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0xBABAD00C

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    Yes, Cyrillic was closer to Greek, that's why it stuck better. Just edited to make it clear.

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    Comment #40498237

    There are Byzantine Armenian dimensions to this story that I suspect not many people know. Cyrill and Methodius were taught by Leo the Philosopher and Photios, in the University es…

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    Comment #39500221

    Oh he's "solving the problem efficiently", just not the problem he purports to be solving. It's all about misaligned incentives in large orgs: people act out of their own self inte…

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    Comment #38460436

    I use this (should be the baseline I think): https://finviz.com/map.ashx?t=sec

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    Comment #36423275

    Also, when have people not followed "false narratives"? The entire human civilization sits on a stack of false narratives.

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    Comment #36420751

    This looks great! What are some of the verticals you think this will be most immediately applicable in, and are you integrating with any? I am thinking a lot of ads/marketing work …

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    Comment #36319233

    Well, you can ask yourself what is "real value". In fact, more likely than not, it's just some imaginary stuff you ascribe value to, just like "prestige".

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    Comment #36273240

    > what are the chances they already publish photos taken on devices that apply by default some form of AI-based generative/corrective algorithms 100%?

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    Comment #35792619

    > In my experience with children, one of the easiest-to-grasp concepts of infinity is provided by the transfinite ordinals Things people say on HN :)

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    Comment #35709871

    > The author is basically a crank Really not sure why do you say this. Is it something personal against him? Are you against people exploring weird interdisciplinary topics? He has…

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    Comment #35708566

    Vanchurin is a physics professor, but ok https://twitter.com/vanchurin?lang=en I actually think that interdisciplinary work like this can shed light into common structures across p…

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    Comment #35705653

    Complex/imaginary numbers are just badly named for historical reasons, they represent an objectively central concept in math and physics, and can be derived from axioms of what we …

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    Comment #35705140

    And not just a field, but the algebraic closure of real numbers.

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    Comment #35704867

    There is research claiming the entire universe is a neural network: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/

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    Comment #35695167

    Yeah I tend to agree it feels like a little bit of everything, but mostly B. To be honest, this community survived longer than many others I've seen.

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