Wordle is a ripoff of the television game show Lingo, which was a ripoff of the 1955 pen-and-paper game Jottle.

...or change the rules. Even Pooh Bears can be replaced.

I already bought my kids full laptops to replace their school-issued Chromebooks because they were too limited. The tech-giants are getting a little too slow.

Even before Zoom, any meeting with more than about 4 people was dominated by attendees who were not really paying attention. And now that it is easier to attend, expectations for attendance are getting absurdly counter-productive. Just stop holding big useless meetings! They are just big and useless!

I think it's C22H24Cl2N2O4. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... (But I agree that when things sound too good to be true, they usually are.)

If you recognize the tatoo on someone's neck, is that facial recognizion? What if it is done in the infrared spectrum or using something that's not quite vision? What about gate recognition? Clothing recognition? I assume license plate recognition is explicitly allowed, so using computers is obviously not banned. How far can they augment their discernment with computers before it becomes facial recognition? (And no, I didn't read the 129 page bill. And no, I didn't even try very hard to find the relevant part within the 129 page bill.)

Well, not completely guesswork. Even though we only have a sample-size of 1, we actually do know some relevant details about that sample. For example, if life first appeared very soon after the Earth's crust cooled, that would tell us something very different about the chances that life will develop than if life appeared at some other point in the Earth's history. And if technology evolved gradually, that would tell us something very different than if technology waited for eons, and then suddenly exploded.

As long as we have plurality voting, we will have two dominant parties. If you destroy one of them, another will form just like it to take its place. If you start a third party, one party will die off, and the two remaining ones will gravitate to where the two parties are now. Plurality voting is the force that maintains two dominant parties.

And plurality voting is specified in the constitution. Changing that would require the cooperation of the two parties that stand to lose the most from shifting toward alternative voting, or any other system that does not create two dominant parties. Until we have a bloody revolution, I'm afraid you will only get to choose from the lesser of two evils.

I second that. Neural networks were absolutely designed to mimic functions that were observed in biological brains. Saying they were not is like saying airplanes were not inspired by birds because their wings don't flap and they don't grow feathers or digest worms. Sure, there are a great many things the brain does that neural networks don't, and we don't even fully understand the brain yet, but it still remains the target of many of our efforts. The biggest and highest-impact conferences in neural networks also invite neuroscientists so they can cross-mingle their expertise, and numerous advances in neural networks have been made based upon analogies with the brain. Dropout and convolutional layers are the first two examples that pop into my mind.

Many people think that only spiking neural nets are actually patterned after behavior observed in the brain, but did you know that the non-spiking variant that Hopfield originally presented were reported to approximate the rate at which spikes fire? When the activations of classical neural nets are interpret as firing rates, they really do become strong analogs for the behavior of the brain. Now perhaps you are not satisfied with the extent to which we have been able to reproduce brain-like activity. That's great! Neither are we! But the brain still remains the original objective and a significant source of inspiration for many efforts in advancing research in neural networks.

Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to put an array of satellites in space that shoot beams of particles at each other? This would make a loop bigger than the whole planet. There would be no need to evacuate the air, and they could use gravity instead of magnetism to make the particles go around the loop. (Obviously, I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I figure asking a stupid question is a good way to start learning.)

Web-sites will just make cookies required for an "improved experience", and the difference will be ...well, non-trivial.

This photo on Wikipedia, claiming to depict a relativistic jet, taken by the Hubble telescope, was taken 20 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Can anyone explain what this new photo shows that the old one does not?

Humor aside, that would probably backfire. The careless and stupid will go through it before the hospitals are overrun, and will also help to spread the problem to responsible people who otherwise would have never gotten it. What we really need are more people who think about the greater good and fewer who think only about their own personal convenience.

Sure, but you didn't define "software", or "source code", so how are we supposed to know what the heck they are even talking about?

So, the results are not yet in.