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I originally named this group "Amadeus IT Solutions" as my former business. Amadeus is the name of my software development framework. The first version was released in 1985. It supported Modula-2. The second version,, Amadeus-2, still for Modula-2, supported virtual text windows and lots of nifty features that were still quite uncommon, in those days. It got a full-page review in BYTE magazine by Dick Pountain, one of the major IT journalists. In 1994, I created Amadeus-3 for Oberon-2, the first fully object-oriented framework for Windows. Some design features are still unique and I can impress IT students with my interface designer to this day, as it does things no one else attempted. I sold about 500 copies to major businesses around the planet over the years and used it myself on large projects, including to write a private banking client and document management system, expert and laboratory systems for DuPont, HP's Telecom-95 scheduling system, a conference hotel reservation system for HP as well as their European salary survey and Swiss employee management. TopScan, a German engineering company that developed laser-based topographic mapping software used Amadeus-3 for their extremely complex user interface. Oberon-2 is more powerful than C++, the code runs faster, it supports full garbage collection and is statically and dynamically safe without any limitations - it was designed to implement operating systems. As it is extremely compact - the entire language is fully documented on 20 pages of very readable text - you can learn it in a day and be productive in a week. And because it is so expressive and readable, one can get an enormous amount of functionality out of very little code -without all the headaches from "popular" programming languages. My entire banking application that Royal Bank of Canada, private banking, used for 25 years fits into less than 50K lines of Oberon-2 code, yet it provides more functionality than the competion, which is why SYZ bank chose it in 2015.
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Who saw this coming? Analog computers ๐Ÿ˜‚ I'm joking - they actually had been used quite a bit all along, but they now get a new life thanks to significant technological progress. It's extremely important to understand the strengths and weaknesses of digital vs analog technologies, so the right one can be picked for each application. Digital tends to be much easier to implement, but it can have significant limitations. Analog is much close to how reality works. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1037713

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The author of this video makes some good points, but unfortunately, she doesn't understand AI at all... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMsCbdDKnEI My comment: Too bad that you made some seriously false statements about AI and algorithms. I still have my entire literately...See more

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AIs are already deceptive and make "moral" judgments that could lead them to behave exactly like the AI in "I, Robot". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b03ibtVYhw ChatGPT is already better at chemistry research than systems specifically designed for chemistry research. They already proved to be creative in math competitions. AI developers don't know what's in their systems. As the Altman, the head of OpenAI, there's no button to stop the entire AI system. They basically have no control over their AI systems.

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If you don't have top notch graphical editing tools, yet, I highly recommend the Affinity toolset. They are multi-platform (Windows, Mac and iOS) and almost as powerful as Photoshop, sometimes even better, at a fraction of the price! They offer a rebate, right now, so it's really attractive pricing. You can install each application on as many devices as you want, which is a huge benefit! https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/store/

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This is the best possible illustration that it matters enormously WHO controls technology and programs AI systems. The first Saudi robot is as sex obsessed as the average Muslim ๐Ÿ˜’

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My earliest books on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from 1983 and 1984, respectively. Back then, they tried entirely algorithmic solutions, which were bound to fail...

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I just decided to upgrade my main workstation, increasing the RAM from 64GB to 128GB ... in just 4 sticks! That means 4 RAM slots are now empty ๐Ÿคจ It feels naked. But I get twice the memory in half the space ๐Ÿ‘Œ Won't feel like I'm running out of RAM any time soon ๐Ÿ˜‚ Seriously, this is crazy. I had 8 sticks to 8GB each, before, which was already quite nice. 4 of the old sticks are in the 4th photo. The new sticks are a bit larger, so they obviously doubled the chip capacity, they didn't quadruple it. The timing is almost exactly the same.

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I originally named this group "Amadeus IT Solutions" as my former business. Amadeus is the name of my software development framework. The first version was released in 1985. It supported Modula-2. The second version,, Amadeus-2, still for Modula-2, supported virtual text windows and lots of nifty features that were still quite uncommon, in those days. It got a full-page review in BYTE magazine by Dick Pountain, one of the major IT journalists. In 1994, I created Amadeus-3 for Oberon-2, the first fully object-oriented framework for Windows. Some design features are still unique and I can impress IT students with my interface designer to this day, as it does things no one else attempted. I sold about 500 copies to major businesses around the planet over the years and used it myself on large projects, including to write a private banking client and document management system, expert and laboratory systems for DuPont, HP's Telecom-95 scheduling system, a conference hotel reservation system for HP as well as their European salary survey and Swiss employee management. TopScan, a German engineering company that developed laser-based topographic mapping software used Amadeus-3 for their extremely complex user interface. Oberon-2 is more powerful than C++, the code runs faster, it supports full garbage collection and is statically and dynamically safe without any limitations - it was designed to implement operating systems. As it is extremely compact - the entire language is fully documented on 20 pages of very readable text - you can learn it in a day and be productive in a week. And because it is so expressive and readable, one can get an enormous amount of functionality out of very little code -without all the headaches from "popular" programming languages. My entire banking application that Royal Bank of Canada, private banking, used for 25 years fits into less than 50K lines of Oberon-2 code, yet it provides more functionality than the competion, which is why SYZ bank chose it in 2015.