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Re: Tell me I'm not crazy...
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bkkguy
spoken like a true believer that all you need for a career in "software development" in the Internet age is a few MOOC courses - I mean who needs computer science and software engineering skills when you can develop and distribute your "killer app" on the mobile app stores with a couple of dodgy, insecure and unstable public libraries and a few code snippets from stackoverflow
*shrug* My latest software platform just underwent a $12,000 security audit / vuldnerability testing, and passed with flying colors. Sorry, but a computer science degree is generally quite useless for a multitude of reasons. Technology simply moves too quickly, so you'll start university most likely learning obsolete technology and methodology, then by the time you're done not only is everything you've learned obsolete, it's ancient by then. Plus simple knowledge doesn't make a good software engineer -- the ability to learn, innovate, and adapt do that.
I've hired a good number of 4 year grads straight out of university, as I used to live right by the U of A so it was easy to recruit (just walk over and post a flyer on the jobs board). Not one of them said their degree helped them with their job with me.
Obviously though, if you go somewhere like CMU then it's a different story. There you're doing ASM, writing your own kernels and programming languages, etc. That's quite different than your average 4 year Comp Sci degree though.
It's a moot point anyway, as us developers have about 3 - 5 years left, before 95% of us are out of a job, and are replaced with a few AI algorithms.
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Re: Tell me I'm not crazy...
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cdnmatt
*shrug* My latest software platform just underwent a $12,000 security audit / vuldnerability testing, and passed with flying colors.
Good to hear that you're rebuilding your life in Canada
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frequent
Good to hear that you're rebuilding your life in Canada
No, I actually just got a brand new 10 year passport last Friday. Was in Victoria for the week anyway, so decided to give it one more try. Apparently, the coffee spill did the trick, and wrecked the biometric data and made the passport un-scanable, so I got a new one. Good, no need to wait until Feb 2019 now.
I'll be back in Asia shortly. :)
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Re: Tell me I'm not crazy...
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cdnmatt
No, I actually just got a brand new 10 year passport last Friday. Was in Victoria for the week anyway, so decided to give it one more try. Apparently, the coffee spill did the trick, and wrecked the biometric data and made the passport un-scanable, so I got a new one. Good, no need to wait until Feb 2019 now. I'll be back in Asia shortly. :)
I told you it would. So, back to software development being a dying skill - why exactly did you give your catamite books on programming? And how will you support yourself a few years from now when, according to you, AI will have made you redundant?
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frequent
I told you it would. So, back to software development being a dying skill - why exactly did you give your catamite books on programming? And how will you support yourself a few years from now when, according to you, AI will have made you redundant?
Well, of course I didn't advise him on the books. That would be stupid. He just went and bought them one day, and I don't think he's ever tried learning from them. Obviously, I recommended places like Lynda and Coursera to him. Tried to get him learning HTML and Bootstrap first, as Bootstrap has really nice, easy-to-follow documentation, plus he could easily see his work results on the screen, so thought that may get him ambitious about it.
He decided he can't learn online himself though, so went and bought some books, and never even cracked them I don't think. I think he just needs better English skills, and he'll realize for himself that he is capable of learning on his own. Going to school to learn software development is retarded, unless you're going into a very specialized field.
As for AI making my job redundant, I'm not 100% on that, and just what I think. Well, myself and loads of really intelligent folks like Mark Cuban and others. If and when that does happen though, about 2 billion jobs worldwide will most likely be on the chopping block, so we'll obviously be living in a different world. Robotics killed loads of blue collar jobs, and now with AI, loads of white collar jobs are on the chopping block and have been slowly disappearing for a good while now. Analaysts is one field that's getting hit, including financial analysts. For example, what used to take Goldman Sachs 400 employees is now currently done with only 2 employyees.
You can expect that trend to continue, and most likely at an exponential rate. Nobody can predict the type of world and society we will be living in once that happens.
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Re: Tell me I'm not crazy...
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cdnmatt
You can expect that trend to continue, and most likely at an exponential rate. Nobody can predict the type of world and society we will be living in once that happens.
That is not my expectation, but then I accept that you just sit in your room and make silly assumptions, whereas I read more widely. Do you know, for example, that almost no-one in the self-driving cars ecosystem actually believes we'll have self-driving cars in the next 10 - 20 years, if ever? I'm sure you'll know how to google that
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Yeah, self-driving cars are definitely a difficult one.
You don't seem to realize how quickly technology is advancing though. Just one of many examples, check out gene editing via KRISPER. That's made leaps and bounds in advancements over the past 2 - 3 years. Obviously, I keep up to date on that one, as I want to see again.
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Re: Tell me I'm not crazy...
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cdnmatt
Just one of many examples, check out gene editing via KRISPER ... Obviously, I keep up to date on that one, as I want to see again.
I wonder how you do that, since you can't even spell CRISPR. Or is your screen grabber assuming it's a homonym?
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You know Matt, I often - sometimes in jest - criticise Frequent as a stickler for spelling and grammar. But, really you keep up on this? Thanks to my news feed CRISPR is known even to this computer novice. Just what do you do again?
