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  1. Not bad, but... on Verizon Expected To Cut Up To 1,000 Yahoo, AOL Jobs After Acquisition (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Funny

    add Radio Shack into that mix and they've got a home run.

  2. Re:Visualization? on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts? · · Score: 1

    I think the parent is assuming all people think the same way which doesn't appear to be true, at least based on my own personal discussions with others about how they think.

    Having acknowledged that, I will say that I do visualize when coding/problem solving, I can "see" things that represent the structure of data/objects and flow. What I can't say is whether that is just a side effect of how my brain works, or whether it is actually a mechanism that is adding value.

  3. Why do you care? It didn't impact you, and yet you say "no thanks" to using their service over a non-issue?

  4. Re:Start with primitive C Elegans Worm on AI Could Get Smarter By Copying the Neural Structure of a Rat Brain (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    "At least with the rat, we can correlate the things we see in the brain with the images that we are presenting." - if they look for the right things.

    It was only recently that researchers discovered how much computation is performed by dendrites, and only this year that they discovered there is 10x more electrical activity by magnitude going on in the dendrites compared to the neuron firing, and multiple modes of activity (firing/digital as well as gradient/analog).

  5. Re:Intellectual Property on Waymo: Uber Plotted With Former Exec Before He Left Google (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And we did the exact same thing with physical property but I don't see you complaining about that. Do you also believe that I can just walk up to you and take your computer or your phone?

    The only "rights" anyone has are the ones we created, nature is pretty much neutral on the whole "rights" thing.

  6. It probably depends on what exactly is in the 8 bytes. I know there is a sector index (among other things), but not sure if that is necessary for reconstruction (sequencing) or not.

  7. Re:"constrained by cost" on Wired Founding Editor Now Challenges 'The Myth of A Superhuman AI' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Given that our knowledge of the computational complexity of a single neuron is growing steadily, I think it's safe to say your FPGA cell estimate for a neuron was significantly too low.

    For example, scientists now know that one single neuron (of certain types) is an entire neural network all by itself. Dendrites with multiple localized spikes communicating with each other and with other cells. Ultimately performing non-linear computation prior to forwarding any signal to cell body.

  8. Ya, probably not your target market for multiple reasons, but interesting to know about differences between systems.

  9. The other challenge is that the as400 natively distributes sectors of every object across all disks in the system always (for performance reasons, parallel IO).

    So recovery would require reading all disks to reconstruct one object.

  10. if compression is enbabled then it's 522 bytes (a 2 byte trailer)

  11. AS400 has 520 byte sectors, 512 for user data and 8 bytes for system data.

  12. The interesting thing is that a defense of "lower costs" becomes a problem if the new workers are H1B.

  13. Re:A few corrections on Microsoft's Cool Quantum Computing Plan Embraces Cryogenic Memory (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    D-Wave isn't a total scam, it is definitely using quantum effects to solve some problems (annealing) faster than traditional computers. But the design limits which problems it can be applied to and how much it can scale. Other quantum computers that entangle all particles into one group (vs multiple smaller groups like d-wave) don't have the same limitation.

  14. Re: Two months ago "Couldn't keep up with demand" on Boeing To Lay Off Hundreds of Engineers Amid Sales Slowdown (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The demand for engineering resources and the demand for production resources don't necessarily coincide. The article you linked to is referring to production.

  15. Re:Current AI isn't... on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the current stuff will ultimately become part of the foundational toolset that higher level functions can begin to make use of. Just like the way our brain performs object recognition in the visual cortex prior to higher level processing about those objects.

  16. My Prediction... on Jetpack Entrepreneur Creates Iron Man-Style Human Flying Suit (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    a visit to the emergency room.

  17. Re:Thanks for the ad, I guess, but you missed some on With Optane Memory, Intel Claims To Make Hard Drives Faster Than SSDs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's how the AS400 works, single flat address space, every object with a permanent globally unique pointer, auto loaded on reference.

  18. Re:Seems about right on SAS Mocked For Recommending 60% Proprietary Software, 40% Open Source (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So, even though 90% of the company runs on open source software, you still need 60% of the workforce to deal with the proprietary software.

    The biggest and most complex piece of application software most companies run is their ERP system(s), which doesn't really have an open source alternative except for at the smallest levels.

  19. Re:The self-driving car is blamed for human error on Uber Halts Self-Driving Car Tests in Arizona After Friday Night Collision (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I here ya man! If there are two things I trust in life it's large corporations and software. When you combine those two things it's like chocolate and peanut butter!

  20. If we walk out that door, we are not coming back.. on Uber Says It Will Apply For Self-Driving Permit In California (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    ...seriously, you'll regret it, you're going to miss us...there is no way we will be back...once we are gone we are gone! not coming back, no way...this is your last chance...don't make a decision you'll regret....I mean it man...we're part way to Arizona already....it's going to be great down there...they really like us down there...we're not kidding, we'll go through with this...

  21. Don't be fooled by neuron count on Scientists Teach Bees How To Play Soccer (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Researchers are finding that neurons are not simple computational units but rather a network of computational units (e.g. dendrites performing pattern matching and filtering, multiple independent signalling, etc.). A lot more is going on at a lower level than previously thought (as is usually the case).

  22. I think they would have been better off with "Washington Redskins"

  23. ...strenuously stated that the lawyer should not do that again.

  24. That is a variable they factor in to calculations for missions etc. The advantage to using fuel as a heat sink is that it's helps with stealth, the downside is complexity.

  25. I don't know, my best guess is that the tubes are just one part of the overall system and that it makes sense to insulate them while other parts are performing the heat transfer to the fuel.