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by mci 8y ago
> He has fashioned a sort of industrial-strength Fabergé egg—intricate, wonderfully worked, refined beyond all ordinary desires, a museum piece from the start. Curiously, I independently came up with this metaphor in my review of The MM
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by mci 8y ago
Give Bóg się rodzi a try. It is a Polish Christmas song whose lyrics come from ~1792. The melody is much older. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyKE7XbEVpQ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Is
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by mci 8y ago
For out of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from ȝer to ȝere, And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parlement of Foules (c. 1380)
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by mci 8y ago
Before WW2, German authorities considered moving the town of Beuthen in Upper Silesia (now Bytom in Poland), having then 100,000 citizens, that sits atop rich coal deposits. See the end of this article: https://www.nytimes.com&#x
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4.1 BSD Style and Diction (1981)(virtuallyfun.com)
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Oliver Byrne's Colored “Elements of Euclid” Re-Created in TeX [pdf](github.com)
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by mci 8y ago
Compared to Donald Knuth's font [1], Sans Forgetica is for wussies. [1] Donald E. Knuth, N-Ciphered Texts: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
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by mci 8y ago
A curated collection of isochrone maps can be found here: https://alternativetransport.wordpress.com/category/isochron...
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Omega Point(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mci 8y ago
Use APSW instead of sqlite3: https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/
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Oliver Byrne's coloured “Elements of Euclid” in TeX(github.com)
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by mci 8y ago
Yup, apparently we agree about his Latin and math. Both the TODO list and I talk about squaring a triangle, not a circle.
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by mci 8y ago
The list shows both Leonardo's dilettantism in Latin and mathematics, and how printing changed the way we learn. Even in 1490, to learn "how to square a triangle", you did not have to get the master of arithmetic to show you.
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by mci 8y ago
> x = y = z = 0 # Equivalent: (x := (y := (z := 0))) This comment is false. It should say x = y = z = 0 # Equivalent: (z := (y := (x := 0))) "...assigns the single resulting object to each of the target lists, from left to
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by mci 9y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuri_puppet
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by mci 9y ago
Vadim Tropashko wrote a book "SQL Design Patterns" that, among others, presents non-trivial approaches to storing trees and graphs in SQL databases. I highly recommend it. The PDF version is free here: https://vadimtr
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by mci 9y ago
The chief culprit was permitting tens of thousands of barbarians to enter the empire. They never integrated or left. Within a hundred years, the western part of the empire collapsed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got
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by mci 9y ago
cmtt aka Computer Modern Typewriter, the same font as in the diagram from TAOCP.
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How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Computer Programming”(sinterit.com)
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Donald Knuth at Luleå University of Technology(youtube.com)
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The 25th IOCCC is open(ioccc.org)
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by mci 9y ago
1. Pedantically: it's GloVe, not word2vec. 2. Nilsimsa or any locality-sensitive hash detect changed messages, too, be the changes synonyms or not. 3. I don't think OP's GloVe contains words like v1agra.
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by mci 9y ago
Doesn't work for island countries. Think Japan, Philippines, or Indonesia.
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by mci 9y ago
Sounds like a fun project. However, I doubt if word vectors buy you anything more than, say, old good Nilsimsa from 2001 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilsimsa_Hash ). Side note: py-nilsimsa should iterate over Unicode
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by mci 9y ago
I'm not sure if you have seen this: https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/slicing-earth-c... — loading country polygons instead of land polygons and changing the LengthOfIntersectionInKm() functio
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by mci 9y ago
Yes. The key to that is approximating reals by the second Ostrogradsky series (or, more properly, Ostrogradsky-Sierpiński series): x = ⎣x⎦ + 1/q₁ − 1/q₂ + 1/q₃ - 1/q₄ + ⋯, where the denominators qₖ are greedily chosen a
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by mci 9y ago
Ten years ago, I implemented Gosper's continued fraction arithmetics in Python: http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~mciura/software/cf.py My module can also compute exp() and log() as well as trigonometric and inverse
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by mci 9y ago
Vol 4A was published in 2011: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Programming-Combinatoria... Vol 4B was partially published in fascicles: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Programming-Fascicle-Pre... and
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by mci 9y ago
Check out https://vivariumnovum.it/risorse-didattiche/propria-formazio... :)
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by mci 9y ago
Using fat pointers and indirect addressing, the authors make free(p) set to null not only p but also all the copies of p.

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