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Slacker007 wrote: keep this guy no matter what
What if he simply wanted to do something new?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Just when you were getting comfortable with containers and auto-scaling, a new architecture emerges, swinging the pendulum back to a truly distributed world. But not to 11
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And if anyone (like me) needed to look up WTF "edge" and "edge-computing" means, it's this (from Wikipedia):
Edge computing is a method of optimizing cloud computing systems by performing data processing at the edge of the network, near the source of the data.
I can't wait to see the next job requirement: "must have 5+ years experience in edge computing."
So, we come back full circle. We used to do ALL our computing on the "edge" -- processing data from real time instruments right there on the PC, or, even further back, on the dedicated microprocessor and supporting hardware. Then suddenly it transitioned to "cloud computing" and we were streaming our data to the "cloud" for analysis. Now suddenly, even before the clouds had time to form into a true storm, we're back to "near the source of the data", back to where we started. But now we have a catchy new name for it.
I wonder if evolution (or if you prefer, creation), is this schizophrenic.
Just think how much more valuable your Apple II and Commodore PET is now! It's an "edge-computing device!" 
So, what comes after "the edge"? Some options:
- the fall (as in, falling off the edge of the cliff)
- the dragon (as in, the edge of the known world is surrounded by dragons)
- the turtle (the world is held up by a turtle)
- the center (if you're on the edge, where else can you go but toward the center?)
- the tangent (every edge has a tangent line)
Sadly, none of those are very catchy. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: So, what comes after "the edge"?
The plug. As in 'un'
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The largest study of robot faces we've ever seen shows the right way to design an expressive robot. For your next robot design project
I don't think the robot cyberattack defense robot was included. It doesn't look very threatening.
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The study is highly suspect since many studies have found that your preferences over time are can be quite different than your immediate preference (which is why "New Coke" failed.) Further, I suspect that context is going to matter quite a bit; dealing with a robot face on a factory floor is quite different than dealing with one in, say, your kitchen.
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Where's Max Headroom? No study is valid nor complete without including Max Headroom.
Bah!
#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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It's small enough to fit inside a shoebox, yet this robot on four wheels has a big mission: keeping factories and other large facilities safe from hackers. "Your move, creep."
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A verifiable computation is a computation that produces an output along with a proof certifying something about that output. The language calls to me for some reason
Sad that I haven't the faintest idea what it actually is or for
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Input: 1 + 1
Output: Yes, 1 + 1 does equal 2 <rolleyes>
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Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction author David Gerrold was spot-on in his 1999 predictions about smartphones. Now he predicts computing’s future…again. "I'm presumin' that I could be kinda human, if I only had a heart."
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The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices. "The third little pig worked hard all day and built his house with bricks."
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it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.
Riiight. So we can all be subjected to drivel like that. As if we don't have enough of a cacophony of pointless mutterances on the likes of FB and Twitter. 
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His definition of "few" is different from, well, everyone.
"but in a world where you choose what you see rather than letting a third party decide for you..." I wonder if he ever tires of knocking down his straw man?
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Shum didn’t share further details about these new devices, but the exec said that everything Microsoft does these days is “all infused by AI.” Hardware-accelerated Clippy, perhaps?
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Apparently AI now means "software which solves a problem using user data."
(I just had a command prompt open. I pressed the up key and it correctly predicted what I wanted to do!)
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next version of HoloLens would feature a dedicated AI coprocessor
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Were you aware there are two versions of a lowercase G? Because we're dedicated to bringing you the hard-hitting news of the day
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Researchers were then startled to find that the number 7 is sometimes written with a dash through it. They also found that some people who comment on Code Project have writing that is often indecipherable.
"Next thing you know," the researcher said, "is there will be more than one color blue. And I'll bet David Gerrold didn't predict that!"
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Gonna get gargantuan guestimations gearing gravitationally-gifted gabbers gone gabby!
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Now it’s time for a final glimpse into the future. Today we’ll cover another two possible C# 8.0 features: target-typed new expressions and covariant return types. C# 8.0 marks the end of the world?
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Yes, because they are going to rename it C##. Or aliens are going to arrive.
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The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first place Enjoy trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube
It's Stallman(tm), so you know it's 'radical'
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union
Maybe it has something to do with Soviet Union not existing any more?
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