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by svat 6y ago
( The link goes to a thread on beautiful scientific communication (especially figures/diagrams), so it would have been nice to discuss that rather than discuss LaTeX. But as the conversation here seems to be mostly about the latter… )
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by svat 6y ago
Obviously Wikipedia didn't exist in 1994; I only gave the link for someone who is actually interested in looking it up today. A paper clearly explaining how to compute π(x) (I was just reading it) had come out in 1985: https:/&#x
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by svat 6y ago
As they say, “A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.” Or in this case, a thousand-plus hours of computer time saved a few minutes of looking it up ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by svat 6y ago
See e.g. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/12/08/algorithms-vs-moor... — “a benchmark production planning model solved using linear programming would have taken 82 years to solve in 1988 […] in 2003 th
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by svat 6y ago
(1994). The article is a story, about how Roger Hui (who with Kenneth E. Iverson developed the programming language J), set about finding the 10 billionth prime: by the Prime Number Theorem it should be about 10^10*log(10^10) which is less
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by svat 6y ago
We have some data: looking at Google Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports, here are the numbers for (Japan, California, US) compared to baseline: Retail & recreation: (-40%, -47%, -30%) Grocery & pharmacy: (-12%, -7%, -3%) Parks: (-5
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by svat 6y ago
I often have voice recordings with a lot of background noise (e.g. a public lecture in a room with poor acoustics, recorded from a phone in the audience — there's usually sounds of paper rustling, noises from the street, etc). Is this
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by svat 6y ago
Ah I see. About whether “Brahma” is pronounced as written or as “Bramha”, there is regional variation and difference of opinion even among the best scholars; recommended is to find a tradition and follow it. Overall M. S. Subbulakshmi'
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by svat 6y ago
> Latin was a dead language when both Gauss and Copernicus were alive. That was exactly my point, and the reason I picked those examples; I guess I could have been clearer in my previous comment. The author of the poem being discussed
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by svat 6y ago
To be clear, I wasn't attributing anything to you: I wasn't saying that either you or Briggs mentioned other languages; I was just describing the fact that the Navya-Nyāya language was designed to reduce the ambiguities that natur
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by svat 6y ago
I think we're just using different definitions of “closer” or “similar” to “people would have spoken like this poem in daily life”. :-) To me, “grammatically, lexically, phonetically” is the trivial part. Learning English is achievable
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by svat 6y ago
You're welcome! * For Latin, Wikipedia gives a list of “ages” (Old Latin, Classical Latin, Late Latin, Medieval Latin, Renaissance Latin, New Latin, Contemporary Latin), with "Vulgar Latin" (Latin as spoken by the common non-
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by svat 6y ago
Sorry, I'm not sure if I understood your question correctly. If you just mean recordings of any shlokas, then you can just type the name of your favourite one into, say, YouTube and find thousands of hours of listening material. Is t
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by svat 6y ago
I recommend this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD4Ly-G0z5oD9zlmftgeK... — it may seem slow-going but stick with it. Ignore the Hindi-language parts if you don't understand them; they are an annoyance anyway.
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by svat 6y ago
I think you may be underrating the mastery required to write verses like this. Sure, Sanskrit was (and still is!) spoken as a language. But just because you can speak in Sanskrit does not mean you can come up with constrained verses like th
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by svat 6y ago
Yes we are in agreement! There is no opposition, and if at all there is any disagreement it is at most one of focus and emphasis, not anything substantive. Consider the chain: <Fun fact: X, imperfectly stated> → <NASA engineer says
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by svat 6y ago
I guess a closer analogy is the International Obfuscated C Code Contest ( https://www.ioccc.org/ ): something that requires ingenuity and mastery over the language (Sanskrit or C respectively) and all its dark corners, but is
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by svat 6y ago
Here's how I think about these things. You can either react to the extreme version, focus on the political consequences, and what the person-on-the-street says/thinks. This is totally valid, and closer to what happens “on the grou
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by svat 6y ago
The “claim of NASA endorsing Sanskrit” is an exaggeration that is easy to debunk, but the paper itself is real: it presents (though in a vague way) something of historical interest, namely a dialect of Sanskrit that was (and is) used for gi
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by svat 6y ago
I think you missed the main claim (the paper is definitely poorly written, also it's easy to miss unless one is familiar with its subject already): what it's pointing out is that a particular “dialect” of Sanskrit (called “Shastri
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by svat 6y ago
There was a question asking if there exists a recording of the verse mentioned in the title; looks like the post got deleted ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23211366 ) while I was answering it. Anyway: the Facebook pos
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by svat 6y ago
I wrote[1] this Wikipedia article; nice to see it quoted in the wild! Happy to answer questions if any. One thing I'd like to point out is that far from an extinct form, there are Sanskrit poets even today who can compose verses subjec
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by svat 6y ago
Well, regarding that quote (interesting no doubt), see some important caveats at https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/alan-kay/ which goes into some detail on evolving views about OOP (including that quote). It turns
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by svat 6y ago
“OOP” is one of those terms (like most terms) that have a narrow meaning and a broad meaning, and either proponents or detractors can use one of them in arguments: • OOP, narrow sense (emphasis on “object”): data-with-associated-functions,
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by svat 6y ago
I got the following concrete advice from this article: - Procrastination/distractions are reactions to discomfort: “They’re not character flaws, they’re emotional regulation problems”. So: try to to develop better internal tools to man
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by svat 6y ago
More accurately, the typeset output has ”treat like alike” instead of “treat like alike”, which suggests that the TeX input (most likely) had "treat like alike" instead of ``treat like alike?''. Some historical conte
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by svat 6y ago
Actually I've already changed jobs/teams two times in the last ~2 years. But I wasn't even talking about "work" alone. I also procrastinate, to an incredible (to most people) extent, on: exercise, chores (laundry, d
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by svat 6y ago
It's great that you're sharing what works for you. And indeed, that's the ideal to aspire to: procrastination is a sub-optimal response to emotions, so if you're able to check your emotions and reflect, that's what
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by svat 7y ago
While \relax is indeed a no-op “command”, that is precisely why it doesn't affect anything here. The way TeX works is that (roughly speaking), after expanding macros and acting on other commands (primitives) it encounters, it treats ev
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by svat 7y ago
Summary: Germany is moving away from a centralized approach (PEPP-PT = Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing) to a decentralized one (like DP-3T = Decentralised Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing). A nice comic version of DP-3

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