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OriginalGriff wrote: There are few enough women in this industry - and even fewer here - partly because of postings like this.
That's ridiculous.
Could it be that most of them are just way to cool to play with the nerds? They simply have zero interest in this kind of work.
Then there are those who heard that you can earn good money with this kind of work. When I studied, we started out in the first semester with a healthy ratio of something like 20:1. Most I knew tried this in hope of a well paid job, but over time they all gave up. Nobody scared them away. It was their lack of interest that made them quit. They were bored to death. Math, data structures, algorithm, assembly, hardware up and down, how to write a compiler, databases - all not very sexy.
In the end we had only very few left who obviously had found something that kept their attention beyond the prospect of getting a good job some day.
Cuddle them all you want, it will not change very much.
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Well said Paul 
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Isn't this thread approaching soapbox territory?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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They say that the next big thing is Deep Learning. But what lies beneath that?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Well obviously: Even Deeper Learning (via Google)
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Low level code?
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Deep Thought, obviously. And the answer (SPOILER!) is 42.
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Life is more than playing chess.
Besides, we have learned a lot since Deep Thought was the big thing.
Actually, I don't know which is highest ranked nowadays.
We have enough entertainment watching Magnus Carlsen.
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Now you got me. I actually meant this one here, which the chess computer was named after:
Quote: Deep Thought is a computer that was created by the pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent species of beings (whose three-dimensional protrusions into our universe are ordinary white mice) to come up with the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Deep Thought is the size of a small city. When, after seven and a half million years of calculation, the answer finally turns out to be 42, Deep Thought admonishes Loonquawl and Phouchg (the receivers of the Ultimate Answer) that "[she] checked it very thoroughly, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you is that you've never actually known what the question was."
Deep Thought does not know the ultimate question to Life, the Universe and Everything, but offers to design an even more powerful computer, Earth, to calculate it. After ten million years of calculation, the Earth is destroyed by Vogons five minutes before the computation is complete.
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I think you mean Deep Blue.
That was a big thing when it beat Kasparov decades ago, and it had nothing to do with deep learning. Today there is a lotta hype about "deep learning", perhaps more so in the financial press than the technical.
But I agree: watching Carlsen and those guys is always entertaining.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Deep Thought was a successor of Deep Blue.
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What if C-A-T really spelled dog?
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C-A-T ... That is "Canine Aided Training", isn't it?
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megaadam wrote: But what lies beneath that?
Deep Screw Ups.
Marc
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Good to know. In that case I am always cutting edge!
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Software Zen: delete this;
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Not - this time - car insurance, but Kaspersky.
My existing Kaspersky Internet Security subscription runs out soon, and Kaspersky are keen to keep me as a customer. SO I get to renew my 1 year, 1 device subscription for the low, low price of £34.99.
Exactly the same as a new customer.
Or ... and this is just a thought, Kaspersky ... I could go to Amazon, and buy a 1 year, 3 device subscription for the same product for £18.99, including Prime delivery, and use it on my desktop, the WookieTab, and Herself's Android.
Difficult decision this ...
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I recently bought it from here : Buy Kaspersky K-KIS-31 Anti-Virus - SaveOnIT.com.au[^]
Note : I am not in any way associated with them. I am just a happy customer.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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£6? 
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How naive, actually you get a loyalty bonus for staying with a product. People who blindly keep renewing their product/service without putting the bastards to the sword are the bread and butter of any industry. If you don't shop/move around they will simply keep jacking up the price.
One of the primary requirements of "Big Data" is to identify your customers likely to churn so you can do something to retain them. the sheep just get fleeced year after year.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: actually you get a loyalty bonus for staying with a product.
And that's exactly the point that should be, but it is not. Companies don't give a crap for current customers and usually is more expensive to stay than to change.
I have already had funny discussions with customer hotlines due to this. Everything changes when you say: "OK, then I want to cancel the contract", then everything is "did you know about...?"
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Yeah, and that's really stupid. These are customers you don't have to spend money to find! So use the effort to locate new customers, and keep the existing ones sweet. Especially when it's an electronic product so there is no duplication or manufacturing cost ... 
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Exactly. I got almost 20% cheaper internet once and 25% more bandwidth for the same price another time just changing / threatening to change provider
The best is... now I am back to my first one.
Why didn't they just gave me the bonuses before? That would have saved me time and them some administration costs
That was 2,5 years ago, now they are pissing me off with some connection interruptions, I think due to segmentation. I have called them twice and no solution / concrete explanation for the sporadic issue.
I am starting to see what is out there on the market (again  )
I would be happy to stay, but if you don't show the teeth from time to time, they do what they want.
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