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Nice article! Regarding this:
Quote: after three years of computer science education they can’t code. I'm not at all surprised. Getting a BS in CS/CIS means that you can follow the directions in a textbook and pass tests...very little creative thinking or problem solving required.
My intern this past summer quit after less than two months stating 'This is way harder than I thought it would be' and stopped returning emails and calls. Luckily, we were paying him by the module. He never completed the first one! (just 2700 loc) It's a little awkward since his mother is our point of contact (main end user) for a really good client. The last I heard was that he changed his major back to mechanical engineering!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: The last I heard was that he changed his major back to mechanical engineering!
I've always seen mechanical engineering to be 1000 times harder for me than software programming. I guess it must have just been his cup of tea!
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Researchers from Google’s AI Lab say that a controversial quantum machine that it and NASA bought in 2013 resoundingly beat a conventional computer in a series of tests. The cat is alive!
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I can remember reading about quantum computers many years ago in New Scientist, and am excited by how close we are to harnessing this important technology
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Works perfectly - so long as you don't take it out of the box.
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Code breaks down the way disorganized collaboration breaks down Do you smell something?
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A newly revealed malware that has been in use since at least the beginning of this year has been dubbed a “bootkit,” for its ability to infect a computer at the most fundamental level, running when the computer boots to actually load before the operating system itself. "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
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Is its name "Windows 10" perhaps?
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Are there any more details on this?
Mike
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If you have to ask, it's too late
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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How much Community involvement has there been since Microsoft open sourced large parts of the .NET framework? They did mean "open" (I have to admit I'm surprised)
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You use your Internet connection to do all kinds of things. But you use it for one thing much more than anything else: To stream video and music. Hurrah for cat videos
modified 8-Dec-15 17:25pm.
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And "wideo" is the new streaming service/format/protocol?
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Sorry, that was my Chekov impression.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that was my Chekov impression. Anton or Pavel?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Pavel. I don't have a gun, so I can't do Anton.
TTFN - Kent
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According to a new survey of 2001 Americans ages 18 years and older, roughly 21 percent of U.S. adults now report that they go online “almost constantly.” An even larger number – 42 percent – responded that they go online several times a day. I'm not online all the time, I occasionally need to reboot
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm not online all the time, I occasionally need to reboot
I also go offline and leave my computer room at least once a day to download logs.
Quote: 13 percent of people say they go online several times a week or less often. (We are curious to meet these people! We bet they’re very interesting.)
I doubt I'd use that last word to describe my grandfather (never online?) or mom (few times a week).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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 just looked over the list of books I read this year, and I noticed a pattern. A lot of them touch on a theme that I would call “how things work.” You may not have his bank account, but you can read like His Billness
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Isn't it a bit soon to be announcing that? There are another 23 reading days left this year, so there's still time to read a better book than any on the list so far.
"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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Maybe His Billness is taking the rest of the year off? He's such a slacker.
TTFN - Kent
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Bloomberg Business, Dec. 8: "Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence"
Some interesting charts, and, imho, intelligent commentary: [^].
Also of interest: in terms of sensors that combine digital technology with elements taken from biological entities: [^]
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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