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by martopix 4y ago
I really resonate with this. I work in academia and I finally decided that I don't want to do research any more, but I want to teach. The choice now is whether to take a teaching-only position in a university, or do something a little
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by martopix 4y ago
Beautiful answer -- why would you just accumulate savings without using them for living an interesting life? It's worth taking risks. I'm considering doing something of the sort, probably much less risky actually.
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> Sure, but what's not really python per se. But that's exactly the strength of Python: it's an interface language. It's meant to make pretty sophisticated things like CUDA easy for everyone.
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I don't see any substantiated arguments on why this is 'madness' and in what sense these are 'poisons'. And on how to implement your 'solution'.
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Well but it's not very useful if you study ineffective materials every day for years.
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Precisely. I use quizlet for that, which is very similar, except it doesn't market itself as 'teaching you the language'. It's for memorizing stuff, vocabulary in particular. And you get much more control on which sets t
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by martopix 4y ago
Seriously, it depends on what you're trying to do. You're not going to learn a language using memorization only, and you're not going to learn a language through an app only. I use quizlet for learning vocabulary, because tha
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by martopix 4y ago
Can anyone that understands these things (i.e. not me, a meek python end user) explain this in simpler terms? I checked th Pyston website, it essentially says it makes your code faster and nothing about what's the catch and how it magi
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Kimbanguism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by martopix 4y ago|0 comments
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Note that before lidar, photographs taken from a plane were also very useful for discovering archeological sites that are not obvious while seen from the ground. Wikipedia has a whole article on it, including lidar developments: https:&#x2
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by martopix 4y ago
I remember the student union at the university of Edinburgh having massive welcome signs printed on a wall in all languages, and the Arabic one very clearly had the mistake in the points 2 and 3. Printed on a wall. It was very clear to me e
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by martopix 4y ago
The difference, I suppose, is that Roald Dahl was alive and well in 1972. And that, compared to references to African pygmies, some of the things that have been changed in this new edition are totally baffling.
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but did you check if they're real? that's a known flaw of GPT
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I think perfectionism is a problem for me too. I quit hobbies too soon because I get frustrated if they're not so easy.
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Octopodes
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When I was in high school, we had an (excellent!) teacher of Italian literature who always interpreted texts according to a specific key, which she tried to explain through the historical and philosophical background of the era. At some poi
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by martopix 4y ago
> the light comes from North West, which is impossible in the northern hemisphere that is technically not correct, in the summer for sufficiently high latitudes, the sun sets in the northwest.
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Ask HN: What are your chill, at-home, non-digital hobbies?
3 points by martopix 4y ago|4 comments
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by martopix 4y ago
well no. Have a look at how long it takes to go from Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium (i.e. all countries that are not France) to Barcelona.
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by martopix 4y ago
Yes, even heads of state who visit Kiev are currently mostly travelling by train afaik
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by martopix 4y ago
Coincidentally I took Zurich-Amsterdam and Amsterdam-Zurich right this week. It was a direct nightjet sleeper, not sure what you're talking about.
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by martopix 4y ago
There is a clear lack of connection toward France and Spain. EDIT: Paris is of course well connected, but southern France and Spain are not. I live in Zurich and it's quite easy to go north, south, and east by train, but going south-we
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by martopix 4y ago
I have the feeling that behind this kind of experiment there's a wish to hold a 'moralistic' take on 'where is the world going! people today are too busy to notice art!' etc. First of all, it relies on the incorrect
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by martopix 4y ago
I will always remember one reported on my high school Latin textbook: "Apollinaris medicus Titi imperatoris hic cacavit bene": "Apollinar, physician of the emperor Titus, here pooped well"
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by martopix 4y ago
> Have you ever mentioned something that seems totally normal to you only to be greeted by surprise? Once some (foreigner) person was surprised at my dipping toast with Nutella in my latte. I was equally surprised by his surprise.
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by martopix 4y ago
> the body doesn't typically sense falling very well without visual cues the post talks about freefall (-1g) and +2.7g. These would be very noticeable.
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I am admittedly someone who wishes Bash were Python (ish). What's wrong with that though? Of course I want the REPL features of Bash, its terseness, its builtin commands for all sorts of OS and filesystem operations. But is it wrong to
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by martopix 4y ago
Periodically someone comes up with this kind of comment. If it's on the front page, it's because the community finds it interesting. And these kind of unusual but stimulating posts really are what makes HN interesting. I wouldn&#x
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by martopix 4y ago
It's quite likely that moving may not be necessary, in fact. For what I understand, burnout happens a lot to people who are/were really passionate about their job or at least some part of it. Their passion became their job, and at
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by martopix 4y ago
Presumably they are not yet public?

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