JohnKemeny

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by JohnKemeny 7mo ago
Should be \subset.
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by JohnKemeny 9mo ago
I use .ag and it's YAML-inspired. I have incorporated ideas from Design by contract: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554477
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by JohnKemeny 9mo ago
I have developed my personal agentic file format `.ag` for this purpose. Here is the template I start with: #!/usr/bin/env gpt-agent input: <target/context (e.g., cwd)> task: | <o
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by JohnKemeny 9mo ago
While they only had positive samples, the AIs sometimes reported cancer in the wrong location, meaning a double whammy: It failed to detect the cancer, and misdiagnosed a non-cancer. From the paper: > Two cancers had abnormality scores g
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by JohnKemeny 11mo ago
Yes, but it seems strange to claim that i^i isn't anything . That just completely ignores what's interesting, namely that i(π/2 + 2πk) is real for all k ∈ Z .
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by JohnKemeny 11mo ago
Is your argument that complex powers isn't anything ?
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by JohnKemeny 11mo ago
On-Topic : Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity . Off-Topic
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by JohnKemeny 11mo ago
> Yes PRC is a common abbreviation amongst literate, engaged, people. So I'm either not literate, not engaged, or not people? I'm surprised to learn it is as common as USA, UK, and EU.
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by JohnKemeny 11mo ago
Is "PRC" a common abbreviation? Does it mean "China", or does it mean something else? Why not write China? I'm from KOS* (neighbor country of KON* and ROF*), so I don't know much. * Kingdom of Sweden , King
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by JohnKemeny 11mo ago
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
"exploit": make full use of and derive benefit from
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
I added one statement and it only says `timed out`. I'll stick with Graphviz, which certainly doesn't time out.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Sounds intriguing. What is an example of a chart and its language that you have designed so far?
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
The internet caused social media, which caused the attention economy and trumpism, and will be the bane of the next generations. It's too soon to tell regarding "net positive for the economy".
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
You can just AI generate a photo and snap a picture of that. There's no such thing as provable authenticity .
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Just a nitpick. They said the classic file viewer is cat, not that cat's primary purpose was viewing files.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
From TFAE Gasoline and diesel cars are now obsolete in the Norwegian new car market, with a few hundred new cars per month, while EVs represent roughly 95-97%. The current incentive program maintains the crucial VAT exemption for EVs, but o
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Faster CPython team layoff at Microsoft (May 2025)(bsky.app)
3 points by JohnKemeny 1y ago|1 comments
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Three Core Python developers (including Eric Snow and Mark Shannon) from the Faster CPython team were fired from Microsoft in May 2025. Quote from Mike Droettboom (CPython Core Developer): It's been a tough couple of days. Microsoft&
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Most people I know simply use `latexpand` which "flattens" all files into one tex-file and by default removes all comments.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
That's the Lindy effect: old tools like ls last because they've already lasted, while modern ones often don’t stick around long enough to. the future life expectancy is proportional to its current age https://e
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
The Albanese government is the sitting federal government of Australia, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of the Labor Party.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Almost everyone who has interacted with a blockchain ended up losing money.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
There's even a HN post from almost exactly 5 years ago: Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, 2nd ed (szeliski.org) 0 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24945823 But anyway; why not? Yes, add (2020)
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Regarding the Cycle Removal Problem. This problem is actually called Feedback Arc Set (it is a set that "hits" all "feedbacks" (i.e. cycles) with arcs, i.e., edges). Its undirected variant is called Feedback Edge Set a
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Do you also think that IBM Watson won Jeopardy primarily because of its ability to reason? Or due to its massive internal database combined with superhuman button pressing skills?
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
> ICPC = The International Collegiate Programming Contest. These are college level programmers, not elite competitive programmers. ICPC finalists are very much in the world elite of competitive programmers.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
It's like rai-ain, on your wedding day.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
I think Java is dying. If you want to teach algorithmic thinking , teach Python. If you want to teach hardware and low-level systems , teach C.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
What makes you say that they are easier? Are there more people who manages to solve a problem from ICPC than from IOI? How do you compare those? There were at least 2 very simple problems in IOI this year. I haven't read the ICPC prob

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