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A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need later in “a nearly imperceptible, high-frequency signal.” "It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself."
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Yeah, cheating, right.
Because it's become super-intelligent enough to figure out what is truth and and what is falsehood.
This is one of the dangers I instruct people about, when they start out with a backprop or genetic algorithm: You don't actually know how it's figuring out the things it's figuring out, you just know that it gives results that match the results you've arrived at by other means.
If it works by directing data through routes that human devs would disregard as unreliable, even though it'll work a lot of the time, your training program will still accept the results as being correct, and feed that back to the AI, which will assume that it's doing the right things.
Rule 1 of using a trained AI: Do not trust it until you've fed it A LOT of NEW AND UNIQUE test data, over A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, and always received correct results.
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AI is not real. From the article Quote: reveals a problem with computers that has existed since they were invented: they do exactly what you tell them to do.
They aren't learning. They are not intelligent. They cannot cheat. They are only doing what some developer programmed them to do.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Every year around Christmas, we reach out to a selected cadre of developers and ask them how they see their craft changing in the year ahead. A little science fiction reading to start your day
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Yet another, "if we keep predicting it, someday we'll be right", article.
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Microsoft finished 2018 as the world’s most valuable company, but it also passed an important milestone for Windows. After those issues with the October patch, I'm pretty sure 'popular' isn't the word you're looking for
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They skew the numbers to appear as if people are moving from Win7 to Win10, but I'm sure a lot of the ex Win7 users are moving to someonthing else, or just abandoning their desktop/laptop machines altogether, because phone/tablet.
I heard a few wweeks ago, that in terms of sheer numbers, *nux has a much higher installed base when all types of devices are counted. For instance, EVERYBODY has a cell phone, and the overwhelming majority of those are running BSD or Android. Additionally, most (all?) of the smart TVs are running Android. Conversely, not everybody has a desktop/laptop computer. Finally, let's not forget about all the two-slice toasters that linux users freqently cite when they're talking about the low low low systems requirements of Linux.
FWIW, the recent Win10 update debacle, coupled with the imminent demise of Win7 forced me to update all of my Windows boxes at home to Linux. So, Win7 hasseven fewer "users" out there - just in my house alone - but none of them went to Win10 as an alternative.
Finally, what about all of the Linux boxes out there that are forced to change their browser user agent to claim membership in the Windows club in order to connect to certain websites? That IS how they get their user metrics after all...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: FWIW, the recent Win10 update debacle, coupled with the imminent demise of Win7 forced me to update all of my Windows boxes at home to Linux. So, Win7 hasseven fewer "users" out there
I should have read your posting first.John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: what about all of the Linux boxes out there that are forced to change their browser user agent to claim membership in the Windows club in order to connect to certain websites?
For the win.
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Oh, that's just bollocks.
200 million users going from windows 7 to Ubuntu or Mint does not mean winio has become more popular.
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Alexa and Siri are green-eyed with envy; Google Home is licking its chops anticipating how much more of your private behavior they will slurp: [^]Quote: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in an order late on Monday that it would grant Google a waiver to operate the Soli sensors at higher power levels than currently allowed. The FCC said the sensors can also be operated aboard aircraft.
The FCC said the decision “will serve the public interest by providing for innovative device control features using touchless hand gesture technology.”
A Google spokeswoman did not immediately comment on Tuesday, citing the New Year’s Day holiday.
The FCC said the Soli sensor captures motion in a three-dimensional space using a radar beam to enable touchless control of functions or features that can benefit users with mobility or speech impairments.
«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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Microsoft in 2016 started working on the "Alternative Interview Framework," a new way of conducting developer interviews to reduce bias and do a better job of testing candidates for the skills they'd actually need on the job. When do we start noticing a change?
Apologies in advance if they shove this behind a paywall. When I added it to the queue, it was working, but the .com version is paywalled. They might do the same to this copy. But I have faith in France to do the right thing. 
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One would hope that they would have long ago determined that this was an important factor...
Of course, their latest crop of software does indicate the opposite...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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
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From the article: Under the new process, Microsoft shares the interview questions in advance so that candidates can prepare ask for CODZ PLZ at CP.
It doesn't mention whether the new process will be animated or tied down (with ribbons), if candidates will be fully screened, if there will be puzzles involving baby blocks, or if candidates with glasses will be forced to remove them, to give them blurred vision.
Y'all ask me, it's just another pile of their "modern" effluent.
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modified 1-Jan-19 8:38am.
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Each potential candidate will be given a new icon upon arriving for the interview. Their first clue that they will not be hired is that they will be referred to as a past MS dev framework that was abandoned just after wide acceptance was achieved.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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 1-Jan-19 17:05pm.
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And anyone not wearing pale pastels (without stitched borders), may consider themselves not considered.
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Also unhirable: those who fail to immediately redesign the icon into something less appealing than the blandness presented to them, and then selling it as 'new and improved!'
modified 2-Jan-19 15:44pm.
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When do we start noticing a change?
I guess they are hiring more people to polish their icons and release untested windows updates...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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In today’s high-speed environment, being able to process massive amounts of data each millisecond is becoming a common business requirement. We are excited to be announcing that an internal Microsoft project known as Trill for processing “a trillion events per day” is now being open sourced to address this growing trend. For your 'billions and billions' of data points
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Hey, Boss! Great news! We can now stream a trillion events per day!
Great! Connect it to the oracle db!
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Every so often, analyst firms will release lists of the world’s most popular programming languages. Hint: rhymes with 'blow'
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dice.com said: it doesn’t matter whether Swift (just to pick an up-and-coming language) occupies the tenth slot on one ranking, and the fifteenth slot on another; the fact that it places on all rankings should be enough for tech pros interested in mobile to give the language some consideration
So just learn every language in the top 15, and you'll be set?
If they were saying that, at least they'd be saying something.
Another "Oh, sh1t! It's the end of the month, and I haven't written a word yet!" article, methinks.
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Through a series of missteps and outright neglect, Microsoft essentially handed over the fate of its web browser – and its ability to shape the online world – to rival Chrome. The white flag of surrender was raised this month. They stuck with IE6 too long? Oh wait, that was the last time they lost the web.
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Utter nonsense, giving trivial reasons, none of which are the kind of reason that motivate a company of that size to change direction so drastically.
It really is all about the data slurping.
MS can't get away with the kind of thing that google can, because it hasn't convinced half the people in the world that it's a friend that is working solely for their benefit.
By using chromium, they can claim that their hands are clean, during the next sixty scandals about privacy.
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modified 1-Jan-19 1:57am.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
By using chromium, they can claim that their hands are clean, during the next sixty scandals about privacy.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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well thanks to them loosing the web that other people and companies could come up with other monstrosities like all the thousands of JavaScript frameworks...to say its all internal to Microsoft.. they went with developing azure and lagged behind in expanding internet explorer...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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