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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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Comment #46889753
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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Comment #45625591
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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Comment #45062720
He is also known from prince Rupert's drops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert%27s_drop
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Comment #44914909
> 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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Comment #44330313
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.