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Statisticians at Cornell University have developed a new text-mining approach that can reportedly help mobile app developers sort out app reviews to more quickly zero in on problems that need immediate attention. Getting to, "works as designed" even faster
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With the addition of Parallel Algorithms in C++17, you can now easily update your “computing” code to benefit from parallel execution. In the article, I’d like to examine one STL algorithm which naturally exposes the idea of independent computing. Create your own parallel universes
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Quote: sequenced_policy - is an execution policy type used as a unique type to disambiguate parallel algorithm overloading and require that a parallel algorithm’s execution may not be parallelized.
programmers should be required to take writing classes.
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Chris Losinger wrote: programmers should be required to take writing classes.
Somebody wrote: a parallel algorithm’s execution may not be parallelized.
And maybe a course in logic and naming.
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A recent pilot study by kinesiologists found that pedaling while conducting work tasks improved insulin responses to a test meal. Investigators found that insulin levels following the meal were lower when sedentary workers used a pedal desk compared to a standard desk. In addition, work skills were not decreased in the pedaling condition. You didn't need that dignity anyway
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This is only step one.
Step 2 is to add generators to the pedals.
Step 3 is to detach the desk-user's computer from any power source than the generators on the pedals.
Step 4 is to fire anyone who doesn't get their work done.
Then the company can boast that its employees are the fittest and healthiest, because of their great initiative to improve employee health.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Your scenario seemed a very likely conclusion of it. I was reminded of Edward G. Robinson on the generator bike in Soylent Green when I was reading the original article.
TTFN - Kent
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What's Soylent Green?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ThoughtWorks has just published vol. 19 of its essential radar report. As always, it’s a vital insight into what’s beginning to emerge in the technology field. For your next game of Buzzword Bingo
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All systems fail, eventually. But with thoughtful site reliability engineering and sane DevOps practices, sometimes you can fail gracefully, learn from mistakes, and make IT systems more resilient.
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Perfect tag line! 
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I took it that you were making a pun about failing gracefully! And that they were trying to sugar-coat failure! Made me laugh!
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Oh, man. I'm no where near that good. Thank you for thinking so though.
(Definitely going to remember that for the future, so I can use it.)
TTFN - Kent
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I believe there is a unicorn waiting where the rainbow ends to help you carry home the pot of gold.
«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 is planning to introduce a new light theme into Windows 10 with the next major update. Sadly not Windows 10 Light
Yeah, just after they showed that dark themes are better.
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A research team—including many of the original researchers behind Meltdown, Spectre, and the related Foreshadow and BranchScope attacks—has published a new paper disclosing yet more attacks in the Spectre and Meltdown families. The result? Seven new possible attacks. Some are mitigated by known mitigation techniques, but others are not. That means further work is required to safeguard vulnerable systems. I think someone at Intel might be about to melt down at this point
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Amazon wants to make sure Java is available for free to its users in the long term with the introduction of Amazon Corretto. Does it come with free two day shipping?
Because when you think Java, think of the place you've bought all your books about Java. Or something.
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Researchers found a way to give high-performance computing data systems the flexibility to thrive with a first-of-its-kind framework called BespoKV, perhaps helping to one day achieve the HPC goal of performing at the exascale, or a billion billion calculations per second. It's called a cache?
OK, not exactly, but it kind of sounds like, "shove a key-value database in front of your existing data" to me.
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This borders on fraud.
Kent Sharkey wrote: it kind of sounds like, "shove a key-value database in front of your existing data" to me.
There's no "kind of" here; this is exactly what it is. They should be laughed out of the room for "inventing" something which has been around for over 50 years.
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The concept definitely isn't new, but to be fair to the BespoKV research team, it does look like they're doing something novel in the way they're applying this to HPC systems. This isn't apparent from the ScienceDaily article, though.
The original research paper covers everything decently:
http://people.cs.vt.edu/dongyoon/papers/SC-18-BespoKV.pdf[^]
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..a key-value list in local memory only, from what I read. No MapReduce.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Much-hyped selection process ends in the least surprising way possible. Cities that paid for this expansion also bought...
We debated whether or not to include this, but it is pretty big industry news.
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The Virgina package seems reasonable. Most of the promises are about infrastructure and the direct subsidies seemed tied closer to performance than the NYC deal. Using space right on the DC Metro will alleviate some traffic problems (though the DC Metro is considered fairly awful.) And the Virginia/Maryland/DC area has a strong tech talent pool.
The NYC package, however, is nuts. New York is essentially paying Amazon $3 billion, but who the hell wants to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world? At least in Virginia, you can live in a decent place with a commute that isn't my cup of tea, but which isn't pure hell.
(I'm curious about the debate:
Should we include this?
Sure.
Okay.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
The NYC package, however, is nuts. New York is essentially paying Amazon $3 billion, but who the hell wants to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world?
Millions of people already do. That's a large enough local base that they can recruit without having to spend a small fortune on relocation offers.
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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