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by ogogmad 10mo ago
https://pastebin.com/XtdGdq6C
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
I have a suspicion that "good candidate" is being gerrymandered. What might have been "good" in 1990 might have become irrelevant in 2000+ or perhaps detrimental. I say that as someone who is actually good at algorithm q
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
The following is a Python prototype: import numpy as np from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix, bmat class NFA: def __init__(self, T, S, E): self.T = T; self.S = S; self.E = E @property def nu
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
I've heard this before. Why do you think algorithm questions are effective for finding "good" hires? Are they ?
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
Interesting comment. Which ways have people been doing this?
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
By "the basics", I mean the Unix command line model, with its shells and file descriptors and piping. What matters less now are the arcane details, like which flags to use when running a command.
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
I'm not sure that it's just L1 vs L2, since the Wigner formulation of quantum mechanics uses real-valued quasi-probabilities, but ones which can take negative values. Oh, and also, if you swap out h-bar in Wigner's equati
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
Given that LLMs can make their own calls to the command line, I think it's obsolete ten times over. Much of the learning curve - and therefore most of the downside from CLIs, is now gone. A person can now learn only the most basic fact
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
I don't know if you're aware that there's a formal analogy between matrix operations and regex operations: Matrix vs Regex -------------- A+B with A|B A*B with AB (1 - A)^{-1} with M* To make the analogy
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
I suspect the same regarding the analogy with regex, but I still haven't finished learning an array language. Do you know what you'd use an array language for?
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
Given the amount of progress in AI coding in the last 3 years, are you seriously confident that AI won't increase programming productivity in the next three? This reminds me of the people who said that we shouldn't raise the alarm
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
Gemini seems to be firmly in the lead now. OpenAI doesn't seem to have the SoTA. This should have bearing on whether or not LLMs have peaked yet.
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
I suppose it's my bad that I've interacted with a troll that might not even be a real human being.
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by ogogmad 10mo ago
> But there are such experiments. String theory says that the result of such experiment is: Lorentz invariance not violated. This is not a new prediction... String theory makes no new predictions, I hear. I don't understand why you
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
Apologies if this is pedantic but "multi-valued function" is not a thing. The function doesn't have multiple values here. Saying "multi-valued function" is not just a way of misleading people about what's reall
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
In maths, an expression only ever equals a single number. You can't say i^i = e^(-pi/2) and then also say that i^i = e^(3 pi / 2), because if i^i equals two things, then those two things are also equal to each other, and then
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
Do you know what a Riemann surface is? Because if you don't, then you don't know what you're talking about - and you should stop getting people confused.
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
i^i isn't anything. Please don't write this. Of the two inputs to the function (w, z) -> w^z = exp(z ln(w)), only z is a complex number, so that bit is OK. The problem is that w is NOT a complex number but a point on a particul
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
Every shortage is followed by a glut. Wait and see for RAM prices to go way down. This will happen because RAM makers are racing to produce units to reap profits from the higher price. That overproduction will cause prices to crash.
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
How does this compare to the Picard-Lindelof theorem and the technique of Picard iteration?
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
Numerical integration using interval arithmetic gets you the same thing but in a completely rigorous way.
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
The usage of confidence intervals here reminds me of the clearest way to see that integration is a computable operator, to the same degree that a function like sin() or sqrt() is computable. It's true thanks to a natural combination of
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
In the Game of Life community, people use "c" to refer to the speed at which a GoL figure can travel, which is at most 1 in the vertical direction, and 1 in the horizontal direction.
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
Since you're bad at maths, you think being good at maths is being a calculator like WolframAlpha.
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
It doesn't. However, having a free-of-charge maths genius available 24/7 has broad potential. It's hard to predict what it will be used for.
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
Some people have this view, but I don't get why.
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
What about "boot", to be more international?
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
"Sprint". "Bus factor"?
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
Don't like matrices? Introducing: Penrose abstract index notation. Or "I can't believe it's not matrices".
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by ogogmad 11mo ago
Who do you think is going to buy an Optimus if it's as useless as a Tamagotchi? They're humanoid in shape. Maybe you've confused generative AI with humanoid robots (powered by similar Machine Learning models to generative AI)

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