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“There used to be an immediacy to the web,” says Anil Dash. “It was something you made.” New programming language (coming soon): bug
Really. Glitch?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “It was something you made.”
I always think of it as a very stubborn donkey that seldom does what I want it to do, and often kicks and bites.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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After programmers build an AI algorithm, they need to help it learn from data. If it added raisins, we know we're doomed
Apologies if anyone actually likes raisins in cookies, but they do not belong in chocolate chip cookies.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Apologies if anyone actually likes raisins in cookies, but they do not belong in chocolate chip cookies.
No apologies necessary, just as chocolate chips do not belong in raisin cookies.
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Proofs that P=NP, and even for the less exciting and more likely P≠NP, abound. Most of them by enthusiasts who, usually, can be commended for their enthusiasm, but not so much for their proofs. Npossible nprofound nproblem nproof nproduced
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The silk proteins themselves are involved in locally increasing the laser power. Why? Because it just sounds frickin' cool, man!
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One step closer to Spider-Man!
Marc
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That was an amusing movie. Not for those who actually have arachnophobia. 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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I bet you are driving a spider 
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By now, everyone in the development community is familiar with the extent to which Microsoft has open sourced its development tools -- .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and others. What most might not know is that Microsoft tried numerous times in the past to do this. "Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone? Open your heart, I'm coming home"
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Yup - the technology:
The Internet wasn't ready, GitHub didn't exist, and they didn't understand licensing appropriately.
finally exists for Microsoft to get you to work for them for free, legally. 
Marc
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Quote: Microsoft researchers have created a system that uses artificial intelligence to keep the sailplane in the air without using a motor, by autonomously finding and catching rides on naturally occurring thermals, similar to how many birds stay aloft.
Science mimics nature: Microsoft researchers test AI-controlled soaring machine - News Center[^]
What is particularly interesting (to me) about this is the two-layer approach to the AI with the high level AI using one set of techniques to derive a policy/objectives view of the problem and another layer working on the actual implementation details. This mimics the conscious/automatic split of the animal brain (?)
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Schlock Mercenary - Wednesday 16 Aug 2017[^]
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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Message Closed
modified 17-Aug-17 11:40am.
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Hmmm... promotes a product by fear-mongering (the NSA can't spy on you with this! Buy now!) and instead of discussing the merits of this YT competitor he attempts to sell it with get-rich-quick ideology... also his channel is almost entirely conspiracy theorist rhetoric. Seems shaky at best in my opinion.
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More technology: ^
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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