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by gfaure 3y ago
I was bored today and was playing "Maple Leaf Rag" on an electric piano while cycling through the voices, and happened to discover exactly this when I chanced upon the harpsichord!
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by gfaure 3y ago
It saddened me to hear about the circumstances: https://headwizememorial.wordpress.com/pow-chu-moys-memorial...
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by gfaure 3y ago
This article seems to conflate "spice ingredients" with spicy ingredients. I would have a hard time considering how food from cuisines that use (e.g.) aniseed, caraway, cardamom or poppy seed could be considered "spicy food&q
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by gfaure 3y ago
Nice! The README mentions `LayerNorm` is implemented here, but while it's in the equivalence tests with PyTorch, I don't see it in the implementation.
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by gfaure 3y ago
I wonder if this hints at an evolutionary adaptation at dealing with people outside of the in-group — could it be that there was an advantage to subconsciously perceiving non-native speech as a threat, or at least something worth being on g
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by gfaure 3y ago
Many libraries around me in the Bay Area seem to have 3D printing services for free — this might be an alternative for a one-off, while costing you nothing!
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by gfaure 3y ago
I hope with every fibre of my being that this eventually replaces matplotlib and pyplot.
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by gfaure 3y ago
Another cool feature to add would be pitch accent data from one of the various sources (e.g. Wiktionary, OJAD, ...)
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by gfaure 3y ago
I severely doubt that the spiders which crawled the data would go to the trouble of dereferencing and downloading torrents.
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by gfaure 3y ago
What about Flammekueche?
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by gfaure 3y ago
I didn't know that Swift had a macro system...
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by gfaure 3y ago
After my grandmother died, my aunt relayed to me that the night before, she had started calling for my grandfather, acting like he was around, despite having died a good thirty years before her. This article mentioned the comforting effect
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by gfaure 4y ago
It can't have been Cantonese -- we use 蚊 (man1) as the currency counter and not 塊 ("lumps") like in Mandarin.
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by gfaure 4y ago
That’s the whole problem — that the reconstruction aspect of the contributions seems overstated given only a layperson’s understanding.
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by gfaure 4y ago
That's because that _is_ the word (大腿) for thigh — native speakers don't perceive it as "big leg", which would be 大的腿 instead. This is exactly analogous to "little finger" in English.
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by gfaure 4y ago
This linked article seems to have gotten special access to the data -- unfortunately only the resulting model is available.
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by gfaure 4y ago
I only remember the DAA instruction because it was the last instruction I implemented in my Game Boy emulator. Since it's mainly used for end-user display of game scores, for most games it doesn't lead to any behaviour problems ap
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by gfaure 4y ago
How does this make any sense? The longer you simmer something, the more concentrated the remaining material becomes.
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by gfaure 4y ago
I've always wondered about the IATA meal code CAKE, and what it might have involved.
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by gfaure 4y ago
"bavovna" (бавовна) is explained by Illia Ponomarenko here better than I could myself: https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1557458609541349376
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by gfaure 4y ago
Actually, they progressively inject faster bootstrappers and end up with about 4.8 kB/s: https://youtu.be/qBK1sq1BQ2Q
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by gfaure 4y ago
Did you misinterpret the article? Before the section with the imaginary gods, it clearly reads: > The Gods illustrated below are imaginary. These made-up illustrations show how symbols and attributes in real Aztec iconography were compos
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by gfaure 4y ago
I don’t see any screenshots in the story containing text. Can you elaborate?
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by gfaure 4y ago
int.bit_count, but str.removesuffix -- consistency has never been a strength of the Python standard library.
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Pangur: A visual programming language for text manipulation(pangur.club)
4 points by gfaure 5y ago|0 comments
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by gfaure 5y ago
The focus on correct pronunciation here has always bothered me in a particular way: the Heart Sutra ends in a Sanskrit mantra -- "gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā", or "gone, gone, far gone, awakening, svaha".
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by gfaure 5y ago
> (The odd capitalizations are used as binary flags and determines whether a chunk is required or optional, and when it is retained or removed.) I found this commingling of human-readable data and metadata quite novel. I can't bring
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by gfaure 5y ago
No. “wa” in Arabic corresponds to “and” in English.
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by gfaure 5y ago
The Yoneda embedding is denoted in a few works by よ (the hiragana for the first syllable in Yoneda's name): https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Yoneda+embedding . This is the only use of Japanese script in mainstrea
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by gfaure 5y ago
A curious fact mentioned in the article: the popularity of the accordion in norteño music is apparently ultimately thanks to the presence in Texas of German immigrants.

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