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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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THE US Army has built a computational tool which it says can improve the cognitive benefits of coffee consumption by as much as 64 per cent. The best time to drink coffee is between 0000 and 2359
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While most of the attention is on .NET Core, work continues on the classic .NET Framework. An "early access” preview of .NET 4.8 shows the areas that Microsoft is most concerned about including high graphics Dots per Inch (DPI), accessibility, and concurrency. That's regular .NET, not Core, Standard, nor Menthol
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Although many businesses have begun moving to DevOps-style processes, eight out of 10 respondents to a new survey say they still have separate teams for managing infrastructure/operations and development. This news brought to you by the department of, "If it ain't broke, you don't need to lay off half your staff and get the remainder to do the same amount of work"
I'm still working on a bumper sticker version of that. I think it might be a while.
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If you have a hammer...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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A listing for an all-hands internal meeting appeared about what seems like a new project: Scout. So you can tell your computer where to go (in case you don't already)
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This would be a better application of Microsoft's own ad-line "Where do you want to go today?"
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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How lazy do we have to be? "I can't lift my hands to type anymore". If you are surfing for something other than music for listening, most likely you will be right there at the screen. This ranks right up there with the invention of the straw. I can get the cup within 2 inches of my lips...but then my arm gets tired...
Maybe I'm too much of an introvert. I don't like talking to people, why would I talk to a computer?
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j snooze wrote: I don't like talking to people, why would I talk to a computer?
It's not about the user; it is about the headline it generates and the growing marketshare.
Adding nonsense because it sounds good
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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The maker of Snapchat has introduced Snap Kit, a full-fledged developer kit that allows app makers to bring core features of Snapchat to their apps. I'd make some kind of appropriate joke here, but I'm really too old to know just what SnapChat is.
Something to do with overlaying rabbit ears on Chris during the weekly standup?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm really too old to know just what SnapChat is
At least you are not old enough to learn from your children what Snapchat is 
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Microsoft has started ramping up their own efforts to create a cloud-based AI infrastructure based on super-fast, dedicated, custom-designed AI chipsets. A Clippy for every chippy
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