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I'm always hesitant when I see digital services funded by a single one-off payment. Running a service requires ongoing funding. You sometimes see this with games that have a multiplayer component. People buy the game, but the multiplayer servers won't last forever.

Fascinating talk on applying deep learning to detecting cheaters in CS:GO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTiP0zKF9bc The presenter discusses how they get machine-readable data out of matches, and how they still keep a human in the loop (ML just feeds the human analysis component).

Cute benchmarking technique for choosing sample programs in a benchmarking suite: perform principal component analysis to avoid redundancy!