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by svat 1y ago
The first link in the article, also included as a screenshot.
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I don't even care about the topic (much) (right now), but this is a really well written blog post / announcement.
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Having the horizontal scroll bar always visible and with good contrast may help (right now it auto-hides for me, Chrome on Android). Though in the initial position it may still not be obvious that it's a scroll bar...
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by svat 1y ago
For what it's worth, when you view a Google search results page, part of the page is populated by ads (results come from the Google Ads teams) and part of it by search results (results come from the Google Search team, and unaffected b
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by svat 1y ago
Just stating for clarity: it is a mashup of the King James Bible and the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , which is not by Knuth (it is by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman).
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by svat 1y ago
> It’s never been easier to be DDOS’d by the job and think that means we’re doing a good one Loved this line; a good reminder!
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The binomial theorem (though here Newton is still talking “powers of 11”) is apparently very deep. The algebraic geometer S. S. Abhyankar, in his article “Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related Algebra” that won a couple o
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by svat 1y ago
See also https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/ which has quite a few more (including github-markdown-css mentioned in a sibling comment).
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The 2009 film Agora, starring Rachel Weisz, has a portrayal of the period. Of course it's not a historical document and subject to interpretation, but it is one perspective at least. Also there's a novel about Julian by Gore Vidal
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“Bibliography” is a word used in practice with multiple meanings; the dictionary prepared by Oxford Dictionaries for Google ( https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/ ) gives ( https://www.google.com&#x2
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by svat 1y ago
Try it here (you may have to create a Google Cloud project, but you don't have to enable billing or start the free trial): https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-... Click on the `+` (white over bl
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A fun fact surprisingly not mentioned in the article, and which I thought would be topical at this time, is that the Romanians apparently love their math olympiads so much that they recently elected as their president an International Mathe
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This was originally written for: > Foreword to A Book of Tasty Algorithms (a special edition of Azerbaijan Cuisine ) presented to participants in the 31st International Olympiad in Informatics (Baku, Azerbaijan: 2019) A slightly longe
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Thanks, I was asking specifically about deals with telecom companies to be the default search engine, and your second link [1] seems to be relevant, in that it mentions Verizon, though the deal with Apple seems to have been the core of the
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If I'm reading this correctly, this is about the deals Google had, between December 2019 and March 2021, with Telstra, Optus and TPG (apparently Australia's three largest telecommunications companies), to be the default (and only)
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Direct link: https://progress.openai.com/?prompt=10
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In the secretary problem, you're trying to maximize the probability of selecting the absolutely best candidate. In other words you assume that you “win” if you select the best candidate and “lose” otherwise (even if you end up picking
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Great set of observations, and indeed it's worth remembering that the specific details of assistance and setup make a difference of several orders of magnitude. And ha, he edited the last post in the thread to add this comment: > R
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For what it's worth, I worked around this by first calling Google's older OCR api (Cloud Vision), which gives the coordinates and bounding boxes for each word in the document. Then I pass this whole response to Gemini, and it&#x27
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The actual quote in the SICP preface: > Our design of this introductory computer-science subject reflects two major concerns. First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perfor
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What buffer are you referring to / how do you increase it? And did that solution work for you (if you happened to try)?
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Thanks for this post — I'm doing something similar for a personal/hobby project (just trying to work with very old scanned PDFs in Sanskrit etc), and the bounding box next to "Sub-TOI" in your screenshot ( https:/&#
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by svat 1y ago
Thanks for this post; it's inspiring — for a personal project I'm trying just to get bounding boxes from scanned PDF pages (around paragraphs/verses/headings etc), and so far did not get great results. (It seems to recog
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by svat 1y ago
Donald Knuth never said that. It's from the preface to SICP, by Abelson and Sussman. I've edited the quote on Goodreads (though I don't know how long it will stick).
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That isn't the title either: the title is “Creating fair dice from random objects”, while what they are responding to may be something like “Creating fair coins from biased coins”. So they're only responding to the “Creating fair
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Of course in many cases (such as the one you mentioned), the amount of memory needed does not grow with N. But there are other programs/computation that seem to require more memory. For example, consider the following (Python) program:
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> in a bunch of cases That's precisely the issue: of course for many problems there are obvious ways to trade off space and time. Smart people who have spent their lives thinking about this are aware of this. :-) The issue here is
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To be clear, this was/is a statement about the worst case, not every problem. So it may be clearer to rephrase your sentence as: For nearly 50 years theorists believed that there exist problems taking t steps that also need roughly t&#
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The word “typesetting” does not refer to all aspects of visual appearance, but merely to the crucial decision of where each character goes: what glyph (from the fonts available) is placed at what position on the page. This paper was first p
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This is completely offtopic, but in case your question is genuine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2X1pKEHIYw > Why Some People Say SHTRONG (the CHRUTH) , by Dr Geoff Lindsey

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