Comment Re: If you've been falsely accused of cheating (Score 1) 52
No, all we can be expected to do is read the AI summary of the summary.
Comment OCR (Score 1) 244
The open source OCR software available on Linux makes many more errors than ABBYY FineReader.
Comment Re:The evil genie (Score 1) 49
Indeed, it's a trope: the Literal Genie.
Comment Re:Promoting knowledge. (Score 1) 21
Didn't someone already try this, back in the 1970s? There was a book called "The Nothing Book" which consisted solely of blank pages; you were supposed to write your own book in them. Then another publisher did the same thing, and got sued for copyright violation by the first publisher! But the lawsuit failed; the verdict was that you couldn't copyright "nothing."
Comment Re:"the most likely scenario is that it doesn't wo (Score 1) 75
So then it couldn't even factor the Grothendieck prime?
Comment Re:Goodhart's Law (Score 1) 44
In other words, Reddit is Usenet 2.0?
Comment Re:Haven't heard of? (Score 1) 24
I've definitely heard of Beehiiv; it's where Phil Plait, the "Bad Astronomer," publishes the current iteration of his newsletter.
Comment Well, until the federal bill passes, anyhow (Score 2) 29
Comment Re: Not "flaunting" (Score 1) 93
Well, maybe the attackers are also flautists.
Comment Re:Why ban Brazil? (Score 1) 69
According to this, MidnightBSD is only temporarily banning use in those jurisdictions while preparing some sort of daemon to comply with the new laws.
Comment Re:This isn't new. Ideas for this have been around (Score 1) 80
The seventies? Actually, Hermann Oberth originated the idea in 1923.
Comment Re:ANOTHER "tipping point"? (Score 1) 71
No, not all. Some of them write about "inflection points."
Comment Food for humans, too (Score 1) 88
Apparently bamboo has some health benefits when eaten.
Comment Already available for download (Score 2) 36
Some of the books can be downloaded from here.