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by rg111 5y ago
It does add scale to the picture. And yes, it is radically impactful.
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I didn't say that. In fact, no one seems to have, according to Google(twitter.com)
57 points by rg111 5y ago|31 comments
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by rg111 5y ago
I will give it a try. Thanks.
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by rg111 5y ago
Thanks a bunch. I already have read Cryptonomicon, and I have Seveneves and Snow Crash sitting on my shelf. I will give the others a try.
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by rg111 5y ago
Thank you for your suggestions. I have read two of Newport's books- Deep Work, and So Good They Can't Ignore You. In Deep Work, he emphasizes on being comfortable being bored. Actually the thing is, it is so easy when you have to
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by rg111 5y ago
I also started thinking if I had ADHD, but I still have one good habit surviving from single-digit age- reading books. Despite everything, I manage to read 25-30 books each year. And these books are always either very long novels or non-tri
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by rg111 5y ago
Learning. From my childhood, I have always loved to learn new stuff- all kinds of interesting stuff. Before, when I became interested in something, I looked it up on the net, read books, and asked people about resources. But with "feed
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by rg111 5y ago
Looking at the logos and naming of the OS projects by Apple, I must say that it is weird how consumer facing and polished Apple is. Instead of hack-y names, that consists of but not limited to sci-fi reference, generic names etc., they have
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by rg111 5y ago
Our (overqualified) literature teacher in High School taught us this and many other words. On top of my head, I can think of- Bhratara (Sanskrit) <--> Brother (English) <--> Bruder (German) Pitara (S) <--> Father (E) <-
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by rg111 5y ago
Someone in an HN comment already said this and they suggested reading it with a companion book, so I collected one. I haven't started reading it yet.
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by rg111 5y ago
Which ones would make your other spots for top-5 or even top-10?
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> Iliad, Odyssey and first half of the Aeneid. I didn't read the Odyssey, but read both Iliad and Aeneid. I read Iliad first, and then Aeneid. Reading Aeneid right after reading Iliad was a great experience. It felt like I was readi
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by rg111 5y ago
I am looking forward to reading the whole thread, but while people are at it, you can check this out: https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t... You could also find nice websites and collectio
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DNS doesn't “propagate”(jvns.ca)
229 points by rg111 5y ago|151 comments
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> It's also wonderful to see, on this techie platform, people aren't afraid to call themselves a "believing Christian." I am a progressive (not in the current US sense) religionless athiest and I am very glad that p
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by rg111 5y ago
This makes sense. Derivative works, and works done on great people by other great people is always interesting and have a lot to offer. Infallibility of classic authors is something that you can be aware of to a greater degree only if you r
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by rg111 5y ago
There was, and still is, one reason that I had discovered by chance and by observation, that enables me to read original, classical works. That is- "dilution by lesser minds." Once in 10th grade, I read up a poem on my curriculum
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Canadian school cancels ISIS survivor Nadia Murad over Islamophobia fears(nypost.com)
15 points by rg111 5y ago|0 comments
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> And it was impossible to send them a screen shot which showed the problem (they no longer have email). I have used imgur many times for sharing screenshots.
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by rg111 5y ago
Not necessarily only in German. A lot of Indian languages also say number in this way. In Bengali, we don't use full words for the 1's place, but a derivative of the root. 31- ektrish- ek (eka- 1) trish (30) 32- batrish- ba 33- te
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by rg111 5y ago
> if things are correlated, it should at least make a scientist wonder why Not really. See: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by rg111 5y ago
The opposite of Aphantasia is Hyperphantasia [0]. I believe myself to be hyperphantasic. I believe that reading books is much more enjoyable for me. I can quickly visualize stuff that others cannot. I actually see stuff in vivid details o
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by rg111 5y ago
This could be TLDRd as- - Before, there was the command line, where you had to type specific commands to get things done. - That was complicated, and GUI made it simpler. First there was a small number of buttons. - Then, GUIs fell prey to
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by rg111 5y ago
Yes, I am very familiar with the name CCCP because of the space stuff. All their propaganda posters featuring rockets would contain those letters.
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by rg111 5y ago
Exactly this. Just after I read the abstract, it reminded me of reading a long, engrossing novel (like War and Peace, LOTR, etc.), or watching a similar TV/Web series (like The Wire, Breaking Bad, etc.) To a large extent I read long no
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PyTorch vs. TensorFlow(horace.io)
3 points by rg111 5y ago|0 comments
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With the slightest hint arising that Julia would be the future of ML and DL, I learned it. But, then what? I could not use it anywhere I worked. The ecosystem was lacking. Julia is good, but for what exactly? People involved with Julia are
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by rg111 5y ago
Exactly. PyTorch is not only easy, but is a joy to work with. Among researchers, TensorFlow is rapidly losing ground to PyTorch, and, I think, will keep losing ground until it becomes a niche and only used by Googlers and some others. http
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> Then it should not exist. It definitely should. This becomed critical when you are doing batch processing large amount of images in a cloud instance or somewhere else where disk space is a constraint. I have used mogrify and similar cu
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by rg111 5y ago
Neal Stephenson makes an extensive case for Athena in Cryptonomicon towards the end of the book in a conversation between Root and Randy Waterhouse. I highly recommend it. And, yes, I consider Athena.

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