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by arketyp 6y ago
Mathematics is the exploration of the a priori. Historically some axioms have been deemed more real than others. I think Gauss rejected non-eulidean geometry for instance. But this point of view has changed. With abstract algebra, and I bel
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Is mathematics science though?
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Used to watch Moomin on Swedish TV, never really read the comics. Anime was rare back then and I certainly never realized it was Japanese. The congeniality is quite amazing. Never liked Pippi much, but I devoured other books by Lindgren, Em
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by arketyp 6y ago
As a kid I used to sneak UHT (long-lasting) milk in the shopping cart because the sweeter taste went well with cereals. It always seemed like a magic trick by Nature, along with roasted bread (the Maillard reaction) or simply leaving a pear
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ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 1 Sizzle(youtube.com)
2 points by arketyp 6y ago|0 comments
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I wonder what cryptography can contribute with here. Could sensor manufacturers integrate a private key in the video stream which would authenticate an unbroken chain of frames?
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There is a kind of retro-future feel to this, like a 90's Sega game with incredible sprite interpolation.
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More drinks will be bought if there is a certain ratio.
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New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano(notebookcheck.net)
117 points by arketyp 6y ago|143 comments
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by arketyp 6y ago
And it seems like an actual first step, as opposed to the various gimmicky anthropomorphs we've gotten used to seeing. If this thing could be set to clean the kid's room during a working day, or programmed to water the plants when
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by arketyp 6y ago
Some while ago I reread Richard Dawkins's The Extended Phenotype, which he has referred to as his favorite work. You could say it's the logical follow up on The Selfish Gene, quite technical and expert-oriented, but Dawkins is suc
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by arketyp 6y ago
I grew up with Times New Roman as the default font in MS Word. It's not the default any longer but I tend to switch to it precisely because it is the font that symbolizes least resistance. "To look at Times New Roman is to gaze
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by arketyp 6y ago
Yeah. Cross your q's instead.
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by arketyp 7y ago
Low-level visual processing in the cortex share striking similarities with CNNs, actually. Gabor filters etc.
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It would indeed be interesting to see a comparison with for instance non-local means on the scaled raw image. The speed is superior in any case, I suspect.
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Francis Galton writes about this and related phenomena such as synaesthesia in Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development. A remarkably personal account by a pioneering scientific mind. Highly recommended.
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Imagine if everybody wore head cams. You could end up with complex strange loops reflecting intimacy and eye contact of an inverted kind.
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by arketyp 7y ago
For a standard convolutional net, the low-entropy formulation of for isntance rotation is not immediately accessible, which makes rotation a viable data augmentation and regularization strategy. Some designs try to account for natural symme
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Below triple the price? Relatively non-crazy.
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I think everyone to some extent learns to hack some aspect or another of the social fabric by something close to simulating patterns which come more or less natural to another person. But there are introspective lessons in coming to terms w
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by arketyp 7y ago
Yes, this is the lumine naturali of Decartes! The undoubtable doubt was presented and the rest is history. Needless to say it has been contended against, but the heritage of this line of reasoning as a foundation for epistemology cannot be
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by arketyp 7y ago
It's ironic that the presentation is not very see-through.
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Reminds me of this nice map of what tea is called across Europe: https://jakubmarian.com/tea-in-european-languages-map/ As a Swede, I can just add that the spelling come in quite many forms: te (official), té, the, thé
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by arketyp 7y ago
Pepsi is such an archetype of the eternal identity crisis it's almost a classic identity in itself. On a shitty day, I buy Pepsi.
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BMW is transgressing from the petrol-carbon era and made away with the rubbery oily tire in the emblem. This is in line with the airy designs of their hybrid cars. The new logo isn't that far from the very earliest. It would have been
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GANs can be made fully convolutional so that you can generate images of abritrary size. But the training of the latent space will still be limited by memory and speed, so you'd end up with images that are perhaps quite repetetive in na
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by arketyp 7y ago
Ad absurdum (or maybe not so much?), any universal Turing machine can be programmed to list every possible program, specifically the one generating every melody. So the copyright claim could then just as well point to Conway's game of
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I've used the dynamic quadrupod grip my entire life, fingers very close to the tip of the pen by the way. I used to draw a lot as a kid and I think this grip gives good precision. It's not ideal for extended periods of writing per
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by arketyp 7y ago
Yes. Very naïve campaign. Great branding artefact though, quite a unique color if anything. It will probably become as consolidated in the collective unconscious as the Marlboro red-white geometry.
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The convenience of the MOC is its raison d'être. The minor pain point for me is practically being forced to use the Qt Creator IDE. I'm happy to see a possible best of both worlds solution like this.

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