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This paper is not about lambdas and their typical operations specifically, but it shows that across a variety of tasks, as of 2017, Rust is more environmentally friendly than Python. https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content&
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It is interesting that this PR pre-empts the natural takeaway many would have — eating more dairy or red meat — by reductively representing the options as “cheeseburgers” and “pizza.” Checking out the research paper[1], the competing intere
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A key excerpt, in my opinion. “There is a growing body of evidence about the detrimental health effects of consuming too much red meat and dairy, so this study shouldn’t be taken as an excuse to eat more cheeseburgers and pizza; rather, it
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Retrieval-augmented generation could be the specific AI use case they’re guarding against if they’re restricting search but not cloning.
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> First of all the discussion at hand is not the language implementation, the discussion at hand is about the language specification. TCO is a implementation feature, whether the engine/compiler/interpreter implements said feat
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This is fascinating context.
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Here's compose for you. const compose = (...functions) => a => functions.reduce((x, f) => f(x), a) const quadrupleAndSubtractTwo = compose(multiply(2), multiply(2), subtract(2))
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Lisp, JavaScript, and Python are all dynamically typed, so I made the suggestion with that apparent preference in mind. The example is interesting. Here's how I might have done something similar in JavaScript. Currying is part of the J
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It sounds like the author is disappointed by Python and prefers Lisp, which isn’t as supported. I would suggest trying JavaScript. Its functional programming support is much better than Python’s, and it is widely supported.
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SoftBank or its investors might view WeWork as a hedge against something else. The overall portfolio might make sense even when some individual investments go south.
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The book “Trust me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator” discussed this, though focusing more on blogs than traditional news media.
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It aligns the email with the tradition of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, which were originally private notes for the author’s own purposes. However, Jobs was a public figure who likely anticipated that his private emails would become a part
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Sorry if the comment came across as curt, I'm not annoyed by it, though I am curious whether it's still ongoing since I haven't seen it as much lately.
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Funny, my first thought was: wow, what an easy way to make money — I wish I’d done this.
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Agreed — part of that stoicism trend.
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Woah, very cool idea.
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There was a related Tell HN post about this situation that led to me recovering my pre-undergrad gmail account recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36335975 In my case, I had a record of what my password on the gm
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There’s something about this that swallows its own tail, the optimal way to simulate a universe using computing theory available in that universe.
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Are they saying milk deficiency causes cancer?
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There was a (rumored) integer overflow bug in the game Civilization which would cause an AI that was configured for pacifism to start launching nukes. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nuclear-gandhi
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Each time you run an LLM on a sequence of tokens, it generates a probability distribution giving each token's likelihood of occurring next in the sequence. To actually determine the next token in the sequence, any of various strategies
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Imagine a legacy codebase that takes a team of 30 highly paid engineers just to keep running. Software systems that take months of training and years of experience to fully understand… a $200k trust to operate a cold mausoleum is quaint by
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I appreciate you trying to help in some way but I didn’t ask anything related to these resources… Edit: I didn’t read your comment charitably as I should have. The resources are helpful in the broader context and you illustrate that moderat
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Not sure why this is getting such a negative response… it succinctly identifies a challenge in communicating these developments to curious laypersons. Entrepreneurial types like the denizens of Hacker News love the opportunity of a problem
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Or what if AI assists in generating the discovery? “AI” meaning anything from a transformer model to brute-force breadth-first search with heuristics.
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I guess I was thinking about indexing the visited numbers from a graph-traversal-algorithm-interview perspective instead of a CS theory one. We can actually do it in O(1) space complexity in exchange for higher time complexity. For i in ran
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It’s fun to think about. What about the Collatz conjecture? If we run it for arbitrary n, on a computer that represents numbers up to n_max, we could know if it will halt within n_max steps. Since only n_max numbers are representable, we co
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As Hawking once explained, “Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang.” When cosmologists talk about the universe and its age, it
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Interesting angle — but if heat death were possible it would have happened by now.
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Already met the replication requirements.

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