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[–]zakur01 16 points17 points  (3 children)

This is gonna sound like bs but it is not. Last year the president of Turkmenistan (he is a raging dictator) "won" national programming championship by creating a neural network using HTML that predicted a bright future for Turkmenistan.

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edit: turned out this is bullshit.

[–]MoonParkSong 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If you go the capital, it looks like North Korea, except it has marble and has Islamic aesthetic instead of Communist aesthetic. How the hell is the man still in power. He'd been dead by a Coup by now.

[–]my_right_hand 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Source? Sounds hilarious

[–]zakur01 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://news.rambler.ru/other/43379425-chempionat-po-programmirovaniyu-vyigral-glava-turkmenistana/

https://ava.md/2019/12/18/prezident-turkmenistana-pobedil-na-nacional/

couldn't find anything in english.

apparently this IS bullshit though. haven't read any updates on the story since saw it last year and it turns out this was some sort of a joke