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by mci 6y ago
My dream is a book/blog explaining historic processes with Ishikawa cause-and-effect fishbone diagrams[0]. For history, the main branches of the fishbone could be: Military, Economy, Society, Politics, and Nature. So a tentative diagra
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by mci 6y ago
One of most peculiar tourist attractions in the Wieliczka salt mine near Krakow are signs with a shaft symbol that is not in Unicode. It looks like a # with a · in the middle and appears in texts instead of the word "shaft".
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Infected ticks are attracted by electromagnetic radiation of 900 MHz(sciencedirect.com)
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by mci 7y ago
A Polish numismatist, Zbigniew Żabiński, came up with trofa (from Greek trophe 'alimentation'), a universal measure of the value of money. One trofa is defined as an average person's daily ration of food typical for the g
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Embeddings in Natural Language Processing [pdf](josecamachocollados.com)
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by mci 7y ago
See also Google's 2011 interactive doodle inspired by The Cyberiad ,[1] in particular by the machine that could create anything starting with n .[2] [1] https://www.google.com/doodles/60th-anniversary-of-stanisla
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by mci 7y ago
You are confusing the approximate counting of distinct elements (done by ingenious algorithms like hyperloglog or Flajolet–Martin) with the approximate counting of each element from a manageable set (done by incrementing the counters less a
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by mci 7y ago
> Hidden inside WWB (writer's workbench), Lorinda Cherry's Parts annotated English text with parts of speech, based on only a smidgen of English vocabulary, orthography, and grammar. Writer's Workbench was indeed a marvel
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by mci 7y ago
Let me rephrase: assigning any military importance to the de jure status of a land is pretty weird.
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> The country was ultimately liberated by the Americans in Greenland [...] Hmm. "On 8 April 1941, the United States occupied Greenland to defend it against a possible invasion by Germany."[1] So, first, there never were any Ger
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by mci 7y ago
I agree with what you wrote. I did not object to subword tokenization that let you(?) win the competition. I objected to GP's assertion that one can add many morphemes together to create very long "words" in Polish, which m
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by mci 7y ago
The term you are looking for may be "highly inflected". Side note: IMHO, you are exaggerating the ability of Polish to form long compounds. Dissecting the "Bezbarwne zielone idee wściekle śpią" example from https:/
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by mci 7y ago
> There are also "agglutinative languages", like Polish, which can add many morphemes together to create very long "words" which include a lot of separate pieces of information. [1] Polish does not work this way. Sour
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by mci 7y ago
36. Documentation Linked Code sounds like literate programming [1], which interleaves the source code with prose explanations. This idealized description is due to Peter J. Denning [2]: > A literate program contains not only the nee
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by mci 7y ago
A while ago, I did a piece of armchair research on Spanish flu in Austria-Hungary [1]. TL;DR: the dates it occurred throughout the empire differ insignificantly. The linked blog post shows also a table with the week of highest mortality in
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by mci 7y ago
Here are the programs that took part in a 2011 Polish contest of automatic poetry: http://turniej.wolnelektury.pl/poezja/ Centonista won the contest; Triphthong has been broken since the upgrade of Ruby to 2.0.
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by mci 7y ago
It is important to distinguish two use cases of phonetic algorithms: - Recovering English spelling from English pronunciation. Soundex and Metaphone are good at this. - Undoing the torments of Eastern-European sibilants in various translite
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Who Won the 26th International Obfuscated C Code Contest(ioccc.org)
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SNOBOL4 pattern matching may fit your bill, although it is more powerful than regexps [1]. You can play with SNOBOL4 on x86 [2]. [1] http://www.snobol4.org/docs/burks/tutorial/ch4.htm [2] https://g
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Who Won the 26th International Obfuscated C Code Contest(ioccc.org)
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Who Won the 26th International Obfuscated C Code Contest(ioccc.org)
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by mci 7y ago
The Gates of Paradise by Jerzy Andrzejewski was published in 1960. It consists of 40,000 words in two sentences. The second sentence is "And they marched all night" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The
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Who Won the 26th International Obfuscated C Code Contest(ioccc.org)
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Winning Entries of the 26th International Obfuscated C Code Contest(ioccc.org)
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On January 24, 1943, the newspaper Ilustrowany Kurjer Polski issued in Polish by the German occupiers published an innocuous poem "A satire against easy rhymes". The German censors failed to notice the acrostic "Polacy, Sik
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by mci 7y ago
Back when I worked at Google, a friend of mine got an unpleasant email from r@ because his Python script had a bug: it sent alerts to the individual characters of my-friend@google.com
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I wonder if IR imaging can be used to read the books burned in 1944 by the German army at the Krasiński Library in Warsaw [1]. Many manuscripts among them were never reproduced. A random example: Jan Ostroróg's chess primer written bet
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by mci 7y ago
More importantly, she came up with a land reform that quadrupled the annual state revenue [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volok_Reform
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Fun fact: the city of Krakow banned any signboards protruding perpendicular to the walls back in 1892 [1]. Although the ban has never been formally lifted, it got forgotten after 1918. Now the entire city including the old town is cluttered
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by mci 7y ago
A Programming and Problem-Solving Seminar led by Chris Van Wyk and Donald Knuth in 1979 was, among others, dedicated to programs playing the KRK endgame in Kriegspiel [1]. In my previous life as a teaching assistant, I co-led a seminar th

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