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  1. Well, what your parent probably meant:

    ADA looks like Pascal/Modula 2, which are languages invented in Europe, and is named after Ada Lovelace ...

    Everything very european, and everything non commie ...

    No idea why americans mix european up with commie, must be a universal health care thing ...

  2. Low level "system programming" have nothing to do with type safety.
    There are OSes written in in Pascal, Modula 2, Oberon and ... you might shudder ... Java.

  3. Re:ML is a language, not "machine learning". on Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Says Current Software Development Practices Terrify Him (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    And I saw assembly programmers, proud about their skills, that only spoke/wrote 86x ...

    What is your point? Why do you assume a DevOps Engineer knows everything?

    Learning OO in modern languages is difficult. Strong static types and dynamic types are quite a difference. If you can learn ML or other functional languages easy is more a question of your math skills than your programming skills.

    C is easy to grasp if you already know assembler ... the opposite way is still difficult.
    Functional is easy to grasp if you already know OO. The opposite way is similar easy.

    But all languages are difficult as beginner languages. Exceptions are super simple old school BASIC and Pascal.

  4. That is correct.
    From the twitter texts it is obvious that the programming language ML is meant and that it has nothing to do with machine learning.

  5. Actually we need more 'coding' languages.
    Unfortunately you wont be one who invents/discovers/formulates one.

  6. Re:Why only when there is a death? on Family of 'Swat' Victim Sues Kansas Police, Lawmakers Propose 40-Year Jail Terms (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    while lawfully going through a red light, accidentally hits a car who didnt hear the siren
    It is only "lawfully" when the driver is certain that all conflicting traffic has stopped. In other words if he hits one, it was not lawfully. At least not in my country.

  7. believing Being close to death and dying gives you some perspective on life

    Or you jump into your car and speed to a place you consider safe and crash with another guy who had the same idea ...

  8. Re:The Absurdity of Claiming to be an Athiest on Tesla Will Sell Solar Panels, Powerwalls At Home Depot (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You and your Pastor get some things wrong about atheists.
    We have no desire to prove that there is no god. We bottom line don't care.
    So: I'm not traveling from star to star to seek your god and when I'm finished I tell you I did not find him.
    However, if you would provide the craft, I probably would do that, to have some nice journeys.

  9. A friend of mine used to play Chess, he got a call last WE because one player was sick.

    On the other hand, your rant about Go and Chess masters and jobs make no sense.

    Go and Chess masters are usually self employed ... and the world of games did not change with Go and Chess programs.

  10. I guess I will try to remeber your words, especially about the 'hourly rate' :)
    The [citation needed] idiots here hit my nerve often enough ...

  11. Most things you mention can not be 'self learned' by an 'AI'.
    To self learn you need a clear mathematical definition for a score. E.G. in Go you can always stop the game and count who is winning, who has the higher score.
    Then again, the Google Go AI is based on neural networks. That is a very small niche of technologies only suitable for a certain class of problems. The umbrella term is pattern matching. It is related to fuzzy logic in a broad meaning.

  12. Rest assured the long binary number name is not working in AI nor does he know much about it.
    The deep lerning 'networks' reference is always a clue :)

  13. 99.99% of people don't know what AI is ...

  14. I once read a SF novel, kind of cyber punk, but don't remember the author or title, ehere an AI was called Arty.
    Obviously in the beginning it was not obvious that it was an AI.

  15. Others require a level of AI sophistication that would approach human consciousness.
    You forget that an 'AI' only needs to be specialized for a single topic.
    Your tree trimming AI probably won't change your cludge ... or fix the AC.

  16. Re:How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Just google for 'math tricks'.
    There are thousands ...

  17. Re:How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously even numbers meant even digits.
    Thanx for nitpicking.

  18. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike you, I read lots of books about the topic :)

  19. Re:See Saw Cycles of Adoption and Abandonment on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Default To The X.Org Stack, Not Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I answer here, because your coal threat is closed.
    The 'Energiewende' did not start 2009, how do you come to that braindead idea?
    It started around 1985. Probably earlier.
    2009 was an exceptional low 'CO2 emmiting year' because of the super heat, which caused Germany to shut down many coal _and_ nuclear plants and import lots of power.
    Using outliers for arguments is simply plain dumb, sorry.
    The trend is clear, 30% reduction in coal usage.
    Far over 30% increase in renewables.

    If you want to spread lies anout the topic, up to you.

  20. Re:Indian ... not hebrew on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    On an old iPad that is not so easy, as when you google in one tab, and come back to the /. awnser tab, it reloads the tab and you lose the message you have typed so far.
    Why don't you google 'voynich manuscript language' ... while there are now to many hits about the last 'finding' the older hits are still to find ...
    The plants are most certainly meso american, the question is still anout the language, some think arabic, some think a variant of an Aztec language. That was covered on /. already 3 or 4 times ladt 5 years ...

  21. Re:At least 28 years old on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about your Navy, but on commercial ocean going vessels the list of captains have to know how to steer the ship. The captains and the helmsmen get a special training for every ship, as they greatly differ in maneuverability, especially at slow speeds and in ports (in air planes that is called 'a rating', I guess on ships it is the same)

  22. Re:How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The situations I think about are about math ...
    E.g. judging from the amount of fuel you still have and where you are (another math problem) if it is better to continue to your destination or turn around. Or if it even makes sense to stop and only drive at might or what ever.

  23. Re:Sometimes weird problems DO have solutions on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    your solution makes no sense either ...
    How can there be a 4 - 0 pairing?
    How can the right side shake 0 hands when the left side shakes 4? Either both are 0 or both are 4.
    This does not look like a math problem at all but a playing with words and english understanding ... and I fail :D

  24. Re:Sometimes weird problems DO have solutions on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    For me the solution makes no sense at all.
    Obviously everyone shook the same amount of hands.

    I guess "shaking hands" has a side meaning we don't have in German?

    E.g. if "you" shake my hand, do i shake your hand same time, or not? If the solution would be correct it would imply you are shaking my hand, but I'm not shaking yours. Which makes no sense in German culture.

  25. Re:This question first appeared in 1841... on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, when I was in 3rd or 4th grade I learned this joke:

    Girl comes home with a bad math grade and complains to her daddy.
    He says: "come on sweet heart, that is not that hard! What is 5 potatoes plus 4 potatoes?"

    And she cries out: "I don't know dad!! In school we always use apples!"