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  1. Well why not just make building models of the environment and reducing surprise at observation compared to expectation the optimization goal?

    Isn't that the point of "free energy principle" thinking?

  2. Yeah just like the "everybody must algebra" movement was ludicrous.

  3. CS knowledge should be the point on With Few US Students Taking CS Classes, Code.org 'Scales Back' Funding For CS Education (acm.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think all students should learn to code, just like all students should learn to do algebra, or find the intersection of two linear equations, or write an essay.

    But the end goal is not to make everyone programmers. The end goal is to make people well rounded, aware of how things work, because in most jobs, you benefit from understanding how computers work. And if you can code at all, you understand how they work in a fundamental way.

  4. Yeah, trees aren't doing the trick.

    I think engineers can do a bit better.

  5. "VERY left-leaning."

    Strange that it doesn't infect their algorithms. I mean I'm a liberal, and my household appliances, computers, cars, etc. all now have a liberal bias, just like me.

  6. Re: Alleged censorship of conservatives on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Headed To Washington This Week To Discuss Censorship, China (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Top post is a lie.

  7. Dumbest idea I've heard today on Cramming Software With Thousands of Fake Bugs Could Make It More Secure, Researchers Say (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This would be pretty stupid. Bugs are bad, mmm-kay? It would be better to just make the code convoluted and redundant but without bugs if you want to wear out attackers.

    On the plus side, you'll know when to stop testing! Since you know all the bugs you planted, if QA finds all of them, you've got a great QA team doing their job, and it's likely they found the ones you did not plant as well.

  8. Re: Leftists will bash Trump for this on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    They'll burn all the hours saved recovering from their impending shutdown.

    We'll never cut enough to cover the cost of Cruz's last shutdown.

    Republicans are a cancer on government function and efficiency.

  9. How can it be a "leak" if it is his own notes?

    I think they need to look up that word.

  10. Re:Misleading Headlines Again... on It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Cost is always a factor, but what do you call a renewable system that does better than "break even" which is what viable renewable energy does?

    It's not net cost.

  11. Re:It wouldn't be a problem if... on 83 Percent Of Security Staff Waste Time Fixing Other IT Problems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well I am good programmer AND have an MBA, so I'm trying to figure out if I should be offended.

  12. Obviously true, since everyone will feed their old gas guzzler into their Mr. Matter Transmogrifier and convert it into a flying humanoid robot that will carry them from destination to destination.

  13. Carl's Jr already had roots in the South because of Hardee's.

    The problem with scalping businesses to Tennessee rather than growing your own is

    a) Your state is a failure at growing businesses if you have to steal them
    b) This kind of stupidity results in a "race to the bottom" in regulation and taxes. That's not a good thing, because it leaves the capitalists free to dump and pollute and steal and exploit with their short term business-cycle-long thinking.

    Net-taker states all over the South are a drain on taxpayers in those blue coastal states. We're tired of you freeloading. Get a job. Not our jobs.

  14. Re:stop rationalizing on California Seeks To Tax Rocket Launches, Which Are Already Taxed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    " California's government to be an utter disaster, and like many other people, I can't wait to leave."

    Bye, Felicia.

  15. "They do tend to be against stuff that government shouldn't be doing, like taxing rockets."

    If it's got a tailpipe, we tax it.

  16. Crazy con.

  17. He who controls Fox & Friends controls America.

  18. he said generic, not genetic.

  19. Extreme vetting: software style on Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "developers failing to vet third-party code for vulnerabilities"

    LOL. What would you suggest? Code inspection by magically infallible developers who have their own work to do creating new features probably wouldn't recognize vulnerabilities in their own code?

    Most companies and projects do not employ security researchers and specialists, not for their own code and certainly not for anyone else's, and they are not about to do so. And even if they could afford it, I wouldn't be too hopeful of the bugs actually being found. In fact, spending the time to find the bugs in the first place probably creates more vulnerability than would otherwise exist.

  20. Obamacare didn't cause jobs to switch to full time. It was a prediction but it didn't come true because health insurance isn't the only expense versus going part time.

  21. Re: Better be ready to be beat up when layed off w on Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Because we're on the cusp of inventing machines that can do every job. That's never happened before.

  22. Re: Trump is a moron. Stop asking. on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 2

    Yep. If he gets out of line the GOP congress will impeach him on any one of his many real scandals resulting in Mike Pence as president.

  23. Re: offshoring on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 1

    You need to move. Where I live people make 45k for taking a six week programming course.

  24. Re: I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. on Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Does SJW mean black people? I'm not up on all the white supremacist lingo.

  25. Re: gloves? on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Allow me to disabuse you of the idea that this is a negotiation.