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by cicero 16y ago
You have an outsider perspective, while the article was written from an insider's perspective. It appears that the technology team was at its peak when it changed from Live to Bing, and has declined since then. The success of Bing has been
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There are structs in C, as well as unions, but they are data only - no methods.
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"Functional consciousness" is a fine goal if it helps the bot behave in a way that is useful. I don't know how we would even know if we ever achieved subjective consciousness in a computer, except as it says at the end of the article: 'We c
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I've been intending to try Objective C for many years now. I like C, I like Smalltalk, and I like Mac OS. Maybe when I finish my degree, but there's no time now.
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Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, in his book _Why Don't Students Like School_, says that memorizing facts is important for developing higher level reasoning. Think of it as building up a large processor cache. If you have the relevant
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Several years after I swore I would never work in C++ again, I agreed to do C++ in order to get a job with a company I was really interested in joining. I ended up working on a project that used C++ with lots of rules and restrictions, and
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I'm thinking Philosophy is not rigorous at all at some schools, and is just a lot of lofty opining. I have no proof or first-hand knowledge of this, but I get this from some people's description of their experiences of Philosophy classes. T
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I think that was important for my actually learning to program circa 1978. If I was growing up today, it's very likely I would have been too distracted by all the other cool stuff I could do on the computer. I teach High School programming
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iBooks is very slow on my iPhone 3G, but the Kindle app, though not as pretty, runs fine.
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I'll be showing this article to my high school computer science students to try to raise the excitement level among some of them. Programming is hard enough that kids have to be pretty motivated to choose to do it. At our school, Computer S
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by cicero 16y ago
This sounds like how I am currently programming, but I consider myself an FP novice. In Python, I avoid writing classes until I need a data structure too complex for a dictionary of tuples. In C# I have to have more classes, but I am still
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If Apple continues this course, they will lose developers and apps to Android, which could drive consumers to switch to Android as well. I've been a happy iPhone customer until now, and I'm strongly considering switching to Android when my
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by cicero 16y ago
In the book Why Don't Students Like School ( http://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-Students-Like-School/dp/04705... ) Daniel Willingham argues that people need to have a good vocabulary of mechanics, basic concepts, and skills in order to be ab
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When I went from a big company to a startup, I saw a significant increase in engineering talent. There were some good people at the big company, but there was also a lot of dead weight. It was easy to just coast through a project there. At
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Is anyone concerned about a backlash from ISPs over Netflix bandwidth consumption? Many ISPs provide a video on demand service, but instead of getting revenue for video on demand, they have to beef up their Internet infrastructure to suppor
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Hmmm, I'm not watching the Superbowl, and I'm Catholic.
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Thank you for giving Aristotle some credit! Even though modern science has been able to correct some of his ideas, he was an amazing intellect and still has much to teach us.
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In the last 8 years I've been buying primarily Apple products: an iBook 8 years ago, an iPod mini 6 years ago, a MacBook 3 years ago, and an iPhone 2 years ago. I used to fiddle with Linux and know about the latest CPUs, but then I found th
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I worked for a year as a software developer at a company that made educational products. In many ways it was a good company, but I was frustrated by what I considered substandard quality in their software products. It wasn't that they didn'
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I work at a small private school that focuses on good teachers, strong community, and an intellectually demanding curriculum. Although we use technology where it makes sense for us (Moodle, classroom projector computers, computer lab), but
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There are things that are far more valuable than money that a person can gain from an experience.
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I have paid one or two dollars on the Kindle store for books I could have downloaded for free because when you buy a book from Amazon, they keep an archive of it on their servers, including reading position, bookmarks, and annotations, and
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When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be about the FBI trying to find the source of WikiLeaks material.
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"What is clear is that some students gained access to a bank of tests that was maintained by the publisher of the textbook that Quinn used." Textbook publishers usually make these things available only to teachers. Some kind of hacking or f