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by svat 2y ago
Not the GP, but I agree: • “Most useful when we're studying” and “Most useful when we're working” are clearer (and also more precise!) than abstract (“chunking”) terms like “Acquisition” and “Application”. • Similarly, “Practical
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by svat 2y ago
Well, I'm not so sure… we computer people care about integrity checksums, bit-for-bit copies, lossless compression, version control, and the like. (Copies not differing even to the slightest extent more or less distinguishes digital fr
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by svat 2y ago
Related: 2014 article by Steven Levy, titled "The Gentleman Who Made Scholar": https://www.wired.com/2014/10/the-gentleman-who-made-scholar...
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by svat 2y ago
The original journal article (just posted another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42139081 ) had "person-is-an-object-of-study" which makes more sense. And this is also the only version you find quote
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by svat 2y ago
For what it's worth, I manually compared the original journal article ( https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1961.tb00344.x obtained via sci-hub) against the transcribed version in the OP, and the diffs are here: h
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by svat 2y ago
Rota's reminiscence (not just the part about Church but the entire webpage, namely "Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties") is, as the asterisked footnote alludes to, a chapter of his boo
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by svat 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800 > It was the first commercially successful personal computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roberts_(computer_engineer) > He is most often known
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by svat 2y ago
As it happens, the problem the article is about (primes of the form n^2+1) is also one of that set of four (Landau's problems).
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by svat 2y ago
The "official" landing page from where this GitHub page is linked: g.co/double-sided = https://landing.google.co.jp/double-sided/ (the video is amazing, and many of the jokes carry over from Japanese in
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by svat 2y ago
That's there too; see https://support.google.com/docs/answer/14206696 — you can click on the "Ask Gemini ⟡" and carry on a conversation, e.g. "summarize emails about <topic>" and use
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by svat 2y ago
Yeah it's linked from https://htmx.org/essays/ under "On The Other Hand…"
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by svat 2y ago
> the type of things Google could do with Gemini integrated into Google Docs Google already does have this in Google Docs (and all their products)? You can ask it questions about the current doc, select a paragraph and ask click on &qu
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by svat 2y ago
When my kid was three I encountered this lovely book and thought I'd read it to attempt to replicate something like it (despite all the warnings that it's a journal and not a guide); unfortunately I never got around to finishing t
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by svat 2y ago
The "these examples" in the footnote refers to the preceding content in the main part: the example of Bill Gates, and: > There are even some people who have a genuine intellectual interest in making money. This is distinct fro
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by svat 2y ago
Some previous related discussions on this: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41212788 ["The Shameful Defenestration of Tim" by Chris McDonough] * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41515766
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by svat 2y ago
Here's a post by the computer scientist Scott Aaronson on his blog, in support: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8269 -- it links to some earlier explainers, has some pro-con arguments, and further discussion in the comme
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by svat 2y ago
The personal preference is fine, just trying to make sure I understood correctly the discussion between you and the root poster. As a reader, it was a bit confusing to read something that starts with “Sorry, but I think the original articl
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by svat 2y ago
Do I understand correctly: you seem to be saying that the original (NYT) article is "more insightful about the complexity and reality of making chips" , and "covers more of the complexities" , while the summary (Tom&#x
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by svat 2y ago
That book ( https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/dt.html ) is not a book on dithering; it's one of the volumes of his collected papers and only a couple of chapters (papers) towards the end are related to dithering (&quot
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by svat 2y ago
It's really weird. This article contains the sentence > At just 18 years old Gauss used a heptadecagon to solve a classic problem that had stumped mathematicians for more than 2,000 years. where the words "stumped mathematician
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by svat 2y ago
Just for the record: Knuth had already published the first three volumes of TAOCP in 1968, 1969, 1973 respectively, and had then brought out the second edition of Vol 1 in 1973, and had already won a Turing award for them in 1974 — it was o
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by svat 2y ago
Here's a different reading by him of The Raven (not the one from The Simpsons ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXU3RfB7308 — he chooses to almost ignore the meaning and stick to a recitation, which is great: his v
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by svat 2y ago
Here he is in 2009, performing Shakespeare at the (Obama) "White House Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJybA1emr_g (Othello's speech defending himself: [1]) (Inc
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by svat 2y ago
This is cool! Here are some other similar(?) tools, for seeing the inner contents of a PDF file (the raw objects etc), but I haven't compared them to this tool here: - https://pdf.hyzyla.dev/ - https://githu
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by svat 2y ago
Yes, being able to start with FROM is what makes this so intuitive to use (and autocomplete work better); your hypothetical FROM r JOIN s on r.Id = s.Id ORDER BY r.Id SELECT * would indeed be pretty much that (linebreaks optional):
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by svat 2y ago
> this pipeline syntax to be mixed with regular compositional forms like CTEs and subqueries? Yes, it's an extension (available by default), which means you can freely mix with regular SQL and use pipes for just parts of your quer
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by svat 2y ago
The paper's section 5.1 (“Usage at Google”) and its Figure 4 (page 9) shows the usage growing steadily, “despite limited documentation and incomplete tooling” — of course 1600 users is still small relative to the number of SQL users at
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by svat 2y ago
Great question, answered in section 4.1.5 of the paper (page 6): it turns out that the single character | is already used for bitwise OR, and although that's rarely used and in most cases there would be no confusion, there are at lea
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by svat 2y ago
It is typical of addictions that they are ineffective at solving the problems that make us seek them — so IMO it wouldn't be surprising if an urge for autonomy leads to scrolling which doesn't actually satisfy that urge. Note that
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by svat 2y ago
Related/similar: This post by Alice Maz https://www.alicemaz.com/writing/splain.html describes two models of communication: emphasizing information sharing and harmonious emotional experience respectively. The

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