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Quote: You mean all this time I wasn't a software developer?
Not you. He(the author) wasn't
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Alternative title for the story:
You're No Developer, Unless You've Written Excel VBA. 
It should be the new litmus test for dev skills.
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We got it covered. Developers are already artificially intelligent. 
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Shame it's nonsense.
Once a strong set of AI bases* are set for a given demesne, they can just be applied to problems in that demesne and let loose. There'll be nothing else to do but feed them data, so the AI world will more like the IT world of 30 years ago, back in the days of "Data-entry Technicians", with a handful of universities/companies working on new bases.
OTOH, the idea that AI will be writing "code for any occasion" is simply out of the question, for a long, long, time.
I can see the old adage "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer" getting a lot of use, over the coming years.
* That's the "bases" that's pronounced "baysees".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't you mean:Mark_Wallace wrote: ...set for a given demesnedomain, they can just be applied to problems in that demesnedomain and let loose.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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No, I mean demesne.
Just because the guys who coined the word for computery stuff got the word wrong doesn't mean it's correct.
Domain has to do with dominance, ownership.
A demesne is just a field, so it's the word that's meant (the fact that they're pronounced the same didn't help).
Guys in AI tend to be more knowledgeable about human-language than the average developer, because understanding/parsing/overall use of human language was and is one of the first things studied, for AI (and the English language is probably the one thing most extensively studied for it), whereas the average developer is only interested in computer languages. So we use the correct word.
Plus, the word "domain" has too many "within computing" meanings, these days, so it's far too ambiguous.
It's like "interface" -- For God's sake, guys! Look up a synonym, and use that for whatever *new* thing you're introducing!
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Well...
domain noun
1. a field of action, thought, influence, etc.:
the domain of science.
demense noun
1. possession of land as one's own:
land held in demesne.
(Both from: dictionary.com) looks to me like domain is the appropriate choice in this context.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Oh, come on!
I am so sick of people quoting the bloody useless dictionary.com!
I'm beginning to believe that the site was put together by pranksters.
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I've just checked my copy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English. It gives three more usages of domain (in physics, mathematics, and computing), and one more usage for demense (also related to land).
Is the ODE also put together by pranksters?
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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That's "ancient demesne" and/or "royal demesne", which have more-or-less the same meaning as "domain", and are thought by some to be a bastardised migration to marry with "domain" (because spelling didn't always have the importance it has, these days, so language drift was even harsher).
Give it up, eh? I've been a linguist for thirty-five years; googling can't match that.
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Starting in April, if a JAR file is signed with MD5, Oracle will treat it as unsigned. "Monsters out there, leaking in here. Whena yousa thinking we are in trouble? "
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Microsoft has released the media for its Windows 10 Anniversary Update to business users. That means it's almost time for support to end for its original release. So the Windows 7 users don't feel so lonely
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I'm trying to figure out why I might wanna care.
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It's a start.
Things will be better when they stop supporting winio altogether, though.
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Scientists from the Binghamton University in New York have explored with using a person's heartbeat as a password for encrypting and then decrypting personal data. I guess it's a bad sign if you can't log in
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This is heart-stoppingly stupid.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Stupid, of course. It solves no real purpose, whatsoever.
Given that money gets spent on nonsense like this, it's no wonder research funding is being cut world over.
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Since when is a heartbeat a unique and repeatable pattern? And even if it would be, how would that make it a 'better' alternative to a real password?
It'd be not transferable to other people (like your pin-code is, for example), impossible to change (without some good, ehr, reading-material), and become inaccesible at death.
It is a smart way of getting money, yes.
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N_tro_P wrote: Since always.
That's why it always looks the same, right? Here's news, it's not.
N_tro_P wrote: FYI, passwords in many forms are NOT TO BE EXCHANGED (sometimes under penalty of law or loss of assets)
I'll happily challenge that in court.
A password is a key to a vault, not authentication. A heartbeat might do that, but I doubt it.
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N_tro_P wrote: Maybe you should do some actual research before claiming as such. Its not that hard. Here is a simple link to guide you
The only thing that varies in the beat is its speed. That may vary in a person from time to time, and I have not yet seen any mathematical evidence that the amount of possible speed-variations is unique, or that it can be used to identify someone using a previously recorded heartbeat.
N_tro_P wrote: BTW, your employer, bank account, and every other password access to a network you do NOT own has such a rule or law.
My bank does not use a password, or I would change banks. My employer is a gray area, and yes, been there.
N_tro_P wrote: In an era where we are trying to build encryption you think a password is just a key.
We already have encryption and authentication. If you're trying to sell an alternative, you better be good at explaining why the alternative be better.
N_tro_P wrote: Again, maybe you should actually go read the OP link or material behind it rather than sounding like a proud ignorant fool.
I did. What I read is another rediculous claim that is bound to get funding, but which will have zero practical application.
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