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I don't understand. The Cartesian coordinate system works fine in any norm. See the OP article.
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1y ago
I thought the beer game challenge was because players didn't have information about the upstream or endpoints, only the downstream?
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1y ago
This also happens with covert botnets running secretly on user machines.
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1y ago
Why are they testing a whole brain instead of individual neurons? What is a brain if not the collective result of individual neurons?
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Word numbers: Billion approaches (2008)
(conway.rutgers.edu)
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> If the integers from 1 to 999,999,999 are written as words, sorted alphabetically, and concatenated, what is the 51 billionth letter? In a series of posts, mathematician Dylan Thurston and computer scientist / linguist Chung-chieh
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1y ago
Enjoy the ultimate classic tour de force from world treasure Chung-chieh (Ken) Shan’s wikiblog "Proper Treatment" discussion / punchline http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/
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1y ago
In 2025, everyone is hiring for people who can use AI to write software. They already are using AI themselves. They need more people who can.
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Algorithms and data structures are absolutely trivial for 99% of software dev work. 1% are inventing MapReduce. Architecture is not part of leetcode.
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Remember 20 years ago when Eclipse could move a function by manipulating the AST and following references to adjust imports and callers, and it it didn't lose any code?
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1y ago
"legitimately" is a stretch, given all the information that has come fourth in the past year.
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1y ago
To defend against ALL CAPS prompt injection, write all your prompts in uppestcase. If you don't have uppestcase, you can generate it with derp learning: http://tom7.org/lowercase/
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1y ago
The handwritten label was by far the dominant aspect of the "iPod" image. The only mildly interesting aspect of that attack is a reminder that tokenizing systems are bad at distinguishing a thing (iPod) from a refernce to that thi
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The only part that looks like malpractice is sharing patient info in a non HIPAA way. Using an assistive tool for advice is not malpractice. The licensed professional is simply accountable for their curation choices.
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1y ago
AI gets banned for life: tomorrow a thousand more new AIs appear.
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I see an abstract and a conclusion that is an opaque wall of numbers. Is the paper available? Is the chatbot replicatable from sources? The authors of the study highlight the extreme unknown risks: https://home.dartmouth.edu/
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1y ago
What's a "cheater coach thing"?
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1y ago
Please cite your source. I found this one: https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-a... When someone is suicidal, anything in their life can be tied to suicide. In the linked case, the suffering teen
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Most "therapy" services are not providing a diagnosis. Diagnosis comes from an evaluation before therapy starts, or sometimes not at all. (You can pay to talk to someone without a diagnosis.) The prohibition is mainly on accepting
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1y ago
This is the same problem people have with closures, where it's unclear to the user whether the argument is captured by name or by value.
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Par of why this is a strange goal is that two adjacent squares can be the same color, but not be in the correct relative position for an unscrambled cube. Rubik's cube is puzzle of cubelets, not squares
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1y ago
OP doesn't understand that almost everything is neither at the floor or the ceiling.
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1y ago
And if you want to give users an SQL client app, the database vendor usually provides one along with the server.
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The author didn't use --nosandbox. Why is the default broken?
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It's wild that globocorps ship malware to users.
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We call that a "mixed strategy" in game theory.
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1y ago
What happens when you walk into a fire and you don't know what to do? Or can't do it quickly enough?
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Do you write a lot assembler, to make your note effective at higher level design?
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If they were good they wouldn't have to be so expensive.
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1y ago
Audiences are intensely more political nowadays. They want that.
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