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by matheist 19d ago
Saying that l.pop(k) has time complexity O(n-k) implies that popping something at position 5 from the end has bounded (amortized) time cost regardless of the length of the list l, ie even if we let the list grow arbitrarily. It's a str
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by matheist 1mo ago
Counterpoint, I don't particularly have that expectation
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by matheist 1mo ago
And then there's G. H. Hardy, famous number theorist, who wrote an "Apology" for mathematics in the sense of defending the study of number theory for its own sake because it's beautiful. Which one were you referring to
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by matheist 4mo ago
> The company says that the drug was generally well tolerated, but that’s on the oncology scale. > ... > He’s been on daraxonrasib since early this year, and describes it this way: “. . .it’s a nasty drug. It causes crazy stuff li
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by matheist 4mo ago
There's eg https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11130 from a Tamara Smyth and Frederick Scott; Google scholar shows some citations but not necessarily conical brass in particular. That link is about trombones, so also not c
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by matheist 7mo ago
Does task_done not do what you want? https://docs.python.org/3/library/queue.html#queue.Queue.tas...
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by matheist 7mo ago
I have no idea, but I wouldn't expect so unless it was by coincidence? Not sure what chords have to do with any of this. There's a canonical way to choose 4 points uniformly and independently at random on the circle, and it's
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by matheist 7mo ago
Right, I was taking it as given that the problem of choosing a hemisphere canonically for a point meant "such that the argument works in the same way as for the circle". Bertrand paradox just doesn't apply here, there's
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by matheist 7mo ago
Great argument. I found this generalization to higher dimension: https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath327/kmath327.htm
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by matheist 7mo ago
> The same decomposition works in higher dimensions. I don't think the same argument works in higher dimensions. On a circle, we can canonically pick a semicircle corresponding to each point (we have two choices, let's say we
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by matheist 7mo ago
I remember being very taken with this story when I first read it, and it's striking how obsolete it reads now. At the time it was written, "simulated humans" seemed a fantastical suggestion for how a future society might do s
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by matheist 7mo ago
> Codex uses apply_patch: It takes a string as input, which is essentially an OpenAI-flavored diff, and instead of relying on a structured schema, the harness just expects this blob to follow a strict set of rules. Since OpenAI folks ar
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by matheist 8mo ago
They don't appear to care about the images of the immersions or their complements, aside from them not being related by an isometry of R^3. They're not doing any topology with the image. In other works, they have two immersions fr
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by matheist 8mo ago
To be precise, the mean curvature and metric are the same but the immersions are different (they're not related by an isometry of the ambient space). Topologically they're the same (the example found was different immersions of
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by matheist 10mo ago
yeah I have, but I think only when it gets stuck in a loop and outputs a (for example) array that goes on forever. a truncated array is obviously not valid JSON. but it'd be hard to miss that if you're looking at the outputs.
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by matheist 11mo ago
Can anyone explain (or link) what they mean by "injection", at a level of explanation that discusses what layers they're modifying, at which token position, and when? Are they modifying the vector that gets passed to the fina
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by matheist 11mo ago
> "Best Frontier" includes GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5, which both outperform Composer.
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by matheist 1y ago
Sifu, rather, which would be the Cantonese version (Lee was a Cantonese speaker and didn't speak Mandarin)
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by matheist 1y ago
Oh now I understand. I thought your ab and ba were single tokens (even though that doesn't make sense in context). Once you point out they're separate tokens, I follow you. Thank you! Edit: that's a great example Edit 2: even
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by matheist 1y ago
Why do you think the constrained percentages are 0/75/25 and not eg 0/66/33? (ie same relative likelihood for valid outputs)
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Galatea, by Emily Short (2000)(iplayif.com)
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by matheist 1y ago
Valuation includes expected future growth, it's not just present value of future revenue given today's numbers. You may not agree with the market's estimation of that, but comparing just present revenue isn't really the
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by matheist 1y ago
You know, it only just now occurs to me to wonder if the blackjack story is the public sanitized version of "how I got $24k because I'm not allowed to tell you the real version"
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by matheist 1y ago
Sorry to actually your actually, but the derivative of a function f from a space A to a space B at the point a is a linear function Df_a from the tangent space of A at a to the tangent space of B at b = f(a). When the spaces are Euclidean
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by matheist 1y ago
> We are also building an LLM-based ad-blocker after Chrome blocked uBlock Origin. Since it's a Chromium fork, why not re-enable uBlock Origin instead?
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by matheist 1y ago
Thanks! (Just clarifying, it's not my project)
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by matheist 1y ago
The Faust compiler uses de Bruijn indices internally to reuse computations. Anyone else know any other examples? https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust
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by matheist 1y ago
Looks interesting! Is there any intuition for why this should be the case? Did you discover it via that intuition, or just random experimentation? A note, your install script appears to still have a placeholder at the "apply patch&quot
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by matheist 1y ago
I think in modern physics "classical" often means "not quantum", rather than "pre-modern".
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by matheist 1y ago
"Guerrero" comes from Spanish "guerra", which is cognate to English "war". They both derive from a common proto-Germanic root.

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