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They probably use the exciting ABBA technology
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You know how to explain things to an audience whose background is like your own. But how do you get the message across when the subject matter is bound to go over the listeners’ heads? Analogies. Lots of analogies. Once upon a time, there were three little goats, named 'Web page', 'Logic', and 'Database'...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Once upon a time, there were three little goats, named 'Web page', 'Logic', and 'Database'... Oh I remember this one. 'Database' had a strong, concrete house, but others had only poor-man's yurt and igloo. And it ends terribly bad, IIRC.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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phil.o wrote: 'Database' had a strong, concrete house, but others had only poor-man's yurt and igloo.
Goats, not pigs!
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Well, this sucks!
I wanted to be snarky about how idiotic the page is, but it's not! It's actually full of the right kind of advice.
How dare they!
Still, I suppose they'll profit by one or two more clicks, because I haven't torn them down.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: there were three little goats, named 'Web page', 'Logic', and 'Database'...
And every day they had to cross a bridge under which the troll named "Social Media" lived...
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Google has created Meena, a chatbot it says is better than any other it’s tested — a claim the company supports using a new metric it developed specifically to measure an AI’s conversational abilities. Based on my last few conversations, that might not be too hard
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"a claim the company supports using a new metric it developed specifically to measure an AI’s conversational abilities."
So they designed a test that - by some happy chance - places their code in the 1st place. Hmm... where have we seen this before?
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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Yes, well, the google chatbot has profitted from the input of google groups (which also archived all the newsgroups), everything on twitter and facebook, and probably everything anyone ever fingered or said on their telephone.
i.e. it may be capable of near-human conversation, but it'll sure as sugah be cretin level.
[edit] I tpyoed "newsgroups" [/edit]
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modified 31-Jan-20 3:01am.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: probably everything anyone ever fingered
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OK, so now I really don't want to know what you use to press onto images on your phone!
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Scientists have applied a quantum machine learning idea back to the human brain to see if it explains human decision-making. "Do you guys just put the word 'quantum' in front of everything?"
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If you do that for multiple things is that Quantum Quanta?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Do you guys just put the word 'quantum' in front of everything?" Just wait until the world gets a load of my cloud-based quantum AI, which profits from all the latest and best buzzwords technologies!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've got a better explanation courtesy of the radio DJs on my daily commute.
1) I believe all things happen for a reason. And a lot of the time that reason is I'm stupid and make very bad decisions.
2) What do you mean 'what was I thinking?'? Obviously I thought I was going to get away with it and not have to answer any stupid questions.
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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Because another version of me in the multiverse did something smarter, and I'm the collapsed quantum state of dumber?
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The basic idea behind a primary constructor is it reduces the amount of boilerplate code needed to initialize a class. The war against the c'tor returns
Good series from what I remember.
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I like the way they managed to screw up the "compiles as" code for the one example in that article so that it wouldn't actually compile.
Also, where has NullArgumentException suddenly come from, and what happened to ArgumentNullException ?
"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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What if, for a moment, we forgot all the rules we know. That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones. That nothing is off limits. Can we turn C into a new language? Can we do what Lisp and Forth let the over-eager programmer do, but in C? Using #define for evil
Some people need better hobbies. Maybe collect stamps? Stamps are cool, right?
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If he wants an API for C, he should just write one.
Oh.
That's what he's doing.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones.
Sounds like government, not programming language development.
Besides, what does "good idea" actually mean, and by whose measure?
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Apple, Broadcom owe CalTech $1.1 billion over Wi-Fi patents lawsuit Wi-Fi? Seems more like Hold-Up to me.
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A $1.1bn settlement because they used calTech's ideas in chips?
Sounds appropriate, given that's probably apple's annual budget for hang-out-room potato chips.
I keep wondering how much apple, ms, et al would have had to pay Xerox.
And how much better the world would be if apple, ms, et al were more like Xerox.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And how much better the world would be if apple, ms, et al were more like Xerox.
You mean they should have copied Xerox's ethos as well as their ideas.
It's ironic isn't that so much was copied from a company that made their name making copiers.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Windows 10X is launching this year on a new wave of foldable PCs. Here's what we know so far. The 'X' stands for eXtra-limited
Oh, dynamic wallpaper! I take back the limited snark. (oy)
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