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I agree, if AI (or humans) have mistranslated a natural language statement to a formal statement, we should not rely on AI to correctly translate the formal statement back into nat…

Really interesting! It does need an explanation - took me a bit of clicking around to discover the rules (which I actually enjoyed because it turned out not to be too complicated! …

Yeah, I think it's a typo and should have been "one in every 24 million babies" - this makes sense given the numbers, with 4 million born every year but only a new president every …

If I understand you right - you could visualize in 2d space: "king" at origin, X-axis is "king"-"man", Y-axis is "king"-"woman" (or gram-schmidt if you really want orthogonal). In …

Would you be interested in working in quantitative finance in London? We're hiring (remotely for now, but you'd be expected to work in London probably later this year). We have lot…

Just spent some time playing around with that, really cool! Thank you :)

Off-topic but, was that supposed to be a haiku? I only count six syllables in the second line.

You said: "Saying "selection pressure" implies intent, determination, a collective mission, if you will. Evolution has none of those drivers. It has no objectives. It sets no goals…

Ah, I see. Could you edit your post to reflect this? As it stands it is very easy to misinterpret.

Does this mean that a 10^13 reliability has 320% chance of failure? EDIT: in any case the correct calculation should be http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281-%2810^-14%29%29^%2…

The EPR paradox was resolved a while ago, strongly in favour of Einstein's "spooky action at a distance". The first experiments were done in the 70's. See: https://en.wikipedia.org…

I thought it meant two programs which compute the same thing but possibly using different algorithms. If they are indistinguishable then you can't infer from the improved algorithm…

And who told you there are "hundreds of thousands" of people who want to blow up Americans? But actually, even (very generously) at 100,000 brand-new prisoners for the USG to deal …

No. The escape velocity on Mars is 5 km/s, whereas on Earth it is 11 km/s. There is also a lot less of an atmosphere on Mars (though the atmosphere is smaller on Earth) and Martian…

It does seem a bit more forceful than bold to me; maybe you could have a separate 'bold' font and a 'really really bold' font?

What? In the original it was written in all caps as well.

The point as I read it was that people who aspire to management aren't really engineers in the truest sense, but engineers "only by title". That is, people working on actual engine…

Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

Has the title changed since submission? It makes no mention of Windows 8 now (current title is "Malware Uses Google Docs as a Proxy Server").

It could also be that they're trying to filter out people who know "Windows support" sounds dodgy. This also fits with the fact that they still seem to all have Indian accents -- a…

Really? Wow, that's cool. Can I have a reference?

You didn't answer the question. No-one ever said pirating was okay (or "not stealing"). Also, I think you're wrong: pirating a movie/book/whatever will at most result in the price …

I doubt there is a conspiracy behind this; I just left the comment (too?) open to the possibility.

That's not the point. This whole case has been just testing the water for the FBI - seeing how far the public (and the NZ government) will let them go. Whether they have grand desi…

For me, that is behind a login screen. I heard a little while ago about users who have a google account but aren't logged in being unable to access G+ pages; I'll edit after a cook…