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by evouga 4y ago
Yes! Most of the examples of “challenging” algorithms in the blog post are actually fairly elementary stuff covered in undergrad algorithms. Suffix arrays though (especially linear-time construction) are the real deal.
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by evouga 4y ago
Of course I understand enforcing 2FA when the user has signed up for/opted in to 2FA. But that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening here: Google unilaterally decided to enforce 2FA on a 1FA account.
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by evouga 4y ago
Can someone explain how it’s anything but completely insane for an online service to deny access to someone with a *correct* password?? This isn’t someone getting locked out because they forgot their password (where I can at least understan
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by evouga 4y ago
Nobody uses an abacus anymore. I use a calculator (well, Mathematica or scipy) to effortlessly solve problems that would be impossible to solve by hand. I appreciate, but don’t particularly understand or care about, the many decades of nume
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by evouga 4y ago
Another issue is that it’s super obvious when a post like yours is authored by ChatGPT.
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by evouga 4y ago
Wow the chatGPT corpus must include an awful lot of salty rants.
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by evouga 4y ago
I haven’t seen “grooming” used in a homophobic way? Instead it has been extended to mean “any relationship whatsoever with a vaguely unusual age gap.”
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by evouga 4y ago
There’s a rather big gap between “exponential time” and “forever”! I routinely solve instances of problems in EXPTIME to solve practical problems with no difficulty…
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by evouga 4y ago
So I definitely see an issue with Stable Diffusion synthesizing CP in response to innocuous queries (in terms of optics—-the actual harm this would cause is unclear). That said, part of the problem with the general ignorance about machine l
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by evouga 4y ago
I’m skeptical, since I’ve been using Discord for years and have never seen (or noticed) any “Clyde” bot.
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by evouga 4y ago
> return ({goto L; 0;}) && ({L: 5;}); What in the world…!! It’s in the GCC section so I assume it’s some kind of lambda-function-like compiler extension? That allows jumping between bodies of two different functions…!
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by evouga 4y ago
FWIW I’ve heard a story essentially identical to what’s described in that Tweet directly from one of the engineers asked to print their code.
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by evouga 4y ago
Fascinating that the OP compares Twitter to “living at Disney World”! I can’t stand the obviously fake facades and carefully curated costumes and fake smiles at Disney in large doses and never understood the mindset that could drive adults
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by evouga 4y ago
> Twitter threads aren't meant to be blog posts. They're meant to be ephemeral and in-the-moment. But regardless of what they're meant to be, in practice, they are also used as blog posts (as in the three examples linked
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by evouga 4y ago
On my phone I get a popup demanding that I "verify [my] password to get the full Twitter experience" with no way of dismissing the popup. But you are right that on my desktop in incognito mode it let me view the threads unmolested
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by evouga 4y ago
> OTOH possibly more people lose interest in their blogs and stop keeping them online than old but important Twitter threads get deleted. I agree with you that this is true for now. However I expect that in the not-so-distance future, a
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by evouga 4y ago
I think the article misses the two bigger reasons to avoid writing Important content on Twitter: - Twitter forces people to log in to read it. The... dozens?... of us who have a burner account but don't use Twitter regularly and have
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by evouga 4y ago
I used to be play Magic the Gathering with Christian back in NYC. He was a smart, down-to-earth guy. I didn't realize he was an OkCupid cofounder until several months after meeting him. He got canceled a few years ago for saying off-co
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by evouga 4y ago
> We train our models on a combination of an internal dataset consisting of 14 million video-text pairs The paper is sorely lacking evaluation; one thing I'd like to see for instance (any time a generative model is trained on such a
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by evouga 4y ago
> History will remember them as villains. Interesting analogy. Google, like the priests, is acting out of mix of good intentions (protecting the public from perceived dangers) and self-interest (maintaining secular power, vs. a competiti
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by evouga 4y ago
It's almost impossible to overstate how significantly social media altered the fabric of the Internet. From "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" to everybody having seen multiple photos of your dog. From a decent
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by evouga 4y ago
Many people have already said this, but: buying a ticket to a one-time event is not analogous to buying a license to watch a movie in perpetuity. A better analogy, that does not involve a one-time event, would be a lifetime pass to co
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by evouga 4y ago
For me it's the convenience. If all movies were available reliably from a single streaming service, I would use it instead (as I did Netflix, in the early days). At my current stage of life, $10 here or there to buy a movie is irreleva
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by evouga 4y ago
Saving a document is a great example: I would much rather that the kernel corrupt 20% of my unsaved work on a document (with a warning about the corruption), than crash and delete 100% of it.
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by evouga 4y ago
Surely just `int`?
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by evouga 4y ago
The World Wide Web is more or less dead and Google Search is increasingly useless as traffic moves to TikTok, Twitch, Discord, and other siloed ecosystems. It's possible that purchasing a Google ad still provides higher ROI than altern
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by evouga 4y ago
The heart of Google Drive is Google Docs which is 2006.
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by evouga 4y ago
Of course not. It's about managing the company's... human resources.
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by evouga 4y ago
Other than more carefully noticing, “hmm this data looks like a polynomial curve, maybe it’s fabricated?” I’m not sure what you propose the professor do instead. The professor is not going to duplicate all of the experimental measurements d
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by evouga 4y ago
The volatile parameters deprecation is one of the stranger decisions, though, since there are plenty of constructions that don’t do anything but are still allowed by the language. I see this as a matter of style that might be useful to wa

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