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Lrn for iOS is the app that will get you learning to code

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by on July 28, 2015 at 7:58 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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There are plenty of apps and initiatives designed to help you to code – Codeacademy, Code.org and Code Institute among them – but the truth is whatever approach you take, there isn’t a magic trick to mastering it. I’ve tried lots of methods in the past and found that the biggest issue is sticking with a course. But in the past week I’ve been messing with a new option – Lrn, an iOS app designed to get you started with Javascript – and it’s working. In the same way that the best camera is the one you always have with you,…

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The Artificial Intelligence AK-47: A cheap, replicable autonomous weapon is inevitable

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by on July 28, 2015 at 7:28 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Opinion

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“The endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow. The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting.” – Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI & Robotics Researchers The Kalashnikov aka the AK-47 is the design classic we don’t talk about that much. It’s the mechanical instrument of murder that has outlived every other ‘gadget’ of its generation. Those who do bring it up as an incredible and awful achievement usually do so to be polemical, but it’s true. Elon…

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