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It relies on databases donating access to Wikipedia editors. There are other restrictions too. Most of the stuff in TWL can be accessed with a university library card that many alumni are eligible for…

Look up Abstract Wikipedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia It's more or less Wikipedia but the articles are created using natural language generation on …

Because ultimately, Wikipedia's criteria for allowing articles is whether or not the subject of such has sufficient content in reliable secondary sources (like newspapers or academic articles) to…

2.5% a year on the total endowment of a university is higher than the wealth taxes of virtually every country in the world that implements them. This wouldn't be treating them the same as trill…

A (common law) lawyer has to remember and understand case law, but they also have to create analogies to explain why and how new situations are like older ones. That's one of the main parts of be…

The value of his publicly-known wallets are well into the tens of billions. Yet Nakamoto has not cashed out.

Does HIPIFY not meet your standards? https://github.com/ROCm/HIPIFY

A merge request is a series of bundled commits layered in a web database somewhere to break compatibility with vanilla Git workflows. That's why Gerrit is better if federation/portability is…

>>Extracurriculars, from what I recall, had no bearing on a high school graduate's university application. This also made it somewhat impersonal, but at least it was straightforward. Ontari…

In Ontario, Canada we don't have standardized tests to get into university. Grade inflation is the worst it's ever been. We don't even have GPAs because it's too coarse a distincti…

This sounds like a great use of hardware accelerated raytracing. The problem itself is very similar. Sound attenuation can be modelled as transparency.

Now is a great time to switch to Gerrit.

It's the same reason that for 80 years after the invention of the commercial icemaker in 1842, the American ice-harvesting industry produced more frozen water than manufacturing plants. And the i…

GitHub CoPilot charges $10 for a subscription that it loses an average (!) of $20 a user on. https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/github_ai_copilot_mic... "Make …

The example waifu in text-generation-webui is good enough for me. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main... …

That's one of the main reasons modern Tetris plays extremely differently than old Tetris. The game generates a "bag" with a single copy of all 7 possible tetrominoes. It then randomly p…

You ever play Simutrans? That game is brutal. To this day I have no clue how to get the scale necessary for profitable passenger rail.