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by sn41 3y ago
I am not sure that this will work unless the company is considered a highly desirable place to work for. A prospective CEO might simply walk over to another company which has a more lucrative deal. So you might end up with people who are ei
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by sn41 3y ago
I think you are talking of situations of maintaining a low pulse rate in normal situations. However, there are also situations where it is urgent to lower heart rates. A pulmonary specialist advised me to either do pursed lip breathing (or
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by sn41 3y ago
I wouldn't - 100 dollars is not worth a death on my conscience. (I do not live in a rich country and 100 dollars is not a trivial amount for me.) Perhaps if the choice were more drastic: you can get a life saving treatment for free, bu
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by sn41 3y ago
I agree, but I guess it goes against things like the Work Ethic [1], the Prosperity Theology [2] and the funding sources of megachurches, all which take material prosperity as a sign of divine grace. It is strange that some megachurches who
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by sn41 3y ago
Well... here's my predicament: I resided in the US for a while, and then moved back to my home country where pay is significantly lower. Youtube still asks me to pay 22$ per month, based on the US fee structure. Google clearly knows my
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by sn41 3y ago
Where X is not necessarily distinct from Y, just for added emphasis :)
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by sn41 3y ago
What a bizarre classification: unusually specific in some instances, and enormously vague in others - Mughlai vs. South Indian. South Indian food contains a lot of variety - from coastal Andhra, to Chettinad style, to Kerala food, Mysore, U
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by sn41 3y ago
Hi, just to sate my own curiosity: can you please provide me a link to this presentation, if it's available online? Thanks...
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by sn41 3y ago
> If you, as a reviewer, think that your review has really encapsulated everything anyone would get out of the book you're reviewing, you're either the greatest reviewer ever or an arrogant delusional dork. To be fair, many rec
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by sn41 3y ago
Great game! I am a fan of text-based adventures. This is a nice mix of text-based commands, and a GUI. Wondering out loud: is it possible to generate an atmospheric horror tale like "Anchorhead" via prompts? Perhaps it's alre
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by sn41 3y ago
Proofs are of course the gold standard. But even if others discovered the rule, their contribution should not be held to be trivial. A modern analogy: today, people are very happy to use LLMs and Transformers without anyone "proving&qu
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by sn41 3y ago
The earlier drafts of the proof were rejected by editors. He had to fight.
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by sn41 3y ago
Very interesting :) In legal settings, I would rather trust your approach than an LLM. Your approach has "backtraceability" - you can build a log of how each transform worked, from the original, to the final : it's a series o
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by sn41 3y ago
Thank you for a thoughtful post. I always wondered: how did the late middle-aged coachmen of England make a living when the railroad boom arrived in the mid 1800s? Even Charles Dickens did not seem to care about them. I can hardly believe t
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by sn41 3y ago
By the way, a simple solution I have come across to make the experience slightly less painful: use an OTG adapter, and plug in a USB keyboard. Most offices/hotels etc have USB keyboards lying around, and the OTG adapter is a tiny devic
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by sn41 3y ago
Just a side thought related to this: can there be a community supported initiative to parse what TOS documents of different companies mean, and specifically, what to watch out for in each company's TOS vis-a-vis what is the norm in a
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by sn41 3y ago
Probably you are still right. Seeing a photograph is different from seeing a person in real animated life. I guess there are micro expressions, the way people laugh, and the exact point at which people laugh and such that some people are r
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by sn41 3y ago
I think of naming the days after planets (in more or less the same order) this system is due to a common source : Sumeria, and made popular by the Babylonians who used it for their astronomy and their astrology. In fact, one could argue tha
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by sn41 3y ago
Both tea and cha come from the same word, but using different pronunciations in Chinese, I think: cha is Mandarin, and tea is Hokkien.
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by sn41 3y ago
Same in Malayalam and Tamil.
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by sn41 3y ago
Even in Eurasia, I think there are languages like Mongolian - "eej" is mother in Mongolian. But the general premise that these are the simplest words for babies is still possible : eej is mother, aav, father.
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by sn41 3y ago
That's mainly Sanskrit. It has various forms in most Indian languages. For example, Malayalam has "mataav^" and "pitav^" But the commoner words for parents in Malayalam is "amma" and "appa/acha&q
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by sn41 3y ago
Absolutely point on. NASA should not leave obvious vulnerabilities to attacks by climate change deniers. People should give more thought to how and what data is presented (with a bow to Edward Tufte and Hans Rosling). https://en.
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by sn41 3y ago
The stadiums in Qatar 2022 were air-conditioned. I guess it should be possible to have outdoor cooling if you throw the heat away from the seating space. In Minneapolis, there used to be outdoor heating for restaurants in the middle of the
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by sn41 3y ago
Nutrition Labels in India are strange. Many drinks (like refrigerated shakes etc.) have nutritional information per 100 millilitres, whereas the actual bottle is say 330 millilitres, and the "serving size" will be defined as 250 m
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by sn41 3y ago
Yup. And in CS papers, we are told to very early on (within the first 2 or 3 paragraphs, never later), to introduce our contribution. It may use some undefined terms and so on, but we should give the reader enough to go on. The "punchl
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by sn41 3y ago
> “Thirty years from now we will laugh at our generation of humans, putting products together by hand,” I never laughed at humans thirty years ago even if they were programming on antiquated machines with only megabytes of RAM over dialu
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by sn41 3y ago
Thanks for that nice anecdote. Moore is also famous for the Boyer-Moore string matching algorithm. Also, in the memory of Dr. Thomas R. Nicely (1943-2019), who found the bug: https://faculty.lynchburg.edu/~nicely/
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by sn41 3y ago
The French aviator, Roland Garros (the stadium for the French open tennis is named after him) also made contributions to this problem, but not via a sync mechanism, but rather a deflector: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by sn41 3y ago
Academic here. In my experience, many experts in any given area have massive amounts of intuition about their own area. But keep in mind that we do have to end up teaching outside the area. So it's safer to teach technicalities rather

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