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Zuckerberg is proof that Asmov's laws of robotics don't work.
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Quote: In some cases, Facebook would reward favored companies by giving them access to the data of its users. In other cases, it would deny user-data access to rival companies or apps.
Whoa, whoa! Lookie here! A company shares information with its partners but doesn't share it with its competitors!
Yeah. OK.
We all know that fb is a piece of sh1t, but bullsh1t like that only increases the credibility of fb and decreases the credibility of the complaints against it.
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Guido van Rossum talked about useful type-annotation features in TypeScript, which have inspired similar features in Python. So... type-checking is useful after all? (Wow, live and learn!)
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Each new—and not so new—technology trend brings its own language, complete with acronyms, jargon and marketing-speak. FYI, FWIW
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Researchers hoping to better interpret data from the detection of gravitational waves generated by the collision of binary black holes are turning to the public for help. Sadly, it's not how to make your own
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Did they even try googling this, or searching for videos on youtube?
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Since I'm not entirely sure what your comment is whining about:
1) Phys.org is a regurgitater of press releases from university PR depts. The latter generally just copy figures from the papers they're blathering about because they don't come close to understanding them well enough (or at all) to select anything appropriate. PR regurgitators have similar levels of institutional ignorance, but less ability to talk to the authors to try and get any additional details so we get an ugly graphic intended to communicate data to others scientists not a pretty picture.
2) No, they're not the first people to run any BH merger sims, what they're trying to do is to create a much larger library of mergers (varying in input parameters) because the way Ligo/Virgo figure out what they've detected is to compare the signal their instruments record against existing simulations to see what is the closest match.
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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I could be wrong, but I think the post you are replying to was a sarcastic joke.
#SupportHeForShe
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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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: I could be wrong, but I think the post you are replying to was a sarcastic joke.
Maybe. I tried thumping my Sarcometer 3000 a few times but the needle refuses to move.
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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https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/
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Did they donate to the wrong charity? I have been boycotting Mozilla since they fired Brendan Eich.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Doesn't surprise me at all.
And google dropped the do no evil motto
So yea.. not surprised.
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Speedgate is based on data from hundreds of existing sports. "Shall we play a game?"
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Golly.
That would have taken someone, oooh, whole minutes to work out, using a crayon and a sheet of toilet paper.
What bunch of kids has never devised their own variant games of this type?
And what normal, boring, non-cloud-based, non alexa-compatible, and non-AI software couldn't have done the same?
All these AI "specialists" are managing to do is "create" input-process-output programs, which, well, AIn't in any way special.
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Normally I would try to come up with some sort of sarcastic remark but the author beat me to it, except I don't think they were being sarcastic.
Quote: but it is an example of how AI can be useful
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Surely this misses the point that successful sports are constantly evolving. There's a cycle that starts with a few people larking around in the park, moves through an initial formalisation phase and then a long (potentially infinite) phase of rule tweaking as new spoiling or unbalancing tactics are developed by players.
This only seems to address the "lark in the park" stage which doesn't exactly showcase any adaptive artificial "thought" process.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Python has attracted two million new developers over the past year. NO ONE would expect that!
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Because pythons main weapons are...
Nah. I ain't going all through that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Stats abuse warning: Maybe I skimmed too fast, but I am struggling to find the statement which asserts that all these Python developers are making a living with Python?
Python has its uses, but I will make a BAD anology such as:
Yeah, I am sure millions of people use Windows Movie Maker (iMovie on mac?) to make youtube videos. But I assume at some point, those making daily videos with the production to sustain a living switch up to different production pipelines.
A better analogy:
Billions of people use a frying pan once a week. They cook, but not necessarily professional (making a living) cooks.
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I agree. I think you've explained it exactly as it really is.
These magazines, etc, create self-fulfilling prophecies.
"Everyone is using Python for everything," says Ignorant Magazine Writer.
"Everyone is using Python for everything," re-quotes and re-posts ignorant news maker.
Manager (PHB): Hmmm...I guess we should switch to Python.
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I'm reminded of a relative who worked at a well known second tier company. Some smartypants insisted that they write some network software using the latest greatest fad. In meetings, that exactly what the developers were doing. Back in their offices, they were actually using C++ and raw sockets.
"What does this Python script do?"
"It calls this C++ DLL."
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Yup.
What does this .Net Core code do?
pInvokes this C++ DLL.
#SupportHeForShe
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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A total of 19 countries voted in favor of the sweeping new rules. I guess I need to stop quoting lyrics and movies now?
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Oh, [redacted] you [redacted] about [redacted] with a feather [redacted] warm spoon [redacted] vampire fangs.
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