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by shiandow 1y ago
Interestingly you need a hash function big enough to be unique for all data points with high probability, it doesn't take much to point out that this is at least O(log(n)) if all items are unique. Also if items take up k bytes then the
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by shiandow 1y ago
You will be forced to run surveillance on yourself on your own device. No you will not have freedom to choose how to use your own property.
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by shiandow 1y ago
That we're trying to replace entry/mediocre/expert level code writing with entry/mediocre/expert level code reading is one of the strangest aspects of this whole AI paradigm. There's literally no way I can see
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by shiandow 1y ago
It is phrasing mathematicians sometimes use. In this sentence 'mod 4' does not indicate an operator but denotes what number system you are in. For instance the following are equivalent: 2 = 6 mod 4 6 = 2 mod 4 This 'mod 4&#x2
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by shiandow 1y ago
I always feel most productive when I remove more code than I add.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Kilowatt hour per year is a power unit, and not a particularly useful one in my opinion.
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by shiandow 1y ago
I think it could generate the minimal polynomiale instead. Though it is curious that this would still make it faster for almost all matrices, just not guaranteed to be correct.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Reverse osmosis without work is indeed impossible.
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by shiandow 1y ago
So according to you you could simply lower a membrane and a pipe into a still body of salt water and it would spontaneously separate into sweet water and brine until the build up of brine prevented this from continuing? Yeah I am still not
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by shiandow 1y ago
A steady supply of salty water doesn't help enough in the same way a steady supply of warm air cannot cool a house. The problem with your system is that it you can power an engine with the flow of salt ions and that really isn't t
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by shiandow 1y ago
You want to return different types depending on the branch? I mean you could return a sum type if you really need to. Formally a sum type is just something that turns a pair of functions to Z into a single function from the sum type to Z. I
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by shiandow 1y ago
That still makes no sense, water can't desalinate itself in the same way it cannot spontaneously cool itself.
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by shiandow 1y ago
If you're creative about it you can make an interface for what is essentially a sum type. All it takes is a method signature like: Z read<Z>(Func<A,Z> readA, Func<B,Z> readB) It's a bit of a Yoneda embe
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by shiandow 1y ago
The number of queues is infinite by assumption. Though it wouldn't surprise me if the number of queues formed by N cars and the average length of a random queue turn out to have similar formulas.
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by shiandow 1y ago
This product is probably not intended for me but at this stage I'm not even sure I know what a feature flag is any more. I thought feature flags were just toggles so you could turn features on and off. I wouldn't know how to imple
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by shiandow 1y ago
Apparently I can't watch tge feed without logging in, that's kind of annoying.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Similar maybe but it can't be the same surely? Just pick some function like f(x,y) = x-1 and start rotating it around your centre pixel, the average (s1+s2+s3+s4) will be the same (since it's a linear function) but there's no
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by shiandow 1y ago
Technically that only requires calculating one extra row and column of pixels. It is indeed scale invariant but I think you can do better, you should have enough to make it invariant to any linear transformation. The calculation will be mor
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by shiandow 1y ago
Substack has got to be the worst medium for articles with graphs. There seems to be no way to zoom in or view a larger version of tge image.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Because describing the task of writing code as defense is a bit confusing.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Is it to much to ask for a black bar? For reasons I can't articulate I've always considered him a hacker in spirit.
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by shiandow 1y ago
I'll admit I didn't look to deeply if it could be done simpler, but surely that is still miles better than what OpenAI did? At least Gemini's can be simplified . OpenAI labels all points and then enumerates all the lines tha
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by shiandow 1y ago
Section 2 is a case by case analysis. Those are never pretty but perfectly normal given the problem. With OpenAI that part takes up about 2/3 if the proof even with its fragmented prose. I don't think it does much better.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Comparing the answers between Openai and Gemini the writing style of Gemini is a lot clearer. It could be presented a bit better but it's easy enough to follow the proof. This also makes it a lot shorter than the answer given by OpenAI
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by shiandow 1y ago
I read through P1, and it seemed to be correct. Though you could explain the central idea of the proof into about 3 sentences and a few drawings. It reads like someone who found the correct answer but seemingly had no understanding of what
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by shiandow 1y ago
I'll believe in AGI when OpenAI stops paying human developers.
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by shiandow 1y ago
What's happening to reading? Followed by several popups that unaccountably take ages to make themselves known and prevent me from reading the damn article. Not the point they wanted to make, but a point nonetheless.
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by shiandow 1y ago
For what it is worth they probably wouldn't write the bill, just vote on it.
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by shiandow 1y ago
It's a system that's already been proven to work. Though I'm not sure if any others used a battery. In a simple mechanical version you just connect two carts to each other so one is pulled up while the other goes down.
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by shiandow 1y ago
It ought to be possible to generate valid states ordered by total value and lexicographical order or something. But whether that is practical is a different matter. It does allow you to unambiguously define state #5546335 with the lowest nu

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