I attended a presentations in the mid 90's sometime by Dr. Hecht-Neilson who had a company that evaluated people for their credit worthiness using neural networks.
There's these biomass machines with neural networks that do this a lot. It takes a bit of processing power (several billion neurons), and on the latest hardware, it still can take a few hours or days, but it has surprisingly good accuracy.
Stock prices at several major tech giants plunged over night as it was revealed they had been in receipt of Marissa Mayer resume
She obviously did not succeed in this venture, but I don't see her as a villain either. Resurrecting Yahoo from the ashes was a pretty impossible task. What's irritating is her golden parachute... getting a windfall in her failure.
Still vastly overpriced when you consider that the bulk of the user data is available for a hell of a lot less on the darknet (and not so darknet), so any exclusivity you might have had to it is long gone - anyone else who wants the data can have it well - and it's anyone's guess how many accounts are still truly active.
No legitimate company can use illegitimate data from the dark net and not risk a massive lawsuit. Far cheaper to purchase it legitimately.
A lot longer ago than that. I started my kernel mode software development career in 1981, writing kernel code for RSX and VMS. The user/kernel space dichotomy had existed for many years before that! And the Mach microkernel was invented in about 1985.
Yes, it existed, but not for consumer OSes. None of the consumer grade windows OSes had it before Windows XP and Mac introduced it in OS X. So while the dichotomy existed, I'm not sure it existed in a consumer product like a web browser.
Yahoo recently said that the attack was so sophisticated it must have been done by a nation state. But now, it turns out it's just forged cookies. Honestly, a 9th grader could pull that off. Liars.
BS Patents, basically User Space vs Kernel Space patents but "in a web browser". Both of the inventors had invented some real worthy patents, but the three in the suit are not worthy of a patent.
I haven't read the patents, but assuming it really is "User Space vs Kernel Space... in a web browser", then maybe it is worth a patent. The patent was filed in 2004, when the user/kernel space dichotomy was just catching on in mainstream operating systems. This was well before applications had sandboxing to deal with security threats (actually, no one really dealt with security threats), and it was well before hardware virtualization became mainstream enough to run many virtual computers on the same machine for security purposes. I'm not saying that these patents are necessarily valid, I'm just saying they don't seem to me immediately invalid.
I would make the case that clearly Google didn't reward them enough.
How to get people to do your bidding: dangle carrots and whack with sticks. Google didn't dangle, it just fed them carrots... and there were no sticks.
Right, burning down the current system to replace it with charter schools (which contrary to what DeVos says, do not do better) and Christian-based education is just a wonderful replacement.
Crazy how heated and politicized this debate is. Why can't we try a little of everything and continue funding the things that work best?
So opening an WMV in windows media and phone-home to a server... couldn't the same be done with Adobe reader and PDFs? Or with countless pieces of software out there?
How do you ensure that the passenger can survive a catastropic failure of the aircraft, or be able to exit the aircraft safely in case of an imminent collision (with another aircraft or with a stationary object)?
Force-field, duh. Don't you know anything about futuristic speculative technology?
Device makers choosing to roll their own chips is a direct effect of the end of Moore's law. If Intel could keep up with their original promise of doubling transistor count (or performance, or power savings, or whatever metric) every 18 months, then Apple would not need to invest in their own chips. I fear that for Intel, the death of Moore's law means the death of independent chip makers, and to get the most performance, you'll have to go the custom ASIC route.
How long can the airlines go on like this? Somewhere in office buildings around the country, there are MBAs and accountants working for various airlines who have compared the cost of in-house IT with the cost of outsourcing, and they all once decided that outsourcing was best.
Why does everyone assume that Delta outsourced this work abroad?
This is going to be a tough fight. Williams just filed for Forma Pauperis, which means she can't afford the filing fees. Good luck winning this one without having high-dollar attorneys.
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Well that's $350 million wasted. I drive 200 miles each way to my ranch each weekend, no way I could do that in an electric vehicle. Electric cars are a fad.
The tech isn't there yet, and it's moving slowly, but it's still moving in the right direction. Give it time and you'll get to your ranch on an all-electric vehicle.
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The press release is from lemonade, but it sounds like an onion article.
I attended a presentations in the mid 90's sometime by Dr. Hecht-Neilson who had a company that evaluated people for their credit worthiness using neural networks.
There's these biomass machines with neural networks that do this a lot. It takes a bit of processing power (several billion neurons), and on the latest hardware, it still can take a few hours or days, but it has surprisingly good accuracy.
Stock prices at several major tech giants plunged over night as it was revealed they had been in receipt of Marissa Mayer resume
She obviously did not succeed in this venture, but I don't see her as a villain either. Resurrecting Yahoo from the ashes was a pretty impossible task. What's irritating is her golden parachute... getting a windfall in her failure.
