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oaeide··on Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
Maybe eventually openAI
oaeide··on Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using deep learning
As it states, the field in question is "Total amount"
oaeide··on AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench
Generally I would agree, but in this case its Jim Keller we are talking about.
oaeide··on The Bitcoin Scam
"...reaching a peak of $20,000 for a single bitcoin before a spectacular plunge in value in December 2017 from which it has never really recovered (it is trading at $3,800 at the time of writing)."

Yeah, about that....

oaeide··on Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
"They don't necessarily have the freedom to call that forked language "Go" (I'm not sure), but I think that limitation is OK; it serves nobody to call different projects by the same name. "

Oh, the irony

oaeide··on The key to building an idea seems to be blind faith
[Citation needed]
oaeide··on Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research
I reacted when I read this as well. I am hoping he meant that he would recommend that paper to be published/not published...

...I fear however that my hopes are in vain

oaeide··on Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better than blockchain
I think you should look it up again.
oaeide··on Introducing Scrivener 3
Maybe change this part of the website: "We don’t have an ETA yet, other than that Scrivener 3 for Windows will be available some time in 2018."
oaeide··on We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach
The author is allowed to expect a certain domain knowledge. For example, an article about an advanced physics topic is not expected to explain Newton's laws.