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by bmacho 5d ago
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by bmacho 8d ago
> On the second day, there are two gaps: “between nothing and zero” and “between zero and nothing”. Two numbers spawn in those two gaps. Call them –1 and 1. That's a mistake. They should've written "empty set of surreal nu
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by bmacho 9d ago
IMO cr*p and crap are both valid but separate swear words. People have a wide option to choose from when they want to swear, and people like variety (much much more than LLMs do). People also tend to influence each other with their usages:
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Back to the future: modules for Guix packages (2022)(hpc.guix.info)
2 points by bmacho 11d ago|0 comments
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by bmacho 11d ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37036851 - Aug 7, 2023 | 266 comments
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Gnu/Hurd strikes back: How to use it in a (somewhat) practical way (2023)(mhatta.medium.com)
3 points by bmacho 11d ago|2 comments
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by bmacho 11d ago
https://archive.li/oldest/https://mhatta.medium.com/gnu-hurd...
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by bmacho 13d ago
> They've lost my trust since then, and I'll only run it sandboxed: https://gist.github.com/cielavenir/02f322e322a2a3555dbf2b38f ... On Linux/X11 even when you run a program sandboxed or as a different
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by bmacho 14d ago
It's a common (most common?) word in mathematics in this meaning. You interrogate a proof.
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by bmacho 17d ago
It's obviously true that when people try to recall memories they either 1. recall them correctly 2. say they can't recall them 3. recall them incorrectly Are you asking me a study on when people say they remember somethi
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by bmacho 17d ago
Aand what if their corpus callosum isn't severed?
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by bmacho 17d ago
> The left hemisphere actively confabulates, inventing plausible explanations for actions it didn’t initiate, suggesting that much of human self-narrative may be post-hoc storytelling. Sounds like the left hemisphere usually uses somethi
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by bmacho 17d ago
Ask it to build you a simple and deterministic citation checking extension to your IDE that puts source in meta to citations. E.g. color citations green/red depending if they are valid.
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by bmacho 17d ago
No. People have an inner monologue, partial results and ideas and they remember that. If they've worked some minutes/hours/weeks on something and you ask them why did they do that, they will either answer honestly and truthfu
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by bmacho 18d ago
> Classicist Thomas J. Sienkewicz analyzed additional heroes using Raglan's pattern, including Mithridates VI of Pontus (22 points), Krishna (21 points), Jesus (18 points), Mohammad (17 points), Beowulf (15 points), Buddha (15 point
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by bmacho 18d ago
> So much for all the EdTech startups that want you to use their AI teachers. Kid pasting the question into ChatGPT and pasting its answer back is not the same as an AI teacher persona. In my mind an AI teacher can be like a traditional
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by bmacho 18d ago
From someone who doesn't want to associate with it, I think 'anime girl' is fair. Even if people who consume it might (and do) categorize it otherwise.
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by bmacho 18d ago
Different people have different licence preferences. "Why this and not that" questions usually don't spark joy. (Might seem fine for the individual who asks it, but not really in a community.)
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by bmacho 18d ago
Make the sticker text + QR link to a website so anyone with a smartphone could verify them if they wanted. This could work for products too: have webshops add links to verdicts of inspections and also put them on the boxes (in link and QR c
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by bmacho 19d ago
> There's no mechanistic difference between the two types of cookies, let's not pretend this is an actual config choice that people are making. They probably meant 3rd party cookies. It's common to block those. 1st party c
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by bmacho 23d ago
I really like the idea behind it, using he actual RPS mechanics and the 1->2->3->1 cyclic beating instead of just something similar. It Stratego or in many games different types of units usually have different strengths against eac
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Play Intransitive Online(meaf.us)
5 points by bmacho 23d ago|1 comments
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by bmacho 23d ago
Intransitive is a brand new abstract strategy war game. It is similar to chess/stratego: 2 players move pieces on a grid, taking turns, trying to capture opponent pieces (or reach the opposite corner of the board). There are 3 types of
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by bmacho 23d ago
> That makes sense. No, it doesn't if the "which one do you prefer" was just a prompt continuation task. LLMs can't see their own evaluation of a given text. If you ask them to continue Which one you prefer &
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by bmacho 24d ago
Practically all statement outside of mathematics is a soft statement. IMO "Humans do this because [made up scenarios how it helped them survive]" is trash in its own rights, and not because it is not falsifiable. Not useful, not i
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by bmacho 25d ago
Or ADD just sucks there less than in other areas. Like being physically weak is not an advantage in white collar jobs.
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by bmacho 26d ago
I don't get it? Nevertheless you don't have to lie to kids in any field, science, art or otherwise.
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by bmacho 29d ago
Devine Lu Linvega's POP-2/POP-2k tutorial and online interpreter
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A few feral cats in an ALGOL trenchcoat.(wiki.xxiivv.com)
26 points by bmacho 29d ago|3 comments
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by bmacho 29d ago
For front-page submissions it is rare to fall this directly into the off-topic submissions listed in the Guidelines. I'd rather not read all the non-front page submissions [ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest ] and past

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