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by srean 5mo ago
This is delightful. Thanks.
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by srean 5mo ago
"Taking off" is an unreliable metric of capability and fitness to a problem you may want solved.
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by srean 5mo ago
Was it written in Prolog at any point in time ? Perhaps I am misremembering, but my brain is telling me of a CSS or PDF parser written in Prolog.
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by srean 5mo ago
Ah right. Thank you so much. At least I wasn't hallucinating.
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by srean 5mo ago
''' "2026JH2 will pass safely by the Earth," he said in an email. "This is actually a rather normal occurrence, car-sized objects pass between the Earth and the Moon every week. At the size of a school bus, the
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by srean 5mo ago
Colin Wright has a fun video on braids formed by the trajectory of juggled balls. Can't seem to find it. Hope he sees this and posts. Found it https://youtu.be/GNKFSpJIBO0?si=Eu3OAUyFYq8EQZX9 On a different note do any
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by srean 5mo ago
Didn't Linus #define THREE as something else in Linux source code. Was that the 2-3-4 tree? Can't seem to find it now.
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by srean 5mo ago
Trump's tweets gave a clear indication of what's coming their way next.
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by srean 5mo ago
That's true. Both USA and Russia should be quite happy with the current state of affairs. China not so much. Rest of the world is quite pissed with USA. But that's just emotion. Unless it gets realised into something concrete it m
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by srean 5mo ago
Survival.
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by srean 5mo ago
And Iran has blocked the strait too. It's at best a stalemate.
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by srean 5mo ago
Given how expensive they are they were presumably supposed to do more than primarily stay out of range. There are less expensive ways of doing that.
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by srean 5mo ago
I would have never realised that things would have taken such an Onion worthy scatological turn. s/n/d/6
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by srean 5mo ago
I have no clue.
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by srean 5mo ago
Sympathy gets you Gaza, West Bank and a few refugee camps. Geopolitics understands one language alone.
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by srean 5mo ago
That's significant messaging though -- we don't have anything to hide, down with the dollar. I have read many comments that the regime wants to money launder the inflow. Bitcoin would be rather inconvenient for that.
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by srean 5mo ago
Bitcoin does make the transaction publicly traceable. Either they have not realised that, seems unlikely, or they prefer it that way.
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by srean 5mo ago
As far as I can recall JL holds for affine transformations too, in any case it's an existence result. Have to double check on the affine bit. The popular proof does uses random linear transforms and they indeed will not change the orig
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by srean 5mo ago
> If you preserve the l2 distance you preserve the inner product That's trivially untrue. You can move the origin around and that doesn't change the el_2 metric but will change the inner product. This would not happen for ran
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by srean 5mo ago
I am sure you know this, but inner-products are not preserved, the el_2 distance is (approximately). So it needs judicious care when used along with algorithm s that work with inner-products
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by srean 5mo ago
I would suggest you checkout all of Martin Gardner from that library if you can. He is sorely missed, by me at the least.
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by srean 5mo ago
Jagadish Bose's Mercury coherer , which had the additional property of being self restoring, was "adopted" by Marconi for his radio receiver. Jagadish Bose had no interest in commercialising or patenting his design. It's
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by srean 5mo ago
Mehdi from Electroboom and Michael from Vsauce are my two favorite bat shit crazy unhinged people of the internet.
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by srean 5mo ago
I meant people. Let me correct it. He was quite a character too, although with sad undertones. I doubt he ever felt understood. EDIT: please don't downvote parent comment. He pointed out a grammatical error in my previous comment that
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by srean 5mo ago
Lewis Carroll, an Oxford Don with a double first degree, was such an interesting person, right from his study [0] of geometry, algebra [1], to his incessant word play and pioneering forays in the then new field of photography. Anyone inter
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by srean 5mo ago
This reminded me of Carp https://carp-lang.github.io/carp-docs/LanguageGuide.html Has anyone been playing with it on HN ?
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by srean 5mo ago
I am glad the Hginit is back https://hginit.github.io/index.html Not sure why it has to disappear in the first place. What's going on with hginit.com now ?
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by srean 5mo ago
Far better than bookmarks. Bookmarks do not store click history, the trajectory you took to arrive at the page. With tabs, the contexts is a backbutton away.
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by srean 5mo ago
> by casting the uniform measure on convex bodies in the language of log-concave densities Can you tell more ? I find the idea very intriguing. I don't know of the connection between the two.
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by srean 5mo ago
It helps to not make a cluttered mess of an API. Breaking up the problem space with a few composable functions that can express all that you want to express is a definite win.

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