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Winston Churchill was known for his leadership during World War II, but a newfound essay on alien life reveals another side of him, one that was deeply curious about the universe. We shall find them in the fields and in the streets, we shall find them in the hills?
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Quote: "This chain of logic is astounding, in my opinion, for a politician"
Yep, he was the rarest of creatures, a politician with a brain larger than a gnat's tadger. I don't believe that they make them any more.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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David Ulevitch, head of Cisco's security business, has a problem with the hype around artificial intelligence, the field that encompasses the booming computer science discipline of machine learning. There's so much more of it
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There's so much more of it
It will never surpass natural stupidity.
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. Frank Zappa
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I've been saying this for years!
When people talk about artificial intelligence, what they really mean is a machine that behaves like a human. Given that every human is stupid to some degree, the term 'artificial stupidity' is obviously more appropriate.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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The problem will really come if we do achieve to make them intelligent... they will look at us as we now look apes or even worst.
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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Google has been ordered to pay $20m damages after its Chrome browser sandbox technology was found to have infringed four anti-malware patents. About 10 hours of revenue, cheaper than a dev
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Lambdas are a nice recent addition to C++. They are cool, they are hip, and they tend to be overused and misused. When all you have is a corkscrew, everything looks like a bottle of wine
Mind out of the gutter, sir.
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Is there a Rule 34 on Lambdas?
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Rule 34 applies to everything.
But I was figuring people would go all giggly with the mention of 'corkscrew'.
TTFN - Kent
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Reminds me of a very pleasant holiday in Ireland.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The readability has improved vastly
Uh, how is for (auto&& e : container) vastly improved?
OK, granted, I haven't done C++ for so long that while I imagine I used to understand that syntax without thinking, I'm really don't miss it.
I guess knowing a language's syntax and nuances is not like riding a bicycle. I've certainly forgotten how!
Marc
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Ooopsssss, sorry, I didn't see your post earlier. I posted the same topic under Lounge.
Bryian Tan
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No problem here.
It's a wonder you didn't get attacked by the re-post trolls already though. They lurk about at times.
It was an interesting story and really cool how the white-hats tracked the nefarious character down.
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Rather than talk about what makes people better at programming, I’d like to talk about what makes programmers more marketable. "Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst Man good throughout."
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In this article we will explore some of the ethics that a developer and a team should have during and after the delivery of a software product. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"
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We tried out Lego’s new coding platform, Boost. And yes, it makes coding as easy as playing with Lego. Welcome to the Future
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The C programming language is hard to learn, its popularity is waning and demand is shifting. Is there any point in learning C? We could easily replace it with K and S
Khursh does look a little silly though.
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It's the only language that is as close to the hardware as you can get without writing in assembly. So it's face. Anyone thinking it's hard to learn have been coddled too long.
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Buuuuuuut maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllloooooooc
TTFN - Kent
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I know, but put your toys away like a good boy or use a slower nanny managed language that will clean up for you.
Gosh if manual alloc / dealloc is what runs us into the arms of lesser performance - well so goes it I guess.
I'm a old speedy dinosaur that knows enough c / c++ and assy to get done what I need done. So yeah, I'm going to hold the banner high.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Buuuuuuut maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllloooooooc Yes, but once you've got the hang of it, you can get up to speed with just about any other language easily. The more you understand the machine, the better you code.
Case in point: One place I worked had C back-end and Java front-end programmers, and some manager, in his infinite wisdom, decided that every programmer should take a Java-certification thingy.
In the final exam, the C guys, to a man, scored higher than the Java guys -- all of whom were Senior developers.
It's like learning to play an instrument: do the basics over and over again, and the more artful stuff will be easier.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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'struth.
I was never a good C programmer (I always referred to myself as a 'Manual C' programmer, as I needed the manual in my lap while coding), but I never regretted learning it. So much of it applies to every other language, even those without braces and semi-colons.
TTFN - Kent
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