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by flobosg 2y ago
> people are looser in the south What does “loose” mean in this context? My first impression would be that the accent in northern Chile is “looser” than the south.
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by flobosg 2y ago
> It is also mind boggling that rail is not more popular there. A long, slim country is ideal for high speed rail. See one of my other comments in this post regarding the rail in Chile.
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by flobosg 2y ago
Trivia question: how many time zones does Chile have?
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by flobosg 2y ago
Enter the Mapuche ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche ), whom the Inca tried (and failed) to conquer.
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by flobosg 2y ago
In the 2000s the Chilean state railway company was involved in a huge corruption scandal as well as bad administrative practices. It’s been slowly recovering, but rail services in Chile still leave a lot to be desired.
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by flobosg 2y ago
There are regional variations, but the difference is less than what you would probably expect, applying mostly to intonation/cadence (more marked and melodic in the south, less so in the north) and some vocabulary. Most of the variatio
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by flobosg 2y ago
I like how the author used Kinopio for his “Uses This” interview: https://usesthis.com/interviews/pirijan/ And I instantly recognized that artwork from Hirō Isono: Seiken Densetsu 3 ! https://archive.o
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by flobosg 2y ago
> because ab-initio means something entirely different I agree, and that’s probably why they switched to de novo prediction/design at some point.
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by flobosg 2y ago
> Different proteins can also be related to each other. Even when the sequence similarity between two proteins is low, because of evolutionary pressures, this similarity tends to be concentrated where it matters, which is the binding sit
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by flobosg 2y ago
> To me the only part that seems miraculous is that it seems like we can predict novel structures (previously unknown conformations) using small fragments of templates rather than entire protein domains. Just to add a bit of context: Ros
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by flobosg 2y ago
See also the video game Return of the Obra Dinn ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn ) as well as the developer log entry about dithering ( https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic
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by flobosg 2y ago
(2022)
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by flobosg 2y ago
David Goodsell’s Molecular Landscapes (see https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/goodsell-gallery/mycoplasma-... or https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/goodsell-gallery/model-of-a-... ) represent
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by flobosg 2y ago
Looks like hemoglobin (good ol’ 4HHB[1]) to me. [1]: https://www.rcsb.org/structure/4HHB
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by flobosg 2y ago
One of my favorite class of proteins to look at. Check those neatly ordered residues at the water-binding interface!
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by flobosg 2y ago
Along those lines: When a postdoc in my lab committed fraud, I had to face my own culpability – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38766484
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by flobosg 2y ago
I’ll take the chance to recommend one of my favorite books, the Oulipo-inspired Eunoia by Christian Bök: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunoia_(book)
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by flobosg 2y ago
I am confused now. Are you arguing then that the distinction is dependent on region and not language? Because that is precisely what I said in a previous comment.
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by flobosg 2y ago
> The article is written in english which is important here. From said article: > This paper is a translation of the original paper in Spanish “Computadoras Mexicanas: Una Breve Reseña Técnica e Histórica” by Daniel Ortiz Arroyo, Fran
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by flobosg 2y ago
Goodhart’s law at work.
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by flobosg 2y ago
> Chile (South america) is not in the same continent as Mexico (North america). The distinction is region-dependent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Spanish
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by flobosg 2y ago
My thoughts exactly. More HN links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39307700
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by flobosg 2y ago
Ctrl-B PgUp/PgDown enters scroll mode.
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by flobosg 2y ago
Similar use case here, but in a biotech company.
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by flobosg 2y ago
> What a terrible night to have a learning model. They blew it: It’s “What a horrible night…”
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by flobosg 2y ago
(2017)
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by flobosg 2y ago
From personal experience, rasterizing vector art for a pixel art aesthetic usually leaves a lot to be desired, especially when you look at angled lines and curved shapes. That being said, there are rasterizing projects with a focus on pixel
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by flobosg 2y ago
…and also one of the ingredients for the hacker-approved Tschunk! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club-Mate#Tschunk
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by flobosg 2y ago
> You drink your yerba mate, whether hot or cold, unsweetened What about adding additional herbs ( yuyos ) for flavoring? Not fully sure, but I have the impression that it is mostly a Paraguayan thing.
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by flobosg 2y ago
A bit more information about the default Windows 10 wallpapers: https://www.raykovich.com/project/windows-imagery

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