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    Comment #48962593

    The language is not the problem here, I also cannot understand ancient greek. Let aside the casting, it impose a modern morality instead of the original moral arguments. The movie …

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    Comment #48962187

    In this context, the book itself is the history rather than the story as a foundational western narrative. The movie diverge in many grounds from the book, and it is sad that most …

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    Comment #48743024

    Advertised as "Private way to connect" by new head, then WhatsApp is new Telegram? Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632224 and https://x.com/kunalb11/status/20716248…

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    Comment #48712207

    Nive work! I solved all five puzzles and only annoyance was the quite a few singular+plural forms in the same puzzle. I expected all unique words.

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    Comment #48449887

    Yes, did you? Anything Cypher, punk or cypherpunk inside that you can point out?

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    Comment #48449872

    They do call themselves, "Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê" (PKK) which literally means Kurdish Workers Party. It doesn't mean whether they call themselves terrorist or not; USA, UK, EU…

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    Comment #48449829

    This is a work written by the terrorist organization leader after incarcerated on 1999. While this carefully selected piece doesn't, the larger work of five volumes named "Manifest…

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    Comment #48444348

    Funnily, this small library features works outside of it's domain, including a manifesto from PKK terrorist organization leader..

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    Comment #47031352

    This comment has a tone of external reviewer, while appearantly your profile shows you are affiliated.

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    Comment #46694887

    Earlier discussion on this; 2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41047110 (41 comments) 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33222687 (59 comments)

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    Comment #46580723

    Well then same goes for saying, there was no genocide.

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    Comment #46580644

    https://youtu.be/Rr9zXuG0-c0?si=O14GnPdhFXWKeMUm

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    Comment #46464039

    Cannot agree more... Tired of flags being waved at the wrong places and times.

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    Comment #46003457

    I did AoC 2021 until D10 using awk, it was fun but not easy and couldn't proceed further: https://github.com/nusretipek/Advent-of-Code-2021

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    Comment #45805288

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/ I watched this movie on cinema a decade ago. Highly recommended.

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    Comment #45734534

    https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/bounded-rands.html

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    Comment #45528324

    Couple of years back, I made a mistake on trusting Deutsche Bahn. I took a regional train from Düsseldorf, hoping to get at some connection hub (never reached and don't remember, p…

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    Comment #44948945

    Funny how the article has no reference to C++ but still linking "Falling Into The Pit of Success". Did we all get our daily dose of subliminal messages from rust?

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    Comment #44905839

    Recently, I also switched to Jellyfin. I still have access to Netflix and Disney through family plan. The service problem was the quality issue. I have the Ultra plan's while Netfl…

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    Comment #44597095

    ->Bradley-Terry and Elo scores are equivalent mathematical models! No, they are not equivalent mathematical models, they are equalivant in terms of calculation of score function(lo…

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    Comment #44591833

    They don't use Elo scores. See my comment above, the loss function is adopted from Bradley-Terry.

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    Comment #44590820

    More confused, 1) 0.02 * random.random() != N(0, 0.02) 2) The LLM will sample a normal distribution, this only depends on your c parameter, the absolute scale doesn't matter neithe…

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    Comment #44590684

    > Fit an ELO-style rating system (Bradley-Terry) to turn pairwise comparisons into absolute per-document scores. There are some conceptual gaps and this sentence is misleading in g…

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    Comment #33160672

    came here to say this, it is a ridiculuous number given ~70M deaf people in the world.