This is doing things humans do, but more quickly and accurately, with a lower TCO.
No it doesn't. Over and over there's stories about failed projects with Watson. For instance a few months ago there was this failed $60 million project in a cancer treatment & research department of a big university in Texas. Watson was supposed to make cancer diagnostics faster than human and it didn't happen because it just couldn't ingest data.
That's the biggest problem with all forms of AI and machine learning: feeding it data. You can't just point it at a server and say: "look there, it's somewhere in Oracle". You need excruciatingly accurate ETL jobs, which means the source systems must never change or your ETL goes down the drain. That's what happened at MD Anderson.
The challenge is not currently in getting faster chips or better parallelism. The challenge is in bridging the gap between the algorithm that requires vectors in a specific format, and real life data that's always messy and volatile. In a sense we're still very much in the world of punch cards when it comes to AI and ML.
The fact that you have such a group says more about you than about those alleged juvenile asshats. At some point it's gonna get boring in your echo chamber, but suits yourself.
Intel has been rock-solid since forever. AMD has been unreliable since forever. If you think this will change today, you're kidding yourself.
AMD makes gadgets for overclocking enthusiasts and gamers on a budget. There's nothing wrong with that, and they've kept Intel on their toes which is a good thing. But it's not the same class of product unless your focus is only on net gigahertz per dollar.
Being surprised by this kind of problem is like being surprised that Windows phones home or that HP is fucking you in the ass with their ink cartridges.
You obviously didn't read the whole thing. When someone says things like "substitute for thinking" he's not politely stating his side, he's being a cunt.
I have been down modding everything you say due to you saying you didn't like Babylon 5
I don't know why you say that, because it's not entirely impossible that I would watch Babylon 5 beyond the first 10 minutes of the first episode. All that would take would be that: -I'm in prison for 25 years and -I have access to Netflix and -I'm done watching absolutely everything else including the movies with the dog that plays basketball and -there is a waiting list to join the toilet cleaning crew.
(So that's still more likely than me using Ubuntu)
"Have you ever noticed how we judge a persons intelligence based on how closely their opinions coincide with yours."
Actually it's the opposite. People usually are more understanding of completely different opinions than similar but just slightly different ones. That's why protestants and catholics have massacred each others forever but barely gave two shits about buddhists, or why Patriots fans will get in bar brawls with Jets fans but will completely ignore Rangers or Clippers fans.
First, that's not what "fiduciary duty" means. You can't just pick any legal term and shoehorn it in whatever situation you want.
Second, if the organization decides that diversity is more important, then minority candidates will get hired before others and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it as long as it's part of a strategy that the representatives of the shareholders (the board) approved. There's a case to be made that the public image trumps optimal engineering productivity. Maybe that's not how you would run your company, and I don't buy the stock of companies who put a strong emphasis on diversity because I don't think it will bring them success in the long run, but it's their decision to make.
Like it or not, this whole diversity thing is part of the game now, and it will probably just accelerate the other plague (visa workers) as companies need to remain competitive while onboarding useless asswipes for the sake of political correctness.
But this is all temporary, like when movie studios had to sign loyalty pledges in the McCarthy years or when people started selling "freedom fries" in 2003. In the meantime for all of us passive-aggressive grunts, the best thing to do is keep track of the phoniest of the bunch and remember them later, like that fucker from Assist who tried to use the situation at Binary Capital to make a name for himself.
90's or 0's, new or old, ancient or modern are all irrelevant.
That's just absurd. Technology evolves, otherwise, why are you not using punch cards to code?
a non-standard interface language
The current gedit *has* a standard interface, at least from this decade point of view. A couple buttons for the most common features, and a simple menu to show everything else. We're not talking about a fluffy GUI with mysterious things and revolutionary widgets. You're just being difficult for the sake of being a cunt.
"do you ever use the undo/redo buttons? or even print?"
Yes. Often.
So you type stuff, and then you realize you made a mistake, and instead of hitting ctrl-z you move your hand away from the keyboard, take the mouse, point it to undo, then click?