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He annoys frequent and that's good enough for me.
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arsenal
He annoys frequent and that's good enough for me.
Please read my footer/signature. His follies divert me, you are merely among the dregs of the Forum who delight in what you believe are the dislikes and misfortunes of others
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paborn
You know Matt, I often - sometimes in jest - criticise Frequent as a stickler for spelling and grammar. But, really you keep up on this? Thanks to my news feed CRISPR is known even to this computer novice. Just what do you do again?
He's legally blind, hence my comment about his screen software and homonyms. Do try to keep up
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frequent
He's legally blind, hence my comment about his screen software and homonyms. Do try to keep up
Actually, it's not a question of keeping up. I just don't believe any part of his lengthy storyline. You, of course, are free to.
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cdnmatt
You don't seem to realize how quickly technology is advancing though.
I'm guessing the "you" is really "many people". Coincidentally I'm reading an advertorial in the latest WIRED UK about AI and pharmaceuticals and a venture called Pharmacy2U. Its founder asserts that AI will be part of the feedback loop from patient to pharmacy so that their medication can be tweaked in almost real time (the only delay being the actual delivery). I guess that's related to tying pharmaceutical compounding more closely to the individual's genome and other characteristics that distinguish him from the typical
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paborn
Actually, it's not a question of keeping up. I just don't believe any part of his lengthy storyline. You, of course, are free to.
"any part"? How bold. I'm on record as stating that I think his storyline stacks up, and I've said so for a number of years. That's without accepting uncritically "every part" of his story
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Let's just say he's friggin' crazy, which was, after all, his original "tell".
I could easily believe that ~~ who couldn't ~~ and am quite happy to be "on record" just about forever.
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frequent
I'm guessing the "you" is really "many people". Coincidentally I'm reading an advertorial in the latest WIRED UK about AI and pharmaceuticals and a venture called Pharmacy2U. Its founder asserts that AI will be part of the feedback loop from patient to pharmacy so that their medication can be tweaked in almost real time (the only delay being the actual delivery). I guess that's related to tying pharmaceutical compounding more closely to the individual's genome and other characteristics that distinguish him from the typical
I was talking about technology, not retarded marketing gigs.
If you want to go down that route, at least go with something that has at least something to do with advancing technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd1mEm2Fy08
Watch it, dn wait for the calls from the AI program. There's two calls in total, the second one is much more difficult for a AI program to handle, but did so perfectly.
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Smiles
Let's just say he's friggin' crazy, which was, after all, his original "tell".
I could easily believe that ~~ who couldn't ~~ and am quite happy to be "on record" just about forever.
If anyone can fake the naive stupidity of the entitled millennial the way Matt comes across would be wasting their time on something as trivial and out of the way as SGT
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Re: Tell me I'm not crazy...
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cdnmatt
I was talking about technology, not retarded marketing gigs.
Perhaps if you read the article first? But thanks for confirming my assessment of naive stupidity
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cdnmatt
If you want to go down that route, at least go with something that has at least something to do with advancing technology
Remind us, Matt - these wonderful values that you keep telling us are what draws you back to SE Asia - would they ever have supported discovering AI? They don't encourage people to ask questions that might cause someone to lose face, do they?
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Re: Tell me I'm not crazy...
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frequent
"any part"? How bold. I'm on record as stating that I think his storyline stacks up, and I've said so for a number of years. That's without accepting uncritically "every part" of his story
Yes, "bold" indeed to freely affirm how naive you've been for years. I think Smiles may have it right "crazy" does allow for some minor points that are true, at least, when he's having a lucid moment.
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Re: Tell me I'm not crazy...
Well, I've wasted enough time, and apparently can't find it...
Shot in the dark, but anyone by chance know of any Laos / Vientiane expat forums that are active? I found a few, but they've all been dead for years without any posts.
Thanks.
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cdnmatt
Shot in the dark, but anyone by chance know of any Laos / Vientiane expat forums that are active? I found a few, but they've all been dead for years without any posts.
This expat law firm maintains some sort of blog you might find useful - http://jclao.com/ - but if you can't find an active expat forum it suggests there aren't enough expats who are interested in having one. Laos is not Cambodia with its very active khmer440 forum - my guess is too few expats to form the critical mass that an active forum needs. Laos is so insignificant we don't even have a separate Laos sub-forum here
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Re: Tell me I'm not crazy...
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cdnmatt
I'll be back in Asia shortly. :)
How soon is "shortly"?
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cdnmatt
Robotics killed loads of blue collar jobs, and now with AI, loads of white collar jobs are on the chopping block and have been slowly disappearing for a good while now. You can expect that trend to continue, and most likely at an exponential rate. Nobody can predict the type of world and society we will be living in once that happens.
Note to Matt - this image isn't about you or Leo. It's a cartoon about robotics and automation
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cdnmatt
Nobody can predict the type of world and society we will be living in once that happens.
if AI is so great surely it should already be better than humans at making such predictions - or is that why you said nobody?
bkkguy