lioeters

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The Walnut Creek CD-ROM Collection(archive.org)
12 points by lioeters 1d ago|0 comments
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When does generative AI qualify for fair use?(suchir.net)
2 points by lioeters 2d ago|0 comments
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by lioeters 6d ago
Sane people adapt themselves to the world. The insane ones persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore all progress depends on the mentally abnormal. (Parody of a famous quote about "unreasonable man".)
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by lioeters 8d ago
A new twist on the torment nexus, oh sweet suffering.
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Bootstrappable Distros(github.com)
1 points by lioeters 8d ago|0 comments
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by lioeters 8d ago
I like the way you think, a true MacGyver-style problem solving.
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by lioeters 8d ago
The actual link: https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf
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by lioeters 9d ago
One might argue that mathematics is more fundamental to reality than space and time, which emerge from it.
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by lioeters 9d ago
Every single aspect of that cover is manipulative marketing.
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by lioeters 11d ago
True, this book is a classic and worth mentioning. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold Some reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44882.Code
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by lioeters 12d ago
This post is by the same author as the Lost Art of Logarithms. https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/ Discussed about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356314 (196 comments)
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by lioeters 15d ago
The similarity goes deeper since they're funded by the very thing they claim to oppose.
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by lioeters 17d ago
And the marketing to make people believe it!
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SQLite as a Document Database (2020)(dgl.cx)
256 points by lioeters 23d ago|60 comments
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by lioeters 23d ago
It was a Show HN, with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137841
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Equations explained colorfully with KaTeX and Markdown(github.com)
2 points by lioeters 23d ago|1 comments
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by lioeters 23d ago
As another comment mentioned, Raph Levien has a few words to say on the topic of improving Bezier curves. Simplifying Bézier paths (2023) https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2023/04/18/bezpath-simpli... P
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by lioeters 23d ago
A faster horse.
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by lioeters 24d ago
That's arguable.
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by lioeters 26d ago
Entertaining and educational historical narrative, much of it was new to me. The main idea is that kings of Siam willingly and actively embraced European culture and modernization efforts, unlike other countries in Asia which resisted and i
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by lioeters 26d ago
Or the more all-in-one distro, BurritOS.
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Nat: The Natural Unit of Information(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by lioeters 27d ago|0 comments
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Arthur Eddington's Theory of Everything (2015)(arxiv.org)
7 points by lioeters 27d ago|0 comments
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by lioeters 27d ago
I see, maybe it's common sense but I do like "rediscovering" basic facts for myself. (:
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by lioeters 27d ago
In another comment I made in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373317 I think it came to the understanding that a "turn" is similar to a dimensionless quantity, as it takes the full circle/cy
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by lioeters 27d ago
Funny how the so-called eldritch terror is another face of what is widely considered one of the most beautiful equations in mathematics, Euler's identity that unites five fundamental constants. e^(i*pi)+1 = 0 ..which is a result
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How Many Fundamental Constants Are There? (2011) John Baez(math.ucr.edu)
6 points by lioeters 27d ago|1 comments
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by lioeters 27d ago
That's my rabbit hole of the week. > The current state of affairs leads inevitably to ghostly appearances and disappearances of the radian in the dimensional analysis of physical equations. In "A spectral unit", Nature Phy
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by lioeters 29d ago
I try not to use parentheses, favoring other ways of interleaving thoughts - like this - unless I feel a stray idea deserves mentioning (like so). What's disgraceful that I'd never do myself, but certainly sympathetic to the moti
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Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs (1979)(dl.acm.org)
5 points by lioeters 1mo ago|0 comments

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