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by siraben 3y ago
Found it. https://learnthesewordsfirst.com/ (via https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-64077-4 )
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Ask HN: Finding an old visual dictionary project with minimal vocab
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Twelve-Angled Stone(en.wikipedia.org)
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Blast Valve(en.wikipedia.org)
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by siraben 3y ago
I thought this was an interesting historical note: > By December, it was again sighted in the constellation Di. The Chinese astrologer Zhou Keming, who was on his return to Kaifeng from his duty in Guangdong, interpreted the star to the
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by siraben 3y ago
I didn’t know that they used to degrade GPS signals in something called Selective Availability.[0] [0] https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/
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by siraben 3y ago
With some clever information hiding, you can sort of mask the brute force: On 2015/7/6 at 00:00, I wrote this message's hash down. It started with 1337. Thought #335552803: I love beef so much I made sure the sha256 of
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by siraben 3y ago
https://archive.ph/20230831061540/https://www.spiegel.de/wir...
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On the Acoustics of Cocktail Parties(brooker.co.za)
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Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber(uber.com)
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by siraben 3y ago
I badly want this but in LaTeX. Minted is alright but it suffers from the same pitfalls as other regex-based syntax highlighters, and while you can extend the Pygments' lexer with more keywords, it's a losing battle. Having good s
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by siraben 3y ago
Prediction markets could help.[0] If you create a financial incentive to evaluate probabilities more accurately (conversely, expensive to manipulate), and force market participants to come to an agreement, then people who are seemingly conf
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by siraben 3y ago
If you set your VPN location to Norway now, is this likely to force your ads to not be based on behavioral advertising?
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Prediction Market FAQ(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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by siraben 3y ago
If the aliens from Arrival landed in 2023, perhaps we would be generating our replies with a finetuned Stable Diffusion model.[0] [0] https://github.com/siraben/heptapod-diffusion
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by siraben 3y ago
Purely functional programming in package management and system configurations is next-level.[0] When your package installation scripts no longer are represented as actions from one state to another but as a state that is either realized com
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by siraben 3y ago
Adding it to Nixpkgs.[0] [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/242662
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by siraben 3y ago
The Midjourney outputs look fantastic! Are those the prompts used in the gallery? Was post-processing involved? Usually there's a very distinctive look to Midjourney images, but these look very believable.
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Northeast Passage (Shipping Route)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by siraben 3y ago
This was fascinating: And what about all the candles used to illuminate the parts? Not a single drop of tallow or candle wax or darkening due to the close proximity of a candle has been detected or reported regarding Bach’s original par
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by siraben 3y ago
The manuscript of Prelude and Fugue 1[0] is still readable almost 300 years later, goes to show how stable Western musical notation has been. Even the crossed out sections still sound fine when sight-read, but he obviously wasn't satis
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by siraben 3y ago
> Is there a particular benefit in writing a VM in AWK Not really. Later on the book just ran out of line-matching examples to go through and started doing regular programming instead :P. When I actually write AWK code I rely on line-mat
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by siraben 3y ago
Awk is awesome! Glad that they are looking to modernize the book. It wasn't really necessary, all the code examples in the original edition of the book still run just fine, although some are somewhat dated, like printing ASCII bar grap
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by siraben 3y ago
Is anyone else using borgbackup on their Mac? It lets me dedupe across OSes and computers, better than Time Machine. I’ve been using it for years and have accumulated some paths to exclude in my home folder, but constantly unsure if I shoul
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Tradle(oec.world)
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Christopher Nolan Comments on AI & Its Uses as a “Powerful Tool”(screenrant.com)
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Alarm Fatigue(en.wikipedia.org)
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Animation of 2015 Explosion at ExxonMobil Refinery in Torrance, CA [video](youtube.com)
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What happens if you pass it through Stable Diffusion using ControlNet? Does it scan? Yes![0] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/co...
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by siraben 3y ago
This is going to be a cliché question but... have you had any issues with battery life? (not counting the first day or so when it's reindexing everything).

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