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Intel announced a new family of “Core X” desktop processors at Computex today, offering even more powerful versions of its existing Core i5 and Core i7 models, along with a new, top-of-the-line Core i9 line for those who want even more firepower. Do they make chainsaw noises when they work under load?
18 cores?! Does it come with a liquid nitrogen tank?
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Parallelism free lunch! With only 4 cores, it is hard to get more than 2.5X perf gain due to other running programs. Hopefully, more developers will parallelize their programs to utilize more than 4 cores.
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With the demise of Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile well documented, those who have been holding out for Microsoft to break back into the mobile space with their own hardware and software have had little hope on the horizon. Well of course they are. 
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Awesome, we get new Windows for mobile phones, after the last ever Windows which works everywhere .
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As far as they do a new version for desktop too... 
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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NY Times, May 27: "Is China Outsmarting America in A.I.?" [^].
Note: I am able to view this article in a Chrome 'incognito' window without a subscription to the NY Times.Quote: The balance of power in technology is shifting. China, which for years watched enviously as the West invented the software and the chips powering today’s digital age, has become a major player in artificial intelligence, what some think may be the most important technology of the future. Experts widely believe China is only a step behind the United States.
Quote: Quantifying China’s spending push is difficult, because authorities there disclose little. But experts say it looks to be considerable. Numerous provinces and cities are spending billions on developing robotics, and a part of that funding is likely to go to artificial intelligence research. For example, the relatively unknown city of Xiangtan, in China’s Hunan province, has pledged $2 billion toward developing robots and artificial intelligence. Other places have direct incentives for the A.I. industry. In Suzhou, leading artificial intelligence companies can get about $800,000 in subsidies for setting up shop locally, while Shenzhen, in southern China, is offering $1 million to support any A.I. project established there.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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It all seems a bit too vague and hypothetical to label it a "massive investment".
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Colossal Cave Adventure was the first text-based adventure game—It was developed in 1976 using one of the earliest computer programming languages, at the same time as the earliest version of the internet itself, ARPANET. The game is an important part of both hacking and gaming history, and now, Colossal Cave Adventure's code is online and open source. "Xyzzy"
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Finally!? It's been open source since at least 1980!
Here's[^] my MS-DOS port if anyone's interested.
/ravi
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And it's "Crowther", not "Crowder". The author of the article seems to imply if it's not on Github, it's not open source. <sigh> Please let's stop posting Vice wannabe tech related links in The Insider News.
/ravi
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Oh God, it gets worse... the Github repo is a port of the original C&W version. 
Someone please remove this thread from Insider News. Are we that starved for content? 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Are we that starved for content?
Yes, but pulled from tomorrow's newsletter. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
TTFN - Kent
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Thank you, kind sir! 
/ravi
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Bookmarked that great resource, thanks. I remember my team wasting many many hours mapping the cave, ca 1975, on a Interdata Fortran IV port, probably from a PDP-11 version.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I've reached out to the author in the hope of educating him. Hopefully he'll respond.
(Clearly this has touched a nerve in me.)
/ravi
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 I suspect it's because ESR posted it, so somehow his anointment made it more open source than open source
TTFN - Kent
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I can't tell if that's C or BASIC, it's sooooo baaaaad.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Just how many darned developers are there in the world? All right, everyone. Count off.
I guess there's at least 12,956,173. Everyone who's anyone.
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But there's only one Marc.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Efforts to calculate the number of damned developers have failed to date; while it is suspected that (presumable) estimates in Hell remain a closely guarded secret.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I am not sure how many darned developers in the world there are, but I do know of a few dammed developer at work.
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I am generating a very high confidence interval that there are at least more than eight.
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Come back Next Week when Red Monk's knowledgeable team define the number of people in the world as the number of active Facebook users.
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Cryptocurrencies are booming beyond belief. Does that mean this is The Year of Blockchain
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