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by bschne 5y ago
The Futur has a few online courses about typography (which I've never bought & tried), and they follow a similar pattern. They give the students some content to layout, and limit them to one font weight & size at first, progres
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Four Cryptographic Vulnerabilities in Telegram(ethz.ch)
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by bschne 5y ago
Yes but as I read it, the parent comment was not asking about that, but about whether we could even assume we could pick from a single set.
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by bschne 5y ago
I know next to nothing about set theory, but. If you have a single set, you must know its elements or some rule that defines its elements. You can then just pick an arbitrary element that is part of the set at will and let that be your choi
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by bschne 5y ago
I think the point was that anyone familiar with the scene/business would readily infer that from the text, not that they knew the specific author.
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by bschne 5y ago
From the README: > darktable is not a free Adobe® Lightroom® replacement. Does anyone know what the deal is with this remark? At a glance, the feature set/use case look sort of similar to me...
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by bschne 5y ago
This is just a subset of people who do it, but I've seen some people in fairly spiritual/esotericist circles get into genealogy. It seemed like some of them were hoping to find answers to some issues they were struggling with in t
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The Hair Dryer Incident (2014)(quotulatiousness.ca)
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When Time Runs Backwards(newscientist.com)
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by bschne 5y ago
For those in the thread interested in spaced repetition, Andy Matuschak has made a good writeup of some things to keep in mind for creating good prompts / cards: https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/
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How to Take Criticism(chappellellison.com)
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by bschne 5y ago
Agreed! As much as nuance can get lost in short posts, these limits have saved me from putting many an overly convoluted, rambling mess out there.
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A-Not-B Error(en.wikipedia.org)
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by bschne 5y ago
You could alternatively just go to Prague to sort it out in person, but you will have to pass through a rather tricky to navigate airport :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ
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The Guilty, Crazy Secret That Helps Me Write(ryanholiday.net)
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by bschne 5y ago
Funny, I always thought people did that for aesthetic reasons because they liked the cleaner look.
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by bschne 5y ago
That sounds pretty bad! I always thought the login flow was super sketchy, but wasn't aware of this part — has this been covered/analyzed somewhere or is it evident from their terms or something?
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Work on the Structure(jarango.com)
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Neural codes in early sensory areas maximize fitness(biorxiv.org)
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A Worldwide Guide for Coffee Places where you can not only work but also think(cafeatlas.org)
2 points by bschne 6y ago|1 comments
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by bschne 6y ago
When I was a teenager, one of the local mobile providers had some plans where they would only charge you for a call after being connected for more than five seconds. One friend abused the hell out of this and started using it as "free
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by bschne 6y ago
The moralistic decisions shaping parts of the internet and technology are getting pretty ridiculous. I'm not interested in making any grand statements or drawing parallels to Orwell or what have you here. But sometimes I really just wa
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by bschne 6y ago
Exactly my point — there's space for those who put together amazing but infeasible-as-product demos to communicate lofty ideas, those who take those and repackage them for "mass consumption", and of course the rare genius who
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by bschne 6y ago
> ...but it doesn't feel like this project is actually going to achieve it's goals beyond letting a small number of lucky users play around with stuff. Will they end up building some product that will be adopted by droves of cu
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by bschne 6y ago
I think this part here is important regarding your interpretation — it‘s not just about loc > Google copied these lines not because of their creativity or beauty but because they would allow programmers to bring their skills to a new sma
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by bschne 6y ago
More on this here, goes a bit into the background of the models that inspired SimCity: https://logicmag.io/play/model-metropolis/
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Why machine learning struggles with causality(bdtechtalks.com)
185 points by bschne 6y ago|119 comments
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Restored and colorized footage from New York World's Fair, 1939 [video](youtube.com)
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by bschne 6y ago
Onur Mutlu‘s Digital Design & Computer Architecture course at ETH Zurich seems to be quite well regarded, and all the lectures & materials are openly available online. It uses Harris & Harris as a textbook, IIRC. https:/&#
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by bschne 6y ago
I figure to a certain kind of player the appreciation for how it was done is just as, if not more beautiful than the illusion ever was.

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