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by sorokod 2y ago
"Ryazan sugar" is worth a search by itself.
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by sorokod 2y ago
Previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840562
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'A little hyped up': experts downplay claims over Petra archaeological find(theguardian.com)
3 points by sorokod 2y ago|1 comments
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by sorokod 2y ago
Many places we know now as tombs weren't known as such before, that is untill some skeletons were found.
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by sorokod 2y ago
That ground penetrating radar really delivers but what is the stunning part?
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by sorokod 2y ago
"How can anyone end up believing that meteorologists have the power to create and direct hurricanes?" I remember watching an excellent video on the topic of flat earthers (can't find it ATM) and one of the points that were ma
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by sorokod 2y ago
Compare and contrast: Witchcraft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft
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by sorokod 2y ago
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
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by sorokod 2y ago
The LoC count and similar metrics have the advantage of an easy calculation. Ultimately though,they are a proxy to a more relevant but difficult to determine attributes such as Given a reasonably proficient engineer, the amount of time it w
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by sorokod 2y ago
Hash iteration order is a great example of Hyrum’s Law An even better example (requires less words) https://xkcd.com/1172/
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The box problem that baffled the boffins(theguardian.com)
11 points by sorokod 2y ago|12 comments
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by sorokod 2y ago
Looks like some experts in Sweden disagreed, Ruby was denied entry to Gothenburg.
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by sorokod 2y ago
Ah true, not exactly what you are looking for but according to this article [1] : Kandalaksha Tromsø Klaipeda Gothenburg [1] https://theloadstar.com/baltic-ports-bar-damaged-ruby-now-in...
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by sorokod 2y ago
No account required: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9626390
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by sorokod 2y ago
> ... but isn't ammonium nitrate also fertiliser? That too, see the Beirut port explosion incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion Going by the article, the ship carries an order of magnitu
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by sorokod 2y ago
Why would the data being deleted be a precondition to a law suit in this scenario?
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by sorokod 2y ago
The original paper describing the Turing test AKA Imitation game [1] Do chatbots regularly pass the test as described in the paper? [1] https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf
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by sorokod 2y ago
Aumann proved that this is not reasonable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann's_agreement_theorem
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by sorokod 2y ago
Well yes, but people also avoid having children till they are in the late thirties. We don't blindly follow our genetic programming.
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by sorokod 2y ago
Yes, difficult to imagine for any mammal, but humans are not any mammal and can go "against nature". Still difficult to accept.
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by sorokod 2y ago
"We thus have 50 millennia during which two Neanderthal populations, living about 10 days’ walk from each other, coexisted while completely ignoring each other." Nit: sexualy ignoring each other.
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by sorokod 2y ago
Sounds like Bora Horza's argument against the Culture.
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by sorokod 2y ago
"... the Dutch ship Vasa" - Vasa is Swedish [1], not Dutch. Reconstructed Golden Hind[2] is worth a visit, it is next to the Borough Market, London. They do children parties too. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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Why is the UK slashing the maximum banks must refund to fraud victims?(theguardian.com)
2 points by sorokod 2y ago|0 comments
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by sorokod 2y ago
The vultures are there as they always are in such circumstances, what is your point?
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by sorokod 2y ago
You make it sound as if it is not a civil war waged by the Sudanese on the Sudanese.
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by sorokod 2y ago
That is true, the article skips the fact that the approximation using the initial fib numbers is not useful.
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by sorokod 2y ago
As suggested elsewhere, this is more of a party trick then a practical approach to convert between km and miles. The Wikipedia entry does suggest a greedy algorithm (at each step choosing the largest fib number that fits) though, using that
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by sorokod 2y ago
"just express the original number as a sum of Fibonacci numbers" This is aways possible, see Zeckendorf's theorem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeckendorf%27s_theorem
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by sorokod 2y ago
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