SamBam

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by SamBam 2y ago
Awesome! Make it a daily Wordle-style game! I need something new in my morning routine. I think having a universal 3-life max is very harsh. I died on level 9 and was sent back to level 1. No way am I going to do the first 9 again, so I won
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by SamBam 2y ago
Also being able to ask it to use the formal vs. informal is very helpful for romance languages. I could never get Google translate to do that (although sometimes adding ", sir" to the end of a sentence would trick it into using th
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by SamBam 2y ago
That was the end (as far as I can tell).
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by SamBam 2y ago
I think there's a distinction. The term came from those who were deliberately avoiding rootedness, and trying to follow a path that (depending on the person) might ideally involve working from a beach one month and a rain forest anothe
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by SamBam 2y ago
> Great, what an important silver lining! What's the audience for the Harvard Business Review ?
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by SamBam 2y ago
Ah, ok, cool. Pity it can't be hand-edited, but that should generally cover it. A couple little bug reports on citations (let me know if you want this elsewhere, I don't have to clutter this thread): - APA doesn't include a s
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by SamBam 2y ago
It's a classically-done puzzle with a classic hint. One of the colors is correct, so if you just put in all the shapes that are in front of each console, one core starts spinning. That triggers you to understand that you're part
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by SamBam 2y ago
I'm playing with this a little bit. Can this deal with varied styles of inline citations within a single text? For example, APA lets you say both "This study found X (Shmoe, 2021)" as well as "Shmoe (2021) found X."
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by SamBam 2y ago
How on earth is a Markovian system memoryless? It specifically depends on what state you are currently in. That's memory. Independence is not assumed in the "sticky" or "switchy" states in the article. The probabili
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by SamBam 2y ago
Don't read it if you're terrified of spiders. Otherwise, it's a great book.
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by SamBam 2y ago
I think it's slightly more interesting than that. It's not talking about bias (usually understood to mean that there's >50% chance that it lands on one specific side) but about independence. Many things aren't indep
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by SamBam 3y ago
Odd article. It simply states that the effect size is too big to be believable (it calls it repeatedly "impossible," but it doesn't seem like it can possibly mean "literally impossible" or "mathematically impos
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by SamBam 3y ago
Really good article. I know some of the early evolutionists wondered about the evolution of the feather and wing, since it seems hard to evolve in a gradual way -- a little bit of a feathery flap doesn't offer any advantages if it&#x
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by SamBam 3y ago
There is plenty of evidence that Pacific Islanders were able to navigate from island to island, for example in the book I cited above. Here's more [1]. What's your evidence for them not being able to? Honestly, this sounds like so
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by SamBam 3y ago
> If you think of hypertext as a medium, it's been pushed to its most logical extreme already. I think this is an odd framing. It's not about pushing things to further extremes, it's about using all these mediums that have
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by SamBam 3y ago
The name is perfect. "Etak" refers to a system of navigation used by Micronesian and Polynesian seafarers to navigate from island to island in the vast Pacific Ocean. Much like this device, it operates by "augmented dead reck
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by SamBam 3y ago
That would be the university's decision, then, not a state-mandated cap.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Reverse image search of their profile pics also didn't find them anywhere else. I'm also personally surprised at how this is on the front page of HN, given the amount of immediate skepticism it generated in the comments.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Maybe it would have been simpler if GP said it cost about 7-12 axolotls from Petco.
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by SamBam 3y ago
The "historical borders" argument explicitly ignores anything that happened after the greatest extent of the borders. See also: Ukraine.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Lunar, not solar. No one worked out how to accurately predict the time and, more importantly, location of solar eclipses until Halley in 1715. [1] 1. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-ancient-art-of-eclips...
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by SamBam 3y ago
Huh, an early example of "hostile architecture," although one I could get behind more readily. (Or not, as the case may be...)
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by SamBam 3y ago
Huh! There is a YA novel I really like, The Girl Who Drank The Moon , and this casts that in a very interesting light. There is a bog -- a swamp -- that covers the known world, and this bog is treated in a religious way by the author as th
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by SamBam 3y ago
Wow, yeah. I hadn't seen a GitHub 404 page in a while (new job, don't code much anymore) and my first thought on seeing it was that the 404 page was broken. That would have been an odd recursion.
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by SamBam 3y ago
While you're right, the AI part is almost irrelevant. I think it's immoral that states can advertise their lotteries full-stop. True, the AI part will make this worse, especially if states get into really targeted advertisements.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Couldn't these systems be built much closer to municipalities' distribution centers (compared to existing NG wells), and so require even less transportation than what currently exists?
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by SamBam 3y ago
It absolutely isn't the first line that it's a directive from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It just says "The White House wants..." Again, "The White House" is often a metonym for the
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by SamBam 3y ago
Ah, fair enough, that wasn't anywhere in the article.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Odd to frame it as the "White House wants..." I know the White House is a metonym for the US government, but it usually refers to something at least slightly in the political wheelhouse, like foreign policy or taxes. Why not just
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by SamBam 3y ago
I was wondering about this too, but I think they're not colliding. I think they're pulling towards each other and getting tightly pulled around each other so they end up slingshotting and flying back the way they came, in a way th

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