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Harlan Ellison has died(variety.com)
187 points by mormegil 8y ago|45 comments
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by mormegil 8y ago
The source for plural rules (with machine-readable representation) can be found in the Unicode CLDR: http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/33/supplemental/language_...
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by mormegil 8y ago
If you'd shown them, we could try to say. This way, this is an empty claim.
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by mormegil 9y ago
In this context, it means you cannot waive that right. I. e. there could not be a license saying "use this freely, I don't want to be paid". The "no payment" part would be null and void and anyone using CC content w
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by mormegil 9y ago
Nope, that is a folk etymology, see https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic...
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by mormegil 9y ago
When I read http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/software-development-canc... I considered it a bit tongue-in-cheek/satire/something. When I read about things like TB rewrite, I think maybe it was just... true?
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by mormegil 10y ago
You are explaining how current algorithms try to find the (approximate) Nash equilibrium (and those algorithms are far from perfect; as noted in the recent DeepStack paper, current abstraction-based programs are beatable by over 3000 mbb&#x
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by mormegil 10y ago
That depends on what you mean by "correct". Sure, you could theoretically find Nash equilibrium of poker and by playing the equilibrium strategy, you can ensure you won't lose. But that does not mean this is the best strategy
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by mormegil 10y ago
The same feature has been in GNU Backgammon (and other programs, I guess) for a long time. Also, it allows you to request you or the AI get good or bad dice rolls, which is an interesting training option.
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Target stores attacked by pornographic pranksters(bbc.com)
7 points by mormegil 11y ago|0 comments
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by mormegil 11y ago
Not only "similar stem", they are cognates, as red dye was made from worms. But we also have "rudý" for "dark red".
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by mormegil 11y ago
Care to expand on that? The API is not i18ned (apart from the content, obviously), the only thing vaguely similar to what you wrote which I can see are the names of the special pages. But even though they are translated into the wiki conten
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by mormegil 11y ago
See links at the bottom of http://www.eisionline.org/index.php/sk/projekty-m-2/ochrana-...
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by mormegil 12y ago
"In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed delete $ to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending $ to the