Wiretrip

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by Wiretrip 7y ago
So true. The real danger with 'AI' at the moment is the premature deployment of half-baked parlour tricks or the over reliance on simple algorithms where there are real consequences. i.e. prison sentences and insurance eligibili
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
I have to shout out for windy.com (I am not its developer sadly). It is probably the best weather site (and app) out there. You can even choose between weather models.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
'better UI' might be debatable... It is a bloated inefficient sack of kack that demands ~1GB RAM per channel! In fact, didn't the original developer label it thus and abandon the whole thing?
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
As a adjunct, apparently it is still really popular in Germany.
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by Wiretrip 7y ago
Ha! I still use Delphi (amongst other things)! It's great for producing Native Windows apps and is extremely performant (and still works with Win 10). I stuck with Delphi 7 (and thus avoided all the subsequent politics).
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by Wiretrip 8y ago
"year or two learning CS on their own" Sorry, but what they are teaching themselves is not Computer Science, it is programming, which is a tiny subset of computer science or even slightly outside it but intersecting. To get a well
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by Wiretrip 8y ago
No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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by Wiretrip 8y ago
I think this is a problem across the board in UK univeristies these days. When I did my CS degree (1993), I was one of two people in the year who got 1st class, now I think it's something like 25% awarded 1sts and the rest get 2:1s
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by Wiretrip 8y ago
And before that, in the late 90s, due to the millenium bug goldrush. Now it's 'AI'...
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by Wiretrip 8y ago
Sorry I should have said 'they' rather than 'he' in referring to those prosletysing his mythos. Also, he is not a qualified engineer, whatever he calls himself. I imagine many of those depending on his good favour are &#
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by Wiretrip 8y ago
I wish more people realised the truth behind the PR construction that is Elon Musk and stop calling him an 'inventor' and 'engineer'. He is neither. He got lucky a few times and has somehow managed to persuade people tha
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by Wiretrip 8y ago
In a similar vein, I always wondered how much trouble people born at midnight on 01/01/1970 have with websites and software in general.
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by Wiretrip 8y ago
Or is this just an advert?
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by Wiretrip 8y ago
Indeed!
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by Wiretrip 8y ago
Nice to see a roundup of ML that doesn't just go straight to Deep Learning for a change :-)