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f137··on AI movie posters
Well. I guessed just one of them - Mad Max. However I've seen probably not more than 10 of those movies, so it's 10% success rate. Not so bad ))
f137··on Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes
Thanks, I was wandering how they account for the speed of sound but was lazy to google )
f137··on Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society
Well, just run it thru an AI summarizer )
f137··on A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS
It looks as nobody would learn from others' mistakes. US will have to go through komsomol, purges, and gulag to finally understand what's going on now.
f137··on YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
How come that in 21st century we are still using the racially degrading terms, like black and white, in so many places?

Does it take a lot of effort to replace them with neutral non-offensive colors?

Speaking about chess, don't you think that chess being mostly-male mostly-white is a direct consequence of the language they use?

f137··on Mortality rate for Black babies plummets when they’re delivered by Black doctors
Well, some time ago I read a similar study for some Asian country. Childbirth mortality was higher in the hospitals in big towns than in villages. The reason is simple - whenever possible, they transport complicated cases to big hospitals.
f137··on 100k Stars
It says Voyager is 17 light years away. That's a way off.

Idea and visuals are great, but needs some proofreading.

f137··on Mark in the Middle
You probably know that plate tectonics was considered "pseudoscientific crankery", do you?
f137··on Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband police department
Great. This will be a very instructive experiment. I hope it would teach those people a good lesson, and not too many innocent people would die for it.
f137··on Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors
I'm not sure extra space after a period is a convention in TeX, meaning it is added only when required by aligning text, not after every period.
f137··on A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games
A link to wiki wouldn't hurt here
f137··on The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019)
exactly my feeling
f137··on How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]
I hope 'm' here is minutes, not millions )
f137··on Reason Won't Save Us
Libet’s "preceding activity" is simply an example of branch prediction at work.
f137··on Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day
I do not see daily updates on planet.com, at least for the free trial account I just created, and for my location (Eastern Europe).

For example, there is a damb nearby which was completed a few months ago, but is shown half-built in their map.

f137··on Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
You're holding it wrong way
f137··on Apple has removed or restricted several screen-time and parental-control apps
Where did she get that game for ipad for free?
f137··on Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parking Minimums
It's the richest country on earth - that's the reason
f137··on Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men
You mean women are different from men? Really?
f137··on B.S. In Artificial Intelligence – Curriculum
Well, this BS abbreviation is amusing.

Really, I'd love to have a look at a good bu..s..t in AI reading list :)

f137··on Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN
Well, the standard model can be correct. It is correct until some experiment proves otherwise.

It is full of unexplained hadcoded parameters, indeed, which need an explanation from outside of the SM.

f137··on British cave diver considering legal action after 'pedo' attack by Elon Musk
Musk is a narcissistic asshole. That's all. I hope more people will see it now.
f137··on Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview
If you have no hiring power, why do you talk to the recruiter at all? It seems none of your business to tell her the team is not growing.
f137··on Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years
I first misread it as

> Music Monetization Act

f137··on Tesla's Autopilot Chief Keller Steps Down After Two Years
>> LiDAR is... low resolution,

that's nonsense

>>and extremely expensive.

and that'll change soon

f137··on How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop
The problem is you are required to prove that you follow the rules, which would take your effort and your money. This is a "guilty until you prove you are not" thing.
f137··on JupyterLab is ready for users
For last 20 years at the least, and the gap widens if anything
f137··on Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning
This is a nice example of adversary input, but I think it misses the point a bit. The point being, if I take a couple paragraphs of a tech text, online article, or the like, I will get a correct translation most of the time.

It won't do poetry, but GT did remove a need in a human translator in many everyday tasks.

Just last week a friend asked me to translate a preamble to a master thesis (political economy). I fed it into GT and it just worked.

f137··on 26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent crime conviction (2014)
Well, Gulag was profitable AFAIK
f137··on Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10
Office 2003 works great for me ;)
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