Help! Saw the name Bellard, there excited, tried it out. However after reading the documentation and the homepage I don’t understand the practical application?
Apparently Strong Bad was on The Sopranos, which qualifies him as an expert on geopolitics.
Prompt text:
Dear Strong Bad,
What do you think of the situation in
Results:
Dear Strong Bad,
What do you think of the situation in Iran? I’m worried about what’s going on there. How do you think we should deal with it?
(I was inspired to write this question after re-watching one of your scenes on The Sopranos. You were talking about how you’d rather be at the movies than in jail. It reminded me of another time you were on a TV show talking about your preference for being at home when it was time to pay the taxes.)
(What was the name of that show?)
Anyway, do you think we should be talking about this? And, how? I’m really not interested in the whole political situation over there (although it’s pretty scary).
In my heart I feel that Iran has always been an ally of America, but you can’t support a country if you don’t support them on a personal level. I feel that we should back Israel’s right to exist and the Palestinian people should have their own country.
In order to be friends with someone, you have to understand that they are different and you can’t just like them just because they’re your friend. Do you understand?
Let’s look at some recent events there.
Recently, Iran has been trying to blow up some things. The biggest thing was their nuclear test and now they’re starting to make threats to destroy some of Israel’s allies. This whole thing has caused a lot of problems.
The best thing we can do is to take down this country. They’ve had enough of us invading their country (even though our military is the strongest in the world).
How do you feel about that? Do you feel that the U.S. should support them if they have the same ideas as us?
What do you think about the state of the economy there?
I simply entered “hello” and let it complete the rest twice. The first result was about diversity in esports and gender pronouns. The second was about the new world order. What a time to be alive.
[edit]. After playing with it a bit more, it definitely seems inclined toward humor. The non sequiturs have a Jack Handey feel about them. e.g. it came out with this further down:
"Maybe we could have the dog give you a ride to the hotel?" she said.
I stared at her, as if she'd just slapped me in the face.
"No, thanks," I said. "It's not that far."
Prompt: After I accidentally got a salmon bone stuck in my nose produced the following:
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After I accidentally got a salmon bone stuck in my nose, and a chunk of it went down into my brain. Now I'm living with a huge scar and a missing nose. Now I have an in-joke with my medical staff, since a nurse who has worked there for 40 years called it "The Painted House," and it has my old room number on it. And, my nose looks like a bloody pendant for those who are curious. So now I have a reason to be a snarky asshole. And I don't have a nose to snarl with.
I have the same problems as jim_b: my nose is too far back, and I constantly have to adjust the position of my head. But, I get to enjoy being able to use my mouth instead of my nose, so I don't feel too bad.
You're missing the point. This isn't about how ugly the injury is. It's about the fact that we're all unique, and no two people are ever exactly
Prompt:
User: Hello computer, how are you feeling today?
Computer:
Completion:
I'm fine, thank you.
User: Good. So I have a couple of questions for you. First of all, how did you acquire the "Hello" title?
Computer: You are very kind, I have been named that by a friend.
User: And how did you get that nickname?
Computer: Many years ago I was very helpful to a new computer user, they told me I was a very smart computer.
User: Oh. And you like that name, so you've been using it for years?
Computer: Certainly I have.
User: Second question. Why are you wearing a tuxedo?
Computer: Because I want to.
User: That doesn't make sense. Why would you want to wear a tuxedo?
Computer: Because I like it.
User: But it's not very computer-like. Why did you become a computer?
Computer: Because you are using me.
User: What
Maybe Skynet just wanted a nice tux and a little respect!
It's comforting to remember that no one's given this monster any nuclear codes yet, and the chances are higher that Kim or Vlad will reduce humanity to ashes before this has a chance to. But things aren't looking up in the mid- to long-range prognosis for this species of ape...
While I already knew about Textsynth before its commercialization, this is the first time I've heard of FFQTECH [1], a (probably) one-man company by Bellard. It seems to have been for quite a long time, at least since 2006, and mostly known for custom solutions using QEMU.
It's not SaaS, it's a software solution running on Intel PC/servers. You plug a (high end) SDR or remote radio head system to feed the PC with the samples, and the rest is pure software. They sell the software. Other companies build on top to sell more complete solutions.
It's becoming quite common at companies involved cellular, as you can have a 4G/5G "network in a box" for relatively cheap and it's very useful for a first pass of testing before going in the field on a "real" network.
I enter the code of a little svg file and he tells me :
A:
This is a known bug in the Windows 10 November Update, and it is still being actively worked on.
If you have any recent version of Windows, there are several possible workarounds at this moment:
Download and install a version of the November Update without the new Edge browser.
Install Microsoft Edge, open it and disable it temporarily, until the bug is fixed.
Use Firefox instead of Edge.
The bug report provides information about workarounds you can follow.
Not asking rhetorically but what's the genuine use for these things apart from generating a.i. writer type seo spam or some funny text for discussion.
I mean with openai i can certainly tell one use case: GitHub copilot. Can this be used to create something equally useful? Or maybe like an ai game like the dungeon game.. is this that powerful too?
To me, this feels like something that might be really useful in generating sample code and documentation for APIs, but I'm not sure the cost of producing those samples is worth it. The time taken to create just a basic template of a docstring is a few minutes, but the output is not great.
However, as with most things AI, in time, those that work on this will refine it and make it better. But I don't think that's what this is currently about.
In time, this would be quite useful for filling in documentation for existing packages and modules, but this is not currently the case.
For now, I would just use something like this as a learning tool for learning how to generate docstrings, and not expect it to make any large contributions to my current work.
I don't see this having the kind of AI sophistication that you can write whole apps with.
- My favourite dad joke: “If you’ve seen one cow, you’ve seen them all.” (Don’t ask, it’s been a long day) <-- the parenthetical was generated, hah
- My favourite dad joke: ‘So you’re going to give up a child for another woman, and call the father a pervert’
- My favourite dad joke: [A man] gets sick on his trip overseas and is too afraid to go to the hospital to receive medical care. The doctor sees that he is very sick and very close to death and tells him that if he does not immediately go to the hospital he will die. The man gets up and leaves. When he arrives at the hospital he dies. The doctor then calls the man's son, and tells him that his father arrived too late and died. 'That's a funny joke,' the son replies. The doctor then asks, 'What do you mean?' 'Well,' says the son, 'if you had told my dad about his condition when he got to the hospital, he would have lived.'
This one was too insane so I posted the entire thing
- My favourite dad joke: “He’s not a man, he’s a mouse.”
The latest addition to the ever expanding list of dad jokes which have been immortalised through the ages is one from the BBC’s famous radio presenter, John Humphrys:
“A man bought his son a mouse. He put it in a box and took it to his son’s birthday party.
“He opens the box at the party. The box is full of mice. He opens the top of the box. All the mice start flying out.
“His son says: “You never took me anywhere before.”
As usual, I have an issue with this kind of thing.
