tromp

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   by tromp 2y ago

   I'm happy that the designers of Haskell didn't follow this advice.
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   by tromp 2y ago

   https://archive.is/CaPYK
3. 543.▲
   by tromp 2y ago

   No. More like > Prof Hinton has previously predicted there was a 10 per cent chance AI could lead to the downfall of humankind within three decades.
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   by tromp 2y ago

   https://archive.is/uBW4k
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   by tromp 2y ago

   Quite entertaining; only flaw is it ends too soon:-)
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   by tromp 2y ago

   I believe the essence of this is already apparent in this minimal version: The professor tells you there will be a quiz at the end of class, but it will be a surprise. Since a quiz at the end of class wouldn't be a surprise, there can&
7. 547.▲
   by tromp 2y ago

   How does this compare with blink [1] ? [1] https://github.com/jart/blink
8. 548.▲
   by tromp 2y ago

   A lack of high fee paying transactions once the block subsidy becomes insignificant in a decade or two, would make bitcoin susceptible to 51% attacks.
9. 549.▲
   by tromp 2y ago

   Or, much worse, someone finds a classical break of ECDLP (Elliptic Curve Discrete Log Problem), that no one could see coming.
10. 550.▲
    by tromp 2y ago

    Representing the natural number n by a set of size n turns out to be rather useful. And the obvious choice for a set of n elements is the representations of the n natural numbers 0..n-1.
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    by tromp 2y ago

    Why would you protest against enforcement of the rules that everyone was aware of and agreed to by participating? I agree that rules against jeans make limited sense. It makes more sense to forbid worn down or shabby looking attire. But one
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    by tromp 2y ago

    None of the images are showing in any browser I tried (chrome, firefox, safari, brave). I cannot inform the author of this, since there's no feedback link or email or even their name.
13. 553.▲
    by tromp 2y ago

    https://archive.is/ryrUX
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    by tromp 2y ago

    > The Haskell solution requires more steps and theory. Really? The suggested Haskell solution is main = do contents <- readFile "test.txt" print . map readInt . words $ contents which is no more c
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    by tromp 2y ago

    https://archive.is/GfR0B
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    A Looming Threat to Bitcoin: The Risk of a Quantum Hack(wsj.com)

    6 points by tromp 2y ago|1 comments
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    by tromp 2y ago

    > there is no accepted canonical theoretical computation language that is fundamentally imperative in character. Brainfuck comes pretty close though, as a programming language modeled directly after Turing Machine behaviour.
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    by tromp 2y ago

    > However, they might decide to vote strategically to amplify their vote — giving Desert a score of 10 while giving everything else a score of 1 would effectively make their vote stronger. It makes more sense for the voter to give their
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    by tromp 2y ago

    https://archive.is/G2qyP
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    by tromp 2y ago

    https://archive.is/rX46K
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    by tromp 2y ago

    https://archive.is/62QnH
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    by tromp 2y ago

    https://archive.is/wvXV8
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    by tromp 2y ago

    Looking forward to seeing a dozen of these chase James Bond in his next movie. A welcome change from all the run/car/boat/scuba/bike/ski chases...
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    by tromp 2y ago

    While Le Mans has proved most deadly to spectators, it is topped by 5 other races in driver fatalities [1], with Indianapolis topping the chart. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driver_deaths_in_motor...
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    by tromp 2y ago

    Assuming the instructions are in the form of: if you don't hear from me once in some time period, then release the info. If instead they are instructed to release info when they confirm my death, then you could just be made to disappea
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    by tromp 2y ago

    For a rule to be reversible, it should have a 1 in 4 places, ie. hamming weight 4. I suspect all (8 choose 4) = 70 rules might be reversible.
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    by tromp 2y ago

    The author make automata reversible by xoring with the previous row's cell. But some rules are reversible without this trick. For example rule 0xf0: 111 110 101 100 011 010 001 000 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 will shift
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    by tromp 2y ago

    Gratz to our youngest ever world champion Gukesh, who slightly better kept his nerves in check. Has a world championship match ever ended with a worse blunder than Ding's Rf2? I see there was an article about that at [1]. While it may
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    by tromp 2y ago

    To what extent are chatbot conversations reproducible? A chatbot manufacturer could have all conversations log the seed of a pseudo random number generator to make it perfectly reproducible, but it could also make things as irreproducible a
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    by tromp 2y ago

    Cool name and logo for sure!