>But in a good model, esp. a thinking model, one
>would expect it to think over which sorts of
>numbers are statistically over-chosen (birthdates,
>etc) and avoid them in giving its answers.

and even then, it doesn't affect the chance of *winning*, but rather the chance of being the *sole* winner, as opposed to having to share the price.

[there *is* another possibility, though, albeit unlikely: it could come across a flaw in the RNG that lets it avoid less likely combinations, or choose a more likely one. Again, though, this requires an RNG flaw.]

just like when it hit three digits?

>Mexico has a half peso coin, worth about 2 cents.

and a peso was like a dollar.

I recall my aunt feeling guilty about what she was paying down there when it dropped to about eight to a dollar.

And then they lopped three zeroes off to get the new peso.

I *think* this is half of those one-thousands of the prior peso . . .

After extreme inflation, small matters of rounding aren't even on the radar for what's important.

[Let alone the 27 or so zeroes lopped off in Germany {where, near the end, workers were reportedly paid twice a day, with their wives bringing wheelbarrows to collect, and rushing to spend it before it fell further! (which may be an urban legend; I've never been able to confirm it, but it's not inconsistent with the daily inflation)}. Or Yugoslavia, which lopped off 30 digits . . . ]

[cloudtrack, err, flare, verification? *REALLY*]

And of further interest, I've never seen one in the US that was a round number of cents--they all end in 9/10 of a cent. (although in years past, 4/10 was also common)

Yeah. I see numbers like that and I feel late to the party.

So I have my attack drones land in the forest and wait 24 hours, then swarm attack the Kremlin. Or I use a link that doesn't involve the cellular network. Or I make the thing autonomous. Or I buy Russian SIM cards and install them in the drones.

Seriously, how incompetent is the Russian government? They seriously need to lay off the vodka.

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster.

The latest Sun SPARC arrived at the speed of light... unfortunately it still runs Slowaris

Why the hell would someone go open a terminal window and paste random shit in from a web page?

From TFA: out of 15 patients, one patient died during the study. Hope it wasn't due to the treatment...

There's a major grocery store chain in Texas called H-E-B. They've got facial recognition running at the entrances and exits. They want to make sure everyone knows it. Walk by and you might get some random red box around your face for no obvious reason. It looks like the equipment they have only identifies one face at a time, though. Either way, I can't see how it serves any real purpose.

Can they get a dolphin and name him Darwin for this moon pool?

I'm guessing they've been using MacMiniColo. Super convenient to set up and run, but kinda pricey. According to the article they'll still be using Mac minis, but buying them and then running them in a Malaysian data center.

i doubt that it had anything to do with that, because there was absolutely no way for parents to access it. It was only accessible from within the hospital network. There might have been some gateway to the global Internet, but I did not find that. I did find a couple CT scanners accessible from the global Internet when I ran them into SHODAN.

Almost as good as when I was telling people where to go to get gas during Hurricane Harvey because all these stations left the meters on their gas pumps open to the Internet for no reason. "Hey, fuck the line! The guys down on x pedro have xxx gallons of whatever." This IoT thing is pathetic to the max.

This load of horseshit was actually in Texas.