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by Jun8 2y ago
If you are wondering what sort of idiot would dispute a math problem with Newton, it was not a dispute at all; it's not even clear that they had a discussion at all: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/5148&#x2
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Not these gems but my son and I hunted for and found a couple of 19th century single use pipes and part of a brick with a cool logo a couple of years ago. Go to the Tower Bridge, there are stairs to go to the shore right next to it. Good hu
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by Jun8 2y ago
The Economist article with a better looking version of the plot of everything: https://www.economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/202...
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All Objects and Some Questions(pubs.aip.org)
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This principle (Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth)is among others that Teller discusses in this great article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/teller-reveals-h... These same tech
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/teller-reveals-h...
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AI Is the Black Mirror(nautil.us)
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I’ve always wondered how different human culture would be if we had multiple moons. Related: the relationship between lunar and menstrual cycles is an open question, eg see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3716780/ or
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Which triggers the next level question: Why are blue pigments in plants and animals rare? Quick answer: Unknown. https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/56476/why-are-so... https://news.ycombinator.
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Not in this case but sometimes mathematicians of old did have access to “computers”, ie savants who can do large calculations in their heads easily. Gauss used the services of such a person: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/q
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by Jun8 2y ago
Not related to this paper but you may find the Solresol constructed language interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol
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Abigail Adams Disapproves of French Fashion, 1800(twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com)
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"DTSS was unveiled on May 1, 1964, along with BASIC. By that fall, hundreds of students were exploring BASIC on the 20 terminals around campus." How far have we come! I just looked up and Dartmouth had about 3000 students at that
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A Soviet swamp rat scheme for Azerbaijan went horribly wrong(bbc.com)
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"There were several motivations behind the spiral. The first was an interest in the spiral patterns of both Celtic and Islamic art, and a desire to create a similar effect with as few rules as possible" Quasi-periodic Islamic wall
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Interesting nugget: the Swallowtail Catastrophe ( https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SwallowtailCatastrophe.html ), one of the seven possible, was named by the blind French topologist Bernard Morin ( https://en.m.wikiped
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Is web scraping a profitable industry?(substack.thewebscraping.club)
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The rose branch brought to mind again this poem by Robert Frost which is one of my favorites: The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The
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by Jun8 2y ago
So, as a person who came to the US in his late 20s in '95 from a country where Halloween was not "celebrated" (of course, now it is has expanded there, too, like in many other countries, fueled by the incentive to sell stuff)
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Sheilah Graham mentioned here was an interesting character, nowadays she’s only known as Fitzgerald’s paramour, but she had a long career as a columnist ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheilah_Graham ). I really enjoye
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“So you have a filter with many layers: you need areas which fulfill a stringent set of conditions for such an educational newsletter, and you need a very unusual sort of individual, someone who is expert in the area and has preferably gott
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Many people here may not be familiar with David Moser, the author of this article. He’s frequently mentioned in Douglas Hofstadter’s book Le Ton Beau le Marot (fantastic book on language and translation BTW) in regards to matters related
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by Jun8 2y ago
Forth has been sitting on my list of cool thing to learn when I have time for the past 20 yrs or so. What would be a compelling use case and setup?
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TIL: barm brack (speckled bread in Irish, also written as one word) is a type of bread that's baked for Halloween in Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmbrack
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Watching this is ... hard to find the words to describe it. It's insane! It shows us how mind bogglingly vast the universe is and how we're literally nothing compared to it. Paradoxically, it also makes me feel incredibly potent a
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This is fascinating and I think is one of the major areas that new AI systems will impact humanity, ie by combing through millions of papers to make connections and discover such sleeping beauties. BTW, I noticed a similar phenomenon on HN
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If you like interviews like these, and if you don’t know him already, you’ll love Studs Terkel. His interviews with many different people are online at https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/ .
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“They also reveal cracks in Starbucks’ business model, which has changed in response to customer demand from a predominately sit-down coffee shop to a mostly drive-thru and mobile takeout chain.” This is the real reason Starbucks sales are
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Additionally, this would be a great way to gather tons of plant data that you can then use to increase recognition accuracy.
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Dogbotic – a collective interested in unconventional sounds(dogbotic.com)
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