shiandow

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by shiandow 1y ago
I'm confused why you wouldnt just do some random sampling to get some statistical bounds. At least then you'll know if you are close.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Bitcoin isn't a secure communication channel either?
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by shiandow 1y ago
This is one of those cases where the algebraic geometry perspective is actually helpful (without too much trouble). If the only subspaces are single points then the space is itself a point.
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by shiandow 1y ago
What insanity led someone to use 0 for the terminal object?
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by shiandow 1y ago
That is amazing. My main doubt would be how future proof this is. Does it wrap numpy? Or something equivalent? Does it require continuous development to keep up? Also I both understand the need for declaring the matrices up front and think
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by shiandow 1y ago
Converting large integers to decimal is nontrivial, especially when you don't trust languages to handle large numbers. Why you wouldn't just use the hexadecimal that everyone else seems to use I don't know. There seems to be
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by shiandow 1y ago
That does sound a bit iffy. Not to mention that the ability to vote for who you want without repercussions is rather important to a democracy. Of course if someone loudly states who they voted for they should not be surprised someone else
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by shiandow 1y ago
Wel, true. But if that is the synopsis then a story that doesn't turn to blackmail is very unnatural. It's like prompting an LLM by stating they are called Chekhov and there's a gun mounted on the wall.
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by shiandow 1y ago
That is almost never truly a given. And even if it is, how you use the computer can be more important than the code. And if you already have some code, simplifying it is also an option.
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by shiandow 1y ago
A corollary is that if at all possible try to solve problems without code or, failing that, with less code.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Even without a rich type system you can express a lot of things just through naming. You just can't enforce those assumptions.
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by shiandow 1y ago
I don't thnk the body has a way of making mRNA with pseudouridine.
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by shiandow 1y ago
You are correct, but that is what I meant, even if the way I wrote it is either incorrect or somewhat unclear.
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by shiandow 1y ago
The electrons are far better at occupying space. Or at least at keeping out other atoms, which is what counts.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Atoms are large enough to have noticeable Brownian motion visible with an optical microscope. They're small but not impossibly so.
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by shiandow 1y ago
CPU intensive is not quite the right metric. What python is slow at is all the extra administration that comes with basic stuff like accessing attributes and function calls. This gives somewhat counterintuitive results where declaring and s
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by shiandow 1y ago
I think calibre plugins are all python, in theory that should work. In practice, who knows.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Are there any plans to integrate this with calibre? Or is it integrated already? The combination would be quite powerful IMHO.
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by shiandow 1y ago
https://archive.ph/2xEGK
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by shiandow 1y ago
https://archive.ph/2xEGK
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by shiandow 1y ago
Running into a rogue black hole must be far less likely than an extinction level impact with a relstively boring big rock.
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by shiandow 1y ago
Really? Hoe many people do you know who use big neural networks, how many of them run it on their own hardware?
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by shiandow 2y ago
Trying out emacs again after vsvode broke remote ssh for no apparent reason (other than their insane decision to install the whole text editor remotely). Tramps in emacs has some quirks (need to make connection timeouts faster somehow) bu
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by shiandow 2y ago
Interesting, I would consider knowledge to be something innately human in a way that solving problems isn't. Though intelligence is possibly even less well defined than knowledge, so it's hard to tell.
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by shiandow 2y ago
We don't need an agent to do all that. We just need it to get better at building agents.
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by shiandow 2y ago
I can't come up with a single good reason why you would wish to use inheritance in this case. Except possibly for type checking, but 1. Python has duck typing anyway 2. It's debatable whether these two classes should be interchang
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by shiandow 2y ago
I reckon you can get something quite similar with matplotlib without too much trouble, though that strongly depends on how comfortable or familiar you are with it.
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by shiandow 2y ago
To simplify a bit further, the core of the issue seems to be that buying lots of foreign goods with currency means a large amount of that currency ends up in foreign hands. Either this money is eventually used to buy stuff or it is invested
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by shiandow 2y ago
He's using arguments in favour of raising minimum wage?
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by shiandow 2y ago
Are those kitchen and bathroom numbers supposed to be shockingly high? Over here you're not far off just dividing the house price by the number of rooms.

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