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It would appear that Mr A Smith reads nothing but The Register, or at least only posts The Register stories to HackerNews

Is AlphaGo written in the Golang to play Go?

To be honest, what else would one do with untold billions?

David Brin's series the "Uplift War" had a backdrop to human's raising the intelligence of a number of Earth origin animals. How I wish he had the human society uplift the Octopus …

Leicester? Why?

I think they Python's were there ages 40 years ago with the Mr Bicycle Repairman sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01xasUtlvw …

This would suggest that a hidden cost of enhanced longevity would be social sclerosis.

Coins? How much longer will we be using coins for?

Whilst there is a concern of them being exposed to the common or garden pathogens, I imagine they don't have the population to sustain much genetic diversity. The survivors of the Bounty Mutiny s…

What does gravitational teleport even mean? One would think that effect of gravitation could be forced to occur at a different place in the universe, nifty perhaps but not on the top of things I need.…

Strange you should say that I was going to call my Mars Terraforming project Configuration Manager.

Sport is not my strong point, and I was thinking of Scrabble anyway.

Depends. Perhaps not so much if they read HackerNews and watch Netflix. But will it pop my bubble?

Perhaps we'll get a triple score. Brext, scottish independence, and a new monarch at the same time. Interesting times indeed.

Is it Schadenfreude to realise that as much as I loathe this that once we hit the tipping point and all the property investors give up on London I'll be able to afford to live there.

I think the bigger issue here is why have these radio nuclides escaped into the environment? Has there been an incident, a fire? Have these been dumped, or leaked into the water? Surely this shouldn&#…

Hmmm. Software Engineering has Continuous Integration, since it is so expensive to fix software later in the day. Is there any such thing as Continuous Reproducibility? Constantly checking that the sc…

"And if you have a line that is longer than 2GB, you only have yourself to blame." Typing in machine code programmes for the ZX81, and ZX Spectrum consisted of REM statements with 1000s of …

It talks about a 100x speed up but it seems to go from 5sec to 1sec? I suppose for 100x the slow case would be too boring.

With this in mind have people been gaming the system? A building on its own is a liability, its only worth something if it has occupants (or property prices are rising)

> LE is a screwball project for people who secretly are afraid of a judeo-christian afterlife Not meaning to be contentious but I don't recollect a judeo-christian afterlife being proven.

Is there any other type of sermon?

I've bought a lot from iTunes, deals come around often enough. June and Decemeber. There are a fair number of films for 99p rental too. Although their prices for the my favourite long tale films …

There's also a rather (£14k) pricey wheel chair http://www.themobilityaidscentre.co.uk/genny-segway-powercha... …

Radio scintillation of the Interstellar Medium becomes an issue, I daresay the radio equivalent of "active optics" could help. I did mention this at an outreach talk with Astroblack morpholo…

Unicode control characters from when people copy and paste from PDFs. Drives me up the wall, i didn't have time to go deep into this.