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OK, password changed to 83tt3rP@ssw0rd. I'm so safe now.

I know lots of people in tech, and many of them are human

But I thought it solved all problems, *and* made coffee for the team?

We also would have gone with, "WTF, WPF?"

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I had to include this one, as the headline blew my mind

"May the odds be ever in your favor"

Downloading cat videos and stockpiling Twitter rage, just in case

Maybe they posted the memo to Google+ and no one noticed it?

Or about 12.5 minutes of Google's day

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Just posting this to see if anyone remember the item from yesterday about ethics not affecting developers

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

Aren't all projects entirely green-field?

What's ours is ours and yours is yours?

At the start of my internship, ML.NET code was already relying on vectorization for performance, using a native code library. This was an opportunity to reimplement an existing codebase in managed code, using .NET Hardware Intrinsics for vectorization, and compare results.

Deep learning neural networks are behind much of the progress in AI these days. Neuton is a new framework that claims to be much faster and more compact, and it requires less skills and training than anything the AWSs, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have.

Microsoft’s TensorFlow-compatible machine learning framework debuts a reworked API for more flexible pipelines and improved prediction performance

Infer.NET is a framework for running Bayesian inference in graphical models. It can also be used for probabilistic programming.

With the release of Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Microsoft has also announced a “major step forward” for Windows 10 IoT, bringing with it some new servicing choices, better integration with Azure IoT Edge, more choices for hardware including NXP processors, improvements to special purpose connections such as to kiosks or digital signs, and better Azure IoT Device and Intune support.

FastR is a GraalVM based implementation of the R language that provides significant improvements in the performance of R code, the embedding of the R execution engine into Java applications, and the ability to interface with other GraalVM and JVM languages including Python, Java, and Scala.

Step 0: agree on common sense?