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by generationP 10d ago
This one is not just in Dummit and Foote; it's just too easy to miss. I'd guess it appears in half the places that state this result. Fixed it in my own lecture notes a few months ago.
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by generationP 19d ago
Those habitual mitigations go a long way. Just like there is defensive programming, there is defensive usage. Under Windows: Don't put your files into "My Documents" or similar folder hierarchies; you never know if old softwa
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by generationP 28d ago
Why should anyone want to have copyright on AI-generated content?
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by generationP 4mo ago
In pure maths: - pre GPT-5.4: very limited use; some smart people got some mileage out of the models, but it always required serious work and a very suitable problem. Of course the models could solve homework problems, but that felt more li
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by generationP 8mo ago
Graham/Knuth/Patashnik is a lot less "basic discrete maths you're most likely to need" and a lot more "number sequences we've known and loved". Almost more useful for physicists due to the amount of s
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by generationP 8mo ago
I found the choice of material quite nonstandard. And the writing is witty, full of MIT humor. It's a bit sad that the writing has stopped in 2018.
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by generationP 10mo ago
Most of the dark patterns are not fun. The "psychological dark patterns" are, to some healthy degree.
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by generationP 10mo ago
Neat... but most good RPGs fit much of the "psychological dark patterns" listed at https://www.darkpattern.games/pattern/4/psychological-dark-p... . So the total scores won't be as useful as they mi
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by generationP 10mo ago
This looks like an index of Mir books, without any additional sorting or curation. You probably can get a good education on many topics out of these, but also waste significant time on reading out-of-date and out-of-order texts. Someone e
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by generationP 11mo ago
I have a hunch that most of the slop is not just on CS but specifically about AI. For some reason, a lot of people's first idea when they encounter an LLM is "let's have this LLM write an opinion piece about LLMs", as if
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by generationP 11mo ago
Look for anything written by Jesse Singal or Charles Murray for the well-researched anti-woke content I'm referring to (and there is a lot of more; these are just two authors who made it their focus; some of the best stuff comes actual
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by generationP 11mo ago
Note that I've said "anti-woke content", not "anti-woke media". I am including the occasional "course correction" opeds and actually well-researched longreads you're seeing in places like NYT, Atlanti
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by generationP 11mo ago
Yeah, encyclopedias are meant to be indexes to knowledge, not repositories thereof. The WP feature-creeped its way to the latter, but it is not reliably good at it, and I'm not sure if there is an easy way to tell how good a given page
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by generationP 11mo ago
Don't forget that public opinion and the media landscape are quite different in 2025 from what they were in the 2010s when most prior studies on WP bias have been written. Sufficiently pertinent (sadly this isn't synonymous with h
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by generationP 11mo ago
Wondering if the project will get better from the pushback or will just be folded like one of Elon's many ADHD experiments. In a sense, encyclopedias should be easy for LLMs: they are meant to survey and summarize well-documented mat
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by generationP 1y ago
That's the longest pronoun signature I've seen.
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by generationP 1y ago
NB: None of what you are saying is confirmed by the WP page you are citing.
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by generationP 1y ago
And soon it will be "but I don't want to learn Lean".
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by generationP 1y ago
The cube doesn't work, or at least it didn't for me. The goggly eyes really do make a difference.
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by generationP 1y ago
When I get fired, the news better come in an email titled "Steps in the Right Direction".
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by generationP 1y ago
I guess monks were procrastinating likewise when they illuminated their manuscripts.
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by generationP 1y ago
Tikz is misplaced in this list; it is how you make any kind of vector drawings in LaTeX. It's not the only way, but perhaps the best documented and most expressive one. If you have any such drawings in your work, you won't get aro
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by generationP 1y ago
That looks like the kind of paper that causes companies to lose lots of money by hyping up what is likely a less-than-impressive method. But it does not make any theoretical claims, so it cannot contaminate research.
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by generationP 1y ago
You're right, the authors are not to blame for the lack of context -- I misdirected my anger at the phys.org nonsense towards the actual authors.
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by generationP 1y ago
The actual article (OA!): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2025.2... This is about solving polynomial equations using Lagrange inversion. This method, as one might have guessed, is due to
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by generationP 1y ago
One day, someone will discover a use for across-the-page watermarks that is not better handled by marginalia and makes up for the loss in readability, copyability and compatibility with graphics. Until then, we'll be seeing this...
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by generationP 1y ago
What about a header/footer saying "DRAFT" (ideally with the date and other things that would perhaps not fit on a watermark)?
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by generationP 1y ago
Yeah, not so much harping on you as on the whole ecosystem. You seem to have done your part well.
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by generationP 1y ago
So an app that would probably serve a real need fails because the team is unable to bootstrap the two-sided market. The best dev moves to a bullshit "green habits" app that doesn't suffer from such problems because... it does
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by generationP 1y ago
The most confusing errors are the ones spellcheck doesn't catch because they transform a word into a valid word. But it's them that we want the least.

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