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There's some code I wrote 30 years ago that's still running inside a text-based, multiplayer, internet game (LPMUD). I wouldn't say it's useful, per se , but it'll probably continu…

> Well that and it’s hard to distinguish if you’re early in exponential growth or linear. That's true, but not really saying very much. Any differentiable function is locally linea…

Yeah, unfortunately, I believe that one side effect of the human (sensory) nervous system having a logarithmic response curve is that humans are bad at understanding exponential pr…

Huge news, because this is the first improvement on the upper bound for the diagonal Ramsey numbers since 1935.

The word itself suggest as much as well. "Mortgage" is derived from Old French mort ("dead") + gage ("pledge"). In other words, it was a pledge that was supposed to die either when…

I am not. I am suggesting there are other savings in the average household energy budget that are more significant. Besides, even "waste" electricity heats a home in the winter, so…

20 watts standby is only about 14.7 kWh per month. Even at on-peak, summer PG&E rates, we're only talking about $7/month. Granted, I'd much rather pay $0 than $7, and I'd rather no…

When this happened to me, I just renamed my tv to "STOP TRYING TO PAIR WITH THIS FUCKING TV"

By "diversity," do you mean something like "entropy?" Like maybe H_s(x) := -\sum_{x \in X_s} p(x) log(p(x)) where X_s := all s-grams from the training set? That seems like it would…

As a former grad student, I can tell you, that's all research code, not just ML, or even "performance-oriented" research code.

While it's not manufactured by the same company anymore, a Korean company bought the formula and sells it on Amazon now! [0] So, you, too, can see what the hype is all about, if yo…

Why? In my office, you'd see me (of course), and some bookcases behind me with a bunch of very SFW books. What's so offensive about that?

Don’t do that. Those blur effects always look so bad.

What other crimes do you think should allow the “not my problem” defense? A crime is still a crime even if full restitution is made.

Crash it. It’s more fun that way anyway.

Well, I think it’s just as weird to refer to it as “the City,” as if there aren’t literally over 100 cities in the 9 Bay Area counties.

No. You can’t “not my problem” your way out of being an accessory to fraud.

The problem is fraud. Locking out Chinese fraudsters at the expense of legitimate Chinese sellers solves the problem.

That’s all yet another instance of “not my problem.” Can’t prevent fraud on your e-commerce site? Maybe you should not be running one.

I don’t see any facts coming from you, either.

A friend of mine has shoplifted all kinds of random-ass shit. I'm talking like, oh, an entire dinette set, on one occasion; a canoe, and (unfortunately) only one paddle on another.…

When I was a math grad student, I technically could have gone through the process to get 1 or 2 CS courses approved to give credit toward my degree, but I never actually cared abou…

It's been quite a while, but I believe my school required Automata Theory, which is at least diffeomorphic to Formal Languages.