What's really fucked up is that many/most large GPL projects include code from public-domain or non-GPL, but the derived work is now under the GPL license, so everyone using the original work (including the original author(s)) now have the burden to prove that they're innocent. GPL became lawful evil - only lawyers benefit from this scam.

[Researcher] Give me your money, it's for sciency stuff, you wouldn't understand. [Politician] Oh, okay, I like you, here you go.

Language can be interpreted very differently in a different context. The context is the mind. Example: "Meh."

A social psychology doctoral student was found to be an idiot. More at 11.

What the fuck ?!

Oh my GOD! Who the hell CARES ?!

Waiting for ME4 :)

The combination of *good* AI + Social Media could perhaps help prevent bad behavior in general, by showing users what they need to see in order to cure their "evil" tendencies. The one thing all people have in common is the "good". The differences are what makes people do evil. Obviously, one can easily imagine the horrible consequences if the above is taken too far or if "bad" AI is involved. Be the change you want to see in the world, and don't be evil.

Why not just increase the entropy by just using a compressed version of the text, eg: instead of using the text of the first article, zip it, and use that as the pad (removing headers etc). Or use some compressed H.264 youtube videos as the pad (arithmetic coding pretty much guarantees a relatively high entropy).

To be fair, virtually all of CUDA is reasonably close to standard C++, so the learning curve is relatively small compared to previous graphics-oriented languages, and it's easier to get more gpu !/$ than with OpenCL. NVIDIA is also pretty much the only serious GPGPU HW available, so you're kind of tied to your GPU vendor no matter what language you use.

I get the feeling he's growing only one specific type of "plant" for "medicinal" uses...

Like George Costanza said in an episode of Seinfeld: you're not lying if you believe it to be the truth.

I'm going to quote Odin Zeus McGaffer on this one: "After getting booted out of the garden, Adam and Eve sex it up and pump out 2 sons named Cain and Abel. Despite the odds, Cain and Abel manage to have kids as well... don't ask."

Didn't a working original Apple I recently sold for like 300 bucks on Pawn Stars ?

The fewer people know how to code, the more valuable good coders are... Just sayin'