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In addition to everything everyone else has said: their math is off by half (or 100%, depending on how you count), due to a structural error. (context: native English speaker, big …

Also, I'd like to see the inverse of it: a model trained only on the last few weeks - or even minutes - of published information, or only on scientific papers published in the last…

USER: What will the future hold for computers? TALKIE-1930: Computers in the future may be employed in offices where calculations are required to be made, and where the nature of t…

Arrow shafts: $5-10 for a ~30”-long, high-precision high-modulus carbon tube.

Could they have crashed it because of security/safety concerns for President-elect Trump, who was there as a surprise guest, watching the launch with Elon? Per NYTimes: “It was pre…

Misleading/clickbait “journalism”: * The FARS data is “normalized” by unpublished internal iSeeCars estimates of miles driven; the underlying “study” is a marketing blog post for t…

Nothing in this article gives any reason to believe that the voice on the other end of the phone was AI-generated. Occam’s razor suggests it was more likely a human pretending to b…

Lol. At SJC? Almost always a value-add. That said, what people are like once they’re out very much depends on the person. Think of it like the light and dark sides of the force: sk…

True, but the name of the school predates the curriculum in question by more than a century; the school has for many years been in no way associated with any religion. (Likewise, a…

The College offers a Master’s degree in Eastern Classics, applying the same approach to a literary tradition which, while it intersects with and interacts with the Western traditio…

RE 3: as an SJC alum, I found my reading speed slowed drastically both during and after four years spent reading and discussing these books. I found myself thinking while reading m…

I for one would love to see HN do a quarterly/yearly FOSS project donation drive. The more we can do to encourage the development, maintenance, and improvement of tools we all use …

How “hidden” the importance of proprioception is in a sport depends on the sport. In archery, improving proprioception (not strength or visual acuity) is the primary object of trai…

As a non-YC founder living in SF, I'm really disappointed by this answer. Above, you mentioned a "bandaid" solution of increasing funding for YC founders to account for skyrocketin…

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Wow! And XKCD has already updated his epic Landing live-comic: https://xkcd.com/1446/ (See http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1446:_Landing for the background)

For a brief overview of ideal arrow flexion, see http://archery.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/KNSU-...

The majority of Twitter's revenue comes from mobile ads, and app install ads are a major component of that major component. Knowing what apps you do or don't have installed allows …

Nope - as I recall, it was a short film, around 15 minutes long.

There was a short film about just that premise recently - only the cosmonaut landed on a farm in the US, and is discovered by a father and son. Wish I could remember the name!

If anyone is as confused by the title as I was: googling "Bradbury Pomegranate" pulled up an interview[1] in which he explains the metaphor in the context of his writing: Weller: “…