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I think I've got a new strategy for The Losers Club[^]...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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MIT researchers have devised a method for assessing how robust machine-learning models known as neural networks are for various tasks, by detecting when the models make mistakes they shouldn't. Step 0: They're not
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Other than being careful not to be a student, is there a vaccination, or something, that will help me avoid it ? [^]
«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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you know what else is a plague, articles written so opaquely no one who doesn't already know what they're about will be able to figure out what they're about. I don't recall previous articles from that site being so bad.
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 will try to improve myself so, in the future, I will rise to the level of what you consider tasteful
«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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In the mean time, could you perhaps enlighten us as to what the article was about? Since you shared it, I'm assuming you knew enough of the technobable to understand WT the author was talking about.
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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Ditto!
It was like joining a conversation halfway through it with no clue as to what it is about.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I read down as far as the video, but, because by that time the "writer" of the article hadn't bothered to tell me (or even hint at) what a cluster competition is, I read no further.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sounds like a cluster F to me!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Mossab Hussein, a security researcher with cybersecurity outfit SpiderSilk, discovered that dozens of Samsung internal coding projects were being exposed on GitLab thanks to being erroneously configured as public without any password protection. I can't imagine how this could happen when companies post their code on public code-sharing platforms
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Code security in the cloud is a grey area -- as in stormy.
I think the smart move for hackers is to immediately dive into the latest fads, and see what they can get from them.
That's what the smartest hackers should do, anyway, because it's what the stupidest users do.
Low-hanging fruit, and all that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you want to run into a celebrity, you go to Hollywood. If you want to run into a billionaire, you should move to San Francisco. I'm sure those numbers are the same for CP
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The great philosopher Watto Republic credits? Republic credits are no good out here. I need something more real.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Sure, but those are US billions, which are only a thousandth the size of real billions.
Them durned Yankee billionaires don't know what being rich really means.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Today, Jeff Bezos unveiled the design of his spaceflight company’s lunar lander, the Blue Moon, which can take scientific payloads — and eventually humans — to the surface of the Moon. I always thought there would be a Starbucks up there first
Edit: updated with a story after the announcement
modified 9-May-19 17:15pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I always thought there would be a Starbucks up there first
Or maybe a McDonalds. to ruin the ambiance.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Because we really want people like Bezos in charge of things like this.
So we can forget any and all creative and inventive work on space exploration, from now on.
It'll all be Bezos and his cronies financially and politically muscling things to be done his way.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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An accelerator unit improves both the performance and efficiency of a system by taking over one simple task Just add a GCPU!
Then we can add a dedicated processor for keyboard input, and something to manage all the processing units. Let's call that one a central processing unit?
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I would start the patent application process now if I were you.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: I would start the patent application process now if I were you. No kidding.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It seems to me that this may benefit a class of applications, but as many parts of a system do not really use GC, a questionable thing to put in hardware. Maybe when Java Processors seemed likely to be a thing, but that never really took off.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Back in the 80s or 90s, Intel announced a 3-chip CPU that ran Java bytecode. As I recall, it was a commercial failure.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I remember reading about them at the time. Very few actual systems are entirely based in GC languages - maybe Chromebooks could benefit, but outside of that I can think of no O/S that would really benefit from this, just some apps.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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How does this handle L2 and L3 cache integrity?
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Here's an idea:
If we want computers to perform better, why don't we just force companies like ms, google, and adobe to get rid of 50% of the bloat that they fill our machines (and occupy our memory & processor time) with.
Don't defend yourself against the dog's tail when it's the other end that's doing all the damage.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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