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by chongli 5mo ago
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra Writing is hard now, not because AI exists, but because there are so many writers out there and everyone's competing for attention, not just with other write
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ruthless squeezing of subcontractors Walmart and Amazon ruthlessly squeeze their suppliers. They achieve low prices on some things and try to corner the market on others (and then raise prices). What I don't see them achieving (to th
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Completely wrong. Please read up on the argument and the debate around it before continuing [1]. [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
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How do you figure that? The Chinese Room has had many replies but no clear refutation.
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believing that you are still your child self despite every atom in your body having been replaced between then and now. Oft-repeated but not true. Neurons, for the most part, are never replaced. If a neuron dies, it's gone forever. R
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The difference is: I know the provenance of my evidence. Some of it I may have read in a book, some online, some I may have heard from a teacher or a professor, but some evidence I may have gathered directly from experiments I performed mys
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Having a probability distribution to sample from is not the same thing is knowing, because they don’t know anything about the provenance of the data that was used to build the distribution. They trust their training set implicitly by constr
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Is that $4700/mo net pay? Or do they have to pay tuition fees out of that?
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That assumes you can place the king on the board and move immediately. I think the puzzle assumes you can’t do that; that placing your king on the board is your move, thus ending your turn.
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If you're talking about the basics, then yeah I would agree. That's the crux of it, really. For a lot of students, the kind of proofs we do in undergrad pure math courses are very difficult . For a math professor? They're
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by chongli 5mo ago
I have been stuck on problems that I figured out the next day. Many times. But that was when I was new to the topic, at the beginning of the course. By the time I reached the exam, I knew the tricks and how things fit together, and I could
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If you are ready to learn a topic, it's probably the field where you can get top grades with the least effort. Depends on your school. At my school, someone who was not super-talented in math but who works hard and is actually smart
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The very first episode of Connections walks through might happen in New York City if power went out and never came back on. Pretty much an apocalyptic scenario for people living there! He didn’t shy away from talking about technology for go
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Which means that a perfect grade should be interpreted as "meets the expectations". None of the mathematics exams I wrote during undergrad at Waterloo (as a math major) would fit that description. Nearly every single one of them
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I watched this show religiously as a kid (by then in reruns in the early 90s), along with Star Trek: TNG, Jeopardy, and playing Civilization for PC. The most formative years of my life were spent absorbing as much science, technology, and h
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by chongli 5mo ago
It's really not high speed math. You'll have 2.5 hours to solve maybe 5 problems on the exam. A math grad student who TAs the course can typically complete the exam in 45 minutes or less, without any preparation whatsoever. An und
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They're absolutely fair if you're given plenty of practice at them. If the only synthesis problem you see all year is on the final exam then you have a point. However, if you're doing novel (to you) proofs on assignments ever
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supposed to test for what? Your ability to synthesize knowledge out of thin air. Yes, actually. Synthesis is the penultimate level of Bloom's taxonomy [1]. Perhaps not appropriate for a first quiz on new material, but absolutely in s
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Because it’s not 100% indistinguishable. It’s practically indistinguishable for the purposes of moderation (or at least moderation at scale), but recognizable because it provides no value to the reader. It’s empty calories for readers in se
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It's a market for lemons [1]. The issue is that if AI slop can't be readily distinguished from real human content, the real human stuff will get less and less attention over time. With less attention, people lose interest in writi
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by chongli 5mo ago
Facebook is fine if you join groups based on your interests (hobbies etc) and then aggressively unfollow/block anything you don't want to see. It's not really conducive to discussions like Reddit, though. Mostly drive-by comm
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Users don’t owe the authors anything either. If they want to ignore longstanding complaints, they can toil in obscurity. Heck the only reason this post made the front page of HN is because of lingering goodwill that was built up when the so
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NetHack is loads of fun. I have been playing since around 2008 now, have ascended 11 times, know a ton about the intricacies of the mechanics, and still find it a lot of fun. I would say there's a small amount of nostalgia in the game
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In a cold climate it’s the opposite problem. You need to keep the phone warm when you’re outside, otherwise it becomes extremely cold, and then becomes a condensation magnet when you come back inside!
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People in humid climates and cold climates were regularly having their phones get denied warranty service because the water ingress stickers turned red due to condensation, without ever exposing their phone to water immersion. This was unde
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There are a million other wacky things in the game. Nothing about Elbereth seems out of place or unbalanced (since it’s been nerfed anyway). They added the ability to apply your money to flip a coin in this version! Why does that need to ex
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It's not a cheat. It's explained in the game's manual (the Official Guidebook [1], just search for Engrave). It's been nerfed since 3.6.X as well. Now it can no longer be used for fighting, only escape, and attempting to
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by chongli 5mo ago
When working on large, important software, crashing is not the worst thing that can happen; corrupting user data and/or allowing unauthorized access is. The point of using the type system to do something like distinguish between saniti
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There is a story of a purported very deep spoiler-free run [1]. The person made a journal of everything the Oracle had to say (over multiple games) and was able to figure out a lot on their own as well. [1] http://nethack.gridbug
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Sounds like their release strategy of renaming it to 5.0 worked for you! 3.7 really had developed a bad reputation, so they needed a clean break.

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