I took a look at the website, I find it interesting that Ford / GM / Chrysler are not members. Perhaps each has decided that they can go it alone?

Call me when they have 640 GB of RAM, thought ought to be enough for anybody !!!

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I suspect that the Siri founders painted a vision where all these capabilities were just 6 months away, with "hockey stick" revenue curves and smattering of the usual lies that startups use to inflate their valuation. Now they act surprised that Apple can't make it do all these things...

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My experience is that getting the data ready for the "math" part is about 80% of the work, and you have to know something about the models to know how to prep the data. For example, a recent text classification I did with Python and Keras has about 10 lines of code to define, train and test the neural network - but a whole lot more code to extract the data I needed and then beat it into shape for the modeling step.

That said, I'm quite happy with "Python for AI', as it's quick and simple to do things. Please don't make it suck like Javascript :-)

Whatever happened to the DoD Orange Book levels? I would have thought that they'd have mandatory protection on all their data.

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Hmmm...

Maybe that movie was prophetic and they'll produce a Q-bomb, with more power than all the A-bombs and H-bombs of the world combined...

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The original article confuses OTAs and Aggregators. Expedia and Travelocity are OTAs and have a login to Sabre and other systems as travel agencies. They can book and service your trip. They also use Sabre and others to do the search against the fares and schedules databases, as well as online connectivity to airlines for availability. Kayak, Skyscanner and others are aggregators.

BTW - I led the algorithm design of Sabre's Linux-based search engine about 15 years ago - Travelocity, Expedia and others drove our requirements.

Alan

There are no AS/400 systems in there at all. The front end processors were Solaris and then ported to Linux (NOFEP), these replaced the legacy VAX/VMS front end systems (OFEP). Sabre is an independent company, but Travelocity was sold off to Expedia.

Maybe he really *is* the founder of bitcoin, but claiming to be the founder in a way that everybody will debunk - thus the Australian tax authorities won't go after the half-billion dollars or so that he has in bitcoin?

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I'm self-employed and the price of IntelliJ is the equivalent of about 30 minutes of my time. I write algorithms for several companies, in multiple languages, and have been quite happy with IntelliJ. Your mileage may vary...

That said, perhaps Eclipse would do everything I need, but there is a cost of changing - I'd be spending some time scanning websites to figure out how to do what I want to do.

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Once they declare the API to be copyrightable, the SCO dementors will arise and attempt once more to cast darkness over Linux. Darl McBride must be snickering as he reads the Justice Department's response...

Is there nothing more American than taking a mass market car and finding another 10 horsepower?
Or making the stereo loud enough to knock down old barns as you drive by?

What if immersing your motherboard in liquid nitrogen for another 3 frames per second were illegal?
Or writing your own operating system could land you in jail?

What have we come to? We need to protect people from doing stupid stuff, but nobody wants to live in a world with only one flavor...

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I wonder if we can now translate that Mel Gibson movie about the Maya?

Seriously though, adding another language with a completely different structure will force them to improve their translation engine. I find it interesting.

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IBM touts the virtualization capabilities of Power, but I can't find any IaaS providers where I can rent a slice of one. I looked at the Softlayer site, they're and IBM company, and I couldn't find it there either. So, it leaves me to wonder...

It really depends on what you want to do. If you're trying to wring the last iota of performance out of an algorithm, then understanding TLB misses and cache protocols can be useful. Even accessing RAM can be an order of magnitude faster or slower, depending on what you do. So, maybe a class on microprocessor design?

OTOH, I find that an ability to understand functional programming, recursion and data structures is very useful. They're the sort of things I quiz people on when I'm looking for really strong developers.

Alan