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by boothby 1y ago
Thanks for this, I'll be calling it toothhairpaste regardless of what the marketing department comes up with.
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by boothby 1y ago
I love to contemplate galactic-scale synchrotrons that accelerate supermassive charged black holes to collide at relativistic speeds. The thought never really goes anywhere, but I'm sure it'd be a spectacle to behold.
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by boothby 1y ago
That's an egregious abuse of statistics. It seems entirely implausible that the age of dementia onset would not move in parallel with lifespan.
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by boothby 1y ago
> Efficiency is about sitting down and analyzing your tasks holistically and doing min-maxing... Accurate analysis depends on accurate data. Which is why some people I know are required to account for their work activities in 7-minute i
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When I've seen parents amuse kids with AI slop, the kids ask for more slop. When I've seen parents amuse kids with improv, the kids participate. Kids love both, and like nutrition... kids love sugar.
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by boothby 1y ago
Likewise, if you generalize to 3-face array, you'd need an octagonal unit painted in a 2^3 debruijn sequence...
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by boothby 1y ago
If that wasn't the correlation they set out to measure, they'd be accused of p-hacking. Studies like this are useful for meta-analysis.
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by boothby 1y ago
I've seen a few studies on calorie-free sweeteners inducing consumption thereby increasing calorie intake. If the story here is that eating ultraprocessed foods reduces willpower, do you maintain your dismissive stance?
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Similarly, the camera could stay face-on and double the pixel count with largely the same hardware.
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by boothby 1y ago
> On his way out, he said that CEO Sadarangani urged him against exercising his stock options I'm curious about this, as it sets off a little alarm in my head. Is this a legal thing for the CEO to do?
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by boothby 1y ago
Kids these days aren't learning Malbolge as their first language and it really shows. I loved Basic, then VisualBasic, then C, and then Perl... and after Perl, I've never really found it challenging to learn a new language. After
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by boothby 1y ago
Moreover, I've known a few people with extensive facial scarring due to burns. I suspect that they're treated the same as this guy, but the story isn't nearly as "fun."
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by boothby 1y ago
It's been some time since I last benchmarked defaultdict but last time I did (circa 3.6 and less?), it was considerably slower than judicious use of setdefault.
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by boothby 1y ago
Just a heads up, this fails to track usage of get and setdefault . The ability to iterate over dicts makes the whole question rather murky.
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It appears to be "lights out" with more states. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(game)
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by boothby 1y ago
The confluence of tinker-for-tinkerings'-sake "hackers" and get-rich-quick "hackers" on this site certainly leads to a lot of fun miscommunication.
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by boothby 1y ago
Note that pm2.5 will also spike when you've used shampoo, perfume, deoderant, lotion, sunblock; if you use dryer sheets and you unpack your clothes, etc.
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by boothby 1y ago
I write performant cython all the time, as a glue language. Write your "business logic" in Python. Write your class definitions and heavyweight algorithms in C++. Write your API in Cython. If you're writing your business
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by boothby 1y ago
As somebody with a professional interest in spin lattices: no, it doesn't. (Also: I'm unfamiliar with the term "Kramers degenerate" and am reading up now)
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by boothby 1y ago
I came expecting epic-tier fractran golf, was sorely disappointed.
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by boothby 1y ago
Individual numbers can be uncomputable! For example, take your favorite enumeration of Turing machines, (T1, T2...) and write down a real number in binary where the first bit is 0 if T1 halts and 1 otherwise, second bit is 0 if T2 halts...
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by boothby 1y ago
If a foreign diplomat is pulled over by the cops after running over a pedestrian, they can flash an ID card and drive away. If an undocumented immigrant does the same, they go directly to jail and probably get deported in short order. Tha
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by boothby 1y ago
I've gotta ask. Who wants you to write that much code and why?
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by boothby 1y ago
Computing M_a(n) appears to be at least as hard as factoring n for a=1, so I think you're safe here.
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by boothby 1y ago
I agree that the observation "M_1(n) = n+1 iff n is prime" is elementary. It certainly motivates some intuition behind the investigation in this paper, but I'd loathe to call it obvious. Note that the paper studies equations
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by boothby 1y ago
Sorry, but M_1 is simply the sum of divisors, and I don't think that was ever a mystery. Specializing the notation from the paper for M_a, to a=1, and writing pythonic with finite bounds for clarity... M_1(n) = sum( m for
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by boothby 1y ago
Dead Puppies
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by boothby 1y ago
My favorite is my alma mater, the University of Washington. They break their communications into categories, and opting out of everything opts out of each category at the backend. For years, I've opted out of "everything" e
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> These days, I find that I am using multiple search engines and often resort to using an LLM to help me find content. For a few months, I've been wondering: how long until advertisers get their grubby meathooks into the training da
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Not quite. Their process is in ambient conditions (not the vacuum of PLD) and produces molten droplets and not plasma. But for low-precision work (I deal in fractions of microns at work) this sounds like a neat & cheap DIY if you alre

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