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by boothby 1y ago
The astonishing thing to me is that the production of solar panels is a huge source of mining and manufacturing jobs. Just like heat pumps. If we were serious about the objectives stated by the conservatives, Canada could easily be a worl
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by boothby 1y ago
That's an awfully suspicious question to ask, don't you think?
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by boothby 1y ago
Only nowadays LLMs are embedded in search engines so if you're looking for something that doesn't exist the top of the page is liable to hallucinate its existence.
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by boothby 1y ago
What's happening is that you exchange forward momentum for angular momentum. When the track straightens out again, you trade the angular momentum for forward momentum again. The train pays for this in friction losses; the orbital man
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by boothby 1y ago
I do not have a mind's eye*, outside of the dimmest, briefest flash of people's faces if I've known them for several years. I do have a peculiarly strong sense of imaginary touch, which gets used when contemplating problems
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by boothby 1y ago
I have the same question -- the problem of moving a couch around a corner is a nonconvex problem, but I suspect that pivoting, or perhaps a helical "rifling" motion, may avoid a vertex:face contact.
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by boothby 1y ago
Nevertheless, the t-shaped tetronimo (assuming four glued cubes) has a shadow shaped like a bar of length two. I believe that such a shadow will pass through a bar of length three, with a tilt similar to the cube's.
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by boothby 1y ago
A donut is nonconvex. The title leaves that very crucial word out.
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by boothby 1y ago
It says that for a sufficiently large storage system, the information within will ultimately be limited by the surface area and not the volume. That you can indeed judge a book by its cover. For the sake of asymptotic analysis of galactic
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by boothby 1y ago
And now with the advent of highly capable LLMs, we don't even need humans watching and listening. The data streams can be captured, analyzed, summarized, for any behavior, mention, suspicion, or hallucination of undesirable activity
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by boothby 1y ago
I'm mad that they're using Ada and not Logo.
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by boothby 1y ago
It's crossed my mind that a couple of a certain class of typos in a document has become a signal of authenticity. It's only a matter of time* before we see prompting or even manual editing adapt to falsify that signal. * before t
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by boothby 1y ago
> AFAIK nobody has figured out how to create such an equivalent. I'm curious if anybody has even attempted it; if there's even training data for this. Compartmentalization is a natural aspect of cognition in social creatures.
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by boothby 1y ago
This makes me a bit sad. Over the years I've posted PRs to several, but not many, repos with a one-off fix, issue or improvement. It's a great opportunity to say hello and thanks to the maintainers.
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by boothby 1y ago
Wild. I flew domestically about a week after 9/11 and forgot that I had my leatherman in my pocket until I got to security... and the xray operator didn't see it in my backpack.
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by boothby 1y ago
Yeah, the letters are big enough, an xor shows the text quite clearly.
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by boothby 1y ago
> or possibly a lack of tooling problem. It's a lack of tooling problem. Because if you're a bioinformatics researcher, you want to devote your time, money and energy towards bioinformatics. You don't want to spend weeks
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by boothby 1y ago
Spend a few years handling data in arcane, one-off, and proprietary file formats conceived by "brilliant" programmers with strong CS backgrounds and you might reconsider the conclusion you've come to here.
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by boothby 1y ago
It's funny because the opposite is often true as well: if you're having trouble solving a problem quickly, randomize the data and try again.
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by boothby 1y ago
A student once arrived, disheveled and with 20 minutes left, to a midterm. I gave him a stern look and a copy of the exam. While I was grading the exam, I discovered with slight horror that he'd showed up to the first of two classes
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by boothby 1y ago
> If something truly momentous happens about it, you’ll hear about it. From who? And where are they getting their information? It bears mentioning that you're presently participating in a political conversation on social media.
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> If there’s anything that this horrific event has taught me it’s to step away from social media political rabbit holes. This presents a conundrum to somebody wanting to stay abreast of current events. The president of the US is always-
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by boothby 1y ago
> Why is RPN a head trip? It isn't how we teach math in the two countries I've lived in. Lisp is just as weird. Many people see a mathematical expression and panic. A level up from them, people see a mathematical expression
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by boothby 1y ago
Forth is a bit of a headtrip for people due to (a) how it parses and executes and (b) the stack-based nature of it. Particularly, symbols traditionally considered syntactic are fair game* for user-space definitions, and some words are &quo
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by boothby 1y ago
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
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by boothby 1y ago
> The mass hysteria among SVPs and PMs is absolutely insane right now, I've never seen anything like it. This isn't entirely foreign to me; it sure looks a lot like the hype train of the dot-com bubble. My experience says that
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I had a conversation with a lawyer who had invited OtterAI to our confidential meeting. I was gobsmacked, and I quickly read Otter's privacy statement -- my impression was that they retain your data in a cloud service and use your &qu
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by boothby 1y ago
This is great, once we get LLMs playing Doom, we'll all be free to touch grass.
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Heck, that just adds another level, dunnit? "The sky" being another euphemism for death, a predictable outcome of a flaming being climbing a dang tree? And, thanks for working with my claim that analyzing jokes improves them.
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This is the weirdest conversation about a joke that is definitely making its target audience laugh -- as a comedian, I say that's the only honest measure of a joke. But allow me to analyze the shit out of this, because the only thing

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