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mci

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    Ask HN: What features do you miss in Google Docs for desktop?

    (I don't work at Google. I just hope some Googler reads our answers and submits feature requests based on them :-) I often write documents in Google Docs on my laptop. Every time I…

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    The first and second principal components (joy-sadness and anger) explain only 41% of the variance. I wish the authors showed further principal components. Even principal component…

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    detex "$@" | wc detex "$@" | tr -cs '[:alnum:]' '\n' | grep . | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

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    Interesting. Apion's description of the pessoi game mentioned in the Odyssey : flicking pebbles toward the Penelope-pebble convinces me more than translating pessoi as draughts. Th…

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    A recent blog post on thatsmaths.com was about Tonenetz, a diagram of harmonic relationships of notes. Tonenetz means 'tone network' in German :-)

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    He is also known from prince Rupert's drops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert%27s_drop

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    > a quaternion is a 4D representation of a rotation in 3D space A unit quaternion represents a rotation in R³. A quaternion represents the quotient of two vectors in R³. That's wha…

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    I took the liberty to replace my awkward wording with your "the result in column i and row j is the sum of product of elements in column i of the left cracovian and column j of the…

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    Author here. There are no practical advantages, as far as I know. Not even faster multiplication on today's computers.

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    Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I pasted my Polish text into Gemini to translate it into English. Gemini hallucinated the translation of this example. Now it should be OK.