Odd Stuff (Part 1)

Its already been done:


(Although Korean, not Chinese).

Good movie.

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From April, but very much worth sharing. James Mickens announces he got tenure at Harvard. I may have loled on the train.

https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement

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Aussies got there first, although, sadly, without Tilda Swinton.

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Scientology whale donor Dennis Romeiser was so threatened by my site running on a Raspberry Pi, that he filed a “Right to be Forgotten”.

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The hyperbole surrounding candidates in NZ local elections is getting way out of hand.

(ETA original source)

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Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It’s time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

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Europe publishes 5G risk assessment; America scrawls ‘Huawei’ on the side of a nuke and goes for a ride

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Something for the Weekend, Sir?

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Inside Europe: Czechs bid farewell to the “Sinatra of the East”

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Is this graffiti correct?
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Oh dear… AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

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No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK’s most haunted village

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Hmm. Needs VR goggles.

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Geriatric Fight Club Busted

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Screen-top gaming. Now, if only it was a touch screen that could recognize which miniatures were where…

(But remember: Let the wookie win!)

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YouTube thinkfluencer Siraj Raval admits he plagiarized boffins’ neural qubit papers – as ESA axes his workshop

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What the &% did you just #*&!*# say about me, you little &%#*?

’AI’ to filter Xbox Live chat

“Microsoft did not expand on how its filtering system works beyond the thinly veiled “AI and machine learning technology,” which we all know probably just means humans moderators balanced with a soupçon of heuristics and neural network technology until a proper machine-learning system is fully trained up and the bugs have been ironed out.”

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