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Sometimes called "high instructional value".

I had some print or poster on my wall in my childhood bedroom in Stockholm. For sure no original but reproductions were, as I remember it, readily available when I grew up.


My previous work provided laptop had a touchscreen and I miss it (for the record, the screen didn't fold 180). It was useful about once a week and I completely forgot about it the rest of the time.

Two primary use cases. Sitting on the train with the laptop in my actual lap it was often more convenient to reach for the screen instead of the trackpad, especially when I had someone sitting next to me on the right and I didn't want to stab them in their ribcage with my elbow so I could reach the trackpad. Second use case was often scrolling while reading, for some reason (phone-scrolling-indoctrination I guess) it felt natural to scroll using finger on screen.

The screen was never my primary pointing device but it was always an option. I think it was annoying a handful of times during the two years I had it, you point at something on the screen and end up clicking something.


Yep, old men yelling at "the cloud"!


> The Mona Lisa is a waste of canvas and oil - a hill I will die on

Seems like Mona Lisa elicits an emotional response in you as a viewer ;)

I get what you're saying though. I always "correct" people that claims some piece of music is "bad", there's no bad music, only music you don't like.


I wonder about the the service used for the test, never heard of Rapidata but if it's like Amazons mechanical turk och other such services there might be a problem where the respondents simply didn't care about reading the question. If the objective for the respondents were simply "answer this question and get your benefit" vs "answer this question correctly to get your benefit" I have no problem accepting the 71.5% success rate. If getting it right had benefits and getting it wrong had none then I'm (slightly) worried.


They answered it in another comment somewhere below, there's no incentive for a correct answer


I fully admit that I only skimmed the abstract, but was reminded of an article in Wired about Sergey Brin and his "search for a parkinsson cure".

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/ff-sergeys-search/

He went backwards and started with just collecting an absurd amount of data. Later while talking to a researcher he could confirm years of research with a "simple" search in his database.


There's two hard problems in programming. Naming things, cache invalidation and off by one errors.


Not sure what the selection bias for this report is, perhaps that we care about code and believe in the value of static code analysis. Some interesting results in there either way.


They tried to find contraband, they found a marching band!


Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun

With a hundred and ten cornets right behind

The AI thought about it long and hard

calling up the national guard

Cause of the horns of ev'ry shape and kind.

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There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons

Thundering, thundering all along the way.

Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,

And Swarming SWAT Teams Goons so they say

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There were cross fires and blown tires

And reporters from the local news

Clarinets of ev'ry size

And trumpeters who'd improvise

And video games that went pew-pew!

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on multiple edits: tried to find a layout that fit the song


Those banned band books… they might have come across One Thousand and One Vulgar Marching Band Formations!


The sleazy AI company that sold this "tech" to the school has to face the music.


Sleazy? I'll have you know, the ToS clearly says it's in beta.


Next time the contraband could be a contrabassoon.


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