TruePath

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by TruePath 6mo ago
Yes, it changes the nature of the work. Back when you started coding there were people experiencing the same thing about shifting to higher level languages. What some of them liked was the efficency and aesthetic of using just the right a
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by TruePath 6mo ago
If the AI is good enough to truly implement the whole thing to a similar level of reliability without copying it then who cares. At that point you should be able to decompile any program you want and find enough information inside that an
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by TruePath 7mo ago
That's assuming you won't need anyone to manage the purchased software platform and its integrations and that you need a full time engineer to maintain your version.
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by TruePath 7mo ago
Could you clarify exactly what you think is an illegal tie-in? Because it seems like what you are upset about is literally the opposite -- Anthropic unbundling their offerings so you aren't required to buy the ability to offer third p
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by TruePath 7mo ago
I guess I don't even really understand the objection. That's how ALL mathematics works. You specify some axioms or a construction and then reason about objects that satisfy those constraints. Some of them like the complex numbe
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by TruePath 7mo ago
Whoever wrote this just doesn't understand who apple's main customers really are. Yes, devs may be a high impact customer base but most of apple's customers are people like my mom who struggles with the difference between Gm
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by TruePath 8mo ago
What is the usecase for using ssh at all where you don't need to be resistant against timing analysis? Either it's not sensitive and you can use telnet (if necessary after using ssh to authenticate) or the game (or other stuff on
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by TruePath 8mo ago
Lots of the real world vulnerabilities out there exist exactly because of people choosing to support a range of crypto algorithms. Sure, if it's an internal tool you can recompile both ends and force a universal update. But anything e
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by TruePath 8mo ago
To clarify the point in the other reply -- imagine it sent one packet per keystroke. Now anyone sitting on the network gets a rough measurement of the delay between your keystrokes. If you are entering a password for something (perhaps no
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by TruePath 8mo ago
I couldn't think of something worse than demanding Amazon decide what is counterfeit or violates regulations and policing that rule. The law on both those points is far too complex for the result to be anything but Amazon blocks what
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by TruePath 9mo ago
That gets a bit tricky in terms of what you mean by valid programs. I presume what you mean is that you can't write a compiler that accepts every function which always returns the borrowed reference and reject every piece of code whic
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by TruePath 9mo ago
There is no inherent benefit in going and expressing that fact in a type. There are two potential concerns: 1) You think this state is impossible but you've made a mistake. In this case you want to make the problem as simple to reaso
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by TruePath 1y ago
It is worth remembering that before artificial lighting the normal sleep pattern is to sleep in two segments and get up in the middle to have sex, talk, do some chores, change the baby etc. And I believe a normal sleep cycle is something l
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by TruePath 1y ago
Some of the happiest and most satisfied people I know are academics who work 80+ hours a week because they love what they do. You don't need to sacrifice health to work more than 50 hours a week. And realistically there is no long te
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by TruePath 1y ago
I really enjoyed the video but I think it can be a bit misleading. It gives the impression that it is the universal approximation property that make neural nets so effective when, of course, the learning algorithm: memorize the training d
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by TruePath 2y ago
This is a problem that can only be fixed by legislation. Other things being equal DRM that's convenient for the vast majority increases book sales and consumers aren't willing to pay enough more for DRM free books to cover the di
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by TruePath 4y ago
The government can invoke the Sherman antitrust act and other laws. YOU can't (at least not generally).
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by TruePath 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but seems pretty brittle to me. From what I can tell, since the decryption key is entirely derived from the information in the PSP header (SA/SPI) a bad actor who observes PSP encrypted packets from s
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by TruePath 5y ago
I'd like to see a charity that retrospectively sends people like this cash. Creating both the sense that you'll be financially and socially rewarded for this kind of brave action would do a lot to make the world better.
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by TruePath 5y ago
Damn't I didn't mean compact connected. I meant that if you have a convex region you can extend it. Obviously, non-convex regions can raise problems (e.g. maybe tropical rainforest can't transition to tundra in the space
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by TruePath 5y ago
I don't get the worry about the NP complete problem of tiling a finite area. Yes, of course, if you allow arbitrary adjacency rules then tiling is going to be NP complete but the goal here is to generate realistic tilings then it'
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by TruePath 10y ago
Which is exactly why you wouldn't waste time signing a useless quote. Just sign a message attesting that YOUR NAME is satoshi. No more work. Done once.
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by TruePath 10y ago
Umm, he obviously does. Money, fame and influence over future bitcoin decisions. Imagine your Satoshi and you need cash for some reason. Reveal your identity and immediately get a bunch of offers for book deals and speaking engagements.
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by TruePath 11y ago
Umm why? For the most part a professor is a talking text book that stands in front of the class. You can go download charismatic people with fancy approaches to the material online. However, I don't think this really makes much of a
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by TruePath 11y ago
Should departments have standards they expect their lecturers to enforce? People would actively welcome new approaches to teaching math. It's fucking frustrating not getting through to your students or having them dislike the course.
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by TruePath 11y ago
While I agree that the most important thing is convincing the 1 person out of 1,000 to be a math major (or physics or whatever) I'm afraid the university isn't ok with handing everyone else As without mastering a certain minimum
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by TruePath 11y ago
Teaching positions for grad students aren't predatory. They are really a form of financial assistance. In return for teaching 3 hours a week 2 hours sitting in your office with the occasional student visitor (with say 5 hours of prep
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by TruePath 11y ago
Hmm, my experience in 2001-2008 wasn't the same. While there were certainly funding issues the department worked pretty hard to try and do what it could to help. Then again technically I was in the logic group so things were a bit di
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by TruePath 11y ago
Having actually taught (well TAed)in the UC Berkely math department I can say that generations of both graduate students (who have most of the contact with students) and professors have struggled to the best of their ability to teach calcul