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by pncnmnp 3y ago
I am facing a similar dilemma. Lately, I have been writing about data structures and the "original" aspect has really taken over my writing. Breaking down the content into a readable format and complementing it with intuitive figu
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by pncnmnp 3y ago
As a recent college grad, I was struggling to find job interviews this year and decided to be a bit creative. I scoured Google for humans.txt files containing job openings, and discovered a couple of relevant ones, such as Expensify's
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Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist(atlasobscura.com)
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Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)(pncnmnp.github.io)
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
There is also a deepfake from MIT ( https://moondisaster.org/ ) featuring Nixon seemingly delivering this speech. Past HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33491421 .
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
Awesome! I can see myself using this everyday. Are you using LangChain? I'm curious, and if you are, which agents are you experimenting with (such as SERP API)? Additionally, have you tried playing around with "Question Answering
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Grain Weevil Robot(grainweevil.com)
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So cool! I had never heard of the 'finger' cmd or .plan files. It led me to discover John Carmack's .plan file ( https://fabiensanglard.net/fd_proxy/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_19... ). Does anyone kno
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Ruff: One Python linter to rule them all(blog.jerrycodes.com)
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Mutmut (2019)(nedbatchelder.com)
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A World Chess Championship Without the World’s Best Player(nytimes.com)
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
Hey! I did some digging and found out some details about the "servant problem" that you mentioned earlier. It's chapter three from his book "The View from Serendip" and named "The Servant Problem - Orient Style
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Generating random images in Python with randimage(renatobudinich.com)
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In 2020, the estimated number was around 50 petabytes. I came across an interesting discussion on r/datahoarder regarding this: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa...
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
This is awesome! A few years ago, I used to be a frequent reader of Knappily, a free news application that divided each article using the 5W1H method. They used to write an "On This Day" article every day. Although their publishin
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
Yup! Not sure why I put it there.
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Back in 2016, when I was exploring Linux for the first time, one of my favorite commands was "apt-cache search <keywords>." It performs a grep on package descriptions, and I discovered many fascinating things this way.
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
Wow! This is fascinating. Thanks!
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
I'm not sure about filtering comments, but you can filter posts by creating a blacklist on top of something like Hacker News RSS ( https://hnrss.github.io/ ). I did something similar a while back ( https://hnbe
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
For a long time, I have been curious why overfitting their recommendation model generates more revenue. My guess is that this is stark for kid-friendly content. If parents have noticed that a certain set of videos is safe for their children
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
I recently discovered something interesting about this film! There's a scene where Hal 9000 sings a song called "Daisy Bell" which he was taught by his first instructor. Interestingly, in 1961, the IBM 704 computer performed
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
Same for me, I am using a VPN provider. Even after installing Privacy Badger, my fingerprint remained unique and unchanged, with 17.65 bits of identifying information. For comparison, after I disabled JavaScript, blocked remote fonts, disab
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Remarks on the ancient Chess-men discovered in the Isle of Lewis p. 203 (1832)(archive.org)
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I'd like to shift the tone of this discussion from vitriolic to something more captivating. Why Explore Space? - https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/ Here is an interesting letter
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
Hey Lily, I really enjoyed reading Rime's blogs on Substack. For everyone, here's the link: https://substack.com/profile/131433903-rime-labs . In fact, I had no clue about Cylinder Phonographs. Your discussion
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
I'm not completely sure, but they may have been working on Disney Movies VR - https://www.disneymoviesvr.com/
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
Here's a previous HN discussion from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033741
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Pirahã Language(en.wikipedia.org)
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Looks like FIDE is conducting an investigation. Their Fair Play Commission has recently submitted a report that has now been forwarded to the Ethics and Disciplinary Commission. https://www.chessdom.com/fide-fair-play-commis
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by pncnmnp 4y ago
I've been following chess tournaments for around two years now. Usually, they aren't this dramatic. In fact, more often than not, you have no clue what tournament is coming up next as there's little to no promotion happening

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