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A useful analogy for understanding meatspace ecosystems. Software is a bit like pond scum.

One example might be that spirits are said to be bound by arbitrary functions (bizarre ritual ingredients being a famous example). That they respond to and recognize cues. Another …

Collaborative general purpose editors nowadays show one user's text selection to other users, so this is straightforward to implement.

It's been applied to surgery with 90-99% reductions in line infection rates. Head nurse calls the surgeon out on checklist violations.

Trading with my own robots and by hand. I found that automated triangular (and 4, 5...) arbitrage was possible in the past, mainly due to fee-raking exchanges providing superfluous…

This is basically how many closed source Bitcoin trading robots operate. They create giant waves of predictable trades because naive operators leave the default parameters for trad…

Or, the makers of Pokemon Go were installing a system to easily obtain video footage of any urban location (less easily, other areas). If the Fenn-treasure-seeker ground penetratin…

Any central public library is fully stocked on Asimov.

Sometimes because they are intentionally gatekeeping, as in Half Past Human's conversational delta analysis reports.

As a layman, I'm not clear on why we don't treat such sites like alien worlds and come prepared with environmental suits for the jungle, special habitats and vehicles, etc. The art…

This is fascinating because it probably dates back to the times of medicinal uses of such. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-o...