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by vitus 2y ago
> this leads to the ability to do those kind of automated root cause analysis at scale. I'm curious how well that works in the situation where your config change or experiment rollout results in a time bomb (e.g. triggered by task r
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by vitus 2y ago
Apparently the ChatGPT output is ripped off of a 20-year old emacs joke. > In the beginning was the lambda, and the lambda was with Emacs, and Emacs was the lambda. > – OliverScholz on news:alt.religion.emacs, 2003-03-28 https:/
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by vitus 2y ago
> All Americans are also entitled to obtain a free copy of their credit report once a year from each of the three major credit bureaus, through the website annualcreditreport.com. If you haven’t done this in a while, now would be an exce
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by vitus 2y ago
The reason why I claim that black is uninteresting for the purposes of board memorization is that if you are explicitly stalling until there is enough information to uniquely identify the game board, then either the black square is never un
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by vitus 2y ago
> Actually no they won't due to parity reasons! Can you elaborate? I think I can construct some boards that effectively have complete rotational symmetry. For the purposes of the game, black can be thought of as another white card (
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by vitus 2y ago
> It’s more akin to how you need a factor 2pi in either the forward or backward Fourier transform and different fields picked different conventions. Some fields even use the unitary transform -- they split the difference and just throw i
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by vitus 2y ago
A related point is comparing x^y vs y^x, for 1 < x < y. It can be easily shown that the "radix economy" described in the article is identical to this formulation by simply taking the logarithm of both expressions (base 10 as
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by vitus 2y ago
FWIW Switzerland is the only country outside the US where Google pays comparable salaries to Mountain View / NYC (as in: over the past 4 years or so, it's actually been hovering around 99-104% of Mountain View salaries, depending
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by vitus 2y ago
Also: the court hasn't had a liberal tilt in something like 30 years (when Clarence Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall in 1991). Despite Anthony Kennedy not voting with the conservative bloc 100% of the time, he voted with them far more
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by vitus 2y ago
> The first clinical studies that showed it was toxic were in 1969. We knew it was dangerous within a year of it being introduced, even if we didn't publish widespread clinical studies before the 60s. Its creator, Thomas Midgley Jr,
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by vitus 2y ago
That's not as bad as MaxMind deciding that US IP addresses should default to geolocating to the middle of some Kansas farm, in the absence of more data. (38°N 97°W) Original article: https://web.archive.org/web/201
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by vitus 2y ago
Again, historically it was warranted because Nvidia had their own strong opinions in their proprietary closed-source driver, and hardware acceleration in Wayland just straight up didn't work with said driver for many years because Nvid
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by vitus 2y ago
Got an nvidia gpu in that machine? The Sway author has strong opinions about nvidia (historically warranted), so you need to specify a magic flag (now --unsupported-gpu, previously --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia).
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by vitus 2y ago
> Other than visual changes, what new functionality does Windows 11 actually have that Windows XP didn't have? Modern crypto ciphersuites that aren't utterly broken? Your best options for symmetric crypto with XP are 3DES (offi
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by vitus 2y ago
On Friday, no less. (Israel's weekend is Friday / Saturday instead of the usual Saturday / Sunday.)
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by vitus 2y ago
Only part of the GGC fleet are Dell machines (that pdf lists Dell, HP, and Equus). Paraphrasing one of the leads from some years back: "Single-vendor is not a vendor strategy." Between improved negotiating position and resilience
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by vitus 2y ago
It gets worse. You're only printing 4 bytes because your string is sufficiently short, and the next byte it's reading is 0, since your capacity is small. If your string were about 17 million bytes long (0x0101'0101 == 1684300
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by vitus 2y ago
Agreed; given the timing, an intern project seems plausible. (It feels a bit more ambitious than a typical intern project though, and I'm not sure how many of those end up quite so user-facing.) I can imagine one internal use case. At
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by vitus 2y ago
> B: apparently |0>, but elsewhere you refer to it being unconstrained. This is probably due to my wording not really being a parallel construction. The unconstrained qubit was A; in my example, B is the qubit that's in the groun
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by vitus 2y ago
The shape is about right for the variance of the M/M/1 queue (what is an M/M/1/∞ queue??), but it's a little disingenuous since variance is a higher-order moment. Standard deviation is probably more sensible to
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by vitus 2y ago
IIRC, the most serious skeptic who believes that real quantum computers are never going to be realized because of the noise wall is Gil Kalai. Look into his writings, or Scott Aaronson's arguments with him, or whatever. I am a lot less
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by vitus 2y ago
In all seriousness, this was intended to illustrate the enormous gulf between even this result (one error in a thousand computations) and the infamous Pentium FDIV bug. (I would describe it as lightly poking fun at Intel... I'd hope th
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by vitus 2y ago
> Sorry for the layman terms. Not at all! What you're describing is whether there are problems with classical solutions that have also been solved via quantum computers in practice. It depends how exactly you define a quantum comput
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by vitus 2y ago
To elaborate on why CZ / CNOT are so important: CNOT is controlled-NOT (CZ is controlled-Z, but NOT has a clearer classical analogue, and phases are harder to explain). Consider two inputs A and B, where A is a mixture of the zero-stat
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by vitus 2y ago
In QC, a gate is a logical building block, akin to the logic gates in classical computing such as AND, OR, XOR, NOT. Multi-qubit gates like CZ (present in the article) and CNOT are crucial for manipulating quantum states and achieving the w
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by vitus 2y ago
Exactly. NVDA wasn't clearly a winner until the past 2 years or so. From Jan 1 2016 to Jan 1 2020, it grew by 8x -- certainly impressive (70% year-over-year growth). From there until the ChatGPT announcement in Nov 2022, it maybe doubl
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by vitus 2y ago
So you've been invested in NVDA for 15 years? Because that's how long AMD's been trying unsuccessfully to crack CUDA's secret (OpenCL was initially released in 2009 when it was already clear that nobody wanted to use AMD
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by vitus 2y ago
> Let's simplify by assuming that planes are in the sky forever and don't get added or removed. If planes are around forever, wouldn't you be better off interning them? e.g. having a single global std::vector<Plane>
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by vitus 2y ago
Additionally: if you care about nullability semantics within your function, then you write foo(const bar*) and pass in bar_ptr.get(), and of course check that the value is != nullptr before dereferencing it. Otherwise, I'm inclined to
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by vitus 2y ago
Certainly if it was downgraded only by the time it reached phase 6, then I would expect it to have gone through that higher scrutiny in earlier phases (including lab testing). My guess is that the existing lab testing was inadequate for sur

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