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How is it even theoretically possible for artificial intelligence to exceed the intelligence of man? I can see how it may be more intelligent than most but not all.

Hello, I am hoping to find an ambitious person to discuss the possibility of starting a company in the future based on an app idea that I have been mulling over. I have the idea, would be willing to invest in the idea, and also have management skills running a business for several years. This would be a part-time project to begin with, but I do want someone who would be committed if the project is started, and want our goal to be thinking big about revenue as well as changing the world for the better. I do not know how to program. My ideal partner is someone who could A) First confirm the idea is feasible; B) Be willing to enter into a cooperative relationship after discussions and thinking things through properly about how to approach the project and how to divide company interests based on our investment of either money or time or both; C) Be willing to invest time and effort in helping to design and build the product, in particular being able to program. Please leave a message here or shoot me a PM if interested and we can Skype : ) Chris

https://github.com/bsherard/BlockExplorer Its just a hobbyist app designed to pad my resume but it also serves to show how easy it is to get into this space. It took about 40 hours of work stretched over a month, starting from when I knew very little of the technical specifics of the blockchain and its script stack to being able to navigate it. Additionally, the last 20 hours or so was spent having fun over-engineering the data abstractions and design patterns; it wasn't time actually needed to build this. It is built in C# using WPF. It should work on any windows 7+ machine with .NET updated to 4.6.1 or higher. Some technical details: it uses services meant for devs, not for production. The Nbitcoin API I use to query the blockchain is designed to work with QBitNinja client and server. That server is hosted freely by the developers of that project. A true production setup would require that I also host my own QBitNinja server and point the app to that. Sample screenshot:

I would like to propose something disruptive. There are now thousands of schools and courses devoted to CODING. That is writing computer code. Someone wants an APP for this and an APP for that. The natural solution is to hire a team of coders to write the app, debug it, deploy it, debug it and so on. Programmers rate their own value as how well they write programs. Users rate the value in a given application by how well it helps them do something more efficiently. We have an ever increasing mountain of computer code. Over time, this computer code needs to be refreshed, updated or deprecated. Much of it is never documented as the programmers frenetically write the code to get it into the wild as fast as possible. Also, programming well is an art form. Not everyone who can write a little bit of code does it well. As systems increase in complexity, the interaction of many different variables becomes increasingly difficult to test. Having been a professional programmer/engineer since I was 16, I've written tens of thousands of programs. If I had a penny for every keystroke, I'd be rich. I've added to the mountain of code that someone will need to maintain. Let's examine business forms. Business forms are meant to collect data and shove it into a database. Ideally, there would be validation that the input data is correct and the user would be prompted to correct input errors. Take a very simple demographics form: FIRST NAME LAST NAME ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER EMAIL ADDRESS The person designing the database table needs to set up a column for each of these input fields. The person developing the input form needs to create the UI for each field. Another person needs to glue the front-end to the back-end with various scripting. What we find is that this process is repeated ad-nauseum. The programmers involved believe that their worth is in coding all of this by hand. This is a disconnect from the value of the User who wants a reliable product. 10 years ago, I developed a completely different approach. I call it "Business Objects". A business object is a functional representation of data in an application. The business object has methods and properties to tell it how to behave. Schemas are defined in terms of business objects instead of primitives (string, integer, bool, date, etc.) though the primitives are defined in the business object itself. The UI rendering engine digests the schema against the form layout and creates the UI. When a schema is saved, the environment will construct all of the necessary tables and generate the form. At this point, the application is ready to operate. Because the business objects are tested and the engine is tested, the quality of operation can be assured. Business objects are infinitely reusable and extensible. WHY should we need to code by hand a LAST NAME field every time we want it in a table and application? Can't we simply use a widget? That's the point! We now change the programmer's role from writing a mountain of UI code to that of creating the real value - the functions specific to that business that are not simply a part of the business object. Examples would be the calculation of shipping charges on an order, computing insurance benefits in a patient visit, updating inventory counts, etc. For those of you who are coders, you'll recognize that this represents a philosophical change to the way that you approach your work. For those interested, please check out my website: www.pavuk.com. And to the moderator, if you feel this post is inappropriate, please feel free to delete it. I'm an engineer and not a salesman.

Hi! I've recently begun learning programming "full-time" about two months, with a focus on web development. So far I've done Codecademy's Python, HTML & CSS and Javascript, done most of Learn Python The Hard Way and am doing a couple Coursera courses. My aim is to actually learn enough to be able to find an entry-level job in the field, and go from there. As you can see, I'm learning using online resources, and am really trying to avoid my country's god-awful state (higher) education. I was wondering if anyone is planning to embark on or is currently on the same journey as me? I'd really like to connect up, I believe that the right company can be very stimulating while learning - and there's not much of it physically around me (I live in a small town currently). Also, if there's anyone who is currently working in the field (be it Web or not), could you give me 20 minutes of your time? I have some questions on the subject, and I'd be very grateful to talk to someone who has experience. Maybe you could PM me? Thanks a lot!

