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by andrewla 2y ago
I see my error here -- you can in fact eliminate half even for 2^k mod 10, because both 6 and 8 force a carry; so ending in a 2 or a 6 means that the next higher digit must be odd.
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by andrewla 2y ago
> whether 2^k mod 10 is odd 2^k mod 10 is never odd; it's the cycle (2, 4, 8, 6). Related here is the length of the cycles mod 2^k, https://oeis.org/A005054 . Interestingly, the number of all-even-digit elements in t
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by andrewla 2y ago
This is remarkable! I always find it fascinating that simple to express properties lack a proof. This is a very simple thing to evaluate and seems like it should be straightforward to establish that 2048 is the highest such power.
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by andrewla 2y ago
There are a couple of cooperative multiplayer minesweeper games around -- of note is [1], which is an infinite (or very large) persistent minesweeper world where you can just start solving subsets of the board, and move up leaderboards, etc
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by andrewla 2y ago
In a sense; linear regression can be computed exactly so refers to a specific technique for producing a linear model. Most artificial neurons are trained stochastically rather than holistically, i.e. rather than looking at the entire traini
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by andrewla 2y ago
Importantly, though, LLMs do not take the embeddings as input during training; they take the tokens and learn the embeddings as part of the training. Specifically all Transformer-based models; older models used things like word2vec or elmo,
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by andrewla 2y ago
Yes -- taxing on the estimated full value of the property is a very common thing. Almost universally the case in the US as well. And you can use previous sale values and assessments to try to get what seems to be a market valuation. Two pro
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by andrewla 2y ago
This is obvious? This seems like a terrible solution. Lease durations are important here; if you're like England and have 99 year leases instead of freeholds or something, then that's great, it's basically ownership, but you
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by andrewla 2y ago
The devil is in the details here. A land value tax in the Georgeist sense relies on being able to determine the unimproved value of the land. This is impossible. So it always fails. I love markets, everyone loves markets. But markets only a
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by andrewla 2y ago
This looks really intriguing and I'm looking forward to using it. I'm still using i3, which is just barely good enough to work. I miss Notion, which was unfortunately too flakey and unstable to continue using, but that had one pro
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by andrewla 2y ago
It is a principled argument -- even if the stock market had gone up you would still believe that tariffs are bad. If your claim is that it is impossible for the stock market to go up in the face of tariffs, then you're making a real pr
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by andrewla 2y ago
It sounds like you're making a principled argument against tariffs. That's great, and whether you're right or wrong is independent of the stock market reaction. And there's a fine discussion to be had on the merits of ta
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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities(lesswrong.com)
3 points by andrewla 2y ago|0 comments
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by andrewla 2y ago
I agree that's what the laws are supposed to go after, but forced sale or divestment seems like the wrong remedy here. Force Google to charge money for the service, or to pay a portion of imputed stolen revenue to competitors. But Chro
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by andrewla 2y ago
I completely agree, but I would argue this whether or not the stock market is going up or down in the immediate term.
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Is there a specific aspect of the administration's policies which you believe are causing this? Candidates would include "actual impact of tariffs enacted" or "uncertainty about future tariffs" or the same things bu
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by andrewla 2y ago
Buried in the last time we discussed this phenomenom [1][2] is the reality of the Finnish policy towards homelessness. Like in the US, "homelessness" as in "poor or unlucky people who find themselves without a residence"
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by andrewla 2y ago
There's more information in one of the linked articles [1]. Apparently some very small percentage of Rh-negative people have an enzyme which allows them to accept Rh-positive blood; that's the "anti-D" factor which saves
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by andrewla 2y ago
The problem with most modern pencils that I've found is that the leads are ever-so-slightly off-center, so a sharpened pencil will often have a piece of wood very near the tip. From the pictures (I've never used one myself) in thi
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GIL Kalai: Responses to skepticism of quantum computing feasibility(gilkalai.wordpress.com)
1 points by andrewla 2y ago|0 comments
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by andrewla 2y ago
Many comments here offering similar solutions based on hardlinks or symlinks. This uses a specific feature of APFS that allows the creation of copy-on-write clones. [1] If a clone is written to, then it is copied on demand and the original
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by andrewla 2y ago
This does not use hard links or symlinks; this uses a feature of the filesystem that allows the creation of copy-on-write clones. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System#Clones
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by andrewla 2y ago
My understanding is that it is a copy-on-write clone, not a hard link. [1] > Q: Are clone files the same thing as symbolic links or hard links? > A: No. Symbolic links ("symlinks") and hard links are ways to make two entries
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by andrewla 2y ago
Old thread, so you probably won't see this reply, but just to close the loop. You're completely right -- most of the stuff you say is 100% on spot. The only thing I'd object to here is that you say "A related study is th
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It is true that this is how we tend to discuss these things, but the important thing in practical circuits (even semiconductor circuits) is how they behave, not why they behave that way. Really there has been only limited success in discove
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Except in extremely exceptional circumstances, it is not useful to try to reason about the behavior of electrons when looking at electricity. Treat it as electrical fields and you'll be fine. The fields represent reality at the non-qua
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This is a false dichotomy; that it's either 100% nature and you have no control or that you must obsessively apply whatever faddish unverified pseudoscience passes your way in order to ensure your child's success. Do what comes na
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by andrewla 2y ago
The idea of the article is to create an environment at home so that your child feels secure in the sense of being able to pass the marshmallow test. This is the same sort of logic that leads to the idea that you should have a large home lib
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This is stupid. The article misses its own point. The marshmallow test does not predict success in life. Success in life predicts the marshmallow test. All the other factors they measure are variants of this. Success of parents, stability o
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by andrewla 2y ago
I mention Impulse Labs and their battery-assisted 120V high power induction range in the comments elsewhere. Seems like a similar concept could be used to make an incredibly powerful kettle; throw in a battery that charges from the mains, a

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