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by Jun8 3y ago
To add one more data point to the general sentiment in the comments: in 2011 I was so bummed that I couldn’t get a ticket to I/O that year, I wanted to start an alternate conference called I/O Error “for the rest of us” https:&
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by Jun8 3y ago
Not a term, but I’ve always found the fact that AG had two terms that map to nothing , e.g. my two favorite sayings: “toi sophoi xenon ouden” (the wise man is foreign to nothing) and “meden agan” (nothing in excess), one of the three Delph
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by Jun8 3y ago
“Saturday morning, and as I awoke from my slumber I did what any addict would do. I got my dose.” I can totally relate to this, in fact, the seriousness of your addiction to HN can be measured by if you read it after heading to the toile
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Translating Akkadian to English with neural machine translation [pdf](watermark.silverchair.com)
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by Jun8 3y ago
I have a reminder on my personal calendar, randomly set to May 3rd, to read this post once every year to think about it and get grounded.
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The Last Post(penmachine.com)
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by Jun8 3y ago
The high score for Turkish may be similar to the reasons for Esperanto that you imply: the alphabet was designed and adopted in 1928 to specifically fit the phonetics of the [Anatolian] Turkish language. Some hiccups, mostly with Arabic loa
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Five Worlds of AI(scottaaronson.blog)
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by Jun8 3y ago
It’s interesting that a lot of people in Turkey wish that Ottomans had done what you say their purpose was, thinking that Turkification of these lands would have made Turkey better off, with more lands perhaps. Luckily, it’s not true. The i
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by Jun8 3y ago
Deimos looks so small w.r.t. Mars! Would Martians be able to enjoy solar eclipses? Answer : https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/34953/is-earth...
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by Jun8 3y ago
Actual description it generated: “Imagine a sleek, metallic sphere with a smooth surface, representing the vast knowledge contained within the model. The sphere emits a soft, pulsating glow that shifts between various colors, symbolizing th
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How ChatGPT Sees Itself(twitter.com)
2 points by Jun8 3y ago|3 comments
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by Jun8 4y ago
It seems there's a lot of interest for Byzantine History on HN, that's fantastic! My friends and I have run a book club for the past four years on Ancient History with focus on the Eastern Roman Empire. Most books we read were kin
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by Jun8 4y ago
AFAIK, an important reason eunuchs were preferred as generals and high officials is because a person who was castrated or had any other deformity could not be emperor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_mutilation
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by Jun8 4y ago
Here's a good Physics SE answer that addresses this point. The "electrons move slowly in a wire" is a hypercorrection, similar to "light slows down is glass": https://physics.stackexchange.com/a&#x2F
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by Jun8 4y ago
Good question! I think there are two approaches to it, one of which is interesting: 1. Why do sportspeople/influencers/singers make millions while young mathematicians/physicists/writers/poets/sculptors/et
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by Jun8 4y ago
Great set of posts! This one brought to mind: I think there's an unexplored niche of vampire movies where our protagonist lives 6 months in each hemisphere per year to minimize downtime in a coffin. With careful planning and a private
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by Jun8 4y ago
Simply put: human senses work logarithmically (as a professor introduced it in an introductory signal processing course decades ago in my undergraduate). This is a fascinating law, that, if you assume it applies to all cognitive processes,
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by Jun8 4y ago
“However, this point of view has been increasingly questioned in recent decades, and a few trigonometric proofs of Pythagoras have made the rounds since then. Claims in the media that Johnson and Jackson’s proof is the first trigonometric p
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by Jun8 4y ago
This is a fascinating subject. Chinese naming taboo focuses on emperor names; there's also a more general practice, common I'm Aboriginal and Bantu languages, where the sounds from in-laws's names cannot be uttered: https:&#
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by Jun8 4y ago
Sorry, I saw this on r/OldSchoolCool and couldn’t resist. Despite their hilarious looks these guys were rocking the “future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet” ethos. Guy on the far right is Thad Starner, he’s in Georgia Tec
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Members of the Wearable Computing Project at MIT. Mid 90s(old.reddit.com)
5 points by Jun8 4y ago|3 comments
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by Jun8 4y ago
As a counterpoint, you can read Matthew Yglesias’s analysis of Desmond’s article in NYT: https://www.slowboring.com/p/dont-overthink-poverty-in-the-u... .
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Why Are All Action Heroes Named Jack, James, or John?(slate.com)
1 points by Jun8 4y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 4y ago
If you still go to the office then dumpster diving at your recycle/e-waste bin/room is a must! You can’t believe the stuff you can find in such bins, not only new and perfectly usable things but also old hardware of all kinds. Res
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by Jun8 4y ago
Is there any other, more gracious, way to interpret this as Google retiring for on being Google, if so I’d like to know. I think the direct impact of these competitions to hiring were minimal. The biggest impact was to have thousands perhap
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by Jun8 4y ago
Interesting note; the NYT profile linked in this article ( https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/defund-police-seattle-... ) was by Nellie Bowles. She left NYT in Nov 2021 and revealed that she was bullied
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by Jun8 4y ago
This post on the front page was SO timely for us! My son (16) was feeling very sleepy and tired the past week. On Friday he took a brief nap at 5pm, but woke up next morning, after 15 hours. This morning when I went to wake him up at 6am he
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by Jun8 4y ago
Complement this article with the one on NYT about beer ads during the Super Bowl this weekend: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/business/media/beer-ads-s...
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by Jun8 4y ago
I have a son who’s a sophomore (15 yo, second year in HS) and this comment absolutely rings true. He fences competitively (2 HR training four times a week plus a few hrs with physical therapist) and his life pretty much consists of school,

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