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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Chaos Confetti is a reaction to the Chaos Orb story -- that's why the flavor text is "And you thought that was just an urban legend." Note that Chaos Confetti, being from Unglued, was never tournament legal. However, Chaos
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
While that's a criticism that can be made of the game, it has nothing to do what's going on here. The card is perfectly available normally; it's simply the card with this particular frame treatment and artwork that there&#x2
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
It would likely have been true a few years ago, but now 27 people have been to the Challenger Deep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_descended_t... That's more than the 12 who have walked on the mo
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
(2021)
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
It's worse than that -- often their MO is to deliberately get people rattled so they say something false (that the FBI already knew was false), then charge them for that. It's stupid, but it's currently the [courts' int
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
This is not true; the number of Unicode scalar values excluding surrogates is 17*2^16 - 2^11 = 1,112,064, which is larger than 2^20 = 1,048,576.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
(2010)
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I'm going to have to spoil some of it to point out that part of what he's done is reinventing the idea of delay-line memory, although he makes no mention of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memor
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
If you're referring to an article that's online, it would be helpful to link to it. It would appear to be this one: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-06-01/ai-bot...
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I mean, this title is copied straight from the article's title tags. You can say "hey, be careful to use the proper title of the piece, not whatever's in the title tags", but you can't accuse the poster of having m
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
(2013)
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> Figure 2. Removing the final element of a singly linked list. Note that both the returned result and list remain mutable, and the returned result is no longer encapsulated by the linked list, unlike in prior work (e.g., [26, 46]). Note
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> The somewhat frightening creature is prominent in every neuroscience textbook and even has its own Dungeons & Dragons character, with bat wings for good measure. I hope Dr. Dosenbach realizes that the D&D homunculus is based on
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Sure, but I was hoping that the commenter above would link the particular piece they had in mind rather than just referring to it.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Could you link it, instead of just quoting it?
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> As usual Matt Levine's take on this is a good read. Link?
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Gwern's site isn't a wiki, though?
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Or, to say a bit more about this -- I guess the basic principle here is "it's OK to use auxiliaries?" Introducing a larger number system is no different from drawing an auxiliary line in geometry (for instance). There'
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Oh, I see! So it's the Fourier transform (in the abstract sense) from the integers to the circle group, except that then you extend to all of C (well, possibly minus the origin). Interesting! Yeah as someone previously unfamiliar wi
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
The thing to note here is that it's customary when posting an old article to HN to include the year in the title in parentheses.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> I believe you can do bold in Unicode. (see: 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝) As far as I know HN has never supported bold as a markup style. Oh, I think you're right, I'd forgotten. Grr, HN's limited subset of Markdown is quite annoying sometimes
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> You can just work directly with infinitesimal values on a sound theoretical footing. This goes under the name "nonstandard analysis". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonstandard_analysis This is an oversim
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> 5) but x^y will always be larger than y^x, for y>x and x^y > y^x (prove this by taking the first derivative to get rate of change. Do you use Laplace z domain for discrete, instead of s for continuous?) This is false, though! Or
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> I like to use the mnemonics S=short, M=medium, and L=large wavelengths to remember all of this. That's not a mnemonic, that's what they actually stand for...
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Mind linking the post you're quoting?
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Sure, but in this case he's explicitly discussing other people's use: > On the other hand, people who believe AIs and specifically LLMs possess "intelligence" are often accused of "magical thinking."
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Oh, I see, thanks for clarifying. The 10-year time jump forward in the opening, that I notice upon rereading, is confusing; I read the opening as all occurring contiguously. The confusing thing isn't the jump backward in the middle,
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
> Since we now know what magic means, we know what magical thinking means: a tendency to interpret something as magic instead of trying to understand it. No, "magical thinking" has a particular meaning, and it's not that:
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Rather than linking to this Reddit thread, wouldn't it make more sense to either link to: * The linked-to patch notes? https://www.ageofempires.com/news/age-of-empires-ii-definiti... * The particular comment expla
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
> Officials at the organization acknowledged in internal memos that Walter had padded his résumé, but they decided to reveal as little as possible about their internal deliberations. “We do have to worry about public appearances,” Don Ha

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