martopix

I have reached the conclusion that teaching is what I need to do in my life.

Uhm, not even English...

For an appropriate definition of "everybody on earth" as "people who read international news to sufficient depth or are otherwise well acquainted with Italy"? Many people in the world wouldn't even know Italy exists.

The idea is very nice, useful for example when looking for a flat that isn't too far away from work. However it doesn't really work. My computer is powerful, and yet it lags so badly I can't really get to use it. I also did not manage to change the starting point.

It should be metalli :)

I think they're much closed compared to Italian and Latin.

This was the obvious missing thing, so let's see how it goes

But functional connectivity is a fundamentally computational concept

I remember during my PhD, already 5 or more years ago, the term "functional connectivity" was frowned upon by the computational neuroscience community and the concept was considered out of date.

Thank you for your contribution

I actually think these kinds of people live a pretty unhappy life.

I'm sorry, no. Berlusconi was in many ways a precursor, and had a lot in common with Trump, but not remotely as dangerous as Trump.

For those who did not grow up like me in Berlusconi's Italy, he was an interesting character and in many ways a precursor of today's politics. When Trump came to rise, I felt many aspects were similar: both very rich entrepreneurs, arrogant personalities, a tendency to go against well established rules, personal attacks on opponents, an admiration for strongmen (Berlusconi had a clear crush on Putin), tax creativity, laws purposefully written for himself and his friends, and of course exploiting partisan news outlets. Berlusconi's career took a turn when he developed Mediaset to be a large TV company that could compete with national public TV, and still does, while offering a load of trash to the public. He was many times under investigation, sometimes convicted without ever going to jail, and many times exploiting the statute of limitations to avoid conviction by dragging the trial along for years.

His party was essentially founded upon him and his personality, and is currently one of the parties in the government coalition, with a relatively minor share, I expect voted by older people nostalgic of his era. We will not miss him -- but in hindsight we have seen even worse characters in the last 10 years.

Uhm no, I checked the IPA transcriptions given by dictionaries.

They are not homophones, the first vowel is very different.

There's an awesome professor in my field, prof Wei Ji Ma, who only accepts invitations to give talks if he is also allowed to give a talk to younger scientists about the story of his life and his own failures, pretty much like this, and with the same objective of combating impostor syndrome. He also has founded a thing called "growing up in science" at his uni where he invites academics specifically to give the same kind of talk so that PhD students can relate.

Does anybody have any more reliable sources?

I read someone saying that reading text with the long s is like hearing someone speak with a lisp, and that is SO true. I love it.

The most obvious source of noise seems to me the fact that the submarine is moving and has therefore nonzero accelerations all the time

> religious people are usually of a high quality because they live for something more than just themselves, as opposed to secular people

this is a very prejudiced view.

In my experience actually Americans are a lot more up for smalltalk with strangers than we are here in Europe.

I read a good amount of Midnight's Children and I found the style insufferably pretentious, which is a shame because I loved the topic.

I would love Swahili, I've been looking for a simple and short Swahili podcast that is not on religious topics and that's not easy, I could only find the Swahili news of the Japanese national radio (lol).

And yes, ChatGPT speaks Swahili well.

Banning laptops is very common due to space constraints, when you're the kind of café that doesn't want people to stay forever. Even my university canteen bans laptops at lunch times. But the purpose isn't the same, here the idea is to create an environment for people to actively seek focus and peace.

I think this is a form of selection bias. Certain other languages wouldn't even allow a project like your point 2. to get started. In Python, the bar for something to start kind of working is quite low, even if you're a beginner, a scientist of another discipline who needs a little script to manage some data, a teen who's learning to code, etc. So of course you see a lot of half-baked stuff. It's important we distinguish between 1. and 2., but 2s might sometimes be better than nothing.

I'd love to know about them because I've never heard of a place where you're told off if you use your phone.

I like the idea a lot and would genuinely go to such a place. And I guess the judgemental tone is there because the idea is to specifically cater to the kind of people who feel sick of screens.

But I don't understand the position against accepting cards. And I guess I also kinda disagree on e-readers, although modern ones can be used to connect to the internet and stuff, I suppose.

Indeed, and it's a topic that would not be covered by big tech. I think this idea that academia must compete on the same terrain as big AI companies is misguided. There are areas where only academia can be successful, because they would not be profitable, and others where academia doesn't have the resources.

I feel this isn't quite a failure of the Alan Turing or of the UK, but rather of university research vs big tech -- the latter has a significant advantage in this specific field, for a number of reasons. There was an interesting paper about that and relative discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35564013

I'm not sure what you're suggesting. If you want to version control your images you can, and then they will use up size, if you don't want to, don't version control them. In github, you can also just download the master branch as a zip, instead of cloning, if you don't want the whole history.