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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I'm a bit doubtful of Wright's claim here that people only think zero is neither even nor odd only because they've been told so. I think a lot of people just don't like edge cases and want to exclude them. Now zero isn
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Non-mobile link: https://johnmckay.blogspot.com/2011/11/first-trilobite.html
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
No, you shouldn't end up with an infinite sum; if you only want to know the series finitely far out, you only need to know finitely many terms. However, it seems the problem is hard for other reasons. I had assumed, without checking,
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Hm, if it's based on this ratio of contour integrals, shouldn't it be possible to do better than this? Like why would it be so hard to find the residues for these poles? Shouldn't that be just a bit of formal Laurent series
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Given that he's apparently relaying something that actually happened, Bernstein can't be strawmanning it. In fact he can't be strawmanning it at all, as Microsoft Word doesn't make arguments or claims. You appear t
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I see, thanks! Yeah if you see my comment below I think really it should always be explicit both about whether you used the fewest components and (separately) about whether you used the fewest NAND gates. Currently it seems like you so
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
> This is a great game and tbh I think you're just butthurt because you couldn't figure out any of the optimal solutions. There's no need to be rude. Insults like this don't add to your argument. > 1. It does only
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Building circuits is neat, but I think this has some problems as a game: 1. It seems to only let you save one solution for each level, even though there are two optimization goals. It should let you save one for fewest components and one f
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Nonetheless, people do in fact make that mistake -- such as the niche conformists PG mentions -- so it is worth rebutting, and doing so in an understandable manner. The fact that you may not have seen a particular mistake, does not mean th
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
So, uh, does this mean I won't be able to use IMAP with Gmail anymore...? It already complains at me about this for being less secure than webmail, but that doesn't seem to be covered in this announcement.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
(2015)
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Well, yes, that's explained in the post. I'm not asking where the number comes from, I'm asking if the longer list of "magic numbers" can be found anywhere.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Hm, in that post Rachel mentions that 1213486160 is going on her list of magic numbers... I wonder if this list has ever been made public anywhere? I'd very much like to see it...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
And here are direct links to the pair of posts where he discussed it on the n-Category Cafe: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2020/08/chasing_the_tai... https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/categor
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
The term "astral plane" is older than D&D, and I would assume they took it from the more general usage, not the specific usage in D&D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_plane
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Thank you!
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Oh, good point. Yes, I can change the behavior by resizing the window. Below a certain horizontal width it works fine; above that width it breaks like I described. Note that my screen is 1920 pixels wide, and the switchover between the tw
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Since the author seems to be reading this -- the table of contents isn't displaying correctly for me; it's displaying way off to the left, primarily off the screen; only a tiny part of it is onscreen for me. (The only bits visibl
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Minor note: You mean Austria, not Australia.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
That's not what the term "directed acyclic graph" means. "Directed acyclic graph" means that a digraph has no directed cycles, not that it's a directed graph with no undirected cycles. Otherwise the term woul
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I think you've missed the word "anciently" in that sentence. He's talking about pre-modern English.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
TLDR: The author has rediscovered interval arithmetic[0] with rational numbers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Original article, without so many obnoxious ads: https://tedium.co/2018/02/27/pdf-file-format-history/
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I see, thank you for the correction!
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Note that what makes this notable is that the time bound is proven (according to the paper, anyway). N^1/5 is much slower than we normally think of GNFS as being, but the thing to note is that GNFS isn't actually proven to ru
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Huh, I'm surprised Canadian courts allow (or allowed?) that. The US won't let you just sue foreign governments in its courts like that.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Non-mobile link: https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/10/we-were-builders...
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
This article doesn't really explain why these mechanisms would work in one place but not another. What assumption was violated / was different, for instance?
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
I think the sentence was saying that a brick isn't Victorian, not that a brick Victorian isn't brutalist.
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by Sniffnoy 6y ago
Oh, good point -- the instructions break down nicely as one leading bit plus 5 octal digits. Branches are a little bit of an exception, but you're right that octal works overall better here. Still, that doesn't explain the use o

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