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by foxes 5y ago
Proving it no one has any ideas, but generating the sequence given the input is definitely an interview style question.
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by foxes 5y ago
I am not sure that is always true, there are plenty of problems that are easy to state, but finding the "pattern" can be out of reach. Eg Collatz conjecture? However there are obviously a subset of problems I guess that can be sol
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by foxes 5y ago
Clearly you do not have a genuine interesting in computing because you do not have a complete theory of everything, unifying gravity and all the fundamental forces, so really you have no idea how computation even happens at a fundamental le
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by foxes 5y ago
Looks like they made their tutorial sheets public [0]. I definitely think abstract algebra can be taught at a more elementary level, this looks like a good data point to confirm that. [0] https://drive.google.com/drive/
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Computational algebraic geometry for high school students(solidangl.es)
153 points by foxes 5y ago|14 comments
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by foxes 5y ago
Seems like their life would be dramatically better if they didn’t have some horrible car hellscape based commute. Pity cities are designed and spread out so because of cars. Then making the office more comfortable and flexible without peopl
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by foxes 5y ago
It can be both. Caring about the user experience is obviously going to increase their profit. But then they can also try to push people towards their store.
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by foxes 5y ago
Why do they continue to degrade the mobile/desktop default web experience? Promoting the app is one thing, but then actively harming the user experience? Do most people not care? Insane either way. The day old.reddit dies Ill blacklist
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by foxes 5y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1419281153983500290.html
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by foxes 5y ago
Plenty of people are pro cycling, public transport, infrastructure etc. Designing cities mostly around the need for cars is a disease and a blight on urban landscapes. Don't simp for them.
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by foxes 5y ago
What’s your point? Some an anecdote means that people working in the service industry shouldn’t earn a viable minimum wage? That they have to resort to essentially begging to earn a living? Tip culture is dumb, they provide a service. If th
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by foxes 5y ago
I **ing hate clickbait. You say you hate science, but then you go on to state the opposite, that you actually hate stuff being unscientific, not verifying, not checking the facts etc. Great.
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by foxes 5y ago
Not commenting about the difficulty, but some of the later questions definitely require a bit more specialised knowledge. #74-77, "uniform, dense, smooth map, open set". Basically some topology questions. Some other questions are
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by foxes 5y ago
How does copilot fair in a language where correctness or at least well soundness is more transparent, for example Haskell (eg at least making sure all the types are correct, actual logic on the other hand seems harder, but maybe the declara
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by foxes 5y ago
How is a complicated binary better than a literal text file? Truly absurd, this whole thread is churn.
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by foxes 5y ago
Why not? Series of complicated bio-electrical interactions? Vast numbers of connections, neurons firing together? Even our limited attempts at neural networks are not very well understood, and that is just code running on well understood co
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by foxes 5y ago
If I understand it, they seem to be advocating for some sort of dualism. However consider a cpu, it runs on known physical perspectives. But imaging trying to reverse engineer by examining what happens inside an operating system/progra
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by foxes 5y ago
Yes. Improving your physical and mental health? Commuting by riding/walking/cycling -- counts as sport/exercise? Running kept me sane through multiple lockdowns.
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by foxes 5y ago
I think it is fine if it is "effective". Really most of our physics is effective. So valid at a certain length scale. Fluid mechanics is very good, but it does not describe it all in terms of quark interactions. Quantum field theo
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by foxes 5y ago
I mean perhaps I am not entirely sure myself. I imagine that the solution space to this problem is some very complicated, lets say algebraic variety/manifold/space/configuration space, but obviously it is still low enough dim
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by foxes 5y ago
So do you think it actually understands something about the structure of the protein folding problem? It somehow detected something about the physics, topology, the hard optimisation problem, and that it knows something about the geometry o
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by foxes 5y ago
I struggle with the notation, where functions are defined, and if things should be lifts/pullbacks/pushforwards. X is a real random variable. So it is a map from some space of measurements, M , X : M -> R. Z is supposed to be a
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by foxes 5y ago
I definitely think dogs, for example, have the capacity to reflect on it to a extent. You can play games with dogs, they seek it out. I believe there is evidence they can plan. I think they can observe you and then adjust themselves accordi
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by foxes 5y ago
As a Haskell advocate I disagree :). But if it acts as a gateway drug I am all for it.
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by foxes 5y ago
I have a scientific academic job with teaching responsibilities. I am disappointed about reproducibility of some work, I definitely think people need to release their code, I think machine learning in particular has lots of issues. But on t
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by foxes 5y ago
No.
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by foxes 5y ago
I think we should strive for the Iain Banks vision of the future. Treat the AIS with respect and ensure it has equal rights. I’d be happy with a benevolent AI controlling the government. But I imagine, given the current state of things, we
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by foxes 5y ago
So the conclusion was benefits start to plateau around: for women ~7500 and men ~8000 steps. Truly 10k not a bad estimate. So the answer is yes roughly, get out and be active.
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by foxes 5y ago
I agree scientific papers should be open source. It is not acceptable there is a proliferation of bad practice. That seems a different issue however.
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by foxes 5y ago
Well I agree in that regard, but I think in the ideal world everything would just be open, and you would want to incentivise openness so it ends up as the natural state. In a sense by decoupling these issues. Eg Microsoft Windows OS could j

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