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by catoc 1y ago
Specifically a right edge case
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by catoc 1y ago
I see this just as someone being genuinely enthusiastic about their own approach, and trying to convince people out of that enthusiasm, to make them experience the same happiness they are getting from it. I think most of us here are old en
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by catoc 1y ago
He elected to move on before his shares were vested. Many interesting, and probably true, replies about investors cheating out employees, but it seems very few people read the actual post.
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by catoc 1y ago
Exactly this - if not at all about hours spent (at least that’s not a good metric; working less will benefit a burned out person; but the hours were not the root cause). The problem is lack of autonomy, lack of control over things you care
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by catoc 1y ago
Ha! That’s nice. I never realized 1.609 miles/km is close to the golden ratio (1.618)
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by catoc 1y ago
Number of lines of code… airplane weight… etc
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by catoc 1y ago
Clearly possible in humans - the statement in the parent I was replying to. I would indeed definitely like to see proof - mathematical or applied - of in silico intelligence
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by catoc 1y ago
Given rcxdude’s reply it appears I am one of those humans who can’t figure out special relativity (let alone general) Wrt ‘AGI/ASI’, while they’re not the same, after reading Nick Bostrom (and more recently https://ai-2027.c
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by catoc 1y ago
“Imagine little Albert asking his physics teacher in 1880: "Sir - for how long do I have to stay at high speed in order to look as grown up as my elder brother?"” Is that not the other way around? “…how long do I have to stay at
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by catoc 1y ago
That about ‘cogito ergo sums it up’ doesn’t it? Intelligence is clearly possible. My gut feeling is our brain solves this by removing complexity. It certainly does so, continuously filtering out (ignoring) large parts of input, and generou
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by catoc 1y ago
If only we could get our politicians to only express themselves using formal texts. The clarity it would bring… the honesty it would enforce… the efficiency they would achieve.
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by catoc 1y ago
“How about starting with reliably, deterministically, and instantly (say <50ms) finding obvious things like <…> searching by a prefix of their name? As a second criterion, I would like to find files by substrings of their name” Eve
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by catoc 1y ago
Interested, but going to the website told me nothing other than a book about the command line. Would be nice be able to get a preview of a some pages/chapters.
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by catoc 1y ago
Nothing necessarily perverse here. I don’t know Williams but don’t image him disliking the other guy or being unhappy with progress in general, but just being someone who truly challenged himself only to find him being trumped a week later;
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by catoc 2y ago
How is this the “first experimental cancer treatment” ? It’s not. Of course. It may be the first triple immunotherapy (3 checkpoint inhibitors), given in a neo-adjuvant setting, in glioblastoma. Still cool, less catchy (Or maybe I don’t und
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by catoc 2y ago
Let alone Edsger
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by catoc 2y ago
The first link is also watchtwr, but a different post
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by catoc 2y ago
“This is from August 2000! Since them, much more detailed magnetic fields maps have been made of the Milk Way: “ I was surprised to see that followed up with link from 2019?
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by catoc 2y ago
And I now know why you don’t have any auditory disorders
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by catoc 2y ago
As an anomalous trichromat I would love to see this for red and green as well!
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by catoc 2y ago
This is why I like HN
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by catoc 2y ago
Nervus vagus is X - the tenth cranial nerve
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by catoc 2y ago
tinypng.com compresses ‘lossless’ .pngs
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by catoc 2y ago
yeah, but you don’t spot albino’celot </I’ll show myself out>
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by catoc 2y ago
"Never use random IVs with GCM; this breaks the authentication" Why could one not use Encrypt-then-HMAC and HMAC-then-Decrypt with a random IV ? (Serious question. It definitely sounds like you know what you are talking about, I j
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by catoc 2y ago
Yeah, remember when crypto used to mean cryptography …
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by catoc 2y ago
Or even short-term for that matter: even for localized pancreatic adenocarcinoma (not metastasized to lymph nodes or beyond) only 50% of patients survive their first year. For glioblastoma it is even worse: only 25% one-year survival rate
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by catoc 2y ago
Permutation City is briljant - Greg Egan has many (free) stories exploring physics on his website: https://www.gregegan.net/
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by catoc 2y ago
I actually think we're saying the same thing. Big tech companies care about profit. That's fine, they're companies. If security - or a pretense thereof - is needed to increase or safeguard profits, only at that point do they
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by catoc 2y ago
The same as “We care about your privacy”

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