benkuykendall

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by benkuykendall 2y ago
Phew. The pessimism here is kinda... exhausting. But frankly I don't have any material objections """ The Mars Religion When you hold on to a belief so strongly that neither facts nor reason can change it, what you are d
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
> Getting to Turing completeness can require polynomial CoT tokens, wrt the input problem size. So, as stated, this is impossible since it violates the Time Hierarchy Theorem. The actual result of the paper is that any poly-time computab
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
For some reason, I find it kinda funny you don't just ask the LLM to extract the values for you. Practically, your solution makes a lot of sense -- way fewer tokens, less likely to make weird one-off errors, can verify the response mak
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
No. Hokusai pre-dated Impressionism by a couple of decades, but his work was known in Paris and almost certainly influenced the movement. Also worth noting this particular work's influence on Impressionist music: see the cover of Debus
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
> The amendments limit the governments reach, not limiting the people. Well... other than the 18th Amendment.
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
Hmm... but does it taste good? If I'm growing my own tomatoes, I'm going for something delicious like a Pink Brandywine or Cherokee Purple (which, compared to this specimen, is admittedly more brownish red than purple).
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
I feel like I'm missing some context here?
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
Sure, but you can associate events with indicator rvs: X = 1[Heads], Y = 1[Tails]
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
Not sure how literal you're being -- this is an obituary. True to style, it gives a brief and positive biography of the deceased.
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
np is the standard alias for numpy, probably the most popular numerical and array processing library for python. So, no, not part of the standard lib at all. But a universal import for most users of the language in any science/stats&#x
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
This kind of work sounds potentially (?) important for continuing to improve network technology. Unfortunately I don't have the background to understand why it works in the slightest. However, it reminded me of an older approach to sig
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
Not entirely sure what you're getting at here -- what do those other two publications have to do with this essay?
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
My favorite function here is more_itertools.one. Especially in something like a unit test, where ValueErrors from unexpected conditions are desirable, we can use it to turn code like results = list(get_some_stuff(...)) assert len(resu
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by benkuykendall 2y ago
Maybe in some cases, but the performance characteristics are way different. The functions in `more_itertools` return lazy generators, but it looks like `np.flatten` materializes the results in an ndarray.
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by benkuykendall 3y ago
I couldn't really understand this paragraph. Maybe I need a worked example? > Bit rotation can be implemented using a combination of bit shifting and or operations, and on a hardware level, with different locical XOR ports. That’s o
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by benkuykendall 3y ago
This is touched on in the article. In fact a fintech startup Ingo Money is trying this. > And then there’s one decision which I just love aesthetically: if you’re willing to wait ten days, Ingo will discount your fee straight to zero. Wh
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by benkuykendall 3y ago
Huh I have exactly the opposite prior here. I was surprised by the Ngram though: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=to+bartend%2C+... Looks like over the past 200 years, "tend bar" was strongly pre
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by benkuykendall 3y ago
It's hard for me to relate to this point of view. Sure, my local park isn't the Grand Canyon, but on a day-to-day basis, failing to make the "top-100 list" doesn't impact my enjoyment of the outdoors. Fresh air, lit
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by benkuykendall 3y ago
If I understand you correctly, I think ParamSpec (since 3.10) is what you are looking for, especially if you want to be generic over the type of the inner function. The example from the docs ( https://docs.python.org/3/l
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by benkuykendall 7y ago
What does EMEA stand for?
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by benkuykendall 7y ago
This paragraph, later on in the piece, briefly addresses the issue. According to the sources the author cites, the cull is not ecologically justified, but rather to stop the cattle from competing with domestic cattle. >> Of the estim
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by benkuykendall 7y ago
I appreciate that use of your vehicles was essential for you during the aftermath of Katrina. But I don't think emergency situations are a good enough rational for using a gasoline-powered car every day. As in many computer science pro
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by benkuykendall 7y ago
A Domino's extra-large pizza is 16", comparable to the width of the handlebars. I think they'll be fine.
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by benkuykendall 7y ago
A "sin tax" is logical enough -- higher prices discourage the excess consumption of alcohol and the money raised hopefully goes to beneficial government programs. However, I don't see why a minimum price is set. Wouldn't
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by benkuykendall 9y ago
Personally, I don't really like the translation "information about A and B is insufficient to rule out implication". At least when I say "A implies B" I mean exactly "A => B". But maybe I hang out with
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by benkuykendall 9y ago
That's an interesting dichotomy to establish. At first, it appears to mirror the theoretical/applied division we see in a lot of fields. But in addition to an applied mindset, you seem to be demanding something stronger out of log
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by benkuykendall 9y ago
Not to trivialize your issue, but I always am dismayed at how much time is spent trying to map English statements into those of sentential logic, especially in cases where their usage differ, like inclusive ors or material implication. In a
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by benkuykendall 9y ago
The idea of system wide "document database" is really intriguing. I think the author identified a real pattern that could be addressed by such a change: > In fact, many common applications are just text editors combined with d
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by benkuykendall 9y ago
> A tasty, energy-packed paste made from peanuts , oil, sugar, milk powder and vitamin and mineral supplements What do they do about peanut allergies? If they are so common and dangerous (as witnessed by many US schools banning peanut
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by benkuykendall 10y ago
>> The cryptographic algorithm that the AI comes up with isn't guaranteed to be based on a provably NP-hard problem, so there aren't any formal guarantees. There are no cryptographic schemes, either in theory or in practice,

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