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by fwip 1y ago
I think this is pretty instructor-dependent. I had two LinAlg courses, and in the first, I felt like I was building a great intuition. In the second, the instructor seemed to make even the stuff I previously learned seem obtuse and like &qu
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by fwip 1y ago
> “an arcane git command.” If you're speaking of a comment towards the top of the last thread on HN about it, that comment was a sarcastic one. If not, please ignore.
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by fwip 1y ago
Right - and ideally, after writing the script to do the task, it could discard all the tokens involved in writing the script.
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by fwip 1y ago
Yep - visualizing clustering algorithms is just the "CRUD app" of a different speciality. One rule of thumb I use, is if you could expect to find a student on a college campus to do a task for you, an LLM will probably be able to
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by fwip 1y ago
I think part of the issue is that it doesn't "feel" like the LLM is generating a URL, because that's not what a human would be doing. A human would be cut & pasting the URLs, or editing the code around them - not ret
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by fwip 1y ago
It would be nice if the tools we usually use for LLMs had a bit more programmability. In this example, It we could imagine being able to chunk up work by processing a few items, then reverting to a previous saved LLM checkpoint of state, an
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To be completely honest - I forgot that we were talking about undersea cables, so thank you for the reminder.
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by fwip 1y ago
At risk of being annoying - getting solar panels to space is expensive. Even though you can make them very thin in space, optimistic estimates I've seen are around 1kg/kilowatt for just the panels, at some point in the future. (Cu
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by fwip 1y ago
Louder content is more compelling (to a point), so I'd imagine that louder content helps boost watchtime, which is what both Youtube and the video creators are optimizing for. The music industry's "loudness war" seems re
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Many TVs or speaker systems will have this feature - it's often called something like "night mode."
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by fwip 1y ago
Another format that might be worth looking at in the bioinformatics world is hdf5. It's sort of a generic file format, often used for storing multiple related large tables. It has some built-in compression (gzip IIRC) but supports plug
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by fwip 1y ago
Judging from previous Ink&Switch work, the target devices are likely tablets or below. There's also various levels of "real-time" - pushing something in Illustrator might require less responsiveness to feel fluid than han
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Well, no, synapses aren't binary in response.
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A higher % than "some people who hate the protesters say they definitely heard it happening."
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Pianists' subtle finger movements influence variations in timbre(phys.org)
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by fwip 1y ago
Not sure if it counts as a continuity error, but in the example "Prompt: Martial artist doing a bo-staff kata waist-deep in a koi pond", his wooden staff changes shape several times, resembling a bow at points. That was the first
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by fwip 1y ago
Happy to help :) I think compression algorithms are super cool, and zlib is a nice example of how just two simple techniques (Huffman coding and dictionary compression) can combine to usefully compress nearly any real-world data. Newer comp
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by fwip 1y ago
Using this example paragraph, at compression level 1 or higher (copy with the quotation symbols): “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it
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by fwip 1y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but how about: vars[1] = var2 + var3; vars[2] = var2 - var3; ... vars[0] = 0; var4 = vars[var1];
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Getting tips from another person or a computer on what best move to make. This could be as simple as a compatriot in the audience giving you hand signals.
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There is no reachable[1] chess position[2] at which a player has more than 218 valid moves[3] to choose from. [1] Able to happen while following the rules of chess [2] The arrangement of chess pieces on the board [3] A valid move is the mot
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by fwip 1y ago
I've heard that the boarding process itself is rarely the limiting factor in flights. They're usually waiting on other plane-related things (refueling? Pre-flight checks? I can't recall the details). If it were, they probably
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If you're sitting together, that means at least one person is in the less-desirable middle seat, right?
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Please try to argue in good faith.
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by fwip 1y ago
You don't need to carry water for racists and invent more palatable explanations for what they said. There's nothing in there about not enough British people - only about too many foreigners (whom he can tell by looking at them).
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by fwip 1y ago
What is this non-sequitur? White people in Britain still have the right to practice their culture as they see fit. You can eat all the beans on toast you want, even if your neighbor is eating curry.
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by fwip 1y ago
That sounds like you've already got it pretty well figured out, then. :) If you did want to get fuzzy-matching in your workflow, I might recommend using building a small alias/function with fzf[1], rather than using zoxide. Someth
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by fwip 1y ago
You can type any part of the path, not just the final part - so, from `/path/to/projects/go/github.com/me/my-cool-app/src`, you could type `cool-app/src` or `proj me cool src` or `cool s`. Intera
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by fwip 1y ago
Thanks - that was helpful indeed. From there, I also found the linked post by Tekin Süleyman ( https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... ) to be informative.
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by fwip 1y ago
The court didn't find that it was unlawful to record.

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