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Wow! And expected…reminds me about emergent outcomes… https://www.quantamagazine.org/artificial-intelligence-learns-to-learn-entirely-on-its-own-20171018/
Hah! Made me smile today! Made me laugh too! “That’s especially the case in Silicon Valley, where pivoting has become the new failure, a concept to describe a haphazard, practically madcap form of iterative development. With its sheen of management-speak, pivoting is well suited to our moment. And like any act of public relations, pivoting […]
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A really cool looking corvette (http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/latest-reviews/ratings-review-2016-chevrolet-corvette-stingray-article-1.2773075) passed me on the way to work this morning. A great looking car with a really odd number plate, “RFC3271”. I have done quite a bit of work in the past with the IETF, having worked on the RTP, SPI, MGCP, MEGACO, and RTSP protocol implementations. And all these […]
Saw the link that one of the developers of COBOL had died. Some nostalgia there…this was the first programming course I ever did (1986) and my grades in it were good enough that the programming school I went to gave me a free course to do advanced COBOL and DBase III+. Never did any COBOL […]
One of my biggest issues in travelling to china is that… My credit cards don’t work anywhere but a major chain hotel I have to carry cash, and most likely go to an ATM in china to get money Contrast that to the way that my colleague in china makes payment! WeChat! But isn’t that […]
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Read an article about Raymond Loewy. Interesting that I have not heard of him before. But then the title of the article was absolutely clickbait. The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/what-makes-things-cool/508772/ It dosent change that the article was good enough that I grudgingly fired up wordpress and decided to blog this. In […]
Hmm…posting this because I want to revisit this again some other time… http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2013/05/23/leadership-is-the-militarys-snake-oil/
I generally use the gcc as an example of where open source has hurt competition and hence innovation. That seems to be changing… http://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4414199/Does-the-GCC-compiler-still-have-a-future?cid=Newsletter+-+Embedded.com+Tech+Focus “One reference point I can give you is XMOS Ltd. (Bristol, England), a developer of event-driven, low latency multicore processors. XMOS has recently started to reposition the company as a high-end […]
I read this snippet in an email I got from researchandmarkets.org “Favorable demographics, rising consumer incomes, and evolving more interconnected lifestyles are anticipated to boost the global consumer electronics industry. The market is expected to reach an estimated US $1,210 billion in 2017 with a CAGR of 5.4% over next five years (2012- 2017). The […]
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