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Be Careful What You Wish For

Interesting. Ask Elon Musk what scares him about AI. Watch the Joe Rogan interview. Be careful what you wish for. AI knows you better tha…

Started by Michael Levin in AI, ML & Big DataLatest Reply

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Interesting. Ask Elon Musk what scares him about AI. Watch the Joe Rogan interview. Be careful what you wish for. AI knows you better tha…

Started by Michael Levin in AI, ML & Big Data

1 Oct 16, 2023
Reply by Michael Levin

Java books for any library

What books should be on the bookshelf of EVERY Java programmer, no matter what specific technologies they are working on?The two that come…

Started by David Moskowitz in Java

5 Feb 8, 2019
Reply by sneha gulati

Error trying to use Fragment

I am new to Android.  I have been working thru some examples in a book called  Head First Android Development.  I entered a small program u…

Started by Robert Sobol in Java

0 Oct 10, 2017

Fragment Syntax Problem

My name is Rob Sobol. I have been working through a book called Head First Android Development. I hit a syntax error in a simple exercise…

Started by Robert Sobol in Java

0 Oct 10, 2017

Hadoop getting old?

An article just came out in InfoWorld about trends, which is always an interesting subject. Funny, they said Hadoop wasn't hot. Spark is. I…

Started by Michael Levin in Trends

0 Apr 10, 2017

What's functional programming, anyway?

Can you believe people are still trying to come up with a good definition or explanation of what functional programming is? Paul Krill is a…

Started by Michael Levin in Functional Programming

0 Feb 21, 2016

Santafe College

Santafe just added a new BAS  bachelor's program of study.  5651  Programming

Started by Dan Lackey in Dynamic Languages

2 Feb 15, 2016
Reply by Michael Levin

Using SQL with Node,.js

All the tutorials and books for node.js seem to use Mongo as the database.  I am not sold on 'document' databases and would like to know ho…

Started by Kevin Neelands in Dynamic Languages

1 Nov 10, 2015
Reply by Lou Caudell

The advantages of a RESTfull web-based API

I need to get a better handle on the advantages of a RESTful web-based API.  People tell me they scale better than other methods, but I don…

Started by Kevin Neelands in Dynamic Languages

5 Oct 25, 2015
Reply by Kevin Neelands

Want a Job?

Hi,   Not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this sort of things (forgive me if its not). My company (really nice company btw) i…

Started by Saad Laassel in Java

1 Oct 15, 2014
Reply by Theresa Wizorek-MacIntyre

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