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by f5ve 1y ago
I agree. I also get much more out of playing Bach than listening to him. I almost never listen to Bach for pleasure, but I know a few fugues and the like. Playing them makes you feel like a god; listening to them feels like an assault. T
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by f5ve 2y ago
Left unaddressed is whether polar bears can ever make it back to Greenland once winding up in Iceland. I'm guessing the answer is only very rarely , based on the rest of the article... But then again Iceland is 200 miles away and wo
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by f5ve 2y ago
Josh Hartnett's suave insouciance in Lucky Number Slevin (2006) is accounted for by him "having ataraxia." [1] That is, as if it were a medical condition. I'm sure it was intended as a joke, but apparently wiktionary
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon(statsignificant.com)
2 points by f5ve 2y ago|0 comments
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by f5ve 2y ago
Your comment just made me realize something. The 5 milliseconds which Lyles won by is shorter than the time it takes sound to travel between his lane and Thompson's. If the starting gun were on the outside of the track (it's not
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by f5ve 2y ago
This is an accurate and well-written portrait of Pitchfork bookended by musings on the current state of music criticism as a business.
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by f5ve 2y ago
I did some reading into rongorongo a few years ago and I came away with two conclusions: 1. It is very likely the scripts developed after contact with Europeans. That is, the islanders saw Europeans writing things down and then over the y
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The Thomson Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by f5ve 2y ago|0 comments
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by f5ve 3y ago
If you're thinking "The highest rate I need my signal to be able to replicate is X, so I should set my sampling rate to 2X," then you're wrong and this article gives several reasons why. As far as I can tell, though, it
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by f5ve 3y ago
Indeed. And they've applied the translator even to the comments, without making it clear, which seems ethically dubious to me.
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by f5ve 3y ago
There really is one for everything: https://xkcd.com/2758/
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by f5ve 3y ago
Why do people not run uBlock Origin? What's the case against?
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by f5ve 3y ago
The movie Machete was made after the trailer. The trailer was sandwiched, with other fake ones, in between the two parts of the Tarantino / Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse . I remember because I saw Grindhouse in theaters an
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by f5ve 3y ago
In the 1690's the Scottish invested an enormous sum of money and human capital to settle this region. The goal was to build and profit from an overland route to ferry cargo from the Pacific to the Atlantic, similar to the Panama Canal
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by f5ve 3y ago
Meteor in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNEOS_2014-01-08
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by f5ve 3y ago
From the conclusion of the study the article cites: > In this survey study, all types of objectively measured VI were associated with a higher dementia prevalence. As most VI is preventable, prioritizing vision health may be important f
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by f5ve 3y ago
I have to say I mostly agree and I'm very surprised at how few negative comments there are in this thread. It's good the community is supportive but with the current state of AI this product is essentially just spewing more nonse
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by f5ve 3y ago
+1 to this. Some other (sinensis) teas do give me headaches as well, but matcha quite consistently does even when most brewed green teas don't. Strange.
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by f5ve 3y ago
This is cool. My first thought is the choice of dialect rather than accent . I'm from NC and the Lumbee Indians had a way of speaking that was unique and endearing. It feels like many places in the US are losing that identity and
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by f5ve 3y ago
> 1% each year I think you mean 1% each life
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by f5ve 3y ago
Murray says it's hard to see how Prigozhin and Putin both come out of this alive. He also says he expects it to be over in two weeks. So ... what? ... Surely it's very unlikely that both these things turn out to be true.
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by f5ve 3y ago
It removes flouride as well, for better or worse -- one of very few available filters which do. (Some think flouride is good and some think it's bad.) I have it, and purely ergonomically, it's the best filter I've ever used.
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by f5ve 3y ago
An important fact never explicitly stated in this video is that humans in a contained area will die from CO2 toxicity before lack of oxygen. Many people don't know this or actively believe the opposite. O2 is ~20% of air, but CO2 is ~
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by f5ve 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Paterson I'm sure they could barely contain their shame. The man was a computer scientist before anyone bothered to string those two words together. He was literally a pioneer
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by f5ve 3y ago
Just discovered this -- it contains the optimal constructions for up to N=20. They don't prove optimality but they do claim it. https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2...
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by f5ve 3y ago
I came across this paper while I was looking for a compilation of constructions (especially the current record-holders), but I wasn't able to find one. If anyone has seen such a thing please do post.
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The Overhang Problem (2007) [pdf](math.dartmouth.edu)
77 points by f5ve 3y ago|16 comments
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by f5ve 3y ago
I don't understand why this didn't make bigger waves ... Perhaps diluted by the same team's preceding but less significant success which allowed reflections. Some weeks ago. Even Wikipedia has yet to explicitly state that th
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by f5ve 3y ago
> OP-1 is targeted at music professionals. This is so objectively untrue that when I read it I assumed it was a joke or somehow tongue in cheek. Even at the height of its popularity, the OP-1 was rarely used by serious, professional prod
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South African Proto-human Homo naledi buried dead, ca. 300k years ago(wsj.com)
6 points by f5ve 3y ago|1 comments

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