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Re:Pirate Bay Is Not Getting Rich from Bitcoin Donations on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:45PM (#21052130)
Nontrivial, yes, but for said crypto-supporting crowd I don't think it would be a stretch to presume that a lot of them are the kind that would know how.
Barring that, a community-curated repo of interfaces for common applications would also be great. You could just have a wrapper that automatically downloads the applicable config files on the fly.
Re:Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:23AM (#21013277)
The second rule is that if you think you're in the club, you probably aren't. The third row is that if you only think you're in the club to lessen your chances of being in the club, you're more likely than someone who doesn't even know about the club to be in the club.
Re:The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:32PM (#21012026)
"Boeing events are fascinating, for sufficiently large values of boring"
Re:The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:37PM (#21011158)
Unlike IP addresses where you get exponentially more of them per unit cost (i.e size), storage space costs 1 bit per bit.
Nitpicks: there are lots of grammatical errors, egregiously out-of-place usage of emojis and emoticons, and it could be argued that Gödel's incompleteness theorem is hardly "obscure."
I believe it's been adapted to a movie too, if you'd fancy that.
Re:Backpack X-Ray Machine (2016) on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:26AM (#20947979)
The Aperture logo is a nice touch
Re:Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035: Study on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @08:18PM (#20935317)
More complexity and cost than pumped hydro, and no real benefit? Sign me up!
Re:Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @01:55PM (#20869182)
Most silent mechanical keyboards are about the same cost as clicky ones.
Or prions, or toxins (i.e botulinum)
Re:U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:16PM (#20848262)
Stylometry?
Current Transformer models are looking pretty good at complex end-to-end tasks (at least, better than the shallow regression with hand-picked features that ETS probably uses). In a few years, complete end-to-end evaluation may not be so impossible, especially with so much data.
Re:Running Lisp in Production (2015) on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:23PM (#20821901)
How long before Google acquires Grammarly for the data?
Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:35AM (#20810725)
Efficient per unit distance, yes , but they're also travelling more units of distance
Re:The flawed three-cueing system for teaching reading on Sunday August 25, 2019 @03:29PM (#20794969)
English is NOT an easy language to "just read". Compared to many other languages, it is very very hard to tell how a word should be pronounced from its spelling owing to the sheer irregularity. Just because you, as an adult who has spent decades reading English, find it easy doesn't make it easy for children.
Re:Modern Artificial Intelligence for Ancient Games on Sunday August 25, 2019 @02:37PM (#20794655)
Many popular games even today are not "high quality" in the slightest, though. (Think Monopoly)