quirino

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by quirino 11mo ago
> As a bonus, we look forward to fewer violations (exhibit A, B, C) of our strict no LLM / no AI policy, Hilarious how the offender on "exhibit A" [1] is the same one from the other post that made the frontpage a couple of
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by quirino 11mo ago
Another curious behavior here is: LLMs are eager to use information available to them, even when it's completely irrelevant.
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by quirino 1y ago
It's Beej from the guides! I really appreciated the perspective you put forward here: https://beej.us/guide/bglcs/html/split/use-of-ai.html#ai-and... .
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by quirino 1y ago
The calculation that arrives at 900 has already subtracted the 1000 from the start.
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by quirino 1y ago
I'm a fan of the eye-candy. Truly feels like a glimpse of the future is terms of aesthetics. I just wish they hadn't thrown UX principles away.
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by quirino 1y ago
The best thing to have happened to nvim in recent history is mini.nvim. It's a collection of plugins by echasnovski which satisfies many of your needs in a very consistent, very well documented way. With nvim 0.12 (nightly) I've s
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by quirino 1y ago
Honking is common across Brazil but not in the capital Brasília. Signs at some entrances of city read "Dear visitors, in Brasília we avoid honking".
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by quirino 1y ago
I had some fountain pens over the years, but I was never able to truly enjoy them or recommend them to anyone. I didn't find them practical as daily writing tools and or too fun as a hobby. I really dislike the feeling that you need to
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by quirino 1y ago
Not completely sure how your reply relates to my comment. I was just mentioning the competition is on Heuristics which is different from what you find on CF or most coding competitions. About the performance of AI on competitions, I agree w
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by quirino 1y ago
All you said is true. Keep in mind this is the "Heuristics" competition instead of the "Algorithms" one. Instead of the more traditional Leetcode-like problems, it's things like optimizing scheduling/clustering
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by quirino 1y ago
I think equally impressive is the performance of the OpenAI team at the "AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025" a couple of days ago. There were 12 human participants and only one did better than OpenAI. Not sure there is a good writeup
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by quirino 1y ago
https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Apple-iPhone-13-mini,... I was convinced you were wrong but that's correct. The Mini is much smaller and the Zenfone is about the same size as the regular iPhone.
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by quirino 1y ago
Sivers' list has introduced me to many great books. I can recommend "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - by David Eagleman" which is the fourth book on the page you linked.
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by quirino 1y ago
The random moment we picked in time is not necessarily an event. The expected time between the event to your left and the one to your right (they're consecutive) is 20 minutes.
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by quirino 1y ago
I really like the Poisson Distribution. A very interesting question I've come across once is: A given event happens at a rate of every 10 minutes on average. We can see that: - The expected length of the interval between events is 10 m
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by quirino 2y ago
The poster acknowledges this: "I will lose thousands". https://www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-the-pokemon-playtest-c...
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by quirino 2y ago
A few years ago I saw a talk at a Math conference about some mathematical models for how the shapes of snowflakes come to be. I don't recall the details, but I believe one of them was even able to generate non-hexagonal snowflakes whic
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by quirino 2y ago
I was more surprised by the fact that "Barbie" was said more times than "it", even though all of the "wrong" instances of "it" were counted as well.
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A Collection of Dice Problems [pdf](madandmoonly.com)
4 points by quirino 2y ago|0 comments
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by quirino 2y ago
Traveling to the US recently, I was surprised to see Claude ads around the city/in the airport. It seems like they're investing on marketing there. In my country I've never seen anyone mention them at all.
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by quirino 2y ago
That's what I mean by "pip on the corner" :P The comment above mine was using this terminology to refer to the corner of a face.
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by quirino 2y ago
It's more of a LaTeX alternative, which also happens to have an official web app. The engine itself is open source, so you can always just install it and compile your documents on the command line.
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by quirino 2y ago
If we're gonna go that route, you can just put a single pip on a corner and derive all of the other positions from that.
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by quirino 2y ago
On Safari (iPad), type something in the search bar. If you accidentally click outside of your keyboard it will deselect the bar and delete everything you typed. On Spotify the three little dots to do some action to a song have too small of
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by quirino 2y ago
I'm not sure that's the right way to interpret it. If some tasks are too easy, both models might give satisfactory answers, in which case the human preference might as well be a coin toss. I don't know the specifics of their
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by quirino 2y ago
"Peak", from the same author, is probably the book I've read that has had the biggest influence on my life. The most important idea I got from it is something like: You gotta practice to get good at things. People that are be
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by quirino 2y ago
Thank you so much for all these pointers!
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by quirino 2y ago
I don't have a ± key. I'm using swaywm which seems to have no compose key set by default, I've tried all the common ones and they don't act as such. I haven't been able to detect any pattern to what triggers this, a
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by quirino 2y ago
There's this one Chrome (?) bug I've been experiencing for a long time on Linux. Every once in a while, the browser detects I'm typing "±±±±±±+..." and writes that to any selected text input. It stops when I type an
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by quirino 2y ago
Very cool! I've wanted to build something similar to this for music. Some virtual environment where you can organize your albums on shelves and play them on a turntable. You could even extend this so you have to walk to a store to buy

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