bennythomsson

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by bennythomsson 2y ago
> beautiful landing page I disagree. Any page that sports a big "buy now" button without even scrolling but has at that point not even shown me a single screenshot will have a hard time catching my attention. I didn't look
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Yes, if it's rolling on a hemispherical dome then it's always been rolling, unless an external force pushed it.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Amazing. Next step would be to propose hardcoding 99930-3999 as the O(1) result and live with the output just being wrong sometimes. The bug rate is then in the ballpark of most modern software, including LLMs', so I'd say ship it
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Or the other obvious optimization to hard-code the lookup in code as a huge list, instead of creating it first.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
The input generation is outside the scope of this. Otherwise you could directly choose the output values with the apropriate distribution and just skip all the rest. (Arguably, this criticism applies to exchanging random.randint for a numpy
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Not exactly. Only for quanta that are not inherently countable. Let's not lose track of what this tread is about, shall we? It's "what is larger, the number of stars in the milky way or the national debt?" One of those v
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
> consumers, a.k.a. morons. Wtf man. Some of the smartest people I know have no interest in getting anywhere close to sw eng or working anywhere in IT, so are by definition "consumers". Just wait until one of those "morons
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Sure, but the number of atoms which a mol represents is just as arbitrary as a kilogram or an ounce.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
... which is arbitrary as well?
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
The way we measure gold, be it ounces or kilograms, is also arbitrary. Unless you count atoms.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
> versus just a quick chat, Everybody is free to keep a blog for this kind of informal chat/brainstorming kind of communication. Paper publications should be well-written, structured, thought-through results that make it worthwhile
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
To supply a counter viewpoint here... The opposite is the "least publishable unit" which leads to loads and loads of almost-nothing results flooding the journals and other publication outlets. It would be hard to keep up with all
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Nice to see other real experts (and a bit of celebrities) in here. (For the uninitiated: Burntsushi of ripgrep fame.)
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Having burried a bunch of boxes with cards inside is art? I can see the artistic value of the full magic act, but does that make a tool used in the act to itself be art on its own? Is the bow used by a violin player in itself a piece of art
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
This is so full of office politics that I'm glad I'm working at a place without it. One tell-tale sign is that the article talks as much about which important contributions "won't get you there" as about which will.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Though, would the burrying have any meaning without the reveal? Its only purpose was to be used in the end. I have a hard time seeing the meaning of the burrying itself.