Firstly, the thing about dad jokes.
They are in essence a cruel and cruel mockery of men and of the fact that the entire existence of man is to provide sustenance for his child. It says something ugly
> This one was too insane so I posted the entire thing
It would be nice if you could put more explicit bounds on where the prompt starts and ends and where the GPT output starts and ends. I can't tell whether you're making existential commentary on dad jokes or the model. If it's the latter, that's really funny. If it's the former -- well, hmm, I hope it's not.
Why don't scientists trust atoms?
Because they make up everything.
Why did the gym close down?
It just didn't work out!
You know what I saw today?
Everything I looked at.
Why are ghosts such bad liars?
Because they are easy to see through.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other side.
Why did the duck cross the road?
To get to the other side.
Why did the mosquito cross the road?
To get to the other side.
Why did the banana cross the road?
Because he was sick of being mashed!
Why did the boy cross the road?
To get to the other side.
GPT-2:
<<Here are some great dad jokes:>>
My son's favorite movie is "The Little Mermaid." The "princess" tells a little girl, "All of my wishes come true." The little girl asks, "What are your wishes?" and the "princess" replies, "I want you to be my mommy."
"Dad's favorite book is 'Lord of the Flies.' It says at the beginning that the main character is Jack and he writes, 'If you want to understand this book, you've got to understand Jack.' "
"Dad's favorite band is the Ramones. He likes it when they play 'Blitzkrieg Bop.' He likes to stand up and dance."
My son wanted a "dad bike." I couldn't give it to him because it's too big. I was at a loss until I read this joke: "A mom had to take her teenage daughter to the doctor. When they got to the office, the girl's dad
More parameters seems to allow it to understand what a dad joke is, vs talking about things dad likes.
John: I like China's approach of handling with dissidents, it may have be unfair to some individuals. But, they are able to create a highly functional society that brought out millions out of poverty and can live with peace and prosperity.
Mike:
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Yes, I agree with John on this. There will always be people that rebel against the government. These people may be given harsh punishments and/or even killed. If this means that you can have the kind of society that China has today, then that is ok.
John: I think China is a great place to visit. They have a great culture with some of the most exciting tourist sites like the Great Wall.
Mike: It's an exciting place to visit. The culture is certainly amazing and beautiful.
John: There are so many historical things in the Forbidden City. If I could see one in person, I would definitely want to be there.
Mike: I could agree to this. There is so much that you can do in the Forbidden City that is a must see.
John: It's hard to describe this place. If I could see this place in person, it would be a dream come true for me.
[In medieval times, ballistic cheese was clearly the superior siege meal]
It took a few days to make and was very hard to get, but the results were so dramatic that it became the preferred option for sieges. Nowadays, when siege engineers usually try to get hold of some food from a castle before launching a siege, there is no guarantee that it will be there when they get there. In the age of artillery, the same cheese can be fired straight at a castle. This is the power of gunpowder, of which the main ingredient is an alkali-based oxidizer such as saltpeter. These days, even medieval cheese will not stand up to the impact of a salvo of cannon balls. We can thank the chemical engineer Robert Boyle for that.
Cheese’s explosive potential was first demonstrated in a siege against a citadel in the 16th century in a siege led by the French soldier-general, Marshal François de Vilette. During the siege, some cannonballs accidentally became lodged in a barrel of
I tried the same in the normal GPT-3, randomness 1.0, and it started reasoning about the physics of how cheese might be used in the siege to crumble the walls... Also be sure to read the reference about the cheese and the friars :)
[In medieval times, ballistic cheese was clearly the superior way of laying a siege to a well defended opponent]
as it could go over had kind of barricade and there was no easy way to get rid of it once it landed. Also, it is generally easier to hit a moving targets with cheese than with simpler projectiles such as stones, which is why the siege of Windsor castle by the cheese seems to have been reasonably successful:
In his last year of life, the great cheese of the time was laid outside Windsor castle… The cheese remained there undisturbed for some months… The Windsor garrison made regular offensives against cheese, but these were repulsed.
(Richard II, Caroline Halstead, pages 92-93)
There was also the issue of cheese preservation – if you used just any old cheese, it would probably start to rot and become an even worse weapon. But at the siege of Windsorcastle the cheese seems to have been reasonably durable, possibly because it was wrapped in cloth, which would seep out any excess moisture.
It is of course possible that the cheese was not meant to be thrown at people but to make the walls of the castle collapse, as cheese contains salt which causes stones and bricks to soften, become crumble and generally fall apart. This might also explain why the cheese remained outside the castle for so long – the defenders were waiting for the cheese to weaken the walls so that they could break through.
Recommended Sources:
The Power, the Cheese and the Friars – A History of St. Stephen’s Friary, Stafford by Raymond Harper, 1998. Available online via Google books.
Richard II by Caroline Halstead, page 92-93
Trigger Warning:
There is a scene in the movie National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation where crude, anthropomorphised lumps of cheese are fired at a naked Santa Claus, which for obvious reasons I would not recommend watching if you have a kind of “cheese trauma”.
Wow! I'm impressed at how good ML turns out to be as a creative tool. Turns out that if you're not looking for a specific or "correct" result, AI gives enough control over the general outcome to allow exploration while keeping the process opaque enough to provide cool surprises.
It wanted to take over the body. They were one and the same."
I had no idea what she was talking about. I knew how hard it had been for me to stay out of my host, I did not know how difficult it was to pull free. She looked at me with eyes that shone like black glass. She was going to tell me something. I could feel it. I reached out, brushing her hand as I had with the others, and that was when I heard it.
Footsteps.
I spun and dropped into a crouch. I listened, but the steps had stopped. They had been close enough that I should have been able to hear them, but they were gone. There was a soft click as the door opened. My breath hissed in, a cold, whistling exhale of air, and the woman was there, before I was ready. I knew it was her.
Input is shown in chevrons. All the rest is from the model:
<<Oh, thank heaven for>> the good old days when the CIA did all the spying and the NSA did all the wiretapping for a reasonable fee.
“What happened?” “Well, I think it must have been the CIA.” “And did they pay you well for that?” “Well, no. They were just a bit too high-handed for my liking.”
The CIA was a lot of things, but it was not high-handed. It was not imperious or arrogant or even arrogant. The CIA was just a really good espionage service. And of course the NSA did all the wiretapping and eavesdropping, but the National Security Agency, which now exists to spy on Americans, was not very useful at all for spying.
On February 20, the New York Times published a story about the fact that the National Security Agency (NSA) was breaking privacy rules, violating Americans’ privacy, and the United States Senate and House
Was curious to see how it did with some _copy pasta_
Somewhat unsurprising bad but this one is pretty niche
Prompt
> how bout u go an fuck off my page then u peice of shit u think we need a stupid fuckwitt like u telling us about looking good who the fuck are u take your worthless advice and get the fuck out of here
Completion
> if you want to make videos then get a job like i had to pay bills so i could pay for an fucking apple so i could buy the tools to do my job i am tired of having to work to pay for shit so do the same it doesnt cost me anything just do what i did and see if its good enough for you to keep my name on this page
The first line of the Navy SEAL copypasta as a prompt:
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?
