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Developments in artificial intelligence may help us to predict the probability of life on other planets. The study uses artificial neural networks (ANNs) to classify planets into five types, estimating a probability of life in each case, which could be used in future interstellar exploration missions. Magic Eight Ball says, "Reply hazy try again"
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Predicting things with a sample size of one is a fool's errand.
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True, but when that's all you have to work with....
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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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A story published here last week warned readers about a vast network of potentially malicious Web sites ending in “.cm” that mimic some of the world’s most popular Internet destinations (e.g. espn[dot]cm, aol[dot]cm and itunes[dot].cm) in a bid to bombard visitors with fake security alerts that can lock up one’s computer. If that piece lacked one key detail it was insight into just how many people were mistyping .com and ending up at one of these so-called “typosquatting” domains. You mean that wasn't the Microsoft.com website I just logged into?
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I've been a member of CodProject[^] for many years. I visit at least once per week.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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"Cod" - is that the tasty fish I'll take for lunch today, or is it "Cash on Delivery"?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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IBM has revealed Microclimate, a development environment designed to simplify the process of app development in cloud environments. It aims to provide a flexible, end-to-end framework for all stages of the app development process. {insert lazy climate-change joke here}
Once I can think of one that is neither political, nor can be made political.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It aims to provide a flexible, end-to-end framework for all stages of the app development process.
Micro-code for the mega-elephant!
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On a long enough timeline, technical debt creates a lot of misery in the office. Team members tend toward finger pointing and infighting, and a sense of embarrassment pervades. Nobody likes explaining over and over again to stakeholders that seemingly simple changes are actually really hard. Technical Lottery Tickets? Technical Loan Sharks?
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The Siberian town of Ulan-Ude was expecting to beam with pride as organizer Rudron/Expeditor 3M tested a postal drone in the area for the first time, but they left red-faced after the inaugural flight went spectacularly wrong. Neither sleet, nor snow, but walls shall keep these couriers from their appointed rounds
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So, I never understood this, Google and John split ways, for a number of reasons I'm sure, and another company picks him up, to their advantage. Why didn't Google just keep this guy no matter what, if he is that valuable? Pride, bitter feelings? Google's loss, I'm sure.
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I am sure that Apple made an offer which he cant refuse. 
Like hugh pay package (even in that league) and a lot of freedom in his work.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Slacker007 wrote: keep this guy no matter what
What if he simply wanted to do something new?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Just when you were getting comfortable with containers and auto-scaling, a new architecture emerges, swinging the pendulum back to a truly distributed world. But not to 11
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And if anyone (like me) needed to look up WTF "edge" and "edge-computing" means, it's this (from Wikipedia):
Edge computing is a method of optimizing cloud computing systems by performing data processing at the edge of the network, near the source of the data.
I can't wait to see the next job requirement: "must have 5+ years experience in edge computing."
So, we come back full circle. We used to do ALL our computing on the "edge" -- processing data from real time instruments right there on the PC, or, even further back, on the dedicated microprocessor and supporting hardware. Then suddenly it transitioned to "cloud computing" and we were streaming our data to the "cloud" for analysis. Now suddenly, even before the clouds had time to form into a true storm, we're back to "near the source of the data", back to where we started. But now we have a catchy new name for it.
I wonder if evolution (or if you prefer, creation), is this schizophrenic.
Just think how much more valuable your Apple II and Commodore PET is now! It's an "edge-computing device!" 
So, what comes after "the edge"? Some options:
- the fall (as in, falling off the edge of the cliff)
- the dragon (as in, the edge of the known world is surrounded by dragons)
- the turtle (the world is held up by a turtle)
- the center (if you're on the edge, where else can you go but toward the center?)
- the tangent (every edge has a tangent line)
Sadly, none of those are very catchy. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: So, what comes after "the edge"?
The plug. As in 'un'
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The largest study of robot faces we've ever seen shows the right way to design an expressive robot. For your next robot design project
I don't think the robot cyberattack defense robot was included. It doesn't look very threatening.
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The study is highly suspect since many studies have found that your preferences over time are can be quite different than your immediate preference (which is why "New Coke" failed.) Further, I suspect that context is going to matter quite a bit; dealing with a robot face on a factory floor is quite different than dealing with one in, say, your kitchen.
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Where's Max Headroom? No study is valid nor complete without including Max Headroom.
Bah!
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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It's small enough to fit inside a shoebox, yet this robot on four wheels has a big mission: keeping factories and other large facilities safe from hackers. "Your move, creep."
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A verifiable computation is a computation that produces an output along with a proof certifying something about that output. The language calls to me for some reason
Sad that I haven't the faintest idea what it actually is or for
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Input: 1 + 1
Output: Yes, 1 + 1 does equal 2 <rolleyes>
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Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction author David Gerrold was spot-on in his 1999 predictions about smartphones. Now he predicts computing’s future…again. "I'm presumin' that I could be kinda human, if I only had a heart."
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The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices. "The third little pig worked hard all day and built his house with bricks."
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it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.
Riiight. So we can all be subjected to drivel like that. As if we don't have enough of a cacophony of pointless mutterances on the likes of FB and Twitter. 
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