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How AI could save (not destroy) education [video](ted.com)
8 points by jhncls 3y ago|0 comments
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I Have a Dream(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by jhncls 3y ago|0 comments
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Connections Between Mathematical Constants: The Conservative Matrix Field [video](youtube.com)
3 points by jhncls 3y ago|0 comments
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Stockholm Syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jhncls 3y ago|0 comments
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How the world’s best marketer got it wrong, but eventually got it right(behaviouraldesign.com)
1 points by jhncls 3y ago|0 comments
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What Is in Production?(buttondown.email)
2 points by jhncls 3y ago|0 comments
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Editing Neural Radiance Fields with Dreambooth(blog.metaphysic.ai)
2 points by jhncls 3y ago|0 comments
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by jhncls 3y ago
Wouldn't being innocently jailed for 9 days because of a wrong face recognition count as another example? [0]: https://www.wired.com/story/face-recognition-software-led-to... [1]: https://www.theguardia
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P-Adic Number(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jhncls 3y ago|1 comments
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by jhncls 3y ago
Also interesting is the 1999 animated short film (20 min), "The Old Man and the Sea" (based on Hemingway's novel). Subtle fingertips moved around oil paint on glass. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by jhncls 3y ago
Well, this is just a first version, enabling to quickly prove they are the first. The coming days, the internets will be filled with many more webpages than can be possibly read. In the old days, you had to wait many months before something
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by jhncls 3y ago
Even if the lawyer would have carefully checked and corrected ChatGPT's answers, isn't he going against his professional duty by submitting private information to a website that doesn't ensure confidentiality?
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by jhncls 3y ago
It's called Lèse-majesté (in English, that is). It is still actively persecuted in Spain [0], forcing Belgium to reinterpret its current laws in order not to extradite a rap singer. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning [video](techchannel.att.com)
2 points by jhncls 3y ago|0 comments
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by jhncls 3y ago
Claude Shannon also had early ideas about machine learning. AT&T has a 1950s video of the maestro himself demonstrating a maze solver with physical output. A true genius. In those days, geeks were dressed in suit. 0: https://
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by jhncls 3y ago
A really strong point is how Grant manages to explain the basic concepts, that most viewers already know in some way, in such a way that it doesn't sound like repeated general knowledge. Every time he adds in lesser known facts. A conc
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by jhncls 4y ago
It would be hard to beat Edger Dijkstra's handwriting. See e.g. the one numbered 831, where he explains the naturalness of zero-indexing [0]. [0]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
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Filmed interview with Georges Lemaître, 'father of the Big Bang,' rediscovered(livescience.com)
110 points by jhncls 4y ago|23 comments
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by jhncls 4y ago
> They just give the first part of the article without the paywall, as that's usually enough for SEO purposes. Many consumers often wouldn't read more text anyway. About one paragraph might even be too much to fill the modern a
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by jhncls 4y ago
A nice application along the same theme is Youglish, which allows finding words in Youtube videos and let you hear how they are pronounced. It works for many languages. Not affiliated, just a satisfied user. For those wondering how "d
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by jhncls 4y ago
Greenland's Inuits had another form of ancient maps, carving coastlines in wood. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammassalik_wooden_maps
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by jhncls 4y ago
There is also a Numberphile video going into their history [0]. About monks with a vow of silence. [0]: https://youtu.be/9p55Qgt7Ciw
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by jhncls 4y ago
Your safest bet would be `(x - y) mod 3 == 0`. Of course, that doesn't solve the case when you want to bin the values.
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The Stickiest Non-Sticky Substance [video](youtube.com)
2 points by jhncls 4y ago|0 comments
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by jhncls 4y ago
Burkard Polster and Marty Ross at Mathologer have some wonderful videos visually proving the irrationality of many roots. [0] https://youtu.be/yk6wbvNPZW0
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by jhncls 4y ago
Some years ago, there was a renewed discovery of a ligament [0] in the human knee, that is thought to be important for stability, especially after sport-related injuries. Also, the mesentery [1] is only recently discovered as a separate org
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by jhncls 4y ago
You make it sound that at one point in time there was a true basque language. But isn't language an evolving matter? It is slightly different from one village to the next, changes continuously over time, words get a different feeling,
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by jhncls 4y ago
There is an interesting interview with "the man behind Stable Diffusion" at youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2QtKcK2dA
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A Man behind Stable Diffusion [video](youtube.com)
3 points by jhncls 4y ago|0 comments
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Precision DIY calipers? That’s a moiré(hackaday.com)
16 points by jhncls 4y ago|3 comments

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