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  1. Intel Mum wants daycare for Entry Level CPUs on Intel Mum On When Entry-Level CPU, IoT Supply Will Improve (crn.com) · · Score: 1

    I sure hope things improve.

  2. I don't know the security features of this system, but it sounds like something that can be easily hacked. If you meet someone at a bar and have with a concealed RFID reader, you could get the information of the chip, encode your own chip, and have access to the facilities. With a card on a lanyard, you can at least keep the card in some place safe. And a remote RFID reader can't read it.

  3. Re:Full Email From Elon on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's right to call out attention to sabotage. It's wrong to cast abstract aspersions against possible competitors. Keep to the facts, Elon, don't promote conspiracy theories.

  4. Good curriculum on Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree In AI (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Just comparing it with my undergrad curriculum, which made sure that at least half of my classes were NOT related to my major, I'd say this gives a solid foundation. I would give some more stats courses beyond regression and intro do probability, though.

  5. Inferior Social System on Silicon Valley Singles Are Giving Up On the Algorithms of Love (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Compared with the Indian engineers (male or female) who are expecting an arranged marriage and are not in the dating pool, the non-Indians (mostly Anglo-Americans) are not happy. Suggest the lonely Anglo-American men to try switching over to the Indian system. Some of your Indian friends might even help you.

  6. Re:0 out of 24 = 99% on New Antibody Attacks 99% of HIV Strains (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Welcome to core Statistics.

    This would have to be a randomized controlled experiment, and the confidence interval being tested would be 99%. What this means in frequentist statistical terms is that if you had 100 test subjects, and out of those you would expect for whatever reason one of those would somehow turn up positive, then you would still be within your 99% confidence interval. More formally stated, the true population mean is somewhere greater than the 2.5th percentile and less than the 99.5th percentile of the the distribution of the values in your samples.

    So, because they are working with statistical sampling methods, they never say that they are 100% confident.

  7. Is the randomness stochastic? on Researchers Build True Random Number Generator From Carbon Nanotubes (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    OK, so, it's generating a series of truly random 0s and 1s. I don't have access to the article, but my question is if this truly random number generator has been identified as being a part of some stochastic process, like a binomial or poisson process? Would appreciate some more insight on this.

  8. Walmart has a big presence in China on Not Made in America, Wal-Mart Looks Overseas For Online Vendors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Walmart is not just in America. It has more than 6000 stores in America, but in China it has more than 400. It and the US govt. needs to be more shrewd in bargaining to get more stores in China and other places. No one-sided protectionism. Kill China's preferred nation status with the US if they get all fussy about letting more American goods and businesses in.

  9. This is ground breaking. on Scientists Decipher the Neural Code For Faces (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Basically, the result from the paper show that from the data recorded from the primates' neurons, it is possible to recreate with high accuracy the image the monkeys saw.

    The potential technology developed from this finding would astounding. For example, a scanner could be developed that could allow police to ask a victim to remember what the criminal looked like and produce a near photographic image of him.

  10. Devout VI and EMACS users now have a common cause on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 1

    Something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. Re:Hopefully I'm done with Perl on Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    I've used Perl since the first release, gotten pretty good at it 5-6 times over the years. . .

    That's a bit like saying "I've gotten pretty good at riding a bicycle 5-6 times over the years." Once you learn how to ride a bike, if you go back to it after 20 years of not riding it, you still remember how to ride it.

    What I'm saying here is that there is a certain depth of the language that is more in the realm of intuition and nature rather than syntax but yet is integral to the language itself. If you achieve that depth, you never have to get good at it again. But if you never reach that depth, like the two years of a foreign language everyone in highschool is required to take and just a few years later can't remember a word of it, you will have to relearn it almost from the beginning.

    So in the same sense, I find Perl to be much like riding a bicycle or learning a foreign language. To really say that you have actually learned it, you need to get to a certain depth of mastery in it.

  12. An Apostate!! on Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Aha! A Python-eer in Perl-monger clothing!!

    O vile Apostate! May your Python 3 and all of its descendents forever live in the shadow of Python 2!

    Since the Apostate hath claimed to have been a devotee of Perl, let us, the faithful Perl-Mongers, treat him as the apostate he is and casteth his anonymous screed into the depths of -2 anonymity.

    May all the faithful cast aspersions and down-votes upon the vile post of the parent!

  13. Yep. Python uber alles. And you would think that if people have the chops to program in Java or C that they have a pretty good handle on versioning, too. So I think there is a problem with the way the original poster is thinking of the problem.

