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by mci 6y ago
Everyone and their dog have a pet theory on the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Let me copy a previous comment of mine.[0] My dream is a book/blog explaining historic processes with Ishikawa cause-and-effect fishbone diagrams.[1] For
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The article you linked to is incomplete. There are five such ramps in operation on the Elbląg Canal in Northern Poland [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbl%C4%85g_Canal#The_inclined...
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by mci 6y ago
> the book again disappeared until nearly a decade ago, when it was auctioned off at Christie’s. "Disappeared" is a Newspeak euphemism for "was stolen"[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archim
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Here is a polished version of my argument: https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/bad-medicine-th...
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> My question is, does their methodology tell apart the following effects: [...] First and foremost, their curve fitting, disguised as race-agnostic methodology, ignores the number of studies of the median artery in Africa 100 years ago
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by mci 6y ago
I once tried to write an algorithm cookbook where the network flow problem would be illustrated by a simplified human circulatory system, and its edge capacities — by the diameters of the major blood vessels (this is how I knew to look for
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by mci 6y ago
I have procured a PDF of the paper. Ctrl+F race finds nothing in it. The authors treat e.g. these results equivalently: * Adachi, B. (1928) Das Arteriensystem der Japaner. Kyoto, Japan (8.00%) * Kodama, K. (2000) Arteries of the upper limb.
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> what kind of distilled beverage do grandma and grandpa drink when they tango? A little glass of home-made berry tincture ("good for your heart"). They got the berries from a neighbour who grows them on her allotment ("no
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by mci 6y ago
While this is an interesting book in its genre, I prefer to read actual MMIX code in The MMIX Supplement by Martin Ruckert[0]. The relation between the two books resembles that between, say, Manual of Surgery and Frankenstein , or Tea
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In 2000, Claude Monet's Beach in Pourville was stolen from the National Museum in Poznań, Poland. The police suspected a steal-to-order gang. Six years later, an unemployed bricklayer was fingerprinted for not paying alimony to his e
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by mci 6y ago
Yeah, I got to know Benedyktowicz at the end of a long and winding experience that led me to read on the beginnings of the Krakow Chess Club (he was a founder). Depending on your outlook, it happened either by chance or by destiny.
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He also coded quite a few interactive Google doodles[0]. [0] https://medium.com/@mwichary/stanislaw-lem-on-google-s-homep...
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Ludomir Benedyktowicz (1844–1926) got his both hands chopped off at the age of 18 while fighting in a Polish uprising against Russia. This did not deter him from becoming a painter. You can see his low-tech prosthesis and a few of his paint
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by mci 6y ago
The space of [A-Z]Ed names for editors is pretty crowded. LEd is also an old but good LaTeX editor for Windows[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEd
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by mci 6y ago
Fun fact: The US declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, for a change, was justified by the sinking of the US ship Marguerite by a submarine whose officer "spoke Austrian"[0]. As the saying goes in my part of Europe, "win
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Saint Paul: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat" (2 Thess 3:10). Note the subtle difference in Lenin's version: "He who does not work shall not eat" [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by mci 6y ago
1. Needs (2016) in the title. 2. Even by 2016, pdfTeX had been largely superseded by LuaTeX. 3. The author bizzarely links to "the mess" of the literate source of TeX the program as a WEB file rather than as a typeset document. 4.
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by mci 6y ago
I was thinking about it (my guess was Norbert) but why would you abbreviate your first name and merge it with the surname? Another option is a corruption of "netichým" (by the unquiet one; there is no surname Netichý), "nad t
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by mci 6y ago
My IOCCC entry [0] detects English passive constructions. Do not feel discouraged by its looks; it is a solid tool. Since both ioccc.org and its official mirrors (in the same domain) are down now, you can look at its Wayback Machine cache [
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by mci 6y ago
If you look closer at "michiton oladabas"[0], you will notice a smudge above the first "i" and a spot above the middle "a". So let us read it as "míchiton oladábas". Now reverse it, treating "ch&
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by mci 6y ago
While I have only skimmed the article, I have not noticed: * an explanation how to test the multiple heterogenous out-transitions of a state efficiently, * the reason for the silent assumption that at most one out-transition of a state is f
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by mci 6y ago
Well, I suppose Napier presaged the concept of a single source of truth. Aren't other log-trig tables a waste of paper if you can look up log(cos x) under log(sin(90°−x)) and quickly calculate log(tan x) as log(sin x)−log(cos x)?
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> In 1614, John Napier introduced logarithms. > Napier’s main motivation was to find an easier way to do multiplication and division. > Next, mathematicians decided to combine these tables. If you wanted to multiply trigonometric f
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While I upvoted your native insight regarding present-day language and I agree that the name is stupid, I can nitpickingly Ctrl+F "дроворуб", explained already in the 19th century as an obsolete or Siberian word, in the "ДРОВ
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There is also the Bonerowski Palace hotel in Krakow, formerly known as the Boner Palace.
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The Cauchy–Schwarz Master Class: An Introduction to the Art of Mathematical Inequalities is a graded problem book that will teach them the principles and practice of mathematical proofs like no other book. Here is its MAA review: [0]. A p
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by mci 6y ago
> Now I do believe that purely statistical methods will hit a wall - the same way you could never teach a baby to communicate by throwing it a copy of Wikipedia and nothing else. Nick Chater and Paul Vitányi wrote papers[0] demonstrating
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by mci 6y ago
If movies were software, The Saragossa Manuscript would be a Go application and The Pharaoh — a Java application. I would add to them a JavaScript move: Innocent Sorcerers (1960; https://easterneuropeanmovies.com/melod
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I am afraid that the author has disqualified himself by publishing the source code before the judging of IOCCC 2020 is over. See catch 22 in the rules: "The judges STRONGLY prefer to not know who is submitting entries to the IOCCC.&qu
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In 1995, Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, a long-time publisher of dictionaries, sued Kurpisz, a new publishing house, for plagiarizing their large dictionary of Polish. The case was closed in favor of PWN in 2005, hitting the Supreme Cour

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