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by aubanel 3y ago
And would all of these posts be useful information?
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by aubanel 3y ago
Maybe exponential intervals are better than linear indeed. But your remark is orthogonal to parent's complaint that the updates are simply too frequent: to take your exponential framework, they would probably prefer a x100 interval bef
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by aubanel 3y ago
More explanation: Provenance comes from the Latin "pro" (from) and "venire" (come), so that's where an item comes from, while Providence (capital P) is "the care and control of God or of a force that is not hum
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by aubanel 3y ago
Wait, that's completely false ! Provenance comes from the Latin "pro" (from) and "venire" (come), so that's where an item comes from, while Providence (capital P) is "the care and control of God or of a fo
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by aubanel 3y ago
And yet poet Paul Valéry said "A lonely man is always in bad company". I'd love to understand what he precisely meant by that though.
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by aubanel 3y ago
For more context: EPRs are all developed by EDF and Framatome. So this could be another factor explaining that they all have issues, rather than their sheer complexity.
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by aubanel 3y ago
I this idea of LLMs not understanding the concept of negation is false. Both if you ask ChatGPT (GPT4) to explain the concept of negation or ask it to do a task that leverages negation, you get sound results. Example of a conversation lever
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by aubanel 3y ago
I think the other side of the spectrum, "let's remove from power anyone who does not share our values / does not uphold our interests", also leads to nasty things, like the long list of US-backed coups in Latin America [
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by aubanel 3y ago
I think the key difference is that in the absence of fast delivery, when you need something, you'll just wait a bit until you have more things to buy. So you'll do one trip to the store for 10 items. Plus you'll go to other p
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by aubanel 3y ago
I've considered launching a crowdfunding to buy this Centre Pompidou and just destroy it to remove its ugliness from the face of Paris. It could be a long-term effort actually, since several buildings need removal, including Tour Montp
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by aubanel 4y ago
Thanks a lot for the info!
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by aubanel 4y ago
+1: This one has great contributions, including the well-known quote "War is a continuation of politics by other means". Some things that are very relevant and not in Sun Tzu: - Importance of reserves: troops that enter fight inst
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by aubanel 4y ago
When you have threats spreading, the spread of each individual threat is an issue, but their diversity as well: if each of these is a shiny new and different instance, it's much harder to identify them. So both multiplicity and spread
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by aubanel 4y ago
I like the very Beauty and the Beast-like children story he tells about ever piece of furniture having its own life! And it's wonderful to rediscover through his eyes how today's mundane things - accessing musing and art anywhere
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by aubanel 4y ago
Anyone have similar insights about Entrepreneur First? Btw I still don't understand if during the program they you a salary anyway or only if they end up taking a stake in your company.
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by aubanel 4y ago
I heard this is a common practice for cars: a french car will be sold at cheaper prices outside France. Home country adds a premium on car prices because they count on nationals to have a slightly higher willingness to pay for local brands.
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by aubanel 4y ago
As often with Stephen Wolfram's writings, I found the ideas to be too sparsely located in a very long essay so I didn't read it whole, but a thought on the question : Machines Vs Human Jobs has always been a question of competitiv
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by aubanel 4y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! Indeed the reliability is a real problem here. On the Einstein page you pointed out I see two vague reference to the "God does not play dice" citation which Einstein did not really say. However, using
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Show HN: Dixit – Semantic search from quotation database(dixit.app)
3 points by aubanel 4y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Dixit lets you search quotes close to your idea [Semantic quote search](dixit.app)
2 points by aubanel 4y ago|0 comments
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by aubanel 4y ago
I've got a funny version of this one: In university, there was a page giving reviews of the canteen's daily soup. The english translation of this name could be "How does the canteen's soup taste today?". My friends
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by aubanel 4y ago
Nice bait! All other replies seem to fall for it.
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by aubanel 4y ago
It's the first time, out of all of Elon's enterprises (which I on the whole admire a lot), that I don't really see his added value in a business. Even the flamethrower thing was more net positive than his current work at Twit
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by aubanel 4y ago
In my opinion, the situation where only a few powerful countries with quite stable institutions have nukes is better for humanity than the situation where every country has their own nukes. Just consider the number of coups or wars going o
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by aubanel 4y ago
French historian Jacques Bainville, who I admire for providing amazingly accurate 20-year predictions [1], advocated that Napoleon had no choice but to invade Russia [2]. When the revolutionary politicians in France submitted to Napoleon, d
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by aubanel 4y ago
I love how every Ciechanowski post starts explaining from the very basics, but makes things so beautifully explained that my 10s attention span magically extends up to the way where I can learn a lot.
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by aubanel 4y ago
For me, a teacher's goals should not be restricted to enacting a lecture in front of a whiteboard, but also amongst others, to be able to provide feedback in a motivating manner, which seems not to have always been great here [1], and
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by aubanel 4y ago
For those who wonder like me what problems are solved by ASDF (why not use a big JSON file?), here's what I found. But I'd love a shorter explanation! " The following lists our key requirements for a useful format: • Human re
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by aubanel 4y ago
Sorry, I should have made it clear from the start that I was regarding nazy Germany and fascist Italy as the "fascist regimes", Franco's Spain being fascist is debated (seems to have changed throughout time, see [1]). Interes
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by aubanel 4y ago
Do you have rationale supporting the hand of the Church in fascist regimes? The Catholic Church expressed its rejection of fascism via the strongest possible channel: an encyclic written by Pius XI in 1937, _Mit Brennender Sorge_, was read

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