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There's also cowry-as-coinage, which seems to be very old and very distributed (Africans, Arabs, Indians, Southeast Asians, and East Asians were still using cowry for international…

I think Numerical Elixir (NX) allows for GPU programming. It uses XLA for scheduling computation?

Teleoperated remote presence robots that can do the majority of what astronauts need to do and allow for experienced operators to do EVA manually if needed (due to crossover betwee…

Thanks! The comparison table is really enlightening. I think I'll try hacking up Colemak first with layer 3-6, but if I can't make it I'll try habituating with KOY layout.

I like to write Clojure, and getting away from home row to write the parentheses was... annoying. I did try (and my fingers still remember!) Colemak a few years back, though. I fou…

Yes. “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this wha…

Wouldn't the Arabic naming tradition, having patronymic, location (like German noble names), and 'nicknames' be more of a solution? e.g. Jason Brahamsson "the Tall" of West London

Yeah, most Xiaomi users flash their phones with custom or AOSP ROM for a reason Xiaomi SW isn't as bad as other Chinese manufacturers, but still...

Does Elixir's Set-theoretic Types support declaring restricted subset of types for modelling purposes as often done by ML programmers? The "Type-Oriented Programming" or "Domain-dr…

We know that Minoans were actively trading to Egypt by around 1600-1400BCE before they get suddenly replaced by Mycenaean Greeks, so there seems to be some support for that hypothe…

Hmm. Didn't 6000-4000BC Northwest Africa was part of Green Sahara? The Sahara drying up was part of the Civilization building in the Nile. Maybe Egypt had some myths about the earl…

eh, algebra and algorithms were invented by people there. Agreed with modern history though; certainly post European colonization something broke. Especially as the colonization ha…

Reminds me of quoting ' operator in Lisps, transforming executable code to data. e.g. from Clojure: " (quote form) Yields the unevaluated form. user=> '(a b c) (a b c) Note there i…

Running local AI models in your own hardware will be the ultimate case of freedom.

I'm a bit late, but I just found out that there's a version 3 library for Gleam called Lustre, which is an Elm-like framework for frontend. And people seem to be able to make it wo…

only if we can crack transferrable skill-memories. I think the current thinking is that each human have different neuron nets patterns though mostly in the same general regions

Taliban cleaned this practise up btw, their whole raison d'etre was fighting the Bacha Bazi practise by the warlords in 1990s. And the Republic's warlords between 2001-2021.

Yes, though it makes sense as majority of Europe and Europe-descended cultures are Indo-Europeans, with Indians and Iranians as the other major cultures. We know much about Proto-S…

HEMA. Historical European Martial Arts. I started when I was writing a novel with swordsmen and want to research historical moves, ended up getting addicted and now am trying to gr…