  14. Go with a commercial product if you can on Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team · · Score: 0

    I have been in the situation where we wanted to introduce versioning to newer or more junior programmers. What didn't work well was the open source solution. We used Subversion; it was quirky and unintuitive for them. (Of course, someone on this forum is going to hotly contest that Subversion is anything but intuitive and easy to use. Well, to that, you probably aren't representative of most programmers, and most likely, neither are your friends, if you have any.) And my experience is that most open source solutions are difficult to use--especially for novices--because they are in fact quirky or require a high level of expertise to use right, or both.

    But when we switched to a commercial vendor (in our case, CA's Harvest), the team picked up the versioning system much faster than they did with Subversion. Harvest was more intuitive for them and a LOT less quirks and bugs to deal with. That is, things more often than not worked as they were expected to in Harvest than in Subversion.

    So my advice would be to look at some commercial vendor packages, pay them the bucks they are asking for, and enjoy the professional support they give you, the training, and quicker turn-around time for your project deliverables.

  15. So, you wanna be a Marxist? on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    From https://www.marxists.org/archi...

    For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. This fixation of social activity, this consolidation of what we ourselves produce into an objective power above us, growing out of our control, thwarting our expectations, bringing to naught our calculations, is one of the chief factors in historical development up till now.

  16. Scott Adams nails it . . . on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-...

    The problem is that women generally have other things of interest in their lives besides coding. Find a way to ruin their social lives, and a few more might just turn to coding instead of chocolate. It's a numbers game.

  17. Re:Even the "bad guys" in this hit piece love sci on Hugos Refuse To Award Anyone Rather Than Submit To Fans' Votes · · Score: 1

    The other TFA from Wired, not the main one.

  18. Even the "bad guys" in this hit piece love sci fi on Hugos Refuse To Award Anyone Rather Than Submit To Fans' Votes · · Score: 1

    If you are a real sci-fi fan and not another SJW who sees sci-fi as just another medium to broadcast his (ahem, "her") cis-gendered religious beliefs, then how can you not love this one from TFA?

    --- quote ---

    Going forward, he [Beale] said, no matter how the Hugo administrators modify the nominating process to try to prevent manipulation (and there are two proposals being considered), he will still have enough supporters to control future awards. Specifically, “I have 390 sworn and numbered vile faceless minions—the hardcore shock troops—who are sworn to mindless and perfect obedience,” he said, acknowledging that his army wasn’t made up solely of sci-fi fans. On the contrary, “the people who are very anti-SJW said, ‘Okay, we want to get in on this.’” When I asked him how he might deploy those people in the future, he continued, “It’s very simple. The dark lord speaks, the minion acts.”

    --- end quote ---

  19. Thank you, Epson!! on Epson Is Trying To Kill the Printer Ink Cartridge · · Score: 1

    It's about time.

  20. Problem with blocking on $340 Audiophile Ethernet Cable Tested · · Score: 1

    It looks like there is some unaccounted for variance in their design: "The listeners would be asked which audio sample (electronica, male vocal, female vocal, or instrumental) they wanted to audition. The requested sample would then be played through one cable, then we'd swap and repeat per the test protocol."

    They should have either made people listen to the same audio sample or made everyone listen to all the samples.

  21. Re:Obligatory on Perl 5.22 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised no one's posted this yet.

    Actually, I've always been surprised at how reluctant many developers have been to accept regular expressions as a part of their trade. They are very useful shortcuts for string manipulation, and to Perl's credit they defined regex conventions for other languages, like Java and R, to name a couple.

  22. The guy is crazy on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 1

    You want to switch a software engineering job paying you 210K / year?

    ARE YOU FREAKING CRAZY????

  23. Re:Instead of fixing his online dating profile, on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Worked for me, too.

  24. Instead of fixing his online dating profile, on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 4, Funny

    He should have just gone for an arranged marriage.

  25. Article is Hype on The Robots That Will Put Coders Out of Work · · Score: 5, Informative

    I read the article, and I'm not buying it.

    I can see programmers in some small, well-understood niche markets replaced by complex applications (which require more programmers to write!) and causing some programmers to go looking elsewhere for jobs. But new technologies for computer-aided software design are not going to cause structural unemployment any time soon in the IT profession.

    Some reasons include the cost of miracle software-building robots will be at a premium, which means only the biggest players would be able to afford them. And after they purchase them, they will only be able to work well within a limited number of tasks.