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ldb | 9 months ago | on: Terpstra Keyboard

Oh man, what a legend this guy is. Using an ambiguity in Klingon lore to explore yet another micro-tonal system is just incredible. And he profoundly apologizes for an off-by-one error he made in the previous video ... as if that hasn't happened to most of us :-)

ldb | 9 months ago | on: Terpstra Keyboard

Wow, not in my wildest dreams would I have thought that such a deep dive into Klingon music theory exists. This is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

ldb | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Where Does the A380 Fly?

Nice site. Found it a bit counter-intuitive that the selected airline button has a black border while it has a blue blue border in its unselected state. I would have expected it to be the other way round.

ldb | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: SuperDB- Interact with Your Database

I used SQL a lot when working in the financial industry many years ago. Our "use-cases" were questions like "why did the P/L go down?" or "why did the risk position increase?". These are quite open questions (that require some creativity and interpretation to be answered) but I guess it is possible to train an AI to even answer such questions.

ldb | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: SuperDB- Interact with Your Database

Nice. Why do I need to select a table? I tried "Customers with most orders" and selected table "offices" and still got the correct query on tables "customers" and "orders".

ldb | 4 years ago | on: The Big Alien Theory

Yes, I do understand that. So there is a certain probability that my “i am a high population country” conclusion is wrong (e.g. if I am from Iceland). As already asked below: Do you know a way to quantify the likelihood of me making the wrong conclusion (without knowing the population numbers of the other countries)?

ldb | 4 years ago | on: The Big Alien Theory

Thanks, that makes sense. Do you know if there is any "mathematical trick" to quantify the likelihood of me being wrong (without knowing the population numbers of the other countries)?

ldb | 4 years ago | on: The Big Alien Theory

I am not a mathematician either and only read the “Quick Intro” but that left me with the following question: What happens if I replace the Earth’s populations with that of France and the Earth’s countries with the French cities? If I do that and then follow the logic in the Quick Intro then it makes sense to me that it is likely that I would be born in Paris, but I do not understand how I can follow from this that France is a high population country. What do I miss?

ldb | 4 years ago | on: Mars sucks

An open letter from Mars.

“Dear Earth,

it came to my attention that you are running a website called “marssucks.com” where you state some not so nice things about me. While I think that I understand why you are doing this it still hurts me to read that e.g. I am so terrible that “Matt Damon ate his own feces just to leave me”.

So I kindly ask you to take down the “marssucks.com” site. For a planet as rich and lush as you there should be other ways then making derogatory remarks about me to convince your inhabitants to treat you in a good way.

Love from your brother Mars”

ldb | 5 years ago | on: GPT-3 tries pickup lines

> "Can I see your parts list?"

That one made me laugh, however, I wondered if an AI would consider this question as a bit too personal for a pickup line.

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