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Re:It only took 36 hours for these students to solve Faceboo... by yosito on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:13AM (#12955775)
It's a pretty cool plugin, really. But I'm guessing that the people interested in using it already belong to a demographic that is highly skeptical and good at spotting fake news.
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Re:It only took 36 hours for these students to solve Faceboo... by inimino on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:30AM (#12956487)
It's a cool hackathon project to play with classification. Presenting it as even a partial solution, as the article did, is irresponsible.
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