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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
"Nasty, British, and Small," screams the Hanging Yards of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_(TV_series)
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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
Pedantry: Tolkien's "Middle-Earth" is itself a "folksy mistranslation" Closer translation-- "Middle-Yard" Old English word eardgeard =Earth-Yard / ˈæ͜ɑrdˌjæ͜ɑrd / "ardyard" / ht
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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
(EDITED) Otoh, have a few friends in tech (and high finance) who need to be told "dude, we'd be better off if you worked less hard" (Sorry.. I grew up deprived of data teaching me that "Schlep quickly compounds into Inte
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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
Pictures are 1953 and WWI Scots Guards frocks https://bid.candtauctions.co.uk/lot-details/index/catalog/11... https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/91425-scots-guards-unifo... that "S
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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
My bad. I should have encouraged more curiosity by pointing out that these functions actually have additive as well as multiplicative identities https://msp.org/pjm/1955/5-2/pjm-v5-n2-p02-p.pdf (Might even be
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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
Hmmm I thought the closed form solutions are Jacobi elliptics? https://cococubed.com/code_pages/pendulum.shtml
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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Grains For Japanese, ancient china concept = vaguely healthy Moreso if it meshes well with the quasi-scientific fad of "whole foods" There's still stuff made (semi-)exc
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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
Most intriguing: The permutation symmetry of the atoms gives the col- lective parts of the master equation an SU(3) group structure, and this allows the default exponential scaling of the Liouville state space, 32^N , to be reduced to a po
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John Earnest, array language audio+graphics hacker(alexalejandre.com)
3 points by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago|1 comments
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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
I like your elephant rider metaphor.. But I wonder if people like Alex Karp are not also smart enough to invest a fixed pct of his income in (recently, more AI-based) pastoral care for his elephants..
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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
USG understands better. There was a heated thread here about why nursing was defunded as a pro degree while divinity was not.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46000015 Turns out the USG recognize that chaplains are gre
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Grokking wavefunction collapse in actual quantum systems(asiae.co.kr)
1 points by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago|0 comments
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by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
Not my field either but using (Chebyshev) polynomials to approximate _exponential functionals_ on [believably] infinite or scale-free graphs sounds rather interesting.. On further reflection, as you said, wavelets are local on space and ph
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(Quasi)auto-canonization is the greatest short-term challenge for AI(xcancel.com)
3 points by vi_sextus_vi 7mo ago|0 comments
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by vi_sextus_vi 7mo ago
Surrey, interactive visualiser https://web.archive.org/web/20260115155955/https://r-knott.s...
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by vi_sextus_vi 7mo ago
Useful idea buried under abject science-writing is that quantum yields quantify how likely a chain reaction is. It's like r for COVID-19. One usually says "1.3", not "130%" Quantum yields greater than 1 are possibl
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by vi_sextus_vi 7mo ago
From the abstract https://web.archive.org/web/20260326005808/https://www.natur...
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Emotional Eating Elucidated in Fruitfly(nature.com)
3 points by vi_sextus_vi 7mo ago|2 comments