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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why bother learning the lessons of Windows 10S and Windows for Tablets?
Indeed, there does seem to be no reason to think this will work out any better than the previous attempts to do the very same thing.
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Hey, you didn’t spam out this time. Did it get fixed?
TTFN - Kent
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I am optimistic. Time will tell.
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Microsoft's two new video series target beginner developers interested in using Python for machine-learning programs. Who better to learn that language from, than a company that barely uses it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: than a company that barely uses it? Maybe they don't use it precisely because they DO know it very well.
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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Ouch!
Good point.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft: ... free ... programming ... courses ... novice AI developers Am I the only one seeing how much this can hurt?
M.D.V.
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?
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In order to make sure it was ready to hunt for extraterrestrial life on Mars, scientists put NASA’s new Perseverance rover through its paces in Australia’s deserts. Good to know that something survived all the spiders, snakes, drop-bears, and other hostile creatures in that country
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Google open-sourced a machine learning model that can point to answers to natural language questions (for example, “Which wrestler had the most number of reigns?”) in spreadsheets and databases. So it can tell me where I left my keys in the credenza?
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Check under the table on the left of your bed.
You dropped it there two weeks ago. (What's a credanza?)
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Fumble-thumbed credenza. Either that, or it's a the guy from "Who's the Boss" acting as a side-table in my dining room. Not sure.
TTFN - Kent
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Wiki wrote: A credenza is a dining room sideboard, particularly one where a central cupboard is flanked by glass display cabinets, and usually made of burnished and polished wood and decorated with marquetry. The top would often be made of marble, or another decorative liquid- and heat-resistant stone. We make those out of Coral in Rimworld. And human leather hats ofcourse, can't do without those, can we?
Bing wrote on Fumble-thumbed How to Adjust an Older Micrometer: When you acquire an older micrometer, like an early 20th century Brown and Sharpe, you may find that it does not properly zero. After cleaning the measuring faces, twice, it still won't zero. Sometimes you don't make sense. Must be your accent.
I remember "Who's the boss"; or more specific, Alyssa Milano. What guy? Were there guys in the series? You sure?
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Who's the Boss" The Boss Baby - Wikipedia[^]
M.D.V.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So it can tell me where I left my keys in the credenza?
That depends, do you have a table that looks like:
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Item | TopLevelLocation | DetailedLocation |
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| Keys | Credenza | Top left corner, under the pizza reciept |
| ... | | |
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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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Astronomers just spotted an extremely bright burst of radio waves emanating from within our own galaxy. The surprising observation could help us understand the mystery behind these enigmatic emissions, known as fast radio bursts. "All we hear is Radio ga ga"
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Umpteenth headline about the "mystery" of FRB, implying aliens.
I'd rather support a support a scammer by clicking their link; there's no difference.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I'm not saying it IS aliens, but...
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It fakkin isn't.
Every radio-burst without explanation raises hopes about aliens. There's none; there's not even intelligent life in the entire universe.
Life elsewhere might exist; but evolution says "fat chance" to intelligence. And so, we been given none, as will the others.
The idea of "intelligent" life out there is rediculous and arrogant; life favours not intelligence, but endurance and adaptablity.
Homo Sapiens Sapiens is just latin for "Arrogant arrogant ape". Alien life is neither intelligent nor benevolent, IF it exists. We would shoot at it, regardless of its intentions; it is competition.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: but endurance and adaptablity. What helps adaptability more than intelligence?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Serious?
Non-intelligence; we strive to keep things the same, and get upset and blame the Gods if they don't. Non intelligent species simply accept what is and try to do the best, while we whine.
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Tell that the cockroaches...
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: There's none; there's not even intelligent life in the entire universe.
Life elsewhere might exist; but evolution says "fat chance" to intelligence. And so, we been given none, as will the others.
The idea of "intelligent" life out there is rediculous and arrogant; life favours not intelligence, but endurance and adaptablity.
Tongue in cheek aside, we know with 100% certainty that evolution can produce intelligent life (by which I mean life that can consciously consider abstract concepts). We are it. (As well as a small number of other Earthly animal species that demonstrate this ability to some extent).
Beyond that, we have wholly inadequate evidence on which to extrapolate as how life might or might not have evolved elsewhere. There is absolutely zero substantive reason to presume that either life or intelligent life could not or has not evolved elsewhere.
To state with such certainty, as you did, that intelligent could not have evolved elsewhere (when we know that it did evolve here and we have no reason to think that we are anything special) is simply non-sensical.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Homo Sapiens Sapiens is just latin for "Arrogant arrogant ape".
And yet it's you who is being arrogant. It is you is assuming that we are somehow special, that intelligent life could only have evolved here. In truth, we have no reason to think that we, this planet, or this solar system, are anything special.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Alien life is neither intelligent nor benevolent, IF it exists. We would shoot at it, regardless of its intentions; it is competition.
Good grief, let's just wait and find out, eh. Not all competition requires or ends in extermination, for a start, and that's even assuming that intelligent alien life is competitive!
That said, I'd prefer not to advertise our presence to the galaxy but that electromagnetic ship has long since sailed.
Since we know nothing about the possible nature of intelligent alien life (it could be oblivious to us, it could be benevolent, it could be malicious, we just don't know and we have nothing as yet on which to base substantive predictions), the most rational course of action seems to be to continue to advance our technology as quickly as possible.
The ability to have big flying things with guns by the time (if) we meet our first overt[1] intelligent aliens would be a useful fallback in case they're not friendly.
Footnote:-
1: Yeah, I recognise the currently un-disprovable possibilities that they are here now on a 'duckblind' style mission, or we're in a zoo, or they are just observing a 'prime directive' style radio silence in terms of any technology we could actually detect. Or we're bots in a simulation.
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