alberto_ol

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Neanderthals were the first to light fire at will, says study(wionews.com)
2 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|1 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
Not exactly a programmer, but a professor of computer science. He was the mayor of the city where I lived https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furio_Honsell
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...
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Mysterious rock depicted in 15th century painting is likely a Stone Age tool(arstechnica.com)
53 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|29 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
I think Romans used the abacus to calculate. https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/234881-how-did-the-roma... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_abacus
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Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts(arstechnica.com)
3 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|1 comments
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More evidence that humans were in North America over 20k years ago(arstechnica.com)
2 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|0 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
I'll save you a click https://longbets.org/1/
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Nobel Prize Chemistry 2023(nobelprize.org)
111 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|29 comments
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Names of Nobel Prize in chemistry winners apparently leaked(theguardian.com)
1 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|0 comments
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Antimatter falls “down” due to gravity like ordinary matter(arstechnica.com)
2 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|0 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
I tried to translate this headline from the Guardian to Italian: "Ursula von der Leyen praises watered-down vehicle emissions compromise" Firefox translation is wrong: "Ursula von der Leyen elogia il compromesso sulle emissio
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
Did she/he said things like "I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal"?
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic." OscarWilde
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
The differences between dogs is due to selective breeding not to natuaral selection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_breeding
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
Previous submissions, only the older ones have comments https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Akiyoshi%E2%80%99s+Illusion+Pages+...
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Is there no longer a reason to learn a foreign language?(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|2 comments
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Why AI Is Harder Than We Think (2021) [pdf](arxiv.org)
3 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|1 comments
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Superconductor claims spark investor frenzy, but scientists are skeptical(reuters.com)
3 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|0 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
From her wikipedia page, Sinéad Griffin is an Irish physicist, so she seems a native English speaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_Griffin
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19327/can-the-wo...
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How Lewis Carroll computed determinants(johndcook.com)
98 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|36 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
Italian ortography is not as bad as the english one, but nonetheless is sometimes illogical. We have a useless lettere 'q' which is pronounced like the the hard c. 'Q' is used only before 'u'. So there some wor
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
There was also the case of the man who stole manuscripts. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/24/book-fraudster... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%932021_literary_phi
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
Another example is Sardinian. From the wikipedia page about the Sardinian phonology: "Preservation of the plosive sounds /k/ and /ɡ/ before front vowels /e/ and /i/; for example, centum ..."
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Scott Aaronson and Robin Hanson Discuss AI Risk [video](youtube.com)
2 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|1 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
The copy in the internet archive seems better https://archive.org/details/bstj30-1-50/mode/2up
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by alberto_ol 4y ago
And also in Italy (semaforo) and I think in Romania (semafor)
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by alberto_ol 4y ago
link to the free draft https://theory.cs.princeton.edu/complexity/book.pdf
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by alberto_ol 4y ago
This article for non-specialists is longer and more technical, but I found it interesting: https://www.math.ias.edu/~avi/PUBLICATIONS/MYPAPERS/AW09/AW0...

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