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Archive for October 17th, 2017

Google’s AI can create better machine-learning code than the researchers who made it

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/17

[WayBack] Google’s AI can create better machine-learning code than the researchers who made it:

Google’s AutoML project has yielded significant advances in the ability for machine-learning systems to replicate and improve AI code.

Via:

–jeroen

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Why Delphi users love @TMSsoftwareNews: bugfix within 2.5 hours.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/17

People love @TMSSoftwareNews because of the short bug-fix turnaround. In this case 2.5 hours: [WayBack@jpluimers: @TMSsoftwareNews when entering a perfectly valid email address like word.word+tag.subtag@gmail.com: Please enter a valid Email Address.

–jeroen

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UPS PIco HV3.0 documentation not on github: “03_0x38_W_UPS PIco HV3.0.pdf”

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/17

I ordered a UPS PIco HV3.0 A Stack 450 Plus and it arrived without any documentation on how to solder the parts together.

So I tried searching for them: https://www.google.com/search?q=UPS+PIco+HV3.0+A+Stack+450+Plus+installation+instructions which turned mostly github based URLs.

I learned there is a bit on github:

But despite code and documentation being there, no installation instructions on how to solder the stuff together.

Luckily, they responded quickly to my tweet So I got my “UPS PIco HV3.0 A Stack 450 Plus” @ModMyPi but no assembly instructions. Where do all the non-soldered parts go when using RPi3? and a quick respons thread revealing I needed 03_0x38_W_UPS PIco HV3.0.pdf which – TADAAAA – is on Google drive and on the forums at [WayBackUPS PIco Firmware Update & Troubleshooting : Technical Support

So despite github providing an excellent platform for discussion and storing documentation, something archaic like a forum is used to store data in a disorganised way.

Too bad, as the document itself is 100+ page of invaluable documentation.

So in case of future bit-rot, here are the links:

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TEncryptedIniFile: easy to use class for handling app settings with encryption in Delphi – TMS Software Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/17

[WayBackTMS Software | Blog | TEncryptedIniFile: easy to use class for handling app settings with encryption

via: [WayBackA new blog has been posted:TEncryptedIniFile: easy to use class for handling app settings with encryption – Michael Thuma – Google+

I wonder how that works with encryption algorithms based on thin Delphi wrappers around proven open source encryption libraries.

–jeroen

PS: Note the G+ link died. Not sure why, but that’s why I archived the original as a WayBack link when writing this post.

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