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by cscheid 22d ago
Pauli exclusion is a QM thing. Black holes are a GR thing. Famously, we don’t know how to mix the two.
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by cscheid 1mo ago
This is so cool. It's a much better version of what Bill Cheswick and I did almost 15 years ago with footage from a SFO->EWR flight: https://cscheid.net/static/windowseat/
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by cscheid 2mo ago
I'm just going to answer this one candidly. Yes, you are doing something wrong. Immediately: the commit history is useful to understand the context in which a bug was introduced, because it's the best context to understand the _re
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by cscheid 3mo ago
You're right that I can't reproduce it like a phone camera could, and that the more precise you are the better (and it might be that with my eyes closed I'm doing something closer to addition in log-odds, like a separate comm
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by cscheid 3mo ago
Seriously, though, there's one nomogram you (yes you) should know about and have it well-enough engraved in your mind's eye that you can use it with eyes closed. A nomogram for Bayes' theorem: https://www.ovid.com&
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by cscheid 3mo ago
Gentry Lee is in this? That's very funny.
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by cscheid 3mo ago
If you stare at the CYK algorithm long enough and see it for the dynamic programming approach it is, you'll then realize that you can do the same parallelization trick for any context-free grammar!
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by cscheid 3mo ago
CRAN has very different social structures and culture than other languages' package repos. CRAN _will_ pull your package from the repository if you fail to play nice with all packages, for example. This is evidently controversial, but
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by cscheid 3mo ago
(People might not know the inside joke here, namely that WotC has in the past sent the actual Pinkertons after some people suspected of leaking unreleased cards)
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by cscheid 3mo ago
I want to point out that you are posting from a 5-months old account (squarely within a time frame where LLM-powered accounts would be created), with an UUID-sounding username, claiming a 10-year-old professional history in the field, and u
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by cscheid 3mo ago
Yes! That "prefeitura do Rio" huggingface URL is definitely shocking to read to this Brazilian as well (I'm assuming you and parent also are from your usernames).
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by cscheid 5mo ago
I know this is irrelevant on the grand scheme of things, but that WebGL animation is really quite wrong. That is extra funny given the "ensure it has realistic orbital mechanics." phrase in the prompt. I prescribe 20 hours of KSP
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by cscheid 10mo ago
(Disclosure: I work on https://quarto.org , for the same company that the author of WebR works on) Thanks for sharing that PDF link. It's so good! Would you be willing to write a bit about how you produced that PDF? It'
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by cscheid 1y ago
Science is just Stochastic Graduate Descent, as we used to say.
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by cscheid 1y ago
(FWIW, I'm the technical lead on the Quarto project) RMarkdown isn't going anywhere! Quarto exists to bring the RMarkdown experience that folks love to a broader set of users and contexts. It is true that we try to keep the .qmd e
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by cscheid 1y ago
I’m dismayed that people are willing to put their names on garbage like this. If you want the serious version of the idea instead of the LLM diarrhea, just go Jonathan Shewchuk’s robust predicates work: https://people.eecs.berkel
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by cscheid 1y ago
Presumably because one of the two things are true: - there's competition, and so if it's possible to rent for less than 1000-eps and still profit, someone will - there's no competition, which is a cartel, the kind of thing th
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by cscheid 1y ago
You can also just grab the same piece from Substack: https://thenoosphere.substack.com/p/just-how-many-more-succe...
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by cscheid 1y ago
This is the kind of task that LLMs are precisely terrible at; there isn't an abundance of Zod 4 examples, and the LLM will sure as shit will give you _something_ you are now by definition ill-equipped to assess. I'm confident abou
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by cscheid 1y ago
(I imagine you agree, so this is just to expand) a secondary, insidious issue is that administrators diffuse their rules through the bureaucracy. In the case of CS, you start seeing references to csrankings in recommendation letters for gra
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by cscheid 1y ago
Please - if I wanted to know what an LLM thinks about this, I would have asked it myself.
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by cscheid 2y ago
(Context: I’m an IC and told my Manager multiple times that I’d quit if they ever make me a manager) If you truly believe that, please do yourself a favor and read “The tyranny of structurelessness” to understand what a managerless place be
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by cscheid 2y ago
My understanding is that "weird" unicode code points become https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode . I used the 󠅘󠅕󠅜󠅜󠅟 (copy-pasted from the post, presumably with the payload in it) to type a fake domain into C
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by cscheid 2y ago
(I worked tangentially on software for analyzing data that will come from the Vera Rubin telescope, and) yeah, while it was designed for spotting weird supernovae and such, the first half of its operation is expected to be dominated by the
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by cscheid 2y ago
(Late reply, but) I got to play this over the weekend together with some other suggestions in this thread, and Dark Room was actually pretty good! Thanks for the recommendation.
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by cscheid 2y ago
Since we're all sharing clicker games, this one by Frank Lantz is a real classic: https://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
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by cscheid 2y ago
(Disclosure: I’m a former academic with more than a handful of papers to my name) The parent comment is harshly criticizing (fairly, in my view) a paper , and not the authors. Smart people can write foolish things (ask me how I know). It’s
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by cscheid 2y ago
> if you think of all people as people, even Republicans The OP didn't accuse Republicans of being non-people. They specifically made a -- true, incidentally -- factual claim: > > That's why they spread lies about refugee
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by cscheid 2y ago
Fun. It reminded me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now , which uses a similar noon-sun mechanism for keeping the daily clock cycle accurate.
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by cscheid 2y ago
In case anyone else is curious about the specific term for the concept you are describing, it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_(statistics) (To reproduce exactly the scenario being discussed, you fit a con

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