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by bradrn 3y ago
You have no control over the resulting state, though. In this analogy, if you have two entangled coins, all you know is that if you flip the coins at the same time you get the same result… you don’t have any control over what that result
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by bradrn 3y ago
And a direct link to the paper: https://www.irif.fr/_media/users/gduboc/elixir-types.pdf
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Let me use this opportunity to recommend a book about organic geochemistry: Echoes of Life (2008), by Gaines, Eglinton and Rullkotter. This area turns out to be unexpectedly fascinating, and I found that book to be a great introduction to
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Also "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup": https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
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Not really. Three-vowel systems are pretty common: they’re also found in Classical Arabic, Quechua, most Australian and Eskimo–Aleut languages, and a bunch of others. Also, saying that Old Person had ‘three vowels’ while Sanskrit had ‘sixte
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by bradrn 3y ago
In Old Persian, which is what this site says they use, I’d guess probably 𐎤𐎢𐎳𐎡𐎳𐎡 ⟨ku-u-f-i-f-i⟩, though it depends on how you pronounce it and how you decide to transcribe that pronunciation into a language with only three vowels.
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by bradrn 3y ago
> Good catch, smarties! Cuneiform is a writing system, not a language (like roman letters). We're transliterating - converting the syllables of your message to the cuneiform script - rather than translating. Not quite true. Cuneifor
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by bradrn 3y ago
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36119920 . Original paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17743 .
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Deveraux explicitly endorses (1) in the article: > If anything, I think cultural values have lagged, resulting in countries launching counter-productive wars out of cultural inertia (because it’s ‘the doing thing’ or valued in the cultur
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Completely agreed. I’ve been using EndeavourOS for half a year now, and it’s great. It’s almost the same as vanilla Arch, just with more packages installed by default and a few UX improvements.
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by bradrn 3y ago
My new-ish Dell XPS laptop actually does make noises; I think from the SSD due to [0]. It can indeed be quite useful for figuring out when something’s not quite right. [0] https://superuser.com/a/1603734
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Noodl is going open source(noodl.net)
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by bradrn 3y ago
> is this being upvoted onto the homepage based on upvoters actually understanding that this paper from 1996 is of contemporary relevance and interest …? In my case, yes.
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by bradrn 3y ago
Fundamental research has a funny way of producing results in other areas. To name just one example, the World Wide Web was developed at CERN. The other thing is that you never know exactly what will and won’t have applications later on. Gen
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by bradrn 3y ago
> Of all the citrus that we have, there are only three "natural" plants: the mandarin, pomelo and citron. Well, not quite… there’s a bunch of other, more niche Citrus species too. For instance, here in Australia you might see
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by bradrn 3y ago
> It would be great to hear from the HN community about ways to improve spreadsheets. I’m working on this! Very early days so far, and I have nothing much to show for it yet, but I do have some ideas on integrating static type inference
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Which country is this? I’ve never heard of this particular layout.
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> I think we are in agreement. There are two definitions of ambiguity in play here. There is logical ambiguity, which I want to eliminate, in which a sentence can be parsed in multiple, contradictory ways. And then there is ambiguity due
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by bradrn 3y ago
> Feel free to email me if you'd like to actually collaborate on this. Emailed, though I’m not sure how much time I’d actually have available to collaborate. > The one in particular that I'm thinking of is, I believe, the Su
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by bradrn 3y ago
> Exercise: try stating this without the copula. ‘The copula has many uses.’ or: ‘The copula can be used in many different situations.’ ----- Also, I think you underestimate the amount of variation in other words, e.g.: > If I say &qu
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by bradrn 3y ago
> My email is in my profile. OK, I’ll email you if you want to continue this discussion elsewhere. > https://champollion.hosting.nyu.edu Looks interesting… where should I start reading? > If I am correct in this assessm
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by bradrn 3y ago
> the overuse of the copula "is/are" is a consistent source of mistakes whether accidental or purposeful I’m not sure I’d characterise these as ‘mistakes’, per se . They’re just a consequence of the fact that the copula i
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by bradrn 3y ago
I’d be interested in hearing more about this. Don’t know much about formal semantics (and in fact am somewhat skeptical of the whole field), but I do have a background in language construction, and would say I have a fairly good knowledge o
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by bradrn 3y ago
The previous article in the series is also a very interesting read: https://tonsky.me/blog/humble-state/
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> Obviously tools could be adapted with custom plugins but literate programming isn't popular enough for these to already exist as far as I'm aware. I’ve heard that org-babel [ https://orgmode.org/worg/org-c
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by bradrn 3y ago
> How are there more Roff projects on GitHub than there are projects in Julia or Haskell or Perl? I haven't thought about Roff for decades. Manpages, I’d assume. > Why are Zig and Nim so far apart on the chart? Nim has been aroun
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by bradrn 3y ago
WALS is great! A warning though: the individual data points aren’t always completely reliable. I regularly attempt to track down specific language features listed in WALS only to find that half of them don’t correspond to what’s in the so
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> for building a UI I would actually personally choose something JavaScript-based The author does address this at [0]. Their main arguments are that web-based stuff is slow and requires lots of memory, especially when making something wh
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by bradrn 3y ago
I think he meant that they don’t follow typical design guidelines for graphical user interfaces on a computer . Which they don’t — outside DAWs (and maybe some image editors?), I’ve never seen a GUI arranged like a channel strip, where con
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by bradrn 3y ago
(1999), that is.

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