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by dmurray 9mo ago
But that doesn't explain things if it's true that they hadn't discovered the wheel!
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by dmurray 9mo ago
I was asked in an interview to explain the difference between TCP and UDP. I knew about enough to fill an index card: enough for an adequate interview answer, but not enough that I would relish getting follow-up questions. While deciding wh
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by dmurray 9mo ago
1 GW in nameplate capacity of solar panels powers fewer data centres than 1 GW of nuclear. So it needs to be "this time next month".
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by dmurray 9mo ago
"Solvers" normally means algorithms which aim to produce some mathematically optimal (given certain assumptions) behaviour. There are other poker playing programs [0] - what we called AI before large language models were a thing -
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by dmurray 9mo ago
None of those are generally made mandatory. It's a reasonable position to say the government shouldn't be able to compel you to put any particular drugs in your body, even if it would benefit the population at large. The opposite
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by dmurray 9mo ago
The author describes that as "the nuclear option" but is it really more nuclear than Corroded? Many of the things Corroded allows would not be allowed in Rust--, if I understand right.
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Forty-Four Esolangs(danieltemkin.com)
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by dmurray 9mo ago
> The idea is a possible realization of LANGUAGE 18 from "FORTY-FOUR ESOLANGS": a sculptural language it subtracts from potential algorithms, making them more specific a program only states what it doesn&#x2
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by dmurray 9mo ago
I thought it played worse than random moves and couldn't understand how it could beat anyone (no offence to OP). But if you intentionally hang your pieces, it tends to take them. And it will try to promote pawns in the endgame. So it i
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by dmurray 9mo ago
I'm sure they've done the maths and determined that it's not economically feasible at all. But if it works as a proof of concept, in three or four generations time perhaps they'll have a scalable process which pays for i
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by dmurray 9mo ago
> You are more likely to...get dealt a royal flush in poker on your first hand (1 in 649,740) This is true but a bit misleading: 99% of people actually playing poker in the US today are playing Texas Hold'em or other variants where
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by dmurray 9mo ago
Not every piece of logic lends itself to being expressed in the type system. Let's say you're implementing a sorting algorithm. After step X you can be certain that the values at locations A, B, and C are sorted such that A <=
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by dmurray 9mo ago
TFA observes that it would be disruptive and socially difficult to move systems to expect requiring 24 confirmations, and expresses relief that other responses are possible. Perhaps this is more suitable as a response over months or years t
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by dmurray 9mo ago
Airlines are vague about this (at least in Europe) because different types of problems mean different obligations to compensate passengers. After the incident they will determine what's the least expensive lie they can plausibly give (
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Even so, wouldn't you expect that you could crush an open empty beer bottle by putting a heavy enough weight on it? A human can't do it, but I would expect an elephant can.
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Because the pretrained chatbot is the flagship product of an AI company in 2025. They want to sell this product to customers who can't spell RLHF, never mind have the (substantial) resources to do their own training. If Anthropic were
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Maybe their email is lastfirst@gmail.com, and people occasionally misremember your address and send your correspondence to them. In that case, yes. More likely their email address is firstlastnumber@gmail.com or firstlast@otherprovider.com
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by dmurray 10mo ago
I don't understand what PVS is in this context, but it seems any attempt to completely automate this would struggle with false positives. There might be >350 polys visible from weird camera locations, but if the player is never ther
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Even that might leak to length attacks: one reasonable plaintext would lead to black bars of 1135 px, another to 1138 px, and with enough redactions you can converge on what the plaintext might be. The only safe way for journalists is to pa
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by dmurray 10mo ago
> States make their own age-related rules. The states are part of the US. So technically sure, you're right. In practice, you're very wrong This is wrong. It's particularly wrong in the way that you draw a distinction betw
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by dmurray 10mo ago
I would read your summaries of legal precedents again, ahead of lots of people who AAL.
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by dmurray 10mo ago
It's 1 us granularity , which means you should report your timestamps with six figures after the decimal point. The required accuracy (Tables 1 and 2 in that document) is 100 us or 1000 us depending on the system.
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by dmurray 10mo ago
What, it will use as much as a small village or subdivision? As much as 80 average US households? That doesn't seem noteworthy at all.
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by dmurray 10mo ago
I never saw a need for this in HFT. In my experience, GPS was used instead, but there was never any critical need for microsecond accuracy in live systems. Sub-microsecond latency, yes, but when that mattered it was in order to do something
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by dmurray 10mo ago
But the reason factoring numbers is used as the quantum benchmark is exactly that we have a quantum algorithm for that problem which is meant to scale better than any known algorithm on a classical computer. So it seems like it takes an exp
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by dmurray 10mo ago
You're correct but the complexity is in the things you're ignoring for simplicity. This game is constructed such that the questions you can ask are not arbitrary, so you cannot choose them to always produce one bit of entropy (you
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Because everyone would cheat and include a program that sprays cold water for a few seconds, using minimal energy but not actually getting your dishes clean.
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by dmurray 10mo ago
Yes, I was going to note that this doesn't necessarily apply on derivatives exchanges. But a) I don't know of any exchange where this could be true for specifically Apple and Tesla, so the example is OK b) you can still get some l
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by dmurray 10mo ago
I attended a screen free school, but back then we just called it a school.
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by dmurray 10mo ago
This article both undersells and oversells the technical challenge exchanges solve. First, it is of course possible to apply horizontal scaling through sharding. My order on Tesla doesn't affect your order on Apple, so it's possib

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