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Financial Times, Feb. 3
"The search company on Wednesday named John Giannandrea, an expert in machine learning, to run the engineering group that devises its ranking algorithms, the core technology for making sense of the deluge of information on the internet.
He replaces Amit Singhal, an Indian engineer who oversaw a rewrite of Google’s ranking technology after joining 15 years ago.
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Mr Singhal has long used the fictional intelligent computer on Star Trek as the model for the perfect search engine. In a post on Google+ announcing he was leaving the company, he said he had first dreamt of the idea when growing up in the Himalayas. "My dream Star Trek computer is becoming a reality, and it is far better than what I ever imagined," he added." [^]
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The Internet of Things (IoT) has been called the next Industrial Revolution — it will change the way all businesses, governments, and consumers interact with the physical world. Because it will be steam-powered?
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Because of the need to upgrade every thee years?
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European nation to back research aimed at space race to open first commercial mine of valuable metals off planet Earth "When you hear the name of Grand Fenwick do your hearts swell with pride?"
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Ah, Yes....The Mouse That Roared, the first of a series of hilarious books by Leonard Wibberley. I read them over half a century ago....
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Microsoft's business strategy for the cloud appears to amount to this: ‘Be more like Apple.’ Here’s why that approach works. "Give 'em the razor; sell 'em the blades"
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The Dos and Don’ts of enterprise DevOps Step 1: dev, Step 2: ops. Step 3: profit?
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Over the weekend, Samsung added support for content-blocking plugins to the browser preinstalled on its Android phones. The first plugin available for Samsung’s browser was Adblock Fast, a free and open source solution available on Google Play. Yesterday, Google removed the Android plugin from its app store. Yay, Google. Always looking out for the little guy. :S
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You might be amazed at how accessible hacking tools have become. Your site can be p0wn3d and an entire library of hacking tools downloaded and installed in just a few short minutes. Read this article and be prepared. "Happy. Happy. Joy. Joy."
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In November, we introduced the Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program to give developers everything they need to get started building and deploying apps on any platform, for free. The price is right
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As we enter February, it's a good time to remember that 2016 is a leap year. For most people, this may just be an interesting oddity; an extra day to work or play. But for software developers, the leap year can cause significant pain. If it's divisible by four, but not by 100, except if by 400...
Needs a better rhyme, me thinks.
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The millennium year bug is over, now they are to the leap year bug;
What's next ? They will find an oddity on 31 days on both July and august ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Wait - what? 31 Days? Dammit, there goes my "Next month=today()+30" code. This is going to take FORever to fix! 
TTFN - Kent
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And it comes back every year. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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ppolymorphe wrote: What's next ?
Probably the Year 2038 problem[^] - aka the "Unix Millennium Bug".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Teaching computers to learn the way we do is widely considered an important step toward better artificial intelligence, but it's hard to achieve without a good understanding of how we think. With that premise in mind, a new $12 million effort launched Wednesday with aims to "reverse-engineer" the human brain. Because no one ever thought to try that before?
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It World wrote: "reverse-engineer" the human brain.
I fear doing so, they will break a couple patents owned by God (at least in USA). 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Yeah, I think I've heard about some small independent project. Human Brain Project it's called, I think. With a mere €1.2 billion of funding from EU. 
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That might almost be enough to almost start the project. 12 million would barely get the labs set up these days.
TTFN - Kent
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Exactly. Just coffee machines alone - to cover everyone's consumption - are more expensive than that.. and then there's that problem with the brain donors. Too few people have one to begin with. 
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