jagthebeetle

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by jagthebeetle 10mo ago
Looking at https://text.marvinborner.de/2023-04-06-01.html helped me understand the syntax a bit (though I'm just a non-theoretical programmer). I was confused about what <4> = \lambda ^ 5 4 meant, since it alrea
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by jagthebeetle 1y ago
I quite like _The Secret History_ too. I think in _Babel_ (and _Katabasis_ as well), Kuang is a bit more prone than Tartt to showing off legit academic tidbits, which gives a nice scholarly glint (the illusion of high-brow? authenticity, da
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by jagthebeetle 1y ago
A bit of a nit, but the 17kb PNG actually looks slightly blurry, or "artifact-ed" on my MacBook screen. Happily though, the author included a section on SVG at the bottom, which was my knee-jerk reaction for the appropriate format
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by jagthebeetle 1y ago
This construction is similar to a hendiadys (which comes from the Greek for "one through two"); e.g. "nice and warm." (So says Fowler anyway.)
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by jagthebeetle 2y ago
I thought this wasn't actually mathematically established - the related property would be whether or not pi is normal.
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by jagthebeetle 2y ago
Agreed, not least because: - area-based visualizations make the effect hard to distinguish; bar charts or data clouds with numbers and confidence intervals would have been way more immediate. - the colors make the negative group (usually) m
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by jagthebeetle 3y ago
While I agree the LSD is somewhat meaningless, I personally find it fun to test my color matching/mixing. Binary search circumvents that (at least for the most significant digit); though I agree it really only applies for the first and
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by jagthebeetle 3y ago
Tangentially, "valetudo" is just "health" (which may contextually connote _good_ or _bad_ health): https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1... We get "valetudinarian" f
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by jagthebeetle 3y ago
That intuition makes a lot of sense to me, especially if I picture the person's frame of reference. Kind of reminds me (a layman) of winding numbers. I suppose there are topologically inspired variations of this problem that might be e
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by jagthebeetle 3y ago
"Travois" seemed the most interesting one. Based purely on the first page of Google images, it struck me as somewhere between a horse and a carriage, but ever more on the vehicle side.
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by jagthebeetle 3y ago
What a great example! As a recent astronomy enthusiast, I found myself doubting this comment initially ("well, eclipses ARE related"), and this despite the fact that I have a toy tellurion right by my desk. But hearing a particula
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by jagthebeetle 4y ago
I never did math past linear algebra/real analysis, so the only concept of sizes I have are countable/uncountable infinities. Apparently the crux of this proof was showing that "the space of all modular forms with bounded den
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by jagthebeetle 4y ago
Of particular note are some reinforcements from Old Norse (circa 850s onward): - are (displacing bēoþ, sind, and sindon) - their (displacing heora) - they (displacing hīe) As a linguistic game, sounds fun. Hopefully its pupils don't ta
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En-CA switching to M/d/yy from y-MM-dd?(unicode-org.github.io)
2 points by jagthebeetle 4y ago|1 comments
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by jagthebeetle 4y ago
I noticed some locale-formatting tests breaking in Chrome 110 and traced this back to a change in Unicode CLDR 42. You can find this by searching for "y-MM-dd" in the linked changelog. AIUI, the official recommendation is to use y
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by jagthebeetle 4y ago
I'm from NYC and call it "plain" or "cheese." "Regular" makes me think too hard as to whether the "New York thing" is to say "regular" or "plain." It's also a lot of syll
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by jagthebeetle 4y ago
I see this concept often cited when mathematicians talk about how they had a breakthrough on a proof, but I have to say, I don't think I've ever noticed it in myself, sadly. I have good ideas, and sometimes I need a break before m
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by jagthebeetle 4y ago
Financial Times reported on Silvergate's disclosure of $8.1B in withdrawals [1], but curiously, don't mention a $100M seizure. Is this new / verified? [1]: https://www.ft.com/content/69cd8629-278d-4cd5-a3
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by jagthebeetle 4y ago
Isn't the earth's eccentricity incredibly low? (To the point that human-noticeability or non-precision-machinability are out of the question?) That's not to say I have any comment on the accuracy of ellipse calculation. Keple
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by jagthebeetle 4y ago
I wish it weren't song-based, though it's an understandable implementation. As others have noted, there are often many cues 'n' clues even before a single word is uttered. But also, I have trouble enough picking out word
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by jagthebeetle 4y ago
Actually, Americans wouldn't say "fourth July" – that would likely connote "the fourth iteration of July" in some longer timespan (e.g. "In the fourth July of my adolescence"). "Fourth _of_ July"
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by jagthebeetle 4y ago
I don't really view GPT-3 as a chatbot. It provides reasonably cogent completions to snippets of text, so this doesn't seem like an exploit – though perhaps it is one depending on the context in which it is being sold for use, and
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by jagthebeetle 6y ago
To be fair, we wouldn't have "literally" without a metaphoric interpretation of "literalis," "of or relating to letters." I always find this particular example to be somewhat self-contradicting for this re
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by jagthebeetle 6y ago
While I think this is definitely a useful foundation, things get a lot more complicated quickly once you jump into a large site's stylesheet(s). Why isn't this element the size I specified? Or why is there a tiny amount of scroll
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by jagthebeetle 6y ago
I'm having a lot of fun with this, having just completed addition. I suppose it's natural [pun not intended] to feel like you don't really know what you're doing except symbolic expansion / replacement until you bet
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by jagthebeetle 7y ago
The lingua franca for Google's building needs is (more or less) bazel, where you say target /a/b/c depends on /dep/v1_1, /dep/xyz, /common/foo, etc.). (There is a filesystem-like hierarchy p
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by jagthebeetle 7y ago
I think I approximately understand monads, but I find the "wrap the entire external universe" type of explanation to confuse me a bit. It's just the result of one IO computation + a way of handling / unwrapping it! When
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by jagthebeetle 8y ago
There's a difference between jaded and cynical :) Not that I know the answer to your question any better. We'll have to wait for the HBO documentary. To play devil's advocate anyway, as someone who has not been following this
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by jagthebeetle 8y ago
Not to trivialize the article's ruminations above and beyond the simple mechanical understanding of hex codes – but once you have the basics of hex and color mixtures, a fun practical way to practice them is with one of various "
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by jagthebeetle 8y ago
Doesn't this trend manifest in European countries as well? (E.g. https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/poverty-rates-among-ethnic-gro... ). I don't know about equality, but correlation seems to be there and doesn&#x27

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