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A quote by the founding father of modern electrical engineering, and the formulator of the current version of Maxwell's equations, Oliver Heaviside: (Read the entire article. It's hilarious, and surprising that Nature decided to p
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Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon, "Of Studies" [1] [1] http://www.literaturepage.com/read/francis-bacon-essays-102....
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I think you are a bit premature in your assessment. The first month usually works for most people. Later on, you may find that it has no effect, worse, you start developing a dependency. People don't give up medication due to ideals or
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Apache Tomcat, a casual acquaintance of the local tomboy.
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just recently, I was reminiscing with some students that John Donovan's "Systems Programming" was the best and most readable "whole picture" text I have read on computing - and despite being 50 years old, is still i
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by sn41 4y ago
Scrivener is pretty impressive, but its Latex capabilities are not as good as those of other formats. I found indexing and bibliography lookup to be spotty. Another reason I found it lacking was when having labelled equations to be later re
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by sn41 4y ago
There is a simple mode available on melpa, called obsidian. The issue with it which I am facing is that if you link using markdown in actual Obsidian, it is able to find the link in whichever subfolder of the vault the target is in. But thi
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by sn41 4y ago
I'm an ardent Emacs user for the past 20+ years. But I am considering writing a book, and the "throw things in anyhow, get things back" facility of Obsidian is quite useful for catching disparate thoughts to later incorporate
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I felt even better when I quit news media as well. Now I read the print newspapers, just to see whether there is any change in legislation that I need to know about. My blood does boil even there, with the subtle editorializing tell us wha
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> After thinking about energy for so long, I began to wonder—as others have – whether applying physics concepts to social systems could help them run better. This is the point where I say "uh oh".
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too poor to afford editors, I suppose.
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In most European countries, there are notice periods. Germany has pretty stringent laws regarding this.
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Twitter hasn't had real impact? Some would argue that the impact has been negative. I don't even like Twitter. But the impact is one of the greatest of any software platform till date. And I really doubt great engineers are the ki
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by sn41 4y ago
I wish someone would come up with an AI system that would filter out GPT-3 style corporate speak and engagement emails, so that we can get proper content. I have signed up on multiple email lists, and it is tedious how every email is word
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by sn41 4y ago
Please see the article itself. One that really resonates with me now is "putting a child to sleep" - that at often is one of the most trying things I do these days. What often gives a clue that the child has slept is a slight chan
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by sn41 4y ago
On a related note: the same is true for Keyboard Macros in Emacs, Vim etc. I often send a bunch of related, but each slightly different from the others, using Emacs keyboard macros and gnus. Felt great the first time I discovered it, saved
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by sn41 4y ago
From my experience with both countries, surprisingly, Japan is more paperwork oriented than India. For some reason, they really want things in hard-copy, too. The difference, and it's a major one, is that paperwork does not slow the pa
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by sn41 4y ago
Thank you for this information. I did not know this. But my view (I may be wrong), is that AGI is too resource-intensive to be within the reach of normal computing of the ordinary user for at least 2 decades.
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As a theory person who usually explains O notation using concrete numbers, the degree of the neural network in our brain is approx 7000. Taking approx 86 billion ~ 100 billion, this itself is a graph with approx 6x10^(14) edges - does AGI p
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by sn41 4y ago
Not surprising, since health is wealth.
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Hmm. Pleasantly surprised to find Kerala being mentioned in this context - I wasn't aware of this. But on a related note, the south west of India has a rich tradition of "Sarpa Kavus", literally, "Serpent Shrine", b
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The article does mention that correlation is not causation. But the fact that they are correlated is nonetheless encouraging. It certainly makes towns prettier.
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Very nice :) I hope this code is protected by DMCA.
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I first heard of Cormac McCarthy when Harold Bloom raved about his "Blood Meridian". I am sorry to say this, I was not moved by Cormac McCarthy. I read "All the Pale Horses", and "No Country for Old Men". I sta
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by sn41 4y ago
This is a wrong analogy, I feel. A student being a customer is not quite right. I think the analogy of a sports coach and a mentee is more appropriate. The purpose of the coach is to train the youngster to become competitive enough for the
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by sn41 4y ago
Yes to this... There is a chapter called "The Whiteness of the Whale" - this is a very haunting essay on circumstances when the color white produces dread, instead of being a symbol of purity. For example - [1] Just the long list
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I find the examples given in the README to be quite tame for Victorian English. Compare it with the ending lines of A Tale of Two Cities: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest tha
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Hmm... I might have spent 6000 hours on Emacs. It is a slightly illuminating experience, I'll grudgingly admit!
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This makes sense. Cloud computing should be part of the Meteorology department!

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