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Innovation - How to explain code to someone
Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? - Slashdot : https://ask.slashdot.org/story/17/12/16/0015204/ask-slashdot-how-can-programmers-explain-their-work-to-non-programmers?sbsrc=md
Case in point: Home for the holidays, I was asked about recent accomplishments and attempted to explain the process of producing compact visualizations of branched undo/redo histories.
You've gone into the wrong kind of detail. The useful answer generally has the form "X is the general problem that people have which you can relate to in some way from your personal experience. Y is the state of the art. I've improved upon the state of the art in Z."
Thus: "You know how sometimes in Word you type a paragraph, then want to undo it and start again, but you sometimes want to keep a sentence or two from the thing you typed even though you undid it? People usually use copy+paste, if they remember, but it gets hard to keep track and sometimes you accidentally mess things up so you can't redo back to your first draft. You're confused at this stage? -- exactly!
People aren't interested in the technical details of your solution. They're more interested in the general scope of human endeavor, and the conflicts and social dynamics in the research field. So if you meet a researcher or a PhD student, the second question you ask them (after "what's your field?") is "what are the main opposing ideas in the field?"
If you're not advancing the state of the art in any way, and if you're just implementing a solution that someone else has done, again don't talk about the technical details of the implementation. For instance you're doing a back-end database and you're copying some scaling algorithm/implementation from someone else, you can say "Imagine how Amazon must have to process like two hundred million order requests every day? My company also needs to process one hundred million widgets. We're not quite at the same scale as Amazon, but I've been copying some of their techniques too. It's fun. I've learned [incidental social fact about the human endeavor that is software development]".
My day job is doing technical implementation of language features inside a code editor (think autocomplete, signature-help, hover,
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Introducing Gluon: a new library for machine learning from AWS and Microsoft | AWS Blog
Introducing Gluon: a new library for machine learning from AWS and Microsoft | AWS Blog:
Pour tenter de remédier à la domination de
Google avec TensorFlow
FaceBook avec PyTorch,
Micro$oft et Amazon s'associent pour créer Gluon,
une nouvelle bibliothèque en logiciel libre pour l'apprentissage en profondeur (deep learning) avec une API Python de haut niveau (une sorte de Keras). Actuellement, Gluon supporte la bibliothèque MXNet d'Apache promue par Amazon. Une prochaine version de Gluon devrait supporter Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) de Micro$oft.
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machine learning
artificial intelligence
Pour tenter de remédier à la domination de
Google avec TensorFlow
FaceBook avec PyTorch,
Micro$oft et Amazon s'associent pour créer Gluon,
une nouvelle bibliothèque en logiciel libre pour l'apprentissage en profondeur (deep learning) avec une API Python de haut niveau (une sorte de Keras). Actuellement, Gluon supporte la bibliothèque MXNet d'Apache promue par Amazon. Une prochaine version de Gluon devrait supporter Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) de Micro$oft.
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artificial intelligence
Monday, October 16, 2017
Opening a Word doc w/o other docs popping up - Forums - CNET
Opening a Word doc w/o other docs popping up - Forums - CNET:
Word Excel
Multiple instances
Popping up
Focus
Prevent
DDE
Documents
Word Excel
Multiple instances
Popping up
Focus
Prevent
DDE
Documents
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Childhood on Behance - Conor Nickerson
Childhood on Behance:
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McGill music student strikes emotional chord with photo project
Childhood on Behance - Conor Nickerson
Childhood on Behance:
Childhood on Behance : https://www.behance.net/gallery/57620561/Childhood
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Childhood on Behance : https://www.behance.net/gallery/57620561/Childhood
McGill music student strikes emotional chord with photo project
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Fraudes scientifiques: des secrets universitaires bien gardés | Marie-Claude Malboeuf | Enquêtes
Fraudes scientifiques: des secrets universitaires bien gardés | Marie-Claude Malboeuf | Enquêtes: "Fait à noter : la première université de recherche québécoise - l'UdeM - a sanctionné un seul de ses 2240 professeurs chercheurs pour manque d'intégrité en 10 ans. Ses statistiques indiquent aussi qu'elle se montre moins susceptible de déclencher une enquête que les autres institutions. L'investigation contre l'unique professeur puni avait été réclamée par les autorités fédérales, qui l'avaient pris en flagrant délit de plagiat étendu."
