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Fair enough, language should strive to be unambiguous. I guess I spent enough time in corporate-world that 'on premise' just means 'on-site'. Perhaps a hyphen would've helped.

(As you pointed out), 'on-premise' is used very often (according to google trends as much or more than on-premise). There's an argument to be made that language is about how people use it and not the theoretical rules of grammar - and therefore if a 'mistake' is done often enough it should no longer be considered a mistake.

I'm disappointed to hear that ruler and compass constructions didn't engage them. I'm currently working on digitising a Hebrew translation of Euclid's Elements, and I was hoping that the very physical aspect (almost like art class) would be more engaging than theoretical stuff, and the fact that it's independent of any numbers would make it less scary than usual maths class. I still think there's educational value in Euclid's Elements beyond the historical importance, but it seems that I might be wrong on it being more engaging in an educational context for most kids.

> Trying to figure out who is better at penalty kicks based on counts of scores/misses.

If you have kids who care about a particular sport, this is a great way to teach linear algebra. There's a book 'Who's #1? - The Science of Rating and Ranking' that goes through different methods of ratings/rankings in great detail (it was one of the required readings for my MSc in Data Science).

I buy oat milk, but I assume the kind that lasts a week. UHT is not very popular on these islands.

I grew up as an ultra orthodox Jew - where people have 5+ kids and there is a lot of focus on religious life and community. There are plenty of extremely bitter people who might love their kids but feel trapped by the lifestyle (they don't want to leave their kids, spouse but it gives them no space for anything else). And many of them struggle with meaning in life - the community, religion and kids don't solve that.

As the expression goes, 'horses for courses'.

People have different requirements. I had a commute that on an ebike took 50 minutes, and on a regular bike took me about 1:15 minutes each way. I couldn't do 2:30hrs of cycling every day, 5 days a week - it wasn't an option both in terms of time and effort. Maybe with a serious training program (and if I was older it would be even more difficult).

45 minutes of cycling on an electric bike was still plenty of exercise, and if I hadn't done that, I would've probably taken a train.

I loved the youtube series that accompanied earlier versions of this book - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9V07EIfIg&list=PLOg0ngHtcq...

It can be watched without the book. The coding parts can be skipped. It has some insights missing in the book, and they've got an amazing mix of incredible technical talent and a great ability to distill and explain concepts.

It doesn't necessarily mean that they don't know how to escape special characters, it just might mean that they're employing a defence in depth approach.

The Times seems to be pretty strict with their journalists - in the late 1980s, Boris Johnson (he later became Prime Minister) was sacked by the Times because Johnson invented a quote from his godfather, the historian Sir Colin Lucas.

I'm not sure how common this is in the industry- whether lying is a slap on the wrist among some newspapers... Johnson still works as a columnist for other papers.

> Am-I the only one that finds is odd how the British government brags about Alan Turing after what they did to him?

I also find this strange.

On the one hand I'm tempted to see this from a cynical lens of government propaganda ('we were always at war with Eastasia/Oceania').

On the other hand governments are somewhat the extension of the society they're in. The choices are to put [Turing of the £50 note](https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/july/50-pound-bank...) or to not put any British gay people who were persecuted by the government (and most were historically) on the £50 note. Maybe we should be glad that governments are flexible and not limited to the history it inherited.

This person appeared to make hardware manufacturing applications (like CNC machines). In my experience with software like CRM there's a nuance to which domain knowledge is important (but I presume also financial software, and to a lesser extent ERP).

My experience is more with CRM. In these cases, domain knowledge is still important, but it's more about the curiosities around how a specific sales/marketing/customer support team is structured - how do they divide up leads? Do they compete with each other within the team or are bonuses given to teams? Usually these decisions are informed by domain knowledge. E.g. the customer support of a boutique expensive watch brand would be more of a concierge service (with tickets requiring immediate attention - a delay in response could represent a big loss in sales), while for a mass manufacture cheaper line it would have more of a volume of tickets and human response times might differ. Escalations would therefore need to be programmed differently. To give another example, I can imagine seasonality having a huge impact on how a financial team want their software programmed, and that is informed by domain knowledge.

But knowing how watches are made wouldn't help me with understanding 'domain knowledge'. I need to understand how they are sold. The domain that I need to understand is 'how does this sales team work' not 'how does this product work'.

I guess what I'm saying is the right kind of domain knowledge to match the task.

I look at 'most recent commits', but sometimes with smaller pieces of software, no commits for a year or two can mean it's very stable and it does that one thing very well...

'How To Read The Bible' by James Kugel (of Harvard University) is great for Judaism and Christianity. It goes through the history of how the text was interpreted - both critically/historically and how religious people interpret it.

