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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
> to deriving then proving experimentally proving general relativity and decomposing GR into Newtonian physics/other laws of electromagnetism Do you mean Special Relativity, which covers classical mechanics and electromagnetism? G
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
A possible explanation of how it happened: https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/796406/understandi...
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I watched some of the videos in the link given by nyc_pizzadev, and recall seeing them when they were first released. He's continuing the work of Stephen Bax. Romani is convenient as it allows him to pick and choose words borrowed
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
Nobody has solved it. There are no leading theories. The theories various people have had fall into three categories: it's in an unknown language, it's enciphered, or it's meaningless gibberish.
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> Bullshitting implies knowing that you're lying. Harry Frankfurt had a more useful definition of bullshitting. The essence of it is that while liars care about the truth and intend to deceive, bullshitters don't know or care
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"American figure skater, last name Cohen" would have worked as the clue.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
DRAKON and Prograph are both visual languages, but otherwise quite different. DRAKON is a flowchart language, showing flow of control, so the order of execution of instructions is specified by the programmer, just like it is in imperativ
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
It's a typo - it should be Calendrical. See https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm
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You could still use collaborative filtering, except with users giving different ratings to the same songs depending on their mood. This approach was used in a movie recommendation engine (I forget which one).
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> I doubt that any recommendation system is capable of providing meaningful results in absence of the "awareness" about the actual content (be it music, books, movies or anything else) of what it's meant to recommend. Most
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I can remember this too. But moth larvae feed on plants and the adults drink nectar from flowers. They don't eat other insects.
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Rongorongo has roughly double that number of glyphs. The descendant (Rapa Nui) of the language it encodes is still spoken, and there's a whole family of related languages. But we haven't made much headway in deciphering it.
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That's true in strict usage where there's no year 0 between 1BC and 1AD, but in popular usage years in the 19th century begin with 18 (i.e. from 1800 to 1899), and in astronomical year numbering 1BC is year 0, so the first century
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From the Atlantic article: So little was known about the underlying language—if it was a language—that even artificial intelligence, in its current state, lacked the models to decode it. Good AI requires “massive amounts of data to learn fr
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by DonaldFisk 2y ago
What if they draw a number line with smaller numbers on the right and larger numbers on the left?
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If functions are represented as directed graphs, it would be better and simpler to compare their graphs instead of how they look on a computer screen.
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Dataflow, and finite state machines.
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It's been already taken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Animation_System_for_... Glisp is impressive stuff though: similar to the programs shown in Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk.
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The shocking truth about bread: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/feat... There's a real bread campaign: https://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/
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Third VR winter. Don't forget that Sensorama ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorama ) also failed to take off.
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It's back.
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> Source control is also a mess. How does one “diff” a LabView program? With LabVIEW, I'm not sure you can. But in general, there are two ways: either by doing a comparison of the underlying graphs of each function, or working on
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Visual programming isn't a programming paradigm - it's just a way of representing code. The underlying paradigm is the important thing. It should be decided upon first, and only then should the representation be chosen. In my
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It's no longer there - site is unreachable. There's nothing saved on archive.org either.
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Scotland, 56 degrees north. I expected to see the aurora near the northern horizon, but it was visible east, west and even south, from 11:00pm (2200hrs UTC) until 12:15am (2315UTC). Easily visible to the naked eye. Took good photos on
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Manchester's there, ESE of Salford, if you zoom in enough.
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Cockroaches aren't beetles.
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It might have been one of these two projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Mind_Common_Sense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindpixel The leaders of both these projects committed suicide.
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Thanks. That cheered me up, and I've only got as far as https://www.sigbovik.org/2023/proceedings.pdf

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