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by srean 8mo ago
Sounds a damn good hobby to me. I don't think hobby requires building anything. Spending time actively engaged is enough. One can enjoy mathematics the way one enjoys listening to music. On the other hand if you do want to make somethi
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by srean 8mo ago
Do you listen to music ?
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by srean 8mo ago
https://youtu.be/0xS68sl2D70?si=9rJYJU2L_cNiwQrv Veritasium's video: "Effort is the Algorithm". The world is full of heavy objects but how many of us are ripped ? -- Derek Muller
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by srean 8mo ago
Folding is more powerful than ruler and compass constructions. One can do cube roots, angle trisections and more. Coincidentally enough, I had mentioned straight edge and ruler constructions in a different thread a few minutes ago https:
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by srean 8mo ago
Algebraic numbers can be very handy. I was making myself toy, tapered kaleidoscopes using one piece cardboard plans. One needed to ensure that the dihedral angles between the mirrors be precise. This is not easy to do with the usual middle-
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by srean 8mo ago
Tough times ahead for polar bears for sure. Does the Antarctic have any similar predators ?
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by srean 9mo ago
Oh I did not think you were advocating anything. I was just thinking aloud. I used to drink lots of coffee earlier but now my caffeine metabolism seems to have ground to halt. Anything more than two mugs and night's sleep is history. E
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by srean 9mo ago
Does anyone know where to find the mailing list archives of Stackless Python ? I want to track how its design evolved over time. Sincere apologies for the hijack. Hopefully it too will be of interest to those who are interested in coroutine
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by srean 9mo ago
> Unfortunately, my previous GitHub account got flagged/shadowbanned Oh! That sucks big time. Hope you had a local repo of everything. BTW I don't think your tone is formal, just suspiciously congratulatory and polite :) Do che
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by srean 9mo ago
BTW what happened to your baby wireshark ? Also, do you use ChatGPT to frame your responses ? Nothing wrong if you do, but people might notice the tone and wonder.
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by srean 9mo ago
Coroutine idea is very old. I am not 100% sure but they were heavily used in Telecom applications. It's easier in C and old C++ if one can drop down to assembly to switch between different call stacks. Among modern languages there is L
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by srean 9mo ago
Simon Tatham and Tom Duff too. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
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by srean 9mo ago
I see. I stand corrected.
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by srean 9mo ago
> There are also studies that nicotine lowers dementia risk. It has been found to be negatively correlated with Parkinson's disease also. Does it not adversely affect cardiovascular health ? Even if it did, I would prefer keeping my
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by srean 9mo ago
Any Fortran folks around ? Since old Fortran does not have function pointers I used to wonder how does one write gradient descent routine for a user defined function in Fortran. In other languages, one typically passes the user defined func
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by srean 9mo ago
I worry particularly about damage to the kidneys, something that you mention in your comments. It takes a lot to clear the dye.
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by srean 9mo ago
False positives trigger more diagnostics some of which can be harmful, not just psychologically but physiologically as well. If false positives are ok, why not build a down time detector that rolls a die every 5 mins and alert on hitting a
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by srean 9mo ago
If you are saying that good encryption ought to make the result incompressible, then I agree with you.
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by srean 9mo ago
Then there is this eternal conversation about whether on should encrypt and then compress or compress and then encrypt. Encrypted data will not compress well because encryption needs to remove patterns and patterns are what one exploits for
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by srean 9mo ago
His point was when you eat more calories than you need, then the body can afford to be sloppy (inefficient) about absorbing all those calories. When you cut down a little on food but are still above or at your daily calorie requirement, the
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by srean 9mo ago
To be a modern and sane C++ that C++ could have been, (rather than a complex collection of tacked on languages that C++ is), with modules instead of the the mess of C++'s headers, with instant compilation times that does not need a com
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by srean 9mo ago
Yes of course, I don't think anyone will disagree with that. My comment had nothing to do with meaning but was about the mechanics of compression. That said, lexical and syntactic patterns are often enough for classification and cluste
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by srean 9mo ago
It is quite ridiculous to place C++ metaprogramming and D's. For one in D it's the same language and one can choose whether to execute compile time constant parts at compile time or run time. In C++ it's a completely differen
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by srean 9mo ago
Marathi also has the ch vs ts thing. Similar issues turns up in transliterating Cyrillic -- Chebyshev vs Tschebyshev.
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by srean 9mo ago
Hundreds ? You must be joking. Small multiples of a 100 are like a new flashy upstarts in the block as far as Indian traditional art goes.
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by srean 9mo ago
Yes. Very few non-Dravidian languages spoken in India, have that specific sound. The only exception I can think of is Marathi. The 'el' in 'sakal' is roughly the same.
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by srean 9mo ago
I do not know inner details of Zstandard, but I would expect that it to least do suffix/prefix stats or word fragment stats, not just words and phrases.
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by srean 9mo ago
> Both those statements need to be prove for her, and I don't see any strong evidence for either. You can query the search engines yourself, it's a pretty standard and accepted thing now based on analysis of the letter and that
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by srean 9mo ago
Or an adapted Theremin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
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by srean 9mo ago
Make that "every vibrating surface can be a potential microphone ..."

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