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Exactly! Now we just need to figure out how to keep those users off the systems! :P
TTFN - Kent
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And still get paid!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The pioneer behind a new national plan says it could help the US compete—and address a looming shortage of quantum engineers. First step: put all students in a box
Not intended to be a political statement
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Quote: It is hard for these companies to find engineers to help them develop and commercialize scalable systems.
I’m not surprised. I can’t get past the first three questions in MS's Quantum Katas! There’s about 100 questions or something (fill in missing code to make the unit tests pass).
Lots of docs on the tech but not much on how to put it together to do things. So for me at the moment it’s just random combinations!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Quantum Computing and Q# Blog – Microsoft Faculty Connection
only has a few parts written.
Kevin
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article said: Quantum bits, or qubits, created and manipulated using superposition and entanglement, can perform certain types of calculation very rapidly on vast amounts of data.
Unfortunately that right there proves it is not a Quantum computer.
I guess they are speaking of "quantum" computing...since they could never get to the real Quantum Computer.
If it were a true Quantum computer it would create a set of all data (infinite set) and then simply choose (without calculating) the answer.
And I'm sure this will start up a lot of controversy but you'll have to read the book, A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer[^], so we can discuss (argue about) it further.
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Researchers at the AI Lab of Tsinghua University have recently developed an incremental encoder-based model that can generate story endings. "And they all lived happily ever after"
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The horror genre addon (in kill.dll) :
if (happyEnding) ++unease; 
(Ha ha! Made myself laugh! Kill Bill - Kill Dll! Revenge For The Ninja Coder! Don't take my bytes away!)
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"Suddenly, everyone was run over by a truck."
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Good. Let's break it feeding it Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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
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I thought people would try pointing it at Game of Thrones, seeing as how GRRM can't seem to finish it.
"You dis, she dies, everyone dies."
TTFN - Kent
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GoT can't seem to finish, NGE finished half a dozen times... Maybe if Martin and Gainax have a meeting the situation will be solved?
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
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The tool, called SapFix, has been used to ship stable code updates to millions of devices using the Facebook Android app. It just publishes it to your wall, and your 'friends' can fix it?
SapFix. Must not make 'sap' joke...
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I think they should rename this: "ebola4u"
«... 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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Quote: For high-firing bugs, Facebook explained, SapFix creates patches that either fully or partially revert the code submission that introduced them. For more complex crashes, SapFix draws from a collection of templated fixes to create patches. When that doesn't work, SapFix will attempt a mutation-based fix.
The first part of that, being able to automatically identify the offending commit looks like a generally useful tool regardless of how you ultimately fix it even if you don't want to use the auto-rollback feature.
OTOH the last part, trying to mutate code until it works makes me rather nervous. As an emergency bandaid it may be better than nothing, and I'll give FB the benefit of the doubt, and assume they will have a human review what the tool did and make sure it's a correct and safe fix as well as being easily readable code and rewrite it when it's not, but we all know there'll be PHBs who declare that changing what the magic fixit tool corrected for their devs is a waste of time and will end up burying their software in technical debt as a result.
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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Maybe it will find a bug introduced on day one and roll back to MySpace. 
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Four major US carriers — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon — are joining forces to launch a single sign-on service for smartphones. Because the phone companies never have security issues
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A firmware bug means existing security measures "aren't enough to protect data in lost or stolen laptops," says new security research Right, that's it. Moving everything back to paper. No one ever hacks that.
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Physical access means no security. But now we're getting back to those damn users--no users, no security problems!
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There is a lot of existing code - mine included - that makes assumptions that .NET would only ever run on Windows. Using System.Drawing was one of those things. Wait, I know this one - one leg at a time?
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If MS promotes the use of Mono, instead of reinventing the wheel, we won't have this problem in the first place. This is one of main reasons I did not migrate my code to ASP.NET Core.
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Apple unveiled the newest generation of its flagship iPhones today, the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. Because Chris needs a new phone
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IBM’s DeepLocker PoC gives the industry a look at artificial intelligence risk--and what an attack produced with the help of deep neural networks will look like. "Never send a human to do a machine's job."
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The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling for an international ban on so-called killer robots. And now we are save from "Le Terminator"
et la Terminatrix
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Programming language bites its tongue to be more inclusive 50 Shades of Python
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I did a website for the Black Mothers' Breastfeeding Association -- not that website, a different one for their weekly club meetings -- a non-profit that helps educate moms about the benefits of breastfeeding. One of the admin options on my site is to review the list IP's that have been blacklisted, and to allow entering IP's that should go on a whitelist site. While working on this, I became quite conscious of the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist" and how our language, even in tech, can have racist undertones. I changed the names to "disallow" and "allow".
Marc
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