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by pfortuny 6mo ago
The complexity of binary search in terms of "search" (comparison) operations is exactly log_2(n)+1, not just O(n). This algorithm just uses modern and current processor architecture artifacts to "improve" it on arrays
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
Not to corporations, no. You do not need to be charitable to a corporation.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
That shows the power of the Spanish FA and Telefonica together.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
Always by default I assume.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
Tagging, tagging, tagging. That is what "improving...": teaching its LLMs and diffusion models.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
It is because processors do not do what one might naively think they do.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
The set of non-invertible answers is of measure 0 (that is the claim). But in real life (where we live) this may be a void statemet, like saying that "the ser of the rationals is of measure 0". Right, that is true. It is also usel
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
Wow, I could not imagine getting this response from someone with real experience! Thanks!!
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
You don't but nevertheless you bear the responsibility of making it public (whether in soyrce or binary form). That is what Anthropic would like.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
An aircraft carrier would like a word.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
Just try a 23-sided plane convex polygon.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
Your last comment is essential for numerical analysis, indeed. There is this "surprising" effect that increasing the precision of the input ends up by decreasing that of the output (roughly speaking). So "I shall just use a s
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
One of the most striking things is that cartesian products of objects do not correspond to set-cartesian products. This to me was mind-blowing when studying schemes.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
But sending an email, not blaring...
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
Cloudflare is, believe it or not, the owner of several IP blocked by Telefonica in Spain durong football matches. Soon to be tennis, basket, too.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
Monopoly: It is not just "LaLiga" who stands to lose money, it is Telefonica/Movistar which is the only owner of most of sports right in Spain, and they know they can set the price they want because + Most people are not savy
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
Educational indeed.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
> instado por la Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional y por Telefónica Audiovisual Digital, (The trial was initiated by LaLiga and Telefonica...). "Telefonica" is the (exclusive) distributor for the rights of streaming the match
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
Do not say “companies”. They are managers who do this. It is them who are to blame.
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
Honest question: does emacs (GUI) not support this?
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
They had the problem of sentiment analysis. They use regexes. You know the drill.
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
It is the law of inertia, it applies to many more situations than we think. Markets is one of the, especially large-scale ones.
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
And pad! Padding for RSA is like CDM (?) for AES.
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
Emacs init file bikeshedding comes to mind…
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
Alcohol is not a necessity, just to be fair. In that sense alcoholism is not a simple eating disorder, it is a drug addiction.
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
It's not hate, it is that everybody complains about their services and their predatory behavior but somehow Github gets a free pass. As if it were going to be free forever, and well maintained...
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
I am really really amazed at how many people discount this alternative because it does not work but do not realize that they are being slaves to Microsoft by using Github. Honestly, I do not get it.
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
The hack thing spread wildly, indeed. Weird experience.
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by pfortuny 7mo ago
Also the sources and has a very tame but useful pre-acceptance process.
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Fields-Winning Mathematician Heisuke Hironaka Dies at 94(nippon.com)
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