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Happy Fifth Birthday GAC and Mindpixel!
mindpixel writes "GAC is five today! Wow, that was fast! To celibrate, I am releasing 80,000 mindpixels with their corresponding probability of truth for research use."
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...given the vagaries of English. For example:
Is rape a good thing?
Most people would say 0%, but rape is also a type of seed-bearing plant, so rape is a good thing for getting rapeseed (canola) oil. For this assertion to be useful, there must be a way to distinguish from the plant and the crime.
In fact, 3 of the first 5 are ambiguous or subject to interpretation:
- 1.00 is icecream cold?
- 1.00 is earth a planet?
- 1.00 Is it hot during the summer?
Is ice cream cold cold relative to liquid nitrogen? no.Earth is also a collection of organic and non-organic substances that plants grow in.
Hot, relative to what? At the north pole, it's never 'hot'.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
Google may trust Mindpixel, but I sure don't have to. Not when you're claiming that blue and yellow make green (about 0.95 probability), without qualifying that it only applies to pigments.
Less is more.