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So if I do a new W10 install and click the Demented Blue E, I'll get a modal dialog box with 2 buttons "Firefox" and "Chrome"; and after clicking one that browser installs itself and the Demented Blue E goes away?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Wilbur Lincoln Scoville was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", now standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure piquancy, or "hotness", of various chile peppers.
151st Birthday of Wilbur Scoville
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Apple received $1 billion from its rival in 2014, according to a transcript of court proceedings from Oracle Corp.’s copyright lawsuit against Google. The search engine giant has an agreement with Apple that gives the iPhone maker a percentage of the revenue Google generates through the Apple device, an attorney for Oracle said at a Jan. 14 hearing in federal court. [^]
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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The CEO of one of the fastest-growing tech companies has some advice on how to make decisions with big data: Trust your gut. Tummy > Big Data. Ouch.
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Gut reactions are the definition of confirmation bias, as when they are wrong we blame indigestion.
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Wonder if he has a gut feeling his company will take a major hit when he enforces geofencing....
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They don't have any software to randomly crash his gut like they do with the big data VMs?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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 record number of Air Force drones crashed in major accidents last year, documents show, straining the U.S. military’s fleet of robotic aircraft when it is in more demand than ever for counterterrorism missions in an expanding array of war zones. But is anyone asking the drones how they feel about it?
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One of my co-workers is known to drone on and on...
hopefully he'll crash soon too.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Docker today announced the acquisition of Unikernel Systems, a Cambridge, UK-based startup that aims to bring unikernels to the masses (or at least the masses of developers). Maybe it's time to start that OCaml book.
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Jim Breyer, the venture capitalist who made a fortune investing early in Facebook, is optimistic about the long-term picture for the technology industry. Valkyrie maidens cry above the cold wind to Valhalla.
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Search company’s head of ideas sees short term wins against non-tech-savvy organisation, but says stifling group’s propaganda must not be neglected The way is shut.
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Every year, SplashData complies a list of the millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the last twelve months, then sorts them in order of popularity. I feel pretty good about myself, my password is only #21.
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Your password is much shorter then my credit card pin: 5273
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To be fair, I have used 123456 myself on several web sites that I have exactly 0 intention of ever visiting again, but for some bewildering reason, they require me to signup just to view something or make a brief comment.
So yeah, I'm sure there are lots of 123456 passwords with keyboard-mash usernames out there.
Also, bots. Who cares if someone steals a spambot's password?
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I’m hacking on an assembly project, and wanted to document some of the tricks I was using for figuring out what was going on. This post might seem a little basic for folks who spend all day heads down in gdb or who do this stuff professionally, but I just wanted to share a quick intro to some tools that others may find useful. It's Friday. And on Friday we talk about assembly.
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Brave will replace blocked ads with its own ads, taking a 15% cut of revenues. Explain this to me again, maybe it will sound like a good idea the second time.
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Graham Wahlberg wants to inspire you to create something new, start a startup, and make a billion dollars. Quick, check to see you've had any of the same ideas
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Sean Ewington wrote: Quick, check to see you've had any of the same ideas
Nope, none of my ideas were on that list.
Marc
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Really - no aerosol bacon flavouring?
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Up until recently individual members ($99 a year) could also elect two board members, allowing for community perspectives to be represented at the board level. As of last Friday, this is no longer true. The by-laws were amended to drop the clause that permitted individual members to elect any directors. I'm not sure how quiet it is if we're all talking about it.
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Sean Ewington wrote: I'm not sure how quiet it is if we're all talking about it.
I wouldn't have even known if it weren't posted here. And I still don't care.
Marc
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Please use your personal petabyte cloud, and your 4.7 bits per synapse carefully."“We were amazed to find that the difference in the sizes of the pairs of synapses were very small, on average, only about eight percent different in size. No one thought it would be such a small difference. This was a curveball from nature,” says Bartol.
Because the memory capacity of neurons is dependent upon synapse size, this eight percent difference turned out to be a key number the team could then plug into their algorithmic models of the brain to measure how much information could potentially be stored in synaptic connections.
It was known before that the range in sizes between the smallest and largest synapses was a factor of 60 and that most are small.
But armed with the knowledge that synapses of all sizes could vary in increments as little as eight percent between sizes within a factor of 60, the team determined there could be about 26 categories of sizes of synapses, rather than just a few.
“Our data suggests there are 10 times more discrete sizes of synapses than previously thought,” says Bartol. In computer terms, 26 sizes of synapses correspond to about 4.7 “bits” of information. Previously, it was thought that the brain was capable of just one to two bits for short and long memory storage in the hippocampus." [^]
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Today, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a program that aims to build an implantable neural device that would allow the human brain to communicate directly with a computer. "This project follows the failed Siri Program."
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