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  1. Rhyme & Meter - solved y google? on Ask Slashdot: What Would an AI-Written Poem Look Like? · · Score: 1
    Google did it already (yawn):

    As a prerequisite to translation of poetry, we implement the ability to produce translations with meter and rhyme for phrase-based MT, examine whether the hypothesis space of such a system is flexible enough to accommodate such constraints, and investigate the impact of such constraints on translation quality.

    https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36745.html/
    PDF
    https://research.google.com/pubs/archive//36745.pdf

  2. Preprint? on Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    The original article is paywalled. Does any have a pre-print? I'd like to read it aloud to myself.

  3. Burning Chrome on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite William Gibson Novel? · · Score: 1

    Burning Chrome
    (atmospheric lead-in)
    The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
    https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/3s4xju/the_sky_above_the_port_was_the_color_of/

  4. Preprint please on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Preprint please not being subscribed this free will wants to see what up.

  5. When it is not safe to drive you get informed by the windscreen/windshield turning opaque blue.

  6. Strong AI on The French Scrabble Champ Does Not Speak French · · Score: 1

    Does this make Nigel Richards a Strong AI? John Searle's Chinese Room and all.

  7. The Miracle of Reason on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_reason No belief is rationally inferred if it can be fully explained in terms of nonrational causes. C.S. Lewis

  8. Multi column - FAIL on ODF Support In Google Drive · · Score: 1

    I just uploaded an ODT file that has two columns on a single page.
    GDrive, by default, converts it and removes the column formatting.
    Still not as good as OneDrive then.

    Shame on you Google.

  9. Poetry says ReadMe ... on Poetry For Sysadmins: Shall I Compare Thee To a Lumbering Bear? · · Score: 1
    README
    http://www.advogato.org/person/ReadMe/diary.html?start=9#0

    + Like most public domain distributions this package contains a README.
    + Unlike those packages, this one contains ***only*** a README.


    Bootstrap
    begin
    {
    • I write therefore you are reading;
      else you are reading then someone has been writing;
      I am that someone;
      I am a literature machine;

    }

  10. Once they have taken one Pizza Co, the others are bound to fall sooner than later - the Domino theory ...

  11. But there is an Elixir for FP on Erik Meijer: The Curse of the Excluded Middle · · Score: 1

    Functional programming for mere mortals coming soon. Erlang tamed for the new century: http://elixir-lang.org/ Listen here http://programming.oreilly.com... and here elixir computer language

  12. from the grave on Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad · · Score: 1

    The mother is in the right place - she could have a word with Steve Jobs and all would get fixed. Shame he's not here on earth to kick ass for her now.

  13. Jon Udell knows this stuff and helps all who come. on Ask Slashdot: Events Calendar Software For Local Community? · · Score: 1

    I redirect you to Jon Udell's blog http://blog.jonudell.net/

  14. doggerel on End of Moore's Law Forcing Radical Innovation · · Score: 1

    No more Less is More

    No more Moore's Law

    We're more or less

    Left only multi-core.

  15. Since 1733 and on... on Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers · · Score: 1

    Time travel as a human conception was first documented in 1733 - track the history since then here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_travel_science_fiction#Time_travel_in_novels_and_short_stories/

  16. Bitcoin analysis: on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin analysis: Bit = Zero or One Coin = Heads or Tails No wonder the value is fairly random (leading or trailing zeros - - toss a coin)

  17. Re:Cold warriors on Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The intelligence community ... was made as an conventional army fighting another conventional army (the GRU and KGB) and the sigint operations was hand-tailored to this kind of war. But what has happened since is that the enemy has changed.

    It's like the immune system gone into overdrive attacking its own body - c.f. Aids.

  18. Smoke & mirrors? on ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 · · Score: 1

    hope this isn't smoke and mirrors like E-CAT seems to be now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer

  19. pun warning on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    Sure they'll work fine on the surface, it's when they get in the air I'd begin to worry.

  20. on the move? on Ikea Foundation Introduces Better Refugee Shelter · · Score: 0

    Ikea furniture can be fine - until ... you move house. It's not made to be taken to pieces and put back together again - a second time. Hope the refugees are not on the move ... oops.

  21. Post colonialism ... on New Moons of Pluto Named Kerberos and Styx; Popular Choice 'Vulcan' Snubbed · · Score: 1

    What ever we earthlings call them now they'll have to be renamed later when we discover the name the natives use for their own world. Post colonialism rules!

  22. Re:Article in case of slashdotting on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    Okay is the "youÃ(TM)re" the intentional typo in your "piracy" of that article?

  23. pun for the title on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1

    That would be quick on the draw then.

  24. BBC audio on this on Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason · · Score: 1
    Listen also here (til Saturday): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r93sr/

    Twenty years ago, Charles Wheeler and David Taylor, his Washington based producer, were told that Richard Nixon had secretly sabotaged the Vietnamese peace talks in the autumn of 1968, to continue the war and ultimately strengthen his chances of claiming the presidency. It was an act of political espionage that cost thousands of American lives. Back in 1994, Wheeler and Taylor conducted their own investigation, tracking down those involved to piece the story together. Then they waited for the classified material to be released to confirm one of the greatest acts of political subterfuge in American history. Charles Wheeler died in 2008, before the release of key White House tapes relating to the affair. Now, using these newly released recordings, as well as many of the interviews they recorded at the time, David Taylor pieces together this intriguing story.

  25. Re:Not a violation of the uncertainty principle on Physicists Discover a Way Around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1
    Well said mpoulton

    John Gribbin several decades ago made a point of not mistaking the uncertainty principle a measurement problem in his book In Search Of Schrodingers Cat>
    QUOTE: from Chap 8.

    These startling conclusions were published in the Zeitschrift fur Physik in 1927, but while theorists such as Dirac and Bohr, familiar with the new equations of quantum mechanics, appreciated their significance at once, many experimenters saw Heisenberg's claim as a challenge to their skills. They imagined that he was saying that their experiments weren't good enough to measure both position and momentum at the same time, and tried to conceive experiments to prove him wrong. But this was a futile aim, since that wasn't what he had said at all.
    This misconception still arises today, partly because of the way the idea of uncertainty is often taught.