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No. 90: 🤖 Github Copilot

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🐙 Remember Paul the Octopus? 🔮

He was the soothsaying cephalopod who foresaw the results of the 2010 World Cup. They’d give him two boxes of food, each with a flag on it, and whichever one he ate from was his “prediction”. He kept getting it right, right up to the final.

Google made this Doodle of him for the 2014 World Cup:

World Cup 2014 #14

Paul lived as fine a life as…

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