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emmelaichon Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a -single- man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a -wife- bit on the side"

emmelaichon KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU

export menu lists stl and obj.

emmelaichon Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011)

Not the long EE sound

emmelaichon Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011)

I think it's far too early to say LLMs are not how humans learn language.

Regarding "hard-wired"; it's not if you consider that "hard-wiring" of an individual is the result of millions of years of evolution.

emmelaichon Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011)

As an aside? The "I before E except after C" works well if the sound makes the long-EE sound. Which is believe was implied in it's original formulation. You obviously don't need the rule for "society" and "science".

Of older English words, there are extremely few genuine exceptions. Seize is one.

emmelaichon A thousand fewer paths to root

I'd like to see a break down by age of code and part of kernel (drivers, networking, core ,etc ..)

emmelaichon Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

This echoes SICP's admonition that "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

Which is absurd on it's face for most day to day programmers, but a critical distinction for theoretical computer scientists.

emmelaichon Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

Was that friend Justin Hall of Wired?

There was a story about Jon Postel (pre-ICANN) and fuck.com, this might be it:

https://www.links.net/webpub/fuck.com.html

emmelaichon The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150

The passage where Tom goes to whitewash the fence is brilliant.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/mark-twain/tom-sawyer#:~:text=T...

Relatable to any kids forced to do chores.

emmelaichon The Goose Programming Language

And ... you made Lobster lang, Cube2/Sauerbraten 3d shooter and voxray/voxile and lots of other cool things.

https://strlen.com/

emmelaichon What shall I teach my son?

check my profile for proton mail address.

emmelaichon What shall I teach my son?

You're reading too much into this, I think. Bad kids do exist. Be compassionate, but do not encourage involvement with them.

I have really really profound regrets about not doing this myself, with my kids.

emmelaichon Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster

maybe just drop them rather than reject with tcp reset

emmelaichon Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs

You can buy a Google Coral TPU, does that count?

emmelaichon The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

> Tyler Shultz went to work at Theranos right out of Stanford and soon noticed that things weren't as they seemed. Lots of other employees knew there was something fishy going on, but Tyler was one of a tiny handful able to resist the mesmerizing and intimidating Elizabeth Holmes and speak out about the fraud that was putting patients at risk.

https://www.thesocialradars.com/transcripts/TSR-S4-Tyler-Shu...

emmelaichon Submarine cable resilience

Yes, I admire the restraint required to not put "unlucky" in quotes.

emmelaichon Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser

Mouse movement doesn't seem to work with Chrome on Mac.

Looks good though!

emmelaichon No Man Is an Island

I'm also reminded if "I am a rock" by Simon and Garfunkel. Last two stanzas:

    I have my books
    And my poetry to protect me
    I am shielded in my armor
    Hiding in my room safe within my womb
    I touch no one and no one touches me
    I am a rock I am an island

    And a rock feels no pain
    And an island never cries

https://www.google.com/search?q=simon+and+garfunkel+i+am+a+r...

emmelaichon Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

It was sophons.

emmelaichon The value of not getting to the point (2015)

Love this comment, it's simultaneously very nerdy and very non-nerdy at the same time. Well done!

emmelaichon Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

Reminiscent of Frank Zappa's album "Ship_Arriving_Too_Late_to_Save_a_Drowning_Witch"

    ---7
       /
      /
     /        /\
    /________/  \__

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_Arriving_Too_Late_to_Save...

from the WP article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droodles Interesting!

emmelaichon cp: -r or -R?

old cp didn't have `-a`

Anyway, just use rsync.

emmelaichon Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980)

https://archive.is/ETJ43

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Barzun

emmelaichon Ask HN: What are you reading?

... how did you both misspell the title? It's the Count of Monte Cristo .. unless this is a different language.

emmelaichon Behold the pawpaw

There's a hint of rottenness to the scent -- even vomit to some. Maybe like Durian.

emmelaichon When did Google get so weird?

It's weird but I always some context in so I don't see these.

i.e. I would have searched for dario quote .... or dario basketball quote ....

emmelaichon The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

Borzoi?

emmelaichon The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

Aardvark to me. Similar snout, long ears. They were probably in the southern reaches of Egypt.

With regard to differences that could be explained by stylisation and the lack of familiarity due to it's rarity in most of Egypt.

emmelaichon Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?

https://archive.is/52HlJ

emmelaichon Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death

Pretty sure they don't.