thechao

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by thechao 5d ago
I have friends at companies that used to do BS jobs. Then, AI came in and took over the BS, and now they're doing real, meaningful work. One friend was told her team (3) would be eliminated once AI took over. Now that the AI automate
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by thechao 7d ago
> The big difference is that with a debit card, it's your money that is hit by fraud. I kind of disagree. I think what's happened is the bank would prefer you to believe that . Imagine I kept my money at the bank, and deposite
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by thechao 28d ago
I hope I'm remembering this right: a mathematician claims to have a proof for the ABC conjecture, but can't conceive any other mathematician it's right — it's "too weird", so the proof is rejected?
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by thechao 1mo ago
> Wyzer supports standard if/else, while, and for loops. Note that loops don't need parentheses around the condition. But why !? You know what'd be cool? If we started supporting control statements that were a bit more so
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by thechao 1mo ago
> Models are excellent at code Models are infinitely willing to code. The code they produce makes me want to pour one out for Knuth.
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by thechao 1mo ago
Housing values skyrocketed due to low interest rates. The prices are sticky and won't correct just because mortgage rates have gone up. That means no one can move. What we need is a large number of small houses (or owner owned multiten
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by thechao 2mo ago
Gasoline has 10x the energy (MJ/Kg) than TNT, but it's not a "bomb". Being a "bomb" is about energy release rate . A battery is still controlled by its chemistry.
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by thechao 2mo ago
Which book that was rare was destroyed? I'm interested to know a few titles.
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by thechao 2mo ago
Anathem is the best Stephenson book; The Algebraist is the best Iain Banks. There's enough of us to fill a good sized van!
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by thechao 2mo ago
Sorry I was so terse! Let's ignore guard band, for now. Our rasterization surface is a rectangle. We don't need to "geometrically clip" a triangle to the rectangle's surface. Instead, we just walk the surface of the
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by thechao 2mo ago
You only need to clip triangles is you're worried about attribute interpolation for very large triangles. There's two ways to handle this: (1) discard (fast but not a great user experience); or, (2) primitive synthesis. Just frust
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by thechao 2mo ago
I want to be able to take a conversation and ask for subconversations as red pen annotations "on the side". The linear nature of the context tends to frustrate this.
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by thechao 2mo ago
I'm no intelligence researcher or philosopher; but, I think LLMs make us confront the (IMO, now clear) distinction between cleverness (intuition), reasoning (rational argument), and consciousness. I suspect that we think of "intel
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by thechao 2mo ago
It's around hour 20 of trying to breath that I start to really think the Goldfish has an edge on me.
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by thechao 3mo ago
Races are virtually uncompetitive; it means politicians only need to pander to the 40% bloc of the 10–20% of voters that show up in the primary. Once elected, the chance of losing their office is nearly 0. Gerrymandering absolutely reduces
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by thechao 3mo ago
This is why gerrymandering should be unconstitutional, and why corporations should have their rights explicitly curtailed: they're not citizens or the people.
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by thechao 3mo ago
I have strong expectations, in fact; I need the state to respect that.
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by thechao 3mo ago
I've been able to age restrict websites with my childrens' devices for years? Privately, on the device. The website side is pure moatism.
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by thechao 3mo ago
I know your threw an "etc" in there; but, all fingers point to my home state: Texas. We need two legislative changes at the federal level: (1) uncap the house from 435 to at least cube-root or (better) max 500k; and, (2) you can&#
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by thechao 3mo ago
I've had a lot of success just LZ4ing a bitmap.
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by thechao 3mo ago
I'm responding to a random comment: I was in molecular biology, but >20 years ago. Your article immediately presents as someone who's acquired reading expertise in a biological/medical subfield. Second, your initial survey
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by thechao 3mo ago
Its a set cover problem, and is NP-hard. 4100 of something probably runs nicely in your laptop in a reasonable amount of time.
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by thechao 3mo ago
I go down to Abby Jane in Dripping Springs to get my freshly made sourdough, thankyouverymuch.
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by thechao 3mo ago
A ten hour wait doesn't really strike me as a pancake? You should have a "it's 730am, there's four screaming girls, only two of which are related to me, the dogs are begging for scraps, and the demand for pancakes has cr
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by thechao 4mo ago
REI threw a dickover on top of my checkout page just before I could pay. Dismissing the dickover cleared the checkout page.
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by thechao 4mo ago
The leverage doesn't end unless the AI-owning capital class Terminates the rest of the population.
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by thechao 4mo ago
Maybe Morse is just "out", right now, in the geek population? I shall send out the signal for us to unite: ... ___ ... ___ ... Hm. Morse makes adding an ellipsis remarkably challenging!
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by thechao 4mo ago
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by thechao 4mo ago
I felt personally attacked when LLMs came out: I'm an avid user of "—", bullets, numbered lists, and the word "delve". It's been a miserable couple of years.
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by thechao 4mo ago
I still think biased sortition is the way: after voting, eliminate any candidate with less than (say) 1/11th the vote. Choose the winner proportional to the number of votes they received. It has the following nice properties: 1. Extrem

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