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I have a colleague in a big tech firm whose email address is derived from his initials, resulting in the glorious: "svp@ .com" Needless to say, he sometimes gets emails he shouldn'…

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming ba…

SIMA author here - SIMA is betting on simulations and games. We use real-world open-ended language, but games/sim obviously have simplified physics/graphics. In terms of alternativ…

I think they are trying to imply that refueling a starship in orbit is worth it, whatever the cost - it gives a capability we didn't have before.

Yes, this. Even looking like half a sphere is enough, as the system attempts to detect partially occluded balls too.

A few reasons why this outsourcing is more extensive than you might think: Latency: (cheap labour is usually far away from the match). This makes teleoperation harder. Bandwidth (T…

They did this for Goal Line Technology (put a chip in the ball). A few companies actually managed to get a production process that put a chip in the ball without affecting flight c…

This is a surprisingly easy mistake to make. Background: I was one of the original engineers on the Goal Line Technology system now used by the vast majority of professional league…

Any game built around word play or humour. E.g. "I'm sorry I haven't a Clue"[1] or something like Cards Against Humanity. Though I imagine someone is trying to apply GPT-3 to these…