American Heritage is much better. They respond to usage, but much more conservatively. And their entries will actually have brief explanations from their "usage panel" about ambiguous or changing meanings. https://dictionary.com. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

I don't know what to say. The act of making a choice is just to "select from two or more possibilities," as dictionary.com puts it. We do that. Cats and dogs and birds do that. Single cell amoebas do that. Trees can even be said to do that. And certainly computers do that. Even the problem Sam Harris is stating above is in the form of an if-then statement, the fundamental conditional statement upon which... Source: 7 months ago

Yeah, here's what dictionary.com says about the phrase's origins:. Source: 7 months ago

My wife set up a bunch of her mature vines hanging down from our entrance staircase (both sides). On the left is about a five year old String of Hearts, then Monstera (only a couple of years old), then Pothos (about five years old). The String of Hearts is about 10 feet long, but seems to still get nutrients and moisture to the end. The pothoses (strangely, that is what dictionary.com says is the plural of... Source: 7 months ago

This word is very interesting. I came across it in a comic. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary's definition seems like a synonym of immediate, but dictionary.com's definition seems more suitable for the comic. Source: 10 months ago

Right, but for a square, you have to add 8 samples, not 2, to handle the 4 starting points and 2 directions, but this does not account for the users who multi-stroke > Different strokes... I see what you did there :] I'm definitely in the reduce user burden camp. https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/ is a good baseline to start from for a more resilient gesture recognizer. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/ Its like a drawing game, where it says soemthing like necklace and you have to draw what it says. Source: 11 months ago

At the suggestion of some of my pencil pals, I am trying DRAW IT (by Kwalee). It's a fast, party style game that seems to have a large (always on) user base. It's like Google Quick Draws ( https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com) with a learning AI judging you on your (very) quick sketches. I will miss the slower, patient, play-by-mail DS! brought... And also the massive potential to go wild the original DS! Had with... Source: 12 months ago

I love social experiments like that, makes you think about our own behavior. On a side note, I am always amazed to the kind of representation bias trap we all fall into: we always picture things the way we commonly know about it/remember it (see the NY museum pics in the video). One can experience the same creepy sense by playing QuickDraw[1] and watching sketches by others. For computer vision practitioners, no... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

“Quick Draw with Google” is a go-to for middle school— I haven’t tried it with high school yet. That’s if there’s some sort of smart board available. Otherwise, I just let kids know that if they’ve completed what’s left by the teacher, they can work on other classes or have free time as long as they keep the noise level down so everyone else can finish. I personally don’t mind the kids chit-chatting, but I’ve had... Source: over 1 year ago