Stallman's comments can be verified. However we have no idea what Reid Hoffman saw or did on the island - he had plausible deniability. Therefore Stallman can face social consequences for his actions (without exposing EPFL to a defamation lawsuit), that is much harder with Reid Hoffman.

I got

"Here is a random string of 32 characters:

a8Jk5pYr0Dm9Nc1Vz8Qf2Bt6Hg3Lw4Uo"

Moon 'sighting' is much earlier than the Islamic tradition. It's discussed in the Mishna, so it was at least debated in the 2nd century CE: https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Rosh_Hashanah.2?lang=bi

The charitable case is that while something might be predictable, it's our conscious interaction that's important to these religions, not the theoretical knowledge.

The uncharitable case is that religions derive a lot of power from being able to fix time, and this demonstrates their sovereignty over people's lives in this sphere.

Most of the world is multilingual:

https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/multilingualism

Of course in the US this is not the case, and Twitter is a US based company that creates software used globally.

I found your comment hurtful and I'd urge you to delete your comment. Obviously trademarking someone else's program name is very unethical, but I don't think it's indicative of my ethnicity.

This is on quite a moving article about Jewish culture and doesn't warrant comments about Jews and business practices.

Implying the joke and not saying it explicitly doesn't make it any better.

There's a principle in Jewish law that Dinah D'Malchuta Dinah - the law of the country you're in is considered binding. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_d%27malkhuta_dina

Given that the US law considers breaking copyright to be unlawful, Jewish law would too (in the US).

The dataset humans are using does not just include the audio stream but also visual context. E.g. people pointing at things while talking about them.

Well, consider that there are a bunch of poems/psalms in the Bible that use the alphabet as an acrostic (called abecedarian poems). E.g. 9 of the Psalms, chapter 31 of Proverbs, the book of Lamentations.

Consider that although the Bible is completed much later than the Zayit Stone there's not necessarily consistency in the alphabet used in these poems (e.g. Psalm 145 is missing a letter (נ) in the Masoretic text but not in the Dead Sea Scrolls). I recall another example but it's not coming to mind.

So the fixing of the order of the alphabet started as an early process with competing orders. There is some possibility that they might have reordered some of the verses in these acrostic poems to be consistent with what they thought of as the correct order (even though the poet might have worked with a different order). This is mostly conjecture, but it shows something about our desire for order (even if the order is arbitrary), possibly as a teaching aid, and that we might retrofit things to this order.

Does this answer your question?

An interesting example is the zayit stone, a 3000 year old abecedary written in the paleo-Hebrew alphabet. One interesting thing is the changes in the order of the letters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayit_Stone

That was approximately my cost (in London). £22 per hour, 40 lessons, then an additional £100 for the instructor to take me to the test, wait, and drop me home. Add in the cost of the theory/practical test, and the inflation of the last 6 years, and you arrive at your figure.

I hear you. What do you think of the time/expertise/tooling it takes to train these models (and that's it's an iterative process and openai has a significant head start). This strikes me as more than a 'first to the gate' advantage (but perhaps less than a traditional moat).

Isn't there a pretty big cost in training these LLMs?

I really don't understand the problem. If you offer me the latest and greatest pc for £1, there's nothing wrong with me taking you up on the offer even if I think there's a catch. And then when it turns out that the box was empty, I'm entitled to a refund.

> some portion of inflation is caused by increased labour cost. So by the time the strike demand is fulfilled, the next strike is in theory in the brewing

The word 'some' is doing heavy lifting. If they get a 10% rise, and that causes a 1% increase in inflation (assuming labour costs are not necessarily the biggest proportion of the cost of goods, and assuming companies eat some of the increased labour costs via less money to shareholders rather than raising prices for consumers), then there is not necessarily a reason for a second strike. I've pulled these numbers for illustrative purposes.

A vicious cycle can happen, but it also theoretically doesn't need to happen.

Heh, I considered writing that, but decided against it because I figured the western wall would be more familiar to the audience on HN even if it's a few metres out.

> Christian churches face the East

I should have been more specific, it's about praying to a specific place. Jews face the western wall in Jerusalem, Muslims face Mecca. And they do this in or out of the synagogue (or mosque as far as I know). I've seen people get out a compass!

> Christian clerics and devout laypersons pray the Liturgy of the Hours daily.

This might be more analogous, but the "devout laypeople" seems less analogous, as it's got the status of a commandment in Judaism and Islam.

> Finally many Christians observe religious dietary requirements involving fasting and abstinence from meat.

In this Christianity really differs from Judaism and Islam. I'm talking about ritual slaughter and avoiding eating specific animals, not general periods of abstinence from meat.

All in all obviously Judaism and Christianity share a lot too, I'm just suspicious of the claim that they shares more with each other than Islam when my experience is not like that at all.