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As a German, born roughly 40 years after the war, I still cannot fathom the atrocities we Germans brought to the world at large and to so many million individuals. I grew up learni…

I currently work 32 hours / week at 80% pay and have done so for some time. On paper we agreed on 5*6,4 hours per week, but it is really flexibel. In practice I work somewhere betw…

Also, for those interested: In 2012 they created a car which is able to drive at ~2x the wind speed upwind: https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wind-powered-car-upwind/

That is also a very interesting way to think about it, if I understood you correctly. Seeing the host as another player, any "bad luck" he has, should translate into myself having …

The easiest explanation I've ever heard and which immediately made me understand it was the following: Instead of 3 doors, imagine there are 100. 99 of which have a goat and only o…

Seems like one turn is 60°. Is there a specific reason why it isn't 45° or 90°? Is there maybe some advantage to the 60° in regards to the ascii rendering?

Might be some stupid questions, but maybe someone can enlighten me: Could this explain the Schrödingers cat experiment, i.e. the light moving through both of the two slits? If ligh…

In case anyone is interested in a similar open source solution that can be self hosted I can recommend Trilium ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ). It was also recently featured o…

If yes, how do you deal with it? I just spent the whole day trying to get a set up running (Ubuntu + CUDA) and nothing worked. I blindly followed one instruction after the other wi…

Curiosity and persuit of knowledge are what drives many people. I would like to believe that HN is a place where these traits are encouraged and not looked down upon as you seem to…

Short answer: yes, crowd sourcing would work better. Long answer: It's difficult to determine how good/bad people actually are at detecting the correct sentiment, as data sets cont…

Having written my bachelor's thesis on how negation in sentences affects their sentiment: it is really, really difficult. Even just differentiating between negative/neutral/positiv…

I get the advantages of generic algorithms. But sometimes overfitting can be very useful. Imagine wind or water turbines where this method could be used to increase their efficienc…

"Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest— with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output— yet when the researcher disabled any one …

This interview makes me wonder where we are heading as the human race. The Japanese society, so certainly very different in some aspects, does strike me as a glimpse into the futur…