Posted on 10/25/2017 6:19:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As a retired EE I find the concentration on advanced degrees pretty amusing. We used to joke that you could tell that a PhD had written software because it would inevitably be unnecessarily complex. I knew technicians with AS degrees who could write far better code than some with MSes. Colleges are always years behind the times. There is just too much reliance on looking at degrees rather than the person.
National Instruments has a front-end that supposedly can parse any data file and reformat for their data plotting/analysis app.
What does it do? Basically it requires that the file be ASCII text, and that the user tell it exactly how the data is formatted. Is there a header block or not? Is the data in columns or rows? What is the delimiter: comma, tab, space?
This is a very practical but hardly exciting solution to the data integration problem. It's basically the same method I use to manage test data. A method, by the way, which is almost instantly overturned as soon as I get a new file that is messed up in a unique and "interesting" way.
Does that mean that AI is racist/sexist/homophobic/etc? Or is that only because the programmers are?
My point wasn’t actually regarding AI... it was about jobs being taken away and replaced in other areas.
Which is why they will give it to an H1-B named Pradeep who has 12 years in each of these technologies at the age of 24, and pay him $60,000 / yr.
Because Smart BusinessTM.
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