nneonneo

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by nneonneo 3mo ago
Bonus: Here's what all of the tokens >= 0x80 render as, including the corrupt ones: 128 0x80 b'END' 129 0x81 b'FOR' 130 0x82 b'NEXT' 131 0x83 b'DATA' 132 0x84 b'BYE' 13
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by nneonneo 3mo ago
Hmm, based on the (handwritten!) notes on Table F-2 in http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/exidy/DP500... , it looks like pressing Graphic+key would allow you to enter BASIC tokens from 0x80 to 0xBF, w
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by nneonneo 3mo ago
Given the wild but apparently "consistent" numbers I wonder if we could reverse-engineer the wrong algorithm with enough data points? Maybe the proper cost estimate has some relationship to the reported cost estimate.
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by nneonneo 3mo ago
https://archive.is/zduXN
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by nneonneo 3mo ago
A Russian friend living in Japan noted that, at least as of a decade ago, a decent number of government services (for citizens) allowed something like 6 characters max for the entire name. This is because Japanese names are normally written
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
This is a dense article but what seems reasonably clear is that someone is pushing hard for an insecure standard. There’s no reason at this point to put all your cryptographic eggs in the post-quantum crypto (PQC) basket. Elliptic curve cry
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
You may want to consider that your Group B employee may be conscientious and reliable because they use an apparently “frustrating and inefficient” process. Productive friction is a thing: processes which force you to slow down enough to p
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
I’m guessing the obvious fakeness of the request is part of it: they’re testing to see if anyone is paying attention. Maybe the author doesn’t care if it gets taken down after four years; maybe they see a super fake request and assume it wo
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
TBH - for me, it’s an opportunity to do a different kind of exam, with a level of interactivity and realism that isn’t possible with paper exams. It is possible but much more annoying to run such exams in a BYOD setting: for example, the la
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
I'm reminded of TIS-100, a game where you program a cluster of tiny, parallel CPUs using a custom assembly language. It's painful to get basic stuff done, but you can do some amazing things with some effort.
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
I'm sure you're exaggerating, but the exam process in a CBTF is pretty lightweight. Students arrive, drop off their bags and phone etc., check in (swipe an ID card, get their picture matched), log into the computer and the exam we
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
The machines are connected via Ethernet (reliability!) but our exams are hosted on Internet sites like PrairieLearn and Canvas. Those are a lot easier to work with than, say, having to load exams onto a machine accessible on a private LAN
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
Worth pointing out - modern multimodal LLMs (properly called VLMs, etc.) can easily take pictures as input and describe them in text. In fact, the CLIP model - one of the predecessors of modern VLMs - is entirely designed around being able
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
Speed is an asset, and I think it's an underrated one. Timed assessments are, in part, a speed challenge; students who understand the material more thoroughly can apply it faster and more accurately, giving them more time to complete t
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
Using a special computer works too. I do my exams with our institution's Computer-Based Testing Facility, a bank of computers with fixed software and firewall rules that only permit connections to the exam site. As a result, I've
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
No, you don't understand! Meta told us the LLM itself "worked properly and functioned as intended" and it was only due to a bug in a "separate code path" that made this attack possible. Don't go around blaming
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
The AI agent's operator couldn't be arsed to get in there and clarify anything despite their seeming urgency, and only wound up speaking up for themselves after the financial damage was done. Plus - the agent had clearly maliciou
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
(spoilers for the little -ooze puzzle: for rhymes, booze choose brews blues ruse shoes cruise; for non-rhymes, snooze loose pews plagues obtuse toes guise; many others are possible, and rhyming or lack thereof may depend on accent).
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by nneonneo 4mo ago
Just today the NYT Strands puzzle gave a great example: you can find one set of prefixes that make each of the following rhyme, and a different set of prefixes that make them all sound different: -ooze -oose -ews -ues -use -oes -uise You ca
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by nneonneo 5mo ago
University education is weird . Research profs (who make up a large fraction of all profs in a typical R1 institution), are hired for research ability and are only minimally evaluated on teaching ability. Furthermore, few research profs ac
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by nneonneo 5mo ago
It's too damn tempting to not use. You have a magical machine that, on command, will spit out the answer to your question in 10 seconds, whereas you'd need to spend hours to do the assignment the Good Old Fashioned Way. Even stu
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by nneonneo 5mo ago
Pinyin is also the main way people input Chinese into computers, so it's rather important in that regard.
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by nneonneo 6mo ago
For some, I think there’s that satisfaction that comes with saving money (like you’re somehow “cheating the system”, even when it’s just a coupon that gets you to buy something you wouldn’t otherwise). In some cases, that satisfaction grows
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by nneonneo 6mo ago
BBEdit is wonderful. I got hooked by TextWrangler and eventually bit the bullet to upgrade, and it was a great decision. I’ve used Sublime (3 and 4), VSCode, Notepad++, vi, etc.; even made some plugins for Sublime, and I still vastly prefer
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by nneonneo 6mo ago
One big reason is sandboxing - the native dialogs can view the entire filesystem hierarchy and automatically grant access to selected resources to the calling app. Non-native dialogs are restricted to whatever the app has access to, which m
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by nneonneo 6mo ago
Accountability and responsibility for the AI chatbot/tool/agent still lie solely with the human operator. This is an excuse to try and deflect blame, rather than actually identify and prevent the root causes which led to the error
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by nneonneo 6mo ago
There's some troll making a dozen accounts on here to spew alt-right/MAGA nonsense, then deleting their comments (editing them to ".") once their account is burned. Don't reply, don't feed, just flag and move o
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by nneonneo 6mo ago
> virtual reality products with no legs This is the most incredibly apt description of Horizon Worlds possible. How is it that I've missed this joke until now? Thank you!
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by nneonneo 6mo ago
There's an instructive example on the page. Suppose a page creates the databases `a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p`, then queries their order. They might get, for example `g,c,p,a,l,f,n,d,j,b,o,h,e,m,i,k`, based on the global mapping of
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by nneonneo 6mo ago
Curious - does Vancouver have an especially bad reputation for medicine, or did you pick the city/country arbitrarily? Canada's medical training program seems to me to be reasonably rigorous; as an outsider it doesn't seem wo

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