Syzygies

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Yes! In every form, lossy compression is distilling meaningful information from noise. This is a great legal question as it concerns our use of machine agents. We can learn from copyrighted literature or code that we read. Why can't ou
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Yes. In the years since I've learned that it is better to go off script. Preparation is so one can react, like a tennis match. After that trial by fire, I've been comfortable before audiences of a thousand multiple times. Once, as
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Six weeks before my thesis defense, I gave a talk at MIT's combinatorics seminar on Grobner bases. We came up with an abstract intended to attract computer scientists. I was a bit naive about complexity analysis. The computer scientist
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https://masienda.com/on-masa/food-processor/ > It’s time to set the record straight, friends: food processors absolutely work for turning nixtamal into masa. > A basalt molino will still yield the best resul
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The story goes that when Masienda's Oaxacan corn reaches the taco griddle at an upscale Mexican restaurant, the aroma makes the Mexican staff tear up with childhood memories. The upscale restaurant was making tortillas before. One vari
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Here's a technical question about nixtamal for HN readers. I wouldn't expect an answer in foodie forums unless Nathan Myhrvold was active: Every recipe for cooking corn into nixtamal calls for cal as a percentage of the weight of
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Bricia Lopez, in "Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico" recommends an Indian wet grinder for grinding nixtamal into masa. One grinds for 40 minutes, scraping down as needed, after adding 1/3 water by weight. This yie
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Dunno what I said the last time a call violated the do-not-call list and woke me. They actually called back later to tell me how shook up they were, and that they'd been discussing my response with their lawyers. I don't see a dif
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I'm an author cited by the original bitcoin paper. I considered becoming an economist rather than a mathematician. Cryptocurrencies are a carbon-load environmental crime. Figuring a way around this is the major unsolved problem in the
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I recently switched to the Brave browser, and had no issues reading the article. It would nevertheless be wonderful if HN readers could manage whitelists or blacklists related to paywalls, so by choice we could never see posts for content w
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Thanks. I came back to update this post. Yes, it's a "shc" URI followed by a long numeric string. This baffles most QR code readers, but https://zxing.org/w/decode works. The "shc" URI scheme i
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Why is the California digital Covid-19 vaccine record QR-code broken?
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After a bottle of wine I took their test once for fun. They made a number of attempts to reach me.
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> The artificial life that we create will be the ones taking over the galaxy. Exactly. A galactic version of "core wars". If we leave any trace at all it will be our machines. Future life will resemble 3D printers in search of
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I couldn't find "shady" but this one is funny: https://www.vintagedetroit.com/blog/2013/08/03/ty-cobbs-most... The home plate argument is so absorbing that after stealing third, Cobb can p
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I always beat my sister at Risk as a kid. Then she was on a bus trip that waited out an epic snowstorm, three days holed up in a church. A Risk board was the only amusement, and the winner got to play again. She never left the board. "
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"Flash shredders exist, too, but in order to be compliant the actual chips in their cases need to be broken. So what they produce is usually much finer grained, a “sand” of plastics and silicon." For metal, chip credit cards I c
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It's very APL specific. Keys were APL symbols, operators in one keystroke. So if the sum key wasn't available, you'd decode base 1. That sort of thing...
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There was study of Harvard undergraduates that demonstrated Greek letters made math harder. I tell my students that Columbia undergraduates are of course smarter, but still...
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Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
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My grandfather had to drop out of high school, after his dad died from an infection. He unloaded trains for the A&P grocery chain, and proposed that they reorder shipments to save money. He retired in charge of half of New England. His
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I love Lisp and Scheme too. Though like sex at 19, nothing has ever felt quite like the first months with APL. For "production" math research, nothing comes close to Haskell for me. Every time I consider straying, the ease of para
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Yes [fixed]. And in an interpreted language, moving the work to a single operation was a big win.
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In the mid-seventies at Swarthmore College, we were mired in punched card Fortran programming on a single IBM 1130. The horror, a machine less powerful than the first Apple II. My job six hours a week was to reboot after each crash. People
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I'm sure Merkle trees have been rediscovered many times. In my case, I'd recognized the problem of digital time-stamping, but couldn't come up with a solution, failing to identify the essential role of an observer. The proble
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The "attack surface" I worry about is forgetting to lock my screen before going down the hall to get some water, and someone slipping in to obtain a sensitive financial password. I've never succeeded in explaining this to any
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In "Further Reading" the article links to [Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine]( https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/ ) which is about Geometric Algebra. Many chefs are brilliant, but only Jerem
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I buy expensive electronics from B&H Photo Video, when possible. In the 1980's, B&H was the queen of the "grey market". Now, I trust them to deliver authentic goods with legitimate warranties, and I'm profoundly
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Think of this as a programming language? The semantic web is another choice. Programming languages are valued both when they reveal inevitable design, and when they enjoy widespread adoption. We continue to have many programming languages,
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Two columns makes inappropriate assumptions about the reader's choice of media. The aging publisher assumes everyone prefers paper. A reader attempting to scroll through the article on a tablet suffers. We blew it, making a global effo

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