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Robot Lightsabers duel light vs dark side at @Universal_Robot #SXSW show floor. Is there a robot with a lightsaber yet in Star Wars? Grievous doesn't count pic.twitter.com/lIihUJ5gpR
— Digital LA (@DigitalLA) March 13, 2018
As Mark Hamill humorously shared the behind-the-scenes of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" with a packed SXSW audience, two floors below on the exhibit floor Universal Robots recreated General Grievous' famed light saber battles. The battling machines were steps away from a twelve foot dancing Kuka robot and an automated coffee dispensary. Somehow the famed interactive festival known for its late night drinking, dancing and concerts had a very mechanical feel this year. Everywhere debates ensued between utopian tech visionaries and dystopia-fearing humanists.
Even my panel on "Investing In The Autonomy Economy" took a very social turn when discussing the opportunities of utilizing robots for the growing aging population. Eric Daimler (formerly of the Obama White House) raised concerns about AI bias affecting the well being of seniors. Agreeing, Dan Burstein (partner at Millennium Tech Value Partners) nervously expressed that 'AI is everywhere, in everything, and the USA has no other way to care for this exploding demographic except with machines.' Daimler explained that "AI is very good at perception, just not context;" until this is solved it could be a very dangerous problem worldwide.
Last year at a Google conference on the relationship between humans and AI, the company's senior vice president of engineering, John Giannandrea, warned, "The real safety question, if you want to call it that, is that if we give these systems biased data, they will be biased. It's important that we be transparent about the training data that we are using, and are looking for hidden biases in it, otherwise we are building biased systems." Similar to Daimler's anxiety about AI and healthcare, Giannandrea exclaimed that "If someone is trying to sell you a black box system for medical decision support, and you don't know how it works or what data was used to train it, then I wouldn't trust it."
One of the most famous illustrations of how quickly human bias influences computer actions is Tay, the Microsoft customer service chatbot on Twitter. It took only twenty-four hours for Tay to develop a Nazi persona leading to more than ninety thousand hate-filled tweets. Tay swiftly calculated that hate on social media equals popularity. In explaining its failed experiment to Business Insider, Microsoft stated via email: "The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. As it learns, some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it. We're making some adjustments to Tay."
Related: 10 tech-savvy companies on the hunt for AI/robotics talent and IP
While Tay's real impact was benign, it raises serious questions of the implications of embedding AI into machines and society. In its Pulitzer Prize-winning article, ProPublica.org uncovered that a widely distributed US criminal justice software called Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) was racially bias in scoring the risk levels of convicted felons to recommit crimes. ProPublica discovered that black defendants in Florida, "were far more likely than white defendants to be incorrectly judged to be at a higher rate of recidivism" by the AI. Northpointe, the company that created COMPAS, released its own report that disputed ProPublica's findings but it refused to pull back the curtain on its training data, keeping the algorithms hidden in a "black box." In a statement released to The New York Times, Northpointe's spokesperson argued, "The key to our product is the algorithms, and they're proprietary. We've created them, and we don't release them because it's certainly a core piece of our business."
The dispute between Northpointe and ProPublica raises the question of transparency and the auditing of data by an independent arbitrator to protect against bias. Cathy O'Neil, a former Barnard professor and analyst at D.E. Shaw, thinks a lot about safeguarding ordinary Americans from biased AI. In her book, Weapons of Math Destruction, she cautions that big corporate America is too willing to hand over the wheel to the algorithms without fully assessing the risks or implementing any oversight monitoring.
"[Algorithms] replace human processes, but they're not held to the same standards. People trust them too much," declares O'Neil. Understanding the high stakes and lack of regulatory oversight by the current federal government, O'Neil left her high-paying Wall Street job to start a software auditing firm, O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing. In an interview with MIT Technology Review last summer, O'Neil frustratingly expressed that companies are more interested in the bottom line than protecting their employees, customers, and families from bias, "I'll be honest with you. I have no clients right now."
Most of the success of deconstructing "black boxes" is happening today at the US Department of Defense. DARPA has been funding the research of Dr. David Gunning to develop Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Understanding its own AI and that of foreign governments could be a huge advantage for America's cyber military units. At the same time, like many DARPA-funded projects, civilian opportunities could offer societal benefits. According to Gunning's statement, online XAI aims to "produce more explainable models, while maintaining a high level of learning performance (prediction accuracy); and enable human users to understand, appropriately trust, and effectively manage the emerging generation of artificially intelligent partners." XAI plans to work with developers and user interfaces designers to foster "useful explanation dialogues for the end user," to know when to trust or question the AI-generated data.
Besides DARPA, many large technology companies and universities are starting to create think tanks, conferences and policy groups to develop standards that test AI bias. The results have been startling – ranging from computer vision sensors that negatively identify people of color to gender bias in employment management software to blatant racism of natural language processing systems to security robots that run over kids identified mistakenly as threats. As an example of how training data affects outcomes, when Google first released its image processing software, the AI identified photos of African Americans as "gorillas," because the engineers failed to provide enough minority examples into the neural network.
