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by martinclayton 1y ago
Hours of fun (stimulation?) to be had... Try these shapes: 100x113, then 100x114, then 100x115, the "patterns" swing from slant down, to vertical, to slant up. I'd love this (even more) with some animation and colo(u)r option
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by martinclayton 1y ago
The Leeds case sounds a bit disturbing: they used real human fat and "simulated" clothing for an experiment. Seems odd that it was easy to find real human fat, but they had to resort to simulating clothing. I guess in 1963 fast
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by martinclayton 1y ago
I use Catalyst quite a lot - have been working on a new thing this morning. Thanks, Matt, the ripples will go on for a good while.
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by martinclayton 1y ago
In a thread elsewhere I saw "Interstellar Objects in the Solar System: 1. Isotropic Kinematics from the Gaia Early Data Release 3" ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.03289 ) mentioned. In there, one estimate of the n
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by martinclayton 1y ago
What happens if Charlie Stross meets the Pope?
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by martinclayton 2y ago
Information-rich but is sadly very click-baity. The head/title of the page is: "Asteroid to Hit Earth 2025 | Most Dangerous Asteroid 2025". Heading is "Next Asteroid Predicted to Hit Earth: All About 2024 YR4 and Other D
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by martinclayton 2y ago
When a magician does this, you know it's likely a distraction, and somewhere else there is trickery going on. As a cryptography layman this would make me more suspicious...
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by martinclayton 2y ago
I think this must be it, or at least this is one story that fits. Seems a shame that people report Objective-C experience as Swift experience to such a great extent. These surveys are not resumes... Perhaps it just "proves" that
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by martinclayton 2y ago
In case anyone is interested... The SO Developer Surveys give some info on the job market for COBOL as it appears on the average salary versus years-of-experience graphs, which I like as there's as many stories or reasons as you can th
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by martinclayton 2y ago
There was an interesting Fraser Cain YT vid a couple of weeks back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcR6gs0Up6k Interview with Gerard van Belle, director or the Lowell Observatory. The topic was space/lunar optical int
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by martinclayton 2y ago
Given that the customer ticked an agree to terms box for the park tickets that likely will be enough for the company to keep the case out of court, why would they feel the need to go with the "stretch" to the streaming agreement t
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by martinclayton 2y ago
My experience is different to that. I'd say people and businesses that best understand and balance risks against potential rewards are the most successful. I know a couple of skydiving accountants... Use of innovative tech in finance
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by martinclayton 2y ago
Y-chromosomal Adam, aka Y-MRCA, must be due a spoof Village People number ...
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by martinclayton 2y ago
It's in section 3.3. - Natural Al estimated at 141.1 metric tons / year not varying. - Human-made: 2016: 5.36 tons, 2022: 41.7 tons, "future" could be 912 tons, i.e. more than 6x natural. I think the last figure
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by martinclayton 2y ago
An aside: Tim Harford presents one of the very best programmes on BBC Radio 4: More or Less [1]. Each programme investigates the reality behind statistics used in the media and by politicians. It's quite UK-centric, of course, but s
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by martinclayton 2y ago
Title should mention that the article is from 2011.
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by martinclayton 2y ago
I was going to write a "Previously on Hacker News" comment, but no one commented the one time this was posted before ...
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by martinclayton 2y ago
I'd forgotten about the Aggregation Theory piece. "By extension, this means that the most important factor determining success is the user experience: the best distributors/aggregators/market-makers win by providing the
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by martinclayton 2y ago
Previews only use the HMTL head - to get OG metadata - and usually an image. Never thought about this before. One of my sites is (a single-page application) 45k HTML and 40k image. Hence about 50% of what is served for previews is wasted.
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by martinclayton 3y ago
(Roughly) where in the world are you?
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by martinclayton 3y ago
I think I agree; my take: The point that the leading group in a field could and indeed did know each other to some extent is somewhat conflated in the piece with that particular group, who represent a very particular set of one-off extreme
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by martinclayton 3y ago
I don't disagree with the article - enjoyed it. The 5th Solvay is somewhat of an outlier: majority of the folks in the famous photo were Nobel laureates or laureates to be, which must be some sort of record. Unfortunately, everything
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Phone Calls to Tongueless Men(bessstillman.substack.com)
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by martinclayton 3y ago
Is a "right imbalance", which seems to be the central idea expressed here, somehow being illustrated by a counter example: the content of the article itself?
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by martinclayton 3y ago
https://archive.is/jAhtf
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by martinclayton 3y ago
Richard Littler's poster for the "real" Festival of Brexit Britain: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/03/richard-littler-satirical-...
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by martinclayton 3y ago
https://archive.is/WWhat
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by martinclayton 3y ago
And the outcome was ... ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG)[1][2] [1] https://home.cs.colorado.edu/~hal/s.pdf [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_Transactions_on_Algorithms
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by martinclayton 3y ago
Doh! Indeed - edited. Nice of the 'arrows to not move far when they left Scampton.
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by martinclayton 3y ago
We used to live under the flightpath for the departures from Heathrow to the US, not far from Reading. The evening flights would go over, which you could feel in your body, then moments later catch the light of the setting sun as they head

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