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DeepMind, the UK artificial intelligence group purchased by Google for £400m earlier this year, has revealed plans to create a broad alliance with the University of Oxford after acquiring two companies spun out of computer science projects at the elite academic institution.

The London-based group, now a department within the US technology group, said it had acquired Dark Blue Labs and Vision Factory, enterprises founded by Oxford professors. DeepMind did not disclose the size of the transactions, but people familiar with the matter said the deals are worth tens of millions of pounds.

The move was described by company executives as a broader effort by Google to invest in the UK’s scientific and academic sector, with DeepMind also establishing significant ties to the university’s computer science and engineering science departments.

This will see DeepMind employees lecturing at the university, students being offered internships at the company and researchers from both groups collaborating on artificial intelligence (AI) projects. Google will also make a “substantial contribution” to the university, a donation described by one person familiar with the matter as worth many millions.

DeepMind is led by co-founder Demis Hassabis, whose varied career has led him to be heralded as a chess prodigy, renowned video games designer, expert computer programmer and influential neuroscientist. He has previously said his vision is to create a “Manhattan project” for AI, using Google’s vast financial and computing resources to attract the world’s greatest minds on the subject.

“These are exciting times for artificial intelligence, and this partnership further cements the UK’s position in the vanguard of this increasingly impactful field,” said Mr Hassabis.

DeepMind is working on “general” AI, systems that behave like the human brain, which use “unstructured” information from their surroundings to make independent decisions and predictions. This is unlike most other AI systems, which rely on human programmers to attach “labels” to data in order for a computer to make sense of information.

Dark Blue Labs, led by Nando de Freitas and Phil Blunsom, is creating systems to understand “natural language” that would allow computers to comprehend the meaning of sentences and how people react to them.

Vision Factory, headed by Andrew Zisserman, is developing systems capable of the visual recognition of objects in the real word. This means, for example, giving robots three-dimensional awareness that can allow them to understand how a cup sits on a table.

All three computer science professors and the teams working under them will become DeepMind employees, but they will also retain their current roles and continue their research at Oxford.

The acquisition provides DeepMind with about 10 new employees, lifting its staff numbers to around 100. To obtain a job at the company, candidates usually have one or more PhDs, while also undergoing a rigorous process of seven interviews and two examinations.
You have a couple of options:

1) Find another job.

2) Try to introduce new technology at your workplace. Not a language like C++ but Frameworks that could be more productive for some projects, maybe some internal tools. E.g. Play Framework for web apps, Spark for data analysis, Docker for deployments, etc. Find a painful repetitive internal process and suggest building something to make it less painful.

3) Improve your programming skills outside the office by working on a side project or attending Meetups.
Having been a Microsoft employee years ago, I made the exact same case for why I would never get bored at Microsoft. I was wrong ;)
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That's not sycophantic praise. That's a common refrain that many ABCs would concede whenever hearing any non-Chinese-ethnicity speaking Mandarin (or related language) much better than they would. The fact is that many ABCs (not all) cannot speak anywhere near this level, hence the comments. I say the same when I heard a non-Korean speaking Korean better than me.
TO what extent does it use ML for all the clustering? Does it work all of the times?

I can not imagine what'd happen if it doesn't work all of the times?

I like the colors aspect though and and would love to try it out.

If you still have some invites left send out one to a.tom.mindan@gmail.com
This stuff is from the 1980s; it's just a posting from 1998.

Patent-free now, btw. I still think a great Chaumian implementation will pwn all blockchain based systems.
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Elementary does look like OSX, but I wouldn't judge them negatively for that. I've been using the distro for a while and I'm quite happy with it.
It's amazing the Kafkaesque rules that have evolved about blood donation. The article does touch on them.

I'm not allowed to donate blood (any more), for what I think is an absurd reason. I spent a few months in England, over 30 years ago. So now the USA is afraid that any blood I donate will infect America with Mad Cow disease.

If those same rules were applied in the UK, nobody there would be able to give blood. The actual Red Cross text is:

You are not eligible to donate if:

From January 1, 1980, through December 31, 1996,
you spent (visited or lived) a cumulative time
of 3 months or more, in the United Kingdom (UK),
... [1]

Those same rules go on to ban all of Europe from donating blood:

You spent (visited or lived) a cumulative time of
5 years or more from January 1, 1980, to present,
in any combination of country(ies) in Europe, ...

I did get my "gallon pin", which they give out after 8 donations, before the rules were changed. So there could be quite a few vCJD infected people wandering around the USA because of me.

Given the litigious environment in the USA, I understand why the Red Cross has these rules. But it doesn't make sense from a scientific point of view.

