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by mahalex 1y ago
“Notes” is short for “lecture notes” and has nothing to do with size.
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by mahalex 1y ago
Is there an active community of people using Python 2 and building things with it? Meanwhile, there are plenty of actively maintained compilers for C89.
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by mahalex 1y ago
> languages like Python & Javascript have been around forever, support for them isn't going away ??? Python 2 went out of support five years ago.
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by mahalex 3y ago
Modern versions of e.g. Tolstoy's "War and Peace" could not be in Standard Ebooks. So easiest to not carry any translations?
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by mahalex 3y ago
> Most (nearly all?) religious texts of major world religions were originally written in languages other than English, and so if SE were to try to host those texts the site would have to make an editorial call about which translations of
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by mahalex 3y ago
Right, because ChatGPT is never wrong.
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by mahalex 3y ago
> they decided that the iPhone 15 Pro was going to be used to film the keynote for the iPhone 15 Pro And they didn’t do that: as far as we know, the keynote for the iPhone 15 Pro was not shot with iPhone 15 Pro.
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by mahalex 3y ago
Note that “Oren and Patashnik” is one person named Oren Patashnik.
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by mahalex 3y ago
As with anything output by “AI”: you don’t.
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by mahalex 3y ago
That’s what makes it even more embarrassing.
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by mahalex 3y ago
So, it's a thing that appends "please format your response as the following JSON" to the prompt", then validates the actual response against the schema, all in a "while (true)" loop (literally) until it succeed
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by mahalex 3y ago
I wouldn’t call it extremely complicated; it is much simpler than the proof of FLT.
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by mahalex 3y ago
Because Catalan’s conjecture.
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by mahalex 3y ago
If we exclude 0, the only solutions are 2^1 = 1^2 + 1 and 3^2 = 2^3 + 1