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by tylerhou 22d ago
Businesses raise prices to account for interchange fees. So they are essentially is paid by the consumer. If we outlawed rewards credit cards (by capping interchange fees), everything would likely be slightly cheaper.
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by tylerhou 5mo ago
bot, or someone heavily using an LLM. all 26 “papers” listed on orcid were written in 2026 and “published” on zenodo
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by tylerhou 6mo ago
Graduate students! Hah! ML researchers can only hope their papers at ICLR/ICML/NeurIPs are reviewed by graduate students!
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by tylerhou 7mo ago
This article is missing (extremely important) context that CS enrollment at Berkeley was restricted significantly. Many students at Berkeley want to major in CS, but can’t.
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by tylerhou 8mo ago
The art’s aesthetic, which resembles Calvin and Hobbes, is disrespectful to its creator, Bill Watterson’s. Bill spent a lot of energy fighting commercialization of his work, arguing that it would devalue his characters and their personaliti
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by tylerhou 8mo ago
A big problem is that the range that we have decided to call “normal” might not actually be a normal range. For example, 50% of surfers were found to have insufficient vitamin D in one study. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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by tylerhou 8mo ago
You should check out Perceus! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
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by tylerhou 9mo ago
Basically, a proxy. You don't need to deep copy; you just need to return a proxy object that falls back to the original dict if the key you are requesting has not been found or modified. Functional data structures essentially create a
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by tylerhou 10mo ago
Monads do not need to build up a computation. The identity functor is a monad.
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by tylerhou 10mo ago
Yes.
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by tylerhou 10mo ago
The sun’s radiation hitting earth is 44,000 terawatts. I think we’re fine with an “extra” terawatt. (It’s not even extra, because it would be derived from the sun’s existing energy.) https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uplo
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by tylerhou 11mo ago
> I would like to learn category theory properly one day, at least to that kind of "advance undergraduate" level she mentions. As someone who tried to learn category theory, and then did a mathematics degree, I think anyone who
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by tylerhou 11mo ago
No, sorting 50/2ish things 50 times allegedly takes 1-2ms. Which is only slightly more believable.
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by tylerhou 11mo ago
It is not critical for register assignment -- in fact, SSA makes register assignment more difficult (see the swap problem; the lost copy problem). Lifetime analysis is important for register assignment, and SSA can make lifetime analysis ea
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by tylerhou 11mo ago
Here's a concise explanation of SSA. Regular (imperative) code is hard to optimize because in general statements are not pure -- if a statement has side effects, then it might not preserve the behavior to optimize that statement by,
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by tylerhou 11mo ago
> M5 is 4-6x more powerful than M4 In GPU performance (probably measured on a specific set of tasks).
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by tylerhou 11mo ago
Money circulates but resources do not. A human hour spent constructing a data center can’t then be used to build an apartment building.
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by tylerhou 1y ago
WCOJs guarantee an (asymptotic) upper bound on join complexity, but often with the right join plan and appropriate cardinality estimations, you can do much better than WCOJ. The runtime of WCOJs algorithms are even more dependent on good ca
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by tylerhou 1y ago
> You can end up writing nearly the exact same code twice because one needs to be async to handle an async function argument, even if the real functionality of the wrapper isn't async. Sorry for the possibly naive question. If I nee
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by tylerhou 1y ago
There are many comments that don't see the point of the article. For example, why not just use the tools the operating system provides for sandboxing? This article seems to be directed at people familiar with the state of programming l
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by tylerhou 1y ago
Sorry, you're right that the chart on the home page does not have human performance. The leaderboard chart does: https://arcprize.org/leaderboard . And the leaderboard by default shows scores for ARC-AGI 1 and 2. The mo
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by tylerhou 1y ago
> AI already blows most people out of an IQ test at a fraction of the computational power of a brain AFAIK, IQ tests used in psychological evaluations do not contain any randomness so exact answers are almost always in distribution. I ha
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by tylerhou 1y ago
IVM is not new, but the DBSP (2022) perspective is relatively new for databases (where the classic literature is from the 70s and 80s). It is misleading to say that IVM reduces the cost of view updates from O(n) to O(1). While that is not t
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by tylerhou 1y ago
> ibuprofen is better in every way. Taking ibuprofen (or other NSAIDs) long-term can wear away the stomach lining, causing ulcers. Acetaminophen is generally better tolerated to manage mild long-term pain than NSAIDs, as long as you don&
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by tylerhou 1y ago
Source they got paid?
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by tylerhou 1y ago
Defunctionalization is a general technique that allows one to serialize functions as data. You’ve almost certainly used this technique before without realizing it was an instance of defunctionalization.
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by tylerhou 1y ago
It is much easier and more maintainable to convert to continuation passing style. If you also use defunctionalization to allocate closures on a stack instead of a fresh heap allocation for every closure, you will achieve performance on par
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by tylerhou 1y ago
I disagree with the title; loops are tail-recursive functions, but tail-recursive functions are not loops (in the sense that squares are rectangles, but rectangles are not squares). It is true that every tail recursive function can be conve
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by tylerhou 1y ago
If you are willing to return std::optional, clang-tidy has a (static) control flow sensitive check that enforces you check to see the value is valid before unwrapping. https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks
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by tylerhou 1y ago
I agree with you that smart people exist, and I have met a few in college as well. The main thing I want to add is that using IQ to quantify intelligence at the top end of the scale is scientifically bogus and in my opinion harmful because

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