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user: jxub
created: 2017-04-09
karma: 8342

Hi, I'm Jakub ;)

Mostly doing the part of text I/O aficionado @ HN, studying History and Philosophy part-time while working in tech in London.

FP, history, linguistics, anthropology and philosophy enthusiast.

A large-ish list of interesting users:

abledon (naive rationalism) | adamnemecek | adrianhoward | ahelwer (quantum computing) | Animats (code) | AnthonyMouse | antirez (C) | antognini | apaprocki (bloomberg, finance) | arcfide | atdrummond (altruism) | argonaut | ArtWomb | awakeasleep (comments) | bane | barrkel | bitL | Blahah | buro9 | chollida1 (algo trading) | ChuckMcM | coffeemug | cperciva | cryptoz | danso | derefr (code) | dbaupp (rust) | dom96 (Nim) | dredmorbius (mankind) | dsacco | dwohnitmok (PLT) | evrydayhustling | franciscop | gaius | graeme (business) | graycat (music, math, academia) | gatsby | gdb (OpenAI) | gwern | harlanji | idlewords | iamacyborg | jandrewrogers | jasonlbaptiste | jedberg (SRE) | jessriedel (physics) | joe_the_user | Kell (law) | jstewartmobile | JumpCrisscross | k__ | ketonv (protocols) | KirinDave (code) | kragen (chemistry) | lionhearted | lisper | lkrubner (smashcompany) | lobster_johnson | Locke1689 (C# compiler) | logfromblammo | lordnacho | LoSboccacc (math) | mabbo | malux85 (deep learning) | mindcrime (startups) | mjg59 (kernel) | mlthoughts2018 | motohagiography | nkurz | nostrademons | PakG1 | patio11 (startups) | pdog (finance) | plinkplonk | pmjordan | pmoriarty | pron | proverbialbunny (C++, algos) | psyc | pvg | raffi | raiph (perl) | ralphlinus | SirLJ (algo trading) | sivers | soVeryTired | stcredzero | stupidcar | TeMPOraL | tokenadult | Tomte | trishume | tw1010 | veyron | yummyfajitas

submissions:

Kremlin Tunnels: The Secret of Moscow's Underworld (1989)
2 points | 0 comments
The Pale
3 points | 0 comments
Problem Solving vs. Problem Picking
2 points | 0 comments
Shanghai Before the Foreigners
75 points | 42 comments
Eating Through the Chinese Far North East
1 points | 0 comments
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I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs
183 points | 130 comments
Taking a Look at (Some) Tokenizers
1 points | 0 comments
How to Do the Jhanas
1 points | 0 comments
Pu Erh Tea Market Crash: The Boom and Bust Revisited (2017)
1 points | 0 comments
China's tiered city system explained (2016)
1 points | 0 comments
In China, what you eat tells who you are (2011)
1 points | 0 comments
The Strange Survival of Guinness World Records
3 points | 0 comments
Notes on Nigeria
2 points | 0 comments
Accent Addition: Prosody and Perception Facilitate Second Language Learning
3 points | 0 comments
Wages and Prices in the Soviet Union (1936)
4 points | 0 comments
English Is Not Normal
1 points | 1 comments
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Explaining the Brilliance and Insanity of the Russian Language
4 points | 0 comments
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Turkish Bird Language
1 points | 0 comments
Black People of Yarmouk Basin
2 points | 0 comments
English Island Seeks a Landlord-King Who Likes Solitude, Seals and Beer
2 points | 0 comments
Jaxa (State)
2 points | 0 comments
Polonezköy
1 points | 0 comments
Cimbrian Language
2 points | 0 comments
China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society [pdf]
3 points | 5 comments