pierrebai

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by pierrebai 1y ago
Strawman detection activated. The goal of giving money is not to make those who receive it more educated, better parents or making them politically active. I mean, why did I have to say that? (The amount of money is also unlikely to enbale
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by pierrebai 1y ago
OTOH, 99% of use cases don't care about performance and just want a portable implementation. While it could be useful to have a "fast" variation that offers no guarantee at all, what you would end up with (because people are
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by pierrebai 2y ago
Knowing that a typical maze will have branching paths at the beginning, but necessarily one good path at the end, I find it easier to start from the goal and work my way backward.
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by pierrebai 2y ago
But your example is not reflective of the study. Are you saying that the 17% reduction is for some reason significant but the other ones, all of which would inconveniently disagree with the result you want, are not, even though they are in
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by pierrebai 2y ago
Well, we read the article, which cites many studies. Maybe she is doing a super selective review of the field, but she does not merely quote one study, but several, all of which indicate that there is no correlation between saturated fat an
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by pierrebai 2y ago
Ah, the old "if you do not spent your time, effort an interest where I have chosen to spend them, then you are an inferior human being to me." Everyone judges people who do less about subject X, Y, Z to be criminal, lazy slob, a
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by pierrebai 2y ago
Isn't this whole description a lie, both ways? You can embed/tunnel any network transport into another. There is nothing magical about the internet and IP. It is actually being tunneled when you're using a cable modem. WiFi i
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by pierrebai 2y ago
No, since they use an integer (Z) as the denominator. So their representation support having -1 (i.e 0) as the denominator.
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by pierrebai 2y ago
I wonder why they chose to represent rationals with subtracting one from the denominator. It makes human parsing of the value harder and in many case makes the implementation code slighter harder; for example the equality op need to increme
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by pierrebai 2y ago
Some of the ideas in the blog must be speculative, given that it fell through a wormhole, being published September 17, 2024.
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by pierrebai 2y ago
... or simply that the LOGO language syntax and choice of commands is confusing? Without formal explanation, how surprising is it really that a child would assume that STOP mean stop? I'd bet that if LOGO had used RETURN, like many oth
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by pierrebai 2y ago
Looking at the code, "maintainability" is quite relative: it might be maintainable by the original author, but the code has no comment and is chuck-full of magic constants without any explanations. Or'ing this hex value, and&
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by pierrebai 2y ago
The article is just plain wrong about classes: if you have declared any constructor, then the language will not provide a default constructor and default-initialization will fail with a compiler diagnostic. So their claim that "T t;&
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by pierrebai 2y ago
I'm utterly confused by the description of the solution of Hilbert's 10th problem. On one hand, the article claims that Diophantine equations are polynomials. On the other hand, it claims that when JR is true, a Diophantine equati
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by pierrebai 2y ago
Interestingly, there is a common pattern for fixed-points and cycles for different number lengths: numbers made of 4, 5 and 9. For example length 3: fixed-point 495 length 5: 2-cycle containing 59994 length 6: fixed-point 59994 Similarly fo
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by pierrebai 2y ago
Reading the example, I really wish the syntax for push and pop had been "<foo" (push foo on stack) and ">bar" (pop from stack into bar). I find the choice of $ and ^ not obvious. Especially since, for me, ^ implies
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by pierrebai 2y ago
Was it firing was it not? It's all semantics, people on both sides of the fence have legitimate reasons to choose one over the other. Get over it. The real interesting bit, is that Paul Graham somehow thought it was worthwhile to stick
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by pierrebai 2y ago
IDK, if my explanation is correct, but I do believe it is. I t goes as follow. Imagine that you have a container of potential limitless capacity. The container starts with smalls capacity, equal to the real limited capacity that the real al
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by pierrebai 2y ago
I have a hard time swallowing the hubris of the teller. No one was to be able to approach or chat with Orson Wells... except him, of course, who "connected" with Orson, so it was all OK and he'd launch with Orson too! But the
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by pierrebai 2y ago
Read the example code, have a sinking feeling that is not taken from a real tested example. Either there are multiple unexplained symbols or teh code does not actually run. For example, in "Implementing a Workflow" the execute_act
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by pierrebai 2y ago
The problem with this thinking is that you are creating dissatisfaction for 25 cents. Let's say, you sell your software as a single-version perpetual license. You sell it for 150$. A typical user uses it 8 hours a month. After a year,
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by pierrebai 2y ago
The fact that science and religion can have similar flaws or components is shallow. Churches in the US and universities in the US both use English. That does not make them the same. What makes science is a self-consistent framework and tree
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by pierrebai 2y ago
The explanation could be a combination of experience, details, survivor bias and true scottman. That is with experience you can select something on the ocean far away that you can track (kelp, etc), with experience and focus to accurately t
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by pierrebai 2y ago
I find the use case where you have a system in production but could not possibly use the official Python for that system... unusual? Double so since Python code (.py) is itself portable, and I would assume that the amount of work to make al
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by pierrebai 2y ago
I suppose it may also apply to voodoo dolls. Make an effigy, put pins in it, burn it for emotional release.
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by pierrebai 3y ago
I find it hard to reconcile the growth and positive message in these blogs with the ultimate tragic end of his life.
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by pierrebai 3y ago
Repeatedly clicking the same bar keeps shrinking it... weird
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by pierrebai 3y ago
Come on now, if it was /that other company/ you'd be saying it without a pause. FUD See? Not hard to say, even when it is Apple and not Microsoft. The concept that browser allow one web site to read the storage of other sites
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by pierrebai 3y ago
Of course, Python would have been way more awesome if they did not reject the much more reader-friendly and idiomatic: squared_div_by_3 = [ for i in range(10): if i % 3 == 0: i**2 ] That is, just trans
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by pierrebai 3y ago
You are right and I had the same reaction. The correct answer should have been: (f (h (g (h z)))) AKA ((1 + 5) * 2) + 5. Is it not ironic that the supposedly test of AGI is flawed and its human designer fail to see it and denied it when pre

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