jan_Inkepa

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by jan_Inkepa 2y ago
School for me (in Ireland) was more or less a race to get out of school (+ concomitant bullying) and into university to study what I was interested in (maths - at that point I wasn't able to advance any further on my own and there was
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by jan_Inkepa 2y ago
I read a bunch of Hilbert's letters once, thinking it would be an interesting window into a significant mind. It was 90% departmental politics - not really the cynical kind: he was really concerned with getting good mathematicians jobs
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by jan_Inkepa 2y ago
It's a cheap airline. Being slightly adversarial can still be worth the price for customers. As a customer I treat booking it a pretty low-stakes adversarial game and try to enjoy the deviousness. Worst case scenario is costs the same
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by jan_Inkepa 2y ago
I was careful to not bother a friend's father at a gathering because he seemed to be listening to something on his AirPods. Only after did my friend let me know he uses them in hearing aid mode (didn't know that was a thing!) to h
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by jan_Inkepa 2y ago
Deepl has the best rep for European languages - though it now supports many others. I can say it's German translations are pretty good (as a non-native German speaker). But ChatGPT blows it out of the water if you have a specific conte
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by jan_Inkepa 2y ago
>policy makers need to be informed to make smart policy, Yeah, very important :) There was a case a while ago of...I think (vague recollection - I can't track it down exactly alas ) funding for some important disease research for or
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
Intersting quesiton. I did a search about for source texts/articles and couldn't find anything. ( http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19... ) The only thing I saw that might be about it
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
Take a game where you get to pick a single number between one and a billion. If you pick 10 you win. This has a billion states, but it's trivial. I can increase the bound above a billion, it doesn't matter. State count gives an up
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
> I still to this day, cannot hear what syllables are in words. ‘Cat’, 1? I hear 2. What syllables do you hear? (I'm assuming you have English as a mother tongue?)
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
I've knocked over a couple of cups of tea/coffee hidden behind my laptop in my life(usually while pushing my laptop back to make space for something on the table), and wished the screens were a bit less obscuring ...
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
Great, good to know where it comes from - thanks. :) I'd guess given that I associate point-free with Haskell, which came much later, that the APL nomenclature (of which I was ignorant) came first.
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
The wiki page leaves out the source of the the 'point-free' nomenclature - category theory ( e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointless_topology ). The original game was talking about sets (or other simila
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
The translation given in the title is not how I'd phrase - it's more to help crops grow by tugging at them (the intention is to stretch them and encourage them to grow, but obviously doesn't work). I'd have gone for &qu
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
For one particular pool of candidates fighting over university allocated senate seats - you still have regular voting rights.
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
At least for issues, their search got a lot worse recently - it doesn't do substring search in the same way (or maybe at all - I haven't checked in detail), so you can't search for non-initial words in compound-words. This ma
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
( His Latin, fwiw, is quite friendly/readable from what I've seen of it! )
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
Hmm. Let me think about your point. The problem seems not dependent on the specifics of my efforts for me - it seems inherent to Anki for language-learning. That the flash cards have lots of bells and whistles seems unrelated to my giving u
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
Every few years I use Anki heavily for language stuff (German, more recently Latin and Classical Chinese), up to 90 minutes a day, but I can never keep the workload under control, or my habits change, and give it up. I still benefit from a
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
Google translate gives "ludus mortuus est". 'Ludum' (vs 'ludus') possibly comes from the game jam 'ludum dare' (where 'ludum' is okay because it's meant to be in the accusative - the o
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
I used it a lot in maths grad school for manipulating wretchedly large algebraic expressions. Just maths notation being well-supported and the interface for editing everything being nice made it the best tool for me. And it wasn't hard
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
I don't think I've seen a very high-res/non-blurry digital version of it online - bit of a shame, given how much is going on on some of the pages.
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
Could you link to some examples (on youtube or the like) of what you have in mind? I know my baroque keyboard-solo literature okay, but beyond that it gets a bit hazy.
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
Really impressed with this site! I used it to generate several plausible/catchy songs in German for a pizza Christmas party I'm having tomorrow. https://app.suno.ai/song/650b54ec-b349-447c-9219-d461e4b5282..
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
Also that their cancellation window has limits on both sides - I told them more than six months I advance to cancel my renewal and the refused and toll me to call up again in a particular 30 day period close to the expiry date...
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
I did a quick look to search to see - I mean if anywhere has retained evidence of schools it should be Pompeii - I did a cursory search through Bloomer's book 'The School of Rome', and here are some bits from it: "The ph
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
> Really?? I am very surprised to hear that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludus_(ancient_Rome) There were schools...
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
>If you want to write Chinese text on a computer - you still have to use Latin alphabet, Non-native Chinese-Script language learner - I use touchpad stroke-input on my macbook 50% of the time (and touchscreen stroke input on phone 100% o
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
Germany is not customer-review friendly. I got two legal threats over a non-descript 3-star google maps review of a deeply mediocre Restaurant for maliciously damaging their business reputation. Google made me provide receipts to prove I
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
They have further hamstrung it recently by having it that non-moderators (or some euphemism for someone with such rights) can no longer add new books. I regularly read weird stuff not in their system and adding this extra barrier is disast
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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
from here https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/plmrep/COM... "Providers of foundation models used in AI systems specifically intended to generate, with varying levels of autonomy, content su

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