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by RyEgswuCsn 2y ago
People spent considerable amount of effort developing systems that separate contents from styles (latex, html/css, etc). And with Python people think it’s a good idea to encode contents as styles…
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by RyEgswuCsn 2y ago
What's your suggestion then? For China to reduce its population by 3/4 (wasn't China heavily criticized for enforcing birth-control?), or to acknowledge that Chinese citizens (or those of any other country with a population
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by RyEgswuCsn 2y ago
True browser-centric digital gurus don't restart their computer unless there is a power cut. They also don't shutdown their browser either.
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by RyEgswuCsn 2y ago
I think they meant there is only one syllable per character.
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by RyEgswuCsn 2y ago
> Japanese has a lot of compound words of Chinese origin, where two or more kanji appear as a set. In the original Chinese language, a "word" mostly consists of a single character. Interestingly, many of the compound words comm
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by RyEgswuCsn 2y ago
Except that a weather forecasting model can't experiment on weather, but a LLM system may be designed to be able to perform experiments and take feedbacks?
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
Excellent, Python is officially my favourite language now!
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
How about allowing non-indentation-defined code blocks? Say, by wrapping a block of code with {}?
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
It's salami bait and switch.
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
This is somewhat expected to be honest. I am rather pessimistic on the future solutions to such issues though. I can see only one possibility going forward: camera sensor manufactures will either voluntarily or forcibly implement hardware
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
I am afraid there are no such thing as "friends" when it comes to international politics...
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
Gangs also offer to "defend" local businesses from other gangs.
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
What I meant to say is that most people can only verify an algorithm is correct if they already know the correct solution. If they already know the answer then it’s probably more efficient if they write it themselves rather than having AI p
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
If you need AI to help you program an algorithm, then you shouldn't be using it because you can't tell if AI's solution is correct. If you can tell if a solution is correct or not --- well, then you don't need to have AI
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
I feel Java deserves better. When Python finally gets true thread concurrency, JIT (mamba and the like), comprehensive static analysis (type hints), and some sophisticated GC, and better performance, people will realise Java have had them
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
Or they could mean "used by engineers who work at Google (for their non-work related projects)"?
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
> It's fascinating to me that the complexity of life always goes up. I feel this is only the case because the ecosystem keeps receiving useful/low-entropy energy inputs from the Sun.
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
Just be patient. It takes some time for academic influencers to start jumping on the bandwagon.
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
__lack__ evidence sounds like you have already made up you mind but is just searching for confirmation. I'd say a better expression would be "we don't know yet whether ...", e.g.: "we don't know yet whether Cov
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
> claiming "there's no evidence that happened" is nonsense - you just heard the evidence, and any reasonable person would conclude you did. I am not sure about that. If someone claims that you had stole something from a s
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
We are talking about different kind of evidence here. There are two sense entries under the word "evidence" per Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary[1]: 1. the facts, signs or objects that make you believe that something is
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
That's not how logic works. The equivalent statement is "extraordinary evidence doesn't necessarily imply extraordinary claims".
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
I would argue that true evidence (for a claim) can be defined as such piece of information that, when a third party is invited to examine it, they would arrive at the same conclusion as what was claimed. Scientific evidence ought to meet th
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
I'd say the difference is pretty simple: true evidence needs to be verifiable. Scientific studies provide evidence by describing the experiments/procedures needed to reproduce its claims. Evidence for untrue things is still evide
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
Until they are.
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
You will have to define "own works". How can you measure how "owning" some work is?
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
It works for me unless I manually introduce inconsistencies in the formulas.
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
So the browsers are becoming the new Flash players?
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
Excel already does this except for the variable column width. One can select a cell inside a table-like range and click "Format as a Table" to have Excel automatically infer the range of the table (including the headers) and enhan
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by RyEgswuCsn 3y ago
Is it just me or the UK has been losing its moral highground over the years?

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