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by woolion 3y ago
It is a legitimate complaint of the language as there are language-related reasons that motivates it --the conciseness of the language has an impact on readability, but also how convenient it is to debug on separate lines. The code examples
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by woolion 3y ago
They did lead on with some very cool ideas like panorama (now tab groups, still a Firefox exclusive feature!), Ubiquity, ... The problem is that they killed them with the rest (and got the good people behind to leave). With regards to be a
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by woolion 3y ago
In true n-gate fashion I believe the n-gate collapsed under the increasingly worse takes he had to come up with to counter the bad takes the n-gate witnessed from an hackernews. The parody indistinguishable from the idea of the original tha
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by woolion 3y ago
How come some professions are declared "high risk of fraud" by banks, insurance, accounting firms? Your statement implies that there is an obvious truth that fraud is equally distributed among professions. Nothing in reality sub
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by woolion 3y ago
>Der Spiegel published the final investigation report in May 2019, concluding that "no indications were found that anyone at DER SPIEGEL was aware of the fabrication, helped cover them up or otherwise participated in them" No w
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by woolion 3y ago
Besides the glaring absence of Claas Relotius, the article lists a number of high-profile journalistic fraud (one that briefly got a Pulitzer prize). It does not go into detail but it does present a relatively fair assessment of how journal
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by woolion 3y ago
Something really bugged me with all the "business theory" that is supposed to lead to success. At some point I realized that there is no mention of illegal or barely legal activities; poaching, buying illegal customer databases, c
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by woolion 3y ago
No, "there exists a group" is not constructive, in general. You just need to prove that non-existence leads to a contradiction. The whole deal about "constructive mathematics" is to have that if you can prove something
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by woolion 3y ago
Well, that's the thing. In computer science I could recommend very good books for any subject. In art I've had to go through a lot of resources and piece information bits from everywhere. Basically what dharmon said, and checking
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by woolion 3y ago
Blocking out the values/shapes is one of the most basic techniques taught to start painting. It helps finding the right composition and making sure values are 'correct' by focusing on what's "theoretically" cor
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by woolion 3y ago
Look up how to do mozzarella on Youtube (first result is a decent introduction). After you do a batch the milk will still contain a lot of stuff. You can then add 20% of this quantity of milk to that, and re-heat to make ricotta (which li
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by woolion 3y ago
Maybe add (toy) programming language in the title? I thought this would be a language integrating a time-travel debugger as main feature. As a toy experiment it is fun, but shockingly useless if you come with such an expectation.
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by woolion 3y ago
>For example, the book describes R^2 as a "pair" of real numbers. I naturally auto-corrected this "(the set of) pairs of real numbers". If that's the case, then I don't see how this differs from the actual
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by woolion 3y ago
That looks quite cool, I had been thinking about a way to get into byte sized programming. How much time should be dedicated each day to complete it?
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by woolion 3y ago
It's still very hard to grow with high failure rates, but you can definitely find plants for affordable prices -- a bit less than 10$, but then you need to manage to keep it alive for 3 years if you want to enjoy it propagate it. Ther
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by woolion 3y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38035672 , a discussion a month prior about how he used AI copilot to help him get into Lean4.
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by woolion 3y ago
It's not only related to software. Any tool that "makes the task easier" will render the task harder in the long run. Modern agriculture got easier for farmers, until so much productivity became the expected norm that it beca
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by woolion 3y ago
If we're at anecdotes I know people from former Communist countries and their experience were worse than that, with many deaths within the family intellectuals in one case. As a result they tend to be staunch pro-capitalists, to a faul
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by woolion 3y ago
>Metric hacking doesn't really exist in alternative systems of doing science. For example, it didn't exist in the Eastern Europe during communism. Sure, metric hacking is not a problem when the crux of the matter is actually be
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by woolion 3y ago
New great excuse in town: "I used ChatGPT to generate this comment, it hallucinated". And because ChatGPT is right more often than human, this is even a pretty great one, you can just say "sorry I forgot to put a disclaimer i
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by woolion 3y ago
Not only that but there are lots of good results and algorithms on 'bipartite graphs', which are the kind that encode hypergraphs, so in practice it should work very well.
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by woolion 3y ago
The 'big data' craze did boost graph theory funding, but the whole thing is deeply flawed at the scientific level. Most of the results are concerned with sequences of graphs that tend to infinity. It's the same thing with pr
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by woolion 3y ago
I got to read, shortly after the Tao, a book that compiled for part of the texts something like 4 of the 'best'[0] translations. It was very enlightening to see how different yet similar they could be. If you think of it as semant
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Hackers and Painters and Pixels(woolion.art)
2 points by woolion 3y ago|0 comments
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by woolion 3y ago
The point is that LLMs and similar tools tend to be very good at automating the trifle but not very useful at what would be considered really "interesting" work. So while your point is somewhat true [0], as he mentions that these
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by woolion 3y ago
"Terry Tao finds ChatGPT very helpful to prove new theorems" would actually be bigger news than this one, IMO.
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Stenography with ZSA Keyboards: A Tutorial(blog.zsa.io)
1 points by woolion 3y ago|0 comments
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Think Twice Before Detecting GAN-Generated Fake Images from Their Spectra(paperswithcode.com)
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Detecting Images Generated by Diffusers [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by woolion 3y ago
In Gulliver's travels the hero travels to Laputa, a city where everything is devised by mathematicians and engineers. The hero notices everyone is looking kind of off, which he understands to be because none of their clothing is fittin

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