FiatLuxDave

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by FiatLuxDave 14d ago
This year, LLMs have been involved in a number of interesting proofs of conjectures. But that is not even half of mathematics. Has anyone tried to use an LLM to generate a mathematically interesting conjecture, on the level of Conway&#x27
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by FiatLuxDave 29d ago
I'm guessing you located are in the bay area? If so, that is one thing under your control that you could change. The early SV VCs didn't build the industry by staying in NY (where the capital concentration at that time was). Th
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by FiatLuxDave 1mo ago
I'm a bit surprised no one has yet mentioned the Chung Kuo series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Kuo_%28novel_series%29 It is a series of science fiction novels in which a future China conquers the world and
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by FiatLuxDave 2mo ago
I'm wondering if anyone in charge at Netflix is going to wise up and realize that their biggest problem is their UI. Years ago, if you asked a programmer why the Netflix UI worked the way it did, the answer was that it was designed to
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by FiatLuxDave 3mo ago
Similar to the plasma physicist R.F. Heeter
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by FiatLuxDave 3mo ago
Rarely have I seen someone shoot down their own argument with a link quite as effectively as this. You might want to google those cities, since every single one that I've checked is a small population city surrounded by rural area. You
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by FiatLuxDave 4mo ago
Very reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game) It would be helpful if the event result message remained on-screen until clicked. At least on Firefox, the event result message disappears faster
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by FiatLuxDave 4mo ago
The Great Pulping is the name, or rather names, that modern historians have given to two legendary events which were supposed to have occured early in the Confusion Era. The first of these events was when libraries converted from a primarl
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by FiatLuxDave 4mo ago
Hi Eric, I enjoyed The Lean Startup. You used the phrase "our industry". Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the 'tech industry' concept, simply because a lot of startups are not in software/computing, and a lot
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by FiatLuxDave 4mo ago
Always an interesting artist. My favorite of his was 'Amazonia Gothique', used on the cover of White Dwarf 79. Interesting to see that someone made a minifig of it: https://distopus.blogspot.com/2018/04/
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by FiatLuxDave 4mo ago
I rarely use Google for search, but I've actually gone back a few times just to use the AI search function. Occasionally it is useful, especially when I can't think of the correct term to search for. But recently I had an enterta
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by FiatLuxDave 4mo ago
I know it's not technically a fast factorial algorithm, but I'm kinda surprised that there is no mention on the site of the AKS primality test ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test ). It's op
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by FiatLuxDave 5mo ago
I used to work with a company in Somerset whose official address is "The Barn on Church Lane". Never had any problems with shipping or mailing, but had many discussions over the years with American clerks who wouldn't believ
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by FiatLuxDave 5mo ago
A bit old but still very relevant is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants . Rampant consumerism, a United States so dominated by corporations that there is a senator from Cocoa-Cola, and advertising so agg
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by FiatLuxDave 5mo ago
This seems like a good post to mention my old friend Laszlo Baksay. He was part of the original krautrock scene, being a member of the band Dom (see https://dom1972.bandcamp.com/album/edge-of-time , scroll down to the
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by FiatLuxDave 5mo ago
This vaguely reminds me of an old SPAM bouncing experiment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38292161
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by FiatLuxDave 5mo ago
I actually like the recirculation simulation. Although all kinds of cyclical engines have recirculation of power as part of their function, in fusion there is an important difference from what people are used to. In an internal combustion
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by FiatLuxDave 6mo ago
Nice to see a reference to Theft of Fire here. I really liked it and can't wait for the sequel.
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by FiatLuxDave 6mo ago
I already canceled last year. It's too bad, because there is a lot of Netflix content that I like. It just seems that it takes much more time clicking around to find it, and I don't have time for that. I used Netflix on Roku, a
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by FiatLuxDave 7mo ago
I used to be the top-level support escalation at a company, and I made sure to brief all the tier-1 support personnel to escalate directly to me any call using "shibboleet" Sadly no one ever used it. The company had "Nuclea
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by FiatLuxDave 8mo ago
This is a really good idea. Somebody build this!
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by FiatLuxDave 10mo ago
"The computer said so" has been a scapegoat since the 1960s.
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
Sounds like the plot of The Dabare Snake Launcher: https://www.amazon.com/Dabare-Snake-Launcher-Joelle-Presby/d...
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
This discussion reminded me of my best Diff Eq prof. He would start each lecture by putting a small clock on his podium, and starting at the precise time listed for the start of the lecture. Then he would leap into action, chalk dust flyi
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
I'm certain we need to start taxing ads.
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
My Dad lost my college fund in the 1980s investing in the gold mining penny-stocks on the VSE. Fun times.
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
Happy owner of an iPhone SE here. I feel like the large manufacturers have trouble selling small phones because they just don't understand the small phone market. It's a lot like the electric vehicle market before Tesla came alo
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
For modern types of "social media", I prefer to use the more accurate term: Gossip Engine. It tells you exactly what it does in a way that "social media" obscures. Nothing drives engagement like a Gossip Engine!
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
This is the comment on here I most relate to myself. I'm also from a family with old roots, although our family heirlooms date back only to the Fourth Crusade at earliest. My mother passed away a few years ago, and I was made respons
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
OMG, they made it! My sister knows these guys! They became friends when she was working at an NGO in Madagascar. They also make whiskey.

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