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by lynguist 3y ago
Am I right that the common ancestor of sapiens and Neanderthals and Denisovans is -800kya? And what about the following strong differences between sapiens and Neanderthals/Denisovans: musical instruments, cave paintings, projectile wea
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by lynguist 3y ago
That’s exactly right - I want to give another example: Squamates want to develop a legless body. Snakes have emerges, but there are also legless geckos, legless lizards etc, etc. The thing is that normally the change happens in the speciesa
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by lynguist 3y ago
1. Try selling soap blocks and porno comics to an Amazon tribe or Australian native. Do they have "sell"? Do they need soap blocks? Do they need porno comics? It’s very narrow how you paint it. 2. Behavioral modernity in humans in
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by lynguist 3y ago
Who does austerity benefit? Why did they drive governments towards austerity?
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by lynguist 3y ago
I never even thought about it before but you’ve convinced me.
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by lynguist 3y ago
Vice is how I learned about Bitcoin circa 2012 and how I learned about the casual psychedelic mushrooms consumption in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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by lynguist 3y ago
Nope, the IPC was hugely different in the MHZ wars days. Pentium III had 20% higher IPC than Pentium 4 Northwood; AMD K8 (Athlon 64) had 35% higher IPC than Pentium 4 Prescott. Same in the RISC vs CISC days: Pentium had 33% higher IPC than
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by lynguist 3y ago
It comes up empty for me. Can you share the link?
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by lynguist 4y ago
In German it’s Steuerbord (meaning the same as starboard) and Backbord (compare Middle Low German ba(c)kbōrt and Dutch bakboort; oldest mention of this form is from old English: bæcbord!) The word ‘back’ in German meaning ‘back’ in English
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by lynguist 4y ago
There are so many steps and sidesteps there! Could someone who has access to GPT-4 API feed this text in and ask it to produce the topological or chronological step-by-step form of it? I’d be curious to see it.
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by lynguist 4y ago
It’s not possible. My job depends solely on the Raspberry Pi and the software stack is built on top of Linux on Raspberry Pi 3 or newer. When the supply of Raspberry Pis was drying up, we started recycling returns to make them work again, b
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by lynguist 4y ago
Interesting. It reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Wikipedia Croatian Wikipedia was used to deliberately and succesfully instill nationalist and neo-fascist points of view onto the users of the page,
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by lynguist 4y ago
As soon as I’m getting closer to the right hand margin I know which words I will put down next and I know how wide every letter is that I write, then I adjust the words and the spaces such that I end on a word border or syllable border. If
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by lynguist 4y ago
Interesting read. It makes me think when I was at school all the other children were seemingly obsessed with grid paper, using it for every class, writing all notes only on grid paper. Grid paper was also the most available and most normal
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by lynguist 4y ago
20th century hubris poisoned so many studies I would rather say. I have this example but there are literally hundreds: You know about the 5 μm particle size limit for it to become airborne? Washing hands for protecting against aerosols? It’
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by lynguist 4y ago
I flew with liquor on a domestic Japanese flight. They didn’t even have a scanner. I showed them that I have it in my backpack and they said it’s no problem at all.
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by lynguist 4y ago
It already started. The airports of Munich and Frankfurt are almost non operational. There is no ground staff here in FRA for most of the regular airport infrastructure like airport buses or information displays.
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Super Strike Day on Monday(zdf.de)
2 points by lynguist 4y ago|1 comments
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by lynguist 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.
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by lynguist 4y ago
The same way that formulaization and databasization that worsened our lives since the 1970s and 1980s this will do the same. It made it possible then to embed all banking, finance, state administration processes into software processes. It
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by lynguist 4y ago
They specifically released it for the Khan Academy to think up at least one positive use case. To quell those feelings.
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by lynguist 4y ago
Your last paragraph weakens the argument that you’re making. Driving assistance and the progress made there and large language models and the progress made there are absolutely incomparable. The general public’s hype in driving assistance i
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Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language? (2007)(newyorker.com)
3 points by lynguist 4y ago|0 comments
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by lynguist 4y ago
I never say things like that but isn’t this like saying the floor is made out of floor ? I had to do a quick reality check after reading that article.
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by lynguist 4y ago
Nowadays up to 96GB on the laptops.
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You’re right! I wrote it too fast without thinking!
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It is using the built-in neural accelerators, that’s why it’s fast, that’s why it’s only supported on Macs so far. The code makes use of official Apple APIs which delegate the necessary BLAS calls to the available hardware.
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by lynguist 4y ago
Thank you for sharing Shmuplations. It’s an absolute treasure trove of (to me) unknown interviews with Japanese game designers from the past 40 years. I’m delighted.
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The PS2’s Backwards Compatibility from the Engineer Who Built It(freelansations.medium.com)
151 points by lynguist 4y ago|48 comments
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by lynguist 4y ago
That part also grabbed my attention. How would I do the core dump? (How do I attach gdb to Firefox? Doesn’t it need debug data from the compiler like what you get with gcc -Og?)

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