mellow_observer

What's the big issue with GC nowadays? It has mattered to me exactly once in decades and it was still manageable anyway by using a more low level style in a hot loop. I see very few usecases where GC actually matters and for those rare few cases it was not like you were using python beforehand anyway

That's an interesting line of thought. How would you say the US/west are able to bypass this problem more effectively?

That largely just seems like a pop density map of those people who are likely on the English internet. Or in other words: the shows the base rate of UFO sightings is relatively location independent

A world where individuals are incentivized to use some wasted space to place low maintenance automated trading batteries to make a little money on the side seems like it'd be an interesting solution to the renewable energy storage problem. Put a few units in otherwise useless locations like on roofs or in between highways and make some cash, sounds like a decent investment.

Would there be any expected problems in doing such distributed power storage on a very large scale around the grid that you'd have to account for? Perhaps issues with synchronization, power flow or the possibility of large scale drops in avaialble stored power at times?

Since the brain is optimized for low energy environments, and we have now reached a high energy availability era, it makes you wonder if there's a way to get around the mental fatigue problem somehow. Fatigue is incredibly intellectually debilitating and if we could find a way to be fully on all of the time if we so wish, that should come with a great increase in quality of life.

Now available energy is almost certainly not the only reason we have fatigue, so maybe there's other barriers to overcome, but I'm shocked at how little attention this topic gets. In hackernews spirit, if someone could sell a real cure for mental fatigue, you'd change the world

Actual answer: He crosses the river and takes all of the animals and the cabbage with him in one go. why not?

Alternative Answer: He just crosses the river. Why would he care who eats what?

Another Alternative Answer: He actually can't cross the river since he doesn't have a boat and neither the cabbage nor the animals serve as appropriate floatation aids

If you spend some time working on Voynich yourself you'll find that it's actually fairly doable to come up with some translation where you can find a few words that seem to agree with each other. And when you allow yourself some permissions like unorthodox spellings or characters that can mean different things in different places, then it's not so hard to even be able to 'translate' a few seemingly reasonable sentences. This gives a lot of hope to the translator and any who follow them

So far none of these ideas have been shown to be applicable to the full text though. What you would expect with a real translation is that the further you get with your translation, the easier it becomes to translate more. But with the attempts so far is that we keep seeing that it becomes more and more difficult to pretend that other pages are just as translatable using the same scheme you came up initially. It eventually just dies a quiet death

I don't think that's likely possible. How would you determine the score? Where would you get your corpus of medieval words? How would you deal with the insane computational complexity?

Pecularities in Voynich also suggest that one to one word mappings are very unlikely to result in well described languages. For instance there's cases of repeated word sequences you don't really see in regular text. There's a lack of extremely common words that you would expect would be neccessary for a word based structured grammar, there's signs that there's at least two 'languages', character distributions within words don't match any known language, etc.

If there still is a real unencoded language in here, it's likely to be entirely different from any known language.

What do the jamming locations within Russia correspond to? You would think these are important places that require drone protection, but I could not quickly discover what is so important in these places.

For instance, the bright spot to the north west of Moscow seems to fall somewhere in or close to Zavidovo National Park. Is there something important there? There's nearby air bases Migalovo and Klin, but both seem too far from the center.