I don't know what kind of coding this requires, but The value of this being done I have taken around 150 detailed time-stamped notes (including 400 personal notes) of the newest (and older) FDR podcasts that I had hoped and still desire to use to share in some way with others on FDR and the world. A lot of epic quotes and dialogues that I really treasure. Problem I have taken these notes with a Windows Phone 8.1 application called "Note it". My issue is that the notes, after having been synced and downloaded from LiveDrive, lose the File Name, Date Modified and Date Created file information available and visible in the application itself. After downloading the zipped cloud file, the notes as individual text files show up in a folder all with nondescript variations of: Note 8D278EB20637D60. All is not lost Thankfully however, to each text file (note) in some header lines of text, is appended the original file information of "DateCreated", and "DateUpdated" (modified). (*see attached text file as example of how it is formatted) Needed _I need to replace each of these files' non-synced Created and Modified file attributes with the "DateCreated" and "DateUpdated" (modified) attributes (which includes the hour timestamp) contained within the header of each note/text file._ I would like to, if possible, also change the file names to the first 3 words or first 20 characters in the 5th line of text (the note body), but I know that in some of the spaces here in some of the text files there are characters that are not able to be included in file names. My system is a Windows 7 64 bit My productivity vs Yours or someone else's I've manually edited some and have calculated needing 30 hours to manually edit the information in all of these notes isn't really comparable to the over 400 hours I have spent writing them, but it's so tedious for me that I want to avoid this at all costs. Bigger picture This is an application that is used by over 1500 people, of whom I'm sure many have the same issue. Can you think of a script for my problem? If you have a solution or could recommend other people/website forums that help with this renaming file information sort of thing, it would really help me out a lot, thank you. PS Do you know of a better method/phone app to take notes like this? Note 8D278EB20637D60.txt

I've been looking for ways to teach myself to use the R programming language. I'm an engineer with a lot of statistics and data use education. I learned R is a powerful language for statics analysis and big data usage, but did not get any education in it. Since R is free, and I have too much free time, I downloaded the R language and RStudio to write programs in. While I was looking for exercises and tutorials, I found a 40 video long lecture series that walks you through the functionality of R in a very easy to follow along way. Here's the link to the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX532N_XLIs&index=1&list=PLqzoL9-eJTNBDdKgJgJzaQcY6OXmsXAHU So far, R is very much like MatLab, and shares a lot of functionality with Minitab. If you're interested in learning some basic programming (easier than Java), and want to learn how to use some excellent tools for data analysis, check out R and the video series all for free. The series is top notch and the guy deserves way more traffic!

The Project: Starship Corporation started off as a project of passion by just one developer, found a huge following in a successful crowdfunding campaign, has recently been greenlit and is now looking to build up a small team of highly motivated freelancers. About the Developer: My career started off with 3D animation for advertising, then moved on to character animation for the game company Jowood (Neighbours from Hell). After that I changed to self-employment and created and sold the Lasertag company LazerCombat. I had no programming experience prior to starting this project except a little scripting in Adobe Director and Flash, but I quickly learned to use the excellent tool GameMaker for my plans. The project has grown way beyond my initial expectations, and will be the foundation for many cool projects in the future. What I can offer: get paid for what you would do for free anyway work independently and from wherever you live be part of an groundbreaking and exciting project and the founding members of a new game company a partnership with mutual respect and the will to always improve communication and workflow to boost each others´ happiness and the quality of the game Needless to say, I am very passionate about this project and I am not looking for employees, but rather long-term partners who share my enthusiasm to create the outstanding first part in an exciting future game franchise. More information: http://www.starshipcorporation.com/community/jobs/

I've journaled a number of different ways but I kinda felt like making a quick app for it. Journal: https://github.com/tcrowe/journal Right now it includes only the most basic functionality of journal entries by month. In the future I want to support a few more features like theming and search. This is not a big, fancy, production piece so you'll probably be let down if you expect a lot. I am also seeking peer review and collaboration if anyone wants to jam on it. Requisite Skills ------------------- HTML CSS Bo-staff skills JavaScript Coffee Script It may interest you that there is a JSON data storage module behind this project. The journal was a way for me to do some practical testing on it. splash: https://github.com/tcrowe/splash If you want to talk about it please send me a message via this message board. If you want to post bugs please use the issues page on github.