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by mkl 1y ago
> The most expensive computer is a lot more expensive than the first PC. Depends on your definition of "computer". If you mean the most expensive modern PC I think you're way off. From https://en.wikipedia.org
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by mkl 1y ago
The FAQ ( https://flix.dev/faq/#:~:text=Dividing%20by%20zero%20yields%... ) links to https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/divide-by-zero/ , which is more about Pony, but links to https://
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by mkl 1y ago
Average electricity usage in the UK is something like 2700 kWh/y [1], which is a bit over 300 W on average. Most UK household energy use is gas. [1] https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/information-consumers/energy-advice...
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by mkl 1y ago
There is no story downvote button.
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by mkl 1y ago
Anything that triggers the flamewar detector gets down-weighted automatically. Those two trigger discussion full of fast poorly thought out replies and often way more comments than story upvotes, so stories involving them often trip that d
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by mkl 1y ago
They are different lossless image formats. What is called "raw" is quite a few different formats from different manufacturers, and they contain lossless image data from the camera sensor without significant postprocessing. They
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by mkl 1y ago
GIF hasn't been patent-encumbered since 2004. APNG was initially released in 2004. MNG was earlier, but didn't catch on.
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by mkl 1y ago
This is not true at all. Maths PhDs are excellent for this kind of person, and foster and grow such abilities. No matter how smart you are, training on how to do research is going to improve your capabilities and success.
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by mkl 1y ago
Maths is the reason for loops use i. Fortran defines variables starting with those letters to be integers because maths has used those letters for iteration, counting, indexing, etc. for centuries. It was natural for a for mula tran sla
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by mkl 1y ago
It's an ostrich, which is associated with Justice (the figure holding it). https://www.raulprisacariu.com/symbolism/symbolic-literacy-j... There's a fuller view on the right here: https://upload.w
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by mkl 1y ago
Clickable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067496
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by mkl 1y ago
Not really. The proportion correct is more informative.
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by mkl 1y ago
Qwen2.5-VL 7B is pretty impressive at turning printed or handwritten maths lecture notes into Latex code, and is small enough to run slowly on a laptop without enough VRAM. Gemma3 4B was useless at this though, and got stuck in loops or tr
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by mkl 1y ago
The Python function is implemented in C and uses a faster algorithm [1], and this particular factorial is so small they put it in a lookup table [2]. It is a strange and very unequal choice for a demo. [1] https://github.com&#x2
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by mkl 1y ago
* does different things depending on the types of the operands, which is Python's strong typing at work, not Perlesque weak typing. Repeating a string is a useful thing to be able to do, and this is a natural choice of syntax for it.
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by mkl 1y ago
1. They sometimes are. The imaging here uses a telescope. (Coronagraphs work on Earth-based telescopes too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronagraph .) 2. They don't need to be. Most telescopes aren't tryi
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by mkl 1y ago
There's a much older and more widely known Helios: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios
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by mkl 1y ago
Took me 115. I guessed lots of general filler words to work out the structure of some sentences, and guessed lots of general subject words to find a few hits. The grey words that it fills in when they're related can be a bit misleadi
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Beware General Claims about "Generalizable Reasoning Capabilities" of AI Systems(lesswrong.com)
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by mkl 1y ago
It doesn't take conciousness to predict the next word repeatedly.
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Subpixel Zoo: A Catalog of Subpixel Geometry(geometrian.com)
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by mkl 1y ago
That's nearly 2.5 years old, an eternity in this space. It may still be true, but that article is not good evidence.
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by mkl 1y ago
Wrong tool for the job. Try asking it to generate an SVG calendar with those features, or to generate Python code that produces an SVG calendar with those features.
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by mkl 1y ago
Obsolete doesn't just mean old, it means superseded by newer information.
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by mkl 1y ago
It's definitely a birthday, hence the name. It's the day you turn 0.
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by mkl 1y ago
No, the data (as described in So's thesis) was mathematical expressions extracted from TeX source code, so the surrounding text and email addresses etc. were ignored. Skimming through by eye I can't see @ in any of So's tabl
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by mkl 1y ago
Yes: https://512pixels.net/2025/05/original-macintosh-resolution/ There was a discussion here a couple of weeks ago (with a typo in the title): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110219
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by mkl 1y ago
Agreed. Even stranger to me is @ as the fourth most common operator, supposedly more common than +. The whole thing seems dubious.
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by mkl 1y ago
I never claimed that it did. Gemini would probably save me the same dozens of hours, but come with ongoing costs and additional starting up hurdles (some near insurmountable in my organisation, like data security for some of what I'm
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by mkl 1y ago
With tools like Ollama, self-hosting is easier than hosted. No sign-up, no API keys, no permission to spend money, no worries about data security, just an easy install then import a Python library. Qwen2.5-VL 7B is proving useful even on

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