Still vastly overpriced when you consider that the bulk of the user data is available for a hell of a lot less on the darknet (and not so darknet), so any exclusivity you might have had to it is long gone - anyone else who wants the data can have it well - and it's anyone's guess how many accounts are still truly active.
No legitimate company can use illegitimate data from the dark net and not risk a massive lawsuit. Far cheaper to purchase it legitimately.
A lot longer ago than that. I started my kernel mode software development career in 1981, writing kernel code for RSX and VMS. The user/kernel space dichotomy had existed for many years before that! And the Mach microkernel was invented in about 1985.
Yes, it existed, but not for consumer OSes. None of the consumer grade windows OSes had it before Windows XP and Mac introduced it in OS X. So while the dichotomy existed, I'm not sure it existed in a consumer product like a web browser.
Those are servers, not consumer operating systems. Windows XP was really the first mainstream consumer OS with separate memory spaces.
Threaten me with a stick and I will resent you forever.
Treat me well and I will love you through thick and thin.
That's a nice thought, but employers don't care about resentment or love, they care about results.
Yahoo recently said that the attack was so sophisticated it must have been done by a nation state. But now, it turns out it's just forged cookies. Honestly, a 9th grader could pull that off. Liars.
BS Patents, basically User Space vs Kernel Space patents but "in a web browser". Both of the inventors had invented some real worthy patents, but the three in the suit are not worthy of a patent.
I haven't read the patents, but assuming it really is "User Space vs Kernel Space ... in a web browser", then maybe it is worth a patent. The patent was filed in 2004, when the user/kernel space dichotomy was just catching on in mainstream operating systems. This was well before applications had sandboxing to deal with security threats (actually, no one really dealt with security threats), and it was well before hardware virtualization became mainstream enough to run many virtual computers on the same machine for security purposes. I'm not saying that these patents are necessarily valid, I'm just saying they don't seem to me immediately invalid.
I would make the case that clearly Google didn't reward them enough.
How to get people to do your bidding: dangle carrots and whack with sticks. Google didn't dangle, it just fed them carrots... and there were no sticks.
The code I write at a solid 10 bits per second sure beats anything I've seen a computer do.
Right, burning down the current system to replace it with charter schools (which contrary to what DeVos says, do not do better) and Christian-based education is just a wonderful replacement.
Crazy how heated and politicized this debate is. Why can't we try a little of everything and continue funding the things that work best?
Maybe the University could just train the American kids instead....
Or maybe Americans can go to India to study (would at least cut down on student loan debt).
So opening an WMV in windows media and phone-home to a server... couldn't the same be done with Adobe reader and PDFs? Or with countless pieces of software out there?
All of the court documents are available at the link below, including lawyer arguments and questions from the jury: https://www.docketalarm.com/ca...
Disclosure: I run Docket Alarm.
Too bad Uber will not be there in 10 years. Remember it never made any benefit...
Don't you read Uber press releases? In 10 years, we won't have cars and everything will be uber.
How do you ensure that the passenger can survive a catastropic failure of the aircraft, or be able to exit the aircraft safely in case of an imminent collision (with another aircraft or with a stationary object)?
Force-field, duh. Don't you know anything about futuristic speculative technology?
It will be used to unlock a few phones which will hold no useful information.
More than a few.... think all.
Device makers choosing to roll their own chips is a direct effect of the end of Moore's law. If Intel could keep up with their original promise of doubling transistor count (or performance, or power savings, or whatever metric) every 18 months, then Apple would not need to invest in their own chips. I fear that for Intel, the death of Moore's law means the death of independent chip makers, and to get the most performance, you'll have to go the custom ASIC route.
Available here: https://www.docketalarm.com/ca... Looks like there will be an appeal.
How long can the airlines go on like this? Somewhere in office buildings around the country, there are MBAs and accountants working for various airlines who have compared the cost of in-house IT with the cost of outsourcing, and they all once decided that outsourcing was best.
Why does everyone assume that Delta outsourced this work abroad?
This is going to be a tough fight. Williams just filed for Forma Pauperis, which means she can't afford the filing fees. Good luck winning this one without having high-dollar attorneys. https://www.docketalarm.com/ca...
We do see them in the US
My point is communications satellites are far more abundant than balloons. That's likely for a reason: cost.
Well that's $350 million wasted. I drive 200 miles each way to my ranch each weekend, no way I could do that in an electric vehicle. Electric cars are a fad.
The tech isn't there yet, and it's moving slowly, but it's still moving in the right direction. Give it time and you'll get to your ranch on an all-electric vehicle.
I would have to see some data on that.
If balloons were much less expensive than satellites, I imagine that we'd see a lot more of them in the US.