Ultimately AI reflects the people that program it, as every human being brings with him his own experiences that shape personal biases. According to Kathleen Walch, host of AI Today podcast, "If the researchers and developers developing our AI systems are themselves lacking diversity, then the problems that AI systems solve and training data used both become biased based on what these data scientists feed into AI training data."
Walch advocates that hiring diversity can bring "about different ways of thinking, different ethics and different mindsets. Together, this creates more diverse and less biased AI systems. This will result in more representative data models, diverse and different problems for AI solutions to solve, and different use cases feed to these systems if there is a more diverse group feeding that information."
Before leaving SXSW, I attended a panel hosted by the IEEE on "Algorithms, Unconscious Bias & AI," amazingly all led by female panelists, including one person of color. Hiring basis became a big theme of their discussion. Following the talk, I hopped into my Uber and pleasantly rode to the airport reflecting on a statement made earlier in the day by John Krafcik, Cheif Executive, of Waymo. Krafcik boasted that Waymo's mission is to build "the world's most experienced driver." I just hope the training data is not from New York City cabbies.


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7 Habits of Highly Emotionally Healthy People
6. Identify self-defeating behaviors, and defeat them.
Updated September 20, 2023 Reviewed by Gary Drevitch
Most of us pay close attention to our health and treat threats to our physical well-being as soon as they occur. We dress warmly when we feel a cold coming on, we apply antibacterial ointments and bandages to cuts and scrapes, and we don't pick at scabs as they heal. We sustain psychological injuries just as often as we do physical ones, but we are much less proactive about protecting our psychological well-being than we are our physical well-being. Adopting the following seven habits, and "treating" common psychological injuries when they occur, will help protect your mental health and improve your emotional resilience.
1. Gain control after a failure. Failure distorts our perceptions such that our goals seem more out of reach and our capacities seem less up to the task. Once we feel as though there is little we can do to succeed, we become demoralized and lose our motivation.
Adopt the habit of ignoring this misleading gut reaction and make a list of the many factors related to your goal that were in your control—effort, preparation, planning, different approaches you could have taken, etc. Then, consider how you might go about improving each of these factors. Doing so will not only combat defeatist misperceptions, it will drastically improve your chances of future success.
2. Find meaning in loss and trauma. One of the main factors that distinguishes those who thrive emotionally after experiencing loss or trauma from those who do not is their ability to eventually find meaning in their experiences and derive purpose from them. Of course, doing so takes time, as does the process of grieving and adapting to new realities.
However, adopting the habit of searching for ways to recognize not just what you've lost, but what you've gained as well, will allow you to develop a new appreciation for your life and the people in it, make important changes, and find value, meaning, and purpose even if you lacked them before.
3. Disrupt the urge to brood and ruminate. When we brood over distressing events we rarely gain insight into them. Instead, we replay upsetting or angering scenarios in our heads, which only increases our urge to brood and makes us feel worse. Therefore, despite how compelling the urge to brood is, adopt the habit of disrupting the brooding cycle as soon as you catch yourself ruminating about the events in question. The best way to do this is to distract yourself with a task that requires concentration—such as a game of Sudoku, trying to recall the exact order of the stations on your bus/subway line, or watching an absorbing show.
4. Nurture your self-esteem. Our self-esteem fluctuates such that we feel better about ourselves some days than we do others. But many of us become self-critical when we're feeling bad, essentially kicking our self-esteem when it's already down. To improve your mental health, adopt the habit of regarding your self-esteem as an "emotional immune system" that needs to be nurtured back to health when it's ailing.
The best way to heal damaged self-esteem is to practice self-compassion. When you have self-critical thoughts, consider what you would do if a dear friend had similar feelings. Write out what you would say to them in an email if you wanted to express compassion and support. Then read the email as if they had sent it to you.
5. Revive your self-worth after a rejection. Rejections are so hurtful that we often try to make sense of our emotional pain by finding fault in ourselves. Our reasoning is that if we hurt so much, we must be really weak/pathetic/a loser/unworthy/fragile/unlovable, etc. Rejection hurts as it does not because there's something wrong with us but because of how our brains are wired. (Read more about that here.)
The best way to ease emotional pain and revive your self-worth after a rejection is to adopt the habit of affirming aspects of yourself you value and qualities you possess that you find meaningful (e.g., loyalty, compassion, creativity, or a strong work ethic). Make a list of such attributes, choose one or two, and write a short essay about why the quality is important to you.
6. Combat loneliness by identifying self-defeating behaviors. Chronic loneliness is much more common than we realize and it has a devastating impact on our emotional and physical health. The problem is that once we feel lonely, we often act in ways to minimize the risk of further rejection by unconsciously engaging in self-defeating behaviors and sabotaging opportunities to make new social connections or deepen existing ones.
