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The Beatles – Now and Then – The Last Beatles Song (Short Film) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments
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EU-Japan agreement on cross-border data flows(ec.europa.eu)
1 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Related: "Collaborating on The Mysteries - Bill Watterson and John Kascht ", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991049
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Elonka's List of Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers(elonka.com)
2 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments
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The Pirate History Podcast(piratehistorypodcast.com)
2 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Sorry, didn't know! Your source is better.
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The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel (2011)(lithub.com)
95 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|49 comments
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MyNoise: Non-Distracting Noises and Music(mynoise.net)
3 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
/b/ was my gateway into 4chan. It was fun for a while, quickly got boring. /mu/, /lit/ and /fit/ I still visit occasionally. They have good recommendations.
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
When we will be able to grow meat in a lab, indistinguishable from real meat, with the same nutritional values, etc..., I will stop eating real animals. Exactly 0% of my enjoyment of eating meat comes from inflicting pain to animals.
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Mario Zechner: building a food price database(mastodon.gamedev.place)
2 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's wiki left fandom in 2019: https://jojowiki.com/Special:WikiForum/Leaving_Fandom
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Why do programming languages use the asterisk for multiplication?(langdev.stackexchange.com)
2 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|2 comments
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=137fb_IEU6qPR... or https://i.imgur.com/JoTEkrs.jpg
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Making Democracy Legible: A Defiant Typeface (2013)(walkerart.org)
1 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
>if it was better this year, it says a lot about how it was implicitly gamed in the past, and if it was problematic this year, I think it says something about how it was gamed that way. I think you're right. I like the list, but I a
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
I agree, actually. The problem is curation. I don't want to poll just about anyone. I only want to poll a selected list. Selected how? We can go by "seriousness", respect and proven knowledge, like the S&S Poll or the ASC
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Berlin: https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/esri-de-content::baumkataste... https://www.giessdenkiez.de/
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
I don't trust RT scores, I don't trust IMDB scores and I don't trust Metacritic scores. All can be gamed. For non-contemporary movies I trust the Sight&Sound poll [1]. Yes, it's mostly artsy-fartsy movies. I love the
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
A lot of movies rated 0.5 or 5 just to scale the top 250. It recently happened with Across the Spider-verse.
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Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584(tandfonline.com)
45 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|2 comments
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
not BT. I have some bluetooth headphones from AIAIAI. They also made some Wireless+ headphones for which they claim 16 ms latency [1]. [1] https://aiaiai.audio/stories/products/deep-dive-w-link
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
> they had trained an AI in 30 minutes or so that had about 90% accuracy IF we're talking about the same article, the AI was trained from sounds recorded from a single phone, placed always in the same spot near a single computer tha
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
> On the smart card, there is a value in nonvolatile memory that represents the amount of money on the card. When you add money, the VTM increments that value. > Of course you can see the problems with this scheme: couldn't anyon
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Related (as in: investment advice for those who don't want to think too much about it) https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investment_... https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Lazy_port
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
It is not apocryphal: here, top of the last page https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1943-borges-onwilliambeckfordsv... BTW, I don't know why Gwern has so many Borges texts on their website, but for sure I am gratef
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Emily Wilson Scholia(emilyrcwilson.com)
1 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments
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Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper(anyscale.com)
143 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|54 comments
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Borges: The Homeric Versions (pdf) https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1932-borges-thehomericversions....
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
> For DMCA requests click here. > 404 Not Found love it

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