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StackOverlord

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    Comment #37380171

    > ‘Sometimes you need to do that to get the results for things you think are essential.’

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    Comment #37361273

    I'd like to point out the existence of Chris Staecker's Youtube Channel, mainly focused on old analoguous devices used to compute and measure things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?…

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    Comment #37361170

    Then make sure nobody from Eglin Air Force Base posts on here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit...

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    Comment #37348410

    Academia selects for conformism first closely followed by cognitive abilities ([paste link to paper here]). But who cares ? I certainly don't I'm more interested in the groundbreak…

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    Comment #37336289

    I think it matters a great deal too, and not just for typing code but for reading it too, and this goes beyond simply typing fast but also writing short concise code, especially fo…

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    Comment #37319785

    https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/implementing-inte...

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    Comment #37319668

    > "additional data available to the Department of Defense" which I assume is classified. Spot on > The 2014 meteor was originally identified as an interstellar object by Siraj in 2…

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    Comment #37281351

    "The pyramids give us the dimensions of our planet on a scale defined by the planet itself." - Hancock It's a bit as if we had never seen a poem and stumble upon some text that har…

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    Comment #37280415

    write a program to prove your point. I'm not saying this with sarcasm. Maybe you could take over my attempts at coming up with a custom set of equations for a pyramid, or any other…

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    Comment #37278180

    You can get to the absolute dimensions of the pyramid from the crackpot equations though: https://pasteboard.co/cIMzn8KktEZy.png https://tobeornottobe.org/the-great-pyramid-intro/m…

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    Comment #37276459

    http://homework.uoregon.edu/pub/emj/121/lectures/tycho121.ht... > Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) proposed an experiment that would determine whether or not the earth goes around the sun. …

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    Comment #37274281

    > harmful and pathological Don't forget "toxic" too !

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    Comment #37260952

    https://thequantuminsider.com/2023/08/22/tqi-exclusive-bob-c...

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    Comment #37260888

    For the first time with GPT4, OpenAI as been able to predict model progress with accuracy: > A large focus of the GPT-4 project has been building a deep learning stack that scales …

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    Comment #37243497

    noooooooo

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    Comment #37207643

    You can also recursively define fib as a lazy sequence that is the pairwise sum of fib and fib shifted by one. (Clojure, from Rosetta Code). (def fib (lazy-cat [0 1] (map + fib (re…

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    Comment #37189061

    > Birds are susceptible to a respiratory condition called "teflon toxicity" or "PTFE poisoning/toxicosis." Deaths can result from this condition, which is due to the noxious fumes …

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    Comment #37187016

    Could it be explained by lack of isolation ? Like a feather not isolated from air's resistance ?

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    Comment #37162196

    We're cornered by McKinsey

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    Comment #37162109

    You will be the judge. I was tasked of enabling us to backtrack on our decision of building a microservice rather than a library. The service was using postgres, and was connected …

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    Comment #37161503

    A type system is for internal consistency though. Facts are about external consistency with real world data. And even then facts are always a social augmentation in that they are a…

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    Comment #37161367

    Indeed but people who are confidently wrong in good faith so to speak don't make up science paper titles.

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    Comment #37161182

    I don't get your argument about the frame problem. Maybe it's like squeezing a big pillow inside a small bag. A bulge forms that won't fit. It's the frame problem. Turn the pillow …

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    Comment #37160727

    I've been categorized as such for having the audacity of writing a tree traversal function.