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Today I Learned #3: There's a wiki for everything!
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GinandTonic
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The La Brea Tar Pits translating as The The Tar Tar Pits makes me inexplicably happy.
GenMarshall
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If they're getting steamed about the River Avon or the River Ouse, they should look up Torpenhow Hill some day.
tjs282
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How far through the video did you watch...? He mentions it at about 10:24...
You can easily find out what google thinks it knows about you
I am amazed how wrong it is. It has my sex wrong and my age is underestimated by a large margin. It has got my interests and job pretty right though. It thinks I am really into skateboarding though, not sure where that came from.
I am amazed how wrong it is. It has my sex wrong and my age is underestimated by a large margin. It has got my interests and job pretty right though. It thinks I am really into skateboarding though, not sure where that came from.
It seems to account for the age based on what you yourself have stated when opening your google account (at least says so in my own estimate, which predictably was correct ^_^ ).
Other than that, it obviously spies on what you look for.
Only glaring error I can see is that it thinks I am married - not sure how it estimated that I work for a massive company either; that's not true.
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Teacher googles random images all the time and breaks algorithm. Works with new refugees and buys random stuff off the internet until they get a card amazon will accept, breaks the algorithm.
Try the experiment of using YouTube for background music while not logged in on any account but not using private browsing mode either. You can easily convince Google that you're Russian or an Islamic irredentist or so many other things…
That's also one of the instances where you'll see that the algorithms are partially not that smart.
Start one tab with a compilation of music X. Later start in another tab a compilation of music Y. Go back to X, it will probably run into Y soon.
Because e.g. Heavy Metal and Salsa music are totally the same lol.
Yeah, Amazon must also think the weirdest stuff about me, especially since I order all types of presents without ticking the "present" box.
TIL: In 80 days around the world is a book, but 2 women actually tried the journey in 1889.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly one journalist sponsored by a newspaper took off in the opposite direction of the book, a competing newspaper sent their own journalist in the proper direction. They both arrived back home in less than 80 days.
Start one tab with a compilation of music X. Later start in another tab a compilation of music Y. Go back to X, it will probably run into Y soon.
Because e.g. Heavy Metal and Salsa music are totally the same lol.
Yeah, Amazon must also think the weirdest stuff about me, especially since I order all types of presents without ticking the "present" box.
TIL: In 80 days around the world is a book, but 2 women actually tried the journey in 1889.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly one journalist sponsored by a newspaper took off in the opposite direction of the book, a competing newspaper sent their own journalist in the proper direction. They both arrived back home in less than 80 days.
TIL about the case of the shotgun booby trap.
These people inherited a house, and left it abandoned. It was frequently robbed, and they kept putting in locks and signs. After 10 years they set up a shotgun booby trap and near blew the leg off someone who was robbing the place. The robber got porridge, the home owners were not criminally charged with anything, but held civilly liable for the injury.
The amazing thing is how is there still stuff to rob after 10 years? How can it take longer than 2 nights to rob an empty house? I grew up in the country, and within a few weeks of a building being known to be empty it would have been full of kids sniffing glue.
Wiki Legal Eagle youtube (~18 mins + ad)
These people inherited a house, and left it abandoned. It was frequently robbed, and they kept putting in locks and signs. After 10 years they set up a shotgun booby trap and near blew the leg off someone who was robbing the place. The robber got porridge, the home owners were not criminally charged with anything, but held civilly liable for the injury.
The amazing thing is how is there still stuff to rob after 10 years? How can it take longer than 2 nights to rob an empty house? I grew up in the country, and within a few weeks of a building being known to be empty it would have been full of kids sniffing glue.
Wiki Legal Eagle youtube (~18 mins + ad)
I wonder how much that means if you use android and / or chrome. And email is a lot of PII, remember all the data from everyone who emails you leaks to you.
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DuckDuckGo is my search engine of choice.
TIL that the judge in Trumps impeachment trial has been in more batman movies than any batman.
Regardless of furniture and the usual stashed Rolexes and banknote-laden suitcases, a house might still have good wood, power cables, and taps and piping that might be sold for quite the value.
One of the effects of the pandemic panic here was a temporary scarcity of scrap iron, bronze, etc. due to pre-emptive hoarding by speculators, which was a sensible, if selfish, move on their part because the government more than doubled the amount of money in circulation amid collapsing economic activity.
Berzerker
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they need to make a movie about this guy
Thomas Cochrane - the Sea Wolf
The guy fought the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and their S American colonies helping to free Chile, Peru and Brazil. He even ended up in Greece fighting the Turks.
Thomas Cochrane - the Sea Wolf
The guy fought the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and their S American colonies helping to free Chile, Peru and Brazil. He even ended up in Greece fighting the Turks.
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