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The exception, for me, is the Goldberg Variations which I find have a stately and refined beauty. It's one of very few in the classical canon that I find myself returning to over the years.
Regardless of if there's any hope those bears could make it back to their population, it's clear that such hope would be an inconvenient truth for Icelanders -- at least, for the article's authors -- who would prefer to shoot them when they appear and be done with it. And I'm not saying that's not for the best.
As a side note, if we really want to know the answer without googling, we can put on our deducing hats: "Visits by five polar bears in 2008 (two bears), 2010, 2011, 2016 and 2024."
In reality the gun is usually on the inside of the track, so it would be Lyles overcoming this (negligible) advantage.
1. It is very likely the scripts developed after contact with Europeans. That is, the islanders saw Europeans writing things down and then over the years (ships stopping on rapa nui were quite infrequent) began to do likewise.
2. The script found on rongorongo articacts …doesn't really seem to be much of a script at all. No one has ever been able to decipher anything, none of the natives of the 19th century could ever shed any light on their meaning, and the glyphs don't seem to be present in the ratios one would expect from language / writing. They are script similar to the way Aztec (not Mayan) codices are script. Perhaps they had meaning to one person, or a handful of people, but they probably weren't standardized in any significant way.
The paper doesn't directly contradict either, but it has quite the title and the authors do sort of equivocate on both points and present this and that as equally likely even though I don't think that's the consensus.
In any case, it seems the thread running through a lot of writing on the topic is the implication that it would be more interesting or culturally important if the islanders had developed writing on their own. Perhaps that's true, but I find the more likely sequence of events fascinating enough -- because of the implications. If Rapa Nui had been left alone, it's entirely possible that rongorongo would have developed into a fully fledged writing system. That is, only the seed of seeing some infrequent visitors writing on parchment is required for a very small and isolated community to begin to develop writing. (The Rapa Nui died off / were genocided.)
Consider: Egyptian heiroglyphs appear in the archeaological record on the order of 100 years after writing in mesopotamia. That these heiroglyphs share no DNA with cuneiform is generally used as strong evidence that the two civilizations developed writing independently. I've seen that version of history taught and written as fact in the past, although I don't know what the consensus is now. Learning about rongo rongo has colored my view of that. Perhaps some itenerant Egyptian genius made his way back from the East and began to experiment with making symbols which have meaning and seem to give those who wield them power.
As far as I can tell, though, it doesn't mention what may be the most important reason (especially to the folks here at hackernews): resampling and processing.
This is why professional grade audio processing operates at a sample rate many multiples higher than human hearing. It's not because of the quality difference between, say, 192 and 96 kHz, but rather if you're resampling or iterating a process dozens of times at those rates, eventually artifacts will form and make their way into the range of human hearing (20 kHz).
Due to disease, less-than-accommodating natives, and geopolitical climate, the scheme failed miserably. Many argue the crippling financial effect on Scotland was a key factor in the 1707 Acts of Union which merged Scotland and England.
> In this survey study, all types of objectively measured VI were associated with a higher dementia prevalence. As most VI is preventable, prioritizing vision health may be important for optimizing cognitive function.
In other words, the association is dementia and uncorrected visual impairment.
EDIT: I'll add that the study does not show causality. Even people like myself who are well aware that correlation != causality often still assume it does. It doesn't help that the authors themselves imply that correcting VI would ward off dementia. It might; it might not. People with dementia might just be less likely to get glasses.
Hopefully the creators can either parlay a pseudo-success here and transition to something else, or, if AI drastically improves in the coming years, provide a more worthwhile service.
I'm from NC and the Lumbee Indians had a way of speaking that was unique and endearing. It feels like many places in the US are losing that identity and the language of most areas is merging. Especially in the west, the differences between peoples' idiolects is usually greater than the differences between regions' dialects.
I think you mean 1% each life
So ... what? ... Surely it's very unlikely that both these things turn out to be true.
I have it, and purely ergonomically, it's the best filter I've ever used. It's also quite expensive with expensive filters that need replacing frequently.
O2 is ~20% of air, but CO2 is ~.04%. CO2 levels are much more volatile and increase rapidly in sealed spaces with humans.
I'm sure they could barely contain their shame. The man was a computer scientist before anyone bothered to string those two words together. He was literally a pioneer in the field. Or did you mean to denigrate generally all people who pursue their passion at their own expense?
https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2...
If anyone has seen such a thing please do post.
Even Wikipedia has yet to explicitly state that the Einstein problem has now been solved.
This is so objectively untrue that when I read it I assumed it was a joke or somehow tongue in cheek.
Even at the height of its popularity, the OP-1 was rarely used by serious, professional producers ... for reasons that should be pretty obvious. It's a toy. When I say "used" I mean "found its way onto the final version of a track," and when I say "professional" I mean "someone who works in a studio or who produces music for a living." I owned one and enjoyed it, and by TE's frequent appearance on the front page, I'd say many here did as well.
The title of the link is also a stretch. I disagree, but I think it skates by. The Microkorg had a huge impact on music tech, but was also rarely used in the studio or on tracks (in part because of its bigger brother, the MS-2000).
EDIT: The title has been edited. I don't remember the one prior, but something like "...massively influenced music technology."
[edit: also the wordplay wouldn't work]
> Pachinko parlors and slot machines, the country’s largest form of gambling, raked in more than ¥23.3 trillion ($203 billion) in 2015 according to Bloomberg. That’s more than the combined earnings of Las Vegas, Singapore and Macau—or about 4% of Japan’s GDP.