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I've been looking for cool anime shows to recommend to my kids, but some of the classic ones are hard to watch these days (e.g. One Piece, Gurren Lagann), based on how they depict the female characters

That option has already been explored [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K_1jqgCjxA

People routinely solve quadratic assignment problems (perhaps not provably optimal, but finding good solutions within a small bound of optimality) where the search space is greater than 10^3000 [0], using relatively simple heuristics like simulated annealing.

[0] e.g. any of the QAPLIB instances in Goh et al. Proceedings of the 2022 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Wow, just learned from the post about OPOL [0], didn't know it was a thing, but at least in our case it worked for 3 languages. My wife and I speak different languages (French and Spanish), we each speak exclusively with that one to our kids. They didn't know English when they started preschool, but it took them a couple of months. Right now they are close to native on all 3. Kids are amazing

[0] https://smartparentingpod.com/one-parent-one-language-opol-m...

A use-case that my kids would love would be something like: "Siri, please play Smell like Teens spirit in the voice of Barry White". Presumably it's just a matter of figuring out a scheme to figure out how to allocate revenue, such as is currently done with radio, streaming, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if the rush these past few years to purchase big artists catalogs could be related to this.

Doing basic arithmetic with logarithms is a basic skill somewhat smart and civilized people should have...

Calculators have made people dumber and lazier. I don't remember when I last multiplied two numbers using a calculator last time.

When Ikea came out with smart home stuff, I bet that they would get it right, or at least not as bad as the others (I previously suffered through the enshitification of Samsung's SmartThings). In my experience their stuff has been flimsy and not sure trustworthy. It at least works without an app, so far, but I've not been able to regain any enthusiasm for the promise of home automation

Positive impact: Google maps

The amount of people that were empowered to explore and discover (or time saved from getting lost) is incredible by any measure

I still have an original Loki Heroes3 Linux CD, still scared of falling down the rabbit hole again

The simplest is probably WALKSAT-like heuristics, essentially local search: flip a random variable, evaluate, if you see an improvement accept the flip, otherwise try again. This can be surprisingly efficient on some SAT problems

Related (specific to music) Oink and What.CD [0]

[0] https://qz.com/840661/what-cd-is-gone-a-eulogy-for-the-great...

Israel experimented with communally raising children within the Kibbutz system, but as far as I know the results weren't super encouraging and few places still do it

It sounds to me like Neimann won (as in got a nice settlement). Statements by Carlson and chess.com emphasize that he'll be allowed back and didn't find evidence of cheating

Maybe it all came down to the decision to fuse python's Numeric and Numarray libraries into Numpy, providing a unified "fast" Matlab-like library, which ended up being a great fit to a lot of datascience use cases.

I don't disagree, but I think the above number is an interesting datapoint, I wish we had a similar way to compare range in airplanes (jet fuel vs H)

For reference, the Toyota Mirai goes 100 km on 0.85 kg of hydrogen [0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/many-evs-outperform-epa...

It used to be a boutique maker of gamer desktops and laptops that HP bought, sort of like Alienware back in the day before the Dell acquisition

It reminded me Cleve Moler's (Matlab creator) awesome paper: 19 dubious ways to exponentiate a matrix [1]:

[1]: https://www.math.purdue.edu/~yipn/543/matrixExp19-I.pdf

By Turing mechanism they likely refer to reaction-diffusion systems (also pioneered by Turing), rather than his better known Blade Runner material

I think it's unlikely in this case. They seem to have gone out of their way to show a method that can achieve replication using very common materials and pretty much medieval-grade technology (except for the vacuum pump, maybe).

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame

- Please check out my paper, we just found a new superconductor, it has a critical temperature of 127 degrees.

- Look, I'm a bit busy right now

- Celsius

Or maybe not anymore ...

One obvious application: your family doctor will have an MRI machine in her office, same for all physio clinics

My local hackspace got a call from a dating show (Farming for love), looking to see if anyone was interested. They were quite insistent, somehow figured out that there might be a lot of overlap (hacking, fixing things, etc)

I wouldn't be surprised if the urban legend had been inspired by Feynman's famous anecdote of the mouse maze-running experiment [0] (recently discussed here, the link is also by the author of this post)

[0] https://gwern.net/maze

(edit: the earliest refs for the tank story predate Feynman's, so this would be wrong)

I immediately did a whois search on the domain, unfortunately couldn't prove it came from the Berenstein bears universe

The way you tell it I get a bit of a post-scarcity Culture (Iain Banks') vibe, just go wherever whenever you want

An article that blew my mind a few months ago describing the autonomous sensor race in China [1]

[1] https://www.theautopian.com/the-advanced-driving-assist-syst...

The Mac Pro link in this page shows the Intel Xeon-based system. I was very confused