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by svat 9y ago
I know how the Sanskrit/AI thing started (it's alluded to in the linked article, but not clearly enough). In 1985, Rick Briggs, a NASA employee and Sanskrit (over)enthusiast, wrote an article in AI magazine [1] pointing out that f
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by svat 9y ago
Well, yes. Thanks. What I was trying to say is that the formalization is actually great : - it is useful to linguists. (Modern linguistics borrows terms like sandhi and bahuvrihi for example.) - it is acceptable to language users. Poets ha
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by svat 9y ago
This article only scratches the surface, I think. One thing that is worth clarifying IMO: There is nothing inherently “scientific” about Sanskrit as a language by itself: instead what's remarkable are 1. the Sanskrit grammatical tradit
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by svat 11y ago
Short answer: the denominator is (10^48 - 10^24 - 1). Long answer follows. It's actually easier to understand if you work backwards and arrive at the expression yourself, by asking yourself: "If I wanted the number that starts lik
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by svat 15y ago
See https://www.google.com/takeout/#custom:stream (Choose "Stream", not "Profile") You'll get each of your posts as a separate HTML file, and even the file timestamps seem to match the dates the post was made.
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by svat 15y ago
I couldn't tell from the website: does NewsBlur have social features -- can you share items with friends (or even just publicly would also be enough), can you follow others' shared items, and post comments on them?
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by svat 15y ago
Yes! To both. Calling Tupper's formula "self-referential" (which he did not) is essentially cheating: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/how-does-tuppers... But someone has made one where the output contains everything: http:/
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by svat 15y ago
Well, that's his point: if he had simply trusted the best webmail provider, he would have ended up trusting Hotmail.
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by svat 16y ago
Discovery, not re-discovery. The upper bound of 20 (that no position takes more than 20 moves) was not known earlier.
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by svat 16y ago
Scott Aaronson does not explicitly say the proof is wrong, but says > If P≠NP has indeed been proved, my life will change so dramatically that having to pay $200,000 will be the least of it. […] If P≠NP is proved, then to whatever exten
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by svat 17y ago
Donald Knuth says: [ http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html ] > Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes
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by svat 17y ago
This a good introduction, but Douglas Crockford's A Survey of the JavaScript Programming Language [ http://javascript.crockford.com/survey.html ] is shorter and more detailed — and a perfectly adequate introduction if you already know o