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by jhbadger 2y ago
True, but that's like saying a British person wouldn't be confused by the phrase "the trunk of my car" said by an American even if they would would say "the boot of my car" themselves. The fact still remains th
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Dialects can mean very different things hence the old joke "a language is a dialect with its own army and navy", recognizing that the issue is really political rather than linguistic. Many Chinese dialects (like Mandarin and Canto
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by jhbadger 2y ago
GCC's gotten so popular that some operating systems like MacOS lie about it and make "gcc" an alias by default for their clang compiler!
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The point (which the author as making) still stands, which is that Darrow achieved his lasting fame from the Scopes Monkey trial, which both as an event and in its fictionalized form as the play/movie "Inherit the Wind" is st
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by jhbadger 2y ago
No doubt Brazil and the Confederacy would have liked to trade, as there was a strong tie between them as you guessed from the slavery issue. After the war, a number of Confederates (some illegally with their enslaved people) moved to Brazil
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Many linguists even call it Judeo-German (and Ladino, the Sephardic language, Judeo-Spanish)
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I guess you have to add some plugin? I mean in Rmarkdown in Rstudio I just go ```{ruby} and I have a ruby block with nothing special installed. That doesn't work by default with Quarto.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The /// did have a nice OS -- the perhaps unfortunately named SOS, which was an improvement over the original Apple DOS and was the basis for ProDOS which replaced Apple DOS on the 64K and greater Apple II models.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
But Rmd already supported python chunks (as well as other languages such as ruby, which seem to be missing from Qmd)
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's a set of poems by Poe, written when he was a teenager. They are interesting if you like Poe's poetry, but they aren't as good as his later famous poems like The Raven, The Bells, and Annabelle Lee.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
People (even "gassy" people) produce very little methane, which is the primary biological cause of global warming. >But I think there are far better places to look, Oil Industry and use of fossils (ie plastics) then Cows and Pi
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Not so insane given that they are far more numerous due to agriculture than they would be as wild animals. This ultimately is a human-caused problem not a natural one. And there is the issue that what we feed livestock affects how much gas
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Yes, I didn't notice that this article was that old until I started thinking about the claim that Symbian OS was in over 100 "current" phones. I know that dumbphones/featurephones are making a bit of a comeback with peop
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>the Democrats adhere strongly to free enterprise, private ownership, other austerity politics So does every mainstream political party in every country in the world (except for North Korea. Even supposedly "Communist" countrie
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by jhbadger 2y ago
There may not be a big enough corpus for adequate training. The problem with both is that the main people writing would either prefer Latin (or later, French). The number of people who could write and used the vernacular to do so, were smal
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>What does this mean? It's a British term for organizations that aren't governmental but which are largely funded by them. As you mention, the Smithsonian and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are basically this, although
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Interesting idea, although I'm not sure of the choice of engines. I recognize LaTeX and groff, but none of the others. And conversely, engines that I would expect to be there like plain TeX, Lout, and even just Markdown (which combined
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by jhbadger 2y ago
In similar news, Taco Bell failed in Mexico. Who could have guessed? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/588250/taco-bell-failed-...
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I'm surprised the article just briefly mentions violin plots. Those are becoming popular in biomedical research -- much more common than the plots he suggests. And you can always overlay them with the jittered points if you want too.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The point is "to the manner born" is a quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet , where it was coined.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
H.P. Newquist's "The Brain Makers: Genius, Ego, and Greed In The Search For Machines That Think" (1994) is a good book that centers on the second AI bubble (1980-1987) and its collapse. It is maybe a bit too focused on the co
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>What happened to ML? It's cyclical. The term "ML" was popular in the 1990s/early 2000s because "AI" had a bad odor of quackdom due to the failures of things like expert systems in the 1980s. The point was t
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Also, in biomedical research papers can get retracted if they can't show the subjects consented to have their samples (e.g. removed tumors) used in research even if the science itself is sound.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's difficult to imagine a person of good character, knowing the atrocities intelligence agencies regularly do (overthrow inconvenient foreign governments, spy on and blackmail civil rights and other groups trying to make a better soc
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I think you are arguing at cross-purposes. If you use HuggingFace to simply download models to run locally with ollama or llama.cpp, then you can say it is "local". But you can also use it as a service to run models (which is how
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The problem with a whistleblower from an intelligence agency is much like one from a tobacco company. Yes, they may be nobler than their peers in those institutions who didn't blow the whistle, but at the end of the day, they are the s
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by jhbadger 2y ago
That ("Invasion of the Space Invaders", 1982) is a fun book, and yes, it does genuinely feature tips for Space Invaders, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, and other games of the period, but it is also a slice-of-life of London culture in the
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Perhaps. But a reasonable license requiring you to pass a test isn't the same as a medallion in the traditional American taxi system. Medallions (often costing tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars) were a way of artificially r
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Exactly. It's like when Uber started and flaunted the medallion taxi system of many cities. People said "These Uber people are idiots! They are going to get shut down! Don't they know the laws for taxis?" While a small n
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by jhbadger 2y ago
No, Darwin never learned about Mendel's work, even though Mendel sent him a copy (which was well after Darwin had published the Origin ). The copy in Darwin's library has its pages uncut -- meaning that Darwin never got around to

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