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by srean 9mo ago
Interesting. In Maths classes, we started with functions. Functions as list of pairs, functions defined by algebraic expressions, functions plotted on graph papers and after that limits. Sequences were peripherally treated, just so that lim
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by srean 9mo ago
Being an engineer by training, I never got exposed to much algebra in my courses (beyond the usual high school stuff in high school). In fact did not miss it much either. Tried to learn some algebraic geometry then... oh the horror. For wha
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by srean 9mo ago
Yeah. Being king or an heir to the throne is certainly very hazardous.
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by srean 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_III_of_Sweden%27s_coffe... Needs an obligatory mention
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by srean 9mo ago
Yes I have wondered about that. I feel the same about Attention based networks, may be we are not using the most befitting coordinate system to understand them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544981
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by srean 9mo ago
Yes this exactly. The Ptolemaic system is an adhoc form of Fourier analysis (circles upon circles). These are universal approximators (another universal class are the neural networks) of (preferably smooth) periodic functions. So with enoug
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by srean 9mo ago
Thanks for showing :)
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by srean 9mo ago
Languages are so interesting, although I have zero talent in acquiring them. I don't care much for speaking them, pronouncing them right, but I do wish I could read some of the literature in their original language.
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by srean 9mo ago
I see (pun intended)
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by srean 9mo ago
Yes that will indeed work in a few cases.
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by srean 9mo ago
'Hear the watchman’s cry upon the wall' works the same way, no ? I have clarified what I am looking for in a cousin comment.
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by srean 9mo ago
Ah! That's not bad but it's not the same thing. Good nevertheless. I can 'show' (or point someone to a) a sight that I am not myself creating in anyway. The word I am looking for would mean to 'make you hear' i
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by srean 9mo ago
I have always wondered about this. The verb for the first person is to 'see'. To a third person you 'show' For the first person there is 'listen' (or 'hear'). Does English not have a corresponding wor
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by srean 9mo ago
In science being right is nowhere close to enough, otherwise it's speculative fiction, a fairy tale, you have to provide convincing reasons, you have to demonstrate that you have considered alternative explanations (hypotheses) and aft
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by srean 9mo ago
Modula-2 happened way before my time but was quite taken by it. Especially it's fibres/coroutine features. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688380
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by srean 9mo ago
Pointers to the literature please. I don't work in this space but love geometry.
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by srean 9mo ago
In complete agreement regarding carrying fire arms to an emotionally charged protest.
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by srean 9mo ago
Ideally yes, capital would be the machinery. Now, however, a lot of wealth is numbers sitting on a ledger and backed by stock valuations that have broken their connection with main Street. Or its rolling from one owner to another in derivat
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by srean 9mo ago
Depends on what those values are. Epstein had different values than I do. I don't think parent commenter is saying that leaning right is sociopathic, but that some people try to pass their sociopathy as a simple act of being right lean
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by srean 9mo ago
A 'right' in this context by definition means government (agencied) will not persecute you for the activity protected by this right. If that's not the case you don't have the right at all, period. Note though, I do not a
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by srean 9mo ago
Yes. With enough money, power can be bought, judges can be bought, laws can be ...
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by srean 9mo ago
These so called right leaning people were, in the recent past, crying themselves hoarse that they have all the right and moral prerogative to carry arms at a protest.
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by srean 9mo ago
His non-fiction though ... among the best.
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by srean 9mo ago
Dandelion Wine is one of my favorite.
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by srean 9mo ago
Thank you for suggesting Ian Mcdonald, have not read any of his. I absolutely rever and adore Bradbury, probably because he has a knack of articulating so well, the emotions and esthetics that we have in common, that I leave unarticulated,
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by srean 9mo ago
Thanks to AI driven scarcity of hardware it's already coming true.
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by srean 9mo ago
Indeed. It's such a beautiful book. I love Playfair's too. I used to have a lot of trouble with Euclid's (translated) definition of a straight line, ... What the heck is "lies evenly". Playfair's made it click.
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Finland is heating cities using waste heat from data-centers(delmergroup.com)
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by srean 9mo ago
Ah! Now I understand. I was stepping out with my wife for a day out and had read your reply very cursorily. That reading had left me quite puzzled -- "I would have done exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) over time for trails.
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by srean 9mo ago
Thanks for the story. What's decrementing a pixel ? I(x,y,t+1) = I(x,y,t) - c ?

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