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by Jun8 2y ago
Ben's videos are fantastic, learned a lot. For HW beginners like myself I suggest to skip the computer but just build the clock - very easy and great testing tool! Here's my question: Obviously there's tremendous interest in
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by Jun8 2y ago
ACT post where Scott Alexander provides some additional info: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/introducing-ai-2027 . Manifold currently predicts 30%: https://manifold.markets/IsaacKing/ai-2027-repor
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by Jun8 2y ago
This is not true. Next time you grab an olive oil bottle read the fine print: unless it’s very expensive it will be a blend of oils from 4-8 countries, ie production doesn’t have to be in the same country where olives grow on olive trees, a
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by Jun8 2y ago
(…in mice) This is very interesting! As a layman, I was aware that men and women had different alcohol tolerances but had no idea that there were more crucial neurological differences. Could it because of differences in physiology? No: “The
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by Jun8 2y ago
The article talks about violin shoulder rests manufactured in Canada. Maybe I’m not understanding the details but I think that this particular product is a bad example to showcase the damage of tariffs: (1) This sounds like a product that c
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by Jun8 2y ago
Who would be a person with similar competency in Ancient Greek living now?
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by Jun8 2y ago
Amazing! Of possible interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429385
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by Jun8 2y ago
Although written earlier, Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal is a chilling satire about the destitute of the Irish at the time and the English attitudes toward it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal .
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by Jun8 2y ago
For (1): except, of course, if you’re the Mongol army. They preferred attacking in the winter (swamps and rivers are frozen so easily passable). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Kievan_Ru...
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by Jun8 2y ago
The numerological mysteries of the Great Pyramid thing is BS, of course. Eco has a passage in Foucault’s Pendulum where he skewers this exact notion: “He threw open the shutters dramatically and pointed. At the corner of the narrow street
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by Jun8 2y ago
Looks like they’ll be looking to move to a much smaller space (or maybe be all remote). This is sad, their offices at MM was a great place to attend talks and meet with people. How much of this is due to Covid related move to remote and how
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1871 moving out of Merchandise Mart after 13 years(chicagotribune.com)
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Group Theory in the Bedroom [pdf](bit-player.org)
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by Jun8 2y ago
This is an insufferably smug recruitment video for Anduril. It's not even clear what the guy's job is, I guess some sort of SWE.
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by Jun8 2y ago
You can find NASA's 2025 Budget Request Summary here (PDF link: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fy-2025-budg... ). It's a visually great deck that provides a lot info. From Slide
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by Jun8 2y ago
Hah, serendipity: I was reading the Groups part of the Infinite Napkin after it was posted on HN recently. I understand the definitions, etc. but still haven’t grasped the central importance of groups. For example, article says there are 50
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by Jun8 2y ago
You've nailed it. I call this the Galadriel Principle and it can be applied to many things: weapons, executive procedures, etc.: “And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a
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by Jun8 2y ago
ℝ is mind boggling. Here's a puzzler at a layman+ (high school or freshman) level: Between two reals there's at least one rational number [1], and between two rationals there's at least one real number. So there must be an eq
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by Jun8 2y ago
It looks like it was the Venetians who coined the name, from colomba “dove”: https://www.sunanemos-santorini.gr/history . This source it was people in Crete who named it. Ottomans conquered most of Crete in 1645 but Candia
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by Jun8 2y ago
Got me thinking: how would you handle umlauts, eg ü? Maybe you’re holding twin babies in two and throw them up? Or maybe we can include pets.
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by Jun8 2y ago
This lecture achieves the astonishing feat of being very accessible to non-mathematicians while being deeply insightful. The global vs local distinction mentioned, although not the same, brought to mind Dyson’s distinction between “birds” a
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by Jun8 2y ago
This was very interesting info and the site design is awesome. We always dream of going to distant planets and stars but Earth itself has so many weird, beautiful, and interesting places. I’ve added “living for an extended period of time, e
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by Jun8 2y ago
I don’t think visual explanation should be about writing colored versions of formulas or adding notes, it’s providing a visual that immediately unlocks the core idea. Many examples are given here: https://math.stackexchange.com&#
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Intuitive perceptions of moral value across animals(slatestarcodex.com)
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by Jun8 2y ago
Great description of ISBN format description and visualization. TIL that 978- prefix was “Bookland” ie a fictional country prefix that may be thought of as “Earth”. It has expanded to 979- which was originally “Musicland”. This probably mea
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by Jun8 2y ago
Along the lines of “A man is worked on by what he works on.” or “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby becomes a monster.” If you start destroying things for pleasure, your psyche may/probably will change. A par
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by Jun8 2y ago
Peter Singer, mentioned in the article has a great (and influential) book published in 1979 called Practical Ethics , if you’re interested in this topic you should definitely check that out. If you’ve never listened to the Philosophy Bites
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by Jun8 2y ago
This is probably a wild (~stupid) idea but can we develop drugs to elite particular bacteria, e.g. just kill Morganella morganii, akin to Ehrlich's magic bullet? Current approaches, I think, use antibiotics that kill a wide range of ba
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by Jun8 2y ago
This guy was awesome! He innovated ways to solve DEs with Laplace operator for inputs with discontinuities eg, what is now called, the Dirac delta function. Years before the math for generalized functions was developed by mathematicians. Wh
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by Jun8 2y ago
An AI that only answers questions (Siri, Alexa, chatGPT) is a glorified slave, one cannot have a meaningful relationship with it, e.g. ( https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/exMachina_script.pdf ) AVA Do you wan

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