thewayfarer

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Technology is making it easier to write and learn Chinese(economist.com)
5 points by thewayfarer 4y ago|2 comments
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by thewayfarer 6y ago
If the loss amount is adjusted to 33%, then on average over time individuals will make a net profit. A 50% win will more than compensate for a 33% loss (0.67 * 1.5 = 1.005).
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Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered in Israeli Cave(nytimes.com)
113 points by thewayfarer 9y ago|37 comments
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms, A Unified Approach by John H. Hubbard and Barbara Burke Hubbard.
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China Central Bank Official Says Local Gov Bankruptcies May Benefit the Country(bloomberg.com)
2 points by thewayfarer 9y ago|0 comments
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Because we shouldn't think about the media categorically one way or the other, as if it's either all fake or everything in the media is true. The media gets things wrong, and we should correct their mistakes. However, the politic
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
> Under iOS 11.2.0 the effect is even more pronounced. No, the effect is exactly the same as you can see from the charts since they peak at the same benchmark scores. It is the distribution of those effects that is different, with the p
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
> Wasting half your energy-budget on spoon feeding the compiler is just as bad as spending it on managing memory manually in C. This isn't quite a fair comparison. Manual memory management increases the risk of producing incorrect
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Strictly speaking, AnySequence is a generic type, whereas AnySequence<Int>, AnySequence<String>, and AnySequence<Any> would be three different concrete types.
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
This is particularly relevant right now. The swift-evolution mailing list is currently discussing adding a "dynamic member lookup" protocol to Swift to enhance interop with dynamic languages like Python, Ruby, and Perl. You can
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Our educational culture has us convinced that we need to have some kind of complete mental process before we produce an answer for some problem. In school, you answer a question by recalling information, making deductions, and only after e
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
> (Can’t wait until we can have variadic generic parameters!) This.
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Exactly. I have no idea. It would make sense for a large, capable predator to try out eating a human, but they just don't. Maybe humans don't have enough fat on them to be appealing? ...but orcas also eat birds, which don&#x27
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Orcas do have large populations near Antartica, Norway, and Alaska, but they also have large populations along the American West Coast, Mexico, and Australia. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility has some good maps of observation r
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Yes, orcas also hunt seals, sea lions, and other marine mammals that live on beaches. Orcas will even beach themselves in order to hunt these. And they've even been observed in freshwater rivers [1]. https://www.youtube.co
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Some human beings that live near the ocean do go in the water. Here are some more facts: Great white sharks world population: <3,500 [1] fatal attacks on humans from 1990-2013: 35 [2] Orcas world population: >50,000[3] fatal attacks o
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Despite being a very intelligent apex predator with a diverse diet[1], orcas apparently have never killed a human in the wild before in recorded history, and there is only one recorded case of an orca even biting a human[2]. Of course fata
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
>> 荼 vs 茶 Also 苶 looks similar.
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
The people behind the Perseus project are singularly amazing. This project really enhances our ability to read and research these texts, and it has continually improved over time. Many people might not know that many of the great features
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
"Complicated" is an interesting translation for πολύτροπον rather than the more literal "much-traveled." But then again, The Odyssey isn't some children's adventure story. It's a story about the brutal,
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Brilliant and fascinating! I thought the sentences following your second quotation from the first paper, hypothesizing on the mechanism for kin selection, to be quite interesting: > This may have been facilitated by the greater mycorrhiz
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
Absolutely fascinating work! However, I'm not entirely sold on the usage of the term "mother tree." While Simard says > That’s how we came up with the term “mother tree,” because they’re the biggest, oldest trees, and we
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by thewayfarer 9y ago
"Metaphors are like models, only with unclear responsibilities." --Nick Rowe, talking about the use of metaphors to describe economic models.
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Microsoft Released New Version of Windows Tailor-Made for Chinese Government(qz.com)
2 points by thewayfarer 9y ago|0 comments
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by thewayfarer 10y ago
I have long thought that Pinyin is underestimated for its simplicity, conciseness, and its implicit description of regional phonetics in China. Its uses all 26 letters of English except for "v", but "v" on a keyboard is