actually_a_dog

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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
There's some code I wrote 30 years ago that's still running inside a text-based, multiplayer, internet game (LPMUD). I wouldn't say it's useful, per se , but it'll probably continue to run for at least several mor
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
> Well that and it’s hard to distinguish if you’re early in exponential growth or linear. That's true, but not really saying very much. Any differentiable function is locally linear around a neighborhood of any point where the deri
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
Yeah, unfortunately, I believe that one side effect of the human (sensory) nervous system having a logarithmic response curve is that humans are bad at understanding exponential processes. If you look at an exponential function on a log sc
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An exponential improvement for diagonal Ramsey (numbers)(arxiv.org)
1 points by actually_a_dog 3y ago|1 comments
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
Huge news, because this is the first improvement on the upper bound for the diagonal Ramsey numbers since 1935.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
The word itself suggest as much as well. "Mortgage" is derived from Old French mort ("dead") + gage ("pledge"). In other words, it was a pledge that was supposed to die either when it was paid off, or whe
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
I am not. I am suggesting there are other savings in the average household energy budget that are more significant. Besides, even "waste" electricity heats a home in the winter, so it's not quite as bad as it sounds even.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
20 watts standby is only about 14.7 kWh per month. Even at on-peak, summer PG&E rates, we're only talking about $7/month. Granted, I'd much rather pay $0 than $7, and I'd rather not waste energy, but we're pro
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
When this happened to me, I just renamed my tv to "STOP TRYING TO PAIR WITH THIS FUCKING TV"
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
By "diversity," do you mean something like "entropy?" Like maybe H_s(x) := -\sum_{x \in X_s} p(x) log(p(x)) where X_s := all s-grams from the training set? That seems like it would eventually become hard to imp
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
As a former grad student, I can tell you, that's all research code, not just ML, or even "performance-oriented" research code.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
While it's not manufactured by the same company anymore, a Korean company bought the formula and sells it on Amazon now! [0] So, you, too, can see what the hype is all about, if you want! At $0.39 per piece of chalk, it is, indeed,
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
Why? In my office, you'd see me (of course), and some bookcases behind me with a bunch of very SFW books. What's so offensive about that?
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
Don’t do that. Those blur effects always look so bad.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
What other crimes do you think should allow the “not my problem” defense? A crime is still a crime even if full restitution is made.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
Crash it. It’s more fun that way anyway.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
Well, I think it’s just as weird to refer to it as “the City,” as if there aren’t literally over 100 cities in the 9 Bay Area counties.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
No. You can’t “not my problem” your way out of being an accessory to fraud.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
The problem is fraud. Locking out Chinese fraudsters at the expense of legitimate Chinese sellers solves the problem.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
That’s all yet another instance of “not my problem.” Can’t prevent fraud on your e-commerce site? Maybe you should not be running one.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
I don’t see any facts coming from you, either.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
A friend of mine has shoplifted all kinds of random-ass shit. I'm talking like, oh, an entire dinette set, on one occasion; a canoe, and (unfortunately) only one paddle on another. And, oh, yeah, that $300 Dutch oven in their kitchen
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
When I was a math grad student, I technically could have gone through the process to get 1 or 2 CS courses approved to give credit toward my degree, but I never actually cared about the "credit" part, anyway. So, I did my regul
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
It's been quite a while, but I believe my school required Automata Theory, which is at least diffeomorphic to Formal Languages.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
For the sake of argument, let's say yes, AI should be taken out of the hands of the private sector entirely.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
> But that's explicitly not how the game was set up. Sorry, but yes, it was. It might not have been written down, but if all it took was for a few people to "scream bloody murder demanding the government make them whole,&quo
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
Wow, how is it that there's only one instructional book to learn Serbian? There are many books to learn Norwegian out there (which I'm familiar with because I have learned a bit of Norwegian in the past), and fewer people speak i
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
Why is it hyperbole? Nuclear weapons and AI both have the capacity to end the world.
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
Almost everybody is dancing around it here, but the real lesson here for us all is that capitalism, or, at least the way we're doing capitalism today, is unsustainable. You simply can't have the kind of sustained transfer of weal
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by actually_a_dog 3y ago
Good point. Maybe we should stop doing capitalism and do something that's going to be sustainable for the long run.

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