floweronthehill

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Elegant Shape of Eiffel Tower Solved Mathematically by CU-Boulder Prof (2005)(colorado.edu)
4 points by floweronthehill 13d ago|0 comments
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by floweronthehill 22d ago
Palo Alto by Malcom Harris goes even further back to the 1800s to explain the origin of Silicon Valley. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo...
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The Iron Heel by Jack London(gutenberg.org)
16 points by floweronthehill 22d ago|2 comments
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by floweronthehill 28d ago
I wonder if AI can come up with mathematical conjectures. As in, they feel it's right but can't prove it. What even happened in Fermat's brain to sense it was true?
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by floweronthehill 28d ago
A mention of Saint Simon's memoirs in the wild is always unexpected. I'm curious to know how many people alive have read the whole thing.
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The Iron Heel(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by floweronthehill 28d ago|0 comments
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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Online(hyperessays.net)
4 points by floweronthehill 1mo ago|0 comments
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by floweronthehill 2mo ago
These are called Fermi problems.
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Casper: Apple's initial Voice First system from 1992(youtube.com)
2 points by floweronthehill 2mo ago|0 comments
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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Online(hyperessays.net)
2 points by floweronthehill 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Online(hyperessays.net)
3 points by floweronthehill 4mo ago|0 comments
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by floweronthehill 1y ago
I've counted paper ballots for multiple presidential elections in my country. People who think it's not safe should really spend some time learning how it works. It's impossible to cheat at scale. Each ballot is verified to b
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Paris Bookstore Map(lacarte.parislibrairies.fr)
5 points by floweronthehill 1y ago|2 comments
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by floweronthehill 1y ago
I believe local llms are the future. It will only get better. Once we get to the level of even last year's state of the art I don't see any reason to use chatgpt/anthropic/other. We don't even need one big model goo
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Ask HN: Could we pool our machines to run more powerful AI models locally?
1 points by floweronthehill 1y ago|1 comments
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by floweronthehill 2y ago
Also the fact that a theory is refutable. That a theory is not _the_ truth, but the best explanation so far and if something proves it completely or partially wrong then we move on to the new, better theory.
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by floweronthehill 2y ago
This comment makes me think of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect but applied to comments. If I was unaware of what has been happening for the past few weeks I would find this comment reasonable and well nuanced. I realize that many times I read
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by floweronthehill 2y ago
Here's another official position relevant to current events but that is beginning to change. "Electronic voting machines are 100% safe and as safe as paper ballots if not more".
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by floweronthehill 3y ago
This is why I like to watch YouTube tutorials sometimes, especially when I’m new to a certain topic. They show every step clearly. The author can’t forget to mention a piece of information because he’s doing it in real time. Too often with
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Ask HN: How close are we to having an AI manage developers?
1 points by floweronthehill 3y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: For those who worked during the dotcom bubble, what was it like?
7 points by floweronthehill 3y ago|6 comments
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by floweronthehill 3y ago
John Sarno's book "The Mind Body Prescription" is the book that's always mentioned on HN when this topic comes up. But there's a more up to date book with actual science to back up what you described, it's call
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Ask HN: How to prepare myself mentally for a challenging job?
2 points by floweronthehill 4y ago|4 comments
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Let’s Hear It for B Players (2003)(hbr.org)
2 points by floweronthehill 4y ago|0 comments
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by floweronthehill 4y ago
If we had to design the universe, could we use our models or are there better, "truer" formulas? Apology for the bad analogy but we can write the same program in python and java. The output would be the same but internally they wo
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Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops(johnfactotum.github.io)
149 points by floweronthehill 4y ago|44 comments
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by floweronthehill 4y ago
I find this insightful. I can relate to that.
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Ask HN: Support group for developers who have been laid off/are unemployed?
4 points by floweronthehill 4y ago|1 comments
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by floweronthehill 4y ago
I've been laid off so I'll learn skills that'll get me a job: - Leetcode - Rust (not sure it'll help but it'll keep me sane) - DDD (started today because of another HN thread) - Brush up on React
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by floweronthehill 4y ago
>There is quite a bit of open source software out there with bugs, bad documentation, and bad design; simply because fixing those problems is a real hassle. Onboarding is a barrier to entry too. For example, yesterday I read a blog artic

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