antiquark

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by antiquark 11d ago
> Greg Egan’s Home Page / created Saturday, 25 October 1997 / revised Saturday, 16 March 2024 Wow, still using the same HTML for... decades! That sent me on a trip down memory lane... back then, his email address was actually o
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by antiquark 1mo ago
Exactly the same point where I determined the article is garbage.
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by antiquark 3mo ago
> write fanfiction about what it thinks those best minds I asked AI what Einstein would be working on today if he were alive, the result was a predictably rosy scenario of modern physics problems. However the reality was that Einstein (i
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by antiquark 4mo ago
> lines a consistent thickness A "ruling pen" would help. It's like a fountain pen where you can adjust the width of the ink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruling_pen
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by antiquark 4mo ago
One shudders to think of the difficulties of launching and landing space vehicles on these balloon-supported platforms.
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by antiquark 4mo ago
To put it simply, nobody wants to watch AI slop. This should be obvious!
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The Dome: A Simple Violation of Determinism in Newtonian Mechanics(sites.pitt.edu)
4 points by antiquark 4mo ago|0 comments
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by antiquark 4mo ago
That's why they always teach: "never compare floats for equality." Or maybe they don't teach that anymore, I dunno. See link for the Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic: All floating point arithmetic operation
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by antiquark 5mo ago
There is still hope for a compiler book. From Knuth's website: > And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and Volume 7 (Compiler techniques), but only if the thi
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by antiquark 6mo ago
Ada doesn't even have a "++" operator to increment a number. SAD!
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Identiconn Connector Identification Utility(connectorbook.com)
1 points by antiquark 7mo ago|0 comments
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by antiquark 7mo ago
Coincidentally, I did a search for "honda generator." One of the sponsored results was a scam posing as a different company! https://imgur.com/a/3ydKHZe
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by antiquark 7mo ago
First they came for the stochastic parrots, but I said nothing, because I'm not a stochastic parrot. ( /s )
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by antiquark 7mo ago
> AI agents will soon be processing payroll, placing orders, paying suppliers, creating policies, sending out contracts, creating marketing materials, answering customer questions, analyzing profitability, filling out compliance forms, r
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by antiquark 9mo ago
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.
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by antiquark 9mo ago
I seriously looked into it many years ago... One problem with "literate programming" is it assumes that good coders are also good writers, and the good writers are also good coders. Another problem is that the source files for the
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by antiquark 11mo ago
Welp, back to nepotism, I guess.
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by antiquark 1y ago
I think to remember something, you have to replay it in your mind from time to time. The more you do that, the more you remember. (Reminiscing is probably the right word). I guess differentiator between the "style" of memories is
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by antiquark 1y ago
You're a bot, aren't you.
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by antiquark 1y ago
Nice ending: > The reporter was banned and now it looks like he has removed his account.
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by antiquark 1y ago
In a tech support scenario, Dvorak is always troublesome. You sit down to type at someone's computer, and random characters start popping out.
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by antiquark 1y ago
I'm still appalled that there's no "do while" loop in go.
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by antiquark 1y ago
I had long thought the name was based on the concept of warfare against rodents. Sadly, the etymology is far more mundane.
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by antiquark 1y ago
So (in theory) you could hear the chirp of merging black holes, if they were close enough. In fact, everyone on the planet would hear the same chirp. Someone should comb the historical records (or even, mythologies) for a birdless chirp he
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by antiquark 1y ago
This seems to be related to the "type III unum": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)#Posit_(Ty...
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"This guy's arrogance takes your breath away" (J W Backus and E W Dijkstra 1979)(medium.com)
5 points by antiquark 1y ago|0 comments
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by antiquark 1y ago
Wow, weak signal... "The measured experimental attenuation was found to be of the order 10^18, corresponding to a detection of around one photon per second for a 1.2 W source."
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by antiquark 1y ago
The problem with these "house size studies" is that they ignore the nomadic people who lived in the surrounding areas and were (by definition), not housed. How many nomadics were there, and how much wealth did they have? This ques
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by antiquark 1y ago
Reminded me of the youtube vid, "Don't Talk to the Police" [1]. One of the speaker's points is that there are so many laws that people might not know which law they broke. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by antiquark 1y ago
This could lead to the largest "free trade zone" in the world... everyone but the USA.

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