mci

16 ms·

121.
by mci 7y ago
We need someone like https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice , tagging NLP papers with "in English". The DisCoCat examples look like another riff on categorial grammar [1], which is not too adequate for languages with t
122.
by mci 7y ago
FYI чэрвень comes from the Slavic name of Polish cochineal, an insect harvested in June and used to produce red dye until Mexican cochineal pushed it out of the market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cochineal#Lin
123.
by mci 7y ago
Have you noticed the Easter egg? 8-) [I am not the author]
124.
Various Things in MetaPost(habr.com)
80 points by mci 7y ago|11 comments
125.
by mci 7y ago
> the continuous fraction for pi is irregular True, but there are regular generalized continuous fractions for pi [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brouncker,_2nd_Viscoun...
126.
The Ramanujan Machine: Using algorithms to discover new mathematics(ramanujanmachine.com)
158 points by mci 7y ago|28 comments
127.
The Ramanujan Machine – Using algorithms to discover new mathematics(ramanujanmachine.com)
1 points by mci 7y ago|0 comments
128.
by mci 7y ago
Stable orbits are not only about planets and stars. They are about the stability of a universe with any central forces. Take a wrong number of dimensions and your life form will collapse or explode (along with its environment).
129.
by mci 7y ago
Good luck living in a world without stable orbits and without a cross product. Stable orbits only exist in 3 dimensions [1]. Cross product only exists in 3 and 7 dimensions [2] thanks to quaternions and octonions. [1]: https://en
130.
by mci 7y ago
One lesson of history the governments can try to remember is: do not sacrifice your strategic goals for a short-term gain, or "avoid hotfixes in production". Example 1: Septimus Severus raised the legionary's yearly pay from
131.
Various Things in MetaPost(habr.com)
2 points by mci 7y ago|0 comments
132.
Various Things in MetaPost(habr.com)
1 points by mci 7y ago|0 comments
133.
Various Things in MetaPost(habr.com)
1 points by mci 7y ago|0 comments
134.
Various Things in MetaPost(habr.com)
2 points by mci 7y ago|0 comments
135.
Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX(habr.com)
345 points by mci 7y ago|29 comments
136.
Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX(habr.com)
2 points by mci 7y ago|0 comments
137.
Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX(habr.com)
3 points by mci 7y ago|0 comments
138.
by mci 7y ago
Previous discussion under another URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651825
139.
by mci 7y ago
Yup. Both were mocked at the time: "militant Catholics [...] solemnly disavowed modernism, monism, masochism, vegetarianism, and Esperanto" (Rydwan, September 1912)[1] [1] https://docplayer.pl/112655650-Rydwan-mies
140.
by mci 7y ago
Fun fact: the first vegetarian restaurant in Krakow ("Przyroda" at Św. Krzyża St. 7) opened in 1912 due to the 8th World Esperanto Congress. The staff spoke Esperanto.[1] [1] http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer&#x2F
141.
by mci 7y ago
When I was a kid, the Leonardo painting was called "Lady with a Weasel". Now they claim it is "Lady with an Ermine". Most probably, though, it is "Lady with a Polecat-Ferret Hybrid".
142.
by mci 8y ago
Tangent: While I get the gist of Figure 1, expressing historical prices in "daily wages" that disregard the place and the profession strikes me as sloppy [1]. [1] https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2016/01&#x2F
143.
by mci 8y ago
The repository unearthed the long lost source code of the original style and diction tools by Lorinda Cherry: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/BSD-4_1... GNU style and diction are
144.
by mci 8y ago
No. http://gramota.ru/lenta/news/8_784
145.
by mci 8y ago
Fredrik Lundh describes a DIY patch on top of unicodedata here: http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-convert.htm It solves the ä->ae problem and its ilk for Western European languages. Time has devoured my comment on that
146.
by mci 8y ago
Except that the sword has been in Poznań, Poland for over a thousand years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Saint_Peter
147.
by mci 8y ago
Curiously, Gauss's pentagramma is properly a neuter noun while the ferns are feminine, either by mistake or inheriting the gender from filix (fern).
148.
Pentagramma mirificum(en.wikipedia.org)
27 points by mci 8y ago|2 comments
149.
Donald Knuth • All Questions Answered(youtube.com)
2 points by mci 8y ago|0 comments
150.
The Long Lives of Fairy Tales(cell.com)
27 points by mci 8y ago|21 comments

More ›