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Comment Like someone said LLM is not AI (Score 1) 133

I have a little girl of 1 year now and it is obvious learning and what she learns is programmed into her (and all other babies). All babies do learn the same at the same time (more or less). What they lack is the knowledge. The AI is the programmed intelligence. The knowledge is the LLM. So now the lookup of knowledge is working better and better, we have to start working on the real intelligence, understanding of the real world and what is good and what is bad. Like you do with a child.

Comment Those are not the problems with java (Score 1, Interesting) 145

The problem with java is not that it is difficult to learn, the problem is that it offers no fun. It is hardly impossible to make a game or other graphical application with it. It has no native support for any devices accept a mouse. No native support for serial, usb, etc. Why not incorporate an open source webbrowser to interact with the web. I love the one code that runs everywhere, but it supports so little that it often is no enough and I need to switch to other languages that do, like python. Up till now it is just no fun. It is just an academic exercise for people that put things in files and communicate over tcp/ip. And belief me for more than 30 years I'm trying to use it where I can. I'

Comment dokuwiki (Score 1) 187

I am using dokuwiki for a long time. Just for myself, running only on localhost. It works with text files so I can store them well in subversion or git, which are on Dropbox so (if I don't forget to commit) I can use it on multiple systems and at home and work. Because it is viewed with a browser, you can add links and images (like svg, etc), tables, and raw html. There are two problems. One is that it is writen in php and setting it up with fastcgi never works well on Windows, especially if you want to separate the data directory (which is in my svn/git tree) from the application. The other problem is that it doesn't run on Android. So now I created a something that has a very thin webserver writen in default python and all the text processing to html happens in the browser with javascript. This makes it easier to install and use.

Submission + - Microsoft is really trying hard to play nice with Linux and open source. Really.

Esther Schindler writes: They're trying, honest they are. In 2016 alone, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux; integrated Eclipse and Visual Studio, launched an open-source network stack on Debian Linux; and it's adding Ubuntu Linux to its Azure Stack hybrid-cloud offering.

That's all well and good, he says, but it's not enough. There's one thing Microsoft could do to gain real open-source trust: Stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents.

But, there's too much money at stake, writes sjvn, for this to ever happen. For instance, in its last quarter, volume licensing and patents, accounted for approximately 9% of Microsoft's total revenue..

What say you? Has Microsoft become a good open-source citizen? Do you think it's possible for the company to do so?

Comment It is all about project management (Score 2) 118

It all comes down to the time, money, quality triangle. The more you focus on one aspect the more you lose on the other two. And because in the end projects are always focused on time and money, quality is almost always neglected. Especially in highly political environments where the ideas have to be implemented with low cost and this year projects are bound to fail.

Comment Slashdot ... you too? Why more nothing? (Score 1) 2219

Why are all UI-designers focussed on less; less information, less functionality, less options. The only thing that is more is more nothing, emptiness, empty space, useless images and other nonsense. Please give me less white space and more information denisity, or at least give me the option of using the classic view forever.

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