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One of the authors is at Google, so it wouldn't surprise me. Thermodynamics is clearly a metaphor, but information entropy they are studying be bounded by the literal heat generated by their computations.

Google's Data Centre literally generates heat. So anything we can do in this direction, is helpful.

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...

i think this is cool. i could learn new languages all day. however I've seen people argue on HN that writing language is a waste of time. why should we embark on such an exercise?

do people still use BlackBerry in Washington? Seems a little out of date to me...

how do we decide or quantify that certain random numbers are good or bad?

if I flip a coin? maybe that's inadequate, but can we measure how much it is failing to be random?

Duolingo has to be supplemented with reading and / or YouTube materials in the language of choice. Any language course the examples are necessarily contrived and never to your exact needs. But we have the internet and can look for (and hopefully find) something that matches our interests.

If you're looking to do business in Japanese... then you need to be looking at the NHK news app which has beginner resources. If you're looking to do scholarship in German or Spanish or cooking in French then you need to search for vocab resources connected to those tasks.

Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is available online, and in bookstores.

http://affect-reason-utility.com/1301/4/shannon1948.pdf

Khan Academy has done a information theory

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/infor...

I"m surprised at how few trains there are in Africa.

I think you underestimate the type of "spin" (for lack of better term) that goes on in the street? At least here in the Bronx, some of these people find ingenious arguments to get out of situations. Who is going to be better than understanding argument and the law, than someone who personally went through the process?

These people find ingenious short-term "quick-fix" arguments, a lot of that advantage can go away in the long term.

this is quite an achievement that it plays accurately. Does this have implementations for Strategy? No two games are alike, yet we are able to learn from our experience. Human's players be somehow comparing local positions from various games and deciding (sometimes wrongly) that they can be played similarly. Can it recommend not just individual positions, but general modes of play for classes of positions?

> It is written in Haskell and works by dynamically generating each frame of the GIF and slowly feeding them over the HTTP connection.

This seems rather difficult. These are dynamically generated. There are 246060=86400 possible slides, but at download time, we have to find the correct starting point. Did I get that right?

as with any data source, is this reliable?

Could this be used for images other than people's brains?

I looked at this neuroscience course, and overwhelmingly it was a course on Fourier transforms and Radon transforms

http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~sereno/276/notes/recon2.gif

Momentarily, I was asking myself why such a difficult math course is being given in the Psychology department

I have a master's in Math. none of it is new, but I'm so glad someone wrote this. expanding out all the key points.

he does a pretty good job of connecting unsolvability by radicals to the unsolvability of the permutation group S5.

I suspect what happens these quintics define Riemann surfaces and perhaps the premutation of the roots an be mapped unto the fundamental group of the surface.

have you considered square-octagon tilings?

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/68271

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_square_tiling

can we pick another mascot?

i am sick of all the CRISPR; hype this is the cure being worse than the disease.

after a few years of bullshitting with linux, maybe it's time to get serious

Alternatively "Mathematics of Topological Quantum Computing" Eric C. Rowell, Zhenghan Wang https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06206

any good resources on 6502?

I took Sanskrit as an undergrad at Princeton as an alternative to Latin. It was hard to absorb all the declensions, to be honest, and still connect to the text. The assumption is that you were eventually going to read Bhagava Gita or some other religious text.

Also, the Sanskrit course got very political, for reasons I could not relate to at all, involving the history of India. The textbook remains on my bookshelf, gathering dust.

this book seems to complement the earlier HackerNews book about the "Calculus Made Easy" -- that is certainly the book I first learn from... it really tries just to get the basic ideas across without being too careful.

I look at it now, this book is wonderful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14161876

how did they refine crispr? Around this time last year we had

HIV overcomes CRISPR gene-editing attack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11453737

this is amazing ... how is this even possible?

am I walking into something here? I am concerned about regional bias. which dialect of English is being spoken?

these "how to read articles" make me feel so illiterate -- having completed my formal education 4 years ago. of course, the truth is we do not read closely, and there are always new signals to look into

I nearly failed out of intro Computer Science class since I didn't allow for 90% debugging time. Also I wish I could save some of my errors since they are coming from my own fingers -- they are the most instructive.

course like these make me wonder ... how much one can dress up basic probability. i think the answer is A LOT

these figures are so exquisite and the typography lazily guides me through