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The program will pair ground troops with future UAV flotillas that will use player-developed strategies. Ok, but I don't know how "Red Jack on Black Queen" will help them
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Do NOT search for "Red Jack on Blue queen" at work.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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They need smaller swarm drones in order to be able to zerg rush.
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There was a pretty good sci-fi book I read in my youth that had just this scenario - maybe Arthur C Clarke?
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I think you may be referring to Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Sounds feasible therefore I am feasing it.
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zerg rush.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Google has refocused its autonomous driving efforts away from developing its own car without a steering wheel and pedals, according to a report from The Information. Maybe people actually like steering wheels?
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I still drive a manual; to hell with your automatics 
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I haven't owned a car in 15 years (Singapore  ) and you can't hire a manual these days. I miss futzing with the gears and actually driving a car instead of simply steering one.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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A new report by leaders in computational methods and reproducibility lays out recommendations for ways researchers, institutions, agencies and journal publishers can work together to standardize sharing of data sets and software code Ah, just throw everything on GitHub. That's what everyone else does.
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There's a good talk here: GOTO 2016 • The Error of Our Ways • Kevlin Henney[^] that includes several examples where policy decisions have been made on the back of flawed data or flawed code.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that some form of external quality advisory/enforcement is needed. (Especially when you throw machine learning into the mix where poor choice of training data can radically affect the outcome)
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There's no such thing as a free lunch, and SDKs might be just the same. RTFP (Read The Fine Print)
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After suffering through a decade of product delays, missed opportunities and lackluster stock performance, Microsoft found a rebirth of sorts through cloud computing. "Take me to the clouds above"
Heh:
One of Guthrie’s first moves was to gather Azure’s leaders at an off-campus retreat for an experiment: He asked them to try to build an application using their own cloud service.
It didn’t go well. Some features didn’t work, and some managers failed to complete the online sign-up process to use Azure.
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Computer Programming Is a Dying Art[^]
Newsweek: Writing code is a terrible way for humans to instruct computers. Lucky for us, new technology is about to render programming languages about as useful as Latin.
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Finally, it looks as if that will change. A couple of developments illustrate how.
A little backward looking perspective can be interesting.
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I laughed at this line; "The first step is for MUSE to suck up all of the world’s open-source software..."
The word "suck", and forms of it, didn't appear often enough in that sentence. "con" is also strangely missing.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: The word "suck", and forms of it, didn't appear often enough in that sentence. "con" is also strangely missing.
Agreed!
Yeah, I think Newsweek should actually delete the article in an attempt to preserve any integrity as a news magazine that may be left.
oh...too late. 
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most of it repeats something that lots of programmers all over the globe have already done.
Now, if only the program could figure out what that "something" is. Ask a programmer "what do these lines of code do?" and you'll most likely get "uuuuh, I dunno" as a response.
And I speak from the experience of looking at my own code!
Marc
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Not only that but how will it determine which code is better? One might be more space efficient, the other time efficient, and different solutions may target different specific system specs like MPP for business needs. I applaud DARPA for trying but I don't see this being at all useful in the real world.
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Well, if it could figure out things like that, then you could say "I need an algorithm to run on an rPI clocking at 300Mhz with 500MB of RAM and I can wait a week for the answer" vs "Here's a Cray, I need the answer NOW!" 
Marc
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Now that you mention it, I wonder what hardware they're attempting this on and what their estimated delay will be before any "useful" information is generated.
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Jon McKee wrote: and what their estimated delay will be before any "useful" information is generated.
It's the government, and even worse, DARPA, which gives the work a kind of twilight zone / Schrodinger's cat timeline - it's done / not done / sort of done.
Marc
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Year 2027: Breaking news: The DARPA MUSE experiment returned results today. Researchers around the globe gathered in anticipation for the press release.
Today we are proud to announce the initial results. Our project has successfully identified and packaged its first algorithm - addition.
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Computer programmers will be replaced by computer whisperers whose almost arcane incantations bends computers to their will.
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Werd.
".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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