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by kleton 9d ago
Carl Darling Buck (A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages) and Julius Pokorny (Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch) are just a few of the philologists who have posited this "dead water" h
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by kleton 9d ago
It is probably not a substrate word, but more likely coming from "dead" water, as in not a moving river.
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by kleton 9d ago
> because the Proto-Indo-European language arose in the landlocked steppes, it had no need for—and has no securely reconstructable word for—‘sea’. No, it is mori, attested in marine, muir, maryadah, mal, morje, etc in farflung IE tongues
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by kleton 11d ago
It is perhaps a blessing that the climate of the Papua lowlands makes the potato impossible to grow. While the potato would grow in the cooler highlands, this village to village transmission mechanism would not get the potato past the hot l
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by kleton 13d ago
Nominative determinism- first author's name "Mutlu Yıldız" means "happy star"
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by kleton 26d ago
There's a well-known issue of "construct validity" in neuroscience.
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by kleton 27d ago
It's not uncommon for cows to get a taste for chicken eggs and start seeking them out
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by kleton 27d ago
Once a horse gets a taste for baby chicks, it's hard to convince them they aren't omnivorous.
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by kleton 1mo ago
> Well they have to destroy them after scanning, else it is a copyright violation. I think this is the "an undercover cop has to tell you they are police if you ask them" of AI law
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by kleton 2mo ago
> The water thing It’s amazing how Karen Hao managed to graduate from MIT without learning the difference between m^3 and L
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by kleton 2mo ago
Maybe she just liked giving people mysteries
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by kleton 2mo ago
Would this imply that the matrices should have dimensions of multiples of 40?
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by kleton 2mo ago
About 15% of the UK's land parcels are not in any land registry database, because recording there only became compulsory in 1990, so if an event like a sale/morgtage didn't happen to a property since then, it might not be reg
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by kleton 3mo ago
Clearly they are batching reasoning inference in a few multiples of 512 tokens as a throughput optimization
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by kleton 3mo ago
> Zuckerberg knows that threatening Wynn-Williams for standing in wooden silence on a stage makes him look like history's most guillotineable billionaire. That might be a bit generous to assume that he has this theory of mind
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by kleton 4mo ago
> only my friends' status updates I think that is the Feed's tab, though I have not used the blue app in a long time
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by kleton 4mo ago
hellottec is down but a cdn mirror of the product: https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/tesancdn/hellottec/2_BH_...
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by kleton 4mo ago
The real problem with Magnifica Humanitas is that it will be impossible to produce the first sentence of the canonical Latin version in which the first two words are "Magnifica humanitas" but carries the same meaning as the first
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by kleton 4mo ago
It's amazing how Karen Hao's (Empire of AI) confusion of cubic meters with liters of water for datacenters continues to get amplified, even after this error was publicly revealed.
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by kleton 4mo ago
> The Wikimedia Foundation closed last fiscal year with $208.6 million in revenue. It holds $296.6 million in reserves, 17.1 months of operating expenses. The actual physical cost of hosting Wikipedia is < $5 million per year.
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by kleton 4mo ago
Yes. We are cladistically more related to a goldfish than it is to a shark.
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by kleton 4mo ago
> First, “seed oils” is a marketing term, not a nutritional category. "Seed oils" (commonly used cooking oils extracted from plant seeds excluding coconut) are as valid of a construct as "reptiles" (quadrupeds excludi
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by kleton 4mo ago
No, I meant Iranic. Pashtun and Parsi "Dari" speakers are canonically Iranic ethnic groups.
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by kleton 4mo ago
It would not be that stunning, given that a much poorer Iranic country decisively defeated the U.S. in a ~20 year war ending only a few years ago.
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by kleton 4mo ago
Truly a case where the old word polytropōs applies.
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by kleton 5mo ago
It is this compound https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39106304/
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by kleton 5mo ago
Any quarters and dimes he would have received in change would have been about 90 per cent silver.
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by kleton 5mo ago
Apple normally just does prepayment for capacity- funding the capital for the production line they need
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by kleton 5mo ago
Gen X and Millenials don't share Boomers' obsession with green lawns, so it's a race against time, whether Boomers or lightning bugs will go extinct first
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by kleton 6mo ago
Don't inference servers like vllm or sglang just translate these things to openai-compat API shapes?

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