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by frodetb 4y ago
You're right, that line from Shakespeare is even quoted in the paper. From the list of sayings they had collected from various languages, Greek seems like the most popular comparison, followed by Chinese. But since there's a Greek
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by frodetb 4y ago
This paper reads like a long-form-shitpost of the highest quality. Both made me laugh and taught me something interesting. Of course, which language another uses to explain that something sounds like gibberish does not tell you anything abo
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by frodetb 4y ago
Years ago, I was talking to a friend about IASIP, South Park, and Arrested Development, and why they had held up so well. I argued that it partly had to do with the fact that the characters were already so extreme, they were resistant to Fl
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by frodetb 4y ago
I'm making no judgement call here, with respect to the "cardinal sins". I'm only highlighting that we've worried about committing them since forever, unlike what the author is suggesting.
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by frodetb 4y ago
> > We humans are, deep down, lazy and gluttonous creatures. If left to our own devices, we will do nothing but eat Pringles and watch Netflix. The only way we can escape our indolent nature is to exert our higher faculties over our b
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by frodetb 4y ago
That is a great example. I've been bounced between different sides in that exact field myself, on various topics. Everyone has an opinion about food too, I find. Diets and science and morals and ethics. So, when I meet someone who has
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by frodetb 4y ago
Why this pressure to make me necessarily reject or accept an idea? Seems like a false dichotomy. Instead, why can't I be aware of all sorts of ideas, have them bouncing around my head, loosely held, and believe more or less in them, ev
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by frodetb 4y ago
One should always strive to consider side effects as far as possible, but there are obviously limitations. The number of effects to consider increases exponentially with the order of thinking. Weighing them against each other becomes harder
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by frodetb 4y ago
The other day, while collecting my childhood belongings from my mother's house, I found my old peg-solitaire set. The following week I was totally obsessed with it, playing it all the time, sharing it with all my friends, and I ended u
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by frodetb 5y ago
According to the input hypothesis of language acquisition, the ability to speak is a function of how much we've already heard/read/taken in, and understood. If you're someone who enjoys reading, and you find that parsing
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by frodetb 5y ago
I'm not sure what the version was, and it was probably an earlier version if there are multiple. This was around 2-3 years ago.
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by frodetb 5y ago
I was not able to use this thing comfortably. I think my handwriting style might not be optimal for it, as too small details and tight loops seemed to disappear on me. My handwriting is pretty small to begin with, and only gets tinier with
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by frodetb 5y ago
The title of the comic also kind of encourages it.
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by frodetb 5y ago
I did close mine completely, early this January, and have since only occasionally been affected when encountering businesses like the ones you describe. However, I view those occasions as a chance to push back against that bad trend, remind
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by frodetb 5y ago
I've tried watching dubbed+subbed shows, with both set to my target language, and the two rarely ever match for any given line of dialogue. Netflix has thankfully expanded their language capabilities recently to make it easier to watch
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by frodetb 5y ago
I play a lot of NES tetris, so this actually threw my instincts for a loop. What I think is most satisfying is when I pull off a "tetris", i.e. get 4 lines at a time with a long-bar. This implementation seems greedier, as it seems
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by frodetb 5y ago
I think this is very interesting. As systems of distributed governance and smart contracts mature and emerge, I wonder if this sort of thing will be a step on the way for the old world to keep up.
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by frodetb 5y ago
>Features: > - It's Tetris. Not sure what I was expecting.
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by frodetb 5y ago
Well, humans are more likely to be interested in bad news. As a survival strategy, that happens to be a good place to direct ones attention. Unfortunately for The News, our attention and so their source of income is getting harder and harde
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by frodetb 5y ago
Love the idea! Though I would have used the singular imperative more, so e.g. salūtat (he/she/it salutes) -> salūtā (salute!) sedēs (you sit) -> sedē (sit!) tacēte (be quiet, y'all!) -> tacē (be quiet!)
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by frodetb 6y ago
I have been studying Latin by my self for the past couple of years, and would recommend anyone looking at this to instead consider learning Latin by the Dowling Method . It is simpler and much more straightforward than any course. It essen
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by frodetb 6y ago
I wrote my masters on using simulated annealing to solve a particular optimisation problem. In a sense, the Gibbs sampler lies at its core, and I really have to agree with you in what you say. At the time I did not have time to think too de
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by frodetb 6y ago
Since your screen is most likely flat, you'd have to hold the camera directed straight at it and at a bit of a distance in order for their face not to get distorted by perspective. Even a slight angle would make it appear to the algori
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by frodetb 6y ago
I've done the same thing, and started out with an extremely dumb feature phone. Maps and IM were the biggest losses, and meant I needed to plan activities to a much larger degree before going out. I'd have details settled with fri
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by frodetb 6y ago
Remarkable video. For the longest time I couldn't decide whether he was serious or not. An hour of talking about hand shapes seems like a long-form shitpost, especially since Lindybeige has a very sarcastic air about him. But I did win
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by frodetb 6y ago
Curious. I've noticed a number of people using Gödel's incompleteness theorem as a ridiculously stretched metaphor for some idea they're trying to get across. At this point it's gotten utterly cringey to me. It reeks of
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by frodetb 6y ago
Thanks! I've been listening to gamelan music for the past couple of hours now, and have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. From my limited exposure, I get the impression that the music leans on repetition of sound patterns to give the
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by frodetb 6y ago
A drum is a good example, though we don't often think of it as a melodic instrument. The resonant modes of a drum don't look anything like someting as nice as those of strings, with their integer multiple frequencies. Makes you wo
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by frodetb 6y ago
Quite a bold title. My understanding (while limited) is that the human ear senses sound by means of tiny hairs in the inner ear that vibrate in resonance with incoming sound waves. I've always believed that the reason certain intervals
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by frodetb 6y ago
> Plainly put, poor countries are poor because those that have power make choices that create poverty. Simple enough, almost sounds tautological. If truly all the causes listed in the beginning of the article don't amount to an expl

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