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by hoyd 1mo ago
«Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.» I had not read this before, but told many students the same about my PIN code and I a quiz about the last digits. Love it.
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by hoyd 2mo ago
«Keep the web weird and interesting.» This made me smile and I agree.
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by hoyd 3mo ago
Songs too.
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by hoyd 3mo ago
With four kids, I think I have grown more patient with people in general. Also one who got more sentimental.
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by hoyd 3mo ago
I would not so much, perhaps look for spelling errors. For me writing the sermon is the goal, diving into the deep and exploring the topic, passage and such. If I preach it, it is kind of a bonus, or a driver to begin with :-)
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by hoyd 3mo ago
I could, but I would most likely print out a copy from the pdf export or bring a tablet. ;-)
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by hoyd 3mo ago
I have made a TUI tool for organizing and authoring sermons written by myself. It also has a third mode for reading one or two bible versions in parallel. I love the interface and keep adding features to make it easy to navigate in and some
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by hoyd 4mo ago
«That feedback loop is breaking. If the visible scoreboard is dominated by teams using AI, a beginner is pushed toward using AI before they have built the instincts the AI is replacing. That is an anti-pattern. It prevents active learning,
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by hoyd 6mo ago
Perhaps the doctor meant for these to be lost and not found, or that the daleks was afraid of them?
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by hoyd 7mo ago
This is what the internet is about, finding blogs and stumbling over pages like this with such content. Thanks!
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by hoyd 7mo ago
Sounds like something I would do too. Awesomeness
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by hoyd 8mo ago
https://blog.hoyd.net
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by hoyd 9mo ago
Voynich manuscript next :-)
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Bot vs. Bot: Will the Internet Soon Be a Place Without Humans? (2018)(singularityhub.com)
2 points by hoyd 1y ago|1 comments
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by hoyd 1y ago
Interesting to read this article again now, after the raise of LLMs. The bot vs. bot then could perhaps be read as llm vs. llm today? "The paradox is that this bot glut could eventually push most human interaction offline again; news (
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Ask HN: Unusual distribution of steps needed to reach Kaprekar's constant (6174)(earth.hoyd.net)
1 points by hoyd 1y ago|1 comments
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by hoyd 1y ago
In the distribution of the number of steps needed to reach Kaprekar's constant (6174), I observe an unexpected distribution pattern, with three steps being the most common number of steps required. I cannot think of why this is the cas
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Can LLMs Aid in Deciphering the Voynich Manuscript?(viao.co.uk)
5 points by hoyd 1y ago|0 comments
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by hoyd 2y ago
Sure, here is a translated post: Title: Distribution of the Number of Steps to Kaprekar's Constant We are trying Kaprekar's routine. I choose a four-digit number with at least two different digits: 2345. We find the largest possib
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by hoyd 2y ago
Sorry about that. The post itself isn't relevant, it's just the plot from it I refer to.
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Ask HN: Unusual distribution of steps needed to reach Kaprekar's constant (6174)
2 points by hoyd 2y ago|5 comments
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by hoyd 2y ago
On the side, from the title I was picturing actual knitted parachutes, which isn't the first time. At work, we had a student cansat team who did just that. To everyone's surprise, it worked better than regular ones. Here is a vide
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by hoyd 2y ago
Same
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by hoyd 2y ago
Reminded me of that too.
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by hoyd 2y ago
Do you happen to have a link for that comic?
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Microfortnight(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by hoyd 2y ago|0 comments
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by hoyd 2y ago
Of computer magazines today, I can only think of Hello World. Not a gaming magazine, but still.
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by hoyd 2y ago
This was right up my alley, and inspired by this post, I had to check against the norwegian scrabble dictionary: https://earth.hoyd.net/posts/ord-du-kan-stave-med-en-kalkula...
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by hoyd 2y ago
What a lovely question! I enjoyed reading the answer too. It reminded me of the childrens book "Did Jesus Ever See a Penguin?"
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by hoyd 2y ago
Reminded me of pointerpointer.com and for some reason new kids on the block.

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