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by lqet 3y ago
> HEISENBERG: [...] I believe this uranium business will give the Anglo–Saxons such tremendous power that EUROPE will become a bloc under Anglo–Saxon domination. If that is the case it will be a very good thing. I wonder whether STALIN w
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Echochamber.js(github.com)
4 points by lqet 3y ago|1 comments
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OverflowAI(stackoverflow.blog)
101 points by lqet 3y ago|99 comments
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> At school I coasted, ignored all home work, never studied, and was a consistent C. I was continually told I could fo better by putting in some work (an objective viewpoint I agreed with.) That was me 100%. I passed elementary school wi
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In southwestern Germany, genealogy usually stops at the Thirty Years' War [0]. Where I come from, the population decline during the war was more than 66% [1]. Most church records were either destroyed in battle, or used as a heat sourc
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This is great and exactly captures the PhD experience. Both in the simulator and in real life, I mostly survived until the end by slacking off frequently, and needed around 5 years. Some highlights: > INBOX: Based on the reviewers'
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If you enjoy that kind of peek into the past, there is a video of a tram ride through 1931 Leipzig on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CETIdLkJM4k
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This is ipe [0], as a physical machine. Impressive. [0] https://ipe.otfried.org/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Dolivo-Dobrovolsky https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drehstrom%C3%BCbertragung_Lauf...
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by lqet 3y ago
Luckily, in German, there are three completely different words for preparing onions in a pan: 1.) Anschwitzen, literally "sweating up", means putting them in a pan on low heat for around 10 minutes until they are translucent (&quo
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Essentially, the Viterbi algorithm computes the shortest path through a DAG. If you explicitly model each transition/emission event as a single node in a graph, and if you then convert all probabilities p to -log p, than any shortest p
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They were also very effective at "dropping" characters the writers and other actors didn't like. Poor Lilly.
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It sometimes beautifully worked across seasons as in "The Puffy Shirt" (where George becomes a hand model). I think this was mostly Larry David's work. Jason Alexander once mentioned in an interview that after David left, thi
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Whale Fall(en.wikipedia.org)
24 points by lqet 4y ago|2 comments
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Now there is something Bartosz Ciechanowski should write a blog post about! I also think something important is missing from this explanation: the vertical/horizontal solution would not have been backwards compatible in two ways: (1)
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by lqet 4y ago
That is a beautifully bound thesis.
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I can at least confirm that my daughter was very much surprised when her balance bike [0], which is essentially a small draisine, stayed upright when she lifted her legs. [0] https://cdn.thewirecutter.com/wp-content/upl
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by lqet 4y ago
> Gödel's theorem is rubbished I am curious, could you elaborate a bit on this? If the Tractatus is about the inability to say something about a system from within the system, then isn't this basically what Gödel's theorem
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Enjoying this post? Subscribe to get more content like this delivered to your inbox for free! I immediately closed the site.
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I strongly suspect this is why half-timbered houses, although being much more earthquake resilient than stone houses, haven't been common in Italy for thousands of years now. There simply wasn't enough wood left.
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Of course we can, by simply restoring older bikes. My family doesn't own a car (urban environment). We own several used children's bikes and 6 Peugeot bikes (3 for my wife, 3 for myself) from the 70ies and early 80ies. Most of the
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by lqet 4y ago
It's not so clear-cut. Seeing the minister of finance, the minister president, and the former minister president being friendly with someone might certainly stop a low-level tax office servant from following his instinct and investigat
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No, in DM the damage was actually way over 4 billion. I made it clearer above.
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A similar thing happened with FlowTex [0]. FlowTex was founded in 1994 by Manfred "Big Manni" Schmider [1, second on the right] and Klaus Kleiser as a business for selling horizontal drilling machines. After a few years, they clai
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We mortals just haven't evolved to his Übermensch-level of thinking yet: > I never viewed myself as a typical writer, who is writing for a large audience or the general public. > Instead, I wanted to introduce some new, unconvent
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Night trains typically use slower routes and are parked somewhere during the night to ensure that you have enough time to eat something in the evening, get dressed for bed, sleep 8 hours, get up, get dressed again, and eat breakfast. 8 hour
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I am not sure which connection you found - the 21:59 Nightjet NJ 402 from Zurich goes directly to Amsterdam (9:58). NJ 402 has some additional cars attached which run as an InterCity, so it might be possible that no bed is available until F
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To this day, I still have exact intuition for the time span between "Fire in the hole!" and "Boom".
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> The apartment was fully settled in 1980. A year later, an 18-year-old woman who lived there suddenly died. In 1982, her 16-year-old brother followed, and then their mother. [All from leukemia]. [...] A new family moved into the apartme
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But you wouldn't board an international flight with your gym membership card.

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