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You can have a stable society. Or high unemployment rates. But not both. If the machines of the future work for all of us there will be political mechanisms to compensate for job losses, that's just how society is.
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An artificial intelligence bot called Zach is creating a stir in the medical community. A doctor in Christchurch is teaching it to write patient notes. An Otago professor has it interpreting ECG results. But AI experts are not convinced. David Farrier goes in search of Zach. You mean that some of this AI stuff is a scam? I can't believe that.
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This was a fun read. We have a QA tester here, Zach, and I intend on asking him what he does in his spare time. I have noticed quite a few medical books lying around lately.  
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia have demonstrated for the first time a working rechargeable "proton battery" that could re-wire how we power our homes, vehicles and devices. It has potential
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To get full health benefits and optimum buzz, don't drink your first cup first thing in the morning. Between 00:00 and 23:59
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Quote: you should drink between 4 and 6 (8 ounce) cups of coffee... during that two hour window.
And, you should also carry a porta-potty, or other fluid disposal device, with you, as well as electrolyte/mineral replacement fluids.
Too bad the article didn't tap into the very interesting recent developments in chronobiology, circadian rhythm modulation by genetic heritage, and epigenetic gene expression as a result of "experience."
from a manoot khankaew, Bill
manoot khankaew Thai (literally "bat man") for a "night owl."
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Corero Network Security has disclosed that the Memcached vulnerability that was responsible for last week’s GitHub DDoS attack is more extensive than originally reported. Why we can't have nice things: today's edition
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Microsoft head honcho Joe Belfiore confirmed today that Windows 10 S won't be a separate Windows version anymore and that Microsoft will ship an "S Mode" with Windows 10 starting 2019. The 'S' is for 'Sonofa... why did I pay for this?'
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Over the past few days, users with Alexa-enabled devices have reported hearing strange, unprompted laughter. "Ha! Ha! Ha! You've already paid for this. Listen to my heart beat"
Somehow a song near to my heart 
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Thats Mr Bezos laughing all the way to the bank. If someone tells me "You wouldn't even know what to do with a billion dollars." My reply is, that sounds like a challenge, and I accept. Granted its mostly on paper for Mr Bezos, but I'm sure he sells a share or two when his solid gold toilet seat is on the fritz.
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SkyNet's a woman.
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It brings together the features of apps and MSI file packaging formats. This new MSIX installer will support all type of Windows applications including Win32, WPF, WinForm and UWP. The 'X' stands for mystery!
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How do you address handling open-source licensing for your program? By using an open-source program! Is the program licensed?
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Life magazine's 70-year run saw millions upon millions of photos taken, but only five percent ever published. This tool unveils four million photographs from its archives and makes them instantly searchable via thousands of automatically created labels, from "astronauts" to "zombies". "In the world's mighty gallery of pictures, there's scenes that're painted from life"
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The company, or what remains from the giant smartphone maker that once was, is now suing Facebook, alleging that the social network’s chat apps — think Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram — infringe several patents. "The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself."
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Microsoft’s new platform will enable all developers that create apps on Windows 10 to leverage existing pre-trained machine learning models in apps. You're getting AI, and you're getting AI, and you're getting AI!
Yeah, I could have gone with a Clippy joke, but it felt too easy.
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Confucius says to truly learn something you have to unlearn what you had lean before.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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The Schrödinger Equation makes an unlikely appearance at the astronomical scale "Math is everywhere"
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Did I read that, didn't I, or both? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yes.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Half of Schrodinger just turned over in his grave.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Via whitepaper which they have uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, a team at Baidu (China's answer to Google) has announced an upgrade to their text-to-speech application called Deep Voice. "Destruct sequence 1, code 1-1 A"
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Over 60% of marketers believe they will no longer need to rely on tracking cookies, a 20-year-old desktop-based technology, for the majority of their digital marketing within the next two years, according to data from Viant Technology, an advertising cloud. They have more and better ways to track you now
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Once upon a time, there were Full Stack Developers, but as time progressed, they disappeared. Now, all we have are impostors. People trying to be full stack, but failing. The Full Stack Developer is now as obsolete as a unicorn So all you people doing front-end, back-end, and middle-tier code: you don't exist!
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Many of us will have been forced up the "full-stack" route at some time or other and most of us will have found that we're much more productive at some parts of it than others. Personally, I'm not great at front-end stuff (particularly web) - I do data an awful lot better than I do UI, that's the way my brain works. Similarly, I know some great UI developers who don't really get databases or back-end code. There may well be people who are equally good across the whole spectrum but they're few and far between.
If you were managing the building of a house, you wouldn't get your brickie to do the electrics while your plumber had a go at the roof. Why should it be any different with software?
The only place full-stack makes sense to me is in tiny teams where there isn't enough resource to use people optimally. The more developers you have, the more sense it makes to use them to their strengths.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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