Neat!
I especially like the adjustable directional arrow.
Also neat:
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I noticed that one too!
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Initiate music poster play list.
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They are pretty great - all vegetarian burgers.
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They are developing “AI and other tech based tools to…” shut the fuck up Springer. If you charge people to read this shit, pay people to read it first. An undergrad in an unrelated discipline could have caught most of those. They are Markov chains.
Academic publishing is fraud and corruption.
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With artificial intelligence and painstaking study of sperm whales, scientists hope to understand what these aliens of the deep are talking about.
…just in case the whales needed further confirmation that we beach apes are out of our collective minds… 
The “A” in AI is there for a reason. If you don’t know how to do something yourself, the chances of the computer learning to do it for you are vanishingly thin.
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(If only I could apply this maxim to the door of my fridge.)
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I finally got around to “A Guide to the Good Life” by modern Stoic philosopher William B Irvine. @anon15383236 's post reminded me of a quote:
Elsewhere, Marcus [Aurelius] suggests that when we know our death is at hand, we can ease our anguish on leaving this world by taking a moment to reflect on all the annoying people we will no longer have to deal with when we are gone. (pg. 131)
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Wow, thanks! I missed her post on this, but reading the excerpt of this was great. I’ve got this and another book in my queue now. Wonderful!
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“The word Entamaphobia is derived from a combination of Greek words ‘ Eisodos and portos’ for entrance or entryway and ‘ phobos’ which is the Greek God of fear.”
Phobos was probably a bed wetter.
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[…]
When confronted with the doctored results, Thomas told investigators, “Yeah, that looks bad,” the Justice Department said. She suggested that in some cases she changed the tests to passing grades because she thought it was “stupid” that the Navy required the tests to be conducted at negative-100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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This is so not how material testing and quality control works.
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