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I think the real joke is that the average Facebook user, with no higher math, might be tricked into trying to solve it, and independently rediscover methods for solving diophantine equations and elliptic curves, all so that they can prove that they're in the 3% by commenting what the strawberry equals.

Close, that's addition

I've always wondered if there's s way to find which vectors are most important in a model like this. The gender vector man-woman or woman-man is the one always used in examples, since English has many gendered terms, but I wonder if it's possible to generate these pairs given the data. Maybe to list all differences of pairs of vectors, and see if there are any clusters. I imagine some grammatical features would show up, like the plurality vector people-person, or the past tense vector walked-walk, but maybe there would be some that are surprisingly common but don't seem to map cleanly to an obvious concept.

Or maybe they would all be completely inscrutable and man-woman would be like the 50th strongest result.

Any number of negative employees would be troubling, but I admit 9.9 million of them would be especially bad.

Well, the page starts with this in the introduction: "So here is a personal list of small ways in which my ordinary everyday daily life has been getting better since the late 1980s/early 1990s"

So on the contrary, it seems to me listing "countless improvements for Europeans" as an everyday life improvement would be an extreme overstatement of the American (?) author's empathy, or perhaps a performative indication that they think about the lives of others even when explicitly trying to focus on themself.

Interesting. I was using ChatGPT to try to come up with a possible reconstruction of the Ketef Hinnom scrolls (I don't know Ancient Hebrew at all), with some mixed results. I had to prompt it with things like "What do you think that 'YHWH' bit could mean?", and then it sort of caught on. Maybe I'll see if Claude can do better.

Your description of Old English is a bit odd. It's certainly very different from modern English, but it's its direct ancestor and both languages are Germanic.

You're proposing that advanced pattern recognition is a sign of NOT being intelligent?

Was the above comment nonsense, or did it have a pattern? If a real person happened to know ten languages and played along in this game with you, would you also see that as evidence that they are not intelligent?

Same as everybody else. Today.

> It does so by keeping the cheese 'dryer' than it normally would be. Putting it in your mouth basically undoes that.

By this logic, shouldn't croutons and cubes of fresh bread be indistinguishable?

They're hexadecimal; 100 cents in a dollar.

Couldn't you transform twiddling one way into twiddling the other way by reflecting through a mirror and turning the bolts 180 degrees end-over-end? If you start with the bolts moving North, the mirroring makes them go South, and turning them around makes them go North again, but now you're twiddling the other way. So the bolts would have to go North no matter which way you twiddle them, so either twiddling is not reversible (which is a repugnant proposition) or they must have a speed of 0.

You might enjoy the wonderful channel Lindybeige: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A44729FA673EBFF (playlist: "Lindybeige Rants on History")

I especially like this video: https://youtu.be/lZfpQzV2GnM ("Ropes and Hollywood", a rant about the value of rope and the silliness of cutting one 1-4 times every 90 minutes)

If Mozilla really is as shady about user data as some people think they've become, someone's about to be pretty confused about why they suddenly have hundreds of nearly-identical screenshots of this HN page on their servers

Unless your opponent has just executed such a brilliant set of moves that they deserve the satisfaction of actually finishing the sequence and delivering checkmate.

Not quite what you're describing, but no one has yet linked the classic Tom7 series where he applies deep learning to classic NES games: https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY

Here's a picture: https://www.media.volvocars.com/uk/en-gb/media/photos/47385/...

You didn't ask how to go hiking in the mountains, you asked how to "leave city limits". but you could still bike, go with friends, or rent a car for a day if no buses go where you want. Hiking locations tend to have lots of tourists so there would likely be bus routes, however.

You take a bus or a train or a subway or a plane or a bike or you rent a car or you roadtrip with your friends

Is it possible that eight graphics cards is the most practical configuration? How do you even set that up? I guess server mobos have crazy numbers of PCIe slots?

It's not a headline, it's the title of an essay.

What do you mean by 'saves time'? When you read a novel, do you replace the character names with "a figment of my, the author's, imagination"?

It's not a fucking diary entry claiming to be reporting on an objective fact of the world, it's someone trying to communicate something about the world.

Really, all you can think when you read a title like this is "well, that's certainly not true for me, I don't have to read this"?

What's '"sex in the city" bloggery'? It just seems like a well-written persuasive essay to me.

But your first sentence reads like a direct answer to the question:

> Was the sonic boom noticeable?

> Noticeable is certainly a way of putting it.

As in, "Yes it was noticeable, and then some." At least, that's how I read it.

What's the clickbait? "I Want to Hold Your Hand" sold 12 million. Is the clickbait that it's downplaying the achievement, since "Sweet Mother" only sold well in Africa?

Yes, because most people spend most of their money. I'm saying deflation seems unlikely to change that, since a strong incentive to save money already exists, in the form of retirement fund.

Automat is a common European word for 'machine' or 'vending machine', many languages have it.

I never got this line of thinking. I'm already disincentivized from spending because simple investments are likely to outpace inflation. That's a good reason to save as much as I can, but I still buy things, and it's not like I can put off buying food for a year so that prices drop. What's so different about this incentive to save and it being a part of the economy?

Yeah, make a browser version with the time saved by not renaming the repository.

Personally I would want the purchase to make a tangible difference to my life. If I can't control, communicate with, or see my purchase, that's functionally equivalent to me not owning it

Article 220, Paragraph 2 of the official English version says that verbatim

From their website:

> Moondrop Lunar imitates the Gravity on the Moon.

> Moondrop Mars imitates the Gravity on Mars.

> Turn this Moondrop into Earth version simply by removing the magnets from inside.

I was wondering if they were just going to sell the last one without any magnets for the same price. Imagine the profit margin from people just wanting a complete set!