Timsky

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by Timsky 11mo ago
I like how people getting caught by the cameraman greet him with all little social niceties of that time.
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by Timsky 11mo ago
> demanding new —yes-destroy-my-computer-dangerously-and-step-on-my-face-daddy flags and crashing my automated scripts from last year. Literally, my case. I recently had to compile an abandoned six-year-old scientific package written in
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by Timsky 11mo ago
Beautiful!
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by Timsky 11mo ago
Today I tried with an old (1935) fundamental Bell Labs paper on harmonic distortions caused by ferromagnets in communication lines. It is for sure cited more times than it appears in Google Scholar: 25. DOI:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1935.tb
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by Timsky 11mo ago
Because this is precisely what the word counterfeit means, an imitation that deceives you. The functionality of counterfeit can be from 0% to 100%, depending on your luck. If you accidentally bought a fake iPhone, it can still make calls. C
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by Timsky 11mo ago
Thank you for sharing! I like your dendrogram-like circular graphs! They are way more intuitive. That could be a nice companion for a bibliometrix/biblioshiny library for bibliometric analysis https://www.bibliometrix.org&#x
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by Timsky 11mo ago
I think you have a very good point here: a semantic search would be the best option for such a search. The items would have unique identifiers so the language variations can be avoided. But unfortunately, I am not aware of any of these kind
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by Timsky 11mo ago
I meant that it obviously fits your needs but not mine
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by Timsky 11mo ago
It is excellent when just finding something is enough. Most often in my practice, I am dealing with questions that have no written-down answers, meaning the probability of finding a book/article that provides one is negligible. Instead
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by Timsky 11mo ago
> GPT-5 is proving useful as a literature review assistant No, it does not. It only produces a highly convincing counterfeit. I am honestly happy for people who are satisfied with its output: life is way easier for them than for me. Obv
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by Timsky 11mo ago
ArchLinux is the best alternative for yesterday's Windows 10 user
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by Timsky 11mo ago
> We don’t need to worry about AI itself, we need to be concerned about what “humans + AI” will do. Humans will do what they’ve always tried to do—gain power, enslave, kill, control, exploit, cheat, or just be lazy and avoid the hard wor
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by Timsky 11mo ago
Usually, it suffices to initiate apoptosis, the self-destruction mechanisms of the cells.
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by Timsky 11mo ago
Your article strongly consonated with the ideas I often try to communicate to those around me. I wish there were more open discussion about biases related to PhD qualifications and the growing influence of venture-capital-style practices in
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by Timsky 11mo ago
If it is a recursive one, can it apply the induction and solve the Towers of Hanoi beyond level six?
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by Timsky 1y ago
YC remains a great source of creative inspiration for me. However, I tend to skip most AI-related content on HN, as the topic does more harm than good to me in my daily life. Some people around me delegate more and more decisions to the cha
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by Timsky 1y ago
Here is a damn example: https://gist.github.com/BlueNexus/599962d03a1b52a8d5f595dabd...
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by Timsky 1y ago
Tell me why my fish just died!? Just went through a little loss and now feel sad
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by Timsky 1y ago
Thanks for sharing this piece!
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by Timsky 2y ago
Absolutely! You read my mind. Moreover, lk99 was AI-generated. Is this one, too?