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If you mean applications, Adobe Illustrator

If you mean code, Smalltalk or LISP

When the tiger has killed it, it's dead & is then meat, yes

Living flesh is not meat. Meat is what we call dead flesh.

A living brain is made of neural nano-processors.

I agree, this point does warrant discussion.

How could DeepMind prove that AlphaGo played its best in match 4 ?

In the last year I have noticed more news articles about this subject. Why this is, I don't know.

Nope. Nope, nope, nope. I will not eat insects or worms because they are associated with disease and death and it makes me want to throw up. There's nothing wrong with that, it's a natural instinct. You might argue that native Australians eat grubs etc, but they are/were living in one of the harshest environments on Earth, at the limits of survival. You will eat anything to survive.

A mostly vegetarian or vegan diet with occasional meat can supply all the nutrients one needs, without the vomit-inducing associations.

Let that be the end of it.

Yes. This is the point. To what extent can AlphaGo transfer what it has learned in Go to other domains. It was a very smart move to train their first AI on Go!

How is Clojure's interning of keywords different to this ?

Korean cuisine is among the best in the world

Love bibimbap, kimchi, kimchi pancake, and more kimchi

no, I don't struggle to imagine that they can read, I struggle to imagine what it feels like to them

When I read a fiction book I hear a general main narration voice, usually my own but it could be someone else if I know the author was American for example. Then I also hear accents for all the characters in the book, for example many of the characters in the book I'm reading atm are Scottish, and they all have Scottish accents and the women have women's voices while the men have men's.

To those who do not hear an inner voice: I'm really struggling to imagine how the information gets in, how are you actually aware of the information ?

AFAIA such scanners can only capture the surface of a thing, and cannot gain information about overhangs and occluded surfaces.

For some purposes one needs volume information

What options are there for consumer-level volume scanning using ultrasound ?

nope

ah, sorry

It was a shit movie, and in addition to the "team tensions" trope, apparently Turing wasn't ashamed of being gay at all

Could you get your grandfather to blog his memories of Bletchley & Turing ? People would be fascinated

offended by others taking offence

to which the answer is, more research to discover what mosquitos connect with and are any of the connections beneficial

mosquitos inhabit a niche which could be filled by another organism were they to be eradicated and then we're back to square-one in a new way

but yeh let's eradicate them

Has anyone converted the spectrograms given in the paper, or better still the raw data, into sound yet ? Each location in each ear please!

eh, hedgehogs won't go extinct for want of human intervention

Yet he's a brilliant author of pop-sci books on evolution and as a "rational optimist" who believes in leaving systems to self-organize, this inconsistent call for "regulation" of the badger-hedgehog "market" hints at cognitive dissonance.

Like, ok usually markets and ecosystems should be left alone to do their thing, unless if it involves hunting, in which case, we want to go hunting and here's an excuse why.

Why can't the upper-class just be honest that they love hunting, it's a tradition of theirs, nobody agrees with them, there's absolutely no reason for it other than sport, why bother trying to justify it ?

terrible advice

too much hygiene weakens your immune system, exposure to common bacteria and fungi at a low level is good for it

and don't put anything in your ears! (except maybe salt-water), especially not peroxide which will cause irritation and maybe even scarring

he could have left himself out of it, just once, out of respect

Tromp's website is a treasure-trove of really cool things

This is what I'd like to see too. Let's get away from tiny motions and sitting in a chair and make tools more like traditional wood/metalworking tools for programming: benches with robotic appendages that we can manipulate ASTs with. Let's use our kinesthetic and touch senses more.

Focus-stealing annoys me the most. Applications should never steal focus & should always open in the background.

The sooner this comes to market the better

I never liked Big Bird. What a twat.

Unrelated, but at the bottom of http://celeriac.net/sx/public/ is a sonification of Van Eck's sequence

what aspects of the text made the code hard to read for you ? Was it the parens ? If LISP was displayed in the editor without parens (but still had them behind-the-scenes), so that the code was formatted much like Python, then would it be acceptable ?

Loved Eudora back in the day

"I wouldn't be surprised if a few kilobytes would suffice to describe the components from which any grammar can be built - much smaller than the full grammar itself."

yes - e.g. BNF