Death to company CEOs for data leakage.  Okay.  Maybe death is an exaggeration.  But a slap on hand for the people who have leaked my data is too weak.  I was again reminded how little control I have over my data.  The IEEE Computer 09.17  edition (issue 09), one of their better issues this year, has a great article on the security risks of IVAs (Intelligent Virtual Assistants) like Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, etc.,

Summary

Eclipse Oxygen 1, release 4.7.1,  failed to start with Java 9, followed the suggestion at Comment 75: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=493761#c75

After adding --add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM to the last line of my eclipse.ini, it worked.

Summary

To get CUDA 8.0 on Win 64bit up and running, download and install:

CUDA 8.0

Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 with Update 3 x64

Folllowing the testing directions at:  http://linkevin.me/setting-up-cuda-in-windows-10-and-8-7/

Background

(Economist) Pricing free internet services

Great overview on Principal Component Analysis functionality in Weka.

https://youtu.be/zuoMjUAPihA

If you can look beyond the snide English writing (and be thankful one never had to work with this person) a fairly interesting article on the different methods of trying to get thinking systems to do something productive over the decades: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/21/artificial_intelligent/