Pattern Recognition:
James C. Bezdek's "Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Objective Function Algorithms" (1981) is a seminal work in the field of fuzzy clustering and pattern recognition.

Tolerance Handling:
Variables can be assigned as ranges rather than absolute values.

Anomaly Detection:
That's why you have the database lookup.

I don't see any AI here. It's just basic computer programming as it's been done for decades.

This gadget scans the chemical makeup of the pill and does a lookup against a built-in database.

That's it.

So what about this is AI versus simply inputting data into a computer and doing a database lookup based on that?

What part of the word "insurance" do you not understand.

You have been continuously employed for 26 years and have not needed to collect the unemployment insurance that you have paid for.

Would you also say that you have paid for insurance on your house for 26 years so you should now be allowed to burn it down and have the insurance company build you a new one?

It's my understanding that there's almost no ballot fraud happening at all through any means.

At least nobody has ever shown any actual evidence that it's a significant or consequential issue.

I'm not in or from the USA but I have a bank account at a US bank for the purpose of paying US based suppliers.

I interact with that account through the bank's website and can transfer money directly to it from my main bank account and make payments from that account through their website.

When I initially set up the account I assumed that those payments would be some kind of an electronic funds transfer.

Nope.

You enter the mailing address for each payee, and they print and mail a physical cheque to them from the bank.

Really.

Everything about the transaction is through their website right up to the point that they print and mail a cheque. And I still find that amazing.

So what's your suggested alternative?

Karl Marx's system sounds pretty good on paper. It really does; I read the Communist Manifesto several years ago and it's really an interesting take on society and social organization.

But the USSR didn't work out so well. I suspect it's because human nature (i.e. personal greed, for lack of a better term) isn't compatible with Marx's utopia.

The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs.

It's intended to made widgets that can then be sold at a profit.

It's not a social welfare program.

"The case is expected to go to court between November 1, 2027, and February 25, 2028, The Register reported. Afterward, it could go to trial."

So two years later, after Tesco has completed all of the emergency work that's required to change their IT systems to something else, then this matter will be heard.

That timeframe is ridiculous. There's no reason why the courts can't operate more efficiently than they do other than that the lawyers and judges have no incentive to move things along.

How many other cases are old news and no longer particularly relevant by the time they're decided?

Doesn't matter if it's something or nothing.

If it has a valuation (and apparently it does) then it can be taxed based on that value.

What, exactly, is the point or purpose of including code in your program that is downloaded from a third-party website every time you execute the program?

If you want to include a function or subroutine or library in your program, why wouldn't you just download it and use that?

"Lets drag in random code every time we run the program" is a huge security hole on its own and I genuinely don't understand why anyone would do that, or would even consider it as a worthwhile idea.

Ok, you can "pin it". Which still leaves you dependent on the remote random website, which could be hacked, changed, redirected or disappear at any time.

A security hole you can drive a truck through? This could accommodate a whole fleet of tractor trailers!

"it is against Meta's Terms of Service, and could void your warranty"

Apparently so.

What do you gain by purchasing a physical disk if playing the game requires a connection to the publisher's server?

Is there something I'm not seeing here?

The headline number here is $150 million but that isn't what it's being presented as.

I assume that by "revenue" they mean gross sales revenue.

So after deducting costs (commissions and profit margins for the retailers average between 30% and 50%, apparently) the remaining amount is likely in the area of $75 to $85 million to the company.

"Winds are caused when matter falling to the black hole is accelerated to near light-speed, generating pressure that pushes infalling material away."

It's always been my understanding that black holes pull everything into them and nothing can escape.

So if this wind is escaping, then that was wrong?