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I'd suggest the person writing the article goes back to basic charting skills. There's two columns, with two different numbers, and there's no clue as to why those two columns have different numbers!
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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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Oh Dear - a pet peeve of mine.
I have experience in a store (shop, shoppe) an employee who counldn't figure out a 10% discount without a calculator.
Being innumerate, although not quite as bad as illiterate, is a major problem - and oddly, in US culture at least - an attribute that is spoken of with pride - as thought it were membership in a club. TV News presenters will often make remarks about how they could never do some trivial mathematical thing as though they were proud of it.
Morning cartoons, for the most part, make fun of those who are smart/educated. Even there, the attractive cartoon characters art typically jocks/jockettes.
For my own kids, I wouldn't let them use calculators until they were taking exams where the speed edge was such that the needed it to compete. By high school, two of them were happily competing in regional math competitions and had friends with similar interest. (And played the real D&D with them - imagination required). Similarly, they couldn't own a video gain console. They were allowed to play but couldn't own one. That easy way from getting from "Now" to "later" was taken from them. They'd have to think of something to do (actually, they read).
But the current hopeless hordes? They were developed to be mindless consumers. They make it a point of pride that they'd spend $1K on a telephone before their friends. That, somehow, counts as an accomplishment. An ability. A super power.
Not meaning to sound egotistical, but in a way I'm glad - they're always the smartest person in the room. Mitigated, of course, in that it may be by default.
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Using artificial intelligence, researchers have created a tool that crawls privacy policies on popular websites like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. But the software’s findings are not as detailed as those done by humans. So it also just clicks "accept"?
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In the YouTube example (Usable Privacy | YouTube[^]), toward the end it basically states that Google can violate the privacy policy if they have a "good-faith belief" that it should be violated. In other words, it's all a charade.
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The next feature update for Windows 10 is coming soon, here's everything you need to know about the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update. So you'll be able to identify it when the update is forced on you
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Scientists from Microsoft Research have proposed using existing commercial aircraft flights and air routes to provide worldwide internet coverage at much lower cost than proposed solutions such as Google’s Project Loon (which uses balloons) and Facebook’s Aquila efforts (which uses solar-powered aircraft). Aren't the chemtrails enough for them to do?
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I proposed to my wife with a ring. Microsoft has upped me again. I can't compete with an airplane and wifi coverage.
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And yet the airlines will figure out a way to charge even more for your in-flight service.
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The Windows Server team just announced a first preview build of Windows Server 2019, the latest version of the server OS to be available in the second half of 2018. So, 2019 won't be the Year of Linux?
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This is the second time an open-source version of webOS has been released, the first coming under the failed tenure of HP back in 2011. But now it's twice as open (source)
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Java SE 10 (JDK 10) is here but that’s not the only reason to celebrate: this is also the first release in Oracle’s new six-month cycle. I know you've been waiting so patiently
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IBM has released its list of predictions covering five technologies that IBM researchers believe will literally transform the world over the next five years. Because if you want to know what's trendy, ask IBM
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Egads, it's bad enough using "transform the world" but to prefix that with "literally" is a figurative step too far.
I predict that in five years people will still be asking; why is IBM still around?
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The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Facebook violated a government privacy agreement by allowing Cambridge Analytica to obtain users’ personal data. "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold"
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When you finally plow through all the articles, you find that the author of that app has stated that the data was useless. (Which may help explain why Amazon's "clever" algorithms simply recommend more of what you just bought or even looked at, which is quite funny when you just went gift shopping for your nine-year-old granddaughter.)
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By allowing traversal of a full 3D representation of the game world, DirectX Raytracing allows current rendering techniques such as SSR to naturally and efficiently fill the gaps left by rasterization, and opens the door to an entirely new class of techniques that have never been achieved in a real-time game. "Eighties, I'm living in the eighties"
Sorry, I'll always think of those old ray traced marbles when the technique is mentioned.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry, I'll always think of those old ray traced marbles when the technique is mentioned.
You have a checker(board)ed past, apparently.
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It's all teapots to me...
Utah teapot - Wikipedia
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I remember watching the Pipes screensaver, as they'd occasionally throw that teapot up on the screen.
TTFN - Kent
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Personally, it blows my mind DirectX is incorporating any Ray Tracing at all. I actually wrote a C++ ray tracer back in 486DX days, and most scenes took over a week to render.
They do say time goes quicker as you get older. Nobody told me I'd be able to accomplish more in that time as well.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: They do say time goes quicker as you get older.
A doco I watched once asserted this to be a two-pronged assault.
0) Generally speaking, the region of people's brain responsible for keeping track of the passing of time works more poorly as they age.
1) The obvious one. 1 day is a far larger portion of a 1 week-old baby's life than that of any of ours.
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Just as the LAMP stack revolutionized servers and web hosting, the SMACK stack has made big data applications viable and easier to develop. "That's a drag with a monkey on your back, Smack Jack"
Sorry, I spent a lot of time with that album back in the day (and so it was the first blurb that came to mind)
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I'm holding out for the pancake stack at ihop.
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It will, I predict, do nothing for productivity getting lots of developers addicted to SMACK.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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