You should read about compatibilism, e.g. the work of Daniel Dennett, which argues that the parts of free will worth wanting are consistent with determinism. He definitely doesn't believe in magic or god!
Why would you assume it's all or nothing? Will (free or otherwise) implies something like effort and clearly we're not constantly applying effort. Believing in free will doesn't mean believing that everything results from it.
I feel like all recommendation systems already do similarity well -- and it's not what I want. True, similarity matters to some extent, but my dream is something that can accurately predict what I'd like. Often I'll only like a song or two from a given artist, so finding artists similar to this artist are often useless.
Related question: I wonder if identical twins are good at recommending each other music
I don't understand why you think this is a bad idea - 301 redirects exist for a reason. Redirecting to what the user probably wants is better than a 404 page.
That said, typically most people are going to find a site via search or clicking a link, which is why I think basically no one bothers doing this.
301 is "Moved Permanently". The content in question wasn't (necessarily) moved. If you control and know for sure that old URL was renamed to something else, then yes - 301 redirect is appropriate. But guessing and redirecting isn't that.
The common grapefruit diameter is smaller than the diameter of a DVD. People like to reference the size people in the area might be more familiar. When you say grapefruit, I don't think of something the size of a DVD. That would be an extra large grapefruit based on the sizes and pricing of all of the stores that offer grapefruits I have ever seen. The DVD diameter sized citrus fruit I'm familiar would be pomelos, and not all stores carry them.
If you routinely see grapefruit with the same diameter as a DVD that it is a normal measurement for you then, that's great for you, but it is not the normal
The flat part wasn't confusing, was just quibbling about the odd over-explaining of the size (fwiw in the video the person says "baseball" and "softball", and indeed I didn't see any DVD-sized ones).
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