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by thaumasiotes 8d ago
> In science and math, too often only the final result gets credited or published. > Maybe we should start crediting and publishing our intermediate results and attempts. All mathematical results are "intermediate results".
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by thaumasiotes 8d ago
That's also what the gerrymandering discourse is like. Gerrymandering is a threat to civilization because it means political parties will minimize their electoral margins, and because it means politicians will maximize their electoral
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by thaumasiotes 9d ago
Actually, I was a little too specific here - superstition also refers to copying your own successful approach.
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by thaumasiotes 9d ago
If I know that your terminology includes "French small-mustache-man", I'm going to be really confused over "German mustache-man".
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by thaumasiotes 9d ago
> I call these kinds of behaviours "traditions", but I'm not sure if there's a better term for it. In psychology that kind of thing is referred to as "superstition". More specifically, "superstition&quo
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by thaumasiotes 9d ago
> Or more realistically, you have 256 numbers on the list 0, 1, 2, ..., 255 in order. If the 'large numbers of players drawing from the same list' assumption holds, it doesn't matter much that the list is in order. Why not
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by thaumasiotes 9d ago
> Lucasfilm, at one time had a gaming subsidiary called Lucasarts I am given to understand that this was always the setup; the gaming subsidiary was always called LucasArts. But the games suggest something different. Early games are bra
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by thaumasiotes 9d ago
That sounds like a pretty strong source of true randomness, frankly. (It's then filtered through the list, so the list needs to have good pseudorandomness properties anyway, but still.)
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by thaumasiotes 9d ago
> Charles III is King of the United Kingdom, and all places within. The UK does not have a King of England any more than they have a King of Scunthorpe or a King of North Piddle. It really shouldn't surprise you to learn this, but t
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by thaumasiotes 9d ago
> While map is a great name, I always struggle to remember if ‘filter’ keeps elements that match the condition or removes them. In Common Lisp both functions exist, under the names `remove-if` and `remove-if-not`.
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by thaumasiotes 9d ago
> Map and filter usually have only one arg and if they have 2, the 2nd is almost always a 0-based index. They look identical in most languages, even when Microsoft chooses to call them Select and Where. I don't understand. Map takes
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by thaumasiotes 10d ago
England, which is why he's called the King of England and never called the King of Canada.
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by thaumasiotes 10d ago
You could, but it might be difficult to hear yourself over the explosive laughter of everybody around you. Which country would you say has a closer relationship with the King of England?
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by thaumasiotes 10d ago
> my theory is that the decline in quality is another hidden form of inflation That is a well-known phenomenon, usually called "shrinkflation". (After the fact that the easiest way to lower quality while keeping the price consi
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by thaumasiotes 10d ago
There are no "kill everyone" tactics. That's never a goal because it's extremely difficult to achieve. It may happen, but it's always a bonus.
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by thaumasiotes 11d ago
Our most natural type of group fighting is a bunch of guys raiding a rival settlement while everyone is asleep and killing them in their beds. Fighting always works better when only your side is doing it.
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by thaumasiotes 11d ago
> At least in the Japanese context that I'm more familiar with Given your username, I have to say I'm curious why that is.
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by thaumasiotes 11d ago
> I mean it's basically identical to a signature in terms of identification value, and, by the sounds of it, usage.I mean it's basically identical to a signature in terms of identification value, and, by the sounds of it, usage
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by thaumasiotes 12d ago
Something I find weird is that modern seals are mass-produced. There is no identification value, because anyone can trivially buy a seal that will make the exact impression of your seal. (For personal seals. I don't know what company s
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by thaumasiotes 12d ago
Well, you're a better source than I am (for Britain). Is the "knock on the door" sense still available or has it been entirely displaced?
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by thaumasiotes 12d ago
Boy, you're not right about that. Where'd you get the idea?
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by thaumasiotes 12d ago
There's nothing AI-specific about this. It's routine for all decipherment claims. Compare e.g. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/no-someone-hasnt-cra... . (It's a debunking, but the reaso
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by thaumasiotes 12d ago
For reference: In Britain, and presumably India: "get you knocked up" = "get your door knocked on". In the US: "get you knocked up" = "get you pregnant".
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by thaumasiotes 13d ago
> China isn't exactly struggling right now. Have you asked people in China about this?
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by thaumasiotes 13d ago
> there has never been a technology that has the potential to disrupt the workforce at this scale. Traditionally, 95%+ of the population were farmers. The disruption we've already had is many, many times larger than anything forecas
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by thaumasiotes 13d ago
> Also eating skins turns kiwis from a fruit you have to spend time to preprocess (halve + grab spoon) to an immediate snack. Both of your comments sound foreign to me. In my experience, kiwis are eaten with the fingers, including the sk
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by thaumasiotes 13d ago
> It's probably not a bad idea to try to figure out why a tradition is there before you mess around. Interestingly, I think the rest of your comment supports exactly the opposite message. Traditional food preparation is the way i
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by thaumasiotes 14d ago
> And then generative AI arrived and suddenly, unless you’re generating the maximum amount of code in the minimum amount of time, you’re going to fail, you’re going to be left behind, programming is dead, do the easy thing, generate! Gen
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by thaumasiotes 14d ago
Hm, maybe if AI is powerful enough to crack our hardest math problems, we could demonstrate that by cracking one of our hardest math problems. It's not hard to know what they are.
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by thaumasiotes 14d ago
You know, I went through Darebee's "foundation" program, recommended for people with no idea what they're doing, on the theory that being in better shape would be nice. https://darebee.com/programs/f

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