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   by schoen 3y ago

   I'm (sadly) also impressed that the LLMs didn't again break character to warn us that the medical knowledge they're imparting has been superseded and that we should consult a 21st-century doctor! (Just because of the RLHF thi
2. 782.▲
   by schoen 3y ago

   Per annum (the preposition per governs the accusation case rather than the ablative case).
3. 783.▲
   by schoen 3y ago

   Does Dave's ever buy from Bob's? ... that seems like it would be very convenient!
4. 784.▲
   by schoen 3y ago

   Sorry, by "the intuition that..." I didn't mean "reason to believe (a result that isn't established)" but more like "an aid to understanding (a result that was already proven)". Thanks for the link!
5. 785.▲
   by schoen 3y ago

   Wow! This may help with the intuition that typechecking for some type systems is an undecidable problem.
6. 786.▲
   by schoen 3y ago

   That's interesting. "Completion" vs. "completing". I tried this to get all of the dictionary pairs for comparison: import re german = set(open("/usr/share/dict/ngerman").read().s
7. 787.▲
   by schoen 3y ago

   I think this paper, more or less on this issue, is pretty worthwhile. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2321480
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   by schoen 3y ago

   Wiktionary seems to agree with my guess about the meaning of -ung: > forms nouns from verbs, usually describing either an event in which an action is carried out, or the result of that action. > Note that the -ung suffixed form is dif
9. 789.▲
   by schoen 3y ago

   I don't know enough German to be sure of a rule about when the -ung form does and doesn't occur, but I can think of verbs that don't have it (confirmed with grep!), so it's not completely productive. (First examples offh
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    by schoen 3y ago

    It's a participle rather than a gerund. Present participles and gerunds have the same form in English, but not in all languages that have these.
11. 791.▲
    by schoen 3y ago

    I imagine the context is something like "the associated permissions were set by a different group or department within Google and/or decided by software running elsewhere that didn't communicate its reasoning as part of the p
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    by schoen 3y ago

    Here's an example of a Python program whose halting behavior -- if run on a hypothetical Python interpreter with infinite RAM and the ability to make use of it -- is currently unknown. It looks for counterexamples to the 3n+1 conjectur
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    by schoen 3y ago

    This is totally true for some models of computation (including some studied in academic computer science), but it's not true for the models of computation that the halting problem applies to, like the Turing machine, which explicitly h
14. 794.▲
    by schoen 3y ago

    There are a couple of things that seem to combine with others in a very general way... "were-", "[the] Impaler" (!), "Rich[est]"... I was able to get some things like "Were-jesus-pope-hamster-crusader&quot
15. 795.▲
    by schoen 3y ago

    You may have trouble on this with systemd-resolved on Linux, which is hard-coded to refuse to resolve TLDs with a single label. :-( A few years ago I wrongly thought that the ai TLD no longer had an A record because of that. Grumble!
16. 796.▲
    by schoen 3y ago

    To what extent do you encounter hallucinations of foreign-language grammar (or vocabulary)? It looks like one person here is complaining that the application has hallucinated a non-existent verb form in one context. That would be my biggest
17. 797.▲
    by schoen 3y ago

    I haven't used it (so I might be excluded from answering your question), but I think SmallStep may be relevant to you. https://smallstep.com/docs/certificate-manager/acme/ At least they are doing a lot o
18. 798.▲
    by schoen 3y ago

    Sure, but targeting similarity with a previously-chosen hash is a scenario where the birthday paradox doesn't come in. The case where it does would be "can we produce two arbitrary new hashes that are similar in this way?&quot
19. 799.▲
    by schoen 3y ago

    If I'm following my intuitions about the math in the right direction, the probability of getting a single-character-or-less edit distance from a given target hash is (56×32)/32⁵⁶ per attempt. The expected number of attempts to get
20. 800.▲
    by schoen 3y ago

    How about an analogy to a social graph? You have a whole bunch of people and then some of them know each other and others don't. That's a common real-world situation. If you assume that people's social memory (or sense-of-fri
21. 801.▲
    by schoen 3y ago

    I had a friend in the city who was doing pretty well with Zipcar, where one could somewhat spontaneously rent a car in one's urban neighborhood to use for errands or trips. This could be a good solution in dense environments for Costco
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    by schoen 3y ago

    In this case it's Dave Mills, inventor of the Network Time Protocol (among other things). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051246 (I support your suggestion for future black bars.)
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    by schoen 3y ago

    I think you missed who the "them" was in this later part of the thread: not Yemenis attacking civilian shipping, but rather hypothetical future climate refugees from islands that disappear due to sea level rise.
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    by schoen 3y ago

    In fact, their languages are not known to be genetically related at all, unlike the Slavic and Romance languages, which are distantly related through Proto-Indo-European. So maybe we could say it would be like confusing the French with the
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    by schoen 3y ago

    In this context I wasn't sure whether it was going to be Reagan's presidency (1980-1987) or governorship of California (1967-1975). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorship_of_Ronald_Reagan It turned out to
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    by schoen 3y ago

    I think it's meant to be funny in part because it's almost certainly not literally true. (In some tellings, it could be mocking the rural person who says this for being ignorant of the larger world, or for feeling cut off from it.
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    by schoen 3y ago

    If you were in North America, then all the way from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, down to Yaviza, Panama! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudhoe_Bay,_Alaska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaviza Google Maps
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    by schoen 3y ago

    COVID isn't popularly considered dangerous enough anymore (due to mutation, people's immune systems having some experience with it through prior infection and vaccines, and availability of useful treatments for rarer serious acute
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    by schoen 3y ago

    Here's a nice example. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Res_gestae_Divi_... The Q is lovely (and very wide!).
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    by schoen 3y ago

    I think you might not have been able to drag such a stack into the Trash, as the Trash was actually a folder and that would have been 100 levels deep (temporarily, before emptying the Trash).