The best way to combat loneliness is to adopt the habit of identifying and challenging such self-defeating behaviors. Make a list of excuses you've used to avoid taking the initiative in social situations—I won't know anyone at the party so why go?; They don't call me so why should I call them?; They're probably too busy to meet up; I can't just introduce myself to a stranger at a cocktail party. Now make a list of people whose company you've enjoyed in the past (go through your phone book, Facebook friends, and Email contacts) and reach out to one or two each day to initiate plans until your social calendar is full. Challenge yourself to avoid using excuses from your list when you feel anxious.
7. Shed excessive guilt by repairing damaged relationships. Excessive guilt occurs when our actions or inactions have harmed another person (most often a close friend or relative) who has not forgiven us for our wrongdoing. Such situations usually have more to do with the inadequacy of our apologies than with the inability of the other person to "let go" of their hurt. Indeed, the crucial ingredient an effective apology requires—and the one we most often miss—is empathy.
For the other person to truly forgive you, adopt the habit of conveying effective apologies when you've done wrong. To do so, make sure the other person feels that you totally "get" how they felt as well as how they were impacted by your actions. Once you've expressed adequate empathy, the other person is much more likely to feel your apology is sincere and to convey authentic forgiveness. Your guilt will dissolve soon thereafter.
Copyright 2013 Guy Winch
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Three years after the June 12 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, lawmakers are proposing plans to designate the nightclub a national memorial.
U.S. Reps. Darren Soto and Stephanie Murphy, both from Central Florida, announced their plan to declare Pulse a federal landmark at a service in front of the temporary memorial Monday. The designation, they hope, will nationally honor the 49 victims of the deadliest act of violence against LGBT people in the history of the country.
If passed, the bill would classify the memorial as part of the National Park System but allow local nonprofit OnePulse Foundation to retain control of its construction, Soto said. He plans to pass the legislation by June 2020.
"This will give this hallowed ground the federal recognition it deserves, especially for those who lost everything."
In the early hours of June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and injured more than 50 others during the club's Latin night, claiming allegiance to ISIS. The incident marked the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. until one year later, when 58 people were murdered at a Las Vegas country music concert.
A temporary memorial at the club opened in May 2018, but club co-owner and foundation CEO Barbara Poma told CNN affiliate WFTV she plans to start building a permanent site by 2021.
As a nationally recognized memorial, the project would be eligible to receive federal and private funding. Poma said the foundation's raised $14 million of its $45 million goal for construction, most of which the county pledged.
"This is an important step to preserve an LGBT historic landmark at a time when many of these sites are being destroyed," Soto said. "The memorial will serve as a reminder of the remarkable way our community came together to heal and overcome hate."


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BTM-250 (220V-60HZ-1PH) 5X48-Inch Belt and 9-Inch Disc Sander with Cast Iron Base
BTM-250 (220V-60HZ-1PH) 5X48-Inch Belt and 9-Inch Disc Sander with Cast Iron Base is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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- If the item weights over 145lbs normally will be delivered by LTL Freight. Please note you may need the optional services if you order these items. For example, if you don't have a forklift or similar equipment to offload the package, you may need to book the lift gate delivery service when checkout.
KAKA INDUSTRIAL uses UPS, Purolator ,Fedex Ground, Canpar, Canada post ,etc and truck freight lines to ship your orders.
KAKA INDUSTRIAL makes every effort to process orders within 24hrs of being placed. You will receive a shipping confirmation email that will confirm which carrier is used for your products.
If your order is less than 145lbs, it could be delivered byUPS, Purolator ,Fedex Ground, Canpar, Canada post and other courier to the address you provided as 'shipping address' when you placed the order. If your order is above 145lbs, it will be delivered by Freight company that has been picked to minimize the cost of delivery to your area. In this case, your delivery address must be accessible by tractor-trailer , and In some cases your shipping fee may be different than displayed online.
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You can also arrange to pick up your freight at the carrier's terminal. The carrier will load the item onto your vehicle. If you choose this option, please make sure your vehicle is capable of handling the weight and bring plenty of tie-downs to secure the load properly .
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- Support table for disk and belt grinding
- Easy belt change with quick-lock
- The belt sander BTM- 250can be based horizontally and vertically
- Dust collection plates for belt and disk grinder
- Optional exhaust connector
Stock No. Model |
Belt dimension |
5.9"x48" |
150x1200 mm |
Belt speed |
28 ft/sec. |
8.4 m/sec. |
Table dimension |
5.9"x10.5" |
152x267 mm |
Angular table adjustment |
45° |
Disk diameter |
9.8" |
250 mm |
Table dimension |
7.4"x12.9" |
190x330 mm |
Disk speed |
2100 rpm |
Chamfer angle |
15° |
Motor power |
1.1 kW |
Sanding belts GRIT | 80 | |
Packing size |
31"x20"x44.8" |
79x51x114 cm |
198/264lbs |
90/120 kg |
Shipping covers only Public Business addresses with dock or forklift.
Optional shipping charge:
Following Value Added Service in the transportation is at extra charge. Please contact us before you place an order. Thanks.
1. Residential delivery, includes power liftgate service, call before delivery service Extra charge
2. Power tailgate service for public business address
3. Call before delivery for business address