|
Kent Sharkey wrote: Personally, I thought they just meant they were on anti-depressants.
No doubt! 
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
758 members, 27 online
(That includes me)
They have a ways to catch up to CP!
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
MIT researchers have created an algorithm that hopes to understand human visual social cues and predict what would happen next. A commercial?
Or if you're watching PBS, a pledge drive
|
|
|
|
|
I am pretty sure it would throw an exception if they made it observe my wife 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
|
|
|
|
|
Yo wife's so fat an AI observing her would throw an OutOfMemoryException 
It would throw a NullReferenceException when observing my wife though 
|
|
|
|
|
What takes AI 600 hours, takes me 2. Television is so predictable.
|
|
|
|
|
Microsoft today announced a brand-new Alpha of Skype for Linux. The new app uses WebRTC, "which ensures we can continue to support our Linux users in the years to come." Now they can enjoy dropped calls and distorted speech as well
And of course, the reason is that Microsoft recognizes this as The.Year.of.Linux!
|
|
|
|
|
I pray Linux never becomes prominent.
i cri evry tiem
|
|
|
|
|
I pray Linux never becomes a prominent OS.
i cri evry tiem
|
|
|
|
|
In August, Firefox will ship its first feature across all desktop platforms built using its Rust language. I thought they've been doing that for a while now
Yeah, skipping the Neil Young for once.
|
|
|
|
|
Let it rust
|
|
|
|
|
Rust in peace 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
|
|
|
|
|
Quite a few Windows 2003 servers remain, but they aren't terribly important to their owners If it ain't broke...
But hopefully they won't need patching
|
|
|
|
|
For those of us worried about broad readings of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the decision is quite troubling. No trespassing signs, but for the web!
|
|
|
|
|
A new strain of ransomware in the wild couldn't unlock your files if it tried. You can't trust anyone these days
|
|
|
|
|
Why care ?
The customer will discover the failure only once he have paid. And there is no support.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
|
|
|
|
|
Anyone dumb enough to pay when a victim of ransomware deserves everything they get.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
|
|
|
|
|
It's limited in power, but low in price: R Client provides a reduced but functional set of features from the full Microsoft R Server product R U curious?
|
|
|
|
|
R server? I though R was a programming language.[^]
OK, I guess it wraps the R language? "If you've been hungering to make use of the advanced number-crunching technology"
But:
R is an interpreted language
Hmmm. Slow number crunching technology?
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
The language itself is interpreted but the language is mostly an interface and environment for fast and powerful functions
|
|
|
|
|
RugbyLeague wrote: The language itself is interpreted but the language is mostly an interface and environment for fast and powerful functions
Ah, suspected as much. I wonder why have this trend to taking code written probably in C and wrapping it in dumbed down duck typed scripting languages. Oh wait...
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
Because most data scientists aren't competent C devs
|
|
|
|
|
Actually yes - if it works better than the GNU version for Windows (which translates to: it works).
Once I needed a tool to compare a real data distribution to several standard forms to understand how to model the behaviour of a component. Almost every tool was costly or not providing that functionality, so I turned to R.
[Talking about the Windows port here]
R has little to no GUI, which is bad for a non mathematician. The help is poor and often incomplete (as in missing paragraphs incomplete) and poorly organized (mainly a loose collection of html files).
Some examples in the documentation fail to execute due to parsing errors - unsupported functionalities. The plotting capabilities are rough, insufficient and fairly difficult to use when it is needed to merge different graphics in one plot.
The speed is low and the data input capability is extremely limited, inserting 10.000 values generated from a software, in a EXTREMELY simple format ("R xxxx.xxxx" for read times and "W yyyy.yyyy" for write times, one per line, that's it) was anything but simple.
Since the GUI is useless, the plotting capabilities are old and not powerful, and the speed is lower than implementing the algorithms in C (meanining it's not useful as an automated tool) I really can't find any use for it, sadly. Also it has a very strange syntax.
[End of complaints]
How I solved my problem? Microsoft Excel. Yep, that's right. In a couple of hours, while I spent 5 days on R.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
|
|
|
|
|
A recent study concludes what everybody already knows: nobody reads the lengthy terms of service and privacy policies that bombard Internet users every day. Nobody understands them. They're too long, and they often don't make sense. tl;dr Where's the 'Accept' button?
|
|
|
|
|
The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter. Juno's visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit around the largest planetary inhabitant of our solar system. The first high-resolution images of the gas giant Jupiter are still a few weeks away. Totally PhotoShopped
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