[1] http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requ...
Trade unions make sense when the employer has disproportionate power over its employees. That's typically shallow employment markets with a single dominating employer.

Dev market in most places are efficient enough; so no I wouldn't.
> Berlin, Pre-War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0

Some scenes are also from Munich. Around 3:00 you can see Odeonsplatz, for example. It pretty much looks the same today ;).
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> rules for every ... mailing list I join

This one at least is solved for me now, since most list software implemented RFC 2919 a few years ago. Lists should include a list-id header, so just write one rule "if mail is to a list named foobar, file it in lists/foobar". Or if you don't care to separate them out, even just "if mail is to a list, file it in lists".
Articles with may, could, etc basically don't say anything else but,

'We want some attention for our article now, but do not shoot us if it turns out to be completely bogus. But if we were right, we want to be seen as awesome researchers, bringers of news etc'.
It didn't blow my mind. He learned a language, quite some people do that, even if the language is hard and remote.

Headline disproven.

Edit: it is impressive, as any language skill remote from you mother tongue. But I am not a fan of superlatives, especially if they indicate that I should take part in the appreciation.

FWIW: German headline on the topic: "Facebook CEO [...] impresses students".

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/facbeook-chef-mark-zucker...
Purity is almost used in a pejorative sense throughout the page.

If it wasn't for poor library support, I would prefer using SML to OCaml. SML is syntactically simpler and both SML/NJ and MLton have a lot to offer that I haven't yet found with OCaml.

I think one of the biggest mistakes in the life cycle of SML was premature specification. As a result of the language definition, SML has stagnated for almost 20 years. There is now some notion of "Successor ML" (see: http://sml-family.org/), but I honestly don't see it catching on outside of an academic space.

As an academic language, SML is great. It is a great tool for learning functional programming since the learning curve isn't especially steep. It is easy to reason about performance since evaluation order is explicit. And immutability is the default but with mutable types that are easy to use.
Quite a lot of people don't.
> Remember that uber only gets a small slice of whatever the "islanders" are getting.

Yes, but they're also taking almost risk, so it's still exploitative. The island example was simply meant to show that transactions where both sides benefit aren't necessarily fair, and can still be considered exploitation -- not as a direct comparison to Uber.
I too often read about research that suggests children are better at learning languages than adults, which may or not be true, but I am rarely convinced by these reports. Finding a correlation between the age a person started learning a language and their fluency, the reports then conclude that children are superior learners, without considering other factors like that bi-lingual children are exposed to their languages constantly and must learn them to communicate with others, while adult learners find 2 hours of study onerous and suffer few if any consequences from not learning.

Other studies are more scientifically rigorous, testing the aptitude of various language learning abilities with quizzes and games, but I think we can infer very little about the efficiency of long term studying from these narrow tests.

Just anecdotally, I live in Japan, and most foreigners I know who come as adults and work in a Japanese environment are conversational in a year, fluent in 3 or 4.
Small update: recent versions of OCaml have immutable strings too.

It also miss mention of package manager (OCaml has Opam, which is awesome, I don't know about SML).

And ocamlbuild is missing from the build tools section.
I was a Debian developer for a while, but gradually ran out of time for it, and eventually went with Ubuntu as my desktop and server OS.

By and large, I'm very happy with it, although I wish they'd sink a bit more time into avoiding regressions than trying to create new things.

I like the predictable release schedule, and the fact that it's a bit more focused than Debian.

Yet, underneath it's still all (almost at least) free software that I can hack on if needs be.

These days I use Xubuntu, with Xfce, because that's a bit more to my liking as a desktop: focus follows mouse is not something I care to do without.
I also work that way. I use the autoreload feature of ipython so that any code I change in my editor is instantly replicated in my ipython objects. I've really never been more productive in development in my life.

Contrast with some Java I was doing recently (granted, without a Java IDE) and I found the whole cycle painfully slow. Even things the compiler picked up were a magnitude slower to find than when I was in ipython. And then there were plenty of things the compiler wouldn't get, which could take a good minute for me to discover from the time I made the edit. It's insane to me that people don't work in a REPL.
The panic was that the situation would cause drastic harm, not that it wasn't a real issue. The fact that they fixed the problem is exactly the reason why it was overblown. (according to the article, anyways).
> Dread Pirate Roberts once wrote prolifically about non-violence, even saying “#SilkRoad while under my watch will never harm a soul.

