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That's probably because the only people using it are the miners.
You've got to look after your core users.
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I still wonder if Ethereum's smart contracts could be used to distribute a virus.
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For a few minutes I was actually hopeful that a major ponzi-coin was going to move away from using proof of pollution. Then I read the rest of the article, apparently stopping polluting within their existing platform was too hard; so they're going to create a new ponzi-coin without it instead and are hoping all their users will switch over. Based on the historical track record of ponzicoin splits though, I suspect both versions will remain around meaning that etherium v1 will continue to be an environmental disaster for years to come.
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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It describes a social condition many of us feel, but chances are you’ve never heard of the term that’s just been crowned Word of the Year. Is this what we've become as a species?
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This doesn't surprise me.
My nomination was for the word "d1ckhead", but the non-standard spelling that I had to use on the form was obviously a problem, so they went for a synonym.
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"After we tallied the one vote, from me, we decided..."
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Hilarious.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Surely it's the fear of eating.
Nom nom nom.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Grasshopper teaches adults to learn to code through fun puzzles and quizzes Because I know many of you want to learn
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I wonder if it uses Common Core (both of which are development buzzwords).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The article claims: Over the last nine months, Grasshopper has helped stay-at-home moms, mid-career changers and international entrepreneurs kick-start new careers My challenge: Name three.
It's a google service, so you can be sure that the names of people who have gone forward into new careers, based on what they have learned on the course, will be amongst the terabytes of personal data slurped from each participant.
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And if it had been that successful, they would have cancelled it by now.
TTFN - Kent
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Ultima Thule may have two lobes or be two closely orbiting objects. Fortunately, no strike was recorded
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Fortunately, no strike was recorded But, with the money saved by not building walls, they might get a spare probe.
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A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need later in “a nearly imperceptible, high-frequency signal.” "It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself."
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Yeah, cheating, right.
Because it's become super-intelligent enough to figure out what is truth and and what is falsehood.
This is one of the dangers I instruct people about, when they start out with a backprop or genetic algorithm: You don't actually know how it's figuring out the things it's figuring out, you just know that it gives results that match the results you've arrived at by other means.
If it works by directing data through routes that human devs would disregard as unreliable, even though it'll work a lot of the time, your training program will still accept the results as being correct, and feed that back to the AI, which will assume that it's doing the right things.
Rule 1 of using a trained AI: Do not trust it until you've fed it A LOT of NEW AND UNIQUE test data, over A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, and always received correct results.
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AI is not real. From the article Quote: reveals a problem with computers that has existed since they were invented: they do exactly what you tell them to do. They aren't learning. They are not intelligent. They cannot cheat. They are only doing what some developer programmed them to do.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Every year around Christmas, we reach out to a selected cadre of developers and ask them how they see their craft changing in the year ahead. A little science fiction reading to start your day
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Yet another, "if we keep predicting it, someday we'll be right", article.
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Microsoft finished 2018 as the world’s most valuable company, but it also passed an important milestone for Windows. After those issues with the October patch, I'm pretty sure 'popular' isn't the word you're looking for
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They skew the numbers to appear as if people are moving from Win7 to Win10, but I'm sure a lot of the ex Win7 users are moving to someonthing else, or just abandoning their desktop/laptop machines altogether, because phone/tablet.
I heard a few wweeks ago, that in terms of sheer numbers, *nux has a much higher installed base when all types of devices are counted. For instance, EVERYBODY has a cell phone, and the overwhelming majority of those are running BSD or Android. Additionally, most (all?) of the smart TVs are running Android. Conversely, not everybody has a desktop/laptop computer. Finally, let's not forget about all the two-slice toasters that linux users freqently cite when they're talking about the low low low systems requirements of Linux.
FWIW, the recent Win10 update debacle, coupled with the imminent demise of Win7 forced me to update all of my Windows boxes at home to Linux. So, Win7 hasseven fewer "users" out there - just in my house alone - but none of them went to Win10 as an alternative.
Finally, what about all of the Linux boxes out there that are forced to change their browser user agent to claim membership in the Windows club in order to connect to certain websites? That IS how they get their user metrics after all...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: FWIW, the recent Win10 update debacle, coupled with the imminent demise of Win7 forced me to update all of my Windows boxes at home to Linux. So, Win7 hasseven fewer "users" out there I should have read your posting first.John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: what about all of the Linux boxes out there that are forced to change their browser user agent to claim membership in the Windows club in order to connect to certain websites? For the win.
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Oh, that's just bollocks.
200 million users going from windows 7 to Ubuntu or Mint does not mean winio has become more popular.
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Alexa and Siri are green-eyed with envy; Google Home is licking its chops anticipating how much more of your private behavior they will slurp: [^]Quote: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in an order late on Monday that it would grant Google a waiver to operate the Soli sensors at higher power levels than currently allowed. The FCC said the sensors can also be operated aboard aircraft.
The FCC said the decision “will serve the public interest by providing for innovative device control features using touchless hand gesture technology.”
A Google spokeswoman did not immediately comment on Tuesday, citing the New Year’s Day holiday.
The FCC said the Soli sensor captures motion in a three-dimensional space using a radar beam to enable touchless control of functions or features that can benefit users with mobility or speech impairments.
«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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Microsoft in 2016 started working on the "Alternative Interview Framework," a new way of conducting developer interviews to reduce bias and do a better job of testing candidates for the skills they'd actually need on the job. When do we start noticing a change?
Apologies in advance if they shove this behind a paywall. When I added it to the queue, it was working, but the .com version is paywalled. They might do the same to this copy. But I have faith in France to do the right thing.
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