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How is Bing a pile of garbage? It takes some effort to come up with a search for which it or ddg are markedly worse than google. FWIW I still use google.

That's how the BBC does their headlines. Anytime something is in quotes, prepend the headline with "Someone says:". For whatever reason they won't write headlines longer than 6 or …

I think it doesn't work well for questions with simple answers; it's meant for more open-ended questions. I got much better responses for some random questions I just thought up: "…

But spoken Chinese is quite different from written Chinese, which allows for more economy. Often a single character will be used in writing where a two-character word would be used…

FWIW, I am American, and I would absolutely object if Google were building weapons for the Chinese military. I would stop using Microsoft products if it turned out they supplied we…

Your discussion of "legality" here is U.S.-centric. Google has offices in Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Turkey, U.A.E., India, and China, to name a few. How would you feel if Go…

Not everyone thinks that the U.S. drone program has much to do with keeping free nations safe and prosperous.

How senior are you? I would first spend some time hunting for innovative teams within Google to transfer to. There are plenty of boring jobs at Google but also plenty of ambitious …

I'm surprised Uber is funding general AI research given their reported financial situation.

> I have this theory that they've noticed that the platform is being used less and less, and is why we're getting so much ads mixed with our friends' posts. They're milking the cow…

This should not be downvoted. One sees the source before the colon more often than after the colon, but it is common to see the source after the colon in some publications. I see s…

I believe what she wrote, and I believe you do too, which is why we both keep quoting her. I disagree that either of my imagined scenarios are inconsistent with what she wrote. But…

With complete sincerity and honesty, I think either sequence of events I described could match what Yeoh wrote. If I said to someone, "You really gotta go, sorry", I might well des…

I don't know if anyone will believe me that I'm asking in good faith. But I still think that sentence, as written, could describe a wide range of situations. If it went like: A: Fi…

I have experienced similarly persistent (or arguably even more persistent) unwanted sexual advances from other men, but I certainly didn't feel "assaulted". As a socially clueless …

Oh, right, subfield of the complex numbers. Now sigma is supposed to be an automorphism on that subfield. Which means sigma does take scalar values as arguments, contrary to what s…

OK, thanks. Your answer has allowed me to follow the paper a little further, though I think your answer may be inconsistent with the other two answers I got. Also I haven't been ab…

> σ acts on rational functions like f and g This is what I was missing. But the paper also says σ is an automorphism of Q(x_1, ... x_n). Which is weird, since I thought Q(x_1, ... …

> Your sigma is a bijection on rational functions of a, b, not on the evaluations of those functions at particular values of a and b. I see, this is the key point I was missing. Bu…

Can anyone help me understand what is happening at the bottom of page 23 (page 3 of the PDF)? It says any permutation sigma of x_1, ..., x_n can be extended to a bijection of Q(x_1…

Troubling. Thanks for sharing. I wonder how the percent of innocents killed by drone strikes compares to the number for non-drone combat.

Is typing speed really the bottleneck when programming? For me, it's definitely either the speed of thought or the time it takes to look up names, interfaces, etc.