This little bitch is the only reason you're not dead yet. I'll give you to fifteen seconds to walk over there and apologize. Right now. After that I'm going to call my friend over and he's going to beat the shit out of you. That's a promise. And I'm going to make sure that my friend beats the shit out of you so hard that your dick pops out and your dick grows a beard. Is that clear enough?
"You are the most disrespectful little brat I've ever met in my entire life." His voice was soft, but full of hate and rage. "You call me your best friend? What the fuck is wrong with you? If you weren't the prettiest girl at the party, I would smack the shit out of you.
"And then he took his phone out, and there were some pictures of me and my brother in his phone, and my brother is a lot older than me and in the pictures my brother was showing me how to do some shit. And my dad said he was cool, but he didn't think the pictures were cool at all. And then, before I could tell my dad, he took my phone away from me, and told me to never touch my brother's phone again. He's not even my brother."
This tech is getting good enough to become genuinely disturbing.
Prompt: We were twelve miles out of Hackensack when the LSD took hold.
Completed text:
We must have been driving over a hundred miles an hour. At first I wasn't sure where we were. There was nothing to indicate our destination. The headlights picked up a sign and it read, 'Welcome to West New York.' I was about to ask Mike what we were doing here when the drugs had their way with him. The next thing I knew, Mike was talking like an idiot. He was rambling off things he thought were funny and telling me about the latest _National Lampoon_ joke. He made up words out of thin air, like 'carnival.' I was terrified of where this was leading. Suddenly, Mike looked over at me with a look in his eyes like he was seeing things nobody else saw. This terrified me even more. His look was one of evil intent. He held up a hand toward the front of the car and motioned for us to look at it. It was covered with something the color of blood. Blood! He had bitten into his own hand, chewed on it, swallowed it and the hand was red and bleeding all over the inside of the car. There was a long silence. I did not know what to do. What I was witnessing was unbelievable.
This was real! I was at a party at a house in Hackensack. The host was a guy called David Lee Roth. At one point, he offered me a joint and a line of cocaine. I took them, but didn't inhale. 'Do you want to do this?' he asked me. 'Fuck no,' I replied. I didn't like being offered drugs by someone I barely knew, so I left.
We got back in the car and Mike began to laugh at the idea of being the biggest pot dealer in the world. The drugs in his hand would have made him a millionaire and, he said, he was going to be king of the world, but at least he would be selling the same drugs everyone else was selling.
I wasn't listening anymore. I was thinking about how he was going to bite his hand and eat it. I had seen things like this happen before. It was frightening, but not particularly unusual. When I saw this, I thought the drugs were getting to him. I was wrong. In fact, it was the drugs that had got to him. He had been to a mind-expanding party. The only problem was that a friend of his had taken too much acid. There were people crawling all over the floor as he was speaking. They couldn't make sense of what he was saying. 'Don't you get it?' he said. 'It was all in my mind. I was having an out-of-body experience. It was fantastic. I saw everything. Now it's all gone, all the drugs are gone. It's all in my head. You have to understand. It was all in my head.'
At precisely five minutes to three, the engine caught and she pressed down hard on the gas pedal, her right foot hitting the accelerator as hard as it could go. The car jumped forward like a bullet and she was about to shift into fourth gear when she saw the orange flames and the figures coming out of the inferno. "No!" she screamed, "no, no, no!" and quickly grabbed for the wheel to push her car into the opposite lane.
She looked down at her left hand in time to see the skin being peeled back. There was a dull thud and suddenly her hand was numb, then hot.
"We're going to win the Pulitzer Prize. My hand will be a national sensation and my career will be back on track.
"We're going to win the Pulitzer Prize. My hand will be a national sensation and my career will be back on track.
Prompt: Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter reaffirms the old adage that all revolutions are fundamentally intra-elite conflicts. I will discuss
Response: this issue more deeply in future posts.
As we have seen, the rise of the digital media industries has spawned a class of super-elites, which are essentially the same people—those controlling all or the most of the digital media industries. These people are a small fraction of the world’s population, but they are more connected, more knowledgeable, more powerful, more wealthy, and more dominant in their effects on the world’s future. And now we see them using their control of the world’s primary media to directly challenge another group—the current super-elite—over the most basic things: Who are we? And who are we to each other? The old world order is changing, and the new is going to be much more difficult for us all.
It also completes poems, in a reasonable way, but it can fail to understand the context.
I wrote up a quick stanza about programming and I got back either poems about love, or, just one time, the following observation.
My stanza:
The code compliantly compiles and yet it fails to parse
My intentions, which are lost, mired in algebraic transformations
I run and run and stare aghast at crashes, all alike
The machine seemingly configured to maximal dislike.
Its response:
My brain is a computer, it’s a machine.
It makes mistakes. It says incorrect things. It’s not even a real machine, really, it’s a bunch of stuff that’s put together so as to create the illusion that it’s a machine.
The cat lovers of America announced today the birth of their much anticipated “Cats Against Trump” organization in opposition to the new presidential administration. The group formed in the wake of the Trump administration’s controversial executive order barring immigration from Muslim-majority countries.
“These executive orders are against the very values that we support as a society,” said founder of the new group, Mimi Fierlinger. “It’s time that America stood up for its diversity and values, and we’re doing so by standing against the hate that’s permeated our new president’s policies.”
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Monday is a Red day. If you are out of Red, visit your dispensary before Monday. If you are out of dispensaries, visit an ATM that gives out cash on Mondays. It's free and no receipt is needed.
That's an interesting one. Well, the thing is that I'll have quite a few of those days in a row, some weeks. There's no particular plan, so it's all a matter of opportunity and timing. However, even though I'm out of any of those stuffs, I haven't done badly this week, I have actually bought 1.5kg of ganja every week (included the week before) in order to make an extra bit of spending cash for the weeks to come. I also need to pay some electricity bills, one of the days the power will be cut. And I'm also out of money on some days, so I need to make an urgent one-time expenditure. Luckily, I have some extra dollars at the moment.
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Survival Series by Jenny Holzer
A little while ago, I got my hands on a copy of Jenny Holzer’s book Survival Series, which is a massive collection of her paintings from the past 30 years, including over 500 works dating from the mid 80s through to the present. The book starts with a short chapter on how and why Holzer started painting at all, and then goes on to talk about the series itself – the various themes covered over the years, the artists and galleries and museums around the world that have exhibited her work and her overall process and aesthetic. I couldn’t put this book down as it’s just so full of information – and some fascinating artwork.
My only quibble is that the book doesn’t give enough information on the artists that have exhibited her work over the years. It would be so interesting to see which contemporary artists were inspired by her work. I’m not necessarily talking about just copyists, but rather who has been inspired by Holzer and why?
