HerculePoirot

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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
Wait there is more, a water landing is https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerrissage (mer = sea) On Titan, this could be called an améthanissage (for methane).
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
In French "to land" is "atterrir" (to earth). So we have "alunir". >The eagle has mooned ! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amarsir
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
Why am I being downvoted ? Or worse, absolutely ignored ? Not just here, but whenever I mention those topics ? This is an honest question. Consider these thoughts have lead me to extreme isolation.
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
An IQ score of 140 is considered near-genius or genius level and places you in the top 0.25% (99.75 percentile) of the population.
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
Chimping out about meaning of words in newspaper titles devalues morality.
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
Very much agree. The space of ideas and percepts is just too big to be grasped in one broad "objective" view of the whole scene. This is a matter of computational limitation. Faith is what setups the context for post-diction[1]. Y
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
--------------------------- Voevodsky's last interview: https://justpaste.it/cc3ta > - In 2006-2007 a lot of external and internal events happened to me, after which my point of view on the questions of the "su
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
There is "LLM" in the title ...
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
https://pasteboard.co/Q7HK3Cm4fXDe.png
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
I'm not sure. I just watched "Anime Rock, Paper, Scissors" release in February, and the quality of the animation (modulo some instability in shadows) is mind blowing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
Review of old K+E graph paper by Math researcher and Youtuber Chris Staecker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7KU26mnX-I
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
Yeah, I'd have dismissed your comment before I tried running a scheme repl on a raspberry pi over ssh (local) vs a clojure repl running on the jvm on my machine. Day and night.
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
I bought a sony mzrh1 around 2007 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Sony_mz_rh1.jpg It was discontinued a couple years later. The software to download & upload files from/to the disc stopped working past o
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
> To stage a find would generally take more than one person and they'd have to operate in a sea of oversight. And yet the japanese hoax happened. I've seen whole teams of people engage into online vote cheating in my workplace.
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
> Now, with these three that we found under the actual structure of the wall, it's clear that they were intentionally placed there before the wall's construction, > One of the reasons archaeologists believe this was a temp
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
What proves this wasn't placed there by archeologists (I'm not accusing this particular discovery, just trying to elicit reflexion on the topic of faked archeology). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Pale
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
I pasted my best ai-generated paragraphs, verdict: 100%. I'm impressed.
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
Were the baskets woven underwater ?
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
In french academic circles, we use the word "mandarin" to refer to a powerful academic figure.
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
> Prize share: 1/3 (x 3) Can someone elaborate on these weights ? Are there occurrences where the attribution weights are different between laureates ?
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
eggs and bacon
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
• Friedrich August Kekulé: The renowned German chemist, Kekulé was responsible for discovering the ring structure of benzene. In a dream, he saw a snake biting its own tail, which inspired him to propose the cyclic structure of the benzene
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
It can be engineered. It has already begun. Whenever you experience some kind of synchronicity in an ad that looks as if it had read your mind, because you thought about the same thing a few hours before, the algorithm is optimizing what ma
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
Another eccentric french scientist, Jean-Pierre Petit, was one of his rare visitor (they shared the same antimilitarist views, and became friend after his exile). He wrote a brief story about the context of his withdrawal away from society
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
Famous German safety video: Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_Driver_Klaus_%E2%80%9... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lc70Mjp-U Gore and funny !
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
A recent "Hermetic Theory of Everything [Evolution, Morality, Structures, Simulation, Alchemy]", by a programmer IIRC. However, I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BjCpLh_m
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
NATO – APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Recent COIN and CT operations around the world have brought to light an increased need for influence capabilities on local populations and key individuals. The understanding of the human terrain and its dy
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
Future perfect https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/french/french-ii/fr...
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
As a formal framework, probability theory relies on a series of axioms to hold (e.g. a measurable space of events), which enables a closure provided with interesting mathematical properties, but which is not necessarily representative of th
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by HerculePoirot 3y ago
The main question of the second essay is the ethnocentrism often criticized in my anthropological perspective. Those who protest against "Western ethnocentrism" willingly imagine that they owe nothing to the West since they veheme

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