gfaure

12 ms·

91.
by gfaure 5y ago
"suture" and "sutra" are cognates in Latin and Sanskrit respectively. A sutra सूत्र is literally a thread or fibre. This also explains why it was calqued into Chinese as 經 (among other meanings, "weave"). Simil
92.
by gfaure 5y ago
Unfortunately, this isn't correct according to my sources -- Italian anno < Latin annus < PIE h₂t-nó-s from a root h₂t- "to go", while ano < Latin anus < PIE *h₁eh₂no- "ring".
93.
by gfaure 5y ago
The person who posted the vaccine misinformation had undergone some personal loss for which he blames the medical system. While this doesn't excuse spreading misinformation, it helped me understand where his desire to sow doubt in orga
94.
by gfaure 5y ago
Here’s the result of @cybergibbons’ reverse engineering into the distribution over w3w terms that only differ in singular vs. plural: https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...
95.
by gfaure 5y ago
This kind of reminds me of the Heptapod writing system from "Arrival". I wonder what contributes to the cost -- is it simply because it's unique, or are some of the materials expensive?
96.
by gfaure 5y ago
Although the weights aren't available, I wanted to note that the model source itself is actually hosted at https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion .
97.
by gfaure 5y ago
"Eel thing" for erisypelas sounded odd to me as the name for a skin condition. The only references I could find online are to copies of this list, so perhaps it was a transcription error.
98.
by gfaure 5y ago
Facebook does not have stack ranking — de facto or otherwise. You mention that Google is somehow an exception, but I think you'll find that in terms of the PSC (review cycle), the attitude towards work and flexibility, and the expectat
99.
by gfaure 5y ago
This sounds fascinating, although "DOSBLOOD.EXE" only returns one Google result, being this comment. I assume it would work by constantly modifying the bitmap font?
100.
by gfaure 5y ago
@cybergibbons also discovered that whatever algorithm they use has the unfortunate property that points fairly close together only differ in whether one word is singular or plural. For support to be sent to the wrong location in an emergenc
101.
by gfaure 5y ago
I'm not even Jewish, and I know about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikuach%20nefesh .
102.
by gfaure 5y ago
It's a beautiful touch that the animation demonstrating the spring itself has a spring action on its playback slider.
103.
by gfaure 5y ago
I think it can't be understated how important it is to able to rotate, and move the playback forwards and backwards. It's almost like being able to hold the part in your hands, examine the reasoning behind its structure and "
104.
by gfaure 5y ago
Why not? It's likely because the platforms were all much simpler then. Vendor-specific features like stickers, end-to-end encryption, video attachments, reactions make it difficult to support a subset which is going to satisfy regular
105.
by gfaure 5y ago
I can second dkasper's observations -- the PSC cycle is engineered to reward initiative. That said, depending on the team, the practice does not always follow the theory, so it makes sense that the FB employees your company could poach
106.
by gfaure 5y ago
The sound from the Mac LC, complete with the ominous interval it ends on, has been burnt into my mind since I first heard it in primary school in the computer lab.
107.
by gfaure 6y ago
I did my dissertation on an aspect of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, as mentioned in the article as a byproduct of Schönfinkel's work. One of the interesting byproducts of considering sequences of words in a natural language sentence
108.
by gfaure 6y ago
I admire the reach of "Two Minute Papers", but that guy has got to stop calling everything an AI for the sake of YouTube views.
109.
by gfaure 6y ago
Don't confuse anti-PRC sentiment with anti-Chinese sentiment. It is a classic strategy to conveniently conflate the two only when the CPC is being criticised.
110.
by gfaure 6y ago
This was published so close to April Fools' Day that I can't decide whether this is for real...
111.
by gfaure 6y ago
That installer brings back memories. When I was a kid, I would wonder how it managed to render its own UI and look so different from all the other DOS executables.
112.
by gfaure 6y ago
Solved it! I kept tilting my head because it was hard to see the clue and interpret it at the same time. The ability to highlight all three diagonals would have been perfect. The final clue I had to complete was that tricky .*(.)(.)(.)(.)\4
113.
by gfaure 6y ago
This doesn't quite have the magical soul of Aphyr's ones, unfortunately. https://aphyr.com/tags/Interviews
114.
by gfaure 6y ago
Migration doesn't square with the fact that valuable objects were found entombed in the burnt houses.
115.
by gfaure 6y ago
Have you tried working with rust-ndarray (the closest thing to NumPy in Rust)? While I love Rust for general work, unfortunately for numeric programming, compared to NumPy itself, it's like pulling teeth. There's a lot which is co
116.
by gfaure 6y ago
tsukae does mean "use" in Japanese -- but it's the blunt command form (命令形) "Use it!!"
117.
by gfaure 6y ago
Indeed.
118.
by gfaure 6y ago
I immediately tried to unsubscribe from their newsletter, but it seems all their IT infrastructure's gone too.
119.
by gfaure 6y ago
Searching this database by typing keywords reminds me of the "search engine" gameplay in Sam Barlow's game Her Story.
120.
by gfaure 6y ago
A Canadian bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD_Canada_Trust

More ›