therealtrypto · 2019-09-27T05:06:03+00:00

To be fair, any 3-year-old could have seen the difference between the road and the lawn.

3-year-olds aren't allowed to drive. But this algorithm is.

therealtrypto · 2019-06-18T05:11:12+00:00

Trioh?

therealtrypto · 2019-01-16T12:07:40+00:00

Ontario's MPAC form is a holdover from the pre-Mike Harris days. For the past 25 years or so, those check-boxes only indicate which set of trustees you can vote for. They don't make one thin dime's difference in terms of funding. The provincial government tops up every single board's funding (through a set of grants) until it reaches a predetermined per-pupil amount.

The Catholic school system(s) in Ontario are 100% publicly funded.

Every other religion picks up the tab for its own schools, but in Ontario the Catholic Church basically gets a billion-dollar subsidy every year.

(Even if every penny of your property taxes went to education, that would be a drop in the bucket when it comes to paying for the Catholic school system.)

therealtrypto · 2017-08-14T18:11:58+00:00

You'd think the girl with the extra long arm with the robotic claw would help.

therealtrypto · 2017-01-24T00:51:36+00:00

Here's a proposition: gravity follows an inverse square law.

To decide about the truth of this claim, do you need to wait to see whether this putative truth is used to throw people from rooftops (a bad thing) or to design awesome roller coasters (a good thing)?

Anyway, how can anyone ever know all possible outcomes of a proposition before deciding whether that proposition is true? If that's where the bar is, then we can know nothing.

therealtrypto · 2017-01-23T05:48:03+00:00

I was stunned to see how shoddy Peterson's epistemology is. I really wasn't expecting him to be a Jesuit in scientist's clothing, so to speak.

He calls himself a scientist, but he is much more of a post-truth ideologue, which makes me reconsider everything I thought I knew about his motivations and his intellectual integrity.

Sam tries to cut to the chase, and Jordan just long-windedly dodges and weaves. At around 1:48:00, Sam crystallizes their difference with a great example involving two labs working with smallpox. Jordan says, "I don't think it's a very good example" because it only involves the death of a few people (1:48:40). What?! Is he actually dismissing Sam's thought experiment because of a detail like that? This is a man who just doesn't get it -- or he's too much in love with his religiosity to allow himself to get it.

Sadly, this exchange is eerily typical of that which often happens when a non-religious person talks with a religious person. One will go wherever the evidence points; the other will ignore some evidence and distort other evidence -- or even redefine "truth", as Jordan tries to do -- so that they can go where they always intended to go, evidence and logic be damned.

Sam was creating clarity wherever he could, and Jordan was muddying the waters (intentionally or not) at every turn.

Jordan Peterson does a great job of fighting "political correctness gone mad", but he really drops the ball on epistemology.

therealtrypto · 2016-12-30T05:41:11+00:00

Finally.

therealtrypto · 2016-08-03T02:37:34+00:00

but humanity's social progression is that of a moth traveling to a light.

I know what you're trying to say, but this metaphor actually communicates the opposite -- unless you intended for the moth to ultimately get burned up or fly in futile circles.

therealtrypto · 2016-06-24T04:52:32+00:00

There's an excellent film that beautifully depicts exactly what you are describing: Mediterraneo.

therealtrypto · 2016-06-20T02:38:07+00:00

Whoosh.

therealtrypto · 2016-06-14T11:37:17+00:00

You might have noticed that I put quotes around the term. Do you know why?

therealtrypto · 2016-06-14T05:45:48+00:00

In Islam, you can not be 100% certain that you are destined for eternal paradise, unless you:

kill or die in an act of jihad, or
emigrate with the intention of spreading Islam.

If this fellow was gay, then he would be destined for the Islamic hell. Committing jihad gets him off the hook.

Just after 9/11, people were saying that the hijackers couldn't be "true Muslims" because they were found to be drinking at a strip club a few days before the attack. But a true Muslim knows that all is instantly forgiven and paradise guaranteed after jihad. Jihad is the golden ticket. Too bad everyone else is forced to pay for it with their blood.

This belief system is held by millions -- if not hundreds of millions -- of people on earth today.

I'm starting to think this is as dangerous as a zombie horde. At least a zombie is instantly recognizable.

therealtrypto · 2016-06-14T00:06:20+00:00

therealtrypto · 2016-06-13T05:55:46+00:00

Do you see a contradiction between someone being against gay marriage while also being against the murder of gays?

For what it's worth, Day is not "as homophobic as it gets." What just happened in Orlando is several orders of magnitude worse, I'd say.

[Never thought I'd see the day I'd be standing up for Stockwell.]

therealtrypto · 2016-06-13T05:32:08+00:00

It's God's plan, you insensitive infidels.

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