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As an artificial intelligence researcher, my work is part of a broad effort to give computers a semblance of common sense. It’s an extremely challenging effort. Because it's hard enough to find people with it?
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I maintain that the biggest difficulty with AI research is that we still don't have a good grasp of how the human brain works.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Quote: Imagine you’re having friends over for lunch and plan to order a pepperoni pizza. You recall Amy mentioning that Susie had stopped eating meat. You try calling Susie, but when she doesn’t pick up, you decide to play it safe and just order a margherita pizza instead.
Order two pizzas one vegetarian one not, because 1 pizza is scanty for 3+ people (friends is plural) anyway unless you order the hugest size or you and your friends are weirdos who only eat a single slice. And it's not like left over pizza is a bad thing.  Or just wait until everyone arrives and you can decide what flavor(s) to order in person. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Beyond common sense into cosmic wisdom  
TTFN - Kent
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The world-record calculation by Swiss scientists now marks the last 10 digits of pi as being 7817924264. 3.14 ought to be enough for everybody
OK, fine. 22/7.
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Quote: 7817924264
Is that Jenny's real number?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Vice wrote: Scientists calculate pi to 62.8 trillion digits
And who is going to check if they are right?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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There're validation tests you can do to see if you're right much easier than running the whole calculation a second time. Ian Cutress (Anandtech) has been ranting on Twitter because while the people involved claim to've done the verification they haven't published it yet. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Kent Sharkey wrote: OK, fine. 22/7.
I prefer 113355 which is mnemonic for 355/113.
easy to remember and precise.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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That is handy (and memorable). Thank you!
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 7817924264
Hey, that's my password! 
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No zero in sight......
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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Devices from 60+ manufacturers affected, says infosec outfit Or as we usually call it, Wednesday
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or as we usually call it, Wednesday
Better to call it "ending with -day"
M.D.V.
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Cloud-native computing takes advantage of many modern software development techniques including microservices, containers, CI/CD, agile methodologies, and devops. I'm doing it wrong again?
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we are soon needing a bigger notebook* for all that buzzword bingo.
* paper one, not laptop one
M.D.V.
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Don’t worry, I don’t cover all of them here, but grab a large mug of your favorite hot beverage, and settle in: this post takes a rip-roarin’ tour through ~400 PRs that, all together, significantly improve .NET performance for .NET 6. Assuming that kind of thing is useful to you
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I am preplexed... 
no mention about icons... 
M.D.V.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Assuming that kind of thing is useful to you
Trapped in 4.x land, any enhancements they can't backport aren't useful to me.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Same here. The lack of any SSRS support in .NET Core / 5 / 6 / etc. means we can't upgrade.
There used to be a UserVoice suggestion that Microsoft should provide .NET Core SSRS support. It had been "under review" since 2018, and was one of the top-voted suggestions on the site. But now it seems Microsoft have sent all UserVoice feedback into the same hole as the feedback from their old "Connect" site.
What it used to look like: Wayback Machine[^]
What it looks like now: Azure feedback | Microsoft Azure[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Same here. The lack of any SSRS support in .NET Core / 5 / 6 / etc. means we can't upgrade.
I just have a client who always wants at least 1.5N developers worth of short term work done at any point (N = current number of devs); so we never have the time for any major refactors that aren't critical blockers for implementing a new feature.
Richard Deeming wrote: There used to be a UserVoice suggestion that Microsoft should provide .NET Core SSRS support. It had been "under review" since 2018, and was one of the top-voted suggestions on the site. But now it seems Microsoft have sent all UserVoice feedback into the same hole as the feedback from their old "Connect" site.
AFAIK Uservoice was deprecated in favor of Developer Community a few years back. Some issues I cared enough to be subscribed to were migrated to the new one and some have been implemented/scheduled for VS2022; although unless search is broken (wouldn't surprise me from the creator of Bing) it doesn't look like adding SSRS.Core is open there.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Dan Neely wrote: it doesn't look like adding SSRS.Core is open there
The closest I could find was this one[^], but none of the votes or comments from the UserVoice issue have been migrated. 
Nothing says "we care about our customers" more than requesting feedback, and then regularly throwing that feedback away and telling your customers to submit it again on a different platform.
I wonder how long it will be until the developer community site gets dumped in favour of something different? Or, as one recent post below had it, "Silverlighted".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Nothing says "we care about our customers" more than requesting feedback, and then regularly throwing that feedback away and telling your customers to submit it again on a different platform.
Maybe not but "This will have broad value to the community so we put it on the roadmap" followed by ignoring it for 2+ years has to be a close second.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Microsoft's first serious attempt at a web browser, Internet Explorer 3.0, turned 25 on August 13th. Toxic work environments for the win!
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Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a soft and stretchable battery that is powered by human perspiration. Your waistband will charge your phone?
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