pedrosorio

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by pedrosorio 4mo ago
Yes. And this has been long known. 2023 paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760 https://jurgengravestein.substack.com/p/why-you-should-total... > A recent study by the Institute of Software, C
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by pedrosorio 5mo ago
What harness do you use?
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by pedrosorio 5mo ago
Yeah, OP is famous for never having put effort into anything, just an AI shill /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Sanfilippo This whole thread is hilarious.
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by pedrosorio 5mo ago
I had claude code implement minimax (w/ alpha-beta pruning) for the general n cells version of the game. I checked n=6...20. It looks like white wins for n=6 and n=8 with perfect play, otherwise it is a draw. With random play, black se
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by pedrosorio 5mo ago
Silly Asses by Isaac Asimov? https://www.contecurte.eu/2019/05/ecumene-silly-asses/
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by pedrosorio 10mo ago
That was a bust: https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/pwht4f/whateve...
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by pedrosorio 11mo ago
> Is there a human out there who would just magically type all the right things - no errors - first try? If they know what they're doing and it's not an exploratory task where the most efficient way to do it is by trial and err
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by pedrosorio 1y ago
Regarding electricity, it depends on what you mean by “we”, I guess https://www.voronoiapp.com/energy/-China-Generated-More-Elec...
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by pedrosorio 1y ago
> Here's the live assignment requirements: [1] https://i.imgur.com/aaiy7QR.png & [2] https://i.imgur.com/aaiy7QR.png . These are the same link
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by pedrosorio 1y ago
You can check all the teams and their members here: https://cphof.org/advanced/icpc/2025 It's rarely the case that looking at school names is useful (for many things in life) when there are more data points.
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by pedrosorio 1y ago
*St. Petersburg I guess, like a lot of other sports at the college level, having a reputation that attracts the best competitive programmers (and a great coach to go along with it) doesn't hurt: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by pedrosorio 1y ago
This one has "Advent of code" vibes
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by pedrosorio 1y ago
When the driver and the platform are different entities (like Uber) you end up with these weird incentives. How would that happen in the Waymo case?
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by pedrosorio 1y ago
> The fact that is is needed at all of course highlights a weakness in the language. The import statements themselves should be able to convey all information about dependencies What languages convey the version of the dependencies in a
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
^ fyi, this comment reveals you didn't RTFA
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> learn at a deeper level and prove it by becoming one of a different crowd of technologists The “prove you’re special” motivation is definitely a strong third reason that does not align with the nepotism baby or monk archetypes
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
LLM on just DNA seems to be useful: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00872-0 These models have proven to develop incredible abilities through pattern matching on massive text data, so I wouldn’t be too quick
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> As the confidence of advice, how much the rates of the mistakes are different between human lawyers and the latest GPT? Notice I am not talking about "rates of mistakes" (i.e. accuracy). I am talking about how confident they
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> amount of data you'd need to learn in order to give descent law advice on a spot? amount of data you'd need to learn to generate and cite fake court cases and give advice that may or not be correct with equal apparent confide
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> Should we not mimic our biology as closely as possible rather than trying to model how we __think__ it works (i.e. chain of thought, etc.). Should we not mimic migrating birds’ biology as closely as possible instead of trying to engine
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> My guess would be that a lottery system is actually better for most people currently in the H1-B process because my personal experience Regardless of your personal experience, if H1-B visas are currently allocated randomly to less than
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> Such a culture isn't going to be globally competitive Globally competitive in what sense, then?
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> Start feeding them more than just milk/formula at 6-8 months. This feels out of place. What did you do the first time?
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
Motivation is not the limiting factor. Not knowing what you don’t know is.
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> differentiate between someone who picked up Python for a weekend project, and someone with 30 years experience with real-world systems Why do you need credentials to differentiate these two?
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
Followed by > In my opinion, this was a clear case of a programmer resisting the system approach because he wanted to spend time fixing the same problems over and over and pretend to be working hard Which is funny when the first bullet p
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
They were talking about 2002 when the Euro was introduced and "it felt like" prices doubled overnight. At the time (as you can see in the chart) inflation was below 4% per year.
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
Even across users it’s a terrible idea. Even in the simplest of applications where all you’re doing is passing “last user query” + “retrieved articles” into openAI (and nothing else that is different between users, like previous queries or
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
Because the purpose of most homework is not to give you a “real world task”. It is to give you simplified toy problems that allow you to test your understanding of key concepts that you can use as building blocks. By skipping those, and out
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> Or, fails in the same way any human would, when giving a snap answer to a riddle told to them on the fly The point of o1 is that it's good at reasoning because it's not purely operating in the "giving a snap answer on th

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