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A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."
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If this surprises you, I know a couple Nigerian princes looking to unload bundles of cash, just send me your banking info to get in on this once in a lifetime opportunity!
"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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Tik-Tok press speaker: What was it about our app spying in the users?
American department of defense: Oh, sh1t...
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New AI tool will help users identify venomous species Poisonous, venomous, toxic, deadly. Yup, they all check out.
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I am not going to be the one getting that close to do a pic that the app can try to identify.
Besides, knowing how accurated are bild recognition algorithms (at least at the moment)... even getting a good zoom to do the picture, I am not sure if I would trust the "no problem, it is not dangerous" answer
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Frances “Fran” Allen, a pioneer in the world of computing, the first female IBM Fellow and the first woman to win the Turing Award, died on August 4, 2020, the day of her 88th birthday. "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." alas, we lose another great
FORTRAN should have been bigger (IMO)
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A bit related:
Hidden Figures (2016) - IMDb[^] three outstanding women more and a story worth to be told (although the film takes some liberties telling it)
I agree with "uncle Bob" when he says, if there were more women in our field things would probably go better.
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Many young people are also graduating and entering the professional job market for the first time. I’m writing this because it would have helped me to read this when I was first starting out. Ooooooh, *that's* what I was doing wrong all this time
"Whatevs, dude. Hire me.", seemed to be working?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Whatevs, dude. Hire me.", seemed to be working? There are worse tries[^]
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Would be part of learning your native language.
We have writing such letters and a "resume" (a short CV) as basic education. Still, companies exist here that "help" the jobless to write such letters.
Those leeches should be banned.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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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Similar to Photosynth, NeRF-W can reconstruct 3D scenes from internet photography. They haven't cancelled it yet?
Or is this a plan to put billboard ads on all the photos you post?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They haven't cancelled it yet? They probably will, when they realize that Neowise is alreay gone
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modified 6-Aug-20 18:07pm.
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Most of us learn Machine Learning from the ground up. But the skills developers need to be effective users of ML is something totally different. So what should the forward-looking software engineer learn about AI today? NI before AI
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CS before NI
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Quote: If you’ve designed neural networks before, the code above is straight-forward and readable. But if you haven’t or you’re just learning, you’ve probably got some questions. Like, what is Dropout? What are these dense layers, how many do you need and where do you put them? What’s sparse_categorical_crossentropy?
The author's overly optimistic in assuming my questions start there. My first question is why despite claiming that the code being talked about is tensorflow, the only identifiable keyword in it is keras which the graph immediately above implies is something other than tensor flow.
Oh and all of those questions the author thinks the reader would have after seeing the equivalent of a machine learning hello world program. None were answered.
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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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A leaker today posted on Twitter a link to a file sharing service that contains what an anonymous source claims is a portion of Intel's crown jewels: A 20GB folder of confidential Intel intellectual property. Now you can make your own CPU!
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On the bright side, Kent now has a new password: "Intel123"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: posted on Twitter a link
Come now Kent. Stop teasing us - share!!!
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From Python to Haskell, the trend isn’t going away anytime soon "I love you though you hurt me so"
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They aren't, but I needed to write an article...
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100% accurate (or accu-rat, as I've been watching a lot of Horrible Histories lately)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "I love you though you hurt me so"
🎵 🎶 🎵 Oh I ache for the touch of your lips, my dear
But much more for the touch of your whips, my dear
Oh you can raise welts like nobody else
As we dance to the Masochism Tango 🎵 🎶 🎵
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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"Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but whips and chains excite me."
--- from a T-shirt a friend of mine has
Software Zen: delete this;
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A snarl, a sneer, a whip that stings...
these are a few of my favorite things.
One of the t-shirts someone wore in high school. I don't remember many of the things from then, but this sticks with me for some reason.
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Quote: the average programmer of today knows little to nothing about it. That’s about to change.
Wow, I've heard that for at least 10 years.
It's sort like when a man promises to change - no matter his intentions, he still remains dys-functional.
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