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by SamBam 2y ago
No, that isn't it, re-read the article. The illusion is supposed to be that three flashes that are not evenly spaced, or are even spaced out of order (1--3-2) get perceived by the brain as evenly-spaced an in order. Look at the explana
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by SamBam 2y ago
I wonder to what extent our brains also back-fill in other, more complicated cause-and-effect information. If a certain cause-and-effect is more logical to our brains, does it simply recreate the memory of our perception to the more logical
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by SamBam 2y ago
Thanks for working out the cause of the bug, I thought I was going mad. You mentioned another version of the gif. Is this one we can find somewhere?
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by SamBam 2y ago
True. It's as if any piece could kill the king in transition. And yet other pieces can't kill that pawn in passing. Only another pawn. We shouldn't try to find too much logic.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Sure, but we don't have the same rule for a rook or bishop "passing" through a square where a pawn could strike it in passing. It's just it's own unique rule, born from a period of transition between pawns only bein
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by SamBam 2y ago
Presumably there are a mind-bogglingly-huge number of unique board state transitions. It's virtually impossible for the same game of chess to be played twice, except for silly scholar's-mate type games. Almost every single game in
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by SamBam 2y ago
Right, but the error there is the use of the word "caramelize," which used to have a fairly loose meaning (generally meaning to soften and turn a caramel color) and now people insist must align with the scientific meaning. But the
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by SamBam 2y ago
Agreed. Taking the time to roll the dice is important the first few times, to fully cement the idea of the game. After that it gets annoying. To be specific, you could probably even leave the roll time as-is, to give you that suspense, but
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by SamBam 2y ago
22 here, top 3%. I like this, may add it to my daily set, but it's a little stressful. I'd like a Clear option that doesn't involve a Del key.
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by SamBam 2y ago
I was thinking about this when reading an article on HN a couple weeks ago, "LLMs Aren’t Just “Trained On the Internet” Anymore" [1] (HN discussion [2]). The thesis was that it won't matter if LLMs exhaust the available corpu
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by SamBam 2y ago
These comments always highlight a misunderstanding to me. Cookbooks (or, at least, good cookbooks) are almost always right about how long they want you to saute an onion. However, occasionally they use the word "caramelize" loosel
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by SamBam 2y ago
Previous discussion on the substack version of the article (114 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39707356
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by SamBam 2y ago
Did anyone else assume that this was about the Bear app, because there is no branding or link back to the author's actual project? Also, did anyone click on the double ^ at the bottom, hoping to either go back up to the top or find som
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by SamBam 2y ago
Good catch, I agree that subscription_id looks hallucinated.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Presumably that's easy enough given just the snippet in question, but they hadn't narrowed the issue down to that snippet because they had no idea it was happening on the user creation, because they didn't have the logs. I ex
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by SamBam 2y ago
> Ismail Abu al-Fida’s 1323 hypothesis regarding a “circumnavigator’s paradox,” which held that exactly one day would be inevitably lost by long-distance travelers “bearing the Sun company.” I had never quite thought about it like this,
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by SamBam 2y ago
Most likely the artist referencing the style of the earlier paintings.
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by SamBam 2y ago
WWI, not WWII. But I agree with the larger point that Britain was not looking to start a war, and was absolutely not the cause of the war.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Right, that's the biggest thing. If medieval builders were deliberately placing these in a line, there would be documentation and discussion about it.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Right, but none of the 7 are cathedrals.
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by SamBam 2y ago
I also wondered about the strategy of joining the first and last church. The authors switched to a regression for their last test, but only on the Mercator projection. (I actually remember in 7th grade that our math teacher had to repeat ti
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by SamBam 2y ago
Well, yes, unnecessary complexity is unnecessary by definition. The argument is over which complexity is unnecessary.
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by SamBam 2y ago
I still don't really get the overlapping tolerances, though, because each resistor is not a range, it's a single value that's somewhere in that tolerance. He says about the cables: > Each size of cable had a max/min r
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by SamBam 2y ago
For one reason, fixing the 4-5 million unit housing shortfall by building endless sprawling suburbs is not at all environmental or energy efficient.
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by SamBam 2y ago
> I fail to see how this will address affordability in any meaningful way Especially since it's unlikely that we can address the housing shortage by building single-family homes.
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by SamBam 2y ago
> These are not hard to meet, nor should they be. But hard for a random url-elongator site to meet. > Registrants are required to certify that they meet the following eligibility requirements when registering a .NGO or .ONG domain nam
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by SamBam 2y ago
This is very cool, I'm enjoying it. One small note: I tried to castle, and was told "Castling is not allowed because your king was previously in check." This isn't one of the rules of castling in regular chess. [1] Also,
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by SamBam 2y ago
So it is! I was unfamiliar with the word "colophon."
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by SamBam 2y ago
Looks very good, although I'm surprised there isn't a page in the book detailing the date of first publication, the name and artist of the cover image, maybe the date the copyright expired, and all that kind of information. (I was
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by SamBam 2y ago
I have to say, I'm very confused. There is possibly something very cool here, but confusion reigns supreme for me right now. In the "A", or "signed angle outside" example [1], what defines the position of the points

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