Looks like the idea for this was based on a medium post by Brian Armstrong: https://medium.com/@barmstrong/ideas-on-how-to-improve-scien...

The fact that trend following strategies are becoming less effective could be interpreted as a positive thing implying that markets are becoming more efficient, as trend following shouldn't work in a completely efficient market.

Trend following strategies are pure market followers and are not based on fundamentals, therefore they do not bring any new information into markets and are unlikely to improve the efficiency of a market.

My understanding is that CTA is a general term for a hedge fund that uses trend following strategies, primarily trading futures, but not actually restricted to commodities, so it's not a particularly accurate name, just industry jargon.

There's an irony to this being an article from the Washington Post, maybe they know something we don't

Does that include the energy used to pump the water after processing?

From what I understand the most energy-intensive part of desalination is pumping it to where people can actually use it.

This seems too good to be true. If they could actually predict football results with better-than-random accuracy, then why wouldn't they just use this themselves to make loads of money on betting markets?

I don't think they're claiming their statistics-based predictions are necessarily more accurate than the bookmakers' odds

Good point, I suppose "69%" accuracy doesn't actually mean that much unless you consider the odds.

I'm pretty sure I could predict Real Madrid vs. my local home town team with better than 69% accuracy, but that doesn't mean much

Well sure, but there are over 2200 games per month and less than 3-5% are the kind of games you are talking about. Super good team vs terrible team (assuming your local home town team is not Barcelona)

It has 69% accuracy, that means you still lose 31% of the time.

69% is a huge number in terms of sports betting. Typically to be profitable you need to be in the 52% - 56% arena to be profitable, so this is significantly profitable

milkdrop was incredible, I'm surprised there's no other visualizer that is anywhere close

Apparently around a half of Deepmind's AI specialists are Canadian educated, so no surprises here.

There are also several places in Nova Scotia that speak Scottish Gaelic. A lot of the road signs in Cape Breton are in Gaelic

Yes.

But technically it's just Scottish the language as it is referred to in English there's no need to add Gaelic at the end. Gaelic would be "Scottish language" in Scottish.

Just as Irish is a language and in the Irish language Irish is Gaeilge.

It's pretty confusing but I think I got it right! Koralatov could explain better below. I'm about 4th generation Irish folks left problem late 1800s from Co. Monaghan.

Slán!

Canada has the highest number of Gaidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) speakers outside of Scotland. Nova Scotia -- literally "New Scotland" -- has strong ties with Scotland, being originally colonised by Scots and they celebrate that heritage quite openly.

GordonS is right: Gaidhlig is only ever referred to as "Scottish Gaelic" or, more commonly, just "Gaelic" by Scots on a day-to-day basis. The concept of "Scottish" as a language is pretty murky and is generally not used seriously. Even in these days of awakened Scottish national identity and independence referendums, we all still speak English of a Scottish variety and call it English.

Calling Gaeilge "Irish" and Irish English "English" makes a lot more sense, frankly.

I'm Scottish, and everyone here always refers to Gaelic specifically as Gaelic. Generally if someone says 'Scottish', they just mean whatever their local dialect is.

I wonder how long it takes to render each frame.

Eventually with fast enough GPUs you could render a video game in this style, now that I would like to see.