bumbledraven

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by bumbledraven 2y ago
> The page gives "5k 12j" as an example, there's no way in the world it's faster for me to figure out that "12" is the right number faster than through other means. If you add `set relativenumber` to your .v
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by bumbledraven 2y ago
The intro paragraph is confusing. > Reddit closed out its first day on the market up almost 50%, but has since come crashing back down to earth at 30%. So the price was up 50% from the IPO, and now it's only up 30%? That hardly seem
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You Can't Handle the Buddhabrot(lcamtuf.substack.com)
14 points by bumbledraven 2y ago|1 comments
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by bumbledraven 2y ago
> I said “delve” was overused by ChatGPT compared to the internet at large. But there’s one part of the internet where “delve” is a much more common word: the African web. In Nigeria, “delve” is much more frequently used in business Engl
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How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English(theguardian.com)
4 points by bumbledraven 2y ago|2 comments
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by bumbledraven 2y ago
https://archive.ph/ca2Zf
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Jane Street Accuses Millennium, Ex-Traders of Stealing Strategy(bloomberg.com)
5 points by bumbledraven 2y ago|1 comments
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by bumbledraven 2y ago
Related, from earlier this month ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/jane-stre... ): > Jane Street Group sued Millennium Management and two former traders over their alleged theft of a highl
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by bumbledraven 2y ago
This is a new explainer by pannenkoek2012, the video game researcher best known for his discussion of "parallel universes" in Super Mario 64. He rarely publishes for general audiences these days, and the description says this vide
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by bumbledraven 2y ago
> In making the decision, the college said it had been persuaded by research that found that standardized testing was a valuable tool to identify promising students in disadvantaged environments and struggling schools, especially when pa
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
That is a problem with the Python packaging ecosystem in general, not with aider. @BiteCode_Dev wisely advises beginners to use virtual environments to install anything that uses Python: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/back-
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
I appreciate @anotherpaulg's continual benchmarking of LLM performance with aider, for example: > OpenAI just released GPT-4 Turbo with Vision and it performs worse on aider’s benchmark suites than all the previous GPT-4 models. In
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3D animation of Conway's Game of Life using time as the z-axis(instagram.com)
3 points by bumbledraven 3y ago|0 comments
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Monte-Carlo graph search from first principles(github.com)
397 points by bumbledraven 3y ago|24 comments
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
University of Toronto stats prof. Jeffrey S. Rosenthal wrote a nice paper called "Monty Hall, Monty Fall, Monty Crawl" ( https://web.archive.org/web/20230706235720/https://probabili... ) in Mat
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
The seaborn issue linked in the paper, “Treat binwidth as approximate to avoid dropping outermost datapoints” ( https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn/pull/3489 ), summarizes the problem as follows: > floating p
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
> With approaching 4000 images, I need to get through 3 months per day. That rarely happens as my discipline has waned and I've let things slide when I've struggled to remember tags. Spaced repetition might be able to help here
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
This happened to me yesterday. Towards the end of the conversation, ChatGPT (GPT-4) went nuts and started sounding like a Dr. Bronner's soap advertisement ( https://chat.openai.com/share/82a2af3f-350a-4d9d-ae0c-ac78
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
There are ink pens with 0.1 mm tips. https://www.jetpens.com/Copic-Multiliner-SP-Pen-0.1-mm-Black...
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C.C. Myers, construction giant famed for rebuilding Calif. freeways, dies at 85(sacbee.com)
3 points by bumbledraven 3y ago|0 comments
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Casting the Decisive Vote(tobyord.com)
1 points by bumbledraven 3y ago|0 comments
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
This is the most in-depth analysis of Marsaglia's mental PRNG I've seen. A question, though. The author writes: > So what other numbers work? ... if n is a good multiplier, then the period of the orbit starting from 1 should be
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Principles of Eventual Consistency (2014) [pdf](microsoft.com)
2 points by bumbledraven 3y ago|0 comments
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
Or maybe the mods could ensure that the HN article about the person remains on the front page as long as the bar is there.
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
>Took a while to learn to "check your exit routes", then? Or, ignoring any snark, you've learned a lot since "Glasgow (Scotland) last [S]ummer"? Presumably the family had always found the exit routes easy to loca
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
Ben's follow up from Jan 12: "Surprised by the Response" ( https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-12-ExitResp... ).
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
Neat. How did you ask it to make that? Do you mind sharing the transcript?
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
The point of Whitney's array languages is to allow your solutions to be so small that they fit in your head. Key chunks should even fit on one screen. A few years ago, Whitney reportedly started building an OS using these ideas ( http
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
> wirth was the greatest remaining apostle of simplicity, correctness, and software built for humans to understand; now only hoare and moore remain… No. There is another. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitne
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by bumbledraven 3y ago
Related: Hartzler, "A two-and-one-half-place logarithm table", The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Mar 1960) https://www.jstor.org/stable/27956101 Bayer, "Setting up an approximate antilog table&quo

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