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I love how Carter blows up a star system, and then later McKay blows up 5/6ths of a star system which it turns out is deeply more complicated to pull off. On the other hand Carter …

All I heard was "compression is intelligence"

I'm curious how heavily you have test suites built up as guardrails while doing this, to prevent regressions and such?

But the real litmus test is and always has been "can a theory predict the results of empirical measurements (such as controlled experiments) more accurately than its competitors". …

I am curious what the correct algorithm would be, if for no other reason than to find out how on god's green earth it could be slower than using a division as an erstwhile shortcut…

Well, I use PICO-8 LUA. Where are my double-precision floats and 64bit integers at? XD

I'm the network admin for a small ISP that hasn't deployed IPv6 yet. We do have ARIN IPv6 space, but we also have thousands of customers who do not know what that is or care about …

Well, I mean True(x) does = NOT (NOT True(x)), so..

I think you are making a lot of assumptions on what "practical purposes" even mean in that case. Please think carefully and then try to tell me whether or not some Trump-administra…

> There is very little pushback against grok being willing to write explicit descriptions of sex, or giving security advise. John Oliver disagrees with this

That's like asking "if someone is unwilling to practice abstinence, why would they be willing to wear a condom, or to flip a magic 'not fertile right at this moment' lightswitch?" …

When one's primary handling of numbers comes down to either linear (single-dimensional) lists or money, then you won't use modulo very much. But any time you're walking over a disc…

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that

Stallman?

I use the proxy feature extensively as a network administrator, it is quite frequent that I need to SSH tunnel to get to the Web UI of a remote resource (for security or at least a…

.. for a few days but now they can 8I

Er.. on the moon you can also view the sky nightly. It's just that both the days and the nights are a lot longer.

This is what I want on my house and my car

> but not all AI is machine learning I will instead pick at this latter part of your claim. What is an example of something that is AI but that is not ML..?

But it is only a perk for the scam artists who benefit from that. Yes, it makes sense that the confusion aligns with their interests, and they are unavoidably a big part of the con…

Yay I saw Vi's video mentioning this old paper again recently :D

It fascinates me how many utterly critical foundational technologies have become specialist niches (while only ever growing more foundational and critical) over the past century. 8…

I'd have probably gone with "Apples and Orangutans"

"TL;DR" transformed into "TL;must be AI"

> but why, on a website called Hacker News, should I need to care about what most people choose to do with their lives? Well, when the question is "why did the blogs go away" the a…