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"suture" and "sutra" are cognates in Latin and Sanskrit respectively. A sutra सूत्र is literally a thread or fibre. This also explains why it was calqued into Chinese as 經 (among other meanings, "weave").

Similarly, "joust" and "juxtapose" are cognates via French and neo-Latinate French respectively (ultimately from iūxtā, a Latin preposition meaning "near", "next to").

However, my most favourite pair of surprising cognates that I discovered recently is "durian" (the fruit) and "iwi" (a word loaned from Maori into New Zealand English meaning "tribe"). This one goes way back into Proto-Austronesian...

Unfortunately, this isn't correct according to my sources -- Italian anno < Latin annus < PIE h₂t-nó-s from a root h₂t- "to go", while ano < Latin anus < PIE *h₁eh₂no- "ring".

The person who posted the vaccine misinformation had undergone some personal loss for which he blames the medical system. While this doesn't excuse spreading misinformation, it helped me understand where his desire to sow doubt in organised medicine could have come from: https://patientsafetymovement.org/advocacy/patients-and-fami...

Here’s the result of @cybergibbons’ reverse engineering into the distribution over w3w terms that only differ in singular vs. plural: https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...

This kind of reminds me of the Heptapod writing system from "Arrival". I wonder what contributes to the cost -- is it simply because it's unique, or are some of the materials expensive?

Although the weights aren't available, I wanted to note that the model source itself is actually hosted at https://github.com/openai/guided-diffusion.

"Eel thing" for erisypelas sounded odd to me as the name for a skin condition. The only references I could find online are to copies of this list, so perhaps it was a transcription error.

Facebook does not have stack ranking — de facto or otherwise. You mention that Google is somehow an exception, but I think you'll find that in terms of the PSC (review cycle), the attitude towards work and flexibility, and the expectations, the two are basically indistinguishable.

This sounds fascinating, although "DOSBLOOD.EXE" only returns one Google result, being this comment. I assume it would work by constantly modifying the bitmap font?

@cybergibbons also discovered that whatever algorithm they use has the unfortunate property that points fairly close together only differ in whether one word is singular or plural.

For support to be sent to the wrong location in an emergency situation just because "fields" was misheard as "field" or vice versa is unconscionable.

https://twitter.com/cybergibbons/status/1388844414450155521

The company simply denied that the analysis was correct.

I'm not even Jewish, and I know about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikuach%20nefesh.

It's a beautiful touch that the animation demonstrating the spring itself has a spring action on its playback slider.

I think it can't be understated how important it is to able to rotate, and move the playback forwards and backwards.

It's almost like being able to hold the part in your hands, examine the reasoning behind its structure and "debug" your mental model of it by playing its operation back and forth.

Why not? It's likely because the platforms were all much simpler then. Vendor-specific features like stickers, end-to-end encryption, video attachments, reactions make it difficult to support a subset which is going to satisfy regular users.

I can second dkasper's observations -- the PSC cycle is engineered to reward initiative. That said, depending on the team, the practice does not always follow the theory, so it makes sense that the FB employees your company could poach may have been the ones unsatisfied with the way their team rewarded initiative.

The sound from the Mac LC, complete with the ominous interval it ends on, has been burnt into my mind since I first heard it in primary school in the computer lab.

I did my dissertation on an aspect of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, as mentioned in the article as a byproduct of Schönfinkel's work.

One of the interesting byproducts of considering sequences of words in a natural language sentence as functions, is a solution to analysing a phenomenon in syntax called right node raising: "I washed and you dried the dishes."

In context-free grammars of English, "I washed" and "you dried" do not form constituents (unlike "washed the dishes" or "dried the dishes", which are VPs — verb phrases). However, in Combinatory Categorial Grammar, this is no problem, as "I washed" is simply a function looking rightward for a noun phrase (NP), and returning a sentence (S). In CCG terms, this function would be notated S/NP, corresponding to an interpretation function of type NP -> S.

I admire the reach of "Two Minute Papers", but that guy has got to stop calling everything an AI for the sake of YouTube views.

Don't confuse anti-PRC sentiment with anti-Chinese sentiment. It is a classic strategy to conveniently conflate the two only when the CPC is being criticised.

This was published so close to April Fools' Day that I can't decide whether this is for real...

That installer brings back memories. When I was a kid, I would wonder how it managed to render its own UI and look so different from all the other DOS executables.

Solved it! I kept tilting my head because it was hard to see the clue and interpret it at the same time. The ability to highlight all three diagonals would have been perfect.

The final clue I had to complete was that tricky .*(.)(.)(.)(.)\4\3\2\1.*

This doesn't quite have the magical soul of Aphyr's ones, unfortunately. https://aphyr.com/tags/Interviews

Migration doesn't square with the fact that valuable objects were found entombed in the burnt houses.

Have you tried working with rust-ndarray (the closest thing to NumPy in Rust)? While I love Rust for general work, unfortunately for numeric programming, compared to NumPy itself, it's like pulling teeth. There's a lot which is completely missing: the main thing for me is (boolean) masks, which means there's no element-wise comparison of ndarrays.

tsukae does mean "use" in Japanese -- but it's the blunt command form (命令形) "Use it!!"

Indeed.

I immediately tried to unsubscribe from their newsletter, but it seems all their IT infrastructure's gone too.

Searching this database by typing keywords reminds me of the "search engine" gameplay in Sam Barlow's game Her Story.

A Canadian bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD_Canada_Trust