pickdenis

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by pickdenis 7y ago
There is a surprisingly large amount of people that agree on the psychonaut wiki's (I'm not sure if it originated here) levels of hallucinated geometry. I say it's surprising because of for descriptions of subjective experien
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by pickdenis 7y ago
There are reports of ingestion of incredible amounts of LSD known as "thumbprints," wherein a brave person sticks their thumb in raw crystal LSD and presses it into their palm (or tongue). https://www.shroomery.org&#x2F
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by pickdenis 7y ago
How about grading the validity of the certificate on a continuous scale? P(site loads) = 1 - R*(days since issue) where browsers can choose R as they wish. This gets rid of this discontinuity.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I don't have a complete answer for you, but: > probably offended so many people in my circle by not seeing/not replying to their emails. If I were you, I'd BCC everyone whose addresses you remember with a short note saying
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I don't use RSS, but isn't this just a overspecialized, vendor-locked, ad-hoc version of that?
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Does this guy know anything useful about AGI that I don't (all I know is that we're super fucking far away)? All of these articles seem to be him tossing around ideas that feel good to his mind, and no substance.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Interesting, I didn't learn in school that elemental crystalline structures were auxetic. Is this property of crystals important for industrial use?
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by pickdenis 7y ago
No Amanda, my laptop has not ruined my life. It has made it much more bearable. Why not title this article "Unchecked greed ruined your and billions of other lives?" Right, no one will click on that.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
This seems similar to bootstrapping theorem provers. Here is a HN discussion on one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21358674
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by pickdenis 7y ago
> Your language does not allow me to prove program correctness Isn't that the whole point of the SMT solver? What about this example (that doesn't compile)? fn bla(int a) -> int model return == 2 * a { retu
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Generating random permutations uniformly is a nontrivial problem that I have solved in (probably) close but incorrect ways using RNGs directly. Knowing about `shuf` would have helped a lot!
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by pickdenis 7y ago
(psst, think you forgot the link.)
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Has anyone used these to successfully learn absolute pitch themselves?
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I don't have much to contribute, except my thanks for your reminding me to cancel my prime subscription. They REALLY tried to get me to not do that. I had to click "yes actually end it" around 5-6 times. I bet each of these h
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by pickdenis 7y ago
The chess computing term for this is "contempt," the parameter that determines the worst move the engine assumes its opponent would play. Classical chess engines can allow this parameter to be changed easily. I'm sure the MCT
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I'm curious what the significance of the tarot cards is here. Why not just write the following article: (this also serves as a TL;DR) When you encounter a problem with your program, consider the following in order: - your Motive - Face
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I know this is a dead horse, but I think R seriously shot itself in the foot with its data structures[1]. I don't really see a solution for this, as fixing it would never be backward compatible. I'll always pick Python over R beca
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I don't think you're disagreeing with me here. It's just that your school doesn't care that much if students fail because of their own negligence. Mine does, because that looks bad or something. I totally agree with your
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by pickdenis 7y ago
> has very little correlation to readiness to be treated as an adult My words may have been misleading. What I'm trying to say is the kind of student that gets admission to Caltech is not the kind of student to neglect going to clas
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by pickdenis 7y ago
> Most of those third-tier schools shouldn't exist in the first place I disagree. I was offered admission to zero first rate schools, two second rate schools ($$$$$$ tuition), and my backup which is a third rate school (which I am a
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I think it's interesting because we don't assume "honor among thieves". Otherwise there's no useful way to distinguish morality from immorality. "x cooperates with y" and "y is moral" shouldn&
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Scratch is what got me into programming, and why I'm here today. It's awesome to see that it's still growing and new things are possible. Back when I started you couldn't define your own functions so you had to use a sta
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by pickdenis 7y ago
This sort of thing doesn't work at schools that don't have such a high bar of entry. Caltech can afford to treat their students like adults, because they're picked from the cream of the crop. On the other hand, schools like t
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by pickdenis 7y ago
I've been looking around, and it seems WebGPU is doing the same things we've been using WebGL for. Is it a more generic interface that also allows for arbitary computation? (a la GPGPU)
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Slight UI nitpick: On narrow screens (<800px), the signup part of the screen is cut off. There is a scroll bar but it doesn't work as intended. https://i.imgur.com/pRtOd73.png
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Since JS lacks a static type system, isn't it a bit misleading to call these "algebraic" effects, when algebraic is referring to the type system? I'm still not clear where the "algebraic" part comes in here.
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by pickdenis 7y ago
Honestly, reading this article was the first time I saw a documented case of strobes causing seizures. It's possible (and this is purely speculation) that the attacker sent the strobe to give some comedic punch to the statement "y
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by pickdenis 7y ago
What's preventing Twitter from making APNGs work the same way as animated GIFs? (e.g. you have to explicitly click the play button)
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by pickdenis 7y ago
What you're saying basically amounts to "people are blinded to what they love by their need for financial security". This may be true on some level, but anyone can see through it with a modicum of introspection. Or am I givin
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by pickdenis 7y ago
> I feel like it is hard for people to say what they truly love before they have at least $1M in their bank account. [edited to protect your feelings] Are you saying that simple introspection is hard? I completely disagree, because separ

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