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Petition to respell the word as “bluebberry.” That the prediction engine so strongly suggests there should be two b’s in the middle implies that we instead may, in fact, be spellin…

“Quarter” has a nice big plosive at the beginning, which really gives it an impact. The “th” in third pounder makes it sound kind of weak in comparison. Bigger Burger is great! Ali…

And the more you practice directing your attention, the better your skills of awareness become! You can choose positivity over negativity, joy over anger, love over hate.

Is it the business model, or the people apathetic to its problems?

Interesting point. I guess whether it’s human error at the hands of the pilot/driver, or human error at the hands of the engineer/designer, we can never fully remove it from the eq…

It’s interesting to observe that, if this is indeed caused by a failure in the stall prevention system (and I say “if” since it’s certainly too soon to draw conclusions), the media…

Why not both?

Are you succeeding?

For me, concocted stories (if done right) are an exercise in human creativity & ingenuity. The characters are an amplification of our own character traits, and the situations are m…

All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.

Gotcha. It's not that genetic algorithms are meant to emulate the real-world, but rather that they're inspired by it.

(serious question) Do any genetic algorithms take something like this into account? Seems like it could be a good way to increase the odds of furthering successful generations.

That's a very bold assumption.

This is so romantic! Earth has a little friend that (at least on a human timescale) has always been there, always will be, no questions asked <3

Yup. alias ao='ls' alias aoe='ls -l' alias aou='ls -a' alias aoeu='ls -la' Problem solved!

Regarding Kindertotenlieder, he didn't actually lose any children until after he wrote it. Quoth Wikipedia [0]: “I placed myself in the situation that a child of mine had died. Whe…

Yup, I made more friends in one year as a music major than the following four as a computer science major :)

Our ability to express our creativity. I'll have to think about that for a while.

Have you looked at the YouTube reviews on the iOS App Store? They're exceptionally horrible for what really is an A-grade app! I don't know for sure, by my assumption is it's mostl…

The perceived "if you're keeping quiet, you must have something to hide" aspect of anonymity fascinates me. Does anybody know if you might actually be safer from, say, a theoretica…

Abstraction and conceptualization are at the core of what makes us human. Some people think technology is cold and hard and inanimate, but when I look at it I see the exact opposit…

This is fascinating! They took a medium I had always classified as a cheap imitation of a real piano, and accentuated its strengths to make it something incredibly! Blocks of notes…

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What happens when the cows refuse to be milked? Udder chaos. [1] [1]: http://unijokes.com/joke-10123/

It is SO GREAT to be able to read things without zooming or scrolling!!! I'm so excited!!! It needs minor tweaks to make it uniformly readable across arbitary screen sizes, but in …