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kurosawa

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About kurosawa

cs academic

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    lovely music, sounds like enya or clannad or such

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    This is interesting: could we see it as the most exhaustive set of plausible/probable human events of a harmful nature ? Sure it is for insurance purposes, but I’m wondering what w…

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    Comment #36595073

    Wondering how many will ever be born here, if it lasts until the sun dries out for example

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    Comment #36558384

    This felt somehow complementary to Dr Seuss’ “Oh the places you’ll go”, specifically, part two and/or a commentary on part one. Thanks for this.

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    Comment #36426626

    This reminded me in part of the work of Francis Su on math and the virtues: math and human flourishing https://youtu.be/FTXhj-puDgw Mathematical practice can be a means of achievin…

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    Comment #36385461

    It might be more general than that: imaginary problems are at the root of bad___ Where ___ could be something produced like software (or furniture, etc.), or theorised such as scie…

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    Comment #36365404

    Middle-aged government worker sought to get promoted by abusing a mentally handicapped teen—probably the same age as his own kids if he had any.

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    Comment #36220847

    On this question please check out the work of Peter Kingsley (like ‘Reality’)

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    Ask HN: Could recent AI be used to generate an operating system?

    Wondering if there are folks trying to generate “usage-experiences” for, for example, the use of an OS? The idea being a combo of AI based (large scale) code-completion/generation …

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    Comment #30044220

    Also, what if many folks set up the same so that we have full crowdsourced surveillance of aircrafts over various regions, how could this info be used i wonder?

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    Comment #29867587

    why this edition specifically?

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    Comment #23447621

    This is nice, it adds another dimension to the audio experience of the bridge-bay 'composite-system'

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    Comment #21912371

    I'm wondering how as a non-blind person i can actually learn to listen at such high words-per-minute. I don't need to read the screen in general but research papers (pdfs etc.)--wh…

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    Crowd-solving true crimes?

    (A thought experiment of sorts, the inspiration which is: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46453084) I was wondering if anyone was aware of projects to enable "crowd-solving" of crim…

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    Comment #18852697

    Reminds me of old-school emission/extramission theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)

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    Comment #18766114

    Do something that would be orthogonal to the current sum of your life experiences.

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    Comment #18766091

    I say dive in, don't be shy. There is so much that these specific intellectual paths lead to.

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    Sites like HN

    Are there other sites like HN that focus more on mathematics, physics and the sciences; and philosophy -- 'lively' semi-fleeting discurisive communities beyond stack exchange, pers…

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    Comment #18654625

    His faith background plays out more explicitly in his doctoral thesis; several ideas therein were precursors to his later-popularized notions: https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Triv…

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    Comment #18644813

    Anyone know about similar but open-source projects that do code completion (or assist in some way) upon training on stackexchange data?

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    Comment #18593934

    Inspiring. Anyone know any problem-books that could match the (implied) breadth of the one indicated? "I went back to the library and found the mathematics book with the largest nu…

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    Comment #18593710

    I find the same for books for the relationship between contemporary and classic works in other major traditions