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by gfaure 1mo ago
Cool! Enclitic -que should _not_ be broken off as a separate word, though.
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by gfaure 3mo ago
That "Stocks" icon is bizarre -- imagine a stocks app where the marker indicating the queried position on a trendline actually had that superfluous refraction effect on it.
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by gfaure 3mo ago
"Ova Sfongia Ex Lacte" seems like a typo of a recipe that originated here ( https://historicalitaliancooking.home.blog/english/recipes/a... ) and spread around the Internet.
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by gfaure 4mo ago
Agreed. I started from this article a few years ago, and was frustrated enough by: > So that means, while I know what it does, I don't really know how, since all the work is in that mysterious function. that I spent the time to work
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by gfaure 4mo ago
The genus of the seahorse is _Hippocampus_.
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by gfaure 8mo ago
I wish it were possible to link to a particular page (e.g. the optics simulation).
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by gfaure 9mo ago
For starters, a Chinese language which preserves final stops (-p, -t, -k) would be a better choice (e.g. Cantonese). These disappear completely in Mandarin, leaving rhymes (the vowel + final consonant) underspecified or ambiguous in many ca
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by gfaure 1y ago
Don’t give them any ideas… https://taxheaven3000.com/
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by gfaure 1y ago
There is the normal notation for half-open ranges, which would lead to unbalanced brackets.
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by gfaure 1y ago
Amazing that you developed this over the course of three months! Can you drop any insight into how you pulled together the audio data?
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by gfaure 2y ago
> In this instance Standard Chinese or any sort of literary pronunciation is essentially useless to me since people aren't speaking that way Thank you for creating this! But I'm afraid this is the misunderstanding -- words like
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by gfaure 2y ago
> - Characters starting with the vowel i sound more an e. Therefore, "to invite", 請 (cing2), sounds more like ceng2, and "to hear/listen", 聽 (ting1), sounds more like teng1. As a Cantonese speaker, I love the eff
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by gfaure 2y ago
Adoption makes it entirely possible for an Asian-presenting person to have a European first name _and_ surname and, frankly, is not something you should be asked about in an interview.
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by gfaure 2y ago
I've also successfully used this in production — another side effect is that you can inspect the exact information that each step is using to compute its own output, if you ensure that the output plan is a pure function of the input pl
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by gfaure 2y ago
A video presentation of the same algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajv46BSqcK4
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by gfaure 2y ago
This is occasionally quite useful. A few weeks ago, my phone's display went haywire, and the only way I could operate it to secure a backup was through the somewhat hidden mirroring functionality via QuickTime screen recording.
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Glyffuser: Diffusion Model over Chinese Characters(yue-here.github.io)
7 points by gfaure 2y ago|0 comments
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by gfaure 2y ago
The end result seems to have been the intentional desecration of the corpses of a previous ruling dynasty in a massive, public bonfire, and the (probably intentional) use of the undifferentiated remains — jewellery, precious beads and more
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by gfaure 2y ago
In the literature, they're usually called convolutional layers (I think you can pretty much search and replace all uses of "convolutive" in the text).
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by gfaure 2y ago
This reminds me of an urban exploration video on YouTube taken in a dead mall, where the people found a hidden apartment in a crawlspace where someone had apparently been living — there were signs that the area was being actively used.
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by gfaure 2y ago
Both س and ص are transcribed as "s" — is this really a common convention?
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by gfaure 2y ago
It's also worth noting that Tan is a Mandarin Chinese surname too (譚) in addition to being a distinct Hokkien surname (the much more common 陳).
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by gfaure 2y ago
Is there an index of resources that lists metas that people have put together for each country?
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by gfaure 3y ago
I find it exquisite that Paral·lel station in Barcelona really has a parallel platform layout (despite the station name deriving instead from the fact that the street with that name is parallel to the equator). https://en.wikiped
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by gfaure 3y ago
This is clearly referring to 阿姨, which is a vocative term of address for an aunt (in particular, on the mother's side). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%A7%A8
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by gfaure 3y ago
This is wrong — an entire spectrum of early modern variants starting from _vuestra merced_ to _vuesasted_ to _vusted_ to _usted_ has been demonstrated in written and printed matter across the centuries. It helps that written Spanish has bee
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by gfaure 3y ago
The docs are unusually unpolished by Apple standards — search for “progess” in this documentation link.
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by gfaure 3y ago
But the backlit screen does make a difference in usability, one has to admit?
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by gfaure 3y ago
This is the hardware that I wish Beepy had: https://beepy.sqfmi.com By the way, does anyone know why all of these devices use the Arabic BlackBerry keyboard? Was there a particular surplus of this layout?
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by gfaure 3y ago
I was bored today and was playing "Maple Leaf Rag" on an electric piano while cycling through the voices, and happened to discover exactly this when I chanced upon the harpsichord!

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