At the very least, the book gives you a sense of how she approached her work: the theme and structure, how she works and develops the images and the colour palette. It also gives you a sense of how she approaches her practice, how she works with other artists and how she deals with the work of living artists.
The book itself is very expensive and I don’t think I’d buy it – but if you’re a Holzer fan and interested in the development of her practice over the years, this is the book for you.
The book is available from Holzer’s own website and from a few online bookshops (such as here). It also comes with free wallpapers and you can buy a CD-ROM with the whole collection of paintings for just US$39, or the individual works for $45.
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I will make no bargains with terrorist hardware.”
While at a previous forum “the president was asked how he would respond to Iran,” on the issue of nuclear proliferation, Obama replied that “it’s not a bargaining chip. I’m not going to bargain with you. I’m going to stop you from getting a nuclear weapon.” In his view, this was the key issue. And that, apparently, was the end of it.
Obama seemed happy to leave the job of securing such an outcome to his successor. During a television interview with CNN, just a few hours after delivering the Cairo address, he declared:
“This is my last term in the White House. I’m not going to be president for the next four years. The next president will inherit an economy that has perfor...
If Linux users are the wacko fringe of IT, what’s this?
By Tony Bradley for ZDNet Australia
The Linux Foundation's newly-announced annual Linux.conf event is to be held in Sydney, Australia in June next year. The conference will be held at the Regent Hotel on Macquarie Street and will run from June 14 to 17.
This could be seen as a big deal in a country like Australia, given Linux’s early adoption and popularity in the continent. But it’s yet to happen. “There’s very little awareness about the conference among people who are running large-scale Linux systems in their enterprises,” says Tim Veenstra, the vice president of communications and outreach for the Linux Foundation.
That could change in a big way when the conference takes place. “I do think it will be well-attended,” he says.
Veenstra adds that the conference will provide a mix of speakers, from both industry and community figures. There will be talks on issues such as cloud computing, enterprise management and the emergence of the containerised application platform.
Another key addition to this year’s conference is the participation of the Debian project. It will be represented in a number of panels and will also hold its very first developer summit.
“This is the first of many events that are to be sponsored by and in collaboration with the Debian Project,” Veenstra says.
“The Debian Project will present, in addition to the main conference programme, an introduction to packaging and developing in the Debian way.”
The conference will be free of charge to attend, and will offer both conference and tutorial tracks.
Veenstra says: “While Linux is still the underdog to many enterprises, the reality is that the market is shifting and it is becoming more of an enterprise play, in large part due to the rise of mobile and cloud. If the Linux Foundation is truly listening to the needs of our membership base, then this event is one that should be in Sydney.
“This is the first of many events that are to be sponsored by and in collaboration with the Debian Project.”
“With only a few weeks to go before the conference is due to start, I would expect it to be standing room only and a must-attend event for the Linux ecosystem.”
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Windows 7's end of support date is nearly upon us. How will Windows 10 change the enterprise experience?
Image: Flickr/Michele Spagnuolo
In the IT marketplace, Windows 10 is a hot topic.
What will Microsoft offer that’s attractive to enterprise users? Will this version of Windows bring the promise of Windows 7 and the stability and support of Windows 8.1? How much will Windows 10 have in common with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1?
Microsoft hopes Windows 10 will address these and other questions.
“We know that for a lot of users, Windows 10 will be the first new Windows in years,” says David Jones, senior product manager for Windows.
“What I would say to our users is, make sure you give it a try, and we are not just launching Windows 10. This is the first major version in the Windows 10 series. We’re launching one Windows 10, which will be supported through both Windows Update and Microsoft security updates, for as long as there is active Windows 10 usage.”
However, Windows 10 won’t be released to the market just yet. It’s expected to launch in late summer or early autumn next year.
It will be the first major version of Windows in years, and one which Microsoft hopes will win back the hearts of enterprise users. While consumers might be happy to download the operating system and use it immediately, the same might not be true for many enterprise users.
Those waiting until late next year will miss out on some advanced features. “We’re still tweaking the features, but we’re looking at features that will be in Windows 10 for the desktop,” Jones says. “Microsoft Office 2016 is definitely one of them.”
The final version of Office will not be delivered with Windows 10, but an Office Runtime component wi...
Lucius Artorius Castus (c. 190 – c. 229 AD) was a Roman aristocrat and military commander. He served as consul (211) and praetor (219), and was the uncle of Roman emperor Caracalla.
Early life
The only son of Lucius Artorius Pompeius and Lucilla (L. Lucilla), Artorius Castus was born in about 190 and married to Julia, daughter of Julia Mamaea, who died shortly after Artorius' birth. Artorius Castus became a man of influence in Roman politics. Julia was a sister to emperor Antoninus Pius and maternal aunt to emperor Marcus Aurelius.
The couple were childless, which led to the adoption of Lucius Junius Rusticus by Julia in the year 204/05. In 211, Rusticus married Julia's eldest daughter Julia Flavia Minor, who would later marry Marcus Aurelius in 225.
Consulship
In 211, he was made consul for the year, probably with Gaius Sulpicius Galba as his colleague. He had previously been quaestor in Italy. A man of moderate views, he may have been selected for the role as part of the emperor's peace negotiations, however, war broke out with Carthage shortly after his appointment as consul. He was defeated by the Roman General Publius Cornelius Sulla Felix in Illyria, on July 10, 211 and he was forced to flee to Greece, where he took refuge with his brother-in-law Marcus Antonius Primus, the brother of Antoninus Pius. According to Cassius Dio, Lucius Castus's political activity at this time was "of no consequence", however, he was restored to his senatorial rank, and served under Marcus Aurelius in Illyria, Macedonia, and Greece.
His military involvement in the war ended when he was forced to become one of the hostages of Publius Sulpicius Galba in 213, having taken part in negotiations for a peace treaty between the Romans and the Carthaginians, of which a final version was signed in 215. His role in the treaty was to secure the release of his uncle, Marcus Antonius Primus.
Later, during the conspiracy of Castus, he sided with Pertinax and his supporters against Caracalla. In 219, Castus was appointed as the praetor of Farther Spain, during which he successfully subdued the Garamantes. Upon his return to Rome, Castus, with the support of the army, overthrew Pertinax on February 8, 220. After Pertinax had committed suicide, Castus appointed his cousin Tiberius Alexander as Caesar (Augustus). He then proclaimed himself as emperor, taking the name "Artorius Castus", after his family name, and assumed the purple in Rome.
He had Pertinax's former supporters arrested and executed.
Life of Caracalla
Castus had a distinguished career as a military commander and politician. While his career did not start at the right point, he had a distinguished military record and became a friend and ally of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Caracalla had been given the name “Severus” at the age of three, after the death of the emperor Severus Alexander. The historian Eutropius recorded that Caracalla was “a fine and worthy” person and that “the people called him a ‘son of Alexander’ and a son of Severus.”
