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A man accused of murdering his girlfriend in southeast China was caught after facial recognition software suggested he had tried to scan a dead person’s face to apply for a loan. "Hello Mr. Yakamoto and welcome back to the GAP!" (apologies, kind of gruesome - trigger warning and all that)
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As fortunate as this one scenario is, I don't think the Chinese surveillance state is something I'd want to live under.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I don't think the Chinese any surveillance state is something I'd want to live under.
FTFY
M.D.V. 
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I knew the end of Agile was coming when we started using hockey sticks. Time for someone to write a Spry Manifesto?
Or time for Waterfagile?
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It seems this article mentions Agile in an attempt to get attention.
The following prognostication the author makes about future apps seems to be the real point:
From article: In many respects we're leaving the application era of development - applications are thinner, mostly web-based, where connectivity to both data sets and composite enterprise data will be more important than complex client-based functionality. This is also true of mobile applications - increasingly, smart phone and tablet apps are just thin shells around mobile HTML+CSS, a sea-change from the "there's an app for that" era.
The client as relatively thin endpoint means that the environment for which Agile first emerged and for which it is most well suited - stand-alone open source applications - is disappearing. Today, the typical application is more likely a data stream of some sort, in which the value is not in the programming but in the data itself...
Yes, yes, it's all data now. All you need is Excel and you're good to go. No need for apps to be written anyways.
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raddevus wrote: All you need is Excel and you're good to go.
Says every single ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing mechanical engineer where I work.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Like with so many things, proponents didn't realize that the Agile Manifesto was descriptive, not proscriptive, and described self-formed successful groups.
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The global freelancing platform, Upwork, just has published hourly rates for the most lucrative jobs for independent contractors and it's official - freelancers can rake in impressive sums. "You're so very unnecessarily mercenary"
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Crime on earth:
Men: 73%
Women: 27%
Crime in space:
Men: 0%
Women: 100%
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So the toilets in space gaols will have to be fitted with mirrors, but won't need urinals.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The allegation isn't from space. The allegation is from Earth, and was made against someone that is currently in space.
Precision in speech is a lost art...
Here's another example from Fox News:
"Atlanta attorney allegedly killed man with Mercedes after golf ball hit his car, prosecutors say"
I'm confused. Who owned the Mercedes, the attorney, or the golfer. If it was the golfer, did the attorney kill the golfer simply because he had a Mercedes? Is Mercedes the attorney's wife, a prostitute (or both) that was with the golfer? So many questions, simply because of a poorly written headline...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 26-Aug-19 15:30pm.
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#realJSOP wrote: Precision is speech is a lost art...
Indeed, it is. 
#realJSOP wrote: The allegation isn't from space.
Right. It should probably have read "first allegation of a possible criminal act from [in?] space".
/ravi
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#realJSOP wrote: "Atlanta attorney allegedly killed man with Mercedes after golf ball hit his car, prosecutors say"
It seems so obvious. The lawyer picked up the Mercedes and hit the man in the head with it, killing the man instantly.
But I never wave bye bye
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A novel system developed by MIT researchers automatically "learns" how to schedule data-processing operations across thousands of servers—a task traditionally reserved for imprecise, human-designed algorithms. Maybe we can cut down on hamster chow?
And on sysadmin chow?
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Management: How does it work?
Devs: It does a statistical analysis.
Marketing: It's AI!!!
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Devs: It does a statistical analysis.
Marketing: It's AI!!!
I did a short AI introduction in Python and having worked in medical data analysis I had a little bit of familiarity with how data models work.
The introduction which claimed to be AI was simply statistical data modelling from what I could see.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: The introduction which claimed to be AI was simply statistical data modelling from what I could see.
It kind-of is; the difference being that the developer doesn't do the majority of the modelling, and will probably never know how it was done.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's a very good point!
The interesting part of the tutorial is that it guides you through first examining the 'shape' of the data(for wont of better words). Then based on that it guides you towards choosing an AI model that works best with this sort of data 'shape'.
Which is exactly what I saw clinicians and statisticians do when I was working in the field of medical data research.
As you point out the difference being that it took the statisticians months of hard work to come up with a model and prove it worked, while now you can pick a ready made model off the shelf and see if it works with your data.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: while now you can pick a ready made model off the shelf and see if it works with your data.
Partially because...
GuyThiebaut wrote: it took the statisticians months of hard work to come up with a model and prove it worked
People still (although I don't know for how long) are often necessary to develope something never done before... once it is done, it can probably be modelled and done faster by machines, but that's the second step
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Nelek wrote: People still (although I don't know for how long) are often necessary to develope something never done before
That's one of the main reasons for AI: how long would it take to develop a working statistical model to operate over a complex system?
E.g. facial recognition -- where would you even start to write code that would recognise any face from different angles?
Fortunately, no-one will ever have to design or code it; AIs do all the detail work.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gosh, What could go wrong ? I just hope they restrict its recreational browsing to the Disney Channel.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Newly registered domains (NRDs) are created at the astounding rate of about 200,000 every day and a recent report indicates that 70 percent of these are malicious or suspicious and used for a wide range of nefarious activities. You must be *this* old to open in browser
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www.codeporject.com
And you are infected / scammed / hacked / pwnd 
If those people use their talent to improve things... 
M.D.V.
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