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Proofs that P=NP, and even for the less exciting and more likely P≠NP, abound. Most of them by enthusiasts who, usually, can be commended for their enthusiasm, but not so much for their proofs. Npossible nprofound nproblem nproof nproduced
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The silk proteins themselves are involved in locally increasing the laser power. Why? Because it just sounds frickin' cool, man!
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One step closer to Spider-Man!
Marc
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That was an amusing movie. Not for those who actually have arachnophobia. 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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I bet you are driving a spider 
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By now, everyone in the development community is familiar with the extent to which Microsoft has open sourced its development tools -- .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and others. What most might not know is that Microsoft tried numerous times in the past to do this. "Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone? Open your heart, I'm coming home"
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Yup - the technology:
The Internet wasn't ready, GitHub didn't exist, and they didn't understand licensing appropriately.
finally exists for Microsoft to get you to work for them for free, legally. 
Marc
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Quote: Microsoft researchers have created a system that uses artificial intelligence to keep the sailplane in the air without using a motor, by autonomously finding and catching rides on naturally occurring thermals, similar to how many birds stay aloft.
Science mimics nature: Microsoft researchers test AI-controlled soaring machine - News Center[^]
What is particularly interesting (to me) about this is the two-layer approach to the AI with the high level AI using one set of techniques to derive a policy/objectives view of the problem and another layer working on the actual implementation details. This mimics the conscious/automatic split of the animal brain (?)
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Schlock Mercenary - Wednesday 16 Aug 2017[^]
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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Message Closed
modified 17-Aug-17 11:40am.
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Hmmm... promotes a product by fear-mongering (the NSA can't spy on you with this! Buy now!) and instead of discussing the merits of this YT competitor he attempts to sell it with get-rich-quick ideology... also his channel is almost entirely conspiracy theorist rhetoric. Seems shaky at best in my opinion.
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More technology: ^
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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Nothing is cuter than pictures of kids sitting at their computers, mastering skills their parents never dreamed of. And nothing is more popular than the current idea that all our children should learn to code. Readin', Ritin', 'n' 'Rithmatic. Nuttin but! And where is my wax tablet and stylus?
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Don't knock it. These kids are going to grow up to be the next smart contract Wall Street blockchain coders!
Marc
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It is one of the few things we teach children that allows for imagination and critical thinking/problem solving.
I suspect those traits will be very valuable.
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“Coding is going to disappear,” computer entrepreneur Emmanuel Straschnov told IBTimes UK. “The vision is that people shouldn’t even have to know what a server is. The vision is that people should only know: I want my app to do this, this and that, and then you build it.” The vision is that people should only know: I want my app to do this, this and that, and then you build it.” Ah yes, the old "coding will be replaced" argument. I've seen this argument, in one form or another, for the last 30 years.
This space for rent
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Today almost all information stored on hard disc drives or cloud servers is recorded in magnetic media, because it is non-volatile and cheap. For portable devices such as mobile phones and tablets, other forms of non-magnetic memory are used because the technology based on magnetism is impractical and is not energy efficient. Oh, of course, it was the chirality of the vortex domain wall all along! How silly of me not to realize it.
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I wonder if there's a market in high speed printers as an emergency backup measure. As in:
"Holy Sunshine, Batman! We have 6 hours to back up the Internet on paper before that X9 CME hits the earth and wipes out all electronics!"
Of course, there wouldn't be anything left to scan the paper back into digital form, at least for a few years.
Marc
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Latest Kaspersky Lab findings reveal over five million attacks in the last three months following leaks of major exploits. "It's a very, very mad world"
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