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by professoretc 3y ago
But it could, perhaps, compute something like the degrees of freedom the prompt allowed. If, in choosing how to complete the prompt, it had to choose between a huge number of different responses, perhaps that's an indication that the p
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by professoretc 3y ago
> This reminds me of Inform 7 (where you can use "natural language" to program text adventure games) The problem (at least, the problem I had) with Inform 7 is that it's not really natural language; it still has a strict
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by professoretc 3y ago
Yep, I'm pretty sure Borland C++ was what I used in college in my first "real" programming class. The nice thing about the older IDEs was how easy it was to get started programming: start it up and you're looking at a bl
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by professoretc 3y ago
> Correction - if it's flowing water there is less risk than drinking from a stagnant pool of water. That's what I've always thought, and it seems correct, but I'm not sure why that would be the case. Flowing water
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by professoretc 3y ago
One of my colleagues uses multiple choice exams for his classes (online and in-person) but he gives them a ton of questions. Something like 90 for a 2hr test. His theory was that, sure, you could look up the answers to a few questions, bu
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by professoretc 3y ago
Some CCs actually pay better than 4-year schools. There's a lot of competition to get tenure at a university, which can drive down salaries.
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by professoretc 4y ago
I've noticed a similar phenomenon when asking it to solve problems; if you point out a "flaw" in its proposed solution, even something that isn't wrong at all, it will cheerfully agree with you and "fix" its
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by professoretc 4y ago
> Even if it succeeded, it kept changing the output by doing ops which I never mentioned in the prompt (like reordering and merging duplicated values to a single key) That's something I don't see mentioned enough; if you change
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by professoretc 4y ago
I asked Chat-GPT to prove that the set of all integers is uncountable (it isn't). What's interesting is that Chat-GPT not only spat out the classic diagonalization proof, but rephrased around integers where it doesn't work, i
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by professoretc 4y ago
I just want to make pretty pictures like the ones in the article.
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by professoretc 4y ago
> I have a sister of a similar age to me who doesn't have children. My 7 year-old asked me recently - and this is a direct quote - "what is she for?" I once asked my niece, a bit after she started really communicating, if
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by professoretc 4y ago
The borrow checker acts as a subtle low-pass filter, rolling off some of the high end and leading to less clarity.
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by professoretc 4y ago
You don't necessary have to have all your funds spread out enough that every account is under 250k; you just have to determine how much you are willing to risk. E.g., if you split your funds between two banks, if one of them goes und
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by professoretc 4y ago
> when directors us existing film scores as “dummy scores” to help establish mood. Which then means that when the actual score for that film needs to be written, it pretty much has to sound like the dummy score, because all the scenes we
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by professoretc 4y ago
> it is cross platform and constructs project files for the build system of your choice. if you have people using visual studio, they can continue to use it as it will generate project files for the ide, if you have people on unix using
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by professoretc 4y ago
> - Iosevka Term Iosevka comes with about a million different variations (and you can build custom variations by building the font from source). From the screenshot, it looks like the author was using the light weight; I almost always u
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by professoretc 4y ago
Because GPT doesn't "know" what you're asking it to do. If you want it to be able to call out to a chess engine when you ask it "Solve this chess problem" then we're back in the old world of grammars and t
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by professoretc 4y ago
My cat has no problem going inside the robot, but he gets scared when it rotates. The result was that he clawed all the buttons (and the faceplate) off the control panel.
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by professoretc 4y ago
> > I don't care if someone can answer FizzBuzz .... All that can be learned. > Of course. But... sometimes it isn't. Right, it goes both ways. If FizzBuzz is so easy to learn, it's reasonable to ask, why are you app
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by professoretc 4y ago
I read the SO blog post and thought it was a pretty cool coincidence that Adams was talking about SplitMix64 when I had just recently given a talk about it. Then I scrolled down and saw the video of my talk .
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by professoretc 4y ago
There's also the `artificial` attribute which instructs the debugger to skip through marked functions.
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by professoretc 4y ago
Yep, the "nice" thing about AT&T is that, from a parsing perspective, you don't really need to know much about the target architecture to be able to determine what's an instruction vs. a register vs. a label, etc.
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by professoretc 4y ago
> The problem is figuring out which ones. To be more precise: figuring out which ones are useless may cost more time/money/effort than you would save by removing them.
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by professoretc 4y ago
Someone will need to start an EU-based business where US developers can submit their rejections, and have the EU side get a proper explanation.
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by professoretc 4y ago
In ZSH `=executable` expands to the full path of `executable`.
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by professoretc 4y ago
Coming out of the pandemic, in math we're seeing a lot of #3. It's rather hard to blame the instructors when we have college calculus students who struggle to work with basic fractions.
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by professoretc 4y ago
That's true for any C++ compiler, really. Although C++ tries to retain some element of compatibility with C, there have always been differences (you can name a variable `class` in C but not in C++).
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by professoretc 4y ago
> Maybe it's possible to hire c++ dev and make them work on a rust project? Maybe, but not after proclaiming to the internet "your job is obsolete".
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by professoretc 4y ago
> could stop their habit of splitting lanes of traffic into multiple lanes Even worse are the roundabouts that are wide enough for multiple lanes, but with no lane markers. Just kind of a circular flood of cars, with people on the insi
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by professoretc 4y ago
The only roundabouts I've seen in CA with stop signs are the big ones (like the "traffic circle" in Long Beach) where the roundabout is almost a street unto itself.

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