› added 4 years ago

100

TIL Machine Learning models can be fooled badly. It confidently recognizes images which are unrecognizable to humans.

Read more iq.opengenus.org

via reddit.com

rnGW TIL that in Texas in 2009, a Craigslist escort took $150 from a man, refused to have sex, then got in a car and left. The man sprayed her car with his AK-47, killing her. He was acquitted because state law permits the “use of deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft.”
PPGV TIL George Washington borrowed 2 books from the New York Library when he was president. He never returned them and the fine is estimated at $300,000
pA6Z TIL Svalbard is the northernmost settlement in the world with a permanent civilian population. It has an estimated population of 2,642 and is among the safest places on Earth, with virtually no crime.
WLvA TIL that there was a ‘golden tree’ in British Columbia, that was illegally cut down. The man who did it disappeared before he made it to trial.
WyJA TIL that lichen found in Antarctica were placed in a mars-like environment for 34 days and adapted completely.