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Unlike chess moves, changes to a Rubik’s Cube are hard to evaluate, which is why deep-learning machines haven’t been able to solve the puzzle on their own. Until now. Then they came for the Rubik's fans, and I did nothing as I can't get one side all red
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Except that's not really true. The machine was programmed to solve the Rubik's cube using a very specific algorithm. Granted, the program came up with its own steps, which is laudable, but to suggest it did this 'entirely on its own' is not true.
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Zapcc is a C++ compiler based on clang, designed to perform faster compilations. (now open source) I wonder what it compiles with?
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There have been several products doing what this does (cache the crap out of everything) but none seem to stick.
Edit: I was just reminded one reason why--link time tends to be a much bigger limiting factor than compile time.
modified 18-Jun-18 21:31pm.
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Internet domains are becoming increasingly desirable, especially as the web becomes crowded and it becomes harder to find memorable addresses. Hand over your excess domain inventory and unused C-block addresses, and no one gets hurt!
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That guy was a few bits short of a byte.
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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Researchers says that the SafeSpec model supports "speculation in a way that is immune to the sidechannel leakage necessary for attacks such as Meltdown and Spectre". Importantly, the design also avoids the problems associated with other Meltdown/Spectre fixes. It probably only causes a few side effects
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"All your base are belong to us" ?
Another excellent article on Axios from Steve Levine's "Future of Work" series: [^]Quote: These stores are examples of an expanding battleground among China’s cutthroat tech giants, and petri-dishes of the future of business around the world.
Self-contained universes: What Alibaba and rivals like Tencent and JD.com are doing is corralling businesses into branded, self-contained, AI-infused universes in which only their affiliates capture the profit.
Moving across sectors: Acting rapidly at large scale, they are conceiving and trying out new business models not only in retail, but also investment, lending, payments, and logistics.
Among the central ideas is that in the future, shoppers will not view e-commerce and brick-and-mortar as distinct things, but as a single merged organism — as simply “commerce.” Alibaba regards this concept as so fundamental that only businesses that grasp it will survive.
By comparison, the West’s tech, retail and financial elite appear lumbering. Even Amazon and Walmart are well behind.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Are you bored with programming? Why not teach it. Certainly it is one of the most rewarding feelings teaching someone programming and inspiring new leaders in our fruitful field. "I have learnt much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, and most from my students."
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Well, this is actually a very good advise, if you have an audience.
I personally train teenager students in high school (or the european version of that) to help them through their programming lessons and prepare them for tests.
It's very often an amazing insight in the thoughts of those kids, how they "see" code, what it tells them. How code ... speaks ... to them.
And when I listen closely, I can find the breakpoints, where their thoughts go wrong, where their mistakes start. Be it low knowledge of the english language (for german, or more general, non-english-people there are sometimes things in programming languages that they misinterpret - especially teens), or simply the lack of logical thinking.
And yes, sometimes you learn something knew, while you teach. But most important: It's fun. I love it.
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I'd go for:
Teach programming to Yourself to become a better programmer.
Jokes aside, I agree with the author.
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The software company Wolfram Research is launching a public repository for trained and untrained neural network models. Bring your own neural trident, and you can be a neural gladiator!
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If you're going to create virtually unbreakable quantum networks, you need to create quantum entanglement so that particles, and thus pieces of data, are intertwined at long distances. All the security you'll ever need - as long as you're within 6.6 feet
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Earlier this week, the 3GPP — the international group that governs cellular standards — officially signed off on the standalone 5G New Radio (NR) spec. It’s another major step toward next-generation cellular networks finally becoming a reality. "For competitive reasons, we've rebranded all our 4G mobile products as 8G"
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Researchers at Norway’s Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research now have scientific proof of something we’ve long suspsected—we’re all getting dumber. Except you - you're A-OK.
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Or are all the smart people leaving Norway?
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We are in the field of making simpeler software, so yes, that would be one of the consequences.
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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Well, in fairness, it really isn't science that's saying it.
IQ scores are known to be monumentally unreliable and not terribly good at illustrating anything other than people's ability to do IQ tests.
Unfitness for purpose aside, though, is the scale not meant to be designed in such a way that a score of 100 represents "average" intelligence?
I don't think that the good people of Norway, en masse, really need to be worrying at this point but we should maybe all have a few concerns about the quality of "scientific" journalism because we don't need research to show that that is getting dumber by the day rather than the generation.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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That's because AI's are getting smarter. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: we’re all getting dumber
And our 'phones are getting "smarter", so the total amount of intelligence on the planet is constant.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Just how common are IQ tests? If the people bragging about their IQ score are any indication, I really don't put much stock in it...unless perhaps they are lying. Usually, smart people don't brag about their IQ. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants. Do you mean that not everyone waits for a hack before fixing?
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A tweet by a Microsoft developer has caused a bit of hubbub today after it implied Microsoft was rewriting all of their Office Suite in Javascript. I thought I had an explanation of Outlook's performance there for a while
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I saw that last week and thought his clarification wasn't much of one. How does someone so illiterate become manager of anything? (Yeah, if you can't do, manage.)
modified 17-Jun-18 18:53pm.
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That may convince me to use it again
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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