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Simonyi originally led a Microsoft Research project exploring how to develop with ‘intentional programming’. The software, in theory, would use source code that detected the intentions of the user, making it easier to create and maintain computer programs with a modular code. Do you think they did that on purpose?
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«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Quote: Charles Simonyi was the head of Microsoft’s application software group. One of his jobs was to oversee the development of Office suite favorites such as Excel and Word. Good.
It was when he left that the morons took over, introducing such wonderful features as the effluent interface and lollipops on tables.
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The full game, and its excellent expansion Brood War, can be downloaded now on the game’s official site, updated with a patch that makes the 19-year-old game easier to play on modern machines. Zerg rushes for everyone!
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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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Nat Friedman has launched a new program called AI Grant, which is offering ten grants of $5,000 each to anyone who wants to do open source work in AI. AI Grant is funding existing AI projects, as well as new projects that haven’t started yet.
For more information, and to apply, see the announcement:
http://aigrant.org/
Here are the basics:
- Offering ten grants of $5,000 each to any project in AI which is contributed to open source.
- Anyone can apply (individuals or teams)
- Deadline is April 30th
- Open-minded about what qualifies as an AI project: large or small, code or data, etc.
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I hope they have a good AI to whittle down the thousands and thousands of applications they'll be getting!
Hey, maybe I should submit that as a project!
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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My next AI will be trained to recognise people who give cash and grants to AI researchers, and apply for it.
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Meet PINLogger, the drive-by exploit that steals smartphone PINs | Ars Technica UK[^]
As it wouldn't be enough with malware... now not even needed to missclick something with fat fingers
Quote: "There is no straightforward fix to the problem without also breaking potentially useful Web applications in the future," another Newcastle University researcher, Feng Hao, told Ars. "No one is able to come up with a definite solution yet." Then let the possible future webs to deal with the problem, but fix it now
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So just use a cast-iron ad-blocker, and let marketing morons fix it, if they want to make money.
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I think that most people dont like or trust Facebook.
He is living in his own Virtual Reality...
Press F1 for help or google it.
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I'd love to agree but you should never, ever, underestimate the naivety of the human race.
As tech-savvy adults, we may well have a profound distrust of Facebook but there is already a whole generation who seem happy to share their entire lives there.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Even I put aside my mistrust of any sentence containing 'facebook'...
So now instead of holding in front of us a mini-computer (for some reason called smartphone) we can put on our face an other computer, looks like an over-sized glass, and look like a fool... or not, as VR software will paint everything in pink...
It seems to me we already got fairly disconnected from each other and the reality around with current technology no need of 'improvement' in that field...
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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pwasser wrote: Mark Zuckerberg just signed the death warrant for the smartphone his company or...
pwasser wrote: Mark Zuckerberg just declared an unilateral cyber world war
FTFY
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I can't wait until ms gets in on the act.
I mean, what could they possibly get wrong?
Think of the worst-case scenario, and be aware that that's precisely the direction they'll go in.
My money's on them deciding that we have to throw virtual baby-blocks at walls, to hit virtual tabs on virtual ribbons.
It'll be the Best Windows Evah!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Think of the worst-case scenario, M$ and Farcebook work together?
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Why does this well worn theme still make me laugh?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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It's like toothache: you either laugh about it, or you're miserable all the time.
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If you'd bothered to read the article, you'd be aware that MS already has an Augmented Reality product - HoloLens.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Contrarily to what you snottily suggest, I did read the article -- but I never let facts get in the way of a snark.
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I was just reacting to "I can't wait until MS get in on the act". It could be argued that they've been "in on the act" for a couple of years at least, predating Facebook's investment in the area.
As HoloLens was explicitly mentioned in the article, it seemed that you may have not read it fully. Or maybe just wanted the opportunity to "snark" at Microsoft.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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When you see people joke about the "zombie apocalypse", it's no joke. They are talking about Facebook users.
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