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It sounds useful to me because you can use tone information to help with the translation, which text-to-text translation can't do. But I'm not sure if that's how this model actuall…

I see, so the answer is that the effect doesn't exist but it's easy to think it does by not controlling for a variable very well.

Yes, the only videos demonstrations involve throwing the water into the air, but nothing in this article or the Wikipedia page about the effect suggest that throwing the water is n…

Why am I unable to find a single good video on the internet demonstrating the mpemba effect occuring? If people were really heating their water before freezing it in Aristotle's ti…

What an interesting trick. A starting point to intuit a resolution: yes you have a 50% chance of doubling and a 50% of halving. But the doubling only happens if you have x dollars,…

The autocorrect method also uses a dictionary, and then some.

The trick is to encode the numbers in binary, not plaintext. But still you'd probably want to use a Huffman coding rather than plain indexes so that the common words are shorter.

Every time there's a post giving advice on making money or entrepeurship, the majority HN response is "but success is mostly luck" + "you need not want this kind of success". But w…

Haha, even less effective than I expected but enjoyed the read nonetheless. I think if you have the luxury of assuming every token is a dictionary word, you can do much better by s…

It'd be more accurate and illuminating to say that a px is an angle. The reference pixel is the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density of 96dpi and a distance f…

I think the main problem is that they're too attention grabbing. Especially in a UI in HN where everything else is plain text, an emoji would have so much visual weight your eyes w…

This is pretty eye opening to me, I would have never thought anyone found C major more difficult to play in than other keys. To me, difficulty is directly proportional to the amoun…

This is really interesting, thank you for sharing! I wonder if it would have been more successful if it had just two rows instead. The duplicate rows add more power, but at the cos…

Ever since I learned that the frequency ratio between adjacent keys on a piano is always a constant twelfth root of 2 regardless of whether you're going black-white or white-white,…