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anonlastname | 6 years ago | on: Chatbots aren't as difficult to make as You Think

I made a chatbot for the website Omegle one time. It just randomly selected messages to send from a list. It was sort of like the emacs psychotherapist but dumber. Some people would talk to it for minutes before skipping.

It would be interesting to actually port the emacs psychotherapist to Javascript or wasm.

anonlastname | 7 years ago | on: Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source

Those are not "because it allows us to get more profit." They are arguing that non-free Mathematica is completely in the best interest of their users. Of course it's not. At the end of the day, Sagemath is there for everybody to use and a person can't even use Mathematica unless they're connected to a university. They've sabotaged it with legal barriers and DRM.

anonlastname | 7 years ago | on: Tasmanian devils 'adapting to coexist with cancer'

This is because at one point the Tasmanian devil population completely crashed and much of the genetic variation in their population was lost. This is literally a textbook example of something called the "founder effect." The result is that the Tasmanian devils alive today are genetically close enough for their immune systems not to reject each other's cancer.

anonlastname | 7 years ago | on: Appeal accepted: Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”

Google can be very difficult when it comes to approving add-ons for their add-on store as well. They approved my add-on that blocks porn ads on a certain website, but won't accept a trivial update on the grounds that it is too NSFW.

They make you provide a screenshot to submit an add-on. I used a screenshot of the website it works on with the porn ads it blocks heavily pixelated. I can't think of any other way to take a screenshot of what my add-on does. So I guess users will have to do without the new update.

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