Maybe the issue here is not modern text editors, maybe the issue is you having terrible productivity.
I do. For the same kind of things I would use Notepad on Windows. I almost always have an instance floating around for misc stuff; writing down a phone number, sanitizing stuff I copied from a browser to lose the formatting, etc. I don't use it to write novels or code, but that's still a useful app and it works well enough, I never had to go explore the interwebs for a better quick editor.
I don't think it's a "shit UI choice". Huge toolbars like in the old version are a waste of space; do you ever use the undo/redo buttons? or even print? What would you want huge square buttons constantly in your face for that?
To do what is needed in a text editor you need the same amount of clicks in either versions, but in the new version there's more room for the text and less for buttons that are not needed. Plus there's a decent search and a file browser in the sidebar.
I understand that some people prefer to stay in the 90s but really, we're not talking about a huge revolution here, it's just a more modern look.
Do like me: opt out of the mod thing entirely. It doesn't work, never has, never will.
If you just browse at +1s you're missing out. Some of the hardcore gay porn and sleeper cell instructions that lives in the -1 level can be quite entertaining. Embrace the darkness and light alike. Free yourself from the petty moderation cliques.
Because writing programs in a language even slower than JavaScript is a brilliant idea.
Good point. For a text editor, I'd go directly to asm. Can't afford to let all those layers get in the way of rending text files or slowing down keyboard input.
Yes, what is needed is yet another set of basic desktop apps based on the fork of another set of basic desktop apps based on the fork of another set of basic desktop apps. There's not enough of those. Maybe they should also have a browser and a media player.
Maybe if we want more text editors what we need is a Framework... oh wait...
Tepl is a library that eases the development of GtkSourceView-based text editors and IDEs. Tepl is the acronym for “Text editor product line”. It also serves as an incubator for some GtkSourceView features.
Tepl was previously named Gtef (GTK+ text editor framework).
So, by using a high-level language, I can get the same sorts of bugs and need the same sorts of work-arounds to avoid them that I used to have to deal with in C, ten years ago before compilers started spotting them automatically and warning me?
That's part of the magic with interpreted languages. You don't have to compile, so that leaves more time to apologize to users for bugs that the compiler would have caught.
Passing mutable lists or dictionaries as default arguments to a function can have unforeseen consequences. Usually when a programmer uses a list or dictionary as the default argument to a function, the programmer wants the program to create a new list or dictionary every time that the function is called. However, this is not what Python does. The first time that the function is called, Python creates a persistent object for the list or dictionary. Every subsequent time the function is called, Python uses that same persistent object that was created from the first call to the function.
You're missing the point. The guy compared Python code that has no exception management with NodeJS code that has exception management. Then he used that unfair comparison to support his point that NodeJS is needlessly convoluted.
So either you put in a try/except in the Python example or you remove the if(err) in the NodeJS example if you want to compare the "convolution".
Yes it's a pro. npm is a fantastic resource. The fact that there is a house of cards situation going with some packages is true, but then again the same shit happens with Python.
Been there just the other day. For some reason I had to write a quick & dirty utility to send faxes and to process incoming pdf sent by a fax reception service. At first I tried to do it with Python but I quickly got in the quicksands of old libraries that only work with Python 2, and weird libraries that required Cython and a endless stream of conflicting requirements.
After my 3rd virtualenv and who knows how many failed cython compile, I gave up and did a quick search on npm. I found what I needed immediately, and the whole thing (sending faxes + doing ocr on the pdf scans) required less than 15 lines of code. It's not pretty but the thing works and it will do the job for the business while they're transitioning to some other process that doesn't require faxes.
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This is doing things humans do, but more quickly and accurately, with a lower TCO.
No it doesn't. Over and over there's stories about failed projects with Watson. For instance a few months ago there was this failed $60 million project in a cancer treatment & research department of a big university in Texas. Watson was supposed to make cancer diagnostics faster than human and it didn't happen because it just couldn't ingest data.
