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by ccleve 2mo ago
Once the longer number starts repeating digits, then it's not n^2 anymore. Multiplies get replaced with lookups. And we're only counting the multiplies. That's all they counted in the article. Not the adds, not the shifts.
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by ccleve 2mo ago
No, that's taken into account.
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by ccleve 2mo ago
Ok, maybe I don't understand the problem, but it seems obvious that it should never be greater than O(min(n1, n2) * 10), where n1 and n2 are the lengths in digits of each argument, and assuming we are multiplying decimal numbers. Take
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Ask HN: Getting Someone at Facebook to Listen
6 points by ccleve 6mo ago|3 comments
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by ccleve 7mo ago
For an opposing view, https://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/
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by ccleve 7mo ago
I'm wondering how many millions in developer productivity are being lost every minute.
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by ccleve 7mo ago
It's not clear to me whether Anthropic's limitations are technical or merely contractual. Is Anthropic actually putting the limitations in their prompts, so that the model would refuse to answer a question on how to do certain thi
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by ccleve 7mo ago
This looks great, but it's not clear to me how to use it for a practical task. I need to transcribe about 10 years worth of monthly meetings. These are government hearings with a variety of speakers. All the videos are on YouTube. What
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Ask HN: Where do YC websites come from?
1 points by ccleve 1y ago|1 comments
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by ccleve 1y ago
Thanks. That's exactly the right thing to say.
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by ccleve 1y ago
This area has a lot of hills.
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by ccleve 1y ago
yes, quite a bit
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by ccleve 1y ago
Irked me too. I'm running for state representative in House District 9, which covers much of that area. The district is drop dead gorgeous and it's growing rapidly. There's a lot here.
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by ccleve 1y ago
178 billion? That's nothing. I did trillions just this morning. I went to the grocery store and picked an item off the shelf, effectively filtering out the trillions of other products that I could have picked but didn't. They did
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by ccleve 1y ago
The performance hit you take for doing dynamic dispatch is real and measurable. It's a no-go if you're in a performance sensitive part of your app.
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by ccleve 1y ago
They do pay taxes. They each pay personal income tax on their $100k.
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by ccleve 1y ago
Is there a paper or some other explanation of what they're doing under the hood?
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by ccleve 1y ago
The issue in this case is being tested in other cases. It's about the "third party doctrine", the theory that the fourth amendment does not cover our information if it is in the possession of a third party. https:/&#x2F
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by ccleve 1y ago
Oddly, I thought this discussion would be about actual toddlers. There is a way to win an argument with a toddler. You find out what's bothering them, usually something emotional, and you validate it. "Yes! It's fun to stay u
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by ccleve 1y ago
How do you place a value on aesthetics? Or driver distraction? Or the irritation I feel when I see 50 billboards for cannabis every time I drive down the road near my house?
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by ccleve 2y ago
I know very little about this, but a little googling suggests that the measure you're looking for is entropy, which has a mathematical definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
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by ccleve 2y ago
I wonder if it would have been possible to win the challenge legitimately? If a randomly-generated file happened to contain some redundancy through sheer chance, you could hand-craft a compressor to take advantage of it. This compressor wou
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by ccleve 2y ago
Yup, this works. I did not think to click "Digital Services" because this has nothing to do with digital services. But it does get you to the chat.
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by ccleve 2y ago
Not sure why this got downvoted. This actually worked. Sure, I shouldn't have to negotiate with a bot, but it did get me to a human just now. (Or maybe a really convincing bot).
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by ccleve 2y ago
Sure, but it's a hassle because you've got to go to the post office and fill out a return receipt requested form, otherwise the letter could just go into a black hole. Plus, who knows how many weeks it would take to get a response
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by ccleve 2y ago
How do I get to live chat? If I search for "customer service", click the link, and keep clicking "Help with something else", I get circular links that go nowhere.
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by ccleve 2y ago
So far as I can tell, support chat doesn't exist.
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by ccleve 2y ago
In this case, the local police department would be more appropriate, but I'd like to give Amazon the chance to make this right on their own. They sure don't make it easy.
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Amazon won't accept written communication
80 points by ccleve 2y ago|69 comments
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by ccleve 2y ago
Sudden onset mental health problems can have a physical cause. It's very important he have a thorough medical evaluation. Find the best place that you can to do the eval, and absolutely insist that they do a very detailed workup. A lot

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