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The chaos and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic have claimed an unlikely victim: the machine learning systems that are programmed to make sense of our online behavior. They're not alone
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"The algorithms that recommend products on Amazon"
As far as I can tell, Amazon simply lists more of the last thing you looked at. Right now, I'm being recommended mermaid tails (yes, I have granddaughters.)
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Not judging 
Are they available in large? Asking for a friend. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Are they available in large? Asking for a friend.
He[^] might be available.  
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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It helps to keep people at a 5m social distance 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: mermaid tails
Delicious with some bbq sauce.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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We’ve been working on speeding up the compiler and editing experience, getting rid of friction and papercuts, and reducing bugs and crashes. For the types that like types when typing their code
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I don't care how fast/slow the compiler is as long as they really do fix bugs and it doesn't crash.
".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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Machine learning and AI are highly unstable in medical image reconstruction, and may lead to false positives and false negatives, a new study suggests. Who could have predicted this? (well, other than you, me, the neighbours, your dog, and just about every other person not hyping AI?)
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C'mon, the problem is NOT the occasional false positive / false negative result suggested by an AI.
The problem is people basing their actions on whatever a "computer" (regardless of AI or simple algorithm) told them, and never accepting the fact that "the computer" may be wrong, even refusing to do the simplest check of the result, even when someone else points a wrong result out to them.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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And in other news, human techniques in medical imaging may lead to incorrect diagnoses.
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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We already know where the fault lies; Arthur C. Clarke predicted this over 50 with 2001: A Space OdysseyHAL: Well, I don't think there is any question about it.
It can only be attributable to human error.
This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Any business knows the importance of backing up data as a contingency plan. But do you back up your humans too? Does this mean you're going to replace me?
Or just that you're going to put me on a tape, take me off-site and leave me there until you need me? (upon which time you'll realize that I wasn't actually copied?)
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My boss told me the contingency plan to replace me. Luckily we have some nice landscaping river rock outside our nearly underground windows. He will choose a nice rock and place it in my chair and setup my auto email reply to "I'll check into that." No doubt the rock will have a more pleasant demeanor towards co-workers and productivity will skyrocket.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does this mean you're going to replace me?
Maybe you ARE the backup 
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Mind
blown!  
That's it - I'm going to visit the hamsters to see if my tape is there!
TTFN - Kent
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Synopsys has found that 99% of commercial software programs include at least one open-source component. But 91% of those included out of date or abandoned open-source code. Usually to be found next to the out-of-date, insecure closed source software
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We need an article titled something like, "Researchers Discover That Not All Abandoned Computer Projects Have Bugs - And Extensive Grant Money Was Spent!"
(Even though I will grant that many, if not most, have some bug present. But we need to Look At The Bright Side Of Life sometimes.)
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I wonder what their findings would be on commercial software.
I mean, Crystal Reports is not open source, but it's full of bugs and companies still use versions that are over a decade old.
One of my clients uses a third party product which uses a third party reporting product that's from 2002 or some such.
It's written in Delphi and the version they use isn't supported anymore in such a way that all the new tools and versions are completely incompatible with the version they use and the older tooling isn't available from official channels anymore.
It's still a commercial product though.
This research is cool and all, but no research is done (or can be done) for the alternative, so the findings don't mean much.
Well, except that software, generally, is out-of-date and buggy.
That said, the out-of-date and potentially insecure and buggy open-source software is probably newer and more stable than the software it's being used in, but these researchers don't mention anything about that 
Also, not every newer version is more secure and more stable, but that's what you said.
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Kite's AI-powered automatic code-completion tool is no longer only for Python developers. Then the AI came for the "send codezplz" folk, and I just stood back and giggled
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I had already thought on using a kind of chat bot with programming stuff in the Q&A... I don't why, but I think many some of the enquirers wouldn't notize the difference.
Heck, I even think that some of the enquirers likely are chat bots...
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The Windows 10 SDK for Windows 10, version 2004 is now available with a go-live license. Build 19041, also known as the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, is now in the Release Preview Windows Insider ring. Or next Tuesday. They're open to negotiation. How's September sounding for you?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How's September sounding for you?
Which year? 
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How's September sounding for you?
Wake me up when it ends. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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