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Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, has confounded linguists and cryptographers. Using artificial intelligence, Canadian researchers have taken a huge step forward in unraveling the document’s hidden meaning. Is it "To Serve Man"?
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And here I thought they had finally figured out what Nostradamus was talking about!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Please stop reading that evoca fm'latgh gof'nn ftaghu!
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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'Microbial goo' could feed people on lengthy space missions to Mars and beyond So, exactly like Marmite then?
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Quote: a little bit like Marmite or Vegemite
They are NOT the same! Marmite is the food of the gods whereas vegemite is a sticky, powdery goop.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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So basically they're taking McD's takeout with them!
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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My Labrador would love that.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: on lengthy space missions to Mars and beyond
I cannot wait until they begin sending people to Mars (and beyond). Just cannot wait. It's so exciting.
There are many people I'm thinking of right now that we should send immediately.
Not sure what we're waiting for. 
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Dan Neely wrote: so I take it you're a Vegemite fan then?
Why do you have to be so divisive? Why can't we hate them both equally? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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They both sounds like some sort of inedible plastic container to me.
It likely doesn't help that field chow comes in large plastic containers called mermites, and their contents are generally inedible.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Nathan Minier wrote: field chow ... generally inedible.
MRE == Meal Ready to Eat. Three lies in one word. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I will take chow from a mermite before that, any day and every day.
Somehow the horribly named "Vegetable Crumbles with Pasta in Taco Style Sauce" isn't bad, and the only reason I know that is a fairly bold LT will eat anything on a dare.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Nathan Minier wrote: a fairly bold LT will eat anything on a dare.
There are old LTs and there are bold LTs, but there are no old, bold, LTs.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Look on the bright side. You won't gain weight.
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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Remember when software was eating the world? The trendy observation these days is that artificial intelligence (AI) is eating software. Oh good. I was ever so worried.
Blurb writers on the other hand, will be replaced by Alesirtana.
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Yup looking forward to that. Pretty soon I can watch video games that play themselves so I don't have to spend hours anguishing over jumping on a mushroom because the AI already knows I want to kill the mushroom so it does it for me.
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Since the dawn of time (before software, there was only darkness), there has been one constant: businesses want to build software cheaper and faster. I thought that was carbs?
Or was it salt? Gluten? (We need gluten-free software!)
Of course, Lisa is killing me. Oh, sorry, she's only tearing me apart. Apologies, Lisa.
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YouTube was recently caught displaying ads that covertly leach off visitors' CPUs and electricity to generate digital currency on behalf of anonymous attackers, it was widely reported. The cats are betraying me?
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Does "Do no evil" mean something different than what it actually says?
modified 30-Jan-18 0:09am.
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It depends on what they really mean when they say "no". 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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For anyone wondering why I as a software developer block the hell out of my browsing experience; stuff like this is why.
If one of the two largest internet companies can't prevent its ad networks from being abused as malware distribution networks (and fArseBook is intrinsically spyware before running any 3rd party code) I have total faith that sooner or later whatever lesser site you're trying to fund on ads will also be trying to infect my system with a virus.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Starting a firm specializing in website advertising curation is looking better all the time. What better way to serve adds then from the source.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Hats… and now flamethrowers. Elon Musk’s Boring Company has so far been more of a ‘lifestyle’ brand (and a weird one at that) than a company that, you know, digs massive tunnels through the earth as a going concern. But it’s making bank. "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
is he maybe a descendant of Neron?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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