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The robot needs a speaker so it can yell "Parkour!" during each jump

The reverse is true as well. I traveled in India with a friend from China who used their Chinese sim card in India, and their data was censored through the firewall. Really annoying to be outside China and not able to use Google maps.

Railscasts taught me so much when I was first learning web development right out of university. I used to watch Railscasts episodes religiously when they came out. I don't know if I would have grown as much as a developer without being exposed to the whole ecosystem of tools and techniques that Railscasts presented - I'd often discover libraries existed that solved problems I would never have known to seek out otherwise. Thank you for the time and effort over the years producing the episodes @rbates! Looking forward to hearing the full story in the next installments!

Thanks for pointing this out! I update the post to note that this is a Multi-Armed Bandit problem, and linked to this comment in the updates section.

I updated the post to note Thompson Sampling and added a note about using only recent data as a potential improvement and linked to this comment. Thanks for this note!

Thanks for pointing this out! I updated the post to note that this only works well if the conversion rate stays constant, and linked to this comment.

Can confirm, using a non-root user also solves the issue (which I should have been doing anyway). It guess Cloud Run assumes $HOME is set to /home/something and since root uses /root it gets confused?

True! That would have also been a smart move

Ugh that's embarrassing. It seems like it works for most words, but has a few obnoxious outliers like "male" that I can't figure out why they score as female. It might just be a quirk of the dataset or something :/

I wondered if this could be useful for open source journalism stuff like bellingcat does. Essentially combing through tons of photos online to figure out where / when they were taken and Put together an understanding of an incident

This is solved in real life by taxes which make it uneconomical to sit on high value land while doing nothing with it. If it's not high value then who cares, feel free to squat. The problem is ICANN just charges $10/month per .com no matter the value, so it makes it economically viable for domain squatters to buy everything and just extort anyone who comes looking to do something productive. Just raise the yearly price on .coms, or raise the price proportional to how popular ICANN thinks the name will be, or ideally both. If it was $1000+/year for a high-value domain name, and $100/year for a reasonable length .com, squatters would vacate real fast.

Raising the price would solve the issue overnight. It doesn't need to be a uniform price increase, either - ICANN can guess which domain names are likely to be pricey based on length, dictionary words, or other heuristics. It can't be that hard. There's no reason why every domain name needs to cost the same amount per month. Domain squatters only do this because it's economically viable for them to register 10K domain names and just extort anyone who wants to do anything productive with them.

Also, ICANN should directly auction expiring domain names themselves. It's infuriating that when a domain name expires, whoever has the fastest script pays $10 and then immediately resells it for $100K to whoever actually needed it.

Do you know why? I also wonder this. I think I followed the paper correctly. My theory is that maybe there's a default male bias in the English languge?

You can check catchafire.org. There's some opportunities there for technical volunteering