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by zandorg 18y ago
I saw a Zuckerberg video from Dec 2007, and contrasted that with his recent Oprah interview. He's gone from cool tech head to some kind of semi-comedian (to whom owning a credit card is big news) in just over a year.
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by zandorg 18y ago
I know the co-founder of CDDB from a reverse-engineering forum. His advice to me for a magazine database startup? Get a good lawyer!
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by zandorg 18y ago
It's pretty easy to avoid. Just use a string class. Or check buffer length for things like URLs. For format printing, I wrote a custom lsprintf (limit string printf) which has as its first argument, the maximum length of the string. lsprint
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by zandorg 18y ago
And Jim Clark 'marries' while ROM burns.
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by zandorg 18y ago
The irony was that I'd crossed swords with Ken Follet over the right thing, and now he's crossing swords with Scribd for the wrong thing!
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by zandorg 18y ago
Now we'll never know who invented DOS!
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by zandorg 18y ago
Irony 2.0... Ken Follett (one of the complainants in the article) wrote a novella for the games Starglider and Starglider 2 in 1986. I asked him permission (in 2003) to put these novellas on my gaming novella site (a collection of gaming-re
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by zandorg 18y ago
Oh yeah! Let's take some random product and add 'Google' to it. Google chewing gum! Google soft candy! Google mortgages! I thought this nonsense ended with AllAdvantage.com...
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by zandorg 18y ago
Scary stuff. However, as a decompiler author (ie, turn machine code into C-like code), I think you could plug this into a decompiler and make legible code (control-flow structured, not inline assembly).
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by zandorg 18y ago
Either a map-reduce type operation, or a job which can be split into multiple processes, and cobbling together all their data into a result at the end (or periodically). Optical Character Recognition could be done, by for instance, recognis
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by zandorg 18y ago
Wow, a link I posted 2 days ago (also .co.uk) got frontpage'd. :-D I'm gonna love one of these babies for my AI work!
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by zandorg 18y ago
If only the legal profession, like Google, had automation to save on costs.
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by zandorg 18y ago
I once tried to get a program to run on startup in Suse Linux. Guess what? After a couple of hours, messing around with 'runlevels', and no clear way of doing it, I gave up and went back to the 'Startup' menu in Windows. This software sound
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by zandorg 18y ago
Or split your workload up so it can be run on 200 cores in an instant. Not to advertise, but I'm not affiliated with Nvidia - http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/tesla_deskside.html
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by zandorg 18y ago
I wanted to know what gold-pressed latinum was, having heard about it on Deep Space 9. I looked it up 2 weeks ago. It's basically a currency which can't be beamed or replicated, thus preserving its value as a currency. Interesting, and acco
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by zandorg 18y ago
Oh well. Maybe I should just say "Here's what I learned as AI at MY University and your mileage may vary".
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by zandorg 18y ago
About (1), I wrote some software that finds text in an image, by searching for items and filtering with rules. Maybe in my post, I was being too general. I studied neural networks at University too, and maybe I don't use them because I find
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by zandorg 18y ago
I took a degree in AI, and now I'm firmly convinced that AI == search. If you make something searchable in a simple, new way, that's AI. If it's grandiose but doesn't work, that's not useful.
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by zandorg 18y ago
I just saw a video of Zuckerberg on Google Video (NYC Facebook developers meeting in Dec 2007). He predicted accurately where they'd be by now in terms of numbers. But I got this impression: He listens to his (outside) developers. http://v
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by zandorg 18y ago
I was going from memory, and perhaps I meant total over time, not annual. But the point remains - It's a lot of money.
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by zandorg 18y ago
Mozilla makes over $100,000,000 a year from affiliate Google searches. What happens when Google doesn't need that?
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by zandorg 18y ago
Eek a Valleywag link! It shouldn't really be blocked if it has relevant or original articles...
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by zandorg 18y ago
I'm using a 2nd-hand Omnibook 6100 which is from 2000-2001. It still works, and it's pretty powerful, so I use it. The main reason is the CPU fan almost never comes on, so it's a quietbook. Other than that, software development on it is a g
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by zandorg 18y ago
Also, software is not singular...
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by zandorg 18y ago
He's just putting together a similiar argument with different parameters...
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by zandorg 18y ago
Okay, the number was based on how many people I knew in hospital who got better. I'll admit that my statistic is made up, but I think the rest of my comment is reasonable.
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by zandorg 18y ago
I find it funny that people said it has awful sounds. It outputs in MIDI! Use whatever synth you want! I use my Oberheim Xpander, to paraphrase, "The greatest synth in the world" and the tunes Songsmith puts into it sound great.
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by zandorg 18y ago
I have a friend who works for a bank, and I needed some help with a complex SQL query. Instead of paying in stock, I just said "Here's so-and-so per hour" and it took 2 hours, and I paid him, then did the same a couple of weeks later. Anoth
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by zandorg 18y ago
I got an amplifier with a TOSlink (SPDIF optical) connection, and got a cable from the soundcard to the amp. This means there was no analogue distortion or amplification in the signal chain - it just went right from the soundcard to the spe
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by zandorg 18y ago
About the homeless with mental illness... These days we have advanced medication which can cure I'd say 95% of all mental illnesses. So these people would only be in hospital a few weeks to get onto the right medication. Then get them into

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