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by svat 1y ago
Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808400 - July 2020 (123 comments)
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by svat 1y ago
> I would of course explain that the equality sign is not symmetric with respect to such notations; we have 3=A(5) and 4=A(5) but not 3=4, nor can we say that A(5)=4. We can, however, say that A(0)=0. As de Bruijn points out in [1, 1.2]
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by svat 1y ago
The "More from A.O. Scott" at the bottom of the article links to: • "Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be." March 21, 2025 (“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, 1951) https://www.nytimes.com/
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by svat 1y ago
Surely this is an absurd exaggeration. I've been using em dashes everywhere (online comments, email, chat) for ~25 years now. I'm not unusual in this regard; everyone who cares about punctuation probably uses them liberally. They&
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by svat 1y ago
Although as students we learn addition before we learn about sets, from the viewpoint of mathematics, sets are everywhere / everything can be expressed in terms of sets, so there's no point talking about sets in any given problem
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by svat 1y ago
So cool. On the one hand, going from n/3 to (n/3 + log log n) seems like such a small improvement, but as the article shows, the history is formidable: - n/3 (Erdős, 1965) - (n+1)/3 (Alon and Kleitman, 1990) - (n+2)&#x2F
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by svat 1y ago
Yes, and I believe this is what the article is referring to when it says “a stochastic black box that communicates through a complex web of JSON schemas attached to docstring annotations”. Specifically, in the function definition: @
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by svat 1y ago
> pagans […] false idols […] pagan gods are slavery and bondage for us Just want to point out that abuse of other religions, and using “pagans” as a disparaging term, continues to be done casually in the Christian-influenced sphere, ba
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by svat 1y ago
I did in fact look at Etymonline for "thesaurus" before I made my comment and therefore chose my words carefully, but not clearly enough. Yes there were books before Roget's that contained the word “thesaurus” (treasury) in t
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by svat 1y ago
The usage of "thesaurus" in English for a kind of book dates back to the first one by Peter Mark Roget in 1852, which was indeed synonyms and antonyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roget%27s_Thesaurus see th
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by svat 1y ago
Thanks, but I was not able to figure out how to get any use out of the notebook above. In what sense is it a 'live' inspector? All it seems to do is to just decompose the PDF into separate “ops” and “args” arrays (neither of which
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by svat 1y ago
The live back-and-forth is the main point of what I'm asking for — I tried your cpdf (thanks for the mention; will add it to my list) and it too doesn't help; all it does is, somewhere 9000-odd lines into the JSON file, turn the p
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by svat 1y ago
One thing I wish someone would write is something like the browser's developer tools ("inspect elements") for PDF — it would be great to be able to "view source" a PDF's content streams (the BT … ET operators t
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by svat 1y ago
For what it's worth: Concrete Mathematics does have an attribution to Kummer — it's just that the credits are given separately in Appendix C, "Credits for Exercises", where on page 634, next to 5.36 (the exercise numbe
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by svat 1y ago
Knuth also says that "Algorithm R is due to Alan G. Waterman", on TAOCP vol 2 page 144, just below "Algorithm R (Reservoir sampling)". This blog post seems to be a good history of the algorithm: https://markkm
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by svat 1y ago
Lovely. This is a fun, devious list (constable?), and though it says "since 2018", it's clearly actively maintained, as it contains entries like "Twitter ban / exterminate" and "quick jab / prompt inj
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by svat 1y ago
I didn't downvote but it would be because of the "I'd don't know if any of this is made up" — if you said "GPT said this, and I've verified it to be correct", that's valuable information, even
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by svat 1y ago
Ah I see, thanks for clearing that up!
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by svat 1y ago
The paper by Craig Gidney: > Falling with Style: Factoring up to 255 “with” a Quantum Computer is brilliant in a straightforward way, and I also learned something about Shor's algorithm. The first paragraph of intro and the abstract
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by svat 1y ago
It's a featured article on Wikipedia! (“This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on May 17, 2022.”) Also there are many versions/implementations: - https://www.ifwiki.org&#x2F
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by svat 1y ago
That's not the author's main point — the author's point is the surprising observation that “That joke isn't funny any more”, even to the author himself. This is something deeper than the usual “genre of argument” you&#x2
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by svat 1y ago
Loved the fact that this post didn't go where I expected it to (or at least, didn't remain there). That a book like this probably wouldn't be published today, or would be less popular today, is a point that has been made many
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by svat 1y ago
See also (if you haven't already) SwiftLaTeX ( https://www.swiftlatex.com/ https://github.com/SwiftLaTeX ) and their paper (DOI: 10.1145/3209280.3209522 ).
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by svat 1y ago
The post is not about becoming a professional academic/researcher in biology, so it's not clear why your comments (this and the earlier deleted one) focus on competency, calling the author "not cut out for biology", etc.
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by svat 2y ago
In fact in these slides from a 2011/2012 talk, Sedgewick talks about exactly this, even going as far as to draw a contrast between "TCS" and "analysis of algorithms" (the "scientific method"): https:&#x2F
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by svat 2y ago
This is cool! What does one need to do to get this to work? I get: $ ghci GHCi, version 9.12.2: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help ghci> ts=0:(1+ts+ts^2+ts^3) ghci> take 12 ts <inter
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by svat 2y ago
What is the relevance of this comment to this post? Are you insinuating that the author did not come up with the right answer? That's odd here because the answers are actually verified in multiple ways (Sage code, looking up the number
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by svat 2y ago
The article is correct. T(z) (in the warmup problem) is the generating function that counts the number of rooted ordered ternary trees, i.e. if we write T(z) = t_0 + t_1z + t_2z^2 + …, then t_n is the number of such trees with n nodes. Yes
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by svat 2y ago
https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignor... — per this blog post (which takes https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons... as the starting point), most
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by svat 2y ago
Yes, and even on page 1: "reveal significant productivity growth among individual restaurants whether measured in sales per employee or even in a more basic/physical measure of total consumer visits per employee."

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