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I don't like forwarding or posting video links but videos from Vihart are both whimsical and deep, which is a rare combination, sort of like a 3Blue1Brown on acid. If you like this one you've also got to watch the one on Fibonacci
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Doodling in Math Class: Connecting Dots [video](youtube.com)
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Great point! Lish was a tight controller who was universally liked, to say the least. He’s generally insufferable (judge for yourself don’t this PM interview: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6423/the-art-
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I'm a sucker for found antique/goods types of shows and bought & watched a few seasons of "Baggage Battles" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baggage_Battles ) on Amazon Prime. It was OK but they v
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The title format "What We Talk About When We Talk About X," which today perhaps would be called a meme started with a famous short story by Raymond Carver, part of his short story collection published in 1981 with the same title (
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This was a great walk down the memory lane for me: I was a research intern at IBM Almaden in the summer of 2000 (crash learning C++ from Horton's Beginning Visual C++, I was a Unix/C person) and shopped at Fry's in Sunnyvale.
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Database of Spurious Correlations(tylervigen.com)
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You may find my HN comment from two years ago, the resulting discussion and the parent story interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27487993
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Some points you may find interesting: * If you're like me and are clueless about the terms "hyperbolic", "too simple" etc. used in the plot, take a lot at this SE answer that explains it (relatively) simply ( https:
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Tangentially, I think Malta is a fascinating place. It’s the only country in the EU, AFAIK, with a Semitic language. it’s unique culture, the history with Hospitaller knights, ancient buildings, the fact that it’s and island … all are very
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Good explanation of the components seen inside: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/19amwul/...
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A traffic signal control cabinet(old.reddit.com)
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I’ve always found the name of the village Cerne Abbas, after which the giant is named, interesting: “abbas” is a common Arabic name, maybe an early Arabic warrior fought with the Celts? (No, but this would be a cool story) Turns out abbas
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No, although this answer is awesome and very well researched, it cannot match the famous answer to the question about parsing HTML using regular expressions :-) : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex
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Here’s a story from my days at Motorola Labs around 2009 that you might find relevant: we were looking at ways for streaming content to homes (Moto owned a set-top box business at that time) and there were big debates about the future of st
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Starship was big at Purdue, this article says they launched 30 robots on campus in 2019: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q3/purdue-univ... When I visited the campus last April they were ev
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The Navy's indoor ocean [video](youtube.com)
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A beautiful “battle of the sexes” themed story, all dialog, similar to “Hills Like White Elephants” (that one was published in 1927, maybe Shaw was influenced by it? Or it could be the influence of his theater background). This being 1939,
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The tapir is wise as was Mithridates, as told by Housman: There was a king reigned in the East: There, when kings will sit to feast, They get their fill before they think With poisoned meat and poisoned drink. He gathered all th
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They could be forced into taking it. Or they may choose the painful death to erase the shame of the infidelity, similar to how seppuku was sometimes done.
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Hilarious! If beavers had a mythology and could pass it on to subsequent generations think of what a great story The Great Drop would be within this relocated colony.
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Love that this appeared on HN! For context, this I think is Cheever’s (“the Checkhov of the suburbs”) most famous story. Another widely anthologized one is “The Enormous Radio” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enormo
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Here’s one nice such surprise to amaze any kid (or a date, if they’re of the right mold): get a ruler or a uniform stick, balance it on your index fingers by placing them randomly along the length. Then start moving your fingers together. T
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> He dictated the story of Paradise Lost to a scribe He had many aides, including his daughters, Anne, Mary, and Deborah. If you visit the NY Public Library there’s a large painting depicting Milton dictating to one of the daughters whil
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Another essay by Bess Stillman was popular on HN recently, again dealing elegantly with the topic of death: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38635382 . Her husband, Jake Seliger is dying from cancer, that started on his
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“Hard to read,“ of course is a function of how attuned to the book you are at that stage of your life. Also, anything forced upon you will be a hateful read. That’s why people hate a lot of good books with compelling plots, eg OHYoS mention
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On an interesting note, it’s been suggested that the medieval Catholic Church’s ban on cousin marriage was a major reason for the Great Divergence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_W...
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"(It was customary for couples kissing under the mistletoe in the 19th century to remove a berry each time a kiss was had. Once the berries were gone, no more kisses.) After locking the door she swallows the berry and works by candleli
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If you'd like to make oobleck at home, here's the recipe from Peter van der Linden's book Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets : "If you have enjoyed this book you might also enjoy the text Bartholomew and the Oobleck,
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Ask HN: Who wants to give back to HN community?
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