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by hcs 16d ago
I recently picked up this recently, it uses The Library as a way of discussing a few different mathematical topics. I can't strongly recommend it but it's interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unimagi
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by hcs 1mo ago
I would expect the LLM-ese to not repeat "called" like that.
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by hcs 1mo ago
Events of Back to the Future II (2015-10-21)
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by hcs 1mo ago
Same, seeing the title and having not read Bradbury for a long time I was thinking either The Veldt or that one (The Long Rain). I did remember it on reading, though, and it's an unsettling feeling.
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by hcs 2mo ago
Maybe I'm not communicating the point clearly. In order to use a table to do the whole multiplication it has to be much larger than the largest number you would want to multiply with it. A lot of the analysis of algorithms, especially
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by hcs 2mo ago
Well, yes, which is why they don't measure it your way, as it doesn't lead to discovering anything interesting about computation to have a shortcut like that. Or if they do it's part of a larger analysis, called an oracle mac
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by hcs 2mo ago
An algorithm is a finite sequence of instructions, and so can't include an infinite table. More generally, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_method
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by hcs 3mo ago
> If you're a carpentry shop that just bought power tools for the first time and you're worried that your employees are sticking with hand tools because that's what they know, then you look for sawdust. Or count the finger
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by hcs 3mo ago
Though the ancients did recognize as occult forces magnetism (Thales, according to Aristotle, gave the motive power of magnets as an example that even apparently inanimate objects have souls) and electricity (from triboelectic effects with
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by hcs 4mo ago
Pitch is the offset between the start of consecutive rows of pixels in the image, used to convert y coordinates into the start of any given row, so you access a pixel as buffer[y*pitch+x]. Often this is the image width, but can be greater d
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by hcs 4mo ago
If we're collecting anecdotes, it happened for me in more of my office jobs than not. Might have been relevant that these were smaller offices.
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by hcs 4mo ago
I liked it, still find good answers, and it was gratifying to provide answers when I could.
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by hcs 4mo ago
enum Bool { True, False, FileNotFound }; https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
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by hcs 4mo ago
Some of my earliest programming exposure was a dBASE IV book my dad had for work, though it was some time before I put any of it into action. At that time I was reading manuals like fiction, only slowly realizing that I could actually use s
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by hcs 4mo ago
> millenials got the birth of social media ..and a lot of us weren't thrilled about it.
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by hcs 5mo ago
It's a honeypot for pedants
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by hcs 5mo ago
> Or you do not consider MUL/DIV "arithmetic", or something. Multiplier and divider are usually not considered part of the ALU, yes. Not uncommon for those to be shared between execution threads while there's an ALU f
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by hcs 5mo ago
I phrased that badly, Dragon's Lair was the example of low process intensity.
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by hcs 5mo ago
Even on NES a lot of games use CHR-RAM so arbitrary bitmaps are at least possible, though only a small part of the screen is unique without some rarely used mapper hardware. Zelda and Metroid mostly just use this to compress the graphics in
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by hcs 5mo ago
Chris Crawford called this "process intensity", he noted it at least back to 1983 with Dragon's Lair, discussed in this 1987 article https://www.erasmatazz.com/library/the-journal-of-computer/j...
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by hcs 6mo ago
Or you can just hit the Random button https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
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by hcs 6mo ago
There's a restrictions on games with even simulated gambling
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by hcs 6mo ago
You are more quickly being carried by the ground further from where you would otherwise be. Hope that clears it up.
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by hcs 6mo ago
Not the same thing but I was reminded of a joke about the puzzle game Stephen's Sausage Roll: > I have calculated the value of Pi on Sausage Island and found it to be 2. https://web.archive.org/web/2024040503431
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by hcs 6mo ago
As they say in a somewhat different context: worse is better
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by hcs 6mo ago
> But what if you could push? There are a number of so-called "bounty" programs like this for software, I don't know how well any of them work.
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by hcs 6mo ago
Or grade accounts by the logarithm of how many accounts were registered before them, like Slashdot. (This is tongue in cheek as I assume yours was.)
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by hcs 7mo ago
> The "inability to act" which, as Forrester points out, "provided the incentive" to augment or replace the low-internal-speed human organizations with computers, might in some other historical situation have been an
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by hcs 7mo ago
I imagine it's a case where you hire a dozen or so test attendants.
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by hcs 7mo ago
A Seymour

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