It's unlikely Ulbricht created SilkRoad ,he's probably not the first Dread Pirate Roberts.
that's an interesting point. I didn't consider excises. Those are usually levied on products that harm the user or the environment in some way, though. I doubt you can argue that internet data harms the planet :p
A note -- if you're linking to arXiv, it's better to link to the abstract (http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1459) rather than directly to the PDF. From the abstract, one can easily click through to the PDF; not so the reverse. And the abstract allows one to do things like see different versions of the paper (this one has 34 versions!), search for other things by the same authors, etc.
Everybody should be learning something in their free time, unfortunately watching media with the lowest common denominator( mostly daytime TV and sitcoms ) is the most prevalent and it is the worst at the same time. Youtube is becoming a replacement for that and allows and hosts really educating stuff( lectures, languages with subtitles ), but it is just too easy to switch to it from TV and keep watching crap.
Not to say that quite a lot of CEOs don't...
Similar story. It started as a tidied up Debian fork. Then since about 12.04 LTS it turned into a tidied up Debian unstable fork with all the bugs in it. As a server only and LTS only user, I had no end of problems from there on with unstable kernels, duff and buggy packages, update roulette and terrible support.

We're on Debian 7 now and it's rock solid, relatively bug free in comparison and the support is good. Just where I want it to be.

The best outcome for me was that it caused Debian to rethink their release cycles a bit.
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Actually context matters here.

If some one from USA/UK/France, for example, learns a new language it definitely is a surprise. May be blows the mind is not the right word.

On the other hand, it is common for people from Southern India to know 4 or 5 languages and it is not surprising.
This gem does just that:

https://github.com/markburns/fuzzy
That still doesn't make any of those two outcomes mindblowing.
https://github.com/markburns/fuzzy
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Very impressive, Mandarin is one of the most difficult languages for native English speakers to learn: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Language_Learning_Dif...
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Go has some potential (I'm still waiting for Gen/censored/ics :)). Also, I'm particularly interested in components based web frameworks, and there seems to be none so far - last time I found GWT like library for Go, but it is undeveloped/dead I think.
You might want to come up with a better name for this article. "Honeypot Video Gallery" sounds like something that you'd be sent to federal prison for clicking.
This article is a candid perspective on making things, making money, integrity and other nuanced topics. Crying 'You're rich, do it out of pocket.' is the opposite.

People donate to projects like this on kickstarter because they want a project to go ahead exist and they want to be a part of that. The writer is getting (reasonably modest) resources with which to make it happen, perhaps even some compensation. He gets the support of 1000 true fans who put $40 where their mouth is. That knits together some valuable forms of validation, encouragement, responsibility and other small nuanced things.

Why would you inject your negativity into this mix?
During my time in France, most people of my age where pretty frustrated that they didn't learn foreign languages properly at school and tried to compensate.

For people in international companies, learning new languages on the job is also very normal, almost all companies have programs for that.
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"Linux for human beings"

No thanks. I'll take the distro for power users. Seriously they did so many things to screw everything up.
I'm a little confused as to what distinction is being made here between "provable" and "unprovable" factoring algorithms. Is it just that "provable" ones may output the correct result all the time, while "unprovable" ones are probabilistic and output the correct result with high probability? (E.g., roughly the distinction between P or ZPP on the one hand and BPP on the other hand, if these hypothetically ran in polynomial time and we were talking about decision problems.) Or is something even weaker meant by "unprovable", like retuning possibly incorrect results based not on a random input but on the number to be factored? I assume it's the former -- if it were the latter I'd say such things are not really factoring algorithms, practically useful as they might be -- but the way it's worded isn't exactly clear.
Or any previous device you might have had with Touch ID. Unless you change your fingerprints when you get a new phone.

Or... You could wipe your old phone when you get a new one.

Which can easily be subverted by simply disallowing the phone from connecting to the Internet.

Perhaps, but you know what they say: If a (determined) attacker gains physical access to your device, all bets are off. But at least you would know if you lost your device. A password OTOH could be compromised without you knowing.

Also, I am only saying that Touch ID is at least as secure as a username/password authentication scheme. If you want more security (perhaps because your adversary is someone who would go to the lengths of manifacturing a fake finger to fool a Touch ID sensor and also get a Faraday Bag to prevent you from wiping your device), the you should perhaps consider using 2-factor authentication.
This guy really has a shrewd mind for nuance.

I'd never heard of upcoming, but I will definitely check it out in the future.
http://qz.com/285851/the-most-important-things-mark-zuckerbe...

|But those blown away by Zuck’s Chinese chinwag might want to know that though he’s clearly memorized a lot of relevant words, those were still shoehorned into a distinctly American grammatical order. Pronunciation is also a problem: He showed a plucky disregard for the tones that Mandarin has—one tonal slip-up had him saying that Facebook boasts eleven mobile users instead of 1 billion—and his enunciation was roughly on par with the clarity possible when someone’s stepping on your face.

