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Predicting the future is fraught with challenges, but when it comes to technological advances and forward thinking, experts working at the Pentagon's research agency may be the best people to ask. Jetpacks for everyone!
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr
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IBM's internal OMR project makes maintaining JVM easier across platforms -- and may give other languages a performance boost OMR = One More Runtime?
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Noted killer robot-fearer Elon Musk has a plan to save humanity from the looming robopocalypse: developing advanced artificial intelligence systems. You know, the exact technologies that could lead to the robopocalypse. It's reverse psychology, but for AIs
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You got it wrong - it will be an open-source based 'killer-robot', so it will never work... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Microsoft surprised many last month by announcing plans to reduce its free OneDrive storage from 15GB to 5GB. Apology accepted
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I too have only one drive, but I do not let Microsoft to handle it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Aside: in C# is the absence of if(! whatever == null) { do some stuff; } equivalent to "swearing" ?
Another dubious linguistic research project seems to contradict the "impoverished vocabulary" theory of swearing: [^]. Newspaper coverage here: [^].
"Overall the findings suggest that, with the exception of female-sex-related slurs, taboo expressives and general pejoratives comprise the core of the category of taboo words while slurs tend to occupy the periphery, and the ability to generate taboo language is not an index of overall language poverty." I'm not about to pay Elsevier to get to read the whole article, but there's no information provided in the abstract or the newspaper coverage as to the sample size of the study, and the methodology ... that always raises doubts in my mind as to any conclusions/hypotheses of a study.
Further, there has long been an informal consensus that swearing frequency is related to occupational roles, social context (work vs. home vs. social interaction with strangers), socio-economic status, and the intensity of stress and life-change. And, those adopting "deviant" social identities predicated upon a pattern of challenging some perceived "establishment," or "power structure," often, in their sub-cultures, manifest language that is deliberately, dramatically "antipodal."
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
modified 13-Dec-15 3:04am.
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What a load of B*ll*cks!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Good! You passed the test... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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What the f*** are you getting at?[^]
I used to have a customer who started every phone call with a swearing charade, "Sander, that d*** software doesn't f***ing work like I want it too!"
Nine out of ten times there wasn't anything wrong at all and he probably just needed to vent.
Overall he was a nice guy though, had some good laughs with him (like when he threatened to "come to my f***ing town and kill my a****** manager" (ok, that wasn't so nice )).
Unfortunately he died from heart failure a few years ago at the age of 50-something.
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A team of scientists has developed an algorithm that captures our learning abilities, enabling computers to recognize and draw simple visual concepts that are mostly indistinguishable from those created by humans. By asking for help on online forums?
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Interesting article
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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That's curious! How'd they accomplish that? Scientists are still learning to learn themselves!
(notice no full-stops!  )
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: notice no full-stops!
Artificial Sincerity? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Wow, I knew that stupid couldn't be fixed but they can teach it to a machine...cool!
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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Do you know what most affects software development productivity in your organization? Probably not, and you are not alone. Distance between keyboard and coffee pot?
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ebaumsworld.com
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Some pundit wrote: you are not alone
Yep, that's the problem.
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Facebook wants to speed up research into artificial intelligence for everyone by making the plans for a massively powered box available to any company that wants to hasten up its efforts to build better facial or voice recognition. Some assembly required
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A new project on OpenJDK was released today, and its focus will be on porting the JDK to mobile platforms like Android, iOS and Windows 10. You know what this would help? Writing once, running everywhere.
But... I could have sworn there was a JDK on Android...and Windows 10?
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There’s a legend out there saying that every time someone mentions Project Jigsaw, it’s delayed by one month. They should have started with the edge pieces, that always helps
Not a repeat, this is the official announcement (the other was someone asking for objections)
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As long as it is in production by November 2019[^] we should still be good, yes?
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