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Vecteurs économie et innovation - Actualités - Détail / Publication d’un rapport sur les systèmes nationaux d’innovation du Brésil, de la Chine, de la Russie, de l’Inde et de l’Afrique du Sud - MESI
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Understanding blockchain technology in 2 minutes
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Backgrounder: Student Work-Integrated Learning Program - Canada.ca
Backgrounder: Student Work-Integrated Learning Program - Canada.ca:
Backgrounder: Student Work-Integrated Learning Program
The Student Work-Integrated Learning Program will provide post-secondary students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and business more quality student work placements and improved partnerships between employers and post-secondary education (PSE) institutions.
Agreements will be put in place with employer delivery partners, including recognized industry associations and organizations that represent the interests of businesses in key sectors in STEM and business.
These partners will be responsible for establishing partnerships with employers and PSE institutions and will provide eligible employers in STEM and business with wage subsidies for quality student work placements, up to 50 percent of the wage cost for the placement (up to a maximum of $5,000 per placement) and up to 70 percent (up to a maximum of $7,000 per placement) for first-year students and under-represented groups, such as women in STEM, Indigenous students, people with disabilities and newcomers.
Employers, including small and medium-sized enterprises and PSE institutions, will work together to help students become job-ready and develop the full complement of skills employers are seeking.
Mitacs
Budget 2017 announced $221 million over five years, starting in 2017–2018, to renew and expand funding for Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that has a goal of providing 10,000 research internships for post-secondary students and postdoctoral fellows each year.
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Opinion: Talent for growth: Canada's window of opportunity
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Un «laboratoire vivant» qui veut influencer l'avenir de la médecine | Ariane Lacoursière | Santé
Un «laboratoire vivant» qui veut influencer l'avenir de la médecine | Ariane Lacoursière | Santé:
Un nouveau laboratoire en génie biomédical et technologies médicales, l'Institut TransMedTech, voit le jour au Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine. Selon son directeur exécutif et scientifique, le professeur Carl-Éric Aubin, l'Institut se veut un «laboratoire vivant» qui réunira des patients, des médecins, des ingénieurs, des chercheurs, des industriels et plusieurs spécialistes afin de «créer rapidement les prochaines générations de technologies médicales».
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Un nouveau laboratoire en génie biomédical et technologies médicales, l'Institut TransMedTech, voit le jour au Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine. Selon son directeur exécutif et scientifique, le professeur Carl-Éric Aubin, l'Institut se veut un «laboratoire vivant» qui réunira des patients, des médecins, des ingénieurs, des chercheurs, des industriels et plusieurs spécialistes afin de «créer rapidement les prochaines générations de technologies médicales».
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Shop confidently for Evergreen 6048-50 glasses online with clearly.ca
Shop confidently for Evergreen 6048-50 glasses online with clearly.ca:
DualView BlueReflect™ progressives
DualView BlueReflect™ provides a wider corridor to optimize your intermediate and reading distances.
With this expanded corridor, wearers can maintain better posture and avoid neck strain.
BlueReflect™ Digital Protection
DualView BlueReflect™ Lenses use a special coating to reflect a portion of the blue light emitted by digital devices and artificial light. This coating also incorporates scratch resistant and anti-glare benefits, resulting in clearer vision while using digital devices.
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These lenses should not be worn while driving.
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Innovate for Maine program matches interns with growing Maine companies - UMaine News - University of Maine
Innovate for Maine program matches interns with growing Maine companies - UMaine News - University of Maine: "Innovate for Maine program matches interns with growing Maine companies
March 7, 2017
The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation is seeking Maine companies to host interns from the Innovate for Maine Fellows program.
Innovate for Maine Fellows connects the best and brightest Maine college students with the state’s most exciting companies as a way to grow and create jobs in Maine through innovation and entrepreneurship. The program is looking for a variety of high-growth, for-profit companies with a focus on innovation.
Host companies can range in size from small startups to major corporations. Interns can work full time or part time during the summer, with the possibility of continuing part time during the academic year.
Emphasizing innovation and entrepreneurship, the program prepares students to collaborate with companies on innovation projects that accelerate company growth and provide paid, meaningful, hands-on internship experience. Innovation projects can include work on new products or services, process improvements or projects to scale company growth. Innovate for Maine interns are able to conduct market research, write marketing messages and innovation descriptions, assist with technical work and run “fail fast, fail cheap” experiments, such prototyping and sales forecasting.
