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Here is a PDF of the original article: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/11/21/987... . Also available on archive.org: https://web.archi…

I like these kinds of explanations. As Feynman said: “What I cannot create, I do not understand”.

Because when Pytorch came out, Tensorflow API was cumbersome and hard to work with. In comparison, Pytorch was much more intuitive. Being beginner friendly, it quickly gained traction. It was like Jav…

We can create a repository just for issues, like Microsoft does with WSL: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL …

I once used TrueCrypt for an external HDD and I regretted it. After some years the disk failed, and I had no chance to recover its content as touching a few bits meant the inability to decrypt it or r…

What if collaboration on opensource projects (i.e. hosting, issues and their comments) was decentralized instead of relying on a central entity like Github? That would keep the developer base active a…

As another comment pointed[0], there is a mirror on gitee: https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872999 …

Beautiful essay, thanks for sharing.

Another basis for the Chrisitian (also the Jewish and Islamic) view on homosexuality is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah#Religious…

It didn't work for me, it returned: Error fetching alternatives ... <h1>We're sorry...</h1><p>... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries…

I used to spend my time on https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/ looking for.. answers. Until I read "Philosophical Investigations" and "On Certainty" by Ludwig Wi…

You can download it from this archive.org collection (s2011e12): https://archive.org/download/BBCHorizonCollection512Episodes …

This reminds me of the Mere Exposure Effect[0], a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. [0] https://en…

This cool, I always wanted something like this. I'm wondering how did they construct the dataset to train ML models on it. Did they just recruit "labelers" who hummed for evey song? Or …

For anyone interested, I recommend a BBC Horizon documentary about the earth's core called "The Core". I found about it on HN and quite enjoyed it. https://news.ycombinator.c…

I'm guessing because your very first comment and submitted title were not the kind of content people would like to see on HN, which could have penalized your account early on. Anyway, I vouched f…

In no specific order: - Andrej Karpathy - Jeremy Howard - François Chollet - Adam Paszke - Thomas Kipf - Sebastian Ruder - Julia Evans - Martin Kleppmann

Their recommendation engine is not harmful in all cases. I used to use Twitter to follow some machine learning/programming profiles and remember the recommendations being quite good.

Islam has no issues with good science. On the contrary, the Quran has some verses which encourage enquiry, such as: "Say: 'Travel through the earth, and reflect on how he [god] started the …

I currently have 1500+ open tabs on my smartphone. The tab counter shows ":D", but I knew the number because I once accidentally closed all tabs and quickly restored them, so the browser tol…

Link to the post's author's annotated version of the algorithm: https://github.com/colmmacc/s2n/blob/7ad9240c8b9ade0cc3a403a... …

> What would you consider the bare minimum act to be judged at human-level intelligence? Lex Fridman discussed this topic with Françoit Chollet in his recent podcast episode "Measures of Intel…

Another side question, please. How does TimescaleDB compare to Clickhouse? Since you mentioned compression, I've been using Clickhouse to store bitemporal data, and have been amazed by its speed …