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by Jun8 5y ago
Susskind’s Theoretical Minimum is fantastic for physics self study: https://theoreticalminimum.com/
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by Jun8 5y ago
NPR recently did an interview with the author and translator: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/29/1076663955/nobel-prize-winner... , this was the first time I’ve heard of this book, it sounded very interesting
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by Jun8 5y ago
The answers here may be of interest: https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/did-minsky-and-p... The unfortunate thing was not the Perceptrons book but the fact that Rosenblatt died prematurely soon after. H
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by Jun8 5y ago
If you think this is because the skill sets (or, perhaps more importantly, the mindsets) of the two have no overlap (an outlook I used to have, too), I suggest you read pg’s classic essay “Hackers and Painters”: http://www.paulgr
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The Case Against the Case Against AI(quillette.com)
2 points by Jun8 5y ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 5y ago
Great article! I think you’ve done a great job of introducing these difficult concepts in simple language. I saved to Pocket and it’s already got a Best Of label there. PCA (KLT) can be introduced as a generalization of the Fourier Transfor
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by Jun8 5y ago
It’s interesting to note that the first skyscraper is generally accepted to be built in Chicago (10 floors) and the steel frame technology was developed here, too. Although nowadays NYC has become synonymous with high buildings, this was no
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by Jun8 5y ago
Ahh, one of my pet peeves! I like and use the Oxford comma in my emails but have observed am in the extreme minority on this one. Here’s an English SE question with some interesting answers: https://english.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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by Jun8 5y ago
I wholeheartedly recommend the Landmark Herodotus: https://www.amazon.ca/Landmark-Herodotus-Histories-Robert-St... The indices, maps, and other additional information was a great aid in understanding the text.
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by Jun8 5y ago
I don’t know if you were joking when you said you made them all up but the first two are actual thing: the Kusarigama ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusarigama ) and pump used for Greek Fire (e.g. see the illustration
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by Jun8 5y ago
You’re absolutely right, forgot to mention associativity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobenius_theorem_(real_divi...
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by Jun8 5y ago
3B1B is also informative, especially in explaining why C was not extended using triplets but 4-tuples were needed: https://youtu.be/d4EgbgTm0Bg . Here’s a Math SE answer on why: https://math.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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by Jun8 5y ago
Even the 40th year edition is a bit expensive at approx $100. For a similarly weird book at less than half the price I’d suggest this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnerotomachia_Poliphili
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by Jun8 5y ago
Interesting read! Here's the the template mentioned for powerful antagonists: “Antagonists should be hyper-individualistic bullies. They should threaten the social order and induce righteous indignation in protagonists, incentivizing t
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by Jun8 5y ago
On the contrary, powerful stimuli like war have always been a driving force for people to create, e.g. here are some examples of paintings done in WW1 by soldiers: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/
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by Jun8 5y ago
I'm a bit of two minds on whether you can do writing (or other such creative work) while holding a grueling day job. On the one hand there's the notion that writes have to write, e.g. as Bukowski explains in "Air and Light
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by Jun8 5y ago
Here's a much better party/bar trick: 1. Point to the drink glass in front of you 2. Ask friend if they think the circumference or height of the glass is larger 3. Friend will invariably think that height is larger 4.
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by Jun8 5y ago
Here are few thoughts on Aaranson's comments: 1) I have absolutely zero understanding of quantum computers (even after watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA ), though I like to read up on qu
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by Jun8 5y ago
Instant classic, to be paired with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753627
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by Jun8 5y ago
“This is a reference to Arnold J. Toynbee,[1] who proposed that civilisation must respond to a challenge in order to flourish.” A recent work that I love which uses this idea is the Dark Forest Trilogy, where detecting the existence of alie
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by Jun8 5y ago
This was exactly my path, too! One additional factor after I switched to HN that increased the stickiness for me was the joy of discovering pg’s essays.
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by Jun8 5y ago
I started reading HN around 2008 but created my account on October 22, 2009 when I made my first of two submissions to YC (didn't succeed in either). I just looked at my submission upvote history and its pretty much a history of my int
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by Jun8 5y ago
Same here! It's a very interesting language in that it evolved from Arabic with no interaction, so nor relationship to Classical or Modern Arabic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language ). Here's a nic
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by Jun8 5y ago
If you find this interesting I also suggest Manchan Megan’s No Bearla series: https://youtu.be/eyll-bBZzyk
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Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (2003)(youtu.be)
1 points by Jun8 5y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 5y ago
You can actually get on the mail boat tour in the morning that distributes the mail and wager if a particular jumper will make it. Falling into water is not common but happens, esp. with some owners deliberately putting their mailbox farthe
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by Jun8 5y ago
To complicate matters: The lake is actually called Geneva Lake. Lake Geneva refers to the city.
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by Jun8 5y ago
“ Based solely on Jupiter’s distance from the sun, its upper atmosphere should be about -100 F (-73 C). But observations show Jupiter’s upper atmosphere instead soars to temperatures of 800 F (426 C).” Many have thought about life in the up
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by Jun8 5y ago
Drinking milk and consuming various dairy products ( kefir , yogurt, cheese, etc.) are strongly associated with "steppe people" which were seen as barbaric (sometimes rightly so), so this perhaps explains some of the points in thi
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by Jun8 5y ago
The Altaic “macrofamily” mentioned here is deemed controversial as is the relation between Japanese and Korean. From a cursory research in this topic I think that many discussions (on either side of the debate) are at least partly motivated

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