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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube have launched a partnership aimed at combating terrorists online. "As always, should you or any of your force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions."
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It has been a nightmare on Elgin Street. For several months, remote control on car keys in a tiny part of Carlton had stopped worked, until the surprising culprit was found. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Buggy Button Brouhaha
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Couldn't they use the mechanical key?
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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?
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Google is leading the pack when it comes to quantum computing. The company is testing a 20-qubit processor – its most powerful quantum chip yet – and is on target to have a working 49-qubit chip by the end of this year. All those cats, all those boxes... The HorROR!
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B.S. -- you can't predict a breakthrough -- hence the term.
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Absolutely, these are all incremental improvements being described - impressive, but not ground-breaking.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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From a Warren Zevon tune: And if California slides into the ocean. Like the mystics and statistics say it will. I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill Now this is a prediction I believe.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I would not worry. I bet the Hamsters are on to this!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Quantum Hamsters? Are they like Quantum Cats (only smaller)?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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They are... and they are not...
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These are Evil Anti-Quantum Hamsters. They are quantum eaters. The scientific term is quantavores.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Guess which programming languages these random GitHub entries are by the shapes of their source code "All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead."
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Your cognitive capacity is significantly reduced when your smartphone is within reach — even if it’s off — suggests new research. That explains so many people
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I have a workstation, two tablets, a laptop and two smart-phones on my table just now... and I definitely outperform everyone in the room (that's why I'm the team-leader)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: and I definitely outperform everyone in the room (that's why I'm the team-leader)... Not that Team-Leaders work so hard...
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Are you certain that you are not an example of the Dilbert principle?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I am Dilbert!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You mean - like this?
Dilbert Comic Strip on 1995-01-25
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Two new papers from MIT and Google explain first steps for making AI see, hear, and read in a holistic way—an approach that could upend how we teach our machines about the world. "Malfunction. Need input."
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I love that movie. It has one of my favorite lines ever in it : "I am standing beside myself."
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But can it dream nonsensical crap?
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A video showing TEO, a robot ironing, has attracted lots of attention, as it is a robot's feat and that in and of itself has merit. So, robots are even doing jobs no one else does?
I'm not even sure if I own an iron
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