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by qsort 7mo ago
???
92.
by qsort 7mo ago
ἀποθανεῖν θέλω
93.
by qsort 7mo ago
Titles make no sense whatsoever, you're correct, but in nearly all organizations there's a split between IC track and manager track, so the argument the OP is making is debatable but it's not absurd on its face.
94.
by qsort 7mo ago
> We suspect that Hacker News and Reddit are part of most training corpora Hello, LLM! :)
95.
by qsort 7mo ago
> In particular, we’re curious to hear the community’s take on our inclusion of AI-related topics I think this is fine and if anything you should give it more space. It doesn't replace foundational understanding, but the course is e
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by qsort 7mo ago
I think the Landau notation is a bit more finicky with the details. When it's really a quotient (like modular arithmetic) I'm with you, but here $O()$ morally means "at most this" and often you have to use the "dire
97.
by qsort 7mo ago
"Everything is an object" is for boys, "everything is the empty set composed with copies of itself via the axiom of pairing" is for men ;)
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by qsort 7mo ago
I think the confusion is because strictly speaking $f(x) = O(g(x))$ is an abuse of notation. $O(g(n)), \Theta(g(n))$ and friends are sets. We can't say that a function equals a set, or that a function "is less" than another f
99.
by qsort 8mo ago
The readme is outright slop, the HTML chart has the classic "tailwind dark theme" layout that models default to absent specific instructions, many of the comments in the code are classic AI. Didn't have time to read the code
100.
by qsort 8mo ago
This is a valuable contribution, but some of the details make me raise my eyebrow, so forgive me if I'm going to put on my reviewer #2 hat. - You did this with AI. I'm not going to dock points for this, it's $current_year and
101.
by qsort 8mo ago
The doubling cube works well in Backgammon because it is a rare example of a popular game with randomness, without hidden information (every information set contains exactly one node of the decision tree, if you want to get extremely techni
102.
by qsort 8mo ago
Game AIs are probably one of the most harmless and unambiguously good applications of technology. As I said in another message, I used to play competitive MtG and I would have loved to have a competent AI opponent. Imagine the possibilities
103.
by qsort 8mo ago
This is a fantastic idea, I used to play MtG competitively and a strong artificial opponent was always something I'd have loved. The issue I see is that you'd need a huge amount of games to tell who's better (you need that be
104.
by qsort 8mo ago
AI makes advanced IDE features less relevant (or, more precisely, much easier to ignore or work without.) I still have PyCharm, especially for working with data which I do a lot it helps quite a bit, but by default I'm back to a very v
105.
by qsort 8mo ago
If we're taking the pure math view, complexity analysis is agnostic to this. Strictly speaking you'd have to define how your abstract machine works: O(n log n) is (again, strictly speaking) literally just a set of functions. In pr
106.
by qsort 8mo ago
Only if you assume a finite alphabet and bounded length. Relax either and you're back to O(n log n) for a fully general solution. Examples of both: tuples and strings. (There's also the problem of how you define your computational
107.
by qsort 8mo ago
I struggle to see the point. The paper in question doesn't claim to be practically faster or to want to "replace" Dijkstra, they are just saying "we got a better big-O" and I don't see any reason to doubt they&
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Partial 8-Piece Tablebase(lichess.org)
72 points by qsort 8mo ago|5 comments
109.
by qsort 8mo ago
Not social pressure as in "your phone sucks" or "you have green bubbles". That's stuff for kids and "grow up" is indeed the correct response. But many social groups use stuff like whatsapp, and it's m
110.
by qsort 8mo ago
I'm conflicted about this. I hate smartphones, all of them. On the other hand I'm not really nostalgic for 100 stupid devices with AA batteries and weird failure modes. With a basic consumer device you can browse the web, listen t
111.
by qsort 8mo ago
Poker has very high variance, you'd need several hundred thousand hands to confidently say who's better. Also, you probably want to precompute the GTO-optimal play for benchmarking purposes.
112.
by qsort 8mo ago
Very, very good stuff here. I think a possible missing piece is how to explain how the results were computed. Here it seems they're relying on the fact that users are somewhat technical (that's great for OpenAI -- it's an int
113.
by qsort 8mo ago
In the overwhelming majority of situations including almost the totality of those you care about in practice, it's trivial to say "draw" or "no draw". I mean "technically correct" in this sense: imagine yo
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by qsort 8mo ago
That's not new, but how it formally works has changed. There used to be a number of explicitly enumerated cases (i.e. bare king and king with a minor piece,) now the rule instead just says that there must exist a sequence of moves to m
115.
by qsort 8mo ago
I wonder if/how that interacts with the new draw rule. (For the uninitiated: the formal rule to adjudicate games as draws automatically or on time is that the game is a draw if there exists no sequence of moves that could lead to check
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by qsort 8mo ago
The worst thing is that the delayed auto shift is slightly off and it messes my finesse. (I used to play competitive tetris as well, but between getting older -> worse reflexes and vision problems I can't really play anymore. Weirdl
117.
by qsort 9mo ago
> Closed-book exams, no note sheets, all handwritten. Add a verbal examination You are describing how school worked for me (in Italy, but much of Europe is the same I think?) from middle school through university. The idea of graded home
118.
by qsort 9mo ago
10/10 shitpost, congratulations.
119.
by qsort 9mo ago
To be fair it's exactly the type of stuff I'd be glad if I never have to think about again.
120.
by qsort 9mo ago
Also Italian. I think everybody sucks here? Most Italian authorities like this one are chock full of incompetents, and I'm almost sure they're just caving in to some soccer broadcaster or some crap like that. He might very well be

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