During the pandemic, spending more time at home and less time having real social interactions has lead me to beleive I am forgetting some of my vocabulary or at the least not practicing it enough to keep it in what you describe as "Working memory".

Zoom and the like is far from natural and I find myself searching for words during sentences that I know I would not have in the past.

Can you expand on that? And can you describe your living circumstances. I'm relatively isolated due to rural life, and I haven't seen any of that in my life. I tend toward isolation naturally, so maybe that has something to do with it.

But I'm fascinated by your statements. Can you go more in-depth, please?

Before the pandemic, I was living in London shared flat with my partner and a friend of ours. Had quite a busy social life, working in an office in Soho.

Since the pandemic I have moved out of the city and into a more rural isolated area (Did not see any benefit to paying high rent prices in a city when all the facilities were shut down). All of my work has moved to remote working using video conferencing etc.

Before we would use Slack a lot, but in-person meetings were a common occurence and I would spend quite a lot of time outside of work with friends or colleagues discussing various topics.

Since being in this isolated environemnt I feel that because those interactions are far more rare when they do happen I struggle to recall words or phrases that were once commonplace in my vernacular.

This is all very anecdotal evidence of course, but it's somethig i've observed in myself of a number of occasions now.

Surely anomaly detection is better done by a machine?

I guess there's a certain level of human "intuition" about these things but is this not what most banks anti-fraud systems do already?

I imagine the problem with this is it becomes a game-able system if it's purely automated. Sort of like the stereotype in Law and Order where they always pay hitmen $9,999 because "the IRS only monitors transfers over 10k."

On the other hand, maybe this is a kind of perverse benefit of opaque ML systems.

I think its game-able automated or not. Fraud exists today and is playing on these exact systems.

> Surely anomaly detection is better done by a machine?

I've worked with machines. I don't think this is a good idea.

Would it be correct to assume the vending machine only accepts credit as it likely doesn't have a direct connection to a banking system to authorize the payments at time of purchase?

I seem to remember credit being a requirement for making purchases on planes for this same reason.

I'm curious because I live in the UK and pretty much all terminals here accept debit cards, although I think the UK in general has been a bit ahead in terms of payment standards (chip & pin, contactless etc.)

The author (who seems to use his cards in Germany) is most likely confused. The problem is not with debit cards vs. credit cards. Every terminal I've seen in Austria and Germany supports both (but see below). The problem is that Austrians, Germans, and perhaps other EU countries think that Mastercard/Visa means credit card, and Maestro/Giro/whatever means debit card. This is exacerbated by the fact that until very recently you couldn't even get a Mastercard/Visa debit card in Austria (1).

These terminals support Mastercard/Visa cards, plus more recently contactless. Mastercard debit cards certainly work.

Btw, if you are an american visiting these countries, and you want to pay with a debit card, when the cashier asks if you pay with a debit or a credit card, answer credit card. They don't care whether it's credit vs. debit, they need to know if it's Mastercard/Visa or the local crap card, to push the correct button on the PoS. If you answer debit, it will NOT work.

1. Austria recently started replacing Maestro cards with Mastercard debit cards... but they seem to be some kind of funny Mastercard cards, not "real" enough for these terminals (except in contactless mode)... But at least you can pay for your plane ticket.

He specifically mentions that he's in the Netherlands in the article.

And based on the writing in the "banking standards" paragraph it appears he understands the difference between debit / credit cards and that banking network they operate on doesn't determine the type of finance they provide

There is an example in the Readme. From what I can tell this isnt "rendering" an AST to the DOM, its using JSX to "render" source code.

Exactly :)

This sort of open tracking with geoIP based location has been around for a while. There are numerous GMail add-ons that provide this functionality eg. Streak there are equivalent's for other clients too.

This is written as if Superhuman are the first people to do this, that doesn't justify the behavior but there are others to blame here and the precedent was set prior to Superhuman's implementation with these email tools

Went on youtube and found a "10 hour" bird and forest noises video, works pretty well

>also try using your webcam... -> Geom_A (above editor), first texture (below editor) - the [...] button

From the description under the preview

Does not work for me, Win10 + Nvidia GeForce GTX 950.

Disappointed there is no route planner on Mars

Hi everyone! This is a quick little Slack bot I've written using Google's new PerspectiveAPI.

Essentially she will analyse all the messages in any channel you invite her to, if a team member breaches the toxicity threshold she will inform them via a DM.

She works on a 5 minute buffer so it should only trigger if someone is being particularly spiteful.

None of the messages are logged or stored by myself or PerspectiveAPI.

In future I hope to extend it to help admins of large slack teams moderate members by informing them of offenders and providing more customisation options

The site appears to hijack the browser history, clicking back from the page results in an endless loop (Firefox 52.0.2 - Ubuntu)

Hmm I'm storing the search results in a service so users will have them when they switch tabs. I think that might be causing the issue. I'll look into it. Thank you for trying :)