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by sanjayjc 9mo ago
Wishing you the very best. If you find exams stressful, keep in mind that you're not alone. I've long felt that the practice of using exams to gauge knowledge or intelligence is overdue for disruption. Exams are only able to evalu
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by sanjayjc 10mo ago
The court relied on Google's TOS to conclude that users opted to use the service, fully aware of their data being stored: * when a person performs a Google search, he or she is aware (at least constructively) that Google collects a sig
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by sanjayjc 10mo ago
Genuine question: given LLMs' inexorable commoditization of software, how soon before NVDA's CUDA moat is breached too? Is CUDA somehow fundamentally different from other kinds of software or firmware?
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by sanjayjc 10mo ago
I found a directive[1]: > Pre-installed App must be Visible, Functional, and Enabled for users at first setup. Manufacturers must ensure the App is easily accessible during device setup, with no disabling or restriction of its features
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by sanjayjc 10mo ago
When visiting Bath[1] in UK (mentioned in the article), I learned the Romans used a clever contraption, the "three legged lewis", to lift heavy stones[2]. Referring to the diagram[3] on Wikipedia, a concave hole is first cut into
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by sanjayjc 10mo ago
Miles Wu placed first in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. The top 30 finalists are listed here: https://www.societyforscience.org/jic/2025-project-showcase/
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by sanjayjc 11mo ago
Given how many pictures governments and corporations collect from public places, the GP's concern seems moot. I'll try to articulate my reasons as follows: - In every authentication system (the airports' face scanning ones an
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by sanjayjc 11mo ago
I hope this could be a "teachable moment" for all involved: have some students complete their assignments in person, then submit their "guaranteed to be not AI written" essays to said AI detection tool. Objectively measu
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by sanjayjc 11mo ago
> you would expect that the reputation of the bad credentials would go down and the good credentials would go up. We should expect this if employers can efficiently and objectively evaluate a candidate's skills without relying on
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by sanjayjc 11mo ago
Loved the post. I too am an avid Emacs and Org user but just starting to play with org-babel. I wonder how well this workflow could be replicated in org-babel.
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by sanjayjc 11mo ago
> is it about doing, or is it about getting things done? For me it is getting things done while also understanding the whole building, from its foundation up. Only with such a comprehensive mental model can I predict how my code will b
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by sanjayjc 11mo ago
The following academic work (132 page pdf) elucidates this pattern in the context of a real application: https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/275963001/PDEng...
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by sanjayjc 11mo ago
Alternate semiconductor materials (Graphene, SiC) could circumvent some of the expensive steps required for Si, but not all. Here's a good article about the unimaginably high purity standards for the water used in the industry: https:
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by sanjayjc 1y ago
Sorry for the tangent: I was very eager to try vterm until I read that people have had issues with evil-mode [1]. Any idea whether eat and evil can get along? [1] https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm/issues&#x2
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by sanjayjc 1y ago
> I think the aesthetic preference for terseness should give way to the preference for LLM accuracy, which may mean more verbose code From what I understand, the terseness of array languages (Q builds on K) serves a practical purpose:
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by sanjayjc 3y ago
I must be missing something because the corrected regex (/\Aauthor ([^<]*)[ ]{0,1}<(.+)>/) seems to behave the same as the problematic one: https://regexr.com/7qrum I wonder whether github may not be
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by sanjayjc 3y ago
While correct, there's still a whiff of flawed reasoning. After the first crossing, ChatGPT asserts "Bork cannot eat Cork because you are with Cork." The real reason Bork can't eat Cork is because they're on opposit
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by sanjayjc 3y ago
ChatGPT got this wrong. After step 1, a_virus.exe and b0Rk.worm remain on the near side, causing corruption of the latter. Seems to me this proves the point: that ChatGPT noticed the similarity to the classic problem but couldn't bring
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by sanjayjc 3y ago
A tangential observation: the imgur site warns me that the image contains adult content when it clearly doesn't. I wonder if it is the girl at the bottom right of the image that's throwing the algorithm off. Tineye.com found seve
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by sanjayjc 3y ago
Andre Agassi noticed that Boris Becker's tongue gave away the direction in which he intended to serve [1]. "I started to realize he had this weird tick with his tongue," Agassi said. "I'm not kidding. He would go i
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by sanjayjc 4y ago
APL entered my consciousness when I wandered into a talk at a conference, where those cryptic symbols first confounded, then intrigued me. Now that I've learning a bit, here's how I explain it. While in elementary school we learne
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by sanjayjc 4y ago
Very anachronistic I know, but I carry around a little nokia feature phone, which clearly can't run whatsapp. People then grudgingly agree to use some fallback. I know I miss out on a lot.
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by sanjayjc 4y ago
Once finalized, please share details here too (for the rare HN user in India who doesn't use whatsapp)
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Ask HN: Help Identifying Geometry Book
6 points by sanjayjc 5y ago|2 comments
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by sanjayjc 7y ago
Thanks Peter. After perusing the site, I was excited to try it out. However, after registering: "To use Quill, a teacher must create a class for you." Would you know any freelancing teachers who're using quill.org? Be
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Ask HN: Anyone know of English teachers to teach writing remotely?
1 points by sanjayjc 7y ago|2 comments
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by sanjayjc 7y ago
I'd only support what Amazon is doing if the converse were true: by choosing not to be paid, I'm guaranteed that I won't be tracked. That does not seem to be the case here: "Amazon is also fine paying nothing for the da
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by sanjayjc 8y ago
I used tc for something interesting once: I setup Cassandra nodes in distinct docker containers running on a single laptop. I installed tc in each container to throttle packets flowing between containers and in so doing, simulated a lossy,