G.T. Bynum : A Reublican mayor’s plan to replace partisanship with policy

TED 2017
G.T. Bynum : A Reublican mayor’s plan to replace partisanship with policy (transcript)
Summary
What this TED talk wants to tell us is that your city doesn't depend on your country to solve problems. It's because your city can't solve problems when people are in another partisanship. It means that your city has to be better, even who is a president in your country.
The speaker is a mayor in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He suggested the cooperation with Republicans and Democrats to solve their greatest challenges together. All citizens must think that they want to do if there is a better reader who can explain easily and simply about what results will appear.
Start doing first leads you to winning an election instead you do something after being elected.
It's important to work together to address your common goals and to improve the overall street quality throughout your community.
I think that it's completely different from a lot of cities in Japan. Japanese cities depend too much on the country’ government.

Words in this story
incumbent /adj/  necessary for one to, essential that, required that, imperative that
stakeholder /noun/ bet
disparity /noun/ a great difference.
partisanship /noun/ prejudice in favor of a particular cause; bias. siding with a particular faction, support or endorsement.

Sebastian Thrun 2: The new generation of computers is programming itself

TED 2017

Sebastian Thrun 2: The new generation of computers is programming itself  (transcript)

Summary 

Recently, we hear the words machine learning often. We would think that it meant that machines could remember all things, humans forgot a lot of things soon, though. Machines don't just forget all things, they aren't tired, but they can't understand our words, and they create nothing.
However, those seem to be wrong. Machine learning seems to have functions and it works.
In this generation, computers are programming itself and deciphering a rule for every contingency step by step. What we do now becomes an example and computers get it and infer own rules.
The speaker said that we can similarly think about how we raise children.  I think that machine learning is still higher level than humans because he tells us that its behavior often surpasses human ability. It can drive cars and find skin cancer correctly more than humans do.
And then, we learned from previous TED talk that the combination of human smarts and machine smarts are important. It makes us stronger.
It was that a weak human player plus a machine plus a better process was superior the most. It could win against a very powerful machine alone and also a strong human plus machine and an inferior process.
It changes the combination that is a smarts human plus a smart machin in the new generation,.
Why can't it say that we are super creative by working with machines?
Our human sides have to change our thoughts that humans will lose to computers, the world “artificial intelligence” is so threatened and the computer is our overlord.
By computers is programming itself, humans, we, humans are capable of more than we doing current jobs.
Words in this story
contingency /noun/ a future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty.
precision /noun/  accuracy
comprehend /verb/  understand, grasp, take in, see
repetitive /adj/ containing or characterized by repetition, especially when unnecessary or tiresome.
decipher /verb/ convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language.

Sebastian Thrun 1 : Google’s driverless car

TED 2011
Sebastian Thrun 1 : Google’s driverless car (transcript)
Summary
Summary
In our city, people create cars and they drive it. It's very useful. However, the research of driverless car is really progressing recently.
It's because driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people, almost all of them are due to human error, and it's possible to be  prevented by machines.
Machines drive are precise. On the highway, even if  there is a little bit closer lane, and there are more two or three times cars, machines are precise to drive, we will reduce our daily commute time and aiso the amount of gasoline.
Can we believe that machines could drive?
Driving accidents are due to human error.
However, if driverless car causes an accident, people wouldn't allow it to drive.

Words in this story
crook /verb/ bend (something, especially a finger as a signal).  bend, curve, curl
precision /noun/   precisely /adv/   precise /adj/

One World in Kimono: Designing Nations

I saw this Kimono by chance, thus I chose the article. This Kimono expresses Australia.
NHK news
One World in Kimono: Designing Nations (article)
Summary
Kimono is Japan's traditional garment.
The owner of this project is Yoshimasa Takakura who thought that he wanted to break an image that Kimono was stale, change it and young people to be able to receptive more.
He and artisans started to design and produce kimonos and sashes representing countries across the globe.
The kimono proposed this time was the innovative design and it's demonstrated that any type of design can be represented by a kimono.
It will be wonderful that all countries can be expressed by each kimono in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic.
You can see the kimono that your country is expressed by using Japan’ traditional garment.

