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by Verdex 4y ago
[As an aside, is the GPT feedback functionality correct? For example, if the secret word is "peals" and the user's guess is "apple" the feedback is going to be "a?p?p?l+e?". However, I would expect the f
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by Verdex 4y ago
On a similar vein, I tried to get chatgpt to play wordle. The result looked something like: Me: crane GPT: _ _ _ _ e Me: moist GPT: _ _ _ r _ Me: glyph GPT: you guessed it, the word was glyph Now, maybe GPT 4 or other future developmen
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by Verdex 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound Organic compound simply means that there are carbon-hydrogen bonds or carbon-carbon bonds in a compound. The view that this requires "life" was a legitimate theo
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Yeah, a good thought experiment (or possibly even a good experiment to just straight up run) is to try and decide what's the simplest computer program that could possibly pass the bar exam. And then ask people if they would feel comfo
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by Verdex 4y ago
I read about how Bill Gates made a significant contribution to the pancake sorting problem in 1979 (iirc). Apparently, his results were bleeding edge for something like 30 years until someone managed to get a result that was slightly bett
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by Verdex 4y ago
In the past, I have been unimpressed by this paper. Perhaps someone can shed some historical context... But from my perspective what happens is that the paper defines complexity in exactly the way that allows them to deride OO, FP, etc pro
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by Verdex 4y ago
I think this is important. There's no real way to measure technical debt. The best we seem to have is cyclomatic complexity and lines of code. Not exactly what I would hope for. Alternatively we have 'best practices' (ie s
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by Verdex 4y ago
> I see social structures having far more influence [...] I don't know. If that were true, then we as a society would just architect our C/C++ based projects such that we don't bump into memory safety issues. Instead we
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by Verdex 4y ago
This was my thought as well. And I think it is an important fact to keep in mind. You can fool an AI by putting a sticker on a stop sign, but then again you can fool a human by stealing the entire stop sign. Either way you're defacin
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> Talk about raising the bar. Uh, no I guess my point is that once all of the programmers/software engineers/software developers are out of a job, then everyone else will be as well. I think that if there's literally anyo
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by Verdex 4y ago
I expect that before my career is over that I will be given more than one project to fix that the AI stopped being able to deliver features for. I imagine it's going to be one of those laugh so you don't cry affairs.
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by Verdex 4y ago
I mean either it works or it doesn't. That is, either I can ask the AI to solve literally any problem that I have or I still need a software engineer to tell me why my goals are stupid and ill formed. So for example I ask the AI to pr
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by Verdex 4y ago
Yeah, I was going to mention this. Indiana for example does not require any inspection except maybe for some sort of VIN inspection for cars titled outside of the state. And I think there might be one or two counties that have some sort o
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by Verdex 4y ago
> I really feel that's this is just inherent to async/await model, you can only put so much lipstick on a pig. I've been coming to the same conclusion after working with C# async/await significantly in the last few ye
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by Verdex 4y ago
Yeah, this was my first reaction. <Reddit hacked> "Huh, I guess I better change my password." <Recommends TFA> "Hmm, give reddit my phone number .... no."
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by Verdex 4y ago
It's about building a narrative. Yeah, you could still cheat, but who would go through the effort of generating hundreds of hours of fake videos proving yourself innocent. For that amount of effort you might as well have done the wor
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by Verdex 4y ago
It's only taking away their privacy if they're falsely accused. And properly used you might not even have to relinquish privacy if falsely accused. A quick montage video demo and a promise to show the full hundreds of hours of vi
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by Verdex 4y ago
Source control would certainly help establish a history of incrementally performing school work by someone when viewed by a highly technical examiner and when periodically stored someplace where a trusted 3rd party can confirm it wasn&#x2
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by Verdex 4y ago
I wonder if I should help my kids setup a server + webcam + screen capture tool so they can document 100% of their essay writing experience. That way if they ever get hit with a false positive they can just respond with hundreds of hours o
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by Verdex 4y ago
It might have been a red flag 20 years ago, but the software engineering space has really opened up a bunch. I know plenty of engineers who only code at work and they range from okay to excellent. Coding as a hobby doesn't guarantee y
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by Verdex 4y ago
Long term, I think esports are going to be fine. However, I think it's too early for them to really take root and embed themselves into any sort of mainstream or stable culture. Physical sports have been around since forever and even
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by Verdex 4y ago
This is a paper that talks about why OO as generally implemented in mainstream languages is bad, and how Eiffel does it correctly. In general I'm uncertain about these types of explorations because inevitably they define some calculus
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by Verdex 4y ago
> Every API is itself a "little language" I came to this conclusion early in my career. It went something like this: A - "To do this, just create this object, fill in these properties, and call these methods." B - &q
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by Verdex 4y ago
With respect to your first point: Wide spread usage is a relative term. Like, if the a program just happens to be 99% FFT code, then you'll have "wide spread usage" of incomprehensible FFT code in the code base. This is a q
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by Verdex 4y ago
Part 1: The request Do you have a writeup that you can point me towards that goes into detail about why functional programming isn't about map/reduce/filter and is instead about reconceptualizing your entire program as con
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by Verdex 4y ago
I'm not convinced that previous poster was hitting a strawman. Your argument (if I understand correctly) is that given some language (here javascript) that one ought not program in such a way that other people who use that language are
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by Verdex 4y ago
Perhaps you are correct. Maybe it's better to not correct people on the internet when what they were saying is technically incorrect, but otherwise understandable.
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by Verdex 4y ago
So, technically, they probably meant: "unauthorized modification of a security-related system, device or process in order to gain unauthorized access". This being the jargon definition for 'compromised'. You probably
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P is a state machine language. Microsoft used it to build their usb driver in windows 7 or 8 or something like that. https://github.com/p-org/P EDIT: It looks like it's also being used in AWS.
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> Any language which wants to have a comparable feature set to C in terms of breadth of platforms and depth of penetration will run into issues like this. Maybe it can, with the benefit of half a century of hindsight, make better choices

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