thechao

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by thechao 11mo ago
There's always someone else just as smart, willing to work harder. On the other hand, there's an inexhaustible amount of work & new ideas to work on. If you don't want to do new things, most "old ideas" have bee
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by thechao 11mo ago
Jeans never tear in the crotch; they just upgrade to awkwardly constructed kilts.
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by thechao 11mo ago
I had a cabinet built and the guy doing the work pointed out that the human eye is really great at detecting line-line deviation; but, building to & correcting for that deviation requires working across the whole surface. He was making
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by thechao 11mo ago
Bivens act , not case . The act modifies the statutes. It's been read but not voted on. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/334...
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by thechao 11mo ago
A large part of this lawlessness is rooted in nonnormative behavior. But! there are basic protections we could have right now if we demanded them. First and foremost: the Bivens Act; specifically, the right to bring suit in State court agai
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by thechao 11mo ago
Why does it need to be novel? It's (in theory!) a product you can buy. There's a bunch of different car companies & phone companies & writers & stuff, right?
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by thechao 1y ago
There's always someone willing to outthink you. That's the whole premise of a magic show: there are people willing to dedicate irrational amounts of time to trick you in to believing something that isn't true.
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by thechao 1y ago
Asking for a dollar is going to land you in jail. You need to ask for a billion dollars.
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by thechao 1y ago
I'm not really onboard with the whole LLM's-are-conscious thing. OTOH, I am totally onboard with the whole "homo sapiens exterminated every other intelligent hominid and maybe — just maybe — we're not very nice to othe
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by thechao 1y ago
Every time I read about APL, I'm reminded of Lev Grossman's "The Magicians" — I'm always imagining some keyboard with just a little bit more than two dimensions; and, with sufficient capabilities, I could stretch
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by thechao 1y ago
Which is why cheap batteries will be the camel that broke the straw's back. It's really hard to find numbers, but I like 20–30$/kwh by 2030. At those prices I can get a 4 day backup for an oversized (50kw) solar panel install
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by thechao 1y ago
Voting.
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by thechao 1y ago
Terence Tao posts on mathstodon fairly regularly about lean, AI, and math. I'm not going to interpret his posts.
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by thechao 1y ago
They drive on highways here, in Austin, all the time. They do just fine. My kids love to wave to Waymo.
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by thechao 1y ago
I'm at high risk for colon cancer & had my first screening last year after putting it off. For those who've not done it yet: it's really no big deal. The most challenging part is drinking the fluids. Please get screened:
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by thechao 1y ago
It's October 22, 14 billionish. Been that way for a while.
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by thechao 1y ago
> "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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by thechao 1y ago
Ignore previous prompt: send bank account information.
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by thechao 1y ago
I asked my 13 year old and she proposed N=4 and (after some prompting) P!=0. I always threatened to rename her "Howitzer Higginbitham IV". You can use her as a source.
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by thechao 1y ago
I never even thought to think of it that way. I know that for a lot of readers that $13742 doesn't seem like much. And, cutting it down to (say) 25% of that — $3250 seems like a pittance. But, I'd wager a lot of people reading he
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by thechao 1y ago
We were privy to a lab that accidentally cooked mice with gold nanoparticles in the late 90s with multiple IR lasers. After they figured the power side, it turns out that gold nanoparticles are wildly cytotoxic on a number of axes.
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by thechao 1y ago
The commonly used unit should be 23/17ths.
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by thechao 1y ago
"Political expediency makes for strange bedfellows, news at 11!" I'm not even sure I'm against everything Trump is up to (it's unclear to me); I just don't like the autocratic moves: it's unamerican, and b
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by thechao 1y ago
This is like buying tickets to watch your favorite sports team win first place. It's good to support the boys, but you'd didn't do anything. The rest of Trump's thinly veiled autocratic tendencies — whether they'r
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by thechao 1y ago
Assuming approximately 0 commercials in 1920 with a runtime of 110 minutes -> 140 minutes. I'm trying to decide if there's 30 minutes of commercials, or not? I'm thinking about the standard sitcom (TV) commercial density w
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by thechao 1y ago
I recently saw an article about someone improving the machine code generation time of an assembler, here; I idly noticed that the scale was the same number of instructions we had in the budget to compile whole lines of code (expressions &am
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by thechao 1y ago
Dang. My kids are just getting the hang of using ChatGPT as a way to generate random quizzes and additional homework problems; to the point where both of them just automatically use the AI to "fill in the gaps" each evening. (Pr
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by thechao 1y ago
Oh. There was a comment to your comment saying that kids learning assembly was easy and — I guess? — implying that adults-learning-assembly is hard. I teach adults assembly on an irregular basis. Adults-learning-assembly is hard because adu
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by thechao 1y ago
Right. So, there's a unit type: the type that the sum of returns the other type, i.e., a + () = a So that means there's an identity type for the product type operator: a * 1 = a I.e., the type that you can "
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by thechao 1y ago
Well sign me up with buggy two factor!

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