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So many hopeful (?) patents on this stuff - kinda sad to see.


I once received a letter (while at Chalmers) from the US - it was addressed to <my name> S-41296


KTH's official address is just KTH, 100 44 Stockholm. But since the '10' prefix already implies Stockholm [1], you could feasibly shorten it to just '100 44'.

Actually, it looks like Chalmers is the same way - the address in the footer of their website is just "Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg" (with the '41' prefix already implying Gothenburg).

[1] https://www.postnord.se/vara-verktyg/sok-postnummer-och-adre...


Not that I send many paper letters any more, but long ago I took to simply writing my return address as my (unique) last name and zip code which has worked a few times (not that I’d know of any failure cases).

For US post office boxes you can just write the full 9-digit zip code.


Let's have google check that: https://www.google.com/search?q=45+TB+%2F+8+billion

That comes out to about 3 pages by your measure.


Dang, you're right; I calculated 1 TB = 1 trillion bytes, when I should have calculated it as 1 billion kilobytes.

(So much for decimal-based systems making it easy to do calculations in your head...)


also possibly quite hot from recent interactions with the atmosphere


the little things matter


I think it was more a matter of attitude. Never a great way to actually explain something.


I've read this book recently and found it a very useful overview of ML. It is a bit theoretical which is good for somebody that comfortably reads math notation. Also the notation is pretty consistent which makes connections between methods and algorithms stand out.


The numbers are small but I can see the satisfaction in picking an approach and sticking to it. Thanks for the write-up.


Thanks for reading!


These images were rendered with a "white" bias. Facial features is one thing, but skin color is clearly not conveyed by statues, yet a clear choice was made here.


There are countless texts ( written at that time ) describing them.

This wasn't at the Jurassic age.


Given the preponderance of blonde emperors, it would be reasonable to assume emperors in general were rather light-skinned.


Yet these renderings were not made with that choice.


There are a fair few of them depicted as what I'd consider blonde. Augustus particularly.


Augustus was described as "subflavum" which is often translated as "blonde" but is more likely to mean "light brown".

Sadly this _is_ an area which is indeed full of bias.


Is that not what 'blonde' generally is in adults? An image search for 'blonde man' returns men I'd consider 'blonde' which hair which seems objectively light brown (except those with obviously bleached highlights.)


I wouldn't know.

The color of Augustus here[0] is definitely blonde for me, bordering on platinum, while what I meant is that it might as well have been darker, i.e. [1] which I would call "light chestnut".

[0] https://voshart.com/ROMAN-EMPEROR-PROJECT [1] https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...


What is blond, in a two-thousand-year-old context?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg


It doesn't matter. Non-white people without steppe ancestry are pretty much uniformly dark-haired and don't have names akin to "subflavum" for traditional hair colors, because light yellow/gold hair just isn't a thing, regardless of what exactly they conceive of as "yellow/gold".


Aboriginal Australians have blonde hair arising independently.


Pretty sure Augustus wasnt aboriginal Australian, though (I see your point)


You can't just claim this without suggesting what's actually wrong. What is wrong, and where are the good sources from which we can make a comparison? If you're just guessing then you're no better than this ML model.


points for spelling globbing correctly :)


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