“The silent majority” was originally a euphemism referring to the dead, who outnumber the living. It only got its political meaning in the 19th century.
Are you talking about things like sensor noise and chromatic aberration? It would be interesting to see if downsampling the image beforehand affects the result.
However, it's hard to separate image patterns from camera structure insofar as linear projection is a result of camera structure.
That rule doesn't hold for some languages. For example, a Python lexer needs to remember a stack of indentation levels to know whether a given line's indentation should be tokenized as an INDENT, a DEDENT, or no token at all.
Stephen Lavelle's Platonic Archetypes of Dice is a Pokemon-style Flash game based on this Rock-Paper-Scissors-like quality of differently distributed dice.
Why should I care that the company is Swiss? The point of client-side encryption is that I don't need to worry about who's hosting my data or what jurisdiction they're under.
I wonder if parent was merely advocating obfuscating sensitive data so that engineers don't accidentally see things like "Downsizing-2012.xls". As long as the obfuscation is reversible, the data is still there for those who need it.
Of course, encryption per se is overkill for that. Something like ROT13 would do the trick.
The OP says that double-spacing is an obsolete holdover from the typewriter era, where the extra space made monospaced type easier to read. I'll go one further and say that spacing sentences using space characters -- any number of them -- is obsolete.
In the present era, the act of typing is separate from the act of typesetting. The comment I'm typing now may be typeset in Arial in Chrome, typeset in Ubuntu Mono in Emacs, or read aloud by a software program to a blind person. No prescribed number of space characters is going to be appropriate for all cases.
The reading software, not I, should be responsible for locating my sentence breaks and setting appropriate spacing there. Perhaps in the future we'll assist the software by marking up sentence breaks using a special character sequence. Ironically, a double-space would serve that function pretty well.
Is there an objective metric according to which guessing only positives is a less rigorous strategy than guessing both positives and negatives? Given no prior knowledge about the space of possible rules?
You're claiming that you can infer, just from a triple that I guess, whether I am attempting to confirm or refute the "ascending even numbers" hypothesis. But if I guess (2,4,6) and learn that it doesn't adhere, that's as much a refutation as if I guess (1,2,3) and learn that it does adhere. (2,4,6) looks like an attempted confirmation to you only because you have prior knowledge that the rule is not more specific than "ascending even numbers".