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by lisper 2y ago
You would love the old city of Jerusalem.
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by lisper 2y ago
> How the hell would you verify an AI-generated silicon design? The same way you verify a human-generated one. > Anyone remember that floating point error in, was it Pentium IIs or Pentium IIIs? That was 1994. The industry has come a
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Found in the wild: the first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux(arstechnica.com)
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Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes(arstechnica.com)
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by lisper 2y ago
> Is there something I'm not seeing here? That's essentially the same thing. The only difference is that you're putting your uncertainty at the end and I'm putting it at the beginning. The key is to explicitly ackno
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by lisper 2y ago
It's more like, "No, I didn't have any particular reason for doing it this way, if you have a better idea, go for it."
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by lisper 2y ago
The problem with being more assertive is that there is always the possibility that you are wrong and the person you are "correcting" is right. Opening with an assertion makes it hard to save face in that case.
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by lisper 2y ago
Another tactic I like to use is a riff on the authors suggestion #3: “Is there a reason you did (or did not do) X?” This works because it’s framed as accepting the decision and being genuinely curious about the rationale. Often the answer
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by lisper 2y ago
It's also impossible to prove that a given coin is not being controlled by an AI. (Or a deity.)
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A Proof of the Collatz Conjecture (2021) [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by lisper 2y ago
> these days I think the much more important skill is designing systems That's true, but that doesn't mean that there is no value in having an understanding of how established technology works under the hood. > What computer
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by lisper 2y ago
An implementation of the double ratchet in Javascript: https://github.com/rongarret/ratchet-js based on an earlier implementation I did in Common Lisp: https://github.com/rongarret/tweetnacl/b
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by lisper 2y ago
This is not a new phenomenon. It is quite common, and has been for decades, to to publish a job opening for a position that has already effectively been filled in order to nominally fulfill various legal and bureaucratic requirements to pr
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by lisper 2y ago
Thanks! I try hard to produce quality technical pedagogy, so you just made my day.
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by lisper 2y ago
The name derives from the fact that they originally arose in connection with trying to determine the arc length of an ellipse. See: https://people.math.rochester.edu/faculty/doug/mypapers/wayn...
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All Hail the Return of Upgradeable Storage Mac Mini 2024 Teardown(ifixit.com)
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Apple drops soldered storage for 2024 Mac Mini(theregister.com)
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by lisper 2y ago
[Not the OP but I think I understand it well enough to take a whack at an ELI5.] Elliptic curves are a particular kind of cubic equation, exactly like the quadratic equations you studied in junior high algebra, except with one term being ra
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by lisper 2y ago
What would you suggest instead?
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by lisper 2y ago
Sure. But I'm pretty sure we're not done driving species to extinction. The benefits of bringing back the quagga may not outweigh the immediate costs, but developing the ability to revive extinct species in general very well mig
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by lisper 2y ago
Similar story when wolves were re-introduced to Yellowstone: https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/wolf-r...
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by lisper 2y ago
> everything that they will be when fully grown is contained there in that tiny little life No, that's not true. Those two cells require a lot of care and nurturing and education before they become a person. Have you heard of HeL
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by lisper 2y ago
> I'm not a native speaker You got it (mostly) right :-) Just one minor mistake: a native would write, "Would breathing on it be a contactless way..." in order to indicate that this is only one of several possibilities.
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by lisper 2y ago
> Apologies for the long response. No need to apologize for that. But I think you have a sign inversion error here: > In that context, his arguments are trying to identify any body as one among millions I presume you meant "his
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by lisper 2y ago
Just wait five days and this will all go away.
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The Final Experiment – Antarctica(the-final-experiment.com)
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by lisper 2y ago
This is an amazing piece of work for the graphical displays and data gathering completely independent of the compelling story of extended human suffering it presents. But -- and in no way do I mean this to detract from the quality of the w
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by lisper 2y ago
Veritasium has an excellent introduction to p-adic numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaq4aYPzCc&t=1632s
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by lisper 2y ago
It is a joke, but not related to Borges, at least not intentionally.
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by lisper 2y ago
I have lived in California for 36 years, 22 in SoCal and 14 in NorCal and I've noticed a trend that I find deeply disturbing: weather forecasts seem to be much less reliable now than they used to be. Before moving to California I live

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