That's the biggest problem with all forms of AI and machine learning: feeding it data. You can't just point it at a server and say: "look there, it's somewhere in Oracle". You need excruciatingly accurate ETL jobs, which means the source systems must never change or your ETL goes down the drain. That's what happened at MD Anderson.
The challenge is not currently in getting faster chips or better parallelism. The challenge is in bridging the gap between the algorithm that requires vectors in a specific format, and real life data that's always messy and volatile. In a sense we're still very much in the world of punch cards when it comes to AI and ML.
The fact that you have such a group says more about you than about those alleged juvenile asshats. At some point it's gonna get boring in your echo chamber, but suits yourself.
Or maybe the problem does happen on Windows and nobody noticed because they're constantly rebooting to install an update anyways.
Intel has been rock-solid since forever. AMD has been unreliable since forever. If you think this will change today, you're kidding yourself.
AMD makes gadgets for overclocking enthusiasts and gamers on a budget. There's nothing wrong with that, and they've kept Intel on their toes which is a good thing. But it's not the same class of product unless your focus is only on net gigahertz per dollar.
Being surprised by this kind of problem is like being surprised that Windows phones home or that HP is fucking you in the ass with their ink cartridges.
Or it could just be buggy Chinese spyware.
You obviously didn't read the whole thing. When someone says things like "substitute for thinking" he's not politely stating his side, he's being a cunt.
usability > look
Value judgment.
I have been down modding everything you say due to you saying you didn't like Babylon 5
I don't know why you say that, because it's not entirely impossible that I would watch Babylon 5 beyond the first 10 minutes of the first episode. All that would take would be that:
-I'm in prison for 25 years
and
-I have access to Netflix
and
-I'm done watching absolutely everything else including the movies with the dog that plays basketball
and
-there is a waiting list to join the toilet cleaning crew.
(So that's still more likely than me using Ubuntu)
"Have you ever noticed how we judge a persons intelligence based on how closely their opinions coincide with yours."
Actually it's the opposite. People usually are more understanding of completely different opinions than similar but just slightly different ones. That's why protestants and catholics have massacred each others forever but barely gave two shits about buddhists, or why Patriots fans will get in bar brawls with Jets fans but will completely ignore Rangers or Clippers fans.
First, that's not what "fiduciary duty" means. You can't just pick any legal term and shoehorn it in whatever situation you want.
Second, if the organization decides that diversity is more important, then minority candidates will get hired before others and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it as long as it's part of a strategy that the representatives of the shareholders (the board) approved. There's a case to be made that the public image trumps optimal engineering productivity. Maybe that's not how you would run your company, and I don't buy the stock of companies who put a strong emphasis on diversity because I don't think it will bring them success in the long run, but it's their decision to make.
Like it or not, this whole diversity thing is part of the game now, and it will probably just accelerate the other plague (visa workers) as companies need to remain competitive while onboarding useless asswipes for the sake of political correctness.
But this is all temporary, like when movie studios had to sign loyalty pledges in the McCarthy years or when people started selling "freedom fries" in 2003. In the meantime for all of us passive-aggressive grunts, the best thing to do is keep track of the phoniest of the bunch and remember them later, like that fucker from Assist who tried to use the situation at Binary Capital to make a name for himself.
90's or 0's, new or old, ancient or modern are all irrelevant.
That's just absurd. Technology evolves, otherwise, why are you not using punch cards to code?
a non-standard interface language
The current gedit *has* a standard interface, at least from this decade point of view. A couple buttons for the most common features, and a simple menu to show everything else. We're not talking about a fluffy GUI with mysterious things and revolutionary widgets. You're just being difficult for the sake of being a cunt.
"do you ever use the undo/redo buttons? or even print?"
Yes. Often.
So you type stuff, and then you realize you made a mistake, and instead of hitting ctrl-z you move your hand away from the keyboard, take the mouse, point it to undo, then click?
Maybe the issue here is not modern text editors, maybe the issue is you having terrible productivity.