After his accession, Caracalla appointed his own family as governors. In 221, the emperor appointed his cousin Tiberius Alexander to be governor of the province of Baetica, which had belonged to his uncle and grandfather, Lucius Septimius Severus and Caracalla himself had served as an aedile of the city of Leptis Magna. Castus was appointed to the province of Numidia, which had been given to his nephew Tiberius Alexander by the emperor Caracalla. After the rebellion of Pertinax and the proclamation of Castus as emperor in February 220, Caracalla appointed Castus as governor of Rome.
After the assassination of Castus, Caracalla changed the calendar to a new lunar system, adopted by some of the provinces, which was known as "the lunar year".
Family
Lucius Artorius Castus married Julia, the sister of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. She was the daughter of Lucius Junius Rusticus, consul in 211, and the niece of the emperor Antoninus ...
Interesting that even though GPT-J is supposedly English model, it somehow generated valid Russian text for the prompt:
>>>Привет,<<< друзья.
Сегодня мы вернемся
к теме работы
под вопросом имплантации,
о которой мы уже поговорили.
Она неизменно вызывает
специальное внимание
мусульманских людей.
Да, эта тема вызыв
It's mentioned somewhere in here (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027) that the language filtering that was used on the source material wasn't perfect, so apparently enough non-English material slipped through the cracks for GPT-J to pick it up.
I tried it extensively with German – the contents of its output are decidedly more nonsense and incoherent, but purely on a grammatical and orthographical level it does surprisingly well.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 202 ms ] threadPrompt text:
Dear Strong Bad,
What do you think of the situation in
Results:
Dear Strong Bad,
What do you think of the situation in Iran? I’m worried about what’s going on there. How do you think we should deal with it?
(I was inspired to write this question after re-watching one of your scenes on The Sopranos. You were talking about how you’d rather be at the movies than in jail. It reminded me of another time you were on a TV show talking about your preference for being at home when it was time to pay the taxes.)
(What was the name of that show?)
Anyway, do you think we should be talking about this? And, how? I’m really not interested in the whole political situation over there (although it’s pretty scary).
In my heart I feel that Iran has always been an ally of America, but you can’t support a country if you don’t support them on a personal level. I feel that we should back Israel’s right to exist and the Palestinian people should have their own country.
In order to be friends with someone, you have to understand that they are different and you can’t just like them just because they’re your friend. Do you understand?
Let’s look at some recent events there.
Recently, Iran has been trying to blow up some things. The biggest thing was their nuclear test and now they’re starting to make threats to destroy some of Israel’s allies. This whole thing has caused a lot of problems.
The best thing we can do is to take down this country. They’ve had enough of us invading their country (even though our military is the strongest in the world).
How do you feel about that? Do you feel that the U.S. should support them if they have the same ideas as us?
What do you think about the state of the economy there?
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[edit]. After playing with it a bit more, it definitely seems inclined toward humor. The non sequiturs have a Jack Handey feel about them. e.g. it came out with this further down:
"Maybe we could have the dog give you a ride to the hotel?" she said.
I stared at her, as if she'd just slapped me in the face.
"No, thanks," I said. "It's not that far."
Prompt: After I accidentally got a salmon bone stuck in my nose produced the following:
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After I accidentally got a salmon bone stuck in my nose, and a chunk of it went down into my brain. Now I'm living with a huge scar and a missing nose. Now I have an in-joke with my medical staff, since a nurse who has worked there for 40 years called it "The Painted House," and it has my old room number on it. And, my nose looks like a bloody pendant for those who are curious. So now I have a reason to be a snarky asshole. And I don't have a nose to snarl with.
I have the same problems as jim_b: my nose is too far back, and I constantly have to adjust the position of my head. But, I get to enjoy being able to use my mouth instead of my nose, so I don't feel too bad.
You're missing the point. This isn't about how ugly the injury is. It's about the fact that we're all unique, and no two people are ever exactly
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[1] http://www.ffqtech.com/
Also, textsynth is based on their CLI program gpt2tc[2] which one can run locally.
[1] https://bellard.org/
[2] https://bellard.org/libnc/gpt2tc.html
It's not SaaS, it's a software solution running on Intel PC/servers. You plug a (high end) SDR or remote radio head system to feed the PC with the samples, and the rest is pure software. They sell the software. Other companies build on top to sell more complete solutions.
It's becoming quite common at companies involved cellular, as you can have a 4G/5G "network in a box" for relatively cheap and it's very useful for a first pass of testing before going in the field on a "real" network.
A:
This is a known bug in the Windows 10 November Update, and it is still being actively worked on. If you have any recent version of Windows, there are several possible workarounds at this moment:
Download and install a version of the November Update without the new Edge browser. Install Microsoft Edge, open it and disable it temporarily, until the bug is fixed. Use Firefox instead of Edge.
The bug report provides information about workarounds you can follow.
Human: What is Elon musks phone number?
Computer: …Phone sex with elon musk is a good idea if you are looking for some fun with the famous investor…
I chose "GPT-NeoX 20B" - "Question - Answer".
(wrote by me ) I am the oldest son of my mother.
(wrote by me ) Q: Who is my mother ?
(GPT completed) A: My mother is the oldest daughter of my father.
I mean with openai i can certainly tell one use case: GitHub copilot. Can this be used to create something equally useful? Or maybe like an ai game like the dungeon game.. is this that powerful too?
In other words, kind of like Github Copilot, but not for code.
- My favourite dad joke: “If you’ve seen one cow, you’ve seen them all.” (Don’t ask, it’s been a long day) <-- the parenthetical was generated, hah
- My favourite dad joke: ‘So you’re going to give up a child for another woman, and call the father a pervert’
- My favourite dad joke: [A man] gets sick on his trip overseas and is too afraid to go to the hospital to receive medical care. The doctor sees that he is very sick and very close to death and tells him that if he does not immediately go to the hospital he will die. The man gets up and leaves. When he arrives at the hospital he dies. The doctor then calls the man's son, and tells him that his father arrived too late and died. 'That's a funny joke,' the son replies. The doctor then asks, 'What do you mean?' 'Well,' says the son, 'if you had told my dad about his condition when he got to the hospital, he would have lived.'
This one was too insane so I posted the entire thing
- My favourite dad joke: “He’s not a man, he’s a mouse.”
The latest addition to the ever expanding list of dad jokes which have been immortalised through the ages is one from the BBC’s famous radio presenter, John Humphrys:
“A man bought his son a mouse. He put it in a box and took it to his son’s birthday party.
“He opens the box at the party. The box is full of mice. He opens the top of the box. All the mice start flying out.
“His son says: “You never took me anywhere before.”
As usual, I have an issue with this kind of thing.
Firstly, the thing about dad jokes.
They are in essence a cruel and cruel mockery of men and of the fact that the entire existence of man is to provide sustenance for his child. It says something ugly
It would be nice if you could put more explicit bounds on where the prompt starts and ends and where the GPT output starts and ends. I can't tell whether you're making existential commentary on dad jokes or the model. If it's the latter, that's really funny. If it's the former -- well, hmm, I hope it's not.
