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You are right, but I was wondering how an alternative could look like. Probably just giving it to universities to create more and better paid PhD possitions?!
They'd probably get more return by 'encouraging' Google and American tech companies to open bigger offices.
One could call it cute or funny, if it was not to the detriment of actually needed digital technology in the country, like broadband or support of IT startups. But I am sure Deutsche Telekom will be quite happy about more state money, which is probably why they whispered this AI nonsense into the politicians ears. We can just write it up as another German success story, IT made in Germany. When has that ever not work…
Would you explain a little more?
I'm ignorant about the history of German government investment in IT. But here in America, federal investment has helped ignite new industries.
And as a data science engineer, I'd love to see more German code.
Here's the offical strategy (in German): https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Downloads/... While I'm very skeptical of this initiative for a number of reasons, I appreciate that they explicitly mention the need for Open Data and seem to commit to improving accessibility of governmental data sources.
Maybe 1% will flow into a real research project which will generate some value.
One woman bragging about this was vacationing on the Palm Jumeirah island in UAE last year, she was there pitching her block chain projects to Arabs.
The people in these countries dont respect programmers, they pay them peanuts. How are they going to innovate?
- Do not respect Bankers and CEOs
- Do not respect academics
- Do not respect managers
- Respect teachers too much
- Respect waiters and delivery drivers too much
etc. It's all relative. It's all trade-offs. In the US, you can get actual rich by working a normal dev job.
On the other hand, many of my US high school teachers literally had to work at Wal-mart on the side. Unthinkable elsewhere. Result: Lots of innovation, but only by importing top tier talent from Asia and Europe, since high school education sucks maaajor balls compared to those countries.
So yeah, all trade-offs.
One could call it cute or funny, if it was not to the detriment of actually needed digital technology in the country, like broadband or support of IT startups. But I am sure Deutsche Telekom will be quite happy about more state money, which is probably why they whispered this AI nonsense into the politicians ears. We can just write it up as another German success story, IT made in Germany. When has that ever not work…
>> When has that ever not worked out in our favor? Would you explain a little more? I'm ignorant about the history of German government investment in IT. But here in America, federal investment has helped ignite new industries. And as a data science engineer, I'd love to see more German code.
I don't know how this works in Germany, but in China, it usually goes this way: doesn't matter if you are good at or even know it (officials won't care), just scour the internet and produce a PPT, pull some strings to arrange a fancy dinner with relevant local officials, deal done, once you got the money hire someone to do a demo, profit. One woman bragging about this was vacationing on the Palm Jumeirah island in UA…
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They'd probably get more return by 'encouraging' Google and American tech companies to open bigger offices.
Why favor big companies that already have resources?
The people in these countries dont respect programmers, they pay them peanuts. How are they going to innovate?
Since only relative income count, you have to expand your comment by saying that these countries - Do not respect Bankers and CEOs - Do not respect academics - Do not respect managers - Respect teachers too much - Respect waiters and delivery drivers too much etc. It's all relative. It's all trade-offs. In the US, you can get actual rich by working a normal dev job. On the other hand, many of my US high school teache…