Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence
(innocenceproject.org)
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YouTube is useless for tech reviews. Most reviews are fake and using photos from advertisements. Top 10 lists that says nothing negative about any hardware (cause they haven't used them) and affiliate links everywhere. Even Linus Tech Tips and other big channels publish dishonest reviews withou...
Both the EU and the US have introduced face scanning at airports to "increase security". EU rules are currently stricter and US rules allow some opt-outs for people that are uncomfortable with it. But it's only a matter of time before it becomes de facto mandatory for everyone. They c...
I've tried Emacs's various spell-checking modes, but they are bad. They are all based around dictionary lookups so not very useful for agglutinative languages. Nor do they work with text containing markup or text containing multiple languages (e.g., English cites, but text in a different l...
I'm considering buying one due to their reasonable price and impressive power/performance ratio. So I wonder if anyone has been able to run a Linux desktop on Snapdragon X laptops?
Maybe 10-20 years ago genetic algorithms were hyped. Mutation and mating were thought to be good methods for optimizing towards some goal. What happened to the field? Was it out-competed by fitter learning methods such as gradient descent?