desertrider12

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by desertrider12 1mo ago
scratch was the trigger for me just as you say. I was turning 11 when we used it at school (28 now). A year or so later I was reading Java for Dummies and making little tools on the TI-84. Then learning C++ and python on a raspberry pi 1B.
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by desertrider12 3mo ago
On the last Dwarkesh podcast with 3blue1brown, one of them mentioned that frontier models are now able to work through a whole proof in natural language, just like a human mathematician would. But when they first solved IMO problems in 2024
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by desertrider12 3mo ago
Luckily: Update from announcer is that trains can start again at 12:25 AM and they reduced our delay by 30 minutes. But there’s still a huge line of riders at the DB service desk.
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by desertrider12 3mo ago
I’m sitting in an ICE in Munich that was supposed to leave a few minutes before I saw this story on HN. First the conductor announced a 30 minute delay because the radio wasn’t working, and then they bumped it to 2 hours. They didn’t say it
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by desertrider12 6mo ago
> Early 2026: OpenBrain continues to deploy the iteratively improving Agent-1 internally for AI R&D. Overall, they are making algorithmic progress 50% faster than they would without AI assistants—and more importantly, faster than the
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by desertrider12 6mo ago
According to the article [0] that's been making the rounds, NASA didn't make any changes to Artemis 2's heat shield after getting data from 1's re-entry. NASA did change the trajectory for 2, and they made the compound &
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by desertrider12 7mo ago
ChatGPT came out a little over 3 years ago. After 5-10 more years of similar progress I doubt any humans will be required to clean up the messes created by today’s agents.
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by desertrider12 7mo ago
That’s funny. When I was little I found “format” in my mp3 player’s settings. Thought it would customize the UI or something, but instead I ended up with no music for the rest of the road trip.
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by desertrider12 10mo ago
Braid also has the stars which are so well hidden that I can’t imagine anyone finding them without a walkthrough (though some people obviously did in order to make the walkthroughs). The Witness is different, it really does teach you everyt
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by desertrider12 10mo ago
We know angle EBD equals BAC, since the sum of triangle ABC's interior angles is 180 degrees and the sum of the 3 angles at B are also 180 degrees. We also know angle DEB is 90 degrees since DE was constructed to be perpendicular to CB
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by desertrider12 11mo ago
This has precedent in the US, like when the government nationalized failing freight railroads and merged them into Conrail. But after the more recent bank and auto bailouts I wouldn't expect to see this happen again. The shareholders w
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by desertrider12 1y ago
Well, consider my ass bitten ;) Your analogy to infinite series helps.
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by desertrider12 1y ago
> the gaps are reduced to zero and the curve crosses through each and every point within its build envelope I think that's oversimplifying an important point. If you build a Hilbert curve in a 1x1 square, the vertices of the curve a
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by desertrider12 1y ago
The article says that administrators are giving in to the demands of very involved, upper-middle class parents. What other incentives would an administrator have to keep low-income and minority students out of 8th grade algebra?
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by desertrider12 1y ago
You have probably thought about this already, but shorter cranks (150mm or so) might let you avoid bending your knees as much.
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by desertrider12 1y ago
The Cyc project basically achieved what you're talking about, even without approaching AGI. They manually programmed concepts and relationships between things into a huge knowledge graph. Then they had heuristics for choosing the appro
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by desertrider12 1y ago
There was also an interesting article here a month ago about the history of betting on conclaves. https://nodumbideas.com/p/betting-on-the-pope-was-the-origin... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=432
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by desertrider12 2y ago
It’s more horrible now. Syncing now opens a Finder window with an inconsistent look and feel, and sometimes fails to copy new songs in a synced playlist. The playlist view has the album art taking up half the screen, but there’s no way to s
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by desertrider12 2y ago
Look at gravel or mountain biking! If you live near some farmland, ranches or a national forest, there are likely miles of public dirt roads that hardly get any car traffic. trailforks.com is a good place to start to see what's near yo
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by desertrider12 2y ago
IMO this is the thing we should be scared of, rather than the paperclip-maximizer scenarios. If the human brain is a finitely complicated system, and we keep improving our approximation of it as a computer program, then at some point the pr
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by desertrider12 2y ago
Imagine if avatar Gavin Belson had done the "metaverse legs" product reveal, with the animation running at 10 frames/second and a few legless avatars in the audience throwing up confetti. It would be almost too ridiculous to
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by desertrider12 2y ago
I don't think the self indulgence is unbearable until The Trial and "you stand accused of showing feelings of an almost human nature". The Trial is comedy/satire but since the rest of the album is serious and autobiogra
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by desertrider12 2y ago
That's because Larrabee wasn't totally canceled, it was just pivoted from a gaming GPU to an HPC accelerator in the form of Knights Corner/Landing. The idea of having lots of x86 cores with wide SIMD units didn't change,
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by desertrider12 2y ago
I do want to believe what you're saying because it means fewer life-years lost but... the other explanation is that covid plus the countermeasures to it really did impact people's health (not just the fatalities) and increased net
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by desertrider12 2y ago
When do you expect the death deficit to show up in mortality data? So far it looks like most (but not all) countries had an increase and then returned to the previous trendline: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number
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by desertrider12 2y ago
They don't give yield numbers but this says that they get acceptable yields by putting extra cores on the silicon and then routing around the defective ones. https://cerebras.ai/blog/wafer-scale-processors-the-time
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by desertrider12 2y ago
Funny, this was also my favorite ride when I was 4!
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by desertrider12 2y ago
If you like puzzles, look at The Talos Principle 2. It's mainly about asking whether humanity should even try to control the physical universe and spread life, or focus on sustainability and safety. The Culture itself referenced a coup
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by desertrider12 2y ago
L_R is not decidable. Deciding if x##y is in L requires simulating y until it produces |x| digits of output. x being anything and y = “while(true) {}” is a counterexample. Another way to look at it is that for any fixed x, "y produces
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by desertrider12 2y ago
Yeah... the headline made me think "well, the value of $1M is at a record low this quarter"

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