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Coding, Education, Employment, Higher Education, Latest Trend

News flash:It’s about the skill set, not the suit or the degree

August 8, 2018

High School failed me. As a high school dropout, I knew I was taking a risk by rejecting the ‘normal route’ and knew I always wanted to be in the business world. During one assignment in my computer class, I did not show up in a suit and tie for the presentation. The teacher docked me for not ‘dressing proper’, which I found puzzling. After all, this class was about desktop publishing – why should this be an issue? It should be about the substance of my work and not some preconceived, superficial notion about how I looked. For me, it has always been about the substance and not the suit.

The good news is that federal aid for colleges has reached its high-water mark. The bad news is that millions of young adults feel they have no choice but to enroll in a four-year University, something that brings with it an inordinate amount of debt for many students.

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Coding, communication, Computer Security, Corporate Manipulation, Hot Issues

Should software engineers care about ethics

May 7, 2018

It’s time for engineers to hold themselves accountable.

In his essay, “Design’s Lost Generation,” Mike Monteiro describes how he shocked a crowd of designers at a San Francisco tech conference by suggesting design — like medicine, law, and even driving — should be regulated:

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Business, Coding, Entertainment, Game Development

Indie game publishers are the new indie rock labels

April 11, 2018

A new wave of boutique publishers is helping indies create better games.

In 2008, Vivendi, the parent company of Sierra Entertainment, merged with game publisher Activision. The result was a new, monolithic corporation called Activision Blizzard, that was now home to some of the biggest games in the world, like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. At the time, Sierra had a number of upcoming games on its slate, including an exciting heavy-metal adventure from Double Fine, the studio of game design legend Tim Schafer. The game was called Brutal Legend, and it starred Jack Black in the lead role. It was also one of many games to be canceled following the merger. What followed was a protracted process in which EA signed on to publish the game instead, only for Activision to sue Double Fine, followed by Double Fine filing a countersuit. During the toughest moments of game development, those last desperate months when the small details finally come together, Schafer and his team were distracted by legal matters.

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App, Coding, cutting edge, Science & Technology News

Zeroqode will usher us into a codeless future

January 16, 2018

Codeless development platforms are at once a blessing and a curse. If they’re complete enough to be powerful they are too difficult for beginners and if they’re simple enough for beginners they’re useless for serious work. Zeroqode, a one-stop-shop for codeless creation, aims to make the difficult easy and the easy more powerful.

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Coding, Coding Schools, DaVinci Coders

Davinci Coders Game Development Course

December 14, 2017

Learn to Program through Video Game Development

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Coding, Coding Schools, Education

A free, teacher-less university in France is schooling thousands of future-proof programmers

September 20, 2017

When you walk into École 42, a teacher-less coding school in Paris, a few things leap out at you: a killer collection of provocative street art, including an illustrated condom machine at the front desk; iMacs as far as the eye can see; and a palpable buzz from the roughly 1,000 students bustling around the building.

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Coding, Coding Schools, Education, Higher Education, Science & Technology News

Millennial techies are choosing skill based training over college

August 21, 2017

Daunted by the expense of a four-year program, students are focusing on learning the skills they need for the jobs they want.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, brain hacking, brain-computer interfaces, Breakthrough Thinking, Coding, Electric Vehicles

When AI improves human performance instead of replacing it

June 10, 2017

It’s not about artificial intelligence (AI) taking over — it’s about AI improving human performance, a new study by Yale University researchers has shown.

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3D Printer, AI, Clothing, Coding, Nanotechnology, People Making a Difference

Introducing MIT’s “living” breathing no-sweat clothing

June 2, 2017

If it was up to a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the next trend in sportswear would be clothes made out of living cells. You got that right, living microbial cells. With a design that looks like it came straight out of science fiction, the self-ventilating workout suit developed by the MIT researchers gives a new meaning to breathable and no-sweat clothing — plus, it comes with a pair of running shoes lined with the same living cells on the inside.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Banking, Big Data, Big Problems, Bitcoin, Blockchain, brain hacking, Coding, Coding Schools, Crime, Crime Prevention, Crypto-Technology, Money Talk, new technology, New Viewpoints, privacy

7 laws that will have to change because of blockchain

May 16, 2017

“Code is law,” as described in Lawrence Lessig’s book ‘Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace’, refers to the idea that computer code has progressively established itself as a predominant way to regulate behavior to the same degree as legal code.

With the advent of blockchain technology, code is assuming an even stronger role in regulating people’s interactions.

However, while computer code can enforce rules more efficiently than legal code, it also comes with a series of limitations.

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Coding, Employment, Life Skills

11 skills every 24-year-old should learn

April 5, 2017

If, like many people, you stumble out of college in your early 20s, unsure of what to do next, you can be forgiven for needing a few years to get your bearings.

The transition from school to work (or more work), can take a bit of getting used to. And it can also be a fun time to try things and toss them away, to not worry so much about what’s coming down the road.

But by 24, you have unquestionably entered adulthood, and it’s good to start taking stock of what things you want to make sure you get a head start on. These choices could influence the rest of your life.
To help out, a bunch of people chimed in on a Quora thread discussing the skills every 24 year old should to learn. We narrowed it down to the top 11 pieces of advice.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Coding, Machine Learning, Programming, Science & Technology News, Software Development

AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other programs

March 10, 2017

OUT of the way, human, I’ve got this covered. A machine learning system has gained the ability to write its own code.

Created by researchers at Microsoft and the University of Cambridge, the system, called DeepCoder, solved basic challenges of the kind set by programming competitions. This kind of approach could make it much easier for people to build simple programs without knowing how to write code.

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