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by julienchastang 1y ago
I've never tried that but copying files via two different dired buffer is trivial. It is also really useful for copying files to and from remote hosts via tramp. (If copying large files in this manner look into rsync versus ssh.) Here
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by julienchastang 1y ago
wdired-change-to-wdired-mode, FTW! :-) An extremely cool feature is dired buffers are editable for changing file names and permissions. You can even use this feature, en masse, with other features like rectangle edit.
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MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student's AI Research Paper(wsj.com)
15 points by julienchastang 1y ago|3 comments
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by julienchastang 1y ago
Not to mention the long arcs of the careers of scientists and support staff involved in this breakthrough, who were also supported by federally funded research grants.
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by julienchastang 1y ago
Thank you for sharing that beautiful comment. Yes, there really are random marching bands about. I also enjoyed the Parachute song which I didn't know. This video kind of captures NOLA for me: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by julienchastang 1y ago
I’ve traveled to NOLA for work over the years and have fallen in love with the city. The first time I went there, I just thought it would be a tourist trap which, of course, it partially is but you have to go beyond that to find all the won
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by julienchastang 1y ago
Disagree. If you spend any time studying the history of science, you know that many stars have Arabic names, we use Arabic numbers, and the word Algorithm is Arabic in origin.
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by julienchastang 1y ago
> We can finally just take a photo of a textbook problem... You nailed it. LLMs are an autodidact's dream. I've been working through a physics book with a good-old pencil and notebook and got stuck on some problems. It turned o
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Science organizations operate on shoestring budgets and can little afford disruptions of this sort for grants that have already been approved. Not to mention the fact that the new review criteria may have little to do with scientific merit
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Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet(nytimes.com)
168 points by julienchastang 2y ago|128 comments
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The last decision by the leading thinker on decisions(wsj.com)
44 points by julienchastang 2y ago|15 comments
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Utah to Become First State to Ban Fluoride in Public Water(wsj.com)
5 points by julienchastang 2y ago|0 comments
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When combinations of humans/AI are useful: A systematic review and meta-analysis(nature.com)
1 points by julienchastang 2y ago|0 comments
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by julienchastang 2y ago
[I missed the HN edit window so I am replying to my own comment.] Note that you can get the stationary items from stlartsupply.com. No need to go to Amazon.
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by julienchastang 2y ago
You know what is great about that blog post? The pictures. There is something so pleasing about those shallow depth of field macros of carefully laid out pencils and other stationary. (I found some of those items on Amazon, BTW.)
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Skymapper.io: A Decentralized Network for Astronomical Observation, Data Sharing(skymapper.io)
2 points by julienchastang 2y ago|0 comments
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by julienchastang 2y ago
I've had limited but good experience (with both English and French text) with Tesseract, then getting ChatGPT to fix problems with clever prompting (e.g., pretend you are an expert OCR corrector, blah blah, blah).
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Amazon's Plan to Reduce AI Hallucinations(wsj.com)
3 points by julienchastang 2y ago|2 comments
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by julienchastang 2y ago
It looks like an excellent resource. Unfortunately, at present, all the links are broken within the document.
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Very sad. I had the privilege of watching the late Roger Ebert deconstruct "Mulholland Drive" at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado during the daily Cinema Interruptus. Each day for a week, we spent an h
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Taxi drivers offer a clue to Alzheimer's risk(wsj.com)
127 points by julienchastang 2y ago|109 comments
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AI Widens Access to Tax-Optimization Strategies(wsj.com)
3 points by julienchastang 2y ago|0 comments
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Flagging this article seems unjustified to me as well. Also, Christopher Mims is a great columnist.
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Relatedly: "Soils from Antarctica seem to contain no life—something that's never been found" [0] [0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/soils... Evidently, there are places (moun
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by julienchastang 2y ago
It is a sad and colossal waste. From experience, when the kids are grown you have to decide what to do with the toys that are often half broken or with missing parts you have no idea where they ended up. As the article states, these toys co
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Most fascinating part of the article is at the end: ``` Dr. Chen said he noticed that when he peered into the doctors’ chat logs, “they were treating it like a search engine for directed questions: ‘Is cirrhosis a risk factor for cancer? Wh
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The 'super users' who tap AI to get ahead at work(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by julienchastang 2y ago|0 comments
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by julienchastang 2y ago
I recently went on a business trip and decided to see if sending a postcard in 2024 was still possible. To my surprise, it is! Gas stations still sell postcards, and Walmart has stamps. However, when I handed my postcards to the young hotel
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by julienchastang 2y ago
"Neither fell prey to cheap foreign competition, but to their own mistakes. Their culture evolved to prioritize financial performance over engineering excellence, which also brought down another manufacturing icon, General Electric.&qu
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A Train Architect Designs the Perfect Commuter Train [video](wsj.com)
2 points by julienchastang 2y ago|0 comments

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