“There are a number of Maine companies developing innovative products, services and systems that are eager for talented students who understand the innovation process,” said Renee Kelly, assistant vice president for innovation and economic development. “By matching students trained in a systematic approach to innovation with these companies, we hope to help the companies grow while helping Maine students see that there are great opportunities to work and stay in Maine after they graduate.”
Trained innovation experts guide and mentor both the fellow and the company for the duration of the project. The University of Maine handles all recruiting, screening, matching, hiring, and initial innovation and workplace training. As part of Maine Accelerates Growth (MxG), Innovate for Maine assists companies with matching funds, according to company size, to support the cost.
MxG is an initiative to create jobs and economic development in Maine through entrepreneurship and growth. It works with partners to create statewide programs with coordinated, focused activities to accelerate companies, connections and the next generation of Maine entrepreneurs.
“By handling all these administrative pieces, companies are able to easily engage an intern without having to worry about challenges that can sometimes accompany the hiring process,” said Angela McCue, Foster Center innovation outreach manager.
“Through the support of organizations like MxG, the program is able to offer invaluable support to smaller companies that would not be able to afford this assistance otherwise,” McCue says. “For the large companies that do not qualify for a subsidy, they also benefit by receiving a trained and vetted intern who is ready to dive in and tackle the tasks at hand. It’s really a win-win for everyone involved.”
The Innovate for Maine program received the Maine Development Foundation’s 2013 Champion of Attraction, Retention and Engagement Award for its work to attract and retain talent for Maine’s workforce.
The application deadline for companies is March 24; the application for interns is March 20.
For more information and applications for the Innovate for Maine program: umaine.edu/innovation
For more information about Maine Accelerates Growth: maineacceleratesgrowth.com
Contact: Angela McCue, 207.581.1429"
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March 7, 2017
The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation is seeking Maine companies to host interns from the Innovate for Maine Fellows program.
Innovate for Maine Fellows connects the best and brightest Maine college students with the state’s most exciting companies as a way to grow and create jobs in Maine through innovation and entrepreneurship. The program is looking for a variety of high-growth, for-profit companies with a focus on innovation.
Host companies can range in size from small startups to major corporations. Interns can work full time or part time during the summer, with the possibility of continuing part time during the academic year.
Emphasizing innovation and entrepreneurship, the program prepares students to collaborate with companies on innovation projects that accelerate company growth and provide paid, meaningful, hands-on internship experience. Innovation projects can include work on new products or services, process improvements or projects to scale company growth. Innovate for Maine interns are able to conduct market research, write marketing messages and innovation descriptions, assist with technical work and run “fail fast, fail cheap” experiments, such prototyping and sales forecasting.
“There are a number of Maine companies developing innovative products, services and systems that are eager for talented students who understand the innovation process,” said Renee Kelly, assistant vice president for innovation and economic development. “By matching students trained in a systematic approach to innovation with these companies, we hope to help the companies grow while helping Maine students see that there are great opportunities to work and stay in Maine after they graduate.”
Trained innovation experts guide and mentor both the fellow and the company for the duration of the project. The University of Maine handles all recruiting, screening, matching, hiring, and initial innovation and workplace training. As part of Maine Accelerates Growth (MxG), Innovate for Maine assists companies with matching funds, according to company size, to support the cost.
MxG is an initiative to create jobs and economic development in Maine through entrepreneurship and growth. It works with partners to create statewide programs with coordinated, focused activities to accelerate companies, connections and the next generation of Maine entrepreneurs.
“By handling all these administrative pieces, companies are able to easily engage an intern without having to worry about challenges that can sometimes accompany the hiring process,” said Angela McCue, Foster Center innovation outreach manager.
“Through the support of organizations like MxG, the program is able to offer invaluable support to smaller companies that would not be able to afford this assistance otherwise,” McCue says. “For the large companies that do not qualify for a subsidy, they also benefit by receiving a trained and vetted intern who is ready to dive in and tackle the tasks at hand. It’s really a win-win for everyone involved.”
The Innovate for Maine program received the Maine Development Foundation’s 2013 Champion of Attraction, Retention and Engagement Award for its work to attract and retain talent for Maine’s workforce.
The application deadline for companies is March 24; the application for interns is March 20.
