SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Bologna cannot be faulted for not being able to capitalize on its age. Northern Italy went through an awful lot of tumultuous history between 1450 and now that England didn't experience: it was cut up into lots of little fiefdoms, domi
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> But reputations are what they are, and you can't dispute that those four unis are top drawer by that "measure" if we can even call it that. But reputation is not a just measure of quality. It's mostly a measure of
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> Along with UCL, these British universities represent 4 of the top 10 universities in the world. ... according to QS Global Surveys. A disreputable organization who won't open their data and whose rankings are based at least 50%
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
It's worth mentioning that Ezra Taft Benson, the prophet referred to in the article, was president of the Church from 1985 to 1994. He was far and away the most conservative church president of the last 50 years, and later church pres
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Fun fact. Three of the apps the author is missing (TextEdit, Dictionary, and Preview) are not originally MacOS X apps. They were NeXTSTEP apps.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
ResEdit edited the resource fork, not code, right?
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Not just accurate: far and away the most accurate.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
The US also has a dedicated non-intelligence agency for maps as well, and they are famous for making extremely good ones. https://www.usgs.gov/products/maps
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> Driest: % of people in , are excessive drinkers This is a strange definition of "driest". I'd have thought driest simply meant lowest mean alcohol consumption.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> Scratch is far better and deeper than most people think. Scratch has no local variables, no recursion, no pointers or references, and no data structures, correct?
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
I'm not talking about niche areas. I'm talking about genuine illicit citation rings.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Citation rings are a major issue, particularly in AI conferences.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
She was the stepdaughter of Jack Warner (as in "Warner Brothers"). But supposedly she got the part on her own without his help at all. Not sure I believe that.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> Nearly all of the 100-plus actors and actresses in the film were immigrants hailing from more than 34 different nations. Bogart was the lone American; Uhm, hello, Arthur Wilson? Born in Texas, died in California. "Play it again,
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
You seem to think that the choice is acceptable because "it works fine in Emacs". Language design decisions should not be based on the choice of editor. Indeed Google's own examples are not syntax-highlighted. And offsets
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Yes, and it's proven an awful suggestion; I'm surprised Google was promulgating it. Specs from the 1980s are filled with terrible design choices. Heck, equalp and equal are recommendations of the standard as the only two "s
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> And what makes it even better is that California has the largest grid-connected battery storage facility in the world (came online in January …), meaning those batteries were filling up with excess energy from the sun all afternoon tod
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> You should use one semicolon if it is a parenthetical remark and occurs at the end of a line. I know this is common. It is also bad. A single semicolon is small and easily visually lost in the visual noise.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
At Politecnico Milano (kinda Italy's MIT) they have this nice display for visitors where kids can pull out drawers of stuff representing different majors you can take. One drawer is for management or administration or something like t
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
It's not the same. In the US marriage issues are handled in civil court via contract law, that's true. But in Italy, a marriage literally involves an actual contract that you write in longhand and sign. You wedding vows are
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
You've not dated an Italian, have you. :-)
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
For those of you griping about German bureaucracy I urge you to come to Italy to learn just how good you have it. My wife is Italian and wanted to get married in her small home town. In order for her to get married to an American in her hom
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
I'm not certain the secondary peaks would matter very much though? It seems to me that maybe the most useful model would be not a wavelet transform but some form of DCT? At any rate, the point is that the frequency domain matters a lo
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Yes.
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
> Despite all this, though, the MX-30 R-EV still falls somewhat short, with a catalog fuel efficiency of 15.4 kilometers per liter (as measured in WLTC mode). With no similar vehicles on the market, like-for-like comparison is not possib
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
This sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't. A similar thing happened with Machine Learning (Springer) and for the same reason: the entire editorial board abandoned it and founded the Journal of Machine Learning Research ( https
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
You are hillariously off here. Donating billions is not impressive at all, particularly after one's death. A billionaire can donate 99.99% of his wealth and have zero measurable impact on his standard of living, whereas a poor person
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
To the contrary, it is a very mild way of describing one of the most famously callous, cartoonishly vicious misers in modern history. This man was right up there with Mr. Burns. https://brightside.me/articles/the-story
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Perhaps we might proclaim all of March to be Biblical Pi Month in solemn remembrance of the declaration made in 1 Kings 7:23 and 2 Chronicles 4:2 that PI = 3. Also consider a semicircle of diameter D. Here the outside of the semicircle S,
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by SeanLuke 3y ago
Yeah, but at the time it was the newest thing since sliced bread. Literally printed on an Apple Laserwriter, probably using SuperPaint.

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