StackOverlord

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by StackOverlord 3y ago
> ‘Sometimes you need to do that to get the results for things you think are essential.’
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
I'd like to point out the existence of Chris Staecker's Youtube Channel, mainly focused on old analoguous devices used to compute and measure things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Q-QPsFKa4 He's a great s
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
Then make sure nobody from Eglin Air Force Base posts on here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit...
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
Academia selects for conformism first closely followed by cognitive abilities ([paste link to paper here]). But who cares ? I certainly don't I'm more interested in the groundbreaking implications of this thesis: "Contributio
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
I think it matters a great deal too, and not just for typing code but for reading it too, and this goes beyond simply typing fast but also writing short concise code, especially for parts of the code that are closer to defining program arch
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/implementing-inte...
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
> "additional data available to the Department of Defense" which I assume is classified. Spot on > The 2014 meteor was originally identified as an interstellar object by Siraj in 2019 when he and Loeb were studying Oumuamua.
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
"The pyramids give us the dimensions of our planet on a scale defined by the planet itself." - Hancock It's a bit as if we had never seen a poem and stumble upon some text that harbors rhymes. You'd argue there's no
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
write a program to prove your point. I'm not saying this with sarcasm. Maybe you could take over my attempts at coming up with a custom set of equations for a pyramid, or any other platonic shape, using symbolic regression / genet
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
You can get to the absolute dimensions of the pyramid from the crackpot equations though: https://pasteboard.co/cIMzn8KktEZy.png https://tobeornottobe.org/the-great-pyramid-intro/math-const... https:&
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
http://homework.uoregon.edu/pub/emj/121/lectures/tycho121.ht... > Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) proposed an experiment that would determine whether or not the earth goes around the sun. Basically, if the Ea
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
> harmful and pathological Don't forget "toxic" too !
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
https://thequantuminsider.com/2023/08/22/tqi-exclusive-bob-c...
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
For the first time with GPT4, OpenAI as been able to predict model progress with accuracy: > A large focus of the GPT-4 project has been building a deep learning stack that scales predictably. The primary reason is that, for very large t
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
noooooooo
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
You can also recursively define fib as a lazy sequence that is the pairwise sum of fib and fib shifted by one. (Clojure, from Rosetta Code). (def fib (lazy-cat [0 1] (map + fib (rest fib)))) => (take 10 fib) (0 1 1 2 3 5 8
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
> Birds are susceptible to a respiratory condition called "teflon toxicity" or "PTFE poisoning/toxicosis." Deaths can result from this condition, which is due to the noxious fumes emitted from overheated cookware
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
Could it be explained by lack of isolation ? Like a feather not isolated from air's resistance ?
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
We're cornered by McKinsey
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
You will be the judge. I was tasked of enabling us to backtrack on our decision of building a microservice rather than a library. The service was using postgres, and was connected to multiple website, one of which was targeted to use the se
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
A type system is for internal consistency though. Facts are about external consistency with real world data. And even then facts are always a social augmentation in that they are always captured in a given social context, and by that I incl
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
Indeed but people who are confidently wrong in good faith so to speak don't make up science paper titles.
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
I don't get your argument about the frame problem. Maybe it's like squeezing a big pillow inside a small bag. A bulge forms that won't fit. It's the frame problem. Turn the pillow around, squeeze it into the bag again: a
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
I've been categorized as such for having the audacity of writing a tree traversal function.
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
3.14 the one you call back one full year after he left because otherwise you're fired as a manager.
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
> Apparently from earlier guerilla patch (“code that sneakily changes other code”), understood as gorilla patch. A monkey patch was then a more carefully written instance of such a patch.[1] Or simply derived from monkey (“to mess with”,
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
> the problem is you Scapegoat mechanism.
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
What about SQL ? Give me a LISP and I can fix the most annoying aspects or twist my own `sqlet` dagger against myself and give me death.
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
I upgrade my macbook once per decade. I changed the battery, the ssd and the bluetooth card about 6 month ago (8 years into owning my second macbook). I need to change the screen (1 cm black strip on the left because of a shock) and the spe
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by StackOverlord 3y ago
Alain Juillet, former head of the French CIA (DGSE) recently claimed in a youtube interview that "if you do not know what is happening in the African freemason circles, you can't understand the current geopolitics of Africa".

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