BeetleB

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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> You don't just need to establish that students should learn history, literature, etc -- you need to establish that 12 years of that is not enough, and they need to take an additional 4 years at a much higher cost. Actually, I didn
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
This isn't banning such programs. The question is why the federal government needs to support them. If you want to set up a teaching program to learn something arcane, by all means go for it and charge a fair/reasonable/wha
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
CS is special in that it is about the science , and not the application. They'll teach you mostly theory. That's why some universities/countries have a separate degree called "SW Engineering". Other engineering dep
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> How would an OpenAI employee know what Apple's security processes for departing employees are? Either by being a former Apple employee, or polling former Apple employees.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
Hardly. Northern Nigeria is majority Muslim. Most Muslims are not under Boko Haram control. I believe this map shows the maximum area they controlled - and it was over a decade ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wi
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
I assume you're asking in jest, but having experience in the matter: Any information you give to someone/group, where you know or have good reason to believe it will be used for terrorism purposes (including training), does put
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> For a lot of math departments, that is exactly why they teach this. Depends on the course. That's why some departments have separate calculus courses for math majors - because otherwise the whole class will be full of non-math maj
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
No one is disputing that - not even most mathematicians. They just don't want it to be their job to know the useful applications.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
OK, it sounds like you haven't tried these chatbots. > Alphabet Inc. for instance clearly doesn't seem to give a single shit about public access to explosives information Go to Gemini and ask it how to make one.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
Have you tried chatbots? They invoke AI safety for lots of (very) legal things. The whole point is not to allow people to make bombs. Legality has nothing to do with it.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
How do they bypass the AI safety measures? I read stuff like this and think I must be an idiot because I'm so bad at circumventing the AI safety for fairly benign queries. And here you have folks making bombs...?
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> I complained in the group chat, that our didactic materials, specifically tasked with providing motivation and concrete examples, did not contain a single application, of this most richly applied field. > I was promptly pilloried, a
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> It would be fundamentally wrong for you to ask what's the value of solving the Erdős–Hajnal conjecture; the value is that it's solved. No, the value is that Erdos's name is attached to it. Lots of mathematicians prove th
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> But also, why would you disobey a direct instruction from you super? Because they disobey their superior (and if they don't, recurse). But yeah, if I were new to the job, I would wait until I'm fairly competent before playing
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
I can somewhat sympathize - I guess the debatable aspect is to what extent should you teach? If someone knows no development tools, then yes, it is good if someone in the team knows Visual Studio Code and can guide them. In my previous job,
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> Their argument is that all team members should use the same tools, and I guess that is a valid point. Not really. If they mandated all team members use telnet instead of ssh, would you say their position is valid? Anyway, the important
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> IMO you want to be actively trying to map the new concepts to things you already understand, and constantly working to update your mental model. It's not an either-or. Where SRS comes in handy is when you have to take long breaks
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> I took my first real analysis course last semester, > These definitions and results don’t mean much on their own without exploring their neighbourhoods Were these epsilon-neighborhoods?
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
It is a bit more challenging, but it is workable. Same caveat as in the article: Spaced repetition is just one (minor) part of learning math/physics. It alone won't get you anywhere. For math - particularly higher level math, the
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
Consistently not replying when you say "I need this information by X" is also impolite. Crappy teams lead to crappy strategies. Incidentally, people are reading too much into this. No one got upset at me for doing this. They knew
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
And I know people will think I'm crazy, but thunks are harder to read. (And I have trouble reading macros).
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
If you've not grown up accustomed to C-style syntax, I assure you that C is less readable. Even a for loop is crazy in C.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
190,000 is less than 1%, and anything from The Daily Mail is suspect anyway. You seem to be trying to knock down a straw man, as I never claimed it was worse in the US.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
No, I meant "if condition is true". The point is that in most/all languages, if the condition is true, the else branch is not evaluated. And it's usually OK to put code in there that can crash when the condition is true,
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
For you , yes. But not for some other folks in the US. If you want to invoke statistics, I'm sure 99% of UK citizens are confident they won't get arrested over a social media post either. They probably worry about it a lot less t
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
Luck is statistical :-)
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> and, at least for now, still post on social media without getting a knock on my door. That's called "luck". A friend of mine did likewise, and got a knock, then handcuffs, then a trial. He was acquitted because everythin
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> But I don't understand how that's different than a function which evaluates other functions. You want a function that takes in arguments, but does not evaluate the arguments when called. So: func(foobar(), foobar())
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> I don't know how taxes work in Europe, but in the US being "essentially" correct is not good enough for the IRS. It often is. On multiple years they've found errors in my return, and they just fix it for me and bill
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> How do you ensure people don't think you're not good at your job Great point. In the beginning, it was fine because I was new and didn't have domain knowledge. As time went by, I had decided I hate the team/job and

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