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by mkl 1y ago
Reasons are given near the end: > Here’s where this gets bigger than framework choice. When you ship a native app to the App Store or Google Play instead of building a web app, you’re not just making a technical decision. You’re acceptin
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by mkl 1y ago
They'd comfortably pay for 10 AI-assisted versions. It's a trivial demo app so that implementing it 10 times is feasible - it's just to learn what to build their main app in.
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by mkl 1y ago
But productive with it in a different field from the person it's named after? That's weird. It seems disrespectful to him to name a product after him when its purpose is pretty much unrelated to his work.
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by mkl 1y ago
The choice of name seems pretty bizarre. The famous Erdos [1] was a mathematician, not data scientist, computer scientist, or statistician. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
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by mkl 1y ago
4 comments a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45678156
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by mkl 1y ago
I'm a mathematician, so I can think about the maths well, and I figured out that particular maths by visualising the shapes and seeing the dimensions and the way the shadows fit together.
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by mkl 1y ago
> France was basically the China of Europe at that point: it was almost as populated as the rest of Europe combined. That doesn't seem to be correct. From Wikipedia: "During the Middle Ages, more than one-quarter of Europe&#x2
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by mkl 1y ago
Yes. It became capital again in 1918 (Saint Petersburg had become capital in 1712).
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by mkl 1y ago
It fits if it is tilted. If the 3-cube bar of the T is tilted 45° there will be a 3×√2 rectangle part of the shadow, which the 1×2 shadow fits through.
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by mkl 1y ago
The T-shaped tetromino is not convex, so not part of the conjecture. There are many nonconvex shapes that don't have the Rupert property.
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by mkl 1y ago
I think this was extrasolar, not interstellar.
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by mkl 1y ago
Not quite. Presumably the recipient clicked the link, at which point their browser knows it and, depending on browser and settings, may submit it to Google to check if it's "safe": https://support.google.com/
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by mkl 1y ago
Despite many hours playing Lemmings as a kid, I never managed to finish it. I did figure out the levels must have been made in something resembling Deluxe Paint though; glad to see that confirmed.
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by mkl 1y ago
From the domain, I was hoping for Lemmings info. They have it! It is here: https://lemmings.info/lemmings-gamehistory/ . In its own submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679873
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The Complete History of Lemmings(lemmings.info)
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by mkl 1y ago
Only if it's brand new. Otherwise some people on HN are probably already familiar with it.
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by mkl 1y ago
What's wrong with their NVRs? I have one connected to some Reolink cameras (though not yet the full house-surrounding setup I have planned) and it seems fine so far.
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by mkl 1y ago
Unfortunately that doesn't change the "mph" in the info boxes.
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by mkl 1y ago
The following two sentences: "It’s a great story. But, like a lot of great stories, it couldn’t be more wrong."
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by mkl 1y ago
First impression: this is strictly worse. Way too much space between everything (even between lines in paragraphs!) means fewer stories visible on screen, and fewer comments visible. Enormous pointless spaces between comments, grey commen
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by mkl 1y ago
The question is whether syphilis came from the Americas to Europe at all, or whether it was in both places already.
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by mkl 1y ago
It was a lot more in 2014. Presumably they have upgraded it significantly since.
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by mkl 1y ago
It's not nearly as clear-cut as that, as there is evidence of its presence in Europe earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#History
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by mkl 1y ago
> I think such a IDE for Python would really be helpful for beginners. Not text-based, but more like Visual Basic. But everything integrated, everything easily discoverable (that's very important!). Maybe also with such a GUI builde
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by mkl 1y ago
That's the very first LACE video on the page (was it updated?). It does come after a bunch of traditional cellular automata videos though.
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by mkl 1y ago
43 comments 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45527758
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by mkl 1y ago
All of that stuff takes time and resources. Self-improvement may not be easy, e.g. if they end up in a local maximum that doesn't extend, and it probably won't be cheap or fast (if it's anything like frontier LLMs it could b
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by mkl 1y ago
> All progress starts out as a fringe belief. That is not true at all. The usefulness and value of many new things and discoveries is often immediately obvious. Even when the value is not immediately obvious, being a curiosity is more
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by mkl 1y ago
The results are incredibly clean! Feathers and flowers could be interesting. Black text on a dark grey background is nearly unreadable - I used Reader Mode.
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by mkl 1y ago
> But why is it difficult to impossible for LLMs to intuit and deeply comprehend what it is we are trying to coax from them? It's right there in the name. Large language models model language and predict tokens. They are not train

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