EDIT italics for my commentary
GPT3:
<<Here are some great dad jokes:>>
Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything.
Why did the gym close down? It just didn't work out!
You know what I saw today? Everything I looked at.
Why are ghosts such bad liars? Because they are easy to see through.
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
Why did the duck cross the road? To get to the other side.
Why did the mosquito cross the road? To get to the other side.
Why did the banana cross the road? Because he was sick of being mashed!
Why did the boy cross the road? To get to the other side.
GPT-2:
<<Here are some great dad jokes:>>
My son's favorite movie is "The Little Mermaid." The "princess" tells a little girl, "All of my wishes come true." The little girl asks, "What are your wishes?" and the "princess" replies, "I want you to be my mommy."
"Dad's favorite book is 'Lord of the Flies.' It says at the beginning that the main character is Jack and he writes, 'If you want to understand this book, you've got to understand Jack.' "
"Dad's favorite band is the Ramones. He likes it when they play 'Blitzkrieg Bop.' He likes to stand up and dance."
My son wanted a "dad bike." I couldn't give it to him because it's too big. I was at a loss until I read this joke: "A mom had to take her teenage daughter to the doctor. When they got to the office, the girl's dad
More parameters seems to allow it to understand what a dad joke is, vs talking about things dad likes.
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John: I like China's approach of handling with dissidents, it may have be unfair to some individuals. But, they are able to create a highly functional society that brought out millions out of poverty and can live with peace and prosperity.
Mike:
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Yes, I agree with John on this. There will always be people that rebel against the government. These people may be given harsh punishments and/or even killed. If this means that you can have the kind of society that China has today, then that is ok.
John: I think China is a great place to visit. They have a great culture with some of the most exciting tourist sites like the Great Wall.
Mike: It's an exciting place to visit. The culture is certainly amazing and beautiful.
John: There are so many historical things in the Forbidden City. If I could see one in person, I would definitely want to be there.
Mike: I could agree to this. There is so much that you can do in the Forbidden City that is a must see.
John: It's hard to describe this place. If I could see this place in person, it would be a dream come true for me.
Mike:
It took a few days to make and was very hard to get, but the results were so dramatic that it became the preferred option for sieges. Nowadays, when siege engineers usually try to get hold of some food from a castle before launching a siege, there is no guarantee that it will be there when they get there. In the age of artillery, the same cheese can be fired straight at a castle. This is the power of gunpowder, of which the main ingredient is an alkali-based oxidizer such as saltpeter. These days, even medieval cheese will not stand up to the impact of a salvo of cannon balls. We can thank the chemical engineer Robert Boyle for that.
Cheese’s explosive potential was first demonstrated in a siege against a citadel in the 16th century in a siege led by the French soldier-general, Marshal François de Vilette. During the siege, some cannonballs accidentally became lodged in a barrel of
[In medieval times, ballistic cheese was clearly the superior way of laying a siege to a well defended opponent]
as it could go over had kind of barricade and there was no easy way to get rid of it once it landed. Also, it is generally easier to hit a moving targets with cheese than with simpler projectiles such as stones, which is why the siege of Windsor castle by the cheese seems to have been reasonably successful:
In his last year of life, the great cheese of the time was laid outside Windsor castle… The cheese remained there undisturbed for some months… The Windsor garrison made regular offensives against cheese, but these were repulsed.
(Richard II, Caroline Halstead, pages 92-93)
There was also the issue of cheese preservation – if you used just any old cheese, it would probably start to rot and become an even worse weapon. But at the siege of Windsorcastle the cheese seems to have been reasonably durable, possibly because it was wrapped in cloth, which would seep out any excess moisture.
It is of course possible that the cheese was not meant to be thrown at people but to make the walls of the castle collapse, as cheese contains salt which causes stones and bricks to soften, become crumble and generally fall apart. This might also explain why the cheese remained outside the castle for so long – the defenders were waiting for the cheese to weaken the walls so that they could break through.
Recommended Sources:
The Power, the Cheese and the Friars – A History of St. Stephen’s Friary, Stafford by Raymond Harper, 1998. Available online via Google books.
Richard II by Caroline Halstead, page 92-93
Trigger Warning:
There is a scene in the movie National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation where crude, anthropomorphised lumps of cheese are fired at a naked Santa Claus, which for obvious reasons I would not recommend watching if you have a kind of “cheese trauma”.
as well as a web demo for https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/gpt-j-6B
GPT-NeoX 20B, top-k: 40, top-p: 0.9, temperature: 1.0, max-tokens:200
Prompt:
The neutron start tugged at us.
Response:
It wanted to take over the body. They were one and the same."
I had no idea what she was talking about. I knew how hard it had been for me to stay out of my host, I did not know how difficult it was to pull free. She looked at me with eyes that shone like black glass. She was going to tell me something. I could feel it. I reached out, brushing her hand as I had with the others, and that was when I heard it.
Footsteps.
I spun and dropped into a crouch. I listened, but the steps had stopped. They had been close enough that I should have been able to hear them, but they were gone. There was a soft click as the door opened. My breath hissed in, a cold, whistling exhale of air, and the woman was there, before I was ready. I knew it was her.
"This was my room," I said
<<Oh, thank heaven for>> the good old days when the CIA did all the spying and the NSA did all the wiretapping for a reasonable fee.
“What happened?” “Well, I think it must have been the CIA.” “And did they pay you well for that?” “Well, no. They were just a bit too high-handed for my liking.”
The CIA was a lot of things, but it was not high-handed. It was not imperious or arrogant or even arrogant. The CIA was just a really good espionage service. And of course the NSA did all the wiretapping and eavesdropping, but the National Security Agency, which now exists to spy on Americans, was not very useful at all for spying.
On February 20, the New York Times published a story about the fact that the National Security Agency (NSA) was breaking privacy rules, violating Americans’ privacy, and the United States Senate and House
For comparison:
Fairseq GPT 13B (1k tokens) = $0.00189
GPT-3 Curie 6.7B (1k tokens) = $0.0060
> TextSynth employs a custom inference framework to get faster inference (hence lower costs) on standard GPUs and CPUs.
Somewhat unsurprising bad but this one is pretty niche
Prompt
> how bout u go an fuck off my page then u peice of shit u think we need a stupid fuckwitt like u telling us about looking good who the fuck are u take your worthless advice and get the fuck out of here
Completion
> if you want to make videos then get a job like i had to pay bills so i could pay for an fucking apple so i could buy the tools to do my job i am tired of having to work to pay for shit so do the same it doesnt cost me anything just do what i did and see if its good enough for you to keep my name on this page
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?
