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   by srean 6mo ago

   I used google translate.
2. 542.▲
   by srean 6mo ago

   Escher invoking Hokusai in his sixties "Ideally I would spend a whole year on a freighter watching the waves. If God himself, in honour of my 60th birthday, would give me the strength and the power and the glory, now and forever, to dr
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   by srean 6mo ago

   I have been moaning about this n the comments below about not being able to find Hokusai's study on tesselations and patterns. Finally found it. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/ Have submitted
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   Hokusai and Tesselations(dl.ndl.go.jp)

   151 points by srean 6mo ago|16 comments
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   by srean 6mo ago

   The wave is almost like a live character in this one. Like an angry god caught in a moment of fury.
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   by srean 6mo ago

   Indeed. Check this out https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/ I don't know whether Escher was familiar with Hokusai's work but they shared a common interest in tilings and tesselations. Damned
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   by srean 6mo ago

   Oh nice. I had not seen this before but it fits the description very well -- birds and tiling patterns. The art work that I had in my had a swallow or a sparrow swooping down, looked at through chicken wire grid.
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   by srean 6mo ago

   Thanks for the links. There are one or two in common with what I had in mind. I suppose those weren't his 'published' works but personal studies in geometry and tiling.
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   by srean 6mo ago

   I am having a surprisingly hard time finding Hokusai's exercises on tesselations. Has search become really this bad ! Anyway wanted to show his sketch of a bird behind chicken wire fence/cage. Similar birds here https:/&#x2F
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    by srean 6mo ago

    Previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866283 72 comments
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    by srean 6mo ago

    You mean like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa_-... His "Big Wave" has that right left position https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb&#x
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    by srean 6mo ago

    Thanks for the suggestion.
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    by srean 6mo ago

    > NNs were largely dismissed I agree with your larger point but dismissed is rather too strong. They were considered fiddly to train, prone to local minima, long training time, no clear guidelines about what the number of hidden layers
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    by srean 6mo ago

    That's very interesting because cheese, paneer and cured meats do trigger wife's migraines. I had not considered that richness is n glutamic acid is a common factor. The personal, anecdotal relation seems strong on the cheese and
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    Powerful New 'QR Code' Untangles Math's Knottiest Knots(quantamagazine.org)

    5 points by srean 6mo ago|0 comments
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    by srean 6mo ago

    Harrison time pieces were indeed the cutting edge GPS technology of its day. That and moon watching. Nowadays we have GPS and Pulsar / Quasar watching. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferome..
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    by srean 6mo ago

    FLAME [0] was a joy to work with and work on. The fun and honestly quite revealing part of the course was that operations on matrices even if applied using higher level primitives of conformal partitioning, the same techniques one uses for
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    by srean 6mo ago

    Reads like a labour of love. Thanks for sharing.
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    by srean 6mo ago

    I recall reading that Markov (of Markov chain fame) had also worked on transition curves for railway tracks. I have tried and failed to track down any references, or even recall where exactly I read this. If any HN folks have pointers, woul
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    by srean 6mo ago

    I would argue the opposite, with the 'often' doing some heavy lifting. It is very likely that you have interacted with a Levenstein distance based spell corrector (with many modifications) and I have touched that code. Used well t
21. 561.▲
    by srean 7mo ago

    Would agree. There's another thing that's a little odd. Tall men rock climbers tends to do better, but among women, it's the smaller ones who seem to be better.
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    by srean 7mo ago

    Not just endurance sports. Anecdotal evidence, but female rock climbers have been more skilled in my experience. Perhaps because the brute force escape hatch isn't as available.
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    by srean 7mo ago

    If enough people at position of influence fear that a war is coming, the fear itself will realize the anticipated event. Preemptive strikes will be the trigger. There is some truth to, what was it, Soros' reflexivity.
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    by srean 7mo ago

    Thanks a bunch.
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    by srean 7mo ago

    We both must be close to the truth which we will never know. My guess was that he was lactose intolerant.
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    by srean 7mo ago

    > One could argue there's more suffering in a glass of milk than a steak What I find quite bizarre that in India (where I am from) milk is considered ethically vegetarian whereas unfertilized chicken eggs are not. But the weirdest e
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    by srean 7mo ago

    It absolutely is. Toned homogenised milk is just a thin watery gruel colored white. For me Half'nHalf is about the right consistency but you can't get it unhomogenized. That said, cannot not post this mandatory calvin and hobbes s
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    by srean 7mo ago

    Seals can be a bundle of cuteness. Leopard seals are impressive, in a different way. This indeed a sad story.
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    by srean 7mo ago

    Please consider writing a blog about this. Would love to know more.
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    by srean 7mo ago

    Wonderful. Knitting and weaving gets me nerd sniped. Not the act of actually doing them by hand but the geometric puzzle solving part. These topics hit the HN first page quite often.