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Computer scientists this year learned how to transmit perfect secrets, why transformers seem so good at everything, and how to improve on decades-old algorithms (with a little help from AI). In case you (like me) slept through 2022
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Computer scientists this year learned how to transmit perfect secrets, why transformers seem so good at everything, and how to improve on decades-old algorithms (with a little help from AI).
In case they didn't sleep in the lectures... because looking at the Q&A "please do my homework for me" 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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sVB is an evolved version of Microsoft Small Basic with a small WinForms library and a graphics form designer. What the world has been waiting for!
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For people who sleep in socks!
See the Lounge.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Wow: the number of features, and complexity (I read the entire NuGet intro) of this project are impressive. But, how many people will use it ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Well color me impressed, I am still waiting for VB7. I still have nightmares due to my 10 years writing VB6 code but it honestly wasn't that bad.
I just wish to stop absent mindedly writing Dim ... as ... in C after 5 years I exclusevly use C.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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According to findings published by @XenoPanther on Twitter, Microsoft is considering pressing on with recommended content in Windows 11. Wouldn't you rather open this file instead?
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<- insert defiant meme here ->
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It'll definitely be the year, maybe the decade, of Linux if they really do that. Then again, I've disabled Windows Update and am happily on W10 and will stay there for the remaining future. If live another 30 years, I'll have switched to some other OS by then, probably something that runs on the rPi of the future. 
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Slowing demand and economic pressures are a drag, but AI waits at the end of the rainbow "The worst is not, so long as we can say "This is the worst.""
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Great - that means those of us who are trying to hire will have an easier time of it. Nah, Nadella's flat out wrong on this one.
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Artificial intelligence can replicate any voice, including the emotions and tone of a speaker. Nothing bad will come of this
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Make Cortana's voice into HAL 9000 - I may actually start using Cortana!  I haven't gone by 'Dave' before, but I would for that!
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Now is it pronounced
V-ah-ll-E rhyming with the little Disney robot
OR
V-a-ll-E like the uncanny one?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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You'd think that would be on one of the voice samples. Or at least I'd think that, but I'm wrong.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft has reportedly been looking at ways of integrating OpenAI’s GPT features into Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. It'll be Clippy, but with a moustache.
And I'm looking forward to the auto-generated PowerPoint presentations. ("Give me 75 motivational slides on teamwork, in the style of Mondrian")
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And I'm looking forward to the auto-generated PowerPoint presentations. ("Give me 75 motivational slides on teamwork, in the style of Mondrian")
If it learns to translate between dev - manager . dev, it will be a mine of gold.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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please dear God, no. Smite them.
Having Microsoft develop something with AI and adding it to there already bloated products? Shoot me now.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting out in the field, I hope these insights will provide valuable perspective. *They* didn't want you to know!
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Like actual engineering?
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Excellent article that rings true for my experiences at Adobe during the creation of what became Acrobat (by a skunk-works team of 4). Also very true of ... the codebase no one understands any more, and no one dare change ... that can only be patched ... my experiences with working on Illustrator and PhotoShop.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Quote: As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective.
Very modest. Skimming this article, it looks to be about bang on, so I'll be reading it more carefully...
EDIT: An excellent article that anyone near entry level in software should read. One of the best I've read, period.
modified 9-Jan-23 20:51pm.
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Researchers have found it surprisingly easy to upload malicious Visual Studio Code extensions to the VSCode Marketplace, and discovered signs of threat actors already exploiting this weakness. Who knew letting anyone write and publish plugins would be so fraught with problems?
I mean, _no one_ could have seen this coming, right: /end-sarcasm
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A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said. "At first it had been an almost telescopic speck; it had brightened to the dimensions of the greatest star in the heavens"
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