It's funny; I spent a couple of hours last week helping some students debug out-of-bounds indices in their Rust code. I've written bugs that would have been caught by the compiler in a memory-safe language. I think the…
Who picks the reviewers and nags them to complete their reviews? This is the principal actual useful work journals do these days.
The situation is now counterintuitive in the other direction: if Monty Hall had opened those 48 doors at random and they just happened to not contain the car, then there is no advantage to switching, though many people…
I've spent hours helping my students debug their Rust programs of incorrect array-indexing logic, incorrectly-reasoned loop invariants, incorrect conditional logic, and everything in between. They're not double-deleting…
The store may or may not be telling the truth. Either way, it's undeniable that SF has changed dramatically over the last several years, with dramatic upswing in property crime and complete unwillingness on the part of…
Because after your lean, highly-productive startup team creates the app that everyone loves, you get a bunch of funding and hire thousands of extraneous software developers and then have to find something for them to do.
“Most important one in physics this century”: I’m hoping the room-temperature superconductor pans out, but even if it does, the century is young! This time in the 20th century, relativity was “obviously” the most…
Arxiv has its own problems. You can find dozens of proofs on the arxiv that P=NP and that P!=NP. What does peer “review” look like here? Most people won’t bother to write an article specifically rebutting one random…
What I really like about this explanation is that it highlights the fact that entropy is not a natural property of the physics system: entropy is only defined with respect to some coarse-graining operation applied by an…
What’s the endgame here? Who is buying ripened accounts with lots of karma and why?
Leading up to the blackout, there were multiple threads on Reddit asking for alternatives to visit instead. None of those threads received any non-joke replies. The only thing that will make Reddit change course is…
What you say is true, but the rolling hash solution is susceptible to potential hash collisions while the trie is not.
Seems like a flagrant strawman to characterize AI as a “well-poisoning machine.”
I passed Calculus BC almost 20 years ago. All this time I could have been designing and implementing a practical self-improving AI architecture? I must really be slacking.
There is not really any new insight in the post, though cellular automata are indeed a good way to explain entropy, coarse-graining, etc. The breakthrough (if it exists) must be in his computational irreducibility…
This doesn’t make any sense to me. My private forks are *mine* and I most certainly do not want GitHub guessing at whether and when to permanently delete them without my consent. Companies of course have the right to…
Well, this is a very interesting theoretical breakthrough, but it remains to be seen how it benchmarks in practice. The constant and log factors might be steep for practical inputs.
I was talking to an NSA recruiter last year, though, and they told me they routinely report applicants to the FBI for confessing to crimes during a polygraph. So damned if you do, damned if you don’t… (For a recruiter…
Right. Would we be impressed if a layman could pass the bar, given infinite time and access to the entire Internet (including the copious amount of bar exam study guides and worked example problems)? If not why are we…
Yes! Most of the examples of “challenging” algorithms in the blog post are actually fairly elementary stuff covered in undergrad algorithms. Suffix arrays though (especially linear-time construction) are the real deal.
Of course I understand enforcing 2FA when the user has signed up for/opted in to 2FA. But that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening here: Google unilaterally decided to enforce 2FA on a 1FA account.
Can someone explain how it’s anything but completely insane for an online service to deny access to someone with a *correct* password?? This isn’t someone getting locked out because they forgot their password (where I…
Nobody uses an abacus anymore. I use a calculator (well, Mathematica or scipy) to effortlessly solve problems that would be impossible to solve by hand. I appreciate, but don’t particularly understand or care about, the…
Another issue is that it’s super obvious when a post like yours is authored by ChatGPT.
Wow the chatGPT corpus must include an awful lot of salty rants.
It's funny; I spent a couple of hours last week helping some students debug out-of-bounds indices in their Rust code. I've written bugs that would have been caught by the compiler in a memory-safe language. I think the…
Who picks the reviewers and nags them to complete their reviews? This is the principal actual useful work journals do these days.
The situation is now counterintuitive in the other direction: if Monty Hall had opened those 48 doors at random and they just happened to not contain the car, then there is no advantage to switching, though many people…
I've spent hours helping my students debug their Rust programs of incorrect array-indexing logic, incorrectly-reasoned loop invariants, incorrect conditional logic, and everything in between. They're not double-deleting…
The store may or may not be telling the truth. Either way, it's undeniable that SF has changed dramatically over the last several years, with dramatic upswing in property crime and complete unwillingness on the part of…
Because after your lean, highly-productive startup team creates the app that everyone loves, you get a bunch of funding and hire thousands of extraneous software developers and then have to find something for them to do.
“Most important one in physics this century”: I’m hoping the room-temperature superconductor pans out, but even if it does, the century is young! This time in the 20th century, relativity was “obviously” the most…
Arxiv has its own problems. You can find dozens of proofs on the arxiv that P=NP and that P!=NP. What does peer “review” look like here? Most people won’t bother to write an article specifically rebutting one random…
What I really like about this explanation is that it highlights the fact that entropy is not a natural property of the physics system: entropy is only defined with respect to some coarse-graining operation applied by an…
What’s the endgame here? Who is buying ripened accounts with lots of karma and why?
Leading up to the blackout, there were multiple threads on Reddit asking for alternatives to visit instead. None of those threads received any non-joke replies. The only thing that will make Reddit change course is…
What you say is true, but the rolling hash solution is susceptible to potential hash collisions while the trie is not.
Seems like a flagrant strawman to characterize AI as a “well-poisoning machine.”
I passed Calculus BC almost 20 years ago. All this time I could have been designing and implementing a practical self-improving AI architecture? I must really be slacking.
There is not really any new insight in the post, though cellular automata are indeed a good way to explain entropy, coarse-graining, etc. The breakthrough (if it exists) must be in his computational irreducibility…
This doesn’t make any sense to me. My private forks are *mine* and I most certainly do not want GitHub guessing at whether and when to permanently delete them without my consent. Companies of course have the right to…
Well, this is a very interesting theoretical breakthrough, but it remains to be seen how it benchmarks in practice. The constant and log factors might be steep for practical inputs.
I was talking to an NSA recruiter last year, though, and they told me they routinely report applicants to the FBI for confessing to crimes during a polygraph. So damned if you do, damned if you don’t… (For a recruiter…
Right. Would we be impressed if a layman could pass the bar, given infinite time and access to the entire Internet (including the copious amount of bar exam study guides and worked example problems)? If not why are we…
Yes! Most of the examples of “challenging” algorithms in the blog post are actually fairly elementary stuff covered in undergrad algorithms. Suffix arrays though (especially linear-time construction) are the real deal.
Of course I understand enforcing 2FA when the user has signed up for/opted in to 2FA. But that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening here: Google unilaterally decided to enforce 2FA on a 1FA account.
Can someone explain how it’s anything but completely insane for an online service to deny access to someone with a *correct* password?? This isn’t someone getting locked out because they forgot their password (where I…
Nobody uses an abacus anymore. I use a calculator (well, Mathematica or scipy) to effortlessly solve problems that would be impossible to solve by hand. I appreciate, but don’t particularly understand or care about, the…
Another issue is that it’s super obvious when a post like yours is authored by ChatGPT.
Wow the chatGPT corpus must include an awful lot of salty rants.