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Sounds like a classic case of F.A.F.O.

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The argument in this piece is a classic example of slippery slope-ism. The question of fair use, or of balancing between copyright maximalism and copyright minimalism, is a so-call…

I’m not sure how it could possibly be useful to anyone to hear that they shouldn’t be in the place where a nuclear explosion occurs.

> Between late 1978 and early 1981, drivers in the U.S. saw the price at the pump nearly double from 63 cents to $1.31 a gallon. Not sure how that change would amount to NEARLY dou…

Next perhaps they can get Wolf Blitzer to stop shouting literally every sentence that comes out of his mouth as if it is all “BREAKING NEWS.”

> I think if you have the luxury of assuming every token is a dictionary word, you can do much better by simply encoding each word as its index in the dictionary. Then you have to …

The ultimate significance of the patents contained within the portfolio (how they will empower business plans, why they may be quite valuable) will not necessarily be apparent from…

Comparing ALL software developers to builders or veterinarians isn’t fair. Veterinarians are continually holding animals’ lives in their hands. Builders almost invariably build thi…

Sounds like a modified/more complex version of the well-known RICE framework. https://www.intercom.com/blog/rice-simple-prioritization-for...

Admittedly it seems less common, but... there certainly are some Smeds in Sweden (and the rest of Scandinavia). The names are not ALL sons/sens and geographic features... https://f…

> It sounds like you would need to be exceptionally careful that your meta-process didn't "find" some signal in pure noise (via re-using test sets and so on). It sounds like you’re…

This seems to be precisely what the article says. > The attempt to use computers to assist in racial classification tasks has helped sharpen the issues because computers can't deal…

The plural of “memento mori” is “memento mori.”

Possibly attributable to the definition of “(going) dutch” as “splitting the bill”? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dutch

Planning to do sentiment analysis in the future on your own writing that you’re also planning to do in the future seems like using a cannon to kill a mosquito—way overA-powered and…

What does the legal system (common law vs continental) have to do with the parent comment?

No honor among thieves? Color me shocked.

Um, a (1985) might be useful here.

The title here needs a (2017)

Needs a (2015) in the title.

Here I was expecting a deep analysis and explanation of why the engineering and businesses at play behind Captchas leads to such depressing images... instead I simply found a litan…

Some better footage: https://twitter.com/dexcash/status/1419080071621619715?s=21 https://twitter.com/arnejrgen/status/1419248599624568832?s=2...