Isamu

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by Isamu 7y ago
>a big gap between the shoulder and hand where the blasted stone will need to support itself And there are various examples in nature of stone arches with a span supported on two sides. It's not as though stone is incapable of spans
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by Isamu 7y ago
>a chief factor seems to be the household one is born into, and the culture of reading that parents create within it. Aye, my mother regularly took us to the biggest public library within driving distance. Every few weeks. And we didn&#x
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by Isamu 7y ago
>physics are preventing the outstretched hand from ever being completed I believe the arm is designed to be supported by the horse's head, while appearing to be free. >sculptor was completely unqualified to sculpt a mountain Fair
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by Isamu 7y ago
Yes, please stop. Changing the scrollbar is another unwanted overreach that ruins my user experience.
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by Isamu 7y ago
I have a buckwheat pillow too. Now I'm in the unfortunate position of having to take my pillow with me when I travel.
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by Isamu 7y ago
Direct link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45268-y >Here we tested whether skeletal structures provide an important source of information for object recognition when compared with other mod
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by Isamu 7y ago
Maybe here, top of the list? https://uci.academia.edu/ShawnRosenberg/Papers
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by Isamu 7y ago
>scientists have no proof that hurricanes are hitting land more often For the curious, data by decade is here (for the US): https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml This topic sometimes comes up because there are graphs th
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by Isamu 7y ago
>There is a role for technology in school, she says, but it is a matter of how much and at what age. Something about the school procurement process that knocks all the nuance or subtlety out of the goals. This issue with technology goes
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by Isamu 7y ago
>CarPlay will be non-negotiable. I don’t want to have a separate computer system to manage in my car. I want to use the insanely powerful pocket computer I always have with me with my car’s audio system and display. I agree, but even Car
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by Isamu 7y ago
>Alternate day fasting (ADF) is a subtype of intermittent fasting and is defined as a continuous sequence of a fast day (100% energy restriction, zero calories) and a feed day (ad libitum food consumption), resulting in roughly 36-h fast
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by Isamu 7y ago
Heh. Yeah, it goes way, way back. I remember discussing this back then too.
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by Isamu 7y ago
By the way, it is widespread a myth that (c) is an acceptable replacement for the copyright symbol or the word "copyright". That is, it makes for an invalid copyright notice, BUT IT DOES NOT INVALIDATE YOUR COPYRIGHT, which is aut
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by Isamu 7y ago
>McCarthy not understanding it is surprising. I think he is commenting on the subtleties of it. I think many reading here will say they understand it or have studied it in a course but I am not so sure everyone gets the subtle points. My
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by Isamu 7y ago
I just discovered that breathless clickbait headlines are worse than useless.
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by Isamu 7y ago
I have a nice sharpener that either sharpens just the wood (leaving the graphite) or sharpens both. It's nice to have some options.
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by Isamu 7y ago
Another thing that people do is to "see" patterns in random data, and perceive "trends" from anecdotal experience that aren't necessarily happening. America never had faith in expertise, that's just your younge
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by Isamu 7y ago
I know, I have a supercomputer in my pocket that I call a "phone" with astounding capabilities ... and we can't help but be utterly bored by it.
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by Isamu 7y ago
I was interested to find out which steel mill, since they are almost non-existent in Pittsburgh these days, but this is about Allegheny Technologies, headquartered downtown, which owns a number of mills and specialty metals businesses scatt
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by Isamu 7y ago
Adler's advice is meant to make your reading more efficient and effective, not to increase the amount of time you spend. In fact he advocates taking just a short time to quickly size up a book, rather than make the mistake of starting
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by Isamu 7y ago
Roger Schank was always an interesting speaker: >The third conversation was with Bob Wilensky, a former student of mine, who asked me what I was going to do on this panel. He asked if I thought doomsday was coming. I said, “Yes.” And he
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by Isamu 7y ago
The author needs to maybe get over it? He goes through the typical complaints. >They think that by having themselves tattooed they are shocking the bourgeoisie à la Baudelaire; and in so far as their parents don’t like it, and are in ef
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by Isamu 7y ago
Thank you for bringing my attention to the rPi Compute Module, I hadn't known this existed.
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by Isamu 7y ago
The same people built Plan 9 and learned from their experience building Unix to make an operating system that was like Unix, only more so. But Unix was originally built under the Bell System monopoly and they were restricted from selling it
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by Isamu 7y ago
I think we agree. In Pennsylvania ("Penn's Woods") the under-developed landscape still towers so gigantically above the developed landscape that I wonder what people think they are seeing during travel. Of course, things pop
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by Isamu 7y ago
The meme is definitely oversized - Breezewood is pretty small. If you feel this is somehow representative of America then you must have been asleep through the vast miles of farmland and wooded hills leading up to it and stretching forever
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by Isamu 7y ago
The open space at the floor is about ease of mopping. In many places all the bathroom stalls are effectively hung from the ceiling, so there is a continuous tiled floor with a single drain. This is to make it faster to mop up. It's pro
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by Isamu 7y ago
About the significance of the Schmidt-Kalman filter (from a related abstract): >In most target tracking formulations, the tracking sensor location is typically assumed perfectly known. Without accounting for navigation errors of the sens
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by Isamu 7y ago
It was really only a matter of time before Emacs reached sentience. I am surprised this isn't about Emacs reaching out to other editors in a bid to control cyberspace.
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by Isamu 7y ago
It's fair to bring it up.

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