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An Offering for the Dead: A Short Tutorial on Reading Hieroglyphs(maximumeffort.substack.com)
1 points by sparkplug94 4y ago|0 comments
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by sparkplug94 4y ago
That's actually shockingly similar. I'm sure someone has studied the mathematics of fuel transport in much greater detail -- I wonder if it's a simple problem to optimize or something closer to the traveling salesman problem
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by sparkplug94 4y ago
Haha thank you! I'm the original author of the linked article, and I had a LOT of fun naming the donkey transfer algorithms I came up with.
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by sparkplug94 4y ago
You might be able to fine-tune GPT-3 on Assyrian Inscriptions and create a GPTiglath-Pileser III
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The Great Kings of Assyria Reply to Spam Texts(maximumeffort.substack.com)
4 points by sparkplug94 4y ago|4 comments
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by sparkplug94 5y ago
I actually wrote an article about this a couple weeks ago. https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/is-a-hot-dog-a-sandwich... My contention is that the definition-first approach to defining sandwich is wrong, and that we
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Pimp + Dik = Bumfit(maximumeffort.substack.com)
3 points by sparkplug94 5y ago|1 comments
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by sparkplug94 5y ago
An article I wrote about a fascinating pre-Roman British counting system, that happens to sound hilarious.
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by sparkplug94 5y ago
This is fascinating, thank you! You’re absolutely correct, the single GR course i took linearized the EFE for the section on gravity waves and the concept that gravitation self-gravitates did not really come through. In hindsight maybe that
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by sparkplug94 5y ago
This is clearly a double-bluff by science. Nice try science, I don’t trust science enough to believe this pseudoscience! In all seriousness though, with the magnitude of the psychology replication crisis right now, you might legitimately be
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by sparkplug94 5y ago
This article makes an interesting contrast with another article on hackernews this morning, about the median student debt of Columbia MFA students: https://www.wsj.com/articles/financially-hobbled-for-life-th... I gues
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Ancient Egyptian and Emoji Chain Letters(dblack12705.medium.com)
7 points by sparkplug94 6y ago|0 comments
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by sparkplug94 6y ago
I'm not an Egyptologist, but I can read hieroglyphs and can say with surety that Egyptian hieroglyphs are both pictographic AND alphabetic. It's actually an interesting system, where an alphabet (abjad, sort of) exists, but is not
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by sparkplug94 6y ago
There is a lot of not-quite-correct information about Egyptian hieroglyphs in the replies to this comment. Hieroglyphs are actually a hybrid system, incorporating uniliteral glyphs (representing a single consonant sound), bi- and triliteral