ky3

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by ky3 1mo ago
> the Sierpinski triangle is a counterexample How so? It's bounded by the large initial triangle. The line containing any two of the vertices doesn't intersect any other point.
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by ky3 1mo ago
Find one that bridges only two points, no more. Unless ofc you're given a configuration that's obviously impossible: all of them in a line.
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by ky3 1mo ago
Maybe this'll help: Every bunch of points on a plane has a lonely bridge. A lonely bridge is a line connecting only two points, no more. Obvious caveat: The points can't all lie in the same line (the collinear condition). Not-so-o
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by ky3 7mo ago
You can ask the LLM to write a prompt for you. Example: "Explore prompts that would have circumvented all the previous misunderstanding."
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by ky3 7mo ago
LLM to the rescue. Feed in a problem and ask it to explain it to a layperson. Also feed in sentences that remain obscure and ask to unpack.
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by ky3 7mo ago
> If you are skipping a step in the procedure, aren't you also possibly going to skip writing a step down? Exactly, so when she reviewed the notebook, she caught the error. Even if she made a slip in the notebook, merely reviewing i
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by ky3 7mo ago
Wouldn't attention to getenv() calls yield more benefit? Such calls are where input typically isn't parsed--because parsing is "hard"--becoming targets for exploit. The present fix is to sanitize user input. Does it cove
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by ky3 8mo ago
EWD 1036: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) “My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as ‘lines produced’ but as ‘lines spent’: the current conventional wisdom is so fooli
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by ky3 8mo ago
For even better measure here's a slice of HN reactions to EWD1094: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46085897
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by ky3 8mo ago
> Good textbooks have gone through expert reviews and multiple iterations of improvement. That's an assumption increasingly false, unfortunately. The spirit of collegiality has been beaten back. Far better to hone logical skills tha
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by ky3 8mo ago
The logical skills to evaluate the output of a LLM are the same skills brought to bear reading any book. What makes you trust this textbook then? Textbooks are not infallible.
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by ky3 8mo ago
re: Chapter 15.8 on the so-called pigeonhole principle Following Dijkstra’s EWD1094, here’s a way to solve the hairs-on-heads problem eschewing the language of pigeonholes and employing the fact that the mean is at most the maximum of a non
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by ky3 8mo ago
Such problems are a cakewalk for LLMs, you realize? Lots of didactic activities you could do with LLMs.
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by ky3 8mo ago
Which nation did Maduro invade again? Did you confuse Venezuela with Russia? > By that logic the US shouldn’t get involved in any other foreign entanglement or global police action because of unintended consequences. Strawman. No-one is
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by ky3 9mo ago
Are you arguing two wrongs make a right? This most recent wrong would likely gestate an even worse authoritarian regime than the earlier wrong. Where is the right you're seeing?
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by ky3 10mo ago
A grid with 19 columns is enough. Every column at worst has all 3 colors, one of them used twice. Once we fix that one color, there are C(4,2)=6 ways of filling out the rest of the entries. Since there are 3 colors, there are exactly 6*3=18
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by ky3 10mo ago
M&Ms much? There is no finite field with six elements.
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by ky3 6y ago
I'm game. Email's in the profile. Aside from HN, do you have other plans on gathering up the numbers?
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by ky3 6y ago
No, I actually mean what I wrote: Not everything that counts can be counted. Take the happiness produced by a piece of software. Can we put a number on it? Contrast Lord Kelvin: “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express
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by ky3 6y ago
Worth filing under: Gaming the System, in this case: image compression benchmarks. Not everything that counts can be counted.
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by ky3 6y ago
Spitballing here: more land in the US means lower cost to stock cars in dealerships. Also makes it easier to do an impulse purchase with all the easy financing available, compared to the European scenario of waiting for delivery (and possib
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by ky3 6y ago
> The fear of a legacy (or your ancestors or your lineage) being forgotten is very, very real. Temple Grandin, decorated autist and celibate, once yearned wistfully about how to pass on the knowledge she has gained over her lifetime. And
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by ky3 6y ago
To answer obliquely: I observe some men to rage for vengeance at being cuckolded. Subsequently, in an episode of repeat impotence, the bullets rebound on the shooters. Example: the father may take drugs to relieve the pain. Said father may
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by ky3 6y ago
Don't have a dog in this race, but doesn't that certain vegetarian-leaning religion also prohibit violence against human beings? How do the terrorists square such contradictions in their mind? And is that one of the many mysteries
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by ky3 6y ago
Apparently, the research literature calls this feature Sheet-Defined Functions (SDF). Doesn't it use this result from Microsoft Research UK that was just recently published in ICFP 2020: Elastic Sheet-Defined Functions: Generalising Sp
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by ky3 6y ago
> I have a topic I’d like to write about. However, I’m getting lost In the weeds and failing to structure my content in an easy to consume way. Ricocheting from your consumption metaphor, could it be that your topic has enough meat in it
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by ky3 6y ago
> I buy Ikea furniture not because I have to assemble it. I buy it because it's cheap, reasonably good, easy to find and get. Ftfy
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by ky3 6y ago
Because numbers have meanings? So that 9-to-5 stays 9-to-5 the whole year round instead of 8-to-4, 7-to-3, 6-to-2?
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by ky3 6y ago
Sorry to hear this. Mind if I offer a meta-woo remedy? There are communities out there who value deep and non-judgmental listening. They recognize that it can be an act of aggression to offer unwanted advice. They have a healthy interest in
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by ky3 6y ago
If the original bike was bike, then the next one is bike' (pronounced bike prime), and the one after that bike'' (bikeprimeprime), and so on. Compare the orthography to bike_0, bike_1, bike_2, etc.

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