aregue

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by aregue 2mo ago
I had a professor that used to say that engineering is modelling problems with a set of differential equations and finding a numerical approximation to the solution. No differential equation ==> Not engineering.
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by aregue 6mo ago
It is trivial for any country that is not land-locked. You just have to sail to international waters. What is difficult is to stay there.
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Guilty Displeasures(hopefulmons.com)
121 points by aregue 7mo ago|115 comments
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by aregue 7mo ago
The same expression "tocar ferro" was used traditionally in Catalan instead of knock on wood. Ferro translates as iron. Iron in this expression refers to a sword. More than trusting in good luck or some sort of supra natural prote
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by aregue 7mo ago
I cannot read the paper that this article is based on, but it seems that it refers to the use of big data analytics and AI in 2024, not LLM. It concludes that the use of AI leads to a 4% increase in productivity. Nowadays the debate over AI
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by aregue 7mo ago
Grokipedia seems like a useful product from xAI to me. It is the first major change in how to write an encyclopedia since Wikipedia. On the topics that I have compared, Grokipedia entries are more comprehensive and relevant than Wikipedia o
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by aregue 8mo ago
https://threegraygeese.com/
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The Three Rights of the Patent Office [video](youtube.com)
2 points by aregue 10mo ago|0 comments
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by aregue 11mo ago
What is the rate of security flaws in code written by humans? Difficult to asses the results without a base rate for comparison.
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by aregue 11mo ago
One solution is to have several markets. Norway also has transmission problems. The land is divided into 5 areas, each with its own price.
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How to Spot a Genius(economist.com)
1 points by aregue 1y ago|0 comments
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Ships are sailing with fake insurance from the Norwegian Ro Marine(nrk.no)
244 points by aregue 1y ago|129 comments
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Historical Tech Tree(historicaltechtree.com)
5 points by aregue 1y ago|1 comments
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by aregue 3y ago
How do these tiles compare to a green roof where there is some cooling via water evaporation through plants?
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by aregue 3y ago
Exactly. Los Monegros was until 1766 Europes largest oak (encina) forest. It had been a communal forest. The forest was privatized and cut to cultivate cereal.
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The Kyiv Declaration(kyivdeclaration.org)
19 points by aregue 5y ago|4 comments
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by aregue 5y ago
Ukrainian civil society leaders’ six asks for the world
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by aregue 7y ago
I wonder if this letter is truly from Guardia Civil or is it from someone else impersonating it. The content reads amateurish, such as the claim "Tsunami Democratic's main goal is coordinating these riots and terrorist actions by
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by aregue 8y ago
This is from 2015. It seems like they didn't get much far with the open source software they claim to be using/developing. On their website there is a link to a Dropbox folder where people can download some spreadsheets and docume
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by aregue 8y ago
There was a story on HN a while ago about Bootstrapping 10er, a Patreon-similar service for Danish creators https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18820196 It was a single person running it.
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by aregue 9y ago
As long as the part that wants to split is also willing to take a fair share of the national debt, I don't see anything amoral with it.
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by aregue 9y ago
Interesting. Thank you
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Ask HN: How to get good feedback for academic code?
4 points by aregue 9y ago|4 comments