Still, I'm impressed. Mandarin is (f'n) hard, takes balls to speak a language you don't master in front of a crowd (and subsequently all teh interwebs).
In Taipei the percentage of foreigners who speak good Chinese is quite high.

Maybe just because I hang out with professionals rather than English teachers.

But I agree that general fluency is a whole lot more common than business fluency.
Are they actually counterfeit?

Legally, I'd be surprised. They are re-implementing the FTDI protocol, which is completely legal. They are reusing FTDI's PID/VID, which might or might not be a violation of the USB specs or USB recommendations -- I'm not sure about that -- but I'd be really surprised if that matches the legal definition of "counterfeit" for which customs has the right (and duty) to stop imports.
The current headline (for posterity: "Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin, Blows Everyone’s Mind") is very editorialised. Hopefully it gets changed.
No. I read lots of stuff all the time. But would you really like to carry the memories of someone whose limbs were blasted off by an IED, or someone who was a subject of waterboarding in Guantanamo? How about living the experiences of one of Ariel Castro's victims? Or feeling the thoughts of a lonely woman trapped in a bus late at night with eight men in India? How would you emerge from feeling every bit of pain, humiliation and despair that they went through? Count me out.
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The vast, vast majority of employees working for American companies, even in an international deployment, don't tend to learn more than a few dozen catch phrases (Hello, Good Bye, How are you doing, where is the toilet, take me to the airport, etc...) for the country they are deployed to - they just hope everyone will speak english to them.

I'm wondering if Mark is the first Fortune 500 CEO to ever learn a different language while working as a CEO? I'm almost certain he's the first American CEO of a fortune 500 to learn mandarin while working as a CEO.
Would you mind making a little screencast demo of your workflow? (Or do you know of any?) That sounds so cool.
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Sounds like the Python equivalent of Visual BASIC's "On Error Resume Next" atrocity.

Except you can find "On Error Resume Next" in "production" code. If I ever consider taking contracts doing Visual Basic, the contract will specify that any occurrence of "On Error Resume Next" automatically doubles my daily rate.
People under 30-35 in France now tend to learn and speak foreign languages. It wasn't the case before. The focus on learning new languages in France only really started at the end of the 90s with, for example, engineering degrees requiring some English certification to obtain and companies creating programs to train their employees in different languages.
"I personally think ulbricht is guilty.."

Which is presumably the intention of the fanfare around the smears - pollute the jury pool as much as possible to avoid the inconvenience of people making a decision based on the facts or evidence presented in court; get out the jury deliberations quickly, just go for whatever knee-jerk guilty feeling you got when you read the headlines about how evil the defendant is; don't bother reading any detail or anything that might hurt your brain and destroy your prejudices !

Despite my reservations, the US would be better served if it had contempt of court laws like England which specifically prohibit discussion of any details of court cases prior to them being heard precisely in order to stop this sort of situation happening.

edit: spelling.
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Did his wife speak it in the home when growing up, or was she put the weekend schools I hear of ABC (American-born Chinese) kids going through? She could certainly help him if so.
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It is ok to have SOFTWARE that refuses to work

It is NOT OK to modify the HARDWARE in ANY WAY, including changing the PID.

That is the issue.

Further Most people defending FTDI assume this code will be 100% pure and never incorrectly identify a real chip as fake, I find that claim to be suspect.

Lastly I would find it very hard to support vendors that take these aggressive risks and stances, I certainly would never incorporate a device from a manufacturer that uses these types of tactics into a mass produced product.
It's not a new scheme, it's exactly how that "one online gambling site" does it. I wondered how they did it, so I figured it out, replicated it and wrote a blurb about it.

It's a pretty neat trick to extend the "all or nothing" property to multiple transactions. For some very limited use-cases (like my admittedly contrived example), this is exactly what you want. Usually it's not. Usually you just have to wait.

Honestly, bitcoin is not really suited for instant gratification things.
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He learned a language that's fundamentally different from his mother tongue.

Impressive. In my home country, you can't get your graduate degree without speaking 2 languages besides your mother tongue -- and the difference between English and Hungarian is not really smaller than English vs. Mandarin.
I personally also find ruby to have uniquely poor naming - lots of similar methods with overlapping functionality, no consistent style, etc.

That's not to say it's a bad language per se, but as someone who works in lots of different languages, I find ruby to be the one where I'm most likely to fail to guess correctly and have to spend time looking up the method I want.
Sure. I'm not near my machine for a couple of days but I'll post something when I get the chance. I see your contact info is in your profile so will ping an email when done.
The difference is in the starting value. You might pay pounds for the underlying and pennies for the option. But no, 1 long option is never more valuable than 1 share.
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