I tried feeding it the opening line of one of my patents. Sure enough, it found it verbatim, along with random lines from other patents.
Maybe if they threw some "deep learning" at it, they'd get somewhere.
Another student walked into our college art class saying it blew up. On the way back to the dorm I stopped by the student union, and saw the endlessly looping clip of it disintegrating, with the booster rockets careening away. Watching that made all those sci-fi novels I'd read as a kid seem more distant.
I later found out my high school physics teacher (who was really great) had made it into the top 12 candidates for the "Teacher in Space" program.
I've done some development on Koding.com, and did not find any speed or responsiveness issues (I generally work with a good Internet connection). Most of the truly interactive portion of my application was done with JavaScript in the browsers, so there I simply leverage the built-in Chrome debugger, which is great - very interactive. Communicating with the Koding shell was no different than typing in a local shell running on my machine.
I moved my prototyping work (for a complex image processing application) into the cloud using Koding.com. It was easy to add custom stuff like OpenCV, and it's a huge relief to leave the system administration to others. It's great to be able pop in and get work done anywhere you happen to have access to a browser. The Koding.com guys are very responsive any time I've had tech support issues.
Google turning their back on China didn't do much except cost them huge market share (Apple has been doing very well there). Because of all the blocks, an Android phone is almost a brick in China. Maybe they'll even fix Google maps there.
I once (many years ago) found myself in the same room with the manager responsible for Apple's peripherals, including keyboards. I asked (actually, begged) him to get rid of the stupid Caps Lock key. All he did was mumble something about "international standards" required for big corporate/government sales.
So maybe the solution is to get corporations & governments to change their keyboard requirements. (Yeah, good luck with that...).
In the mean time, every major OS has a tool or setting to make Caps lock control. Once you set that up, you don't even notice it any more.
In addition to all of the above, teaching them to keep their systems up to date and avoid opening email attachments will save them serious grief down the road.
Say, a $10 tax credit if you submit your poll receipt? Or maybe civic minded companies could provide incentives: Starbucks gives you $2 off your next purchase with a voting receipt?
Back when I was in school (1980's), the NSF recognized this problem and had a special grant ("NSF Young Investigator Award") that would issue small to medium sized grants to faculty under a certain age. I took a quick spin on Google, couldn't tell if the program (or something similar) still exists.
Even though the grants weren't large, it enabled junior faculty to get a "Principle Investigator" line on their CV, hopefully enabling future funding.
I'm sure the black hats will have a great time with this. "You want to get back into your house? Send us 15 bitcoin by midnight. And for another 10 bitcoin by the end of the week, we won't overload your furnace and burn your house down."
+1. Our kids' middle school also jumped on the iPad bandwagon. For the most part, the kids hated it. The iPads didn't displace any textbooks, so it was 2 lbs of extra deadweight in their backpacks (tablet+mandatory case & keyboard). It was a source of stress, because on the rare occasions they were actually used in class, you got marked down if your iPad wasn't charged. Assignments still had be printed out and turned in on paper, so a separate PC/Mac was still required. The tablets were supposedly locked down to prevent loading games, etc. but tech-savvy students usually found work-arounds. And some of the edu-ware screw-ups were truly appalling - like the "spelling test" app that didn't disable the iOS dictionary feature.
Fortunately, the high-school principals are saner. Quote one: "No, I won't bring tech like tablets into the school just because it's new shiny. It really has to fulfill a serious purpose or solve real problems". Amen.
+1 Concerns about battery life. Intel CPUs are not known to be light on power consumption. Couple that with a substantially smaller battery and I doubt this device will last more than a few hours. Remember laptops in the 1990's?
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I tried feeding it the opening line of one of my patents. Sure enough, it found it verbatim, along with random lines from other patents. Maybe if they threw some "deep learning" at it, they'd get somewhere.
Japan was the home base for Mt. Gox.. Maybe this is fallout from that fiasco.
So which former general just got promoted to Microsoft Executive VP of Government Sales?
I stopped using mine in the '90s when the service provider went under.
Actually, they've been promising Hurd since the '80s.
