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To be a fully random sequence, a sequence would have to contain substrings of apparent predictable beautiful order. If it didn't, it would be more predictable (you could then discard ordered continuations), not unpredictable.

> [Model-agnosticism] consists of never regarding any model or map of the universe with total 100% belief or total 100% denial. Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory. -- RAW

A universe isn't a map, it is the territory. An ordered universe can still be mapped/modeled with maths. A universe that is impossible to be mapped/modeled and has no predictable patterns would be an impossibly boring universe indeed (Kolmogorov Random Universe). Perhaps our brains would evolve to think more in probabilities than absolutes in such a universe. Or they could simply not be allowed to exist (intelligence requires order).

It is not relevant that you were on the internet before Google even existed.

Apparently you are the only person in the universe that regularly gets never-before-seen error messages. I feel for you, but I hope you stay away from any issue tracker I am involved in, because no matter your vast experience, the quality of your error reporting is downright poor.

If exact match search is unable to find your error message, then you wouldn't have found it on 2005 Google either. You wouldn't find it on any other search engine. You are (poorly and vaguely) describing a problem that must have always been there and blaming it on an unrelated recent UI change.

All the while unable/unwilling to give a single concrete example, just noisy ranting. For all I know you are, despite your experience, banging your head against the keyboard, until you get 0 results. The burden is on you to show that there is a teapot orbiting the Sun. Good luck!

Thanks, but can you please give a specific example?

One, I do not share this experience, and think the quality issue is overstated (you are more likely to remember the time that a query failed, than when it succeeded).

Two, if you can produce a POC, Google can use this to improve the search results.

As is, the issue brought up by original poster is too vague and unspecified to be of any use.

Can you give an example of a random error message where the results do not match?

There is nothing wrong with that, but it is good advice if your goal is to become exceptional.

The only way to equal or beat someone naturally talented is to put in many hours.

Relaxation is good (but try to combine it with activities that are good for you, like jogging, meditation, or taking a shower/doing a house chore.)

While you go out to have drinks with your friends, some stay home and work on research and side projects. One makes you happy, the other makes you more skillfull. It is a lever.

I do agree that sometimes it can be better to give up. I spend close to a decade of my life trying to understand the subtleties of a single paper. Now I see the broader picture this was definately a Pyrrhic victory.

I do hope that companies like Twitter and Youtube take their responsibility.

How about 15 years of jailtime for the CEO of a company that facilitates streaming of terrorist propaganda and child-erotic material?

More like implementing a password hashing scheme using a library and not understanding the maths behind bcrypt. Or mocking up a proof-of-concept in Python with no idea of how to speed it up 10x rewriting it in low-level C.

Why wouldn't Youtube pass on any extremist material on to the FBI before making it unavailable for the wider public?

War crime evidence can also be extremist material. It is often repackaged as propaganda to rile up new troops.

Give evidence to the courts or police. Don't upload it to a video entertainment site and expect it to stay up, despite skirting their rules.

It is basically WannaCry without the kill switch. It is using the same exploits (EternalBlue). Not some recent zero-day, but sloppy patching.

In Europe there is a mindset that companies can become so big that you can not avoid them anymore. Nobody forces you to use Google or Facebook, but you are put at a disadvantage if you do not use them.

Facebook is not free. You trade your data for usage.