triMichael

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by triMichael 3mo ago
Here's a good one for you: "Explain the double slit experiment which way variation" If they say anything about leaving two straight lines, then it fails. Just tried Gemini, and it failed. This is an extremely common misconcep
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by triMichael 3mo ago
I'll add to that: you are more likely to have a good experience if it has a lot of relevant data that it was trained on. You are also more likely to have a good experience if errors don't cause major issues. So one-shotting a game
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by triMichael 3mo ago
I'm one of those developers, and I think it makes sense to write documentation for Claude and I have no issues with that. The point of self-documenting code isn't to get rid of the documentation. Instead, it's to integrate it
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by triMichael 4mo ago
While I haven't had this issue with Gmail, I recently got a new computer and the first two weeks for full of moments like this. It's shocking to me how much we've let popups go rampant on everything. Perhaps the worst offende
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by triMichael 4mo ago
The author is definitely not inventing a problem. I ran into this issue at work this month. We were using WPF, which is C# combined with XAML. I needed to call some async code. First, I tried to call it from synchronous code. That compiled
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by triMichael 9mo ago
You are correct, grayscale is where every pixel's R = G = B, which for a 24 bit image would include 256 colors.
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by triMichael 9mo ago
Kurzgesagt just made a video on it a couple months back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMm-U2pHrXE
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by triMichael 10mo ago
There are two types of "brainrot" that are related but not the same. Essentially brainrot is anything that is anti-thinking. The first type of brainrot is what happens when you let other things think for you and your thoughts and
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by triMichael 11mo ago
They really aren't all that different from each other. One is imaginary things that might one day be possible, and the other is imaginary things that won't ever be possible. And even then, that can swap between the genres. Scifi o
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by triMichael 11mo ago
I agree, and one place I've observed this is in quantum physics. The double slit experiment is an experiment where you shine light through two slits, and instead of the expected two bands, it makes a wave-like interference pattern. Thi
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by triMichael 1y ago
My wife is on phase 3. She graduated with a computer science degree in January, and then her dad passed away. The estate was a mess so she ended up spending time figuring that out. Then, we found and fixed a medical issue that had been drai
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by triMichael 1y ago
I agree, but I'd add that it's not just the tech giants who want them to be better than they are, but also non-programmers. IMO LLMs are actually pretty good at writing small scripts. First, it's much more common for a small
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by triMichael 2y ago
Here's one: "AI Minecraft Is Beautifully Bizarre" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJ9jJh0udc
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by triMichael 5y ago
I don't feel threatened at all. Until we have true general AI like we see in the movies, there's no chance that an AI like AlphaCode could design software, and there's no chance that it could write actual code because it woul
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by triMichael 7y ago
I'd say it was because of the nature of two of the three punishments. Taking away money from someone who had won it in a tournament was too far and "firing" casters (banning casters for either 6 or 12 months is basically firi
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by triMichael 7y ago
The answer to this which makes the most sense to me is that the wave function collapses when the information exists that determines the quantum state. In Schrodinger's cat, this would be when the Geiger counter detects the quantum stat
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by triMichael 7y ago
I don't have experience with it, but I have heard of what you are saying and I believe the technical term for it is "hyperacusis". If you haven't already done so, search that term and I'm sure you will find people w
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by triMichael 7y ago
Definitely not the same technique, but at one point I watched a Mario Maker puzzle level someone had uploaded that used part of its own level code as a clue. The trick was that only two characters of the level code were used, which is hexad
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by triMichael 7y ago
I very much agree and love how the programming language AutoIt does it. When I was starting out, both C and Java took several frustrating hours to set up (don't get me started on requiring environment variables to be manually changed).
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by triMichael 8y ago
My take on this is that it has some valid points, but is mostly unjustified rants: 1. Versions: Definitely an issue with Python, the v2 to v3 split was a huge mess and is Python's biggest issue IMO. 2. Installation: Pros and cons, what
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by triMichael 8y ago
I think I can answer this one because it is one of my gripes of Python. The problem isn't that it doesn't copy, rather it is that the = assignment operator specifically doesn't copy. If you create a list "list1", se
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by triMichael 10y ago
Sure! I found Solar Fields by looking for Mirror's Edge remixes and stumbled onto whole songs. Solar Fields has several albums, it's a massive group and I think it's just one guy. Also recently found there is a sister group c
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by triMichael 10y ago
Solar Fields, the group that made the music for the video game Mirror's Edge, is one of my favorite groups for programming.
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by triMichael 10y ago
As someone who is obese and working on it, my suspicion is that it's mostly sugar. If you look at "processed" foods you'll see tons of sugar, which is both very bad and not very filling. One thing different from home coo
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by triMichael 10y ago
I edited my comment to say title and post. After reading a bit more thoroughly I realized he doesn't blindly use the graph data. But that title on the post is sure misleading! I guess the article title "A disaster is looming for A
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by triMichael 10y ago
Bad logic and flawed data extrapolation in the title and graph. You can't extrapolate percentages linearly over large amounts, otherwise by the year 2550 there will be 125% unemployment. As usual, relevant XKCD: https://xkcd