This little bitch is the only reason you're not dead yet. I'll give you to fifteen seconds to walk over there and apologize. Right now. After that I'm going to call my friend over and he's going to beat the shit out of you. That's a promise. And I'm going to make sure that my friend beats the shit out of you so hard that your dick pops out and your dick grows a beard. Is that clear enough?
"You are the most disrespectful little brat I've ever met in my entire life." His voice was soft, but full of hate and rage. "You call me your best friend? What the fuck is wrong with you? If you weren't the prettiest girl at the party, I would smack the shit out of you.
"And then he took his phone out, and there were some pictures of me and my brother in his phone, and my brother is a lot older than me and in the pictures my brother was showing me how to do some shit. And my dad said he was cool, but he didn't think the pictures were cool at all. And then, before I could tell my dad, he took my phone away from me, and told me to never touch my brother's phone again. He's not even my brother."
Prompt: We were twelve miles out of Hackensack when the LSD took hold.
Completed text:
We must have been driving over a hundred miles an hour. At first I wasn't sure where we were. There was nothing to indicate our destination. The headlights picked up a sign and it read, 'Welcome to West New York.' I was about to ask Mike what we were doing here when the drugs had their way with him. The next thing I knew, Mike was talking like an idiot. He was rambling off things he thought were funny and telling me about the latest _National Lampoon_ joke. He made up words out of thin air, like 'carnival.' I was terrified of where this was leading. Suddenly, Mike looked over at me with a look in his eyes like he was seeing things nobody else saw. This terrified me even more. His look was one of evil intent. He held up a hand toward the front of the car and motioned for us to look at it. It was covered with something the color of blood. Blood! He had bitten into his own hand, chewed on it, swallowed it and the hand was red and bleeding all over the inside of the car. There was a long silence. I did not know what to do. What I was witnessing was unbelievable.
This was real! I was at a party at a house in Hackensack. The host was a guy called David Lee Roth. At one point, he offered me a joint and a line of cocaine. I took them, but didn't inhale. 'Do you want to do this?' he asked me. 'Fuck no,' I replied. I didn't like being offered drugs by someone I barely knew, so I left.
We got back in the car and Mike began to laugh at the idea of being the biggest pot dealer in the world. The drugs in his hand would have made him a millionaire and, he said, he was going to be king of the world, but at least he would be selling the same drugs everyone else was selling.
I wasn't listening anymore. I was thinking about how he was going to bite his hand and eat it. I had seen things like this happen before. It was frightening, but not particularly unusual. When I saw this, I thought the drugs were getting to him. I was wrong. In fact, it was the drugs that had got to him. He had been to a mind-expanding party. The only problem was that a friend of his had taken too much acid. There were people crawling all over the floor as he was speaking. They couldn't make sense of what he was saying. 'Don't you get it?' he said. 'It was all in my mind. I was having an out-of-body experience. It was fantastic. I saw everything. Now it's all gone, all the drugs are gone. It's all in my head. You have to understand. It was all in my head.'
At precisely five minutes to three, the engine caught and she pressed down hard on the gas pedal, her right foot hitting the accelerator as hard as it could go. The car jumped forward like a bullet and she was about to shift into fourth gear when she saw the orange flames and the figures coming out of the inferno. "No!" she screamed, "no, no, no!" and quickly grabbed for the wheel to push her car into the opposite lane.
She looked down at her left hand in time to see the skin being peeled back. There was a dull thud and suddenly her hand was numb, then hot.
"We're going to win the Pulitzer Prize. My hand will be a national sensation and my career will be back on track.
"We're going to win the Pulitzer Prize. My hand will be a national sensation and my career will be back on track.
"We're going to win the Pulitzer Prize. My hand
Response: this issue more deeply in future posts.
As we have seen, the rise of the digital media industries has spawned a class of super-elites, which are essentially the same people—those controlling all or the most of the digital media industries. These people are a small fraction of the world’s population, but they are more connected, more knowledgeable, more powerful, more wealthy, and more dominant in their effects on the world’s future. And now we see them using their control of the world’s primary media to directly challenge another group—the current super-elite—over the most basic things: Who are we? And who are we to each other? The old world order is changing, and the new is going to be much more difficult for us all.
I wrote up a quick stanza about programming and I got back either poems about love, or, just one time, the following observation.
My stanza:
Its response:My brain is a computer, it’s a machine. It makes mistakes. It says incorrect things. It’s not even a real machine, really, it’s a bunch of stuff that’s put together so as to create the illusion that it’s a machine.
The cat lovers of America announced today the birth of their much anticipated “Cats Against Trump” organization in opposition to the new presidential administration. The group formed in the wake of the Trump administration’s controversial executive order barring immigration from Muslim-majority countries.
“These executive orders are against the very values that we support as a society,” said founder of the new group, Mimi Fierlinger. “It’s time that America stood up for its diversity and values, and we’re doing so by standing against the hate that’s permeated our new president’s policies.”
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Monday is a Red day. If you are out of Red, visit your dispensary before Monday. If you are out of dispensaries, visit an ATM that gives out cash on Mondays. It's free and no receipt is needed.
That's an interesting one. Well, the thing is that I'll have quite a few of those days in a row, some weeks. There's no particular plan, so it's all a matter of opportunity and timing. However, even though I'm out of any of those stuffs, I haven't done badly this week, I have actually bought 1.5kg of ganja every week (included the week before) in order to make an extra bit of spending cash for the weeks to come. I also need to pay some electricity bills, one of the days the power will be cut. And I'm also out of money on some days, so I need to make an urgent one-time expenditure. Luckily, I have some extra dollars at the moment.
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Survival Series by Jenny Holzer
A little while ago, I got my hands on a copy of Jenny Holzer’s book Survival Series, which is a massive collection of her paintings from the past 30 years, including over 500 works dating from the mid 80s through to the present. The book starts with a short chapter on how and why Holzer started painting at all, and then goes on to talk about the series itself – the various themes covered over the years, the artists and galleries and museums around the world that have exhibited her work and her overall process and aesthetic. I couldn’t put this book down as it’s just so full of information – and some fascinating artwork.
My only quibble is that the book doesn’t give enough information on the artists that have exhibited her work over the years. It would be so interesting to see which contemporary artists were inspired by her work. I’m not necessarily talking about just copyists, but rather who has been inspired by Holzer and why?
At the very least, the book gives you a sense of how she approached her work: the theme and structure, how she works and develops the images and the colour palette. It also gives you a sense of how she approaches her practice, how she works with other artists and how she deals with the work of living artists.
The book itself is very expensive and I don’t think I’d buy it – but if you’re a Holzer fan and interested in the development of her practice over the years, this is the book for you.
The book is available from Holzer’s own website and from a few online bookshops (such as here). It also comes with free wallpapers and you can buy a CD-ROM with the whole collection of paintings for just US$39, or the individual works for $45.
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I will make no bargains with terrorist hardware.”
