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YAML is a funny language: it's not Turing complete, but it can have arbitrary code execution bugs.

Results from The International Obfuscated C Code Contest are out, and the winner has a devious program using the Turing-completeness of printf! Yikes.

The Turing Test focuses on distinguishing between humans and computers in a text chat. There are lots of other domains where it's interesting to compare styles. Do we make different mistakes in speech recognition? How easy is it to spot a chess AI masquerading as human?