From Alan Turing to Deep Blue and Watson, humans have been trying to create smarter algorithms since computers were invented. There has been much success in the field of artificial intelligence, but lately the focus has shifted from making a single, hyper-intelligent AI program to making smaller, compact devices that on their own have seemingly no intelligence, but when gathered into groups they begin to exhibit a higher intelligence. This focus of AI is called “Swarm Intelligence” or “Swarm Theory.” I will personally be keeping my eye on advances in this field, if only to prevent swarms of evil, self replicating modular robots from taking over the galaxy.
A new, enhanced version of Sealevel’s SeaLINK software, supporting the Sealevel family of Ethernet to serial devices, has been released. The SeaLINK V5 driver for Microsoft Windows has been rewritten from the ground up to provide increased throughput, improved security features, additional diagnostic capabilities, and support for new SeaLINK serial devices launching this year.
Debates have raged over whether defragmenting a solid state drive is beneficial, necessary, or even detrimental to the drive. Originally, defragmentation was thought to be detrimental to the drive because of the limited number of erase-write cycles. Defragmentation is also thought to be unnecessary due to the nature of a hard drive versus a solid state drive. In a hard drive, most of the time spent when retrieving a piece of information comes from seeking. As the drive fills up, and files are moved, deleted, and created, fragmentation occurs. This causes file reads to require multiple seeks to obtain an entire file, greatly reducing performance of a hard drive over time.
My interest in sailing began before I could walk. My father has owned several sailboats. While my father introduced me to sailing and taught me to sail, he spent more time in recreational sailing and I spent more time racing. But why would a software engineer be blogging about sailboats?
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