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Wittgenstein argues that there is no such thing as a private language.

Besides the course you are taking (is it an in-person class, or online perhaps?), are there any resources for learning Sanskrit that you'd recommend? I have the same long term goal…

Beautifully presented! Thanks for sharing, these notes are inspiring, I especially like the simplicity of the presentation's design paired with interactive elements. Too often I fi…

This feels like a business opportunity. Or, at least, an open source repo + a tutorial article that would attract donations.

I never (no longer, that is) see tweets that other people like. I think there is a setting to disable them from appearing now. At the very least, whenever one appears you can click…

>Do you want an unsorted list of all websites that contain your keywords? Yes, because then I could apply my own ranking. More realistically, it would be useful as various web serv…

Taleb's response to this article: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1115684446081040386

No, it is not just interpolating. The underlying algorithm uses machine learning by applying a trained deep neural network. So there is value added besides a mere upscale. You're u…

The article is paywalled, unless you have access through a university or other library. The high price you'd pay for paywalled papers goes in large part to the publisher for no rea…

>Freedom of speech is a right provided by the constitution No, it is not. It explicitly is not. Freedom of speech is one right among many other unstated rights held in common by th…

Spaced repetition software? A requisite post is gwern's excellent and comprehensive article on them https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition

Exactly what I was wondering about -- couldnt illegitimate DMCA requests be an attack vector to shut down a public GitHub repo temporarily? There wasn't much to the quoted DMCA req…

If the researcher had done that -- queried every cellphone and published it -- I fully expect they'd receive the same treatment from law enforcement that weev and Aaron Swartz got,…

An article with a title like this, people are only responding to the question (which is rhetorical anyway). The OP submission has only been up 1 hour at the time of this comment an…