mathgeek

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by mathgeek 5d ago
I didn’t demand anything. I requested some proofs since this thread is quite literally about a claim that requires proofs. As evidenced by the further comments in the thread. If you disapprove of the conversation, please feel free to use th
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by mathgeek 5d ago
Consider a world with one person in it. That person defines the jobs to be done. As soon as that person is disabled for one reason or another and is dying due to lack of care, there are by definition more jobs to be done than people to do t
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by mathgeek 5d ago
> The universe imposes strict limits on the math that can exist within it, and certain broader limits on the math the creatures and well-organized sand within the universe can conceive of in the first place, whether or not it can maybe e
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by mathgeek 6d ago
Net benefits perhaps. It absolutely lets the hiring company get more information by increasing the amount of time spent by the candidate before a commitment occurs.
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by mathgeek 6d ago
What are you inferring from that? Interested to hear.
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by mathgeek 7d ago
This will always be the problem with trials. Anyone with a job, often underemployed between software roles these days, will be excluded. Still, it does benefit the hiring company, just not the applicant in these situations.
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by mathgeek 7d ago
I think your point on “cutting down on words”, so to speak, is relative to personal writing style. I find that AI tends to write far more words than I personally do, which is sometimes useful, but in the opposite direction that it works for
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by mathgeek 7d ago
Like the best art, it's left up to the viewer to decide!
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by mathgeek 8d ago
Technically, Oklahoma is on the short list of locations that _have_ detonated a nuclear bomb on their enemies in wartime.
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by mathgeek 10d ago
I wasn’t addressing your point, correct. Just helping you be more accurate.
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by mathgeek 10d ago
Much respect for being able to admit that you haven’t used a model in a while after saying folks probably haven’t used the models you use.
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by mathgeek 10d ago
For me, this art form is one of my “saw it many times growing up and assumed they did it everywhere” experiences. It fascinated me as I grew older and realized I was just lucky enough to experience it (the later sculptures along the East Co
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by mathgeek 11d ago
Planned obsolescence is absolutely to the benefit of corporations if those goods are being rented. Non-durable goods are inherently profitable to rent out at above the cost of outright ownership, because then the companies involved can doub
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by mathgeek 12d ago
It certainly feels like this is an intrinsic friction point in a world where more and more of the actual code is written by AI. I know in my workflows, reading a design doc of any length is a big tradeoff of time that could be spent buildin
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by mathgeek 12d ago
> The religious retort to that… _A_ religious retort. Also it’s not a binary “lots of kids or no kids” spectrum.
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by mathgeek 13d ago
I really enjoyed working with imagemagick back in the day. Really did feel like magic to be able to manipulate custom images dynamically.
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by mathgeek 14d ago
Makers rediscovering the joy of hobbies is a thing that I'm all in on and here for.
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by mathgeek 16d ago
It’s the units that make it seem unintuitive. 12 days is roughly 0.032 years, and 17 minutes is likewise 0.000032 years. It’s relative to how we were taught to view smaller lengths of time. Of course you could argue measuring time by the ro
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by mathgeek 17d ago
Not to downplay the risk, but I reckon it’s human nature to embrace the benefits and ignore the risks.
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by mathgeek 18d ago
> As our weather grows more extreme, the stakes grow higher. Never let a good crisis go to waste for marketing, especially if the product you're promoting is contributing to exacerbating it.
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by mathgeek 19d ago
Both, in a way. In order to be sure it's the skill reducing token usage, you measure it with and without the skill, and then you do that periodically to account for all the other variables. Alternatively, you pick a belief based on pri
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by mathgeek 19d ago
> Add to that videogames, comics/manga, TV shows, etc, and I literally just can’t get bored anymore. It's a bit strange to me (and I figure I'm just unusual in this respect), but all of those things lead me quickly to bore
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by mathgeek 21d ago
Definitely, but it would be silly to say not needing to eat is a luxury. Not starving, perhaps.
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by mathgeek 21d ago
> The real luxury, for any age, in general, is in not having dependencies and needs. Fewer. Everyone will always have some dependencies and needs. Personally, I pity anyone who sees a desire to be loved as a weakness. That’s quite litera
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by mathgeek 23d ago
I’d be interested to see the data for that claim, since I would imagine a strong correlation between glp use and lower body fat.
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by mathgeek 27d ago
I read the introduction as referring to the effects on those regions that gave up their status as members of the empire, rather than what you’re saying.
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by mathgeek 28d ago
I wonder how many are like me and just use it as a terminal and changes previewer.
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by mathgeek 29d ago
That's what I took away from this as well. Headline is clickbait but at the end of the day there are uses for these instructions.
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by mathgeek 1mo ago
True, but only a little bit each time you read it.
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by mathgeek 1mo ago
Have always loved cookingforengineers. We should really just be linking to it directly instead of whatever this “having to scroll through a life story f other people’s tweets” spam is.

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