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We will have to leave it for a skimmed milky Way version?
We've seen plenty of films leaving our planet for good, but never for our cholesterol...
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Last year, the Solar System was treated to its first known tourist. 'Oumuamua, an odd, cigar-shaped body, shot through our neighborhood at high speed, following an orbit that indicates it arrived from somewhere else. Exactly what I feel like doing these days
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Computer scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a completely new kind of algorithm, one that exponentially speeds up computation by dramatically reducing the number of parallel steps required to reach a solution. All our performance problems solved! Lunch break time!
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Finally, the WAG (Wild-Ass Guess) has been standardized...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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In contrast, this new algorithm samples a variety of directions in parallel. Based on that sample, the algorithm discards low-value directions from its search space and chooses the most valuable directions to progress towards a solution.
Either the article oversimplifies the process or I, and anyone else who has used this approach in the last 30 years, should have patented the damn thing.
Like, Holy Infinity, Batman! As JSOP so succinctly put it: Parallel WAGS!
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Your favorite tech companies are trying to trick you into giving up your data, and a new study shows how they’re using design to do it. More reason not to trust those tricksy designers
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Speaking at a Fortune Magazine event yesterday, Diane Greene Google’s head of cloud made an interesting admission. “I wouldn’t have minded buying them, but it’s OK.” Watch this advertisement before we accept your pull request
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Microsoft has announced that the .NET Core 2.0 will be considered "end of life" and thus no longer supported as of October 1, 2018. "Sometimes the Green Mile seems so long"
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Feature is removed from latest preview, with reports that it's not coming this year. They're still trying to put 'Tab A' into 'OS B'
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Microsoft gets lots of criticism, some of it deserved, some not. One thing I do respect is [sometimes] having the guts to pull a major feature. I've worked on, and personally seen, many projects where that courage was lacking resulting in a heavily delayed release or a release with a badly broken feature. (As I often lecture; developers often forget, or aren't aware, of how much technical support calls cost a company in real dollars, never mind reputation.)
(Sometimes the Visual Studio team needs that courage.)
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Rowhammer is a hardware bug in modern memory cards. A few years back researchers discovered that when someone would send repeated write/read requests to the same row of memory cells, the write/read operations would create an electrical field that would alter data stored on nearby memory. Android is the new Windows, part n of a never-ending list
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Just threw my phone away; that fixed it! (Not really, but I thought Rowhammer was essentially fixed.)
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Time to switch back to a Nokia feature phone. Plus, you get Snake!
TTFN - Kent
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Words with multiple meanings pose a special challenge to algorithms. Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
That's nothing... try with "elephant" in CP 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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According to the author of the paper, Dan Hooper — harvesting energy from distant stars isn't just the best way to increase a civilization's available resources. It's also the only way to prevent the ever-expanding universe from leaving that civilization totally alone in the vastness of space. So... legalizing marijuana will have no side effects?
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Quote: Dan Hooper — a senior scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago
Can we go any lower than that?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois
FYI: Fermilab - Wikipedia[^]Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: University of Chicago
FYI: The University of Chicago[^]Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Can we go any lower than that?
Just because the science is being performed in the American Midwest, that doesn't mean it's of lesser quality or importance. Albert Einstein was an ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing patent clerk while he did some of his most important work. Do we discard it simply because he wasn't working in the august halls of Oxford, Cambridge, etc.?
Software Zen: delete this;
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To totally missed me, it seems...
What I was saying, that just because this 'scientist' has the back of two - as much as I know well respected - institutes, every idiotic paper of him is published as 'science' - not only on the 1st of April...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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#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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Scientists shouldn't pass off their rejected 'B' movie scripts as "scientific papers."
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Apple and Samsung have finally put an end to their long-running patent battle whose central question was whether Samsung copied the iPhone. They both agreed they copied Windows CE?
Or they both realized they needed to both fight Google?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They both agreed they copied Windows CE?Or they both realized they needed to both fight Google?
 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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