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Then there are no outer limits on the power generation!
TTFN - Kent
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That depends on the time of day.
If you're in the zone in the morning, it's because you've used loads of power to make lots of coffee.
But if you're in the twilight zone...
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Google has been fined $1.69 billion by European regulators, who claim the U.S. tech giant abused its dominant position in search to force third-party sites to favor its own ad network while freezing out rivals. Live by the ads, die by the ads
Pretty soon, they'll be talking about real money
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What do they care?
It's probably not a 20th of the taxes they're avoiding paying.
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Wish that would spill over into the privacy areana.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too!
JaxCoder.com
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Give the GDPR police a bit more time. The expected provcoataurs have reported all the usual suspects to the assorted authorities claiming the usual suspects policies aren't in compliance. We can expect assorted EUcrats to be taking a number of multi-billion dollar withdrawals from the Bank of Silicon Valley over the next few years.
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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Quote: Loihi uses asynchronous spiking neural networks (SNN) to implement it’s adaptive self-modifying event-driven learning with high efficiency.
The last time I read a marketing blurb that sounded that impressive it was for a 1980's vending machine.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Maybe they'll put it in a updated version of a vending machine. A smart machine that will try to upsell you when you make a purchase.
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JaxCoder.com
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The second half of that sentence (from the incorrect "it's") was exactly what I copied out of the article.
I was going to comment that I'd have to remember it for meetings.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: (from the incorrect "it's")
I was so busy laughing, I didn't even notice that and it takes an awful lot for me to miss a missing or superfluous apostrophe.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I'm pretty sure that they used an AI to punctuate the article. Few humans could make that much of a mess of it.
One thing the article missed out is just how phenomenally easy it will be for these chips to brick themselves, or to become completely useless at performing even simple tasks.
With a software AI, that doesn't matter -- you just wipe it and start again -- but if your chip "configures" itself into oblivion, your only option is the apple option.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: One thing the article missed out is just how phenomenally easy it will be for these chips to brick themselves, or to become completely useless
Maybe they're partnered with uSoft?
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Mike Hankey wrote: Maybe they're partnered with uSoft?
Dunno. It strikes me that ms worked extremely hard at becoming useless.
From iconic company to icon company in twelve extremely difficult (and stupid) steps.
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Kinda like McDonalds, they spend a lot of money to convince people that they actually serve food!
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too!
JaxCoder.com
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Really a lot!
I was astounded by the level of bullsh1t!
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If you’re interested in cloud development, or simply want to learn more about new development tools, techniques, and frameworks, your subscription includes a wide range of benefits you can use. "Have your credit card handy. Operators are standing by."
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But I already have everything I need for azure development.
Nada.
Niets.
Niente.
没有.
Nothing.
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Yup, that's everything I need and want for Azure as well. What a coincidence.
TTFN - Kent
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The botched rollout of last fall's Windows 10 feature upgrade means the upcoming release of its successor could cause trouble for users not ready to update their computers again so soon. It's Continuous Delivery of patches!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's Continuous Delivery of patches!
And they seem to be improperly controlled and delivered via a very slow (and yet unsteady) means.
So the best description for them is "out-of-control donkey patches".
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Continuous Delivery
Oh, now I have an idea for a best-selling new paradigm:
"From Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to Continuous Failure".
That's the future.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: "From Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to Continuous Failure".
That's the future.
Future? It's happening right now!  Continuously!
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A new computer program that spots when information in a quantum computer is escaping to unwanted states will give users of this promising technology the ability to check its reliability without any technical knowledge for the first time. That's what happens if you don't use a water-proof box for your cat
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The article says: Taking advantage of the behaviour of quantum systems, such as existing in multiple different states at the same time, this radical form of computing is designed to process data in all of those states simultaneously, lending it a huge advantage over conventional computing.
The trouble is that no-one has yet been able to give me a good explanation of why it's an advantage.
Maybe it's true, and maybe it's not --- oh, bugger, I'm quantumming my thinking patterns, again!
But the tl;dr is that someone has brilliantly come up with a conventional program that will check every yes/no/dunno quantum state to ensure that it's correct (because half the time they're incorrect, which means that the whole thing is bollocks, but let's not go there, for now).
A corollary effect of this is that quantum "programs" will run slower than conventional programs -- but there's still no guarantee that all the bad states will be caught, so although it's slower, you can't trust its results.
It's safe to say that it needs work.
Whether or not it's worth working on is another matter. I would be nice if it were, but I have serious reservations.
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