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by jll29 2y ago
Can we just call it "PC to run ML models on" on a budget? "AI computer" sounds pretentious and misleading to outsiders.
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by jll29 2y ago
> I'm even happy to hear arguments about whether it is legally binding to say "No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written p
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by jll29 2y ago
Slightly related: In the paper Leidner and Plachouras (2017), we reported an observation initially due to Bentley, namely that the McIllroy spell(1) implementation emailed a list of unknown words when it was run over a document to the autho
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by jll29 2y ago
If you would like to know more about her: Her legacy https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=6967 About her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether Where she lived and studied https://tho
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by jll29 2y ago
Iconically, the 1994 version of dominos.com had much better usability. It looked cleaner and simpler than today. I just used the present-day version the other day, and somehow Chromium on my laptop rendered the font so tiny I could not read
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by jll29 2y ago
Here is Sir Atiyah's Mathematics Geneaology entry: https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=30949 Receiving the RSE Fellowship with a handshake from him was one of my highlights during my beautiful time in Edinb
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by jll29 2y ago
If you want to call it "deliberate blindness", I'll call it "focus".
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by jll29 2y ago
Interesting, also that in the whole book, one line is redacted (in the glossary)...
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by jll29 2y ago
This is an excellent concept - and it may be hard to realize but it would be worth integrating "cost of living" and "languges spoken" concerns, and then to be able to find one's perfect spot on the planet.
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by jll29 2y ago
Last time I checked, parchment was the most durable medium mankind ever used on a regular basis. I find it an interesting question to ponder what we consider worthwhile retaining for more than 2000 years (from my personal library, perhaps j
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by jll29 2y ago
A self-proclaimed VC (but really just a business angel syndicate gateway keeper with no real money, as I later found out) once told me (in 2005) "Even if it will be possible to use the Internet from one's phone one day, it will be
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by jll29 2y ago
In case any scientist actually working on adaptive OCR is reading this, I was given a post-WWII newspaper archive (PDF scans, 1945-2006, German language) that I would like to OCR with the highest quality, compute demands are not an issue, I
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by jll29 2y ago
Check out Xerox XFST and its open source clone FOMA for finite state transducers as described by extended regular expresssions, both of which describe the language of regular relations: The Xerox FST book https://press.uchicago.e
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by jll29 2y ago
+1 Thanks for posting this insight, because a typical engineer, if they are worth their money, does not like the idea to launch something "unfinished" or "half-baked" or even "not yet perfect", but the business
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by jll29 2y ago
The video demonstrates a second common trick: making use of the black frame "outside" the screen buffer. Once the first demos showed it was possible it quickly spread and nearly everyone used it. It's been a while, but I reca
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by jll29 2y ago
Fantastic, well done! - I remember the Inmos Transputers (T800), and there was Occam, the curious language, from which I remember just two operators, ? and ! to read and write from the four(?) fast serial ports that connected one transputer
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by jll29 2y ago
That's what should me made of the old 2D maps. Should be possiblel thanks to LLMs now.
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by jll29 2y ago
Fun read. Minor typo: s/the the/the/g;
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by jll29 2y ago
Related to that are Searle's "Chinese Room" argument and the question of "Mind uploading" (can you up/download mental states): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/#ChinRoom
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by jll29 2y ago
For starters, I love the licensing, as it is very fair: I bought a personal license and I can take it to as many machines as I have (I do use many different computers). And you can buy it one time, no silly monthly subscription fees. As a r
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by jll29 2y ago
It's important to take pride in one's work, but don't forget one second that the relationship is asymmetric; if you choose to be loyal, the company employing you won't be loyal back. The worst thing you can do is to feel
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by jll29 2y ago
There are not just startups that become unicorns and startups that fold. Investors' worst nightmare is if you just make enough money to keep going, but you don't grow ("lifestyle business" as they use it is a derogatory
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by jll29 2y ago
IMHO There is a huge gap for affordable hotels for normadic workers and business people. Hotel rooms suck when you need to use them for work. Typically there are massive beds and I travel alone if for work. There is no proper chair, no writ
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by jll29 2y ago
I like the idea of doing browsing in folders containing files as navigating between edit buffers. I've been editing like that since the 1990s because that's how Emacs and XEmacs do it (M-x dired command). The ease and speed of jus
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by jll29 2y ago
You story about the one pen reminds me of something. My old chemistry teacher gave grades to how orderly people's notes looked. "How it's put on your page, it's in your head," he used to say. At the time, we school
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by jll29 2y ago
Clicked on it in the expectation of encountering an attack on schema-free databases and "NoSQL"... only to find it is about social groups ;)
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by jll29 2y ago
Yes turtle graphics are very educational, I taught it (via PyTurtle) to 11-year-olds, who picked it up easily ("draw a house, then translate into instructions for the little turtle"). BTW, there is no "Western European Union&
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by jll29 2y ago
Thanks for posting this, I like it very much. Furthermore, I would like to see a simple email client written using it, which can be controlled using only the keyboard (on mobile devices) or with the mouse (when at home). This seems possible
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by jll29 2y ago
Can't wait for the whitepaper written by Melania herself explaining Merkle trees and proof of stake. I'm hearing rumors of Satoshi coming back from the grave to sort our all those fraudulent "currency" inventors...
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by jll29 2y ago
Prompt: You are a paleologist specializing in analysis of cursive handwriting; tell me what the following text says: (pasting the picture). Output: The following is the declaration of James Lambert, a soldier of the Revolutionary

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