Another student walked into our college art class saying it blew up. On the way back to the dorm I stopped by the student union, and saw the endlessly looping clip of it disintegrating, with the booster rockets careening away. Watching that made all those sci-fi novels I'd read as a kid seem more distant. I later found out my high school physics teacher (who was really great) had made it into the top 12 candidates for the "Teacher in Space" program.
I've done some development on Koding.com, and did not find any speed or responsiveness issues (I generally work with a good Internet connection). Most of the truly interactive portion of my application was done with JavaScript in the browsers, so there I simply leverage the built-in Chrome debugger, which is great - very interactive. Communicating with the Koding shell was no different than typing in a local shell running on my machine.
I moved my prototyping work (for a complex image processing application) into the cloud using Koding.com. It was easy to add custom stuff like OpenCV, and it's a huge relief to leave the system administration to others. It's great to be able pop in and get work done anywhere you happen to have access to a browser. The Koding.com guys are very responsive any time I've had tech support issues.
...You won't Believe What Happens Next!
...should be on the CIA's hands? No Snowden leaks then.
Why did you leave StackExchange? Real reason?
There's something about a person leading a health care company dressing like the grim reaper that just doesn't work.
I think we're back in the world of WebVan and Pets.com.
This from the guy who said the Model X would be rolling off the line in 2013. He probably will deliver, just not that soon.
Google turning their back on China didn't do much except cost them huge market share (Apple has been doing very well there). Because of all the blocks, an Android phone is almost a brick in China. Maybe they'll even fix Google maps there.
I once (many years ago) found myself in the same room with the manager responsible for Apple's peripherals, including keyboards. I asked (actually, begged) him to get rid of the stupid Caps Lock key. All he did was mumble something about "international standards" required for big corporate/government sales. So maybe the solution is to get corporations & governments to change their keyboard requirements. (Yeah, good luck with that...). In the mean time, every major OS has a tool or setting to make Caps lock control. Once you set that up, you don't even notice it any more.
In addition to all of the above, teaching them to keep their systems up to date and avoid opening email attachments will save them serious grief down the road.
The article says nothing about what happens during the summer months. You just shut down the servers then? (HTTP 707 Error: Server on summer break).
Say, a $10 tax credit if you submit your poll receipt? Or maybe civic minded companies could provide incentives: Starbucks gives you $2 off your next purchase with a voting receipt?
Back when I was in school (1980's), the NSF recognized this problem and had a special grant ("NSF Young Investigator Award") that would issue small to medium sized grants to faculty under a certain age. I took a quick spin on Google, couldn't tell if the program (or something similar) still exists. Even though the grants weren't large, it enabled junior faculty to get a "Principle Investigator" line on their CV, hopefully enabling future funding.
I'm sure the black hats will have a great time with this. "You want to get back into your house? Send us 15 bitcoin by midnight. And for another 10 bitcoin by the end of the week, we won't overload your furnace and burn your house down."
A comment on the linked story notes Flurry is only counting cellular activations. This ignores the majority of tablets that are WiFi only
Wow, $0.5B of investment without even showing a product? It sounds like they've perfected the Reality Distortion Field.
+1. Our kids' middle school also jumped on the iPad bandwagon. For the most part, the kids hated it. The iPads didn't displace any textbooks, so it was 2 lbs of extra deadweight in their backpacks (tablet+mandatory case & keyboard). It was a source of stress, because on the rare occasions they were actually used in class, you got marked down if your iPad wasn't charged. Assignments still had be printed out and turned in on paper, so a separate PC/Mac was still required. The tablets were supposedly locked down to prevent loading games, etc. but tech-savvy students usually found work-arounds. And some of the edu-ware screw-ups were truly appalling - like the "spelling test" app that didn't disable the iOS dictionary feature. Fortunately, the high-school principals are saner. Quote one: "No, I won't bring tech like tablets into the school just because it's new shiny. It really has to fulfill a serious purpose or solve real problems". Amen.
+1 Concerns about battery life. Intel CPUs are not known to be light on power consumption. Couple that with a substantially smaller battery and I doubt this device will last more than a few hours. Remember laptops in the 1990's?