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If it were not for sources like Quanta, I would never survive the New Year holidays when Kent will likely have the nerve to take a day off !
Has some very tasty news stories re computer science, AI, and algorithmic breakthroughs: ^].
Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence?
By STEPHEN ORNES
A simple algorithm that revolutionized how neural networks approach language is now taking on vision as well. It may not stop there.
How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection
By SHEON HAN
Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to machines.
Researchers Find ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography
By ERICA KLARREICH
The existence of secure cryptography depends on one of the oldest questions in computational complexity.
Researchers Achieve ‘Absurdly Fast’ Algorithm for Network Flow
By ERICA KLARREICH
Computer scientists can now solve a decades-old problem in practically the time it takes to write it down.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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A new smart skin developed at Stanford University might foretell a day when people type on invisible keyboards, identify objects by touch alone, or allow users to communicate by hand gestures with apps in immersive environments. I have some hand gestures for AI to understand
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I have some hand gestures for AI to understand
..i. ?
M.D.V. 
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Exactly! 
TTFN - Kent
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While those end users may never think about all the work necessary to have a site load instantly, back end developers are obsessed with ensuring servers, applications, and databases can handle anything. I'm always amazed at how little I know of stuff I "need to know"
Awkward sentence sorry I am for
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I only know, that I know nothing... 
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The saga of Microsoft's attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard will no doubt continue into 2023 as another response to the FTC lawsuit from Microsoft (this one 37 pages in length) has been uncovered. We the corporations, in order to form larger conglomerates, establish monopolies, and insure shareholders profits...
I give up after that. Little Tommy J I am not.
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Since CP linked to this article, Microsoft's claims of unconstitutionality strike at the very heart of the US's administrative state.
17: Whether or not this is valid depends on the wording of the Law that created the Federal Trade Commission. Congress may very well have granted this authority to the Executive branch for enforcement, I don't know.
18: True - the entire concept of Administrative Judges in the Executive branch is a violation of Article III of the US Constitution.
19: My opinion only here: The US Supreme Court screwed up big time when they granted corporations the same rights as individuals. That was a more liberal court and the current textualist court may very well overturn that previous ruling on the basis that the Constitution doesn't recognize corporations.
20 & 21: True - again this is a violation of Article III of the US Constitution.
For our members not in the US:
Article I - Congress shall be the sole legislative authority
Article II - The President shall create, with Congressional approval, the bureaucracy to enforce the Laws passed by Congress
Article III - The Judiciary shall consist of the US Supreme Court and such subordinate Courts as Congress creates.
A big part of Microsoft's claims are that the FTC is using Administrative Judges, who work for the FTC. Because the FTC is part of the Article II Presidental enforcement authority, their Administrative Law Judges are part of the Executive Branch and therefore in violation of Article III of the US Constitution.
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I totally agree that administrative judges are unconstitutional. I also believe not a single court will rule in Microsoft's favor.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: We the corporations, in order to form larger conglomerates, establish monopolies, and insure shareholders profits...
do hereby band together our considerable capital to form a more perfectly equitable to us Supreme Court...
Too political? Sorry. This has my disgust today.
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As AI assumes more software development work, developers may eventually be working with training models more than they do with coding tools. And that's empowering. "History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme"
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Despite its benefits, shifting left can actually make developers' jobs more difficult. Here's how to ensure shift-left doesn't become a drain on developer productivity. Use the shift key on both sides of the keyboard so it wears evenly
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I'd never even heard of the phrase "shift-left" until now. Now I'm trying to forget that I heard it! 
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I always thought Shift-Left was an assembler/machine language trick to double numbers without going through the multiplier or adder on the processor.
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Is he referring to the Programmer's Cheer?
Quote: Shift to the left! Shift to the right! Pop up, push down! Byte! Byte! Byte!
This joke was old when ENIAC was the latest hardware.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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79% of recently hired tech workers who were previously laid off say they found a new job within three months of beginning their job hunt. "You never get free, everybody wants you"
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The company is adding some handy automation features to its web-based spreadsheet software. It looks like you're trying to add a few numbers. Would you like help with that?
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The 2022 Christmas Challenge features seven fiendish puzzles based on the seven disciplines of languages, engineering, codebreaking, analysis, maths, coding and cyber security - all key skills needed at GCHQ to help keep the country safe. On His Majesty's puzzle service
edit: Fixed gender for the blurb. I always get it wrong the first decade after changing the head of state. It's worse than cheques in January.
For those too young to know what a cheque is, get off my lawn!
modified 27-Dec-22 16:45pm.
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Grand Canyon Headquarters? 
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They keep people from falling in. 
TTFN - Kent
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5 of 7 for a non native speaker...  was funny.
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One language to rule them all: from shell scripting to web frontend and backend, scientific computing, deep learning, blockchain client, gamedev, embedded. Not related to the Knights that say...that word
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Not related to the Knights that say...that word
crap?
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