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by dilawar 2y ago
Hmm.. Hodgin and Huxley did ground-breaking work on squid's giant axon and modelled neural activity. They had multiple parameters extracted from 'curve fitting' of recorded potential and injected currents which were much late
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by dilawar 2y ago
> Python feel like cargo I am sold. Was thinking of trying out pixie after poetry took whole day and still couldn't resolve deps. Looks like there are more python package managers that chat apps from Google ?
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by dilawar 2y ago
>Personally, I would trust the nations top lawyers more than most of the congress members we have. However, it doesn't take much imagination to see the new issues that could arise) Good luck with this. At least these corrupt politic
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Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections(lwn.net)
2 points by dilawar 2y ago|1 comments
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Performance tip: avoid unnecessary copies(lemire.me)
3 points by dilawar 2y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 2y ago
He probably means northern part of India. Surnames are more emphasised in the South than North. I think it started when British started asking for surnames in job application in colonial India. South Indiana took their birthplace as surname
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by dilawar 2y ago
A very long article. I read a bit and it's interesting. Would have preferred a much shorter version. Also, couldn't find the quadrants during my quick scrolling.
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Large number of bats drop dead in North India due to heatwave(indianexpress.com)
8 points by dilawar 2y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 2y ago
Imagine bacteria and fungi breaking down all the plastic into CO2. Don't know which is lesser evil: plastic as it remaining in the environment or more CO2 but less plastic?
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by dilawar 2y ago
Something akin to `std::optional` would have been great. These days, folks don't come to C++ from C and are not used to such under-the-hood tricks. The committee decided that since the reference can't be null, therefore, we'l
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by dilawar 2y ago
I never found my experience that simple. Even at times when I was paying attention which is always in short supply when you need it most. Libraries are biggest pain point. You don't know what a function really doing unless you have use
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by dilawar 2y ago
A few days ago, onion published a list of interviews with orcas. Only a few of them were motivated by TicTok.
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by dilawar 2y ago
I had to search for it. I was under the impression that HN removed it for some reason. Does HN has stake in cloudflare?!
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by dilawar 2y ago
Well, Israel has also funded Hamas for years!
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by dilawar 2y ago
I find it incredible how "simple" were his theories and enormous impact they had. Is there anyone else who developed such seemingly "simple" theories?
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by dilawar 2y ago
+1. Also a few animals sweat like us. We are indeed not built to sit in one place. Sweating:depression::sunlight:infection.
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by dilawar 2y ago
My coworker 4y old son have never seen money exchanged at shops since UPI has become so prevalent in India. He would just pick things at shop and walk. He didn't relate scanning QR codes with exchange. I should ask my coworker if he tr
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by dilawar 3y ago
Or just police is bored because crime rate is low? They may have quota to fill to justify their job?!
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by dilawar 3y ago
This is from a blog I follow. > University students have average intelligence according to Uttl et al. They suggest the following consequences: First, universities and professors need to realize that students are no longer extraordinary
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by dilawar 3y ago
Thanks. I shortlisted Chezmoi. Though I often run into git-related issues with merge conflict, it looks like it has the most brain-share in the community.
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by dilawar 3y ago
> No one actually buys 2 wheeler EVs - you can save $1-2k more and buy a luxury 2 wheeler like a KTM Super Duke 2 wheeler EV is not a rare sight in Bangalore. Probably 1 in 200 two wheelers is EV in my neighborhood.
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by dilawar 3y ago
What a coincidence. I was looking at awesome dotfiles on GitHub. I started thinking of jumping onto the "manage dotfile" bandwagon after reading today's LWN note on the GNU Stow release. I shortlisted Chezmoi and Comtrya to p
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World record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe(theguardian.com)
12 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 3y ago
Ssh.
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United Airlines Boeing plane loses external panel in flight – Air transport(theguardian.com)
4 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 3y ago
By purchase parity, 1 dollar is about 23 rupees while exchange rate is around 80. So roughly 4x multiplier is needed to . In purchase parity, it's 27 billions dollar vs 200-300 billion of California. Still 10x less. I wanted to compla
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by dilawar 3y ago
True. And it's scaling down properties are much better than any other network I've played with (not an expert). I could run MNIST benchmark on a ESP32 board. I also liked the Convex Concave trick in the paper. The guarantee that a
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Generative AI Degrades Online Communities(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by dilawar 3y ago|1 comments
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Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation(cacm.acm.org)
1 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 3y ago
"if you decide to die poor, a great many things can be done with your life". Heard it from a friend whose thesis advisor loved to say it occassionally.

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