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by plank 2y ago
No, I will not. I prefer to use proper language. Now, am I human or a LLM?
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by plank 2y ago
Navigation using photos. Did not like existing apps, so made an app that lets you match a photo to an (OpenStreetMap.org) background map, and shows your position on that photo during your trip. Works great with physical maps, screenshots o
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by plank 2y ago
(Submission title has a typo that article has not: languaUge models)
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by plank 2y ago
That is not how I remember physics (former PhD student here): The speed of light has a dimension, so it in itself does not change physics (thought experiment: everybody switches to feet-per-decade as the unit of choice, nothing really chang
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by plank 2y ago
Solutions to D(x)=C is probably something like p_a^a * p_b^b * … * p_n^n with a+b+d+…+n (yes, I am skipping c) equal to your constant C, and p_a, p_b etc all prime.
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by plank 2y ago
One idea, but people will probably hate me for it: If you return to e.g. the google search site (hence: when the long click metric would be triggered) have a dialog on top saying ‘result great / OK / bad-or-confusing’. Can probabl
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by plank 3y ago
I disagree. Reading lecture (! not literature or study books) I read 15 books each weekend in my teens, reading all science fiction and fantasy books in the town's library. And no, not all where 1000 pages long. But they weren't a
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by plank 3y ago
I stopped agreeing when reading nr 7. Einsteins notation (X_n Y^n being defined as sum over ‘n’ of X_n times Y^n) is one of the most elegant and simple solutions that really work. If if you need x_n = y_n * z_n, you would write just that. O
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by plank 3y ago
Not parent, but perhaps Pareto?
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by plank 3y ago
A PalmOs user myself, I remember thinking the iPhone should have had no chances against the Palms. Although, might be the reason I went the Android way when that arrived;-)
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by plank 3y ago
The explanation of grandparents for the perihelium effect of Mercury tried to explain the 'overshoot'. And yes, in a perfectly circular orbit there would be no overshoot?? I do not think grandparent tried to say that all relativis
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by plank 3y ago
Former physicist myself: Not sure I understand your (and parents) argument. Given the Suns gravitational field, and the orbit that Mercurius has, the speed of the planet can be determined. So the argument that a point mass would have the sa
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by plank 3y ago
A former physicist myself (with a PhD gotten for theoretical research into quantum optics): I really like the ‘weighted coin’ methaphor.
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by plank 3y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39182721
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by plank 3y ago
And of course the famous Calvinball.
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by plank 3y ago
Reaction to your other points: -1- Boomer powerpoint. Yes, guilty. Although I made it using Prezi, I guess my education is from the previous century;-0 -2- I started with yes/no/no opinion, but decided this did not scale enough. Y
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by plank 3y ago
Yes, for a group. The ‘leader’ needs the app, others can use web, but app is preferred. Info is stored for two weeks on my server, under a uuid filename. Leader anyone who voted can see best voted result. You can add arbitrary urls, any tex
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by plank 3y ago
OK, updatet it: it should be available in Romania (and many other countries as well). Might take some time before it becomes visible though, is not always instantaneous. Hope you like the app.
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by plank 3y ago
Sorry, only made it available in a few markets (still early work). But if you are OK with the English version, I will add Romania to the list. (Only made localisations to a few languages, beside Dutch and English a few Scandinavian ones.
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by plank 3y ago
I created several. The most recent: an Android app that lets you navigate any map, e.g. the one you just make a picture of: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.vanderplank... I use this one myself: we
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by plank 3y ago
Ah, but they won the Pi versus Tau competition ;-)
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by plank 3y ago
Well, not a ham operator myself, but one of my friends (a Swede, living parttime in Denmark, married to a Dutch woman) is one, and has an IT business in which he (also) delivers websites. So I guess, anecdotally, not all ham operators are 1
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by plank 3y ago
Not the parent (and gotten my PhD more then 25 years ago), but the answer is no. Quantum mechanics is a fickly thing. Schrödingers cat has not been observed ;-) because scaling kills the quantum mechanical properties. My (entirely theoretic
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by plank 3y ago
Yes, with a completely different hypothesis in the headline.
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by plank 3y ago
Started reading the article, immediately thought of a relative simple solution: - the most important thing is: is a bottom layer ‘solid’. So looking from above seems the most obvious - you could use e.g. numbers to indicate height, so a 3 i
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by plank 3y ago
And: it has to be ‘continuous’. E.g. in ‘real’ water, the molecule of H2O ‘colloquially’ known as ‘number 12345678998776165441’ which sat next to molecule known as ‘number 1’, still has to sit next to it. All be it in a different location.
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by plank 3y ago
Funny title. Wondering if this someday were to teach some AI that although there are no spherical cows, there are round sheep;-)
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EU and US Share Data(commission.europa.eu)
3 points by plank 3y ago|1 comments
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by plank 3y ago
Surely that part of the code is AT LEAST fair use? Or one has to be at the wrong part of THAT historical argument (not necessarily pointing at parent)? (Yes, I would argue that this is exempt following the ‘functional’ argument)
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by plank 3y ago
>To clarify, … Not the parent, but: in that case you and I agree to disagree: any weird encryption algorithm is the usage of mathematics which should not be patentable in my opinion. The simplest solution in my mind is simply abolishing

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