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Surreal Numbers:How 2 Ex-Students Turned to Pure Math and Found Total Happiness(archive.org)
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by yantrams 7y ago
Fellow Clowes afficionado here. That's exactly what I thought too when I looked at the art! Just a couple of days ago, I discovered Clowes work in the movie 'Paul'. I thought the art work looked very much like that of Clowes&
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by yantrams 7y ago
They featured the work of Clowes and Burns! Very cool. Just a couple of days ago, I discovered Clowes work in the movie 'Paul'. I thought the art work looked very much like that of Clowes' and paused the screen to observe it
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by yantrams 7y ago
Meego OS had it too.
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by yantrams 7y ago
Very Neat! Gonna explore this to my heart's content. Huge fan of your personal website - all those writeups, thoughts on hypertext, decentralization and that dadaesque/surrealist aesthetic dripping everywhere. Discovered you when
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by yantrams 7y ago
Reddit discussion on this - https://www.reddit.com/r/computervision/comments/fednny/sift...
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by yantrams 7y ago
Very cool. Some of the results reminded me of Max Ernst’s frottage works and futurist compositions. If you are interested in exploring this with other curated collections, reach out to me. I have a MOMA collection of about 10k images.
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by yantrams 7y ago
Never heard of this before. Thanks for the share.
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by yantrams 7y ago
In case you haven't come across it already, here is a very exhaustive list of distance measures for dealing with problems of this kind - http://www.iiisci.org/journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/GS315JG.pdf I fool
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by yantrams 7y ago
It's available on Nintendo Switch for those who are interested in trying it out.
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by yantrams 7y ago
Didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.
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by yantrams 7y ago
I honestly thought you were gonna reference the Four Yorkshiremen sketch by Monty Python after the second line!
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by yantrams 7y ago
Little Snitch -- https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
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by yantrams 7y ago
I believe you're referring to this thread. https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/racket-users/y...
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Damn I remember reading up about what was probably a reference to this as a kid in the beautifully illustrated Russian History in Tales ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7791688-russian-history-... ) The articl
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by yantrams 7y ago
Bergson it is thank you!
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by yantrams 7y ago
He wrote a treatise on the nature of space and time and I believe his surname was Bergman.
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Ask HN: Trying to recollect the name of a 20th century philosopher
1 points by yantrams 7y ago|4 comments
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by yantrams 7y ago
On a somewhat related note, I often wonder why Poincare is still considered the last of the Universalists/Generalists. I believe Von Neumann would be a strong contender to that title.
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by yantrams 7y ago
This has been the case almost every year this decade in India. Also, it is quite common for the government departments to fudge data and report temperatures > 50 Celsius as 49.x to avoid halting work / paying extra to those working
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by yantrams 7y ago
That Upton Sinclair's novel bit on people falling into vats reminded me of Ambrose Bierce's macabre short story 'Oil of Dog'. [1] There is even a beautiful animated adaption of this tale titled "My name is Boffer Bi
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by yantrams 8y ago
Here is a great primer on entropy that you might find helpful - http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-Visual-Information/
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by yantrams 8y ago
Never heard of it. Will check it out. Thank you! PS: One of the highest points during my college prep days was when I managed to solve this kinematics problem from Krotov where the condition for a ball bouncing in a well to get out depends
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by yantrams 8y ago
And the smell was amazing too :)
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You're welcome :) Memorable tales and gorgeous illustrations. This is one of the few books I managed to keep in absolute mint condition :) I have a scanned version lying around in my collection. Will upload sometime soon on my blog.
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by yantrams 8y ago
Landsberg's series on Elementary Physics[0] would be a more appropriate counterpart to Resnick & Halliday etc, targeted towards those preparing for university exams. Narosa has a great collection indeed. 0 - https://arch
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by yantrams 8y ago
Here you go :) https://mirtitles.org/2018/11/11/misha-stack/
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Is this the book you are referring to ? - https://sovietbookbugs.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/rassian-c...
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Interesting to know that!
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For REAL bragging rights, you had to solve Krotov :)

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