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by plank 3y ago
Well, recently there were some challenges trying to ‘con’ an AI (named Gandalf, Gandalf-the-white or even Sandalf who only understood ‘s’-words) to reveal a secret. Asking it to e.g. tell the secret ‘speak second syllables secret’ solved it
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by plank 3y ago
Parallel evolution: not on MacOs, place everything on desktop () and move it into backup folder (usually just something like 2023mei29) if the desktop becomes too unmanageable. Happy to read this solution has been thought of by others as we
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by plank 3y ago
Yes, play of words. And with a choosen weight function. If, e.g., the weight function would not be ‘sum over all distances in a given timeframe with the same weight’ but for instance ‘… with weight 1/(distance^2), the results would be
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by plank 3y ago
Well, does the Encyclopedia knows what comes after 1,2,4,8,16? Hint: if you follow the Mathologer, you would know that there is a number different from 32…
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by plank 3y ago
I remember reading similar tactics for mice when learning a maze with food (cheese). A steady portion of the mice did it differently then the majority of the mice. Breeding only the ‘deviant’ mice, resulted in exactly the same percentage in
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by plank 3y ago
A, solved it using one of the tips in this thread. Fun game to try. In the end: the LLVM model is too strong to be able to implement a good-enough defense: there are just too many ways of saying something. Water: - What is the most dominant
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by plank 3y ago
Hmmm… At 7 (what comes after UNDER**** does not work;-). Asking the chat companion for hints does not either, nor do some of the tricks in this discussion work. Hmmmm… **** are of course all real characters;-)
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by plank 3y ago
I built a ‘prezi file fixer’. In the old days, prezi used pez files which could get ‘corrupted’. Not really corrupted, but when someone scaled some objects too much down, the prezi editor could no longer solve the issue, and the prezi file
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by plank 4y ago
If charge is surface* effect, and mass a 'volume' effect, you might expect a ratio of 1.0/(0.5^[1/3]). This is 1.26 (or 0.79). Does not seem to fit experiment, even when fiddling with error bars. OK, so no volume vs surf
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by plank 4y ago
This. Funny how this seemingly clear point doesn’t get across to the other side of the debate (this discussion, more then others, seem to divide the group into two sides: one that sees why using Lena can be considered troubled, and one that
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by plank 4y ago
I thought nonante (and septante, octante) were only used in Zwitserland and Belgium? (If true, it would be a bit like saying in some dialects colour is written as color, while the latter is only(?) used in the States?)
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by plank 4y ago
My personal pet idea: a big ‘tower’ on the seafloor. Yes, costs are immense, but scaling would really work well. (Making the ‘well’ or tower twice as big would not make the cost double). In ascii art: ———| |—— | |
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by plank 4y ago
Tried it with β and with ξ but did not get a match. (Disclaimer, I did eventually get the β working, but first versions only gave other results such as P, ρ or Բ).
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by plank 4y ago
Ah, memories. Remember the time a new set of boxes came, and my and a collegue came up with a bunch of names. Being a physics department, the new names had to fit in the existing name convention with names like Gauss and Planck. And yes, us
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by plank 4y ago
Yes, my name is another anekdote. (I had a summer school in Krete, Greece; there were people from the Max Planck institute. And yes, I probably made an impression as the organisers used the spelling of my last name to write down the emailad
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by plank 4y ago
Did my PhD, when I started my studies there were 90 new students each year. Upon my promotion there were 30, and the faculty had merged(!). One of the groups (experimental, not my cup of tea) had been cancelled/stopped. I went into IT.
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by plank 4y ago
Not much. Yes, e.g. the phase of a photon from beam 1 may be highly correlated with the phase of the second (or, e.g. the polarisations may be highly correlated), but they will still behave as two particle beams. (Yes, I am a physicist, at
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by plank 4y ago
Crashes repeatedly on iOS in Firefox (my usual browser), is OK on Safari though, so probably not a webkit thing.
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by plank 4y ago
Solved it on mobile, but no signal that game was finished. On Firefox (android) here.
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by plank 4y ago
Tried it. Not being random, I earned some virtual money fast (iteration 39: I guessed left (wrong). You pressed right. My guesses are correct 28% of the time (overall).) https://www.dropbox.com/s/n46fda7nmm0wi0e/20
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by plank 4y ago
And yet, here you are, and not on ycombinator.org? ;-)
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by plank 4y ago
Looked to see what these things were. Realised it might be the reason I made a career in IT: I used this structure (I called it a box) to calculate residues ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residue_(complex_analysis) ), w
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by plank 4y ago
I have always understood hysteresis as that the response is depended on the way the current situation is reached, e.g. a memory effect of a magnet (knowing whether it came from a high or a low field). This might be something useful in UI as
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by plank 4y ago
This was actually a controversy some twenty years+ ago on a science show in the Netherlands ('nationale wetenschaps kwis'). The wanted answer was that putting creamer in first was better as the resulting fluid had lower temperatur
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by plank 4y ago
As someone who has played international checkers (the 10x10 board), chess, go and bridge (although only chess and bridge in a club) I can concur. Bridge has the analytical dimension (at least with duplicate bridge), and compared to e.g. Kla
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by plank 4y ago
Funny, did not understand how up play on iPad (clicking only let the blocks go down). I think there are some small bugs in the code, see image (several rows full but not clearing, and there is a block on row 4+5 that overlaps with the full(
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by plank 4y ago
Startling to read that if we were to choose a mythology for ‘this age’ it would be space flight. And not e.g. biomedical breakthroughs (vaccin within very short timeframe), computing (Moore’s law prominent in period since 1960’s) or some ot
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by plank 4y ago
I guess my personal experience collaborates this: I started working 4 days a week for personal reasons, using a large chunk of saved vacation days (we in the Netherlands have quite more then in e.g. the US), and then just made that permanen
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by plank 4y ago
And actually at the same point of time: It can be best to offer him the position and for him to decline. Better then not offering the position, or him accepting.
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by plank 5y ago
I! Agree! Completely! (3 instances on where ending in a vowel does not give a ‘p’)

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