westcort

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   by westcort 5y ago

   Journalists can draw contrasts. We are all humans and just drawing comparisons across monarchies, which until recently existed in every culture and country. In an age of global pandemics, the world is a single neighborhood. Drawing contrast
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   by westcort 5y ago

   Amazing how this comment was downvoted so much. Sorry, no divinities or demigods actually exist. Is that really controversial? I guess most of humanity is still amusing themselves with elaborate lore.
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   by westcort 5y ago

   Humanity is moving past the age of monarchies and kings in general and has been for at least 300 years. There is no cultural exceptionalism for this trend.
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   by westcort 5y ago

   How?
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   by westcort 5y ago

   Well, Kishi was certainly a war criminal. And the relationship to the sun god is perhaps a matter of faith to some, but obviously false. Just pointing out the obvious.
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   by westcort 5y ago

   What a great article. One point missed here is the hereditary link of Shinzo Abe to his grandfather, Kishi, who was a war criminal. It is amazing and absurd that the supposed patrilineal links to the sun god remain today. Perhaps the very p
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   Show HN: Text to speech from scratch using 70 recorded phonemes and CMU Dict(locserendipity.com)

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   Show HN: Markov Model Headlines(locserendipity.com)

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   Show HN: Explore random selections from Project Gutenberg(locserendipity.com)

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    Show HN: Escape film recommendation algorithms and expand your horizons(locserendipity.com)

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    by westcort 5y ago

    https://nomadlist.com/
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    by westcort 5y ago

    How Dickensian.
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    by westcort 5y ago

    This is irresponsible and should be removed.
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Watch “Active Measures” and you will see the many links of Trump to Russia and Russian business interests. January 6 is all I needed to see to know he is a foreign agent.
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Let’s say 1 in 50 people have a genius-level IQ. What are the odds that a random group of 50 people doesn’t have one such person? The answer is 37%, or 1/e. Why? Because the chances a given person isn’t a genius is 49/50. For 50 p
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    by westcort 5y ago

    As a compromise to this, I added a features where you can add a search string to the URL and the player will only play songs that that search string in the URL. For example, this only plays Jazz: https://locserendipity.com/P
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Yes, you can use the m3u file here: locserendipity.com/78RPM.m3u to play these songs in the player if your choice. This works in VLC.
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Thank you! I just added that feature. Thanks again for the suggestion and have a great weekend!
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    by westcort 5y ago

    I will take a look at that artist too. Anki is a great tool. I have tried to do something like that with languages, like Japanese: https://www.locserendipity.com/jp/Japanese.html and am working on voice simulators base
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    by westcort 5y ago

    So cool! This could be a great model for keeping this kind of music and style of DJing going.
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    by westcort 5y ago

    This is a good idea. I did this with about 38,000 books in the public domain and hosted and indexed the text files on the page so I could do quick full text searches of all of them: https://www.locserendipity.com/Google.html
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Very nice--added!
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Agreed--and added! Thank you!
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Great idea! I added a donation link.
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Good idea!
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    by westcort 5y ago

    There must have been a moment when the total recorded output of the world surpassed the total time a person, a city, a country (have we reached that point yet?) could listen or consume all of them. I suspect we will reach a point where song
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Maybe OpenAI could do it! I did create a playlist of their songs, so partial credit? https://www.locserendipity.com/OA/OpenAI.html
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Awesome!
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    by westcort 5y ago

    Thank you!
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    by westcort 5y ago

    That is a good one! You were lucky!