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> " Postman even mentioned the fact in his 1995 book "The end of education" " Quote from Postman according to wikipedia[0]: "the level of sensibility required to appreciate…

If some people are offended by phone use, and no people are offended by non-phone use, then I'd have thought the default (assuming you don't want to check or to offend) would simply be non-p…

I'm originally from Shetland, but moved to the Scottish Borders when I was young, and do remember people had a very hard time understanding my Shetland dialect (which I had to lose pretty quickly…

> Scotland and Ireland are intimately linked by a common language (Gaelic) Just on parts of the west coast of Scotland - much of mainland Scotland spoke the Scots language, with the (now dead) No…

There's another use case towards the end: "Transparent displays could have a place on the desktop—not so you can see through them, but so that a camera can sit behind the display, capturing …

> "50k windows-based endpoints or so. All down." I'm a dev rather than infra guy, but I'm pretty sure everywhere I've worked which has a large server estate has always do…

> "We’ll soon have near-AGI intelligences (GPT-5)" Does anyone technical believe GPT-5 will be even remotely close to anything which has even a vague resemblance to AGI?

Surprised to see people talking about spudguns firing whole potatoes! I didn't even know that was a thing. The spudgun I had when I was young just fired small parts of a potato, with a whole pota…

> "Price. By far." In the UK, the Atari ST was originally £299 while the Amiga was £499, so it's not really fair to compare the two. I was able to save up for an ST with various we…

Throughout the video I was wondering what possible practical applications there could be. I got it at the end: "we use this effect to engage people who are otherwise not so interested in science&…

In 1991 or 1992 I used POV-Ray on my Atari ST to create some title screens for some home videos. Completely gratuitous marble text infront of a glass ball on top of water type of stuff, which took all…

Location: London, UK Remote: Yes, but pref hybrid or onsite Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Languages: Python (esp Flask), JavaScript (vanilla, some React and Vue), Java. AI/ML: PyTorch, La…

Also the Abbey Road crossing webcam at https://www.abbeyroad.com/crossing . Not so busy at night, but plenty of people trying to take their photos during the day.…

As much as I like "digital gardens" and think that they are a step in the right direction, rewilding requires much more than cultivating lots of isolated patches of ground - the article even…

> "I have some SACDs but can't actually play them, even though my dac can do the audio. Is there some way to put the tracks on a computer?" As per the other comments, it is technic…

There are pictures and locations of many at https://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/ . See also HN discussion of redwoodworld.co.uk at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2804…

Was hoping the article might shed some light on the ambiguity of some of the prohibition signs in the UK and parts of Europe, e.g. the "no motor vehicles" sign[0]. Given that the ones with t…

Another fun fact - it had a rotating restaurant on the 34th floor called The Top of the Tower, which was operated by Butlins, and made one revolution every 23 minutes, but was closed in 1971 following…

Library at http://darwin-online.org.uk/Complete_Library_of_Charles_Darw... . Use control-F to search:-) A search for "Mendel" returns the following: Focke, Wilhelm Olbers. 1…

This risks making your blog invisible to search engines, unless their crawler goes to the significant additional expense of either executing JavaScript or developing a custom spider to identify and lo…

As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo ( https://gohugo.io/ ) or Jekyll ( https://jekyllrb.com/ ), hosted on GitHub Pages ( https:&#…

That's right. Living in the UK and taking an interest in popular science during the "mad cow disease crisis"[0], I had been aware that prion diseases can be transmitted in humans if (fo…

Slightly more clickbaity title than the BBC's "Medicine stopped in 1980s linked to rare Alzheimer's cases"[0] which also says "The findings do not mean Alzheimer's is inf…

This is all very good, but I don't think it is specific to Japan - I'd hazard a guess that most old world cultures have a history of eliminating food waste dating back to the days when exist…

Thanks, interesting read (it was a while ago I looked into this). I think the point still remains though - a self driving car doesn't have any general knowledge which can be applied to other area…

> "Yeah, it seems as if he has forgotten the G. ... I still see no path from LLMs and autonomous driving to AGI." That is exactly my view too. While LLMs and autonomous driving can be e…

Back in the mid-late 1990s I worked for a software company producing anti-virus software, and scanning Word files for macro viruses was one of those things they had to do. However, they weren't a…

Thanks, sounds interesting, not-dissimilar from some of the query expansion techniques. But in my case (open source, zero budget) I'm doing (slow) CPU inference, so an LLM in the query chain isn&…