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"one reason why he thinks Mars is a worthwhile goal for human colonization: as a planet-sized doomsday bunker for what happens when AI on Earth goes rogue."
Because once on Mars, he will disconnect from earth. Please?
Seriously, though, just how bonkers is this reasoning? Even more bonkers considering that HAL just needs to open the doors.
[Edit: Just realized that I must apologize for my criticism of Elon Musk. I now realize that he is going to use only Mentats on Mars; no computers.]
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Intel debuts Optane Memory as a "revolutionary" technology that could make hard drives feel like SSDs, but enthusiasts were hoping for more. Would you like a cache to go with your cached drive?
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Or do you want your sysbus fried, with that?
[edit] Ahah! I wondered where that "at" went! [/edit]
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modified 27-Mar-17 17:46pm.
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On March 25, security researcher Kevin Beaumont discovered something very unfortunate on Docs.com, Microsoft's free document-sharing site tied to the company's Office 365 service: its homepage had a search bar. That in itself would not have been a problem if Office 2016 and Office 365 users were aware that the documents they were posting were being shared publicly. Uhm... it's a feature?
You know, "radical transparency" 
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From what I read it sounded like everything up there is supposed to be public.
But then I read the FAQ:
For anything that you publish on Docs.com, you can set the visibility of your documents or collections to either Public or Limited.
Anything you publish with Public visibility will appear in worldwide search engine results and can be shared by you and others on social media sites. This option is a great way to get your work noticed. On the other hand, anything you publish with Limited visibility does not appear in search engine results and can be viewed only by people with whom a direct link to your content has been shared. Similarly, anything you publish with Organization visibility does not appear in search engine results and can be viewed only by those who sign in with a school or work account from your school or organization.
Not so much up to date that page, eh?
Furthermore they state:
Use Docs.com to publish your documents and files to the Web so that everyone can see and share them. Use OneDrive to work on documents together with others and to control who can see or edit your documents and files.
Sounds not like much of a difference to me
Any info how or if they use the same backbone? Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me, I know that - But then again, it's Microsoft.
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All your information are belong to everyone?
I decided from the get-go to block ms uploads of my fiction work to their wonderful, perfect, un-live-without-able cloud, even before they demonstrably showed that they'd somehow turned into a company that couldn't make a good decision to save their lives.
Given that "making work available to the public" counts as first publication, I'm pretty sure that I made the right choice.
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Confidence in our power over machines also makes us guilty of hoping to bend reality to our code. "I guess I'm lying to myself. It's just you and no one else."
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Just about every one of those comes up in records management (police, fire, etc.) and are not easy to deal with, particularly when you are tracking not only the current relational/temporal state of a person, but their historic state as well.
It's actually quite fun to come up with a good DB design to handle all this one of the reasons I wrote a series of articles on relationship-oriented-programming a while back. 
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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There is some utility to using event sourcing[^] to deal with some of those issues relating to incomplete or not complete possible models.
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OK, seriously, I'm not convinced that this guy is a programmer.
Looks too much like a "google expert", who paraphrased too many things just a little too wrong.
Plus, he missed out:
0: If a girl smiles at me, it means she wants to marry me and have all my babies!
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So I'm not the only that thought this article was written like a high-school book report?
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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That's pretty much what it was.
But I'll bet he goes around proudly telling people that he's a reporter.
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I don't understand his points. I only joined for unlimited power! 
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One in seven employees would risk a data breach for a small amount of money. For a Klondike Bar?
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Damnit!
If this technique has finally been recognised on the Interweb chattyforumbollocks level, I'll have to look for new ways to hack the world!
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Wall Street Journal "The High-Speed Trading Behind Your Amazon Purchase" March 26, 2017 [^]Quote: The vendor of the marshmallows I wanted told me his high price was an attempt to bait competitors into raising their own asking prices for the item. This works because sellers of commodity items on Amazon are constantly monitoring and updating their prices, sometimes hundreds of thousands of times a day across thousands of items, says Mr. Kaziukėnas. Most use “rules-based” pricing systems, which simply seek to match competitors’ prices or beat them by some small fraction. If those systems get into bidding wars, items offered by only a few sellers can suffer sudden price collapses—“flash crashes.”
Note: I was able to access the full text of the story (from S,E Asia, no VPN) without a subscription to WSJ ... once. To access the full-text again, I had to clear the Chrome cache (I use CCleaner).
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Hi Bill, the article can be accessed freely at Morningstar[^].
/ravi
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Using the plant like scaffolding, scientists built a mini version of a working heart, which may one day aid in tissue regeneration. Sorry, we can't give you that heart transplant, we made it into dip
Not the usual Sci/Tech news, but just too  to ignore, imo.
Cracker?
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Wonder what they intend to do with left overs?
Hey buddy that ain't chip dip that's my arm...
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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So, Popey was right after all, eh? Spinach does help your muscles!
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
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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Hearts: ya cansk live widout 'em.
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Microsoft is one of the most successful and influential companies in the world, but did you know that Bill Gates and Paul Allen launched an earlier venture as high school students in Seattle? It was called Traf-O-Data, a startup in the 1970s that developed a computer system to count traffic. So, what have you been up to since?
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Hey! They were big numbers, so I haven't finished counting, yet!
Why focus on lazy buggers, who couldn't take the pace, and jumped ship?
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Tea drinking reduces the risk of cognitive impairment in older persons by 50 per cent and as much as 86 per cent for those who are genetically at risk of Alzheimer's, new research suggests. Because there is good news for non-coffee drinkers too
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