gfaure

This is the hardware that I wish Beepy had: https://beepy.sqfmi.com

By the way, does anyone know why all of these devices use the Arabic BlackBerry keyboard? Was there a particular surplus of this layout?

I was bored today and was playing "Maple Leaf Rag" on an electric piano while cycling through the voices, and happened to discover exactly this when I chanced upon the harpsichord!

It saddened me to hear about the circumstances: https://headwizememorial.wordpress.com/pow-chu-moys-memorial...

This article seems to conflate "spice ingredients" with spicy ingredients. I would have a hard time considering how food from cuisines that use (e.g.) aniseed, caraway, cardamom or poppy seed could be considered "spicy food".

Nice! The README mentions `LayerNorm` is implemented here, but while it's in the equivalence tests with PyTorch, I don't see it in the implementation.

I wonder if this hints at an evolutionary adaptation at dealing with people outside of the in-group — could it be that there was an advantage to subconsciously perceiving non-native speech as a threat, or at least something worth being on guard for?

Many libraries around me in the Bay Area seem to have 3D printing services for free — this might be an alternative for a one-off, while costing you nothing!

I hope with every fibre of my being that this eventually replaces matplotlib and pyplot.

Another cool feature to add would be pitch accent data from one of the various sources (e.g. Wiktionary, OJAD, ...)

I severely doubt that the spiders which crawled the data would go to the trouble of dereferencing and downloading torrents.

What about Flammekueche?

I didn't know that Swift had a macro system...

After my grandmother died, my aunt relayed to me that the night before, she had started calling for my grandfather, acting like he was around, despite having died a good thirty years before her. This article mentioned the comforting effect of such visions. I have to assume the body knows before the conscious mind does.

It can't have been Cantonese -- we use 蚊 (man1) as the currency counter and not 塊 ("lumps") like in Mandarin.

That’s the whole problem — that the reconstruction aspect of the contributions seems overstated given only a layperson’s understanding.

That's because that _is_ the word (大腿) for thigh — native speakers don't perceive it as "big leg", which would be 大的腿 instead.

This is exactly analogous to "little finger" in English.

This linked article seems to have gotten special access to the data -- unfortunately only the resulting model is available.

I only remember the DAA instruction because it was the last instruction I implemented in my Game Boy emulator. Since it's mainly used for end-user display of game scores, for most games it doesn't lead to any behaviour problems apart from messed up numeric strings, even if not implemented.

How does this make any sense? The longer you simmer something, the more concentrated the remaining material becomes.

I've always wondered about the IATA meal code CAKE, and what it might have involved.

"bavovna" (бавовна) is explained by Illia Ponomarenko here better than I could myself: https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1557458609541349376

Actually, they progressively inject faster bootstrappers and end up with about 4.8 kB/s: https://youtu.be/qBK1sq1BQ2Q

Did you misinterpret the article? Before the section with the imaginary gods, it clearly reads:

> The Gods illustrated below are imaginary. These made-up illustrations show how symbols and attributes in real Aztec iconography were composed to depict a God’s domain, abilities and needs.

The mentions of the real Aztec gods (Tlaltecuhtli and on) do not suggest that they are imaginary.

I don’t see any screenshots in the story containing text. Can you elaborate?

int.bit_count, but str.removesuffix -- consistency has never been a strength of the Python standard library.

The focus on correct pronunciation here has always bothered me in a particular way: the Heart Sutra ends in a Sanskrit mantra -- "gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā", or "gone, gone, far gone, awakening, svaha".

But in each of the languages that inherited the Chinese rendering of the Heart Sutra -- Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and others -- the mantra is pronounced completely differently, by the principles of sound change over the centuries!

In fact, the Japanese rendering is "gyatei gyatei haragyatei harasōgyatei boji sowaka", while the Korean rendering is "aje aje bara-aje baraseung-aje moji sabaha". Each of these is in turn the Sino-Xenic reading of the same Chinese transliteration of the mantra: 揭諦揭諦波羅揭諦波羅僧揭諦菩提薩婆訶.

So I wonder, if you believe in the power of the sound symbolism of the mantra, why was it ever acceptable to transliterate the Sanskrit into Chinese, and from there into a multitude of other languages?

> (The odd capitalizations are used as binary flags and determines whether a chunk is required or optional, and when it is retained or removed.)

I found this commingling of human-readable data and metadata quite novel. I can't bring to mind another format which does this.

No. “wa” in Arabic corresponds to “and” in English.

The Yoneda embedding is denoted in a few works by よ (the hiragana for the first syllable in Yoneda's name): https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Yoneda+embedding.

This is the only use of Japanese script in mainstream English-language mathematics that I'm aware of, although I'd love to be proven wrong.

A curious fact mentioned in the article: the popularity of the accordion in norteño music is apparently ultimately thanks to the presence in Texas of German immigrants.