For more information and applications for the Innovate for Maine program: umaine.edu/innovation
For more information about Maine Accelerates Growth: maineacceleratesgrowth.com
Contact: Angela McCue, 207.581.1429"
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Canada Strategic Innovation Fund
Spotlight on the upcoming Strategic
Innovation Fund
Posted
on April 10, 2017
Many executives and
entrepreneurs across Canada are seeking more information about the upcoming
launch of a new $1.26B Strategic Innovation Fund, first announced by the
federal government in its 2017 Budget. Keep reading to learn more about which
industry sectors will be eligible and the types of projects it will support.
Quick Facts.
- The new fund is set to invest
$1.26B over a five-year period.
- The fund will consolidate and
simplify four existing business innovation programs: the Strategic
Aerospace and Defence Initiative (SADI), the Technology Demonstration
Program, the Automotive Innovation Fund and the Automotive Supplier
Innovation Program.
- Rather than solely being open
to businesses in the advanced manufacturer sector, the fund will also be
available to companies in other dynamic and emerging innovative sectors,
such as cleantech and agri-food value-added processors.
- According to the Budget, the
new streamlined fund will feature a simpler application process, faster
processing, and more responsive assistance from program administrators.
- Funding will flow to projects
that accelerate areas of economic strength, expand the role of Canadian
businesses in regional and global supply chains, support economic
strategies, attract new investments and create high-quality jobs for
Canadians.
- Budget 2017 also provided an
additional $200M to support the fund’s expansion over its first three
years: $50M will be invested in 2017-18; $100M in 2018-19; and $50M in
2019-20.
- Of the $200M amount, half is
new funding and the other half will be drawn from the $1B envelope for
cleantech investments announced in Budget 2016.
- More information about the fund
will be released in the coming months.
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Careers Center - Testeurs de Localisation en Jeu Vidéo - Localization Games Testers (Montreal, CA)
Careers Center - Testeurs de Localisation en Jeu Vidéo - Localization Games Testers (Montreal, CA):
Thai
Language
Jobs career
Montreal
Game gaming jeu jeux
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Language
Jobs career
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Game gaming jeu jeux
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Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess:
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Having just read through these comments, my forehead hurts from banging it against the wall and I better flush this explanation out a bit more...
First of all, I'm amazed NO ONE mentioned the classic xkcd comic on memorized random password security: https://xkcd.com/936/ [xkcd.com]
Second, forget about it all you people with your **genius** schemes for generating unique 8-11 character passwords. Congratulations, you've just been hacked. Look up rainbow tables, people!
You are all reinventing square and pentagonal wheels here. It's not working against the threat profile you face, and it's a pain in the ass for you compared to the painless solution that is already out there and explained if you just knew about it...
OK, so here is the true situation you face if you actually want to be secure:
1) You have hundreds of passwords to store.
2) Each one better be 25+ characters of RANDOM data. Otherwise, you face a very realistic threat from brute force / rainbow tables cracking you in trivial amounts of time now or in the near future.
3) You better not be reusing any of them anywhere, cause, you know, hacking.
3a) If you use a standard root and "permute" it, you are relatively safer until one of your sites storing it in cleartext gets revealed, and then guess what, literally *everyone* uses the first character or two of the site name, or one or two letters more than the first characters to permute. So if you are ever an actual individual target as opposed to a mass script kiddie attack, you're toast. I know, and you thought you were so clever!
1) You have hundreds of passwords to store.
2) Each one better be 25+ characters of RANDOM data. Otherwise, you face a very realistic threat from brute force / rainbow tables cracking you in trivial amounts of time now or in the near future.
3) You better not be reusing any of them anywhere, cause, you know, hacking.
3a) If you use a standard root and "permute" it, you are relatively safer until one of your sites storing it in cleartext gets revealed, and then guess what, literally *everyone* uses the first character or two of the site name, or one or two letters more than the first characters to permute. So if you are ever an actual individual target as opposed to a mass script kiddie attack, you're toast. I know, and you thought you were so clever!
AND, even if you managed to memorize all this, it's a goddam PAIN IN THE ASS to type these passwords in, especially on phones.
Here is a solution that is 1) easier to remember, 2) faster to access your websites and login, and 3) order of orders of magnitude more secure:
Stesps:
1) Generate a SINGLE 6-7 word diceware PASSPHRASE. https://theintercept.com/2015/... [theintercept.com]
2) Memorize it. This should take you all of two minutes.
