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Researchers at the University of Bristol built a wearable that translates facial expression into ultrasonic words that can be heard up to 30 meters away. "Read my lips."
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New technology may do for audio recordings of the human voice what word processing software did for the written word. The software, named VoCo, provides an easy means to add or replace a word in an audio recording of a human voice by editing a transcript of the recording. New words are automatically synthesized in the speaker's voice even if they don't appear anywhere else in the recording. They can finally fix that Neil Armstrong recording
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Those who worry about automation and robots taking over their jobs can find a different assessment in a May report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. It's too late for me, but you should be safe
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CodeCorrect was presented as a way to fix errors developers run into while they’re writing code. If only there were another way to fix common errors in your code!
The hack works by inserting a piece of JavaScript in your web code that reroutes uncaught exceptions to a local node.js web server. From there, the code sends a request to StackOverflow’s API to search for error messages and return the highest-ranked solutions to user-submitted questions. Answers are extracted from the StackOverflow, and if they can automatically be converted into instructions, changes will be made to the original code.
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I'm still waiting for Visual Studio to auto-correct that one missing semicolon. When it already knows exactly at what position it is.
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Smart K8 wrote: I'm still waiting for Visual Studio to auto-correct that one missing semicolon. When it already knows exactly at what position it is.
Sometimes is it not better to show people their mistakes so they can learn from them?
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I've learned and laughed in the first hundred cases. I just want it auto-repaired now. I've wanted it since Turbo Pascal. I'm not talking about all the errors, just this one. Nothing like hitting run, watching it build and then VS shows me exactly what's the problem, where is it and that I should remove that blasted semicolon. "Thanks VS, I know, I just missed it, alright?" 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and if they can automatically be converted into instructions, changes will be made to the original code.
That's exactly what I want!! When I make a boo boo in my code I want it to go download code from the internet and replace it in my code without telling me. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Bruce Sterling's been playing with a stack of hand-punched cardboard cards created in 1840 by Charles Babbage as a kind of vaporware app for his never-built Analytical Engine; they were intended to placed in a revolving "six-sided prism." He delayed the release to port it to the Unreal engine
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Rapid shifts in technologies—and evolving business needs—make career reinvention a matter of survival in the IT industry "When I look back on the past, it's a wonder I'm not yet extinct"
“Ninety percent of coding is taking some business specs and translating them into computer logic. That’s really ripe for machine learning and low-end AI.” Good luck with that.
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article wrote: Ninety percent of coding is taking some business specs and translating them into computer logic
Kent Sharkey wrote: Good luck with that.
Are you saying?
1. that Business Analysts don't write specs?
2. Business Analysts do write specs, but they are so difficult to understand that there is no AI (even 100 years in the future) smart enough to understand.
3. 99% of software companies don't have Bus. Analysts anyways so no specs are ever written.
4. No specs are ever written
5. Devs are safe.
Wow, Kent. Those are some serious statments, right there. 
modified 15-May-17 15:18pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “Ninety percent of coding is taking some business specs and translating them into computer logic. That’s really ripe for machine learning and low-end AI.”
I think infoworld should be banned as a news source.
Just call me Clump?
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Nah, it __should__ be real easy to write AI that writes software.
Command-language "Hey, Google, write me some software that solves my business problem. I need to track sales and inventory and let's throw in a CRM app while you're at it. Thanks. I'll look forward to having that in production later today."
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raddevus wrote: Nah, it should be real easy to write AI that writes software.
It might be easier to write an AI to write InfoWorld articles. 
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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The wallies (insert your local dialect for idiots) who write these "we'll all be out of jobs" articles really need to be replaced with sensible people with brains.
They are telling upper management what they want to hear.
Reality - work in any normal business, and you have complex rules and interpretations that will only be obvious to the user after an app is 2 months in production (who may be doing them manually every day for years)
I now work in the finance industry, servicing loans "asset management", can't see this going to AI any time soon. Heck it's twisted and convoluted rules change with different lenders, change with Government rulings and although there's some automation, there's still people doing stuff.
Forget this propaganda I heard the same story in 1979 starting Uni. and hey I am still here.
As a dev find a good BA, a good tester, a good product manager. Work with them,grow them, help them (gently at first) to cross skill a little, eg, a BA or QA tester with a bit of SQL can go a long way and they get a buzz and sooner or later you have helped grow a super BA.
Be counter cultural, if you are religious/Christian, try 'Christ like' and if you are not, well stop at servant leader.
That means try for equal levels, but help others grow, you will be seen as an asset in all fronts and there's the bonus you will develop soft skills that fit you to any task.
Become the "A TEAM" instead - Try replacing that with AI!
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Marc Clifton wrote: It might be easier to write an AI to write InfoWorld articles.
Nailed it!
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Wouldn't that be an AS (Artificial Stupidity).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Marc Clifton wrote: I think infoworld should be banned as a news source.
I've lost track of how many times I flamed Infoworthless articles here; and this one isn't even a particularly bad example.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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I'm pretty sure people have been predicting the end of COBOL since before I was born. Is there any meaningful movement on it (ie metrics showing a significant decline in the amount written year, or Fortune 500's actually and successfully migrating significant legacy applications to other platforms); or is it just the usual bloviating that because its old and sucky it must be going away.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Yeah, I read recently that many ATMs are either written in COBOL, or are still interacting with systems written in it. It's not going away in my lifetime, and devs who are happy with it have work as long as they'd like (likely with increasing wages as well).
I think only the new 'cool' languages are the ones that will actually die off.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I think only the new 'cool' languages are the ones that will actually die off.
Same here. One or two might make it; but most won't go anywhere because unlike Fortran, COBOL, C, or C++ they never manage to work their way into the core processes of huge entities. Based on that metric I'd give Swift and Go the best odds of anything to first gain subtantial mindshare in the last decade.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Four application architecture guidance drafts are available from Microsoft's Developer Division and the Visual Studio product teams. Who else would know better how to build with it?
Sorry, I'm giggling too loud after that one. I'm disturbing my coworkers.
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Hadn't you posted something about that before?  Maybe that was the preview version.
These drafts cover four areas: Microservices and Docker, ASP.NET Web Applications, Azure Cloud Deployment, and Xamarin Mobile Applications.
Four things I don't do, except getting into Docker (sans Microservers.)
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It did feel like a dupe, but I couldn't find it (in my vast 15s search), so I posted. At the very least, I think this one gathers them all up into one link-bundle.
TTFN - Kent
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The company responded to the attacks with a strongly worded blog post, criticizing governments for "stockpiling" information about cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and likening the WannaCry attack to the US military "having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen." Wasn't the problem with them sharing it?
OK, they didn't share it to cause this, but they could have let *Microsoft* know about it, maybe?
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