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by xdavidliu 2y ago
parsing is most difficult for probably the first third of the problems. when you get to day 19 or so, the input is still just a grid or a bunch of ints just like day 1, but the algorithms required are considerably more challenging than the
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
I thought VSCode was supposed to be lightweight, though I suppose with extensions it can add up
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
nit: isn't really that meaningful
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
some of these are getting pretty derivative if you ask me.
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O1 Turns Pro(thezvi.substack.com)
2 points by xdavidliu 2y ago|0 comments
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
the input parsers don't get increasingly complex over the days. The problems themselves do. Even on the most difficult days around 22 or 23, the inputs are all just lines of space separate ints or some grid of points or something, just
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
my guess is that the creator would almost certainly disagree with you
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
it's right in the title of this thread, which comes from the project information of the repo
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> pages are really getting extreme with the AI stuff in a weird SEO-like way you mean in a weird generative AI way?
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
for a second I thought 404 was the joke. Tried thinking hard for maybe 10 seconds to figure out why it was the joke, but then realized it was not.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
most package managers have it, including apt and brew, so most of the time no need to build your own
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
this is not the Python version of SICP. It's a different book inspired by SICP. There's no "picture language" in chapter 2, and there's no "metacircular evaluator" and "register machine" in chapt
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
one thing to note is that the second chapter's "picture language" is not supported in MIT Scheme in 2024. There used to be a package but it's like 2 decades out of maintenance. In Dr. Racket however, there is a package s
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
It's because Milton said "I was told..."
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
Bill Gates, but (according to the Isaacson book) not Elon Musk
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
is it obvious that good fitness is related to good immune function?
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> It’s basically a graph. do you mean it's a basically a tree? Because if it were just a graph, you could still have edges from the grandparent to the grandchild in addition to the one from the former to the child
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
ahem, Richard Stallman slash Linus Torvalds' build machine but in seriousness, it doesn't need to be the OS itself of course, just any software that runs on the OS
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
no, search is not extrapolation. Extrapolation means taking some data and projecting out beyond the limits of that data. For example, if my bank account had $10 today and $20 tomorrow, then I can extrapolate and say it might have $30 the da
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
new doesn't necessarily mean "an extremal point that's not the average of two existing points". The set of existing knowledge is not necessarily continuous; the midpoint between two known points may be unknown, and thus
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A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles with Math(nytimes.com)
4 points by xdavidliu 2y ago|0 comments
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
Sounds like a non-sequitur to me; what are you implying about the Maxwell's demon thought experiment vs the comparison between Shannon and stat-mech entropy?
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
sure, but I would be surprised if a significant fraction of programmers knew that. When we hear the word "unit", that's not the first definition that comes to mind.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
sic?
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
what does a trip mean for an idling car?
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
how is this recent? This was like 1900.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
They have been using ChatGPT to perform all searches for a year, where in the past they would have used Google.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
As you are making the point, can you please provide the example? If it's really new, posting it as a comment here is not likely to affect LLM training, at least not for a day or so. And even if it is, you can still provide the examples
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
and a fired board member who didn't have anything to do with YC
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
was the first sentence really necessary? The second sentence seems fine by itself.

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