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by anon946 7mo ago
Sufficient if all else were equal. But the human brain and artificial neural networks are clearly not equal. This is setting aside the whole question of whether we hope to equal human performance or exceed it.
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by anon946 7mo ago
Isn't this a little bit of a category error? LLMs are not a language. But prompts to LLMs are written in a language, more or less a natural language such as English. Unfortunately, natural languages are not very precise and full of amb
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by anon946 8mo ago
The irony here is that universities are struggling to teach writing skills, due to massive cheating with AI.
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by anon946 11mo ago
Note that many universities still have DEI offices. I believe that they are interpreting as described here: https://www.governmentcontractorcomplianceupdate.com/2025/08... . So as long as they can show that they are not
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by anon946 1y ago
How are other kinds of engineers such as automotive engineers treated at companies like Ford, or aerospace engineers such as at Boeing?
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by anon946 2y ago
I agree that the goals are worthwhile, and also feel that requiring every proposal to include this is not efficient and/or very effective. They should take all the funds and time spent on this every year as part of every award, and jus
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by anon946 2y ago
Add some extra information, and it gets confused. This is 4o. https://chatgpt.com/share/67759723-f008-800e-b0f3-9c81e656d6... One might argue that it's impossible to compress air using known engineering, but that
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by anon946 2y ago
The bank is context that gives us a prior probability. However, MLE does not consider a prior. So MLE can give results that are not very helpful in the real world. All it does is answer: What parameter value (in case the probability) of a h
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by anon946 2y ago
Yes, but then it is no longer MLE, but rather MAP: [ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarti/Class/10701_Spring23/Lecs/Lect... .
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by anon946 2y ago
My favorite MLE example: Suppose you walk into a bank and ask them to give you a quarter. You flip the quarter twice and get two heads. Given this experiment, what do you estimate to be the probability p of getting a heads when you flip thi
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by anon946 2y ago
Only if you let the mistake go unmentioned. I do a version of this where I glibly include a mistake, like: // Examples of dereference operator. int i, *ip = ..., **ipp = ...; i = *ip; // Assuming ip has bee
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by anon946 2y ago
Yes, used in the past. I don't currently use them, though I think they are cool mechanical marvels, especially IBM Selectrics. Those were way too expensive to own personally, but were common in offices. My personal typewriter was a mu
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by anon946 2y ago
Oh, I personally don't currently use them. This was in the past, starting from playing around with my Dad's manual typewriter. Took typing course in 8th grade on a manual. Owned a Smith Corona electric in high school. Used IBM Sel
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by anon946 2y ago
I have used multiple typewriters in my life, and agree. In addition, the look of film/tape vs cloth/nylon is very different, and tape ribbon can look very crisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_ribbon#Single
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by anon946 2y ago
Bemused ( https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/can-bemuse-mean-amus... ) is another word that is often understood "incorrectly".
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by anon946 2y ago
Completely reasonable. I'd probably edit your blog post a bit to indicate that.
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by anon946 2y ago
Did you add output of the results to the C code?
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by anon946 2y ago
IMO, not using any optimization flags with C is somewhat arbitrary, since the compiler writers could have just decided that by default we'll do thing X, Y, and Z, and then you'd need to turn them off explicitly. FWIW, without -O,
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by anon946 3y ago
For the discrete case, it seems that a better thing to do is consider the likelihood of getting that number of heads, rather than the likelihood of getting that exact sequence. I am not sure how to handle the continuous case, however.
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by anon946 3y ago
Is all UB silly? E.g., wouldn't fully defining what happens when one goes beyond the end of an array impose a non-trivial performance hit for at least some code?
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by anon946 3y ago
Seems that ideally, there would be a standard based on viral inactivation/removal rate, rather than targeting specifically ACH. Companies and builders could then decide what combination of filtration, ventilation, and UV deactivation t
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by anon946 3y ago
Seems to be more about holding chopsticks. But two ways to use chopsticks that might be less known: Opening a bottle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPLrGfAbhnw Also, I couldn't find a video, but at least in my Asia
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by anon946 4y ago
If you use university resources, they almost certainly will have a claim to the IP. Best to just buy a personal laptop, and use only personal resources.
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by anon946 4y ago
We have had a compiler elective before, but it was never required, and currently we don't offer it. I don't think there is a lot of demand from students for it, for better or worse. We also don't do networking fundamentals as
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by anon946 4y ago
I'm a professor at a R1 university in the CS dept. I wire-wrapped a PDP-8 in school as part of a CS degree, and thought it was super-interesting and fun, and part of me agrees with you. But the reality is that you can only cram so much
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by anon946 4y ago
That's interesting and somewhat surprising. I'm not knowledgeable about battery design by any means, but I would have thought that there would be a better way to make a battery pack for a car than connecting thousands of small bat
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by anon946 4y ago
Kind of depends on what we mean when we use the word "Internet". If we mean internet as a social/economic revolution, then sure, BBSs were relevant. If we mean Internet as a set of protocols, software that implements them, an
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by anon946 4y ago
Agree. You could use the argument that argument against almost any teaching example. Like, when's the last time you ever needed to integrate x from 0 to 1? I've never needed to do that. Or when is the last time you needed to know
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by anon946 4y ago
That seems unlikely to happen in the near to medium term. For that to happen, everything would have to be rewritten using a quantum algorithm and language, and run on quantum hardware. Imagine writing a web browser in a quantum language,
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by anon946 4y ago
For languages like C, C++, and Rust, the bottleneck is going to mainly be system calls. With a big buffer, on an old machine, I get about 1.5 GiB/s with C++. Writing 1 char at a time, I get less than 1 MiB/s. $ ./a.out

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