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Written by a human.
“Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic….” ~ learn more
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Archers didn’t fire in volleys.
Not only would a commander not tell archers to “fire” because their weapons don’t involve any fire, but also the concept that they released their arrows in coordinated all-at-once shooting isn’t real. ~ learn more
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Fully driverless truck to hit Texas highway without human backup.
I boldly claimed during a dinner this week that in our lifetime human drivers on roads will be illegal. I stand by that prediction. “Pittsburgh-based Aurora is expected to send its first driverless truck on the stretch of highway between […]
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Anti-piracy campaign uses pirated font.
“Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded. So I chucked it into […]
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No, kerosene did not save the sperm whale.
Here’s a fun fact: inside a sperm whale’s head there’s somewhere between 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of spermaceti oil. “How we carried on exploiting sperm whales long after the conventional wisdom said we’d stopped.” ~ learn more
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Yak shaving.
“Etymology: Coined by Carlin Vieri in his time at the MIT AI Lab (1993–1998) after viewing a segment at the end of a 1991 episode of The Ren and Stimpy Show.” ~ learn more
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The P/E ratio that wasn’t.
“Here is where it gets funky. All stocks with a P/E ratio above 40 are rounded by the ETF protocols to 40, and all stocks with no (or negative) earnings are assigned a P/E of 40.” ~ learn more