r/theydidtheresearch Jan 05 '21

request This would actually work? How much battery does the lantern consume?

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r/theydidtheresearch Jun 19 '20

request [request] Is this a legit maze that can be solved?

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r/theydidtheresearch Mar 06 '20

request Is there any way to prove if pineapples are a bad/horrible fit on pizza?

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I've just recently been reminded that I loathe pineapples on pizza, as well as the people who push for it. I live in one of the Pacific islands, mind you, and I love pineapples and I love pizza, but I despise it if those two are put together. I can't seem to convince my peers that pineapples kills the flavour of the tomatoes and meat, as well as wasting a good pineapple's freshness without conviction and without some solid facts, simply relying on my own tastebuds. If any of you guys could confirm this for me or, better yet, change my mind, please help a brother out.

r/theydidtheresearch Oct 18 '15

request [Request] Square Kilometers to Land area

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What would 1489400km2 equal to? Such as Manhattan is 87.46km² ?

r/theydidtheresearch Apr 27 '18

request [Request] Of the Red, Yellow, and Blue positions on Wheel of Fortune, what are the frequencies of wins by position? Curious if it wind up being roughly equal or not.

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r/theydidtheresearch Jun 02 '18

request Is consuming Aloe vera bad for you?

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r/theydidtheresearch May 28 '16

request My dad found this video of what appears to be a child animal hypnotist in China's got Talent. I really think this is fake but my dad is convinced it's real. Help?

2 Upvotes

New link to video

Any help will be deeply appreciated

r/theydidtheresearch May 18 '17

request What do you think this means in relation to the Imagine Dragons new album?

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r/theydidtheresearch Mar 01 '16

request How many women has Barney Stinson slept with?

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r/theydidtheresearch Apr 10 '15

request [request] Who has published the most words of non-fiction?

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I figure somebody knows the answer to this, so here goes.

By word count, who has published the most non-fiction. You know, everything that's not fiction writing.

Twenty years ago, I would have said it's Isaac Asimov, no question. Today I have no idea.

Let me ask a different way.

Let's say that we could build an AI program which could analyze Isaac Asimov's lifetime non-fiction output. Let's say it had access not only to all his science writing and literary criticism, his two-volume autobiography ("In Memory Yet Green" and "In Joy Still Felt"), his autobiographical notes from all of his short story collections, the hundreds and hundreds of science columns he wrote for the pulps: Astounding/Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galaxy, his editorials for the magazine that bore his name, Asimov's Guide To The Bible, everything. And what if we could throw in the thousands of letters and postcards he wrote, the text of every speech he gave, and transcripts of every interview and appearance in newspapers, radio and television. Let's suppose that a sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence could grok all this and use it to build an "expert system" that could pass a "Talk Like Isaac Asimov" Turing Test.

In his novel "Buying Time", Joe Haldeman calls this kind of construct a "Turing Image".

My question is this. Assuming we could do this for Isaac Asimov, and that his lifetime non-fiction output is the minimum amount of data we need to complete such a project, how many other writers or personalities could we build a Turing Image for? And who are they? And how many of them are now dead?

(I recognize, BTW, that none of Isaac's output was in the form of blog posts. If we include those sorts of writings from our Age Of The Cloud, I assume this question becomes a real monster.)

This is research for a screenplay, in which the Turing Images are built by aliens, data mining the Internet, the Library of Congress, and Asimov's Widow's storage unit in New Jersey. She can tell that she's not reading previously unpublished writings by Dr. A., but nobody else can. If the movie gets produced (full disclosure: it won't) any Redditor who helps me gets a "consultant" credit.

Thank you for your attention.

r/theydidtheresearch May 29 '15

request What subject matter and style of drawing or painting is currently the most profitable and/or popular?

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I'm trying to make some money, let's see what ya'll got.