Time : The Top 10 Movies of 2017

Time

The Top 10 Movies of 2017 (article)

Summary
First, I was shocked when I read this article because the movie I knew was only one in it. However, I think that just the writer and I have different tastes but we are living quite different places. Even she tells us that if she had eaten something different for breakfast on the day of making up the list, her number 2 might have been number 1. I think that I'm really lucky to know these movies that haven't been screened in Japan yet by chance.

10. Girls Trip
Her explanation was really funny because I think that unbelievably dirty sex acts wouldn't become a good comedy movie in Japan. This is a cultural difference, isn't it?

9. Get Out
I think that the movie is about racial discrimination. Why is a white woman's boyfriend black?  This is the movie that I don't like the most.

8. Faces Places
I knew him from TED talk. I really understand that his works are energetic and attract people. I want to see his works in the city of Tokyo every day and if I walk there every day and I can wait for someone there, it'll be so wonderful.

7. Dunkirk
I don't know this movie though it seems that people who subscribe to IMAX can watch it in Japan. I think that Japanese people have to learn how to protect our own country.

6. Call Me By Your Name
Although falling in love is beautiful, I think that this is a difficult movie. It's too luxurious when he falls in love with both a girl and a man. It will be released next spring in Japan and the second version will be made.

5. Kedi
"In all great cities, the magnificent intersects with the mundane—that’s what makes them vital".
What is the magnificent? What is the mundane?
Cats intersect with usual people's lives, it makes them vital in Istanbul.
In the movie, they say cats know that God exists. Cats know we're only the middlemen.
If you don't love animals, you don't love people either.
It's true. I want to read it in English because Japanese translation will be completely different to the original.
What is the magnificent in Tokyo?

4. Personal Shopper
A person will wander between the worlds of the living and the dead always.

3. The Lost City of Z
A man devoted his life to locating a mythical lost city in the Amazon.
A man always devotes his life to something.  He is possessed with something and it means that he is alive.

2. Lady Bird
I think that this is not smart, joyous, and tender film and it's too complicated. I love to have an adventure, to work hard, and of course, to fall in love but ordinary, simple, and tough life are beautiful also. Do I envy they are young?

1. The Post
I think that Japanese people have mistaken the meaning of a victory for freedom of the press and for election.

I have to study English more and the culture difference between other countries and Japan.

Which one do you like?

Garry Kasparov : Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them

TED 2017
Garry Kasparov : Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them (transcript)
Summary
This is a great story that the speaker is just no other than a world chess champion.
He tells us that we humans shouldn't fight against the machines, because we need the help of the new intelligent machines to achieve our dream.
People say that he’s lost to the machine Deep Blue that IBM created to defeat him. However, though this is a human triumph, so machine’s triumph is always the human triumph. We sometimes tend to forget it and just human’s creations surpassed humans.
And then, it turned out that a weak human player plus a machine plus a better process is superior the most. It can win against a very powerful machine alone and also a strong human plus machine and an inferior process.
We couldn't stop the progress of technologies but feeling fear and pressures will mean humanity has ceased to make progress. We have no choice but to work with them.
We have understandings, purpose and passion that machines don't have but machines have instruction and objectivity that is beyond what we have. Why can't we work with them?

Words in this story
triumph /noun/ a great victory or achievement.
humanity /noun/ humankind, mankind, man, people, human beings, humans

Zeynep Tufekci 3: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

TED 2017
Zeynep Tufekci 3: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads (transcript)
Summary
Dystopia means an imagined place where everything is unpleasant or bad, and which is a degraded place.
The title shows that we're building a dystopia by clicking on ads on the internet our own hands and the speaker tells us that the real threat is who use collected huge data to control us. Our data is accumulated every day and its system is structured to entice us more.
She said that this needs to change though I think that we have no way and mobilizing our politics is more dangerous. They would want to get big benefits.
We, who not only buy something on the internet but use the internet are still the products that are being sold.
Can we notice who uses it to control us?

Words in this story
manipulate  /verb/  control, influence, use/turn to one's advantage, exploit
accumulate /verb/ gather, collect, assemble, amass, stockpile, pile up
persuasion /noun/  inducement, convincing
persuasive /adj/