nanofortnight

Computers are better than humans at poker (DeepStack) and backgammon (eXtreme Gammon). XG for example is commonly used by expert backgammon players to analyse play, much like how engines are used in chess.

There is no reason why computers wouldn't eventually beat a human in the others, if someone writes a narrow AI for them. Consider for example, AlphaStar for StarCraft.

Because it’s a completely misleading headline.

The number of cores in the heuristic used to calculate task switch frequency was capped to 8.

This is a reasonable thing to do as a heuristic, because you don’t want your time slice to grow indefinitely with core count on an interactive system.

Vitamin D is fat soluble, and thus you can overdose on it. High dose frequently is not recommended, and most high dose supplements will have warning labels about vitaminosis.

This involves a manual left corner transform, so I would probably call this a variant of a left corner parser (LC parser)?

C₈F₈⁻

The extra electron makes it negatively charged by -1 (thus an anion).

The original was posted to USENET by Ed Nather (utastro!nather) on May 21, 1983.

"Communication in the human cortex" seems pretty clear. The abstract is there for an extended summary if one doesn't wish to read the whole article.

One cannot possibly understand the nuances of something without reading it; I do not feel knowledge gained through reading titles of articles is usable knowledge. Perhaps one should consider changing the habits of the reader rather than the author?

Federated/Decentralised identity/authentication is a solved problem. For example, this is essentially OpenID. Unfortunately this entire concept failed to gain traction.

Clickbait.

Is Little embeddable? This seems like a perfect scripting language for embedding into a larger C application.

> into the nose

It's not going into the nose, it's going into the jejunum (the intestines) via a nasojejunal tube, which is placed up your nose.