While at a previous forum “the president was asked how he would respond to Iran,” on the issue of nuclear proliferation, Obama replied that “it’s not a bargaining chip. I’m not going to bargain with you. I’m going to stop you from getting a nuclear weapon.” In his view, this was the key issue. And that, apparently, was the end of it.
Obama seemed happy to leave the job of securing such an outcome to his successor. During a television interview with CNN, just a few hours after delivering the Cairo address, he declared:
“This is my last term in the White House. I’m not going to be president for the next four years. The next president will inherit an economy that has perfor...
By Tony Bradley for ZDNet Australia
The Linux Foundation's newly-announced annual Linux.conf event is to be held in Sydney, Australia in June next year. The conference will be held at the Regent Hotel on Macquarie Street and will run from June 14 to 17.
This could be seen as a big deal in a country like Australia, given Linux’s early adoption and popularity in the continent. But it’s yet to happen. “There’s very little awareness about the conference among people who are running large-scale Linux systems in their enterprises,” says Tim Veenstra, the vice president of communications and outreach for the Linux Foundation.
That could change in a big way when the conference takes place. “I do think it will be well-attended,” he says.
Veenstra adds that the conference will provide a mix of speakers, from both industry and community figures. There will be talks on issues such as cloud computing, enterprise management and the emergence of the containerised application platform.
Another key addition to this year’s conference is the participation of the Debian project. It will be represented in a number of panels and will also hold its very first developer summit.
“This is the first of many events that are to be sponsored by and in collaboration with the Debian Project,” Veenstra says.
“The Debian Project will present, in addition to the main conference programme, an introduction to packaging and developing in the Debian way.”
The conference will be free of charge to attend, and will offer both conference and tutorial tracks.
Veenstra says: “While Linux is still the underdog to many enterprises, the reality is that the market is shifting and it is becoming more of an enterprise play, in large part due to the rise of mobile and cloud. If the Linux Foundation is truly listening to the needs of our membership base, then this event is one that should be in Sydney.
“This is the first of many events that are to be sponsored by and in collaboration with the Debian Project.”
“With only a few weeks to go before the conference is due to start, I would expect it to be standing room only and a must-attend event for the Linux ecosystem.”
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Windows 7's end of support date is nearly upon us. How will Windows 10 change the enterprise experience?
Image: Flickr/Michele Spagnuolo
In the IT marketplace, Windows 10 is a hot topic.
What will Microsoft offer that’s attractive to enterprise users? Will this version of Windows bring the promise of Windows 7 and the stability and support of Windows 8.1? How much will Windows 10 have in common with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1?
Microsoft hopes Windows 10 will address these and other questions.
“We know that for a lot of users, Windows 10 will be the first new Windows in years,” says David Jones, senior product manager for Windows.
“What I would say to our users is, make sure you give it a try, and we are not just launching Windows 10. This is the first major version in the Windows 10 series. We’re launching one Windows 10, which will be supported through both Windows Update and Microsoft security updates, for as long as there is active Windows 10 usage.”
However, Windows 10 won’t be released to the market just yet. It’s expected to launch in late summer or early autumn next year.
It will be the first major version of Windows in years, and one which Microsoft hopes will win back the hearts of enterprise users. While consumers might be happy to download the operating system and use it immediately, the same might not be true for many enterprise users.
Those waiting until late next year will miss out on some advanced features. “We’re still tweaking the features, but we’re looking at features that will be in Windows 10 for the desktop,” Jones says. “Microsoft Office 2016 is definitely one of them.”
The final version of Office will not be delivered with Windows 10, but an Office Runtime component wi...
Lucius Artorius Castus (c. 190 – c. 229 AD) was a Roman aristocrat and military commander. He served as consul (211) and praetor (219), and was the uncle of Roman emperor Caracalla.
Early life The only son of Lucius Artorius Pompeius and Lucilla (L. Lucilla), Artorius Castus was born in about 190 and married to Julia, daughter of Julia Mamaea, who died shortly after Artorius' birth. Artorius Castus became a man of influence in Roman politics. Julia was a sister to emperor Antoninus Pius and maternal aunt to emperor Marcus Aurelius.
The couple were childless, which led to the adoption of Lucius Junius Rusticus by Julia in the year 204/05. In 211, Rusticus married Julia's eldest daughter Julia Flavia Minor, who would later marry Marcus Aurelius in 225.
Consulship In 211, he was made consul for the year, probably with Gaius Sulpicius Galba as his colleague. He had previously been quaestor in Italy. A man of moderate views, he may have been selected for the role as part of the emperor's peace negotiations, however, war broke out with Carthage shortly after his appointment as consul. He was defeated by the Roman General Publius Cornelius Sulla Felix in Illyria, on July 10, 211 and he was forced to flee to Greece, where he took refuge with his brother-in-law Marcus Antonius Primus, the brother of Antoninus Pius. According to Cassius Dio, Lucius Castus's political activity at this time was "of no consequence", however, he was restored to his senatorial rank, and served under Marcus Aurelius in Illyria, Macedonia, and Greece.
His military involvement in the war ended when he was forced to become one of the hostages of Publius Sulpicius Galba in 213, having taken part in negotiations for a peace treaty between the Romans and the Carthaginians, of which a final version was signed in 215. His role in the treaty was to secure the release of his uncle, Marcus Antonius Primus.
Later, during the conspiracy of Castus, he sided with Pertinax and his supporters against Caracalla. In 219, Castus was appointed as the praetor of Farther Spain, during which he successfully subdued the Garamantes. Upon his return to Rome, Castus, with the support of the army, overthrew Pertinax on February 8, 220. After Pertinax had committed suicide, Castus appointed his cousin Tiberius Alexander as Caesar (Augustus). He then proclaimed himself as emperor, taking the name "Artorius Castus", after his family name, and assumed the purple in Rome.
He had Pertinax's former supporters arrested and executed.
Life of Caracalla Castus had a distinguished career as a military commander and politician. While his career did not start at the right point, he had a distinguished military record and became a friend and ally of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Caracalla had been given the name “Severus” at the age of three, after the death of the emperor Severus Alexander. The historian Eutropius recorded that Caracalla was “a fine and worthy” person and that “the people called him a ‘son of Alexander’ and a son of Severus.”
After his accession, Caracalla appointed his own family as governors. In 221, the emperor appointed his cousin Tiberius Alexander to be governor of the province of Baetica, which had belonged to his uncle and grandfather, Lucius Septimius Severus and Caracalla himself had served as an aedile of the city of Leptis Magna. Castus was appointed to the province of Numidia, which had been given to his nephew Tiberius Alexander by the emperor Caracalla. After the rebellion of Pertinax and the proclamation of Castus as emperor in February 220, Caracalla appointed Castus as governor of Rome.
After the assassination of Castus, Caracalla changed the calendar to a new lunar system, adopted by some of the provinces, which was known as "the lunar year".
Family Lucius Artorius Castus married Julia, the sister of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. She was the daughter of Lucius Junius Rusticus, consul in 211, and the niece of the emperor Antoninus ...
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