That's the world we live in. Appreciating things is not cool.
I do. For the same kind of things I would use Notepad on Windows. I almost always have an instance floating around for misc stuff; writing down a phone number, sanitizing stuff I copied from a browser to lose the formatting, etc. I don't use it to write novels or code, but that's still a useful app and it works well enough, I never had to go explore the interwebs for a better quick editor.
I don't think it's a "shit UI choice". Huge toolbars like in the old version are a waste of space; do you ever use the undo/redo buttons? or even print? What would you want huge square buttons constantly in your face for that?
To do what is needed in a text editor you need the same amount of clicks in either versions, but in the new version there's more room for the text and less for buttons that are not needed. Plus there's a decent search and a file browser in the sidebar.
I understand that some people prefer to stay in the 90s but really, we're not talking about a huge revolution here, it's just a more modern look.
Do like me: opt out of the mod thing entirely. It doesn't work, never has, never will.
If you just browse at +1s you're missing out. Some of the hardcore gay porn and sleeper cell instructions that lives in the -1 level can be quite entertaining. Embrace the darkness and light alike. Free yourself from the petty moderation cliques.
Because writing programs in a language even slower than JavaScript is a brilliant idea.
Good point. For a text editor, I'd go directly to asm. Can't afford to let all those layers get in the way of rending text files or slowing down keyboard input.
Yes, what is needed is yet another set of basic desktop apps based on the fork of another set of basic desktop apps based on the fork of another set of basic desktop apps. There's not enough of those. Maybe they should also have a browser and a media player.
627 text editors
Maybe if we want more text editors what we need is a Framework... oh wait...
Tepl is a library that eases the development of GtkSourceView-based text editors and IDEs. Tepl is the acronym for “Text editor product line”. It also serves as an incubator for some GtkSourceView features.
Tepl was previously named Gtef (GTK+ text editor framework).
https://wiki.gnome.org/Project...
it's not shit, it's coded instructions for a sleeper cell.
And there are NO syn version of thing like accessing mongodb
That's why God created Promises...
So, by using a high-level language, I can get the same sorts of bugs and need the same sorts of work-arounds to avoid them that I used to have to deal with in C, ten years ago before compilers started spotting them automatically and warning me?
That's part of the magic with interpreted languages. You don't have to compile, so that leaves more time to apologize to users for bugs that the compiler would have caught.
>- mutable default arguments
What does that even mean?
That means that you haven't done a lot of Python.
Passing mutable lists or dictionaries as default arguments to a function can have unforeseen consequences. Usually when a programmer uses a list or dictionary as the default argument to a function, the programmer wants the program to create a new list or dictionary every time that the function is called. However, this is not what Python does. The first time that the function is called, Python creates a persistent object for the list or dictionary. Every subsequent time the function is called, Python uses that same persistent object that was created from the first call to the function.
https://docs.quantifiedcode.co...
^ this behavior is beyond retarded.
You're missing the point. The guy compared Python code that has no exception management with NodeJS code that has exception management. Then he used that unfair comparison to support his point that NodeJS is needlessly convoluted.
So either you put in a try/except in the Python example or you remove the if(err) in the NodeJS example if you want to compare the "convolution".
Yes it's a pro. npm is a fantastic resource. The fact that there is a house of cards situation going with some packages is true, but then again the same shit happens with Python.
Been there just the other day. For some reason I had to write a quick & dirty utility to send faxes and to process incoming pdf sent by a fax reception service. At first I tried to do it with Python but I quickly got in the quicksands of old libraries that only work with Python 2, and weird libraries that required Cython and a endless stream of conflicting requirements.
After my 3rd virtualenv and who knows how many failed cython compile, I gave up and did a quick search on npm. I found what I needed immediately, and the whole thing (sending faxes + doing ocr on the pdf scans) required less than 15 lines of code. It's not pretty but the thing works and it will do the job for the business while they're transitioning to some other process that doesn't require faxes.
npm is awesome.