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What does "fully riced with cats" mean?

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

I'd call P = NP computer science rather than math, but perhaps it's reasonable to call it sufficiently on the theoretical side of CS that it really is math.

For what it's worth, it's not a problem with multiple kinds of multiplication (multiplication by a scalar can be viewed as multiplication by a specific kind of matrix), but with th…

I'd way rather read a translation in which the author themselves has played a part, and at least nominally signed off on it, than one done on the fly with even less than usual guar…

It seems to me like we're saying the same thing. I'm saying that there is a practical bias, as in, it's there in the real world whether we like it or not, that can prevent some pap…

Which part is a sin? Using LLMs to deal with a lack of English-language fluency? I am a scientist (actually a mathematician, if it matters), and, if that's the way to deal with the…

Depending on your mathematical background, it may be easier to get a grasp on Tannaka duality, of which I assume, but don't know, this may usefully be viewed as a (possibly too) va…

The article mentions one reason for small numbers predominating: > The first is listicles. “3 ways to do X”, “5 things I wish I’d known”, “10 tools I actually use”. The listicle is…

That's only for individual usage, which, I assume, is small potatoes compared to institutional usage. No major research institution is going to use piracy as an institutional polic…

I don't mean to pick on an irrelevant detail, but I genuinely don't know how to parse ">10x fewer deaths per capita." Does it mean "fewer than 1/10 as many deaths per capita," i.e.…

> > Parquet is unfortunately very good just by virtue of being first, and so widely supported > IMO that is not how technology works. It is great that Parquet is so good at a lot o…

A classic joke about computers (far before this blog post, just the source that came up when I Googled): https://therefinedgeek.com.au/index.php/2010/09/22/dont-anth...

> In what sense? Emacs is a Lisp interpreter with a text editor embedded in it - one can fully emulate Neovim features in it, the opposite is hardly possible - you can bolt Lisp in…

Gold, but not new gold: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html

Certainly! I was intentionally hedging my bets with 'most' in "for most values of 'every other editor out there.'" I'd still argue that, for very large values of 'most,' most edito…

> I wouldn't dislike vim's modes so much if it just had one combination insert/append mode that worked like every other editor out there (including a couple other modal editors I'v…

Yes, I intentionally left out the next part of the quote about graduate school, since that seems more accurate. I was disputing only the part that I took to be pertaining to underg…

> This starts to break down in college when the professors often at best only slightly ahead. (they have more knowledge and experience - but in a slightly different area and so it …

From that perspective, the problems are lawlessness and petty crime, not the graffiti. I would not feel safer in a place just because it had reduced the symptoms of those things, u…

> Why? Do the riches cities have the poorest poor or is it generally the richest cities have the both the richest poor and the most support for them. I don't know. Do you? If the l…

> Respect for property rights is highly correlated with prosperity and that includes prosperity for those without property. I think that this sounds good and is a sensible hypothes…

> Many people would feel safer in Lee Kwan Yew's Singapore than in the USA. Better housing and health policy, less graffiti and street violence. Of all the things wrong with the US…

> Sounds like The Flavor Bible - it's a great reference book to find pairings of ingredients. I think fpshero says exactly that ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294459 ): >…