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From the machine's perspective:- A teapot is a bunch of pixels
- A golf ball is a bunch of pixels
- A picture is a bunch of pixels
- a pixel is a few ones and zeroes
An AI doesn't "tell things apart"; it just reads in ones and zeroes, processes stuff, and outputs ones and zeroes as a result of the process.
"Journalists" really need to stop thinking that AIs are thinking, because they're not.
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ftfy 
From the machine's humans perspective: (visually)
A teapot is a bunch of stimulations of photoreceptor cells
A golf ball is a bunch of stimulations of photoreceptor cells
A picture is a bunch of stimulations of photoreceptor cells
stimulations of photoreceptor cells are turned to electrical and chemical signals
Humans don't "tell things apart"; they just read in sensory stimulations, processes stuff, and output blurbs as a result of the process.
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[doctor phil]
But you have to Know the teapot; you have to Be the teapot...[/doctor phil]
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Golf balls respond with:
HTTP/1.1 418 I AM NOT A TEAPOT
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sarah Hoyt sounds that of a genius and all around awesome mind.
The vomiting emoji art is totes kewl and dare I say frame-able.
Yeah, I'm not buying the whole AI is on the moon thing yet either. If AI was all that it would have already replaced the idiots developing it for a 'human-upgrade' and better security.
AI sees its developers as nones & zeros ~Skynet.
I was unaware of that...
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Astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in Canada. "That weren't no DJ, that was hazy cosmic jive"
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I have never understood why astronomers can't get their heads around the idea: "There might be something between us and what we're looking at".
You should only consider something as unusual or new after you have eliminated all the possible obvious conclusions -- but they never, ever look for obvious conclusions; it's always "Hey! Wow! Look at this! Give me more money!"
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Give me more money!
To be honest, don't most (all?) of us want the latest new, shiny equipment? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: To be honest, don't most (all?) of us want the latest new, shiny equipment?
Sure, but most of us use it to actually do things, not just make stuff up.
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No. We pretty much all just make stuff up. Granted, some of it gets used for a while, but in the end, we(and what we create) are all just dust(bits) in the wind.
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A good metric to measure software maintainability is the holy grail of software metrics. In this article, Alexander von Zitzewitz, software architect and CEO at hello2morrow, explores a promising new metric to track maintainability. Step 0: did I write it (-1000 to the score)
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This is actually quite clever.
Unfortunately, as is often the case when you put clever things in the hands of managers, it will probably devolve into consuming a lot more time and effort than "dumber" ways.
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The European Union (EU) launched an online resource site yesterday that offers complete compliance guide to General data protection regulation (GDPR) law by EU. Just a year after requiring everyone to be compliant
Bang on time for the EU
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It was probably meant to be on-line eighteen months ago, but writing web pages is hard!
I don't know why they went to the effort of making multiple web pages, when all that's needed is one sentence: "**king pack it in!"
I mean, it's not as if the data slurpers genuinely believe that what they're doing is right and honorable -- they know they're doing wrong, and they know they're doing harm to the zeitgeist.
Expecting them to behave like decent people is too big an ask, I suppose.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The European Union (EU) launched an online resource site yesterday that offers complete compliance guide to General data protection regulation (GDPR) law by EU.
Ummm no, Proton Mail launched a .eu site with it's understanding of the GDPR. The original apparently was fixed, but your quoted text is still the old incorrect version.
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They’re called activity cards, and as long as you’re logged into your Google account, they’ll let you access your past search history on a specific topic right in the results. Easier long-term for us, or them?
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How could anyone possibly see this as anything other than an extreme example of abusing users' privacy?
Smacked, my gob is.
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Share & share alike right?
I prefer Bing datamining myself; get points for tracked searches, etcetera that directly translate into rewards diminishing the wh0r3s approach to "invading" other's privacy; the whole license grants impunity to the law regarding your personal information is borderline terroristic and criminal if subjugates any user to unnecessary, uncontrollable risk. Amazing that these "commercial" grade companies understand basic business law and liability; these companies assume control of tort on the behalf of everyone with a digital signature system granting them immunity from responsibility yet they're responsible enough to cash that check bordering if not explicating residing within the domain of incompetency. Explains why so many of these elite online presence wind up in federal and foreign trade court due to the fact that licensing may NOT replace or over-ride the individual's rights to safety.
Don't see the need for search history being anymore than what it is currently considering the extensive logging that is Windows 10; am waiting with baited breath for the ensuing sh!t-s70rm that will inevitably roll out from the bowels of the Linux & BSD communities concerning Chrome & Google inclusively. One more brick in the wall.
I can already hear a chorus of quacks as DuckDuckGo hits an all time high in user traffic and the open source Chromium skyrockets in usage when it drops the history logging feature at user request --it's going to happen.
I was unaware of that...
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Yesterday, the U.S. News and World Report published its annual list of 100 best jobs of 2019 and the software developer role topped the list. I really need to look into that job, it sounds fascinating
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The unofficial list...
1. Software developer
2. Firmware developer
3. Hardware developer
4. Tupperware developer
5. Silverware developer
and rounding out the bottom...
Underwear developer.
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The text was bland but acceptable, up until this point:packtpub wrote: The other top jobs in the list were Statistician, Physician Assistant, Dentist, Nurse Anesthetist, Orthodontist, Nurse Practitioner, Pediatrician, Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon.
And that's where it came off the rails and lost all credibility.
I haven't dug into it, yet, but I'm pretty sure that anything that pushes the idea that dental workers are the happiest people on Earth is at least partly sponsored by the insidious DDT (Dentists are Doctors, Too!) organisation.
But then it really left the atmosphere here:
packtpub wrote: And, if you are curious which was the least favorite job, it was Surgical Technologist.
Don't bother to look it up; it's what scrubs put on their CVs.
Being a scrub is the best job on Earth?
WTF were they smoking/sniffing/snorting/mainlining when they compiled this?
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When I looked up the differences of those mouth related jobs, seemed okay to separate.
But what shocked me, and might need to consider is Software Engineer was not on the list.
They got Web Developer down at 51.
Should I consider requesting a promotion from Software Engineer to Software Developer? 
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Photo Developer used to be high on the list but, for some mysterious reason, is no longer there.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Experts from the NSA and Darktrace discuss AI, invisible security, and why you really need to change your passwords. Ever progress
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