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I would guess that they trained AlphaGo from many thousands of hours of match footage. Writing a computer vision script to segment / extract the data may cost cycles as you say, bu…

I mean no offense, but a 75% failure rate isn't exactly a great endorsement of your methodology.

Ehh. Hilary Clinton is far more powerful than the people that invite her to give speeches. More than likely this is a way for a business interest to pay tribute in the hopes that s…

One interpretation of this interview: If Machiavelli had had a prince for a disciple, the first thing he would have recommended him to do would have been to write a book against Ma…

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I think much of what you've said can be applied to other types of social outcasts e.g. drunks, gamblers, etc.

I realize that this is besides the point but going on the title alone we could write a script that could generate an 'infinite' (max out available memory) sized image.

Perhaps you could explain how the existence of trans. people is proof that gender is not a social construct?

There are some great examples among the comments of people vehemently defending their provably false beliefs.

You do know what happened in 2007-2008 which allowed for this, right?

I wonder if this work has any link to what Carmack and the Oculus Rift crew are doing with Android?

How could I get in touch with a team within Walmart that uses Scala? (To see if there are any available positions.)

"The world divides into facts. Each fact can be the case or not the case, while everything else remains the same." -Ludwig Wittgenstein

You make a good point, but in this case location X is not a specific coordinate but a wide range of possible coordinates over the ocean.

Imagine a system which levied taxes not to fund government expenditure but to carefully control inflation. In this system there is no need for the government to collect taxes from …

Just a conjecture, but, it may not always be possible/straightforward to map a set of CA rules meant for a rectangular grid to a hex grid.

"Focusing is about saying no." - Steve Jobs

A couple of random thoughts on potential applications/uses: 1. Alexandria needs to communicate with Bilbo. Alexandria has the privilege of being trusted by whatever organization sh…

Last Week Tonight by John Oliver is a good source of news when it is in-season. [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight

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SpamMimic works by using a context free probabilistic grammar to derive its output. Each production of the grammar is translated into a Huffman tree based on the probabilities assi…

On where to start => I'd start by getting a very solid grasp of graph theory. It is the bedrock of many algorithms and along the way you'll learn all kinds of useful mathematical n…