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> The Bipartite graph class is also a bit silly in this case, since it's by definition the 2-colorable graphs Be a little bit careful here: another common textbook definitions of b…

> Forests, trees, and bipartite graphs are 2-colorable. More precise: a graph is bipartite if and only if it is 2-colorable (this can actually be used as a definition). Since fores…

> I guarantee you're a lot easier to manipulate than you think. I can imagine some hypothetical scenarios, but I do believe that I have strong evidence that this is mostly not the …

> People tell these models everything . You don't think a pretty unethical company can figure out a way to monetize that? I assume research-level questions about scientific topics …

> 90+% of queries are probably so common/evergreen that, if a cheaper model made all the different language vari[a]nts and ways of asking the question into one query, they could be…

> Email is a good window but lots of people talk in more depth with a chat bot. > Search is a good “purchase intent moment” but people are telling a chat bot exactly what they care…

> Yes, but I think there's really two different definitions of point 1. It's "figure out what non-software problem you can solve with software" vs "figure out what technical proble…

> If you're a tinkerer, you don't care much for 1 and 5, and you see 2-4 as the whole point of programming. I'm a tinkerer. I'd be happy to just write code and throw it away. Codin…

> That's another problem Google have: they won't stand behind their products until they are outdated. > That can work in the B2C space but it's horrible in B2B. My experience diffe…

> I have a friend at Google DeepMind who tells me that Google believes in AGI/superintelligence just as much as HN does, which is probably why no one with conviction wants to work …

> Losing Ive was probably a good thing for Apple. The position that I have rather often read on the internet is: Jonathan Ive did very good work at Apple as long as there was a cou…

> Just take an immigrant in front of you next time and see him make two mistakes in a row in one sentence while casually talking to him (maybe he's tired, maybe he's lazy but who's…

> At that point a GPU was at best just the rasterizer and ROP phases from an acceleration perspective. For those who are not so deep into GPU architecture: ROP: Raster Operation Pi…

> As an immigrant to Germany, I wish the authorities would think more about the chilling effect every new rule has on activity (add another item to your to-do checklist, and less p…

> but the chat absolutely needs to happen in German. Why? Work culture. Rather: because a lot of less formal thoughts (including jokes) are difficult to express in English since th…

> Curious to get some perspective: How viable would starting a career in IT/Technology in Germany be as a mildly autistic American with an inability to learn foreign languages? In …

> But it also seems very inefficient because of the need to keep rolling stock in reserve, ready to go just in case. That’s a lot of maintenance, staff, and machine time to burn. C…

> considering how excited many Germans were about being able to deploy the Army for non defensive reasons in the Balkans, Afghanistan, etc. Having lived at that time in Germany, I …

> I won't waste it living in a fantasy that as an individual I will have any meaningful impact on lowering corruption, homicides, robberies, so on and so forth. The difference is: …

> I remember windows 2000 being pretty rock solid. Windows NT (including Windows 2000) was considered to be a workstation OS by Microsoft. From Windows XP on, the NT-based Windows …

> there are possibly much fewer similar publications with "Fields medalist disease" Among mathematicians, I wouldn't claim that "Fields medalist disease" is an unusual term, though…

> It's doubly funny knowing that basically nobody bothers doing these kinds of workloads on CPU if they can help it. When the Itanium was developed and introduced (2001), nobody wa…

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> do you play those point and click adventure games from early 2000s? Yes (but this is off-topic). > Deponia also good, Truberbrook. For both of these games, the original native ve…

> Once the government starts ignoring them while demanding that everyone else follows them, every rule becomes a potential headache. There is a reason why hardly any German person …