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by DonaldFisk 5mo ago
General Relativity. It explained the anomaly in the precession of Mercury's perihelion, and the bending of starlight by the Sun (double the value predicted by Newton's law). The test here is for the inverse square law of gravity
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by DonaldFisk 5mo ago
Anglo-Saxon + Norman French + Latin + Greek. Surprisingly few words from Celtic languages.
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by DonaldFisk 6mo ago
I wrote something similar here: https://fmjlang.co.uk/blog/GroundBreakingLanguages.html We agree on Algol, Lisp, Forth, APL, and Prolog. For ground-breaking functional language, I have SASL (St Andrews Static Languag
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by DonaldFisk 7mo ago
Sadly, not part of this course, though Lisp and Prolog are very useful for other things. C's fine for building neural networks from scratch, and you can glue different subsystems together to make anything more complex than that using
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by DonaldFisk 7mo ago
Why not? It was called AI at the time.
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by DonaldFisk 8mo ago
Written Chinese stayed the same while the spoken language evolved from the 5th century BC until the 1911 revolution, after which people began writing Chinese the way it's spoken in Beijing. So there's a sharp dividing line just
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by DonaldFisk 8mo ago
Also French femme. It isn't limited to Italic languages either. There's also German Frau, Dutch vrouw, Irish bean.
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by DonaldFisk 8mo ago
Here's Trump's claims debunked in detail: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/08/recapping-trumps-deceptive... "But we found that Trump’s so-called “reciprocal” tariff rates weren’t based on tariffs that
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by DonaldFisk 8mo ago
It's well worth a read for anyone who wants to implement their own Lisp. I'd say it's the precursor of Lisp In Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec though. I have copies of both.
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by DonaldFisk 8mo ago
Newton wrote, "That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one another, is to me so great an absurdity that,
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by DonaldFisk 8mo ago
Yes, the principle of relativity was known to Newton, but the other idea, that the speed of light is the same in all reference frames, was new, counterintuitive, and what makes special relativity the way it is.
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by DonaldFisk 8mo ago
It isn't an anteceent, it's part of special relativity, discovered by Lorentz. It's well known that special relativity is the work of several people as well as Einstein.
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by DonaldFisk 8mo ago
Agreed. General relativity was a completely novel idea. Einstein took a purely mathematical object (now known as the Einstein tensor), and realized that since its coveriant derivative was zero, it could be equated (apart fron a constant fa
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by DonaldFisk 8mo ago
Dutch is aardappel. Fun fact: there's a programming language called Aardappel: https://strlen.com/aardappel-language/
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by DonaldFisk 9mo ago
Here's the Wikipedia article, which provides more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom Dennis McKenna, mentioned in the article, is the brother of the late Terence McKenna.
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by DonaldFisk 9mo ago
It depends whether you want your system to handle all of natural language and give answers which are correct most of the time (but it isn't easy to tell when it's wrong), or to handle a limited subset of natural language and
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by DonaldFisk 9mo ago
again, capital(germany, berlin). capital(france, paris). is clearer. Someone once told me you need humongous vectors to encode nuance, but people are good at things computers are bad at, and vice-versa. I don't want nuan
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by DonaldFisk 9mo ago
Another cognate is Classical Greek γυνή, whence gynaecology.
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by DonaldFisk 9mo ago
It's telling that king – man + woman = queen is the only example I've ever seen used to explain word2vec. I prefer the old school king(X) :- monarch(X), male(X). queen(X) :- monarch(X), female(X). queen(X) :- wife(Y,
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by DonaldFisk 9mo ago
But if there are no Dilbert cartoons on the wall, it might be because the PHB has banned them.
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by DonaldFisk 9mo ago
http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/
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by DonaldFisk 9mo ago
The original proverb is "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." See https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pro1.htm
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by DonaldFisk 11mo ago
I had assumed that XWayland is a drop-in replacement fo X11, and will be available indefinitely. I regularly write code which relies on a working X11. I have written a virtual machine which makes X11 calls to do 2D graphics and event hand
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by DonaldFisk 11mo ago
Scotland, 56 degrees north - I was able to see the aurora through occasional gaps in fast moving clouds around 0400hrs. Red, easily visible to the naked eye.
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
It's actually an interesting news article, at least if you're interested in neuroscience. I can confirm, though, that it's nothing whatsoever to do with flight simulators, and have no idea why the author chose that particul
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
I remember those early systems, and was in touch with Upendra Shardanand and Pattie Maes at the time. Other early systems ca As music recommendation was already being done, I developed MORSE, short for MOvie Recommendation SystEm, shortly
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
I think that intelligence requires, or rather, is the development and use of a model of the problem while the problem is being solved, i.e. it involves understanding the problem. Accurate predictions, based on extrapolations made by syste
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
No, MCP was a much older operating system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP ).
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
> Just look at North Korea for example ... on average their literacy is terrible. Where do you get that information from? According to the CIA, it's 100% ( https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/about/arch
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by DonaldFisk 1y ago
> I don't have a problem with holding companies responsible for the products they sell. That's why I wrote, "A publisher had to ensure that the material in the magazines was legal to print." Web sites should also fo

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