selimthegrim

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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Would have been nice to do that in Lebanon so that woman could still be alive.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I still get emails from NZ begging for people to come fill IT jobs
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
All of the lectures? I did SICP as a freshman in 2005 but not all of it and have never watched these lectures save for the one where Abelson wears a fez and jokes about Kabbalah at the beginning.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Yugo wasn't doing so bad in 1990 before it imploded for other reasons (read: was "suicided")
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Beirut would like a word about "any old warehouse"
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
Pity that they couldn't get him to read the latest audiobook release in the US.
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750405 (Meta's Un-Stable Signature)
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
I taught out of this book at Tulane and while it is a good problem book, some of the concept transitions don't flow well and you need another book or to write some supplementary notes. Also the section on Jacobians is pretty clearly li
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by selimthegrim 3mo ago
It's more like 4%
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
This is of course exemplified by the joke - what's the famous Soviet machine that cuts wood into two pieces? One that cuts wood into three pieces.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
Hi Adam, sorry we missed you at the AI meetup at the Shop at the CAC yesterday, we had a bunch of demos and would have loved to see what you were working on too.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
I was in France for a wedding recently and I saw traiteur on the side of one of the vans pulled up. I remarked to the staff that in Louisiana French, traiteur/traiteuse means folk healer, and they told me it was just the caterers.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
s/SMS/SIM
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
And own nothing?
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
Don’t forget to top it off with a visit to the Hermann Oberth Museum near Nuremberg.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
html5 version still has the original
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
Isn't this already the case in a lot of the Continent? I was just in CH and it seemed impossible to have anonymous Wi-Fi without a Swiss SMS or a airline boarding pass.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
So, Battle Chess 2026?
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
Except keep Flash alive apparently.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
>They won’t die of starvation, obviously. Narrator: This was not, in fact, obvious.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
You mean the one Croatia was supposed to be on the hook for half of?
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
Maybe Tim Curry should move there.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
Here is a recent interview/podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AKGrXQAkKM You might enjoy Fatima Shaik's books as well (although her forebears were from what is now W. Bengal - which serves to draw out my p
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
This is about the 1983409258094th time I have to remind you about Vivek Bald's book about Bengali Harlem. There were more than 10k but they would be counting themselves as Black or Latin by that point.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
She's from Slovenia.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
This really has become the new physics now, right where they think they can invade any given field in six months because that’s how long it’s supposed to take physicists to learn AI
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
whoa, my university!
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
The problems I was interested in led me to the techniques in the field. I guess the idea was data science, but might need to pivot into LLM or AI engineer.
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
You might want to read about before WWII
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by selimthegrim 4mo ago
Indira Gandhi tried religious divide and rule way too many times - in Kashmir and West Bengal/Assam she got away with it while she was alive and it blew up later but Punjab was her Antietam.

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