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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
Author here - I saw a few analyses of Wordle on here over the last few days, but it didn't seem like the strategies others used were optimal. They managed to get very good results usually by only training on the "target" set,
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
This solution feels a little like cheating because it's using the "target" list to train. The target list contains all the solutions, while the larger list contains all 5-letter words. A human would not know the target list.
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Why adieu is a terrible first guess in Wordle(kats.coffee)
3 points by SoylentOrange 5y ago|4 comments
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
I don't think this list is accurate, because the expected number of guesses for the top words should be fewer than 5. I'll post something in more detail later, but the best guesses on the 12,972 5-letter words have an expected num
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
Here in Ontario Canada, the official government guidance is to not get tested if you have a mild case, due to a province-wide shortage of PCR tests [1]. Several friends have likely contracted COVID in the past 2 weeks (38-39 degree fever
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
After his most recent title defense, Carlsen has been quite vocal that he is only interested in defending his title against the “new generation” of chess players like Duda and Alireza: https://www.chess.com/news/view&#x
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
There were plenty of amazing games in classical chess this year (and just because a game is a draw doesn’t mean it wasn’t exciting). An example of a great game this year is Carlsen v So at the Champions Tour. Another great game was Domingue
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
What this article misses is Nepo is famous in the chess community for caving into pressure after losing once. A lot of people have said that Nepo was immensely lucky with the Candidates Tournament (the tournament that allowed him to play fo
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
Can you explain what you mean by “Live App” era vs React era? Can you point towards resources which might disambiguate the two?
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
There are plenty of Italian and Swiss banks that are over 300 years old. They’ve survived reformations, wars including World Wars, plagues, purges, and the transition from feudal monarchies to empire and to democracy. For example, the Briti
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
That’s true you’re right. But I’ve heard others talk about adding a JIT, which would likely be a large breaking change at the ABI level.
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
> When pointed to the "ccbench" benchmark, Gross reported speedups of 18-20x when running with 20 threads. I would be very happy with that, together with a 10% speed increase in single-threaded performance that they said would
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
What do you use nowadays?
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
What do you use nowadays?
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
> My personal view is that the world has largely moved on from dynamically typed languages for anything non-trivial or that isn't essentially plumbing. For good reason. Of course people will bring up Javascript but it has a captive
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
Python 3.0 was released in 2008, over 13 years ago. We are almost certainly much closer to python 4.0 than to 3.0 today (given 3.10 RC is currently live)
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
I would like to see a citation for this claim as I suspect it is not true
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
In 2013 there was a massive snow/ice storm and power outage here in Ontario, Canada lasting multiple days [1]. Having the paperwhite was amazing, because it had near-unlimited battery, and I used the 3G to buy a few books. Nearly every
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
This isn't accurate, as Amazon is only giving full refunds to those with the gen 1 kindle. The rest get a store credit towards the purchase of their next kindle. I have a paperwhite and the $50 credit is less than half of the cost of a
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by SoylentOrange 5y ago
I am OP and there are actually 25 solutions, with only one of them having all leading digits as non-zero. I made a mistake in the article, where I meant to write "there are at least 2 solutions and here is one example". I will fix
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Send+more=money and how to use forward-checking in search(kats.coffee)
24 points by SoylentOrange 5y ago|31 comments
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
As a computer scientist rather than an EE, I learned a lot from this article. I would like to provide some perspective as a person who buys and looks at processor advances in the consumer market with a technical, but not too technical, back
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
This is incredibly well-written and a great peek behind the curtain of industrial vs academic ML research. One question: can you elaborate a little on your point about intellectual diversity?
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
I wish pip install automatically updated the requirements file like in some other languages. I look up some boilerplate in stack overflow every week for matplotlib figures to look better. CSVs generated in excel cause errors when reading in
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
The author specifically calls ML non-human computing and I believe is talking about the advances in ML from a theoretical standpoint. I don’t believe it is possible to lump the human written software used to train models, generate adversari
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
I’m an ML researcher, but did my grad work in systems. Here are several crucially important technologies invented since 1996 not mentioned in the article, which are fundamental underpinnings of the research community: - Jupyter notebooks, f
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
Are the authors suggesting the weak credentials were the only part of the attack? Or are they suggesting they were the first part in a rather sophisticated supply chain attack? The credentials by themselves don’t give execute privileges, or
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
I would like to add for the folks saying this is an ad-hominem that using Paul Graham’s own “hierarchy of disagreement” pyramid [1], this is at least at the level of Refutation, putting it 4 solid rungs above Ad-Hominem. [1]: https:/&
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
Thank you, Dang!
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by SoylentOrange 6y ago
In the same way they are stopped now: infiltration, investigation, and waiting for them to make a mistake

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