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If you mean applications, Adobe Illustrator If you mean code, Smalltalk or LISP

When the tiger has killed it, it's dead & is then meat, yes

Living flesh is not meat. Meat is what we call dead flesh. A living brain is made of neural nano-processors.

I agree, this point does warrant discussion. How could DeepMind prove that AlphaGo played its best in match 4 ?

In the last year I have noticed more news articles about this subject. Why this is, I don't know. Nope. Nope, nope, nope. I will not eat insects or worms because they are associate…

Yes. This is the point. To what extent can AlphaGo transfer what it has learned in Go to other domains. It was a very smart move to train their first AI on Go!

How is Clojure's interning of keywords different to this ?

Korean cuisine is among the best in the world Love bibimbap, kimchi, kimchi pancake, and more kimchi

no, I don't struggle to imagine that they can read , I struggle to imagine what it feels like to them

When I read a fiction book I hear a general main narration voice, usually my own but it could be someone else if I know the author was American for example. Then I also hear accent…

AFAIA such scanners can only capture the surface of a thing, and cannot gain information about overhangs and occluded surfaces. For some purposes one needs volume information What …

nope

ah, sorry

It was a shit movie, and in addition to the "team tensions" trope, apparently Turing wasn't ashamed of being gay at all Could you get your grandfather to blog his memories of Bletc…

offended by others taking offence

to which the answer is, more research to discover what mosquitos connect with and are any of the connections beneficial mosquitos inhabit a niche which could be filled by another o…

Has anyone converted the spectrograms given in the paper, or better still the raw data, into sound yet ? Each location in each ear please!

eh, hedgehogs won't go extinct for want of human intervention

Yet he's a brilliant author of pop-sci books on evolution and as a "rational optimist" who believes in leaving systems to self-organize, this inconsistent call for "regulation" of …

terrible advice too much hygiene weakens your immune system, exposure to common bacteria and fungi at a low level is good for it and don't put anything in your ears! (except maybe …

he could have left himself out of it, just once, out of respect

Tromp's website is a treasure-trove of really cool things

This is what I'd like to see too. Let's get away from tiny motions and sitting in a chair and make tools more like traditional wood/metalworking tools for programming: benches with…

Focus-stealing annoys me the most. Applications should never steal focus & should always open in the background.