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Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury(fweet.org)
37 points by alderz 2y ago|11 comments
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by alderz 3y ago
The store page is struggling with 502's right now.
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Google's new color scheme for Maps has been spotted in the wild(androidpolice.com)
1 points by alderz 3y ago|0 comments
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Lessons at Life’s Midpoint(ft.com)
1 points by alderz 5y ago|0 comments
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by alderz 5y ago
Metals get rust by an oxidation process.
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Four Pests campaign – and the extermination of sparrows in China(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by alderz 5y ago|0 comments
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Over 3M People Took This Course on Happiness. Here’s What Some Learned(nytimes.com)
2 points by alderz 5y ago|0 comments
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by alderz 5y ago
I am not sure why you got downvoted. The website makes the point well.
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by alderz 5y ago
Looking at the CSS classes, it references the procedence of the mathematician: (North) America is green, Middle East orange, Asia red, and so on. Tao is the only blue: he is from Oceania (Australia.)
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Hexagonal tiling of the two-dimensional sphere (2015)(pub.ist.ac.at)
1 points by alderz 5y ago|0 comments
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Minicourse on Technical Writing – By Knuth, Larrabee, and Roberts (1989) [pdf](tex.loria.fr)
2 points by alderz 5y ago|0 comments
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Fix the Machine, Not the Person (2012)(aaronsw.com)
1 points by alderz 5y ago|0 comments
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Top Latex Fonts(r2src.github.io)
3 points by alderz 6y ago|2 comments
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by alderz 6y ago
I came to the comment section to compliment the choice of Garamond. The web would look much more beautiful with proper justification. It's a pity technology is not there yet. TeX solved the problem for DVI/PDFs long ago, so maybe
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Ask HN: Which PDF reader do you use on Linux?
3 points by alderz 6y ago|2 comments
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by alderz 6y ago
WhatsApp is, or used to be, based on a heavily modified version of ejabberd, which is a XMPP server written in Erlang.
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by alderz 6y ago
Ipe is a lovely piece of software. I use it a lot and always feel that it deserves to be more well-known. I do not find it especially good for commutative diagrams, though. I usually type tikz-cd code for those cases.
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by alderz 6y ago
There is also https://github.com/yishn/tikzcd-editor which I have used a few times.
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by alderz 6y ago
Keep in mind that Docker for Mac runs in a virtual machine, so it is much heavier than running it on Linux.
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If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed (2019)(npr.org)
5 points by alderz 6y ago|0 comments
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by alderz 6y ago
The author has written the novel "Permutation City", which I read after seeing it recommended here on HN a lot. It is a great book. I never thought I would be interested in sci-fi, but this book changed my mind. It deals with simu
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by alderz 6y ago
In the subject of Artificial Intelligence it says: > Theorem: No AI will bother after hacking its own reward function. and then goes on: > The picture [263] is that once the AI has ﬁgured out the philosophy of the “Dude” in the Coh
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by alderz 6y ago
http://archive.is/Oyn47
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Crisis mode: potential flaw in PhD thesis two weeks before deadline(mathoverflow.net)
3 points by alderz 6y ago|0 comments
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by alderz 6y ago
I guess that for some people, and particularly in small reviews, it is enough with the list of files and inline comments. I would like to have a tree view where I can see all the files at a glance, and, more importantly, switch back a forth
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by alderz 6y ago
By reading the stream of comments on the PR, and from my own experience, I feel that it is extremely cumbersome to do code reviews on Github. Atlassian's Fisheye/Crucible looks like a better solution. Does anyone think otherwise?
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by alderz 6y ago
Associated papers: https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2020/06/01/WNL.0000000... https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/doi/10.1093/brain/awa...
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by alderz 6y ago
I love essays in commit messages! They can be very useful, especially when they describe why the change is being applied, instead of what is being done, which is usually the case. Many high-profile projects have essays in their commits; I&#
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by alderz 6y ago
Related to the "Every Mathematician Has Only a Few Tricks" point, there is a Mathoverflow question https://mathoverflow.net/questions/363119/every-mathematicia... that tries to list all of those tricks,
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics(jeff560.tripod.com)
3 points by alderz 6y ago|0 comments

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