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Magic Squares, Cubes, Hypercubes: Origins, Recent Advances [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ttctciyf 28d ago|1 comments
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by ttctciyf 28d ago
Number theorist Manjul Bhargava[0] presents an accessible overview of fascinating recent work on n-dimensional extensions of magic squares, explaining the construction of, and showing in public for the first time, a "most perfect"
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by ttctciyf 2mo ago
The only explosive growth we're seeing out of the ongoing tech bonanza is growth in inequality, afaics.
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by ttctciyf 2mo ago
Yes! As a frequent user of youtube queues, it feels like they have a dedicated team of one or two junior devs to futz around with it on a weekly basis and zero QA, because it is always breaking in new, unexpected ways. "Everything is b
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by ttctciyf 2mo ago
We're really getting into Computers Don't Argue [0] territory here, eh? 0: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue (available in Best of Creative Computing Vol. 2 at https://dn
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by ttctciyf 2mo ago
I've long admired Chaitin for his original thinking and especially his ability to clearly convey his ideas about foundations, complexity and information in concise and digestible short proofs. I'm a little surprised, however, to s
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by ttctciyf 3mo ago
> @ttctciyf you are marked dead. Not sure why. Beats me too! Thanks for the heads up.
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by ttctciyf 3mo ago
Clearly Amazon don't want their code fixed.
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by ttctciyf 3mo ago
Reminds me of something I saw on shadertoy a while back: > wiggly string-like texture from treating a noise field as an angle and sampling the curvature, with some dodgy trig. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XssGD8
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by ttctciyf 4mo ago
archive.ph came through on this one: https://archive.ph/fM7jf
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by ttctciyf 4mo ago
Me too. From duckduck's search result excerpt it seems to be something of a departure from the normal string theory skepticism at Peter Woit's blog: > The US/Israeli wars and threats to end Iranian civilization with massiv
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by ttctciyf 4mo ago
Baseline epistemic hygiene would tend to preclude taking llm advice seriously, on any personal matter of consequence, in my view. However "baseline" epistemic hygiene seems to be a somewhat distant goal for the vast majority now
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by ttctciyf 4mo ago
Personally, as a gmail user of about 2 decades, this is the first I've heard of this particular issue, probably because for some years I don't even read past the word "smart" before disabling whatever feature du jour is
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by ttctciyf 4mo ago
I mean the implications and ramifications are fascinating, but .. I just need to take a few moments to absorb the sheer spectacular stupendous glorious DUMBNESS of a multibillion dollar corp with its generously paid staff utilising $multibi
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by ttctciyf 4mo ago
Personally it seems mostly about prizing the phone number out of my cold clammy hands. I recently tried to access my google account on a new browser install. Google did not believe my login/password was sufficient, and insisted on me s
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by ttctciyf 4mo ago
You can accomplish "no ads" and arguably substantially less tracking without Premium, though, with (e.g.) firefox and ublock origin. The only downside is an occasional ignorable warning that you're "seeing interruptions&
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Zig president bans AI code contributions: 'invariably garbage'(businessinsider.com)
9 points by ttctciyf 4mo ago|4 comments
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by ttctciyf 4mo ago
If browsers have enough low-level access to my storage hardware to carry out timing attacks for fingerprinting, it seems likely they also have enough to maliciously chug the hardware sufficiently to degrade capacity over time and otherwise
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by ttctciyf 4mo ago
If you don't care about the facticity of the answer, AI is less clicks, granted.
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by ttctciyf 5mo ago
I'll definitely be keeping an eye on Roguelike Radio[0], still putting out episodes - 3 already this year! - to see if any coverage emerges. 0: http://www.roguelikeradio.com/
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by ttctciyf 6mo ago
See also: https://ddosecrets.org/article/kash-patel-emails
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by ttctciyf 6mo ago
noscript, ublock origin, reader view: the referenced page loads in 2s on a bad connection and downloads no ads while remaining perfectly readable. Browsing and not using these tools nowadays is volunteering for a bad time, IMO.
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by ttctciyf 8mo ago
Probably asked an llm
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by ttctciyf 8mo ago
Those are not mutually exclusive in this instance, it seems.
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by ttctciyf 8mo ago
Maybe it's intended to avoid legal liability resulting from reproducing copyright material not licensed for training?
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by ttctciyf 9mo ago
The agnotologists[1] have never had it so good! The production of ignorance is booming as its trajectory takes it from roots in advertising, then lobbying, then political campaigns to center stage in political strategy and official governm
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by ttctciyf 9mo ago
> Perhaps you can tell me what use "3 ∩ 4 = 3" has. As I said: > a handy set theoretic implementation of the min() function. i.e. if you wanted (for whatever reason) to define min(a, b) directly and briefly in your set theor
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by ttctciyf 9mo ago
Maybe I'm too familiar with the set theoretic construction of the natural numbers (0 is the empty set, 1 = {0}, ..., 5 = {0,1,2,3,4}, etc.) but their example of "3 ∩ 4 = 3" or "4 intersect 3 is 3" doesn't seem
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by ttctciyf 9mo ago
From TFA: > [Indyke] was hired by the Parlatore Law Group in 2022, before the justice department settled the Epstein case. That firm represents the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and previously represented Donald Trump in his defense a
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by ttctciyf 9mo ago
No, it's not. It has various functionality, as shown by the built-in help: > Example output of the SysRq+h command: > sysrq: HELP : loglevel(0-9) reboot(b) crash(c) terminate-all-tasks(e) memory-full-oom-kill(f) kill-all-tasks(i)

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