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Who remembers the Sony Playstation 1?

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I do, of course...as I have my original version in the cupboard (over there), I have the smaller version that has a screen attached to it , so no need for a TV and of course I have the PSOne wallet :-) I also have the Net Yaroze too....yep, the developer edition...(ah, I miss the days of coding games in "C" directly and not using Games Engines like Unity or UnReal)......and I have some PSPs that I actively use for playing UMDs and the odd game I have the PSX /  PPSSPP  emulators running on my OpenPandora and my lubuntu linux laptop as well as a RetroPie that I built with a proper joystick.... Well, it looks like Sony has gotten all nostalgic too....and is releasing a small version for Q4 : https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/playstation-classic/ (it's amusing that my waistline has gone the opposite way in that timeline!) It does make you wonder if it is just a Raspberry Pi inside there or whether Sony actually built their own smaller board f

IBM Q(uantum)

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I've been here before, but I think I was a bit too early.... http://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/2017/05/babies-first-computer-quantum.html However, I'm pretty sure that this is the place to start to move over into. If you think about the limitations we have today in relation to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, it's a bit like looking at the limitations of the horse&cart and having the vision to see the Quantum Sports car ( okay, not the best evolutionary step, but a vision none the less ) During my day job, I've seen a lot of people working away delivering various Machine Learning services, such as " chat bots ".  They are all super excited that they are going to really make a difference and help out their fellow human beings to "get things done". Then they release their baby into the wild and well, it gets a whole lot of abuse and gets condemned for being "dumb", for not being able to do the "simplest of thi