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"Forgetfulness" by Billy Collins, reminds me that I forget to do my college homework, or procrastinate for that matter. - Click title watch the video!

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Past, present, and future...

We all have our conditions; some refer to this as the “human condition.” Individuals do, say, and think in patterns. You might think of it as a repetition, much like a machine; such as a car engine. Separation between human and machine is decisions. We dictate future holdings by acting on our decisions. However, that lies in directions we steer our lives. After all, the future is merely the past strung together by intricate experiences through our personal history. How an individual reacts to an experience dictates subconscious future holdings and may have been dictated by present sub-consciousness. How will you react to a similar set of experiences in the future? The anomalies depend on the outliers of your handlings. Not to assume you should follow the crowd, or stand against them. That is for the individual to decide. This will become the pattern. The pattern, in which develops what an individual does, how an individual will communicate, and how there pattern can be predicted. There is one outlier however. The human mind is thought to be unpredictable. I know otherwise, however, I do not understand it.

So we are supposed to understand ourselves because others do not, but in the end how much do we really know about ourselves and the way we work?

I challenge you to question yourself.

Why does this keep happening to me?

If I cannot change it or prevent it, which path is better taken?

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Pointer Variables in C

Pointer Variables

 Did you know you may initialize a pointer variable WHILE declaring it?

int i;

int *p = &i;

YUP! ...Wait don’t freak out! There is an even better way!

int i, *p = &i;

Don’t forget to call it!

printf("%d\n", *p);

There are many pointers available to us!

The following can point to a variable of its initialized value:

int *p;

float *q;

double *r;

char *s;

As always, have fun!

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A very interesting and possibly humorous article depending on witch side of the fence you reside. If I may summarize the articles main point: Avoid stooping to others degraded or underdeveloped level of intelligence. Simply apply an appropriate filter to the issue.

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AI and Translation

Artificial Intelligence and technology have made many groundbreaking strides over the past few decades. AI is currently the most sought after in terms of programming. An early project of AI was seen in the Cold War years of 1945-91 between democratic U.S. and communist Russia. The goal was to translate documents and simplify the communication between U.S. and Soviet scientists. It was also thought that by simplifying communication, tensions would be relieved at least slightly. This early program had many outcomes for good and bad. Today, Google Translate is a commonly used reference tool. However, it seems to be no more than an implication of its cold war predecessor.

            So what does it mean to translators, students, and the general public? Two things can account for its explanation; an experimental tool, and constant development AI. According to Matt Novak in his writing The Cold War Origins of Google Translate at BBC.com, states:

“In the mid-1950s roughly 50% of scientific papers published around the world were in English. The average paper cost about $6 to translate (around $50, adjusted for inflation) and translation of highly technical papers required that the human translator be intimately familiar with the material.”

The need for translators was in demand; however, to provide services and with few translators available, it reflects the inflated cost. Few scientists and engineers could read or speak foreign languages. From here, a simpler option must be found. Computer technology was at its prime, and would (hope to) ease the lingual barrier.

  Source:

Novak, Matt. "The Cold War Origins of Google Translate." BBC.com. British Broadcasting Corporation, 30 May 2012. Web. 12 Mar. 2013. <http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120529-a-cold-war-google-translate>.

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Hello World

Hello and welcome to Cyber Post! I am excited to share my plethora of possibly useless knowledge with you. If you are still wondering what this site is about...please click on the "about" tab there located at the top left-hand corner of the page and you will be enlightened.

As is customary that programmers welcome themselves to a new language, I would like to welcome you to Cyber Post with this most customary practice.

Using the MinGw (C89, C99 compliant) compiler environment in C:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)

{

printf("Hello World! Welcome to Cyber Post!");

}

return 0;

Now of course whom we may idolize:

Grace M. Hopper - Computer Scientist developed CBOL | Tera L. Conley -  http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/06/04/the-women-and-people-of-color-who-invented-the-internet/

Ada Lovelace - 19th century math mathematician and world's first programmer | Tera L. Conley - http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/06/04/the-women-and-people-of-color-who-invented-the-internet/

Alan Kay - Computer Scientist | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Kay2.jpg