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bumblebeardon How you will not uncover Satoshi

There was an interesting talk about this (adversarial stylometry) at 28C3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SgAOcCm0I

One of the methods they mentioned is machine translation, but they found that it wasn't terribly useful. It's a really neat talk and I highly recommend it. They also wrote some software to anonymize texts (Anonymouth) and their stylometry software (JStylo) is also freely available:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4781.en.h...

bumblebeardon Sinclair C5 Electric Car (1985)

I think it was intended to replace a car, but legally it counts as an electrically-assisted bicycle since it has pedals and such a small motor.

bumblebeardon When Wine "Connoisseurs" Are Given the Same Glass Of Wine Over and Over

This study was conducted over the course of 15 years with 571 wine experts:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-0238.2008....

They found that individual judges were generally not very consistent in their rankings but that if you use small groups of judges then you can get better reproducibility.

The exact numbers are in the paper, but about 67% of the experts had statistically significant reliability for red wines and about 50% had statistically significant reliability for whites.

Also interesting is John Cleese's film about wine in which he conducted a blind taste test that found that most tasters couldn't discriminate between white and red wine. I couldn't find it online, but the whole thing is worth watching if you're interested in wine.