Jun8

15 ms·

121.
by Jun8 2y ago
2000-3500=1500BCE which would be the era of Mycenaean Greece in Greece. AFAIK, it would be an earth shattering find if you found a Greek artifact in Croatia, eg something with Linear-A lettering.
122.
by Jun8 2y ago
There are 50 images so takes about 25-30 mins to judge. Some classifications will be obvious, some look like it's impossible to tell.
123.
AI Art Turing Test(astralcodexten.com)
2 points by Jun8 2y ago|1 comments
124.
by Jun8 2y ago
You nailed the term I didn’t know I was looking for, that’s exactly it! As a fantasy I’ve thought about creating a secret identity and have researched how to keep it absolutely safe. This is very hard and you can spend quite a bit of time
125.
by Jun8 2y ago
Tl;dr No, but they found “a strong preference for languages perceived as familiar, even when they were misidentified, a variety of cultural-geographical biases, and a preference for breathy female voices.”
126.
Do some languages sound more beautiful than others?(pnas.org)
3 points by Jun8 2y ago|2 comments
127.
by Jun8 2y ago
Many languages have more kin terms than English, which is especially poor in this sense. In Turkish, as you comment, we have: * Aunt (father’s side) - hala * Aunt (mother’s side) - teyze * Uncle (father’s side) - amca * Uncle (mother’
128.
by Jun8 2y ago
This is interesting. Another use for such a secure machine would be to enter text, eg highly controversial blog entries or erotic stories. Then any common computer or phone with a camera can be used to transfer the text using 2D barcodes. T
129.
by Jun8 2y ago
This quote from Minsky is how I think consciousness evolved: Has any of this cleared up what consciousness is or is for?" I asked. "People have such a small number of memory registers," Minsky said, "that we can't t
130.
by Jun8 2y ago
You’re right, he was an overall good guy. I had Harold in mind, who builds the bomb that kills Nick.
131.
by Jun8 2y ago
As others point out this essay is not good (does not even touch on the Native American threads prevalent in the movie that are missing in the book). However, it does sort of point to a major characteristic in King’s typical “could’ve been g
132.
by Jun8 2y ago
Not one mention of the EM algorithm, which is, as far as I can understand, is being described here ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%E2%80%93maximiza... ). It has so many applications, among which is estimati
133.
by Jun8 2y ago
I like this! HN gatherings used to happen in the past in various cities, are they still a thing? I’m envious of the irl meetings ACX community is having.
134.
by Jun8 2y ago
The video linked in the article looks so quaint, but it was only 70 years ago! The ladies putting in the components work pretty fast, about 5s per component for smaller ones, so about 720 cph. Top speed pick and place robots can now do 200
135.
by Jun8 2y ago
In a meeting or email within Microsoft it would be weird to refer to him as Mr Gates.
136.
by Jun8 2y ago
Other random information about names that I find interesting: * The US habit of addressing all people, eg even the CEO, by first name in business setting would be unthinkable in most other cultures. This is one aspect that many foreigners s
137.
by Jun8 2y ago
My (maybe very ignorant) question is: can this connectome be used to “run” simulations of a virtual fruit fly, a la MMAcevedo?
138.
by Jun8 2y ago
“By definition, all of the electrons in an atom are indistinguishable, which can arguably be rephrased to say that any electron in the electron cloud is the same electron as any other one.” For an even more mind boggling idea, see the one e
139.
by Jun8 2y ago
Try Vihart on YT, eg this one is one of the most awesome explanations I’ve seen: https://youtu.be/VIVIegSt81k?si=yRlWlEf2-rEICgtk . And kids love this stuff.
140.
by Jun8 2y ago
I loved this bit: “In her autobiography, Payne tells that while in school she created an experiment on the efficacy of prayer by dividing her exams in two groups, praying for success only on one, the other one being a control group. She ach
141.
by Jun8 2y ago
This is a 217 page collection of 250 theorems selected by the author based in “whether the result can be formulated elegantly, whether it is beautiful or useful and whether it could serve as a guide without leading to panic.”
142.
Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics(arxiv.org)
3 points by Jun8 2y ago|1 comments
143.
by Jun8 2y ago
Oh man! The nostalgic feeling seeing these photos give me cannot be put into words, esp. for those who haven’t used tapes. There were stores in my country where you would give a list of songs you wanted, select the quality of the cassette t
144.
by Jun8 2y ago
“To capture tiny parts of the creatures in perfect focus, Danke puts his camera on a high-precision macro rail that can move in the micrometer—one millionth of a meter—range.” I was amazed by this and thought such a high-end rail would be t
145.
by Jun8 2y ago
OTOH, although not tech journalism, but consider the Substack success of The Free Press and some others. There might be some light at the end of this tunnel.
146.
by Jun8 2y ago
They must be changing the ladder sometime , the one in the latest photo doesn’t look like it’s 300+ yrs old. Also it seems to have only five rungs whereas the one from a drawing around 1842 has six https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
147.
by Jun8 2y ago
This is awesome, thanks for doing this! Did you use Omni for the sentiment analysis? Now, for the analysis of the Who’s Hiring posts.
148.
by Jun8 2y ago
For me this was the important bit: “Telegram is anti-moderation — that makes it right-wing coded.” The transition of “free speech” from a liberal cause to a conservative one has defined the past decade in politics. Before social media becam
149.
by Jun8 2y ago
“The participants were randomly shown a video pitch of the same startup idea, but with some presented by a more attractive actress and others by a less attractive one.” What objective measure of female beauty have they used? I thought it wa
150.
Neurotechnology numbers worth knowing (2022)(milan.cvitkovic.net)
160 points by Jun8 2y ago|26 comments

More ›