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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
But if, theoretically, there were a way to count students, and also a hypothetical way to count money, someone might draw a correspondence between them?
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> I do not recall it being particularly difficult and most students were able to do this stuff. I'd say that by the end we had 100% success at this out of the 50 students or so in my class. Is this algebra in the US or is it the gro
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
As the other replies say, you don't get to stop paying taxes, but the local school does get to stop receiving them.
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> If we solved SAT, well, no one cares about SAT Really? SAT is the question "I have a set of constraints. Is it possible to obey all of them at once?" If it were impossible to use that question to answer any other questions, I
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
But they don't retain their status as hypernaturals! dx does not need to evenly divide the interval over which the integral is taken. Whenever it doesn't, the number of slices in the integral will fail to be a hypernatural number,
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> The Number of Pieces an Integral is Cut Into > You’re probably familiar with the idea that each piece has infinitesimal width, but what about the question of ‘how MANY pieces are there?’. The answer to that is a hypernatural number.
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> or literal slot machines While I agree with the description of "kid-friendly casino", the big thing distinguishing "literal slot machines" to me is that they pay out in tokens. Any machine at Chuck E. Cheese would
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
Yes. Here's the full process I went through: 1. The recruiter sent me email suggesting I reapply to Google. She asked for my resume and put me on track to apply for an entry-level position. 2. I had a phone screen. (1 interview, over t
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> A high-paying FAANG job isn't going to hire candidates based on just one remote Zoom tech interview. What do you think they do? One round of interviews was enough for my Google recruiter to congratulate me on getting a job there.
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> With that kind of applicant pool, I’m honestly not sure what the best approach is You should see the number of people that apply to college.
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> But even if you have to ask something algorithmical, I'd prefer the style of "Advent of Code" exercises where the same problem has variations and multiple levels of complexity. That's how Amazon does their intervie
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
correction: the run of the eights is 3332cccd, not 3332bbbc.
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Yet we see big stretches of DNA mutating freely, at rates that exactly match what would be expected from accumulation of random copying errors. But the rate of mutation is itself subject to selection. There isn't a base rate, just
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> you'd hope that some percentage of those pairs are just cannon fodder for the usual mutagenic sources. (energy, viruses, being a European king, etc) Inbreeding is a problem of not enough mutation, not a problem of too much.
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
Following up, using this encipherment scheme and starting from a 5-bit seed of 17, you produce values in this sequence: 5, 7, 31, 10, 18, 16, 8, 11, 19, 17, 9, 28, 4, 6, 30, 0, 24, 26, 2, 23, 15, 13, 21, 22, 14, 12, 20, 1, 25, 27, 3, 29. Th
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Additionally, humans create simulated stories like Dune, Lord of the Rings, or Harry Potter, which introduce fictional concepts, yet these stories still result in trainable data. No, they don't, not in any sense where they are &qu
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Wikipedia ads are the least intrusive of ads. Wikipedia's ads take up the entire screen . How could they be more intrusive than that?
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
I liked the approach movpasd suggested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42346076 With a linear algebra library, you can guarantee that you've found the next, or the previous, match in sequence. I don't know w
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
I did some fooling around with this and it seems promising. The first problem is that, when your enciphering function is a matrix, f(0) = 0. This looks bad, but we can easily solve that problem by starting the webpage sequence at an index h
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> I disagree with my sibling comment. The trick is beautiful. If you generate UUIDs such that each bit in the result can be reliably traced back to a single bit in the input, then you can take a substring of the UUID and use that to infe
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained. > Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comme
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> If we didn’t care about generating valid UUID v4s, we could just generate 2^128 numbers, scramble them, convert the resulting bits into a hex string, and intersperse some dashes. You can do that anyway. You'd only need the twiddli
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Surely diamonds are in dema[n]d beyond jewellery. Yes, of course, that's what diamond-tipped drills and saws are all about. Industrial diamonds are already cheap. The machines already exist at large scale. Diamonds are important i
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Did you know that before this, people didn't propose with rings whatsoever? That's only true in the most useless technical sense you can imagine. The practice of giving a ring to your lover is well attested in traditional Eng
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
You left out the freedom that's supposedly missing from streaming now.
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
What do you mean? What can you do to a cable broadcast that you can't do to an internet broadcast? The comment I responded to suggested that it's impossible to record video delivered over the internet, which is obviously insane. W
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
Cable is an example of streaming; that particular freedom hasn't gone anywhere.
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> A rational market observer would have assumed biometrics would have replaced antiquated passwords years ago. Some people prefer that their passwords not be public information.
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by thaumasiotes 2y ago
That was going to be rolled back anyway. There is zero chance it could ever have applied to anyone.

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