One problem with the Judge's statement is that it is beyond the scope of an actual case or controversy. A Judge should judge each case individually not make up general rules and policies to prospectively apply to future behaviour, since that is for the legislature and executive in a separation of powers system. If the Judge wants to issue a warning or punishment to a particular prosecutor for a particular inappropriate behavior that would be in bounds; but media statements designed to influence elections are out of bounds for american judicial behavior.

Its a sad cliche about the engineer who fails socially.

He should of stepped down from Mozilla because of the confusing == operator.

Argue with the Supreme Ruler of the Universe?

ok; so I read the DeepMind paper and am totally not-impressed. But perhaps I'm confused. Does experience replay not a priori require a known system function? And if you already have a known system function what is the value of an algorithm to deduce what you already know?

“Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

As far as we know, fractional reserve works within some range of standard deviation.

nop. even if it would - HN users will find their way through such blocks, in contrast with mass media users

"And in the span of just two years the only commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave One, has already doubled its computational power. Kiss your law goodbye, Mr. Moore." ...?

--should this not be the opposite: i.e. Moore's law brought back to life?