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by ysofunny 3y ago
lucky you, all the mathematics proessors I've had scarcely know how to work a computer another cultural difference is the kind of homework they hand out; the difference boils down to whether you hand over a printed (or printable) proof
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by ysofunny 3y ago
I know that, but the comparisons are still ridiculous the canadian properties are in some cases less than 100 square meters, getting compared with land properties of square kilo meter scales! the discrepancies in land value are artificial
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by ysofunny 3y ago
naming things is hard is one of the cultural difference between a computer-first logical mindset contrasted with the mathematics-first mindset the mathematics first mentality does not properly recognize the importance and the difficulty of
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by ysofunny 3y ago
but it's also the easiest piece you can possibly perform, so you can always sing it to yourself and your version will be as good as anybody else's
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by ysofunny 3y ago
hmmm, so if the current king wants to see their face on money they gotta pay for it themselves? I guess this isn't that important given that governments want to push a cashless economy now
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by ysofunny 3y ago
there's a tiktoker that compares real states prices in Canada and in various parts of Europe it's funny to see dozens of examples of european castles (buildings with tens of rooms and bathrooms, plus huge gardens) whose cost is in
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by ysofunny 3y ago
at least now that the king of england has cancer they can somehow negotiate their way out of having to reprint all their money? that should be more cost effective than exiting the commonwealth? ahahah
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by ysofunny 3y ago
bear in mind that leadership is not the same thing as representation people in congress aren't "leaders" in the same way people in the executive power are leaders. in the executive power, the representative elected by the p
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by ysofunny 3y ago
whenever I feel frustrated I think to some of the people involved in this debacle for over 30 years 30 years of the idiocy of public bureaucracy and government politics getting in the way of a better world. the people on that fight are my p
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by ysofunny 3y ago
turned out it's the same API as VISA/MasterCard/every other credit card already provides see also (somewhat of a jump, but the same monetary system) FedNow
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by ysofunny 3y ago
it's paper that can write into itself
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by ysofunny 3y ago
it is amazing how all computers do could be done in paper, but not as fast which means that computer technology since the 70s is really just "faster paper", faster by more then a single order of magnitue... but ultimately paper-eq
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by ysofunny 3y ago
because Americans have the unfortunate habit of going to other countries and not bothering to learn the local languages
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by ysofunny 3y ago
> why aren't we doing this? because cultural inertia (see also why USA still uses imperial units instead of metric) but agree that we should have more poeple working less instead of a few people working a lot (or making all the mo
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by ysofunny 3y ago
> What's the value in a closed-form expression that doesn't describe any real-world phenomenon? it keeps smart, driven, and potentially disruptive people busy chasing around closed forms while "real" power politics ar
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by ysofunny 3y ago
depends on how much the energy stolen is worth?
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by ysofunny 3y ago
people think copying files can also be stealing which is even dumber love those crazy russian youtubers, they're always so reckless... they're fun to watch from a safe distance
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by ysofunny 3y ago
how about some floating point sizes? then again, thinking about code with timestamps in float makes me scared
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by ysofunny 3y ago
I think their play is the same as always it's better to let more people interact with it because this will help training the model (get more data) so it must be free to use.
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by ysofunny 3y ago
it's a human toy. ask what it is for and the humans will spend hours arguing about what purpose does it serve I heard it was used to knit gloves somehow
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by ysofunny 3y ago
or you know, consider how many people have gotten into chemistry because they wanna learn how to cook, or simply to cook better. but please don't ask about what exactly they're cooking too much, keep the discussion on the how they
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by ysofunny 3y ago
> some of us shift between the two. I think ALL of us shift between the two. or rather I'd say that we all experience a combination of both over our lives when people shift between opposite states way too fast, from a big and deep d
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by ysofunny 3y ago
I also think about this, but I don't focus on the meaning aspect as related to the specific thing I focus instead on the prefix, "any", "every", and "no" thing . so whether it's a thing, or a place
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by ysofunny 3y ago
arguably, by a similar logic, world war 2 was started by terrible decisions made while high on speed
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by ysofunny 3y ago
better curated memes which are an expression of the concept of gene over the field of informatics, instead of the field of biology (unit cells vs unit bits)
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by ysofunny 3y ago
then again, the people in potential harm's way seem to be the poor sods trying to get hired by these companies for a meager hourly wage I don't see how this "p0wns" the companies themselves
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by ysofunny 3y ago
> Zeiss isn't going to aspire to sell cheap glass on razor thin margins. why not?
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by ysofunny 3y ago
then there's this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming which has nothing to do with types nor variables but with algorithm optimization
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by ysofunny 3y ago
let's just pretend that when go lang people say "systems programing" they mean smething closer to "network (systems) programming" which is where go shines the brightest
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by ysofunny 3y ago
I think that somehow a computer than can learn to talk to other computers would be the pinacle solution this is within reach now with LLMs, the remaining challenges would be somehow connecting the computers (a hardware compatibility issue)

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