oluckyman

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An album of π(90) songs about a sublinear prime number sieve(youtube.com)
3 points by oluckyman 5mo ago|0 comments
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by oluckyman 2y ago
But many trans women have no hormonal or surgical interventions at all. Are you implying that cis lesbians are not attracted to them?
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by oluckyman 2y ago
Indeed. It's hard to believe that until relatively recently people thought that sexual attraction was fundamentally based in biology rather than identity.
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by oluckyman 2y ago
Depends how desperate for a smoke the other person is.
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by oluckyman 3y ago
Nice description! For project of this type that has been going for 20 years, and covers many different paint sets, see https://zsolt-kovacs.unibs.it/colormixingtools
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by oluckyman 3y ago
I was a visiting professor there in 1989, and sat in on the course, which was on math proofs. We had weekly homework, which I did. In one class, I told Dijkstra that his proof was wrong. He couldn’t see my point, and we argued briefly and a
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by oluckyman 3y ago
In a similar but visual vein, here’s a Mad Magazine style treatment of the great man’s song Ballad of a Thin Man: https://paulpritchard.github.io/Ballad_of_a_Thin_Man/
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by oluckyman 3y ago
A “higher order prime sieve” indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Pritchard
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by oluckyman 4y ago
Speculating on crypto is like gambling where the house takes a 50% cut.
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by oluckyman 4y ago
From the article: Dennett models the mind on the idea of the computer. But computers are the products of human designers. Hence it makes no sense to try to explain the mind in terms of computers, since the existence of a computer itself pre
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Counting the prime numbers up to N: An elementary approach in almost O(√N) time(arxiv.org)
1 points by oluckyman 4y ago|0 comments
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by oluckyman 4y ago
Very nice indeed to see a simple algorithm in an area recently dominated by complex beasts. Gives me those great 70s vibes. Seems like a major result. Would love to hear from an expert in the area.
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Artist uses AI image generator with own name as prompt(instagram.com)
6 points by oluckyman 4y ago|1 comments
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Australia’s National Gallery unveils 20% non-binary target(smh.com.au)
3 points by oluckyman 5y ago|1 comments
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by oluckyman 5y ago
In section III B (p.8) the paper states that “in 1982…Gries[24] devised another linear algorithm” for the maximum subarray problem. I remember that. Jon Bentley visited Cornell, and posed the problem to me and Gries together. We thought on
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by oluckyman 6y ago
Having just completed a drawing unit in art school, for which a major assessment task was a self-portrait in graphite pencil, I can say with some confidence that this is an unusually good account. Hell, it's excellent.
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by oluckyman 7y ago
I'll add my voice to the chorus that says this is a symptom of a more fundamental issue: aphantasia. As a card-carrying aphantasiac, I'm skeptical of the ability of most people to visualize. I recall hearing of an experiment in wh
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by oluckyman 7y ago
Wow. Maynard FTW yet again. A Fields medal down the track would be no surprise at this rate. He has several more years to qualify.
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by oluckyman 7y ago
My fave song about petrichor is by Paul Kelly: https://youtu.be/A9_qkTeMlGk
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by oluckyman 7y ago
It’s helpful, but if the task is to draw the imagined bicycle, then you would presumably add details as far as possible. But for most people the result is very far from what they would draw if a bicycle was in front of them. So what they im
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by oluckyman 7y ago
Then the “images” most people say they can imagine in their “mind’s eye” might be little different from what an aphantasiac like me would produce if asked to draw them. Perhaps I am not missing much at all.
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by oluckyman 7y ago
Most people could draw a bicycle well enough while looking at it. But most people are hopeless when asked to draw a bicycle from their imagination. But most people don’t have aphantasia. I do, so am sceptical when people say they can pictur
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Making More Youthful Muscle(science.sciencemag.org)
3 points by oluckyman 8y ago|0 comments
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by oluckyman 8y ago
“Langlands’s”! Now that’s eccentric.
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by oluckyman 8y ago
Why I Am Not a Christian, by Bertrand Russell (1), 16 years of Catholic indoctrination (0).
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by oluckyman 8y ago
The commentary misrepresents the original study as much as the popular press coverage it criticizes. From the Abstract of the study: “grammar-learning ability...is preserved almost to the crux of adulthood (17.4 years old) and then declines
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Audiophilia Forever: An Expensive New Year’s Shopping Guide(newyorker.com)
1 points by oluckyman 9y ago|1 comments
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by oluckyman 9y ago
mate
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by oluckyman 9y ago
Australians: not what you thought it meant. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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by oluckyman 9y ago
Gotta be Axe Capital, surely.

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