3) Download passwordsafe or keepass or another trusted OFFLINE password manager. I'm not going to press my personal preferences here. But it should have an automatic password generator feature.
4) Lock the password manager with your diceware passphrase and start generating 30+ character random, unique passwords for each site you use.
1) Generate a SINGLE 6-7 word diceware PASSPHRASE. https://theintercept.com/2015/... [theintercept.com]
2) Memorize it. This should take you all of two minutes.
3) Download passwordsafe or keepass or another trusted OFFLINE password manager. I'm not going to press my personal preferences here. But it should have an automatic password generator feature.
4) Lock the password manager with your diceware passphrase and start generating 30+ character random, unique passwords for each site you use.
If you have a good tool (I use passwordsafe), you can store the URL, username, and password and with a combination of 3 hotkeys open any website, and login in under 2 seconds for any of the hundreds of TRULY SECURE passwords you store.
You can sync the encrypted pwd manager file to your mobile and other devices and access from there with equal security.
And a passphrase with all lower case letters to unlock your pwd manager is even faster to type on a computer or phone than a single one of these insecure, short, alpha-symbol-numeric jokes people are advocating the genius of here.
OK. Now you know. So spread the word and forget all this elaborate security theater nonsense.
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University of California, Berkeley, To Delete Publicly Available Educational Content - Slashdot
University of California, Berkeley, To Delete Publicly Available Educational Content - Slashdot:
"University of California, Berkeley, To Delete Publicly Available Educational Content (insidehighered.com) 318
Posted by BeauHD on Monday March 06, 2017 @05:00PM from the gone-with-the-wind dept.
In response to a U.S. Justice Department order that requires colleges and universities make website content accessible for citizens with disabilities and impairments, the University of California, Berkeley, will cut off public access to tens of thousands of video lectures and podcasts. Officials said making the videos and audio more accessible would have proven too costly in comparison to removing them. Inside Higher Ed reports:
Today, the content is available to the public on YouTube, iTunes U and the university's webcast.berkeley site. On March 15, the university will begin removing the more than 20,000 audio and video files from those platforms -- a process that will take three to five months -- and require users sign in with University of California credentials to view or listen to them. The university will continue to offer massive open online courses on edX and said it plans to create new public content that is accessible to listeners or viewers with disabilities. The Justice Department, following an investigation in August, determined that the university was violating the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. The department reached that conclusion after receiving complaints from two employees of Gallaudet University, saying Berkeley's free online educational content was inaccessible to blind and deaf people because of a lack of captions, screen reader compatibility and other issues.
Cathy Koshland, vice chancellor for undergraduate education, made the announcement in a March 1 statement: "This move will also partially address recent findings by the Department of Justice, which suggests that the YouTube and iTunes U content meet higher accessibility standards as a condition of remaining publicly available. Finally, moving our content behind authentication allows us to better protect instructor intellectual property from 'pirates' who have reused content for personal profit without consent.""
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"University of California, Berkeley, To Delete Publicly Available Educational Content (insidehighered.com) 318
Posted by BeauHD on Monday March 06, 2017 @05:00PM from the gone-with-the-wind dept.
In response to a U.S. Justice Department order that requires colleges and universities make website content accessible for citizens with disabilities and impairments, the University of California, Berkeley, will cut off public access to tens of thousands of video lectures and podcasts. Officials said making the videos and audio more accessible would have proven too costly in comparison to removing them. Inside Higher Ed reports:
Today, the content is available to the public on YouTube, iTunes U and the university's webcast.berkeley site. On March 15, the university will begin removing the more than 20,000 audio and video files from those platforms -- a process that will take three to five months -- and require users sign in with University of California credentials to view or listen to them. The university will continue to offer massive open online courses on edX and said it plans to create new public content that is accessible to listeners or viewers with disabilities. The Justice Department, following an investigation in August, determined that the university was violating the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. The department reached that conclusion after receiving complaints from two employees of Gallaudet University, saying Berkeley's free online educational content was inaccessible to blind and deaf people because of a lack of captions, screen reader compatibility and other issues.
Cathy Koshland, vice chancellor for undergraduate education, made the announcement in a March 1 statement: "This move will also partially address recent findings by the Department of Justice, which suggests that the YouTube and iTunes U content meet higher accessibility standards as a condition of remaining publicly available. Finally, moving our content behind authentication allows us to better protect instructor intellectual property from 'pirates' who have reused content for personal profit without consent.""
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