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Microsoft researchers have built an artificial intelligence system that can generate captions for images that are, in many cases, more accurate than the descriptions people write. But it's still not doing blurbs yet, is it? Is it?!
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Can it be modified to select all squares that contain an umbrella?
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The new Azure SDK for C++ is idiomatic to the C++ language and ensures consistency in behavior and API surface when communicating with Azure services. #define cloud
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Ever since Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford wrote a seminal paper about the simulation argument in 2003, philosophers, physicists, technologists and, yes, comedians have been grappling with the idea of our reality being a simulacrum. Chance of bad math? A little higher
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The first rule of a simulation is, don't let the participants even think they are in a simulation.
Once they start down that thought path, everything you wanted to test with regards to the simulation has to be thrown out.
Uh oh.
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Maybe the purpose of the simulation is to see how long it'll take 'em to figure out that they're in one.
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Technically, the chances are either 0% or 100%. Anything in between makes no sense.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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That's why they call it "50-50"
#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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And facts don't care about feelings.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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#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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The question is... which one?
Level 13? Dark City? Matrix? ...
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In the corporate world, managers know how to interpret standard metrics, especially when those are accompanied by dollar signs. But just as flower boxes can suggest that a community is blooming, managers can judge whether their teams are healthy by looking for subtler signs. (items_in_backlog/num_developers)*(num_managers^3)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: managers can judge whether their teams are healthy by looking for subtler signs. In which world does this guy live? I have had managers that wouldn't see a submarine in their bathroom... let alone subtle signs
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Microsoft says that Windows 10 and Windows Server users will be blocked from installing incorrectly formatted third-party drivers after deploying this month's cumulative updates. That should help with the first-party drivers as well
I'm really surprised it took them this long.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That should help with the first-party drivers as well Specially with the ones that are several years older than the OS...
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A few million atmospheres of pressure let mundane chemicals superconduct. Cool! Oh, sorry. Not cool.
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So they are looking ahead to exploration of Jupiter then.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Determining fault when AI plays a role in a person’s injury or death is no easy task. I'm betting it rhymes with envelopers
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It may not be an easy task, but if they just made the members of the board responsible monetarily and criminally, deaths would probably go WAY DOWN real fast. (So would innovation.) There is a high chance their push to product at the cheapest of all costs is the underlying culprit.
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We'll see the outcome of the Boing 737 max case (though it was not "artificial intelligence", just a conventional algorithm and hardware).
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Open source's main patent protection organization is expanding its reach far beyond just Linux. Great news for all of us that are ExFAT (and currently FAT)
I wonder what it took to get the Microsoft legal department to stand this far down?
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Honest: There are times when hiring another QA professional isn’t the answer. You have plenty of customers to test it in production?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Honest: There are times when hiring another QA professional isn’t the answer. Yeah, then you have to hire a new manager / product owner
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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