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451.
by yarg 3y ago
When did we lose our fur? When did we start to track the herds? Being able to control your temperature (reasonably) independently of the seasons is a very useful adaptation in a migratory species.
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by yarg 3y ago
I once accidentally got my company's office blocked from w3.org automatically downloading the schemas for some XML documents. What then happens is all requests to w3.org then redirect to a page explaining how anyone automatically downl
453.
by yarg 3y ago
So pay attention to your APIs. If you have an API that still makes sense for what you'll need to do at larger scales, it matters a whole lot less if your current implementation doesn't scale. It also means that if when you start e
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by yarg 3y ago
Sure, but where do you stop? I think a more interesting question is "what's the largest number usefully representable in 64 bits?".
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by yarg 3y ago
It's trivial in the extreme cases, but similar logic was used to implement the floating points - it compromised on the accuracy of results, but gave us a number system that's useful across a range of scales. If we could find some
456.
by yarg 3y ago
It all depends on what values you're willing to leave unrepresentable. (Bearing in mind that the set of operations that you can accurately support in your number system also depends on the set of representable values.) If you don'
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by yarg 3y ago
> Unfortunately this block was intentional. With the Windows 64-bit client launch we made the conscious decision to block the use of Wine. > First and most importantly, we are not trying to punish the use of Wine. Not punishing, but c
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by yarg 3y ago
Never - Tesla's gone the opposite way and started structurally integrating its batteries.
459.
by yarg 3y ago
There's plenty of people that can read and not write.
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by yarg 3y ago
As per "Billions": https://youtu.be/y33h441CVp4?t=50
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by yarg 3y ago
Probably closer to SEO. Works for the time being while there's low hanging fruit, but researchers will use those exploits to help build more robust systems. Eventually there'll be no point in doing it anymore.
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by yarg 3y ago
> Catalan's conjecture was proven by Preda Mihăilescu in April 2002. Cool, so the conjecture's a theorem. https://xn--uni-gttingen-8ib.academia.edu/PredaMihailescu
463.
by yarg 3y ago
I tried that, the boss thought it was a negotiating tactic.
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by yarg 3y ago
> Once AI systems can outperform CEOs, investors and boards will insist they be in charge And nothing in the rules says that a dog can't play basketball. What that would actually result in is a complete and utter lack of any account
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by yarg 3y ago
There's no possibility of confusion here, Oracle's not protecting anything.
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by yarg 3y ago
So we're expected to use the layman's definition just because the technology became popular?
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by yarg 3y ago
> which, in the long run, brings modification. Not quite. It's the part that filters the ideas, not the part that generates them to begin with. For that you need a source of change. It doesn't even need to be external; DNA is a
468.
by yarg 3y ago
I^n is just a countably infinite subset of R^n.
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by yarg 3y ago
phys.org can be a bit sensationalistic. Quanta takes their time getting to the point, but is a bit more reliable in terms of the summary provided. So if there's a popular physics article, it generally seems to be quanta.
470.
by yarg 3y ago
The part that seems problematic is "each real number" the reals exist across bounds, I'm not sure there can be an "each". I think his iterator is generating infinitesimals of rational and not continuous nature.
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by yarg 3y ago
I may have misread that one, but I still think the reverse mapping only gets as far as within arbitrary bounds.
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by yarg 3y ago
But he's defining the numbers with a property that makes them countably infinite? prefix = '0.'; queue = new Queue(prefix); for(;;){ s = queue.poll(); for(c:['0'...'9']){
473.
by yarg 3y ago
{π, π} will generally do. Sorry, didn't even look at the bounds - assumed things went to infinity.
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by yarg 3y ago
I get how you can map every value in R -> R^2, but I have yet to see any proof that there's a complete mapping in reverse. For the most reasonable attempt at flooding a plane with R, I still end up with something where I can trivial
475.
by yarg 3y ago
I don't think that it's actually formulating a bijection across the reals - the generator function looks to me to be generating the complete set of rationals. > Represent each real number x∈[0,1) as a sequence of DIGITS, where
476.
by yarg 3y ago
How is continuity not required? If there are holes in the map does it really cover the whole space?
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by yarg 3y ago
You can even go from R to I^d. The problem that I'm having is in getting from R to R^d, which I still don't think is possible - look at the comment where I mention "surjections" and "bijections".
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by yarg 3y ago
TypeScript did a good enough job that no-one need bother again.
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by yarg 3y ago
They're not liberals, they're authoritarian leftists.
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by yarg 3y ago
No giving enough of a shit to remember is not equivalent to hate. _____________________________________________________________ Damn it. I'd rather not bother, but I need to give this an actual response. Because I am sick of walking on

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