nightcracker

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by nightcracker 5y ago
Yes they think this, but not in the way you or I think about it. At least this is my admittedly cynical take. There is a strong push across tech to erase the concept of a Personal Computer, and make everything function like a tablet. Callin
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by nightcracker 5y ago
This might just be the most hard to read article I've ever seen.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
We could build modern society strictly crawling, without language we would still be hunter gatherers in small packs.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Mickey Mouse.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
> “What started as a reasonable endeavor—the healthy pursuit of equity in work and life—became distorted, morphing into a misguided entitlement to a workday neatly bookended,” writes Gabrielle Peterson. Insisting on a personal life is no
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Right click drag.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
This is why Rust has `abs`, `checked_abs`, `wrapping_abs`, `overflowing_abs`, `saturating_abs` and `unsigned_abs`. Checked returns a Result enum that is an error on overflow, wrapping silently wraps (as in your answer), overflowing wraps bu
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by nightcracker 5y ago
I don't use latexmk, so I wouldn't know sorry. If you can incorporate it into latexmk you might even be able to use it on Overleaf.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
This doesn't work on Overleaf, but locally this setup has saved me quite some time: % Tikz caching (use make -f main.makefile to rebuild figures). \usetikzlibrary{external} \tikzexternalize[mode=list and make,prefix=tikzc
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Looking at it a bit closer, it appears to actually be a one-man effort.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
When used to filter out computers from humans such a procedure is known as a Turing test.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
> Specifically which new algorithms would you like to see? I don't have the answers, sorry, only the frustrations. I know it's a hard problem, and subjective at that. I don't mean to put graphviz down, it's still the
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by nightcracker 5y ago
I really wish Graphviz had some smarter automatic layout algorithms. If I'm not manually laying out the graph, and it isn't one of the select few kinds of graphs that works well, the results are often quite poor.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Keep in mind it's the big companies here that set out these mines: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8019332B2/en application filed by LG Electronics Inc https://patents.google.com/pa
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by nightcracker 5y ago
The correct timestamp of the CGI is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAn_oiZwUXA&t=3761s . It's only ~14 seconds of CGI. And it's a pretty weak showing. The stiff animation and bad lip sync immediately giv
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by nightcracker 5y ago
I don't think calling it a joke is correct. It correctly self-describes as satire, which is quite different. Both use humor but one is not meant seriously whereas the other has a serious critique behind it.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Presumably reputable.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
The point is that if a neural network can predict the relationship when labelled with such accuracy it means this information is unavoidably encoded within the image. The result is that even when race is not labeled that the AI might stil
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Maybe `inf` and `1/inf` are bad names for the concept the value represents. Perhaps 'overflow' and 'underflow' are better - they are error conditions that propagate (when they would affect the result, e.g. `x + unde
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Mainly for detecting overflow in an exception-free manner. Perhaps for consistency there should also be two infinitesimal constants for detecting underflow: 1001 -> -111 -> -inf 1010 -> -110 -> -4 1011 -> -101 -
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by nightcracker 5y ago
I'm not convinced by this argument, and would favour x/0 to return 'undefined' rather than an infinity.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
In my opinion two things are very important for your core real number type: 1. Closed operations without exceptions; 2. a total strict ordering. Additionally, being able to represent positive and negative infinity is convenient and mak
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by nightcracker 5y ago
It's naive to think that downvotes will cause something to be de-amplified, companies like Twitter know all too well how to use controversy and outrage to their advantage.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Yes, yes, the same old story. The exact same things has been said by the previous generations about books, comic strips, radio, television, computer games, etc...
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by nightcracker 5y ago
> The way I read it is that each generation is pushing the limit of freedoms. [..] But is it? When does it become bad? Every generation since the history of time in this situation has asked this question themselves and has consistently a
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Ah, I'm sorry. I looked over it because I didn't see it mentioned in the text. You did technically link to it as "active literature on sorting" without further details, but then the article goes on to describe exactly th
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by nightcracker 5y ago
This article is missing the important reference to the prior work by Edelkamp and Weiss, on branchless quicksort [1]. I've long since implemented that in pdqsort [2], along with other techniques described by me in [3] which is a drop-
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Check out sci-hub.
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by nightcracker 5y ago
> You can't take your tent, set it up somewhere in another country and declare you live there without some fiscal authorities coming for you at some point. The only 'requirement' is that the government (may) want to see yo
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by nightcracker 5y ago
Ah yes, the thing that will solve our climate issues is to provide more capital to those groups/individuals responsible for it. Supply side Jesus would be proud.

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