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Sufficient if all else were equal. But the human brain and artificial neural networks are clearly not equal. This is setting aside the whole question of whether we hope to equal hu…

Isn't this a little bit of a category error? LLMs are not a language. But prompts to LLMs are written in a language, more or less a natural language such as English. Unfortunately,…

The irony here is that universities are struggling to teach writing skills, due to massive cheating with AI.

Note that many universities still have DEI offices. I believe that they are interpreting as described here: https://www.governmentcontractorcomplianceupdate.com/2025/08... . So as …

How are other kinds of engineers such as automotive engineers treated at companies like Ford, or aerospace engineers such as at Boeing?

I agree that the goals are worthwhile, and also feel that requiring every proposal to include this is not efficient and/or very effective. They should take all the funds and time s…

Add some extra information, and it gets confused. This is 4o. https://chatgpt.com/share/67759723-f008-800e-b0f3-9c81e656d6... One might argue that it's impossible to compress air u…

The bank is context that gives us a prior probability. However, MLE does not consider a prior. So MLE can give results that are not very helpful in the real world. All it does is a…

Yes, but then it is no longer MLE, but rather MAP: [ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarti/Class/10701_Spring23/Lecs/Lect... .

My favorite MLE example: Suppose you walk into a bank and ask them to give you a quarter. You flip the quarter twice and get two heads. Given this experiment, what do you estimate …

Only if you let the mistake go unmentioned. I do a version of this where I glibly include a mistake, like: // Examples of dereference operator. int i, *ip = ..., **ipp = ...; i = *…

Yes, used in the past. I don't currently use them, though I think they are cool mechanical marvels, especially IBM Selectrics. Those were way too expensive to own personally, but w…

Oh, I personally don't currently use them. This was in the past, starting from playing around with my Dad's manual typewriter. Took typing course in 8th grade on a manual. Owned a …

I have used multiple typewriters in my life, and agree. In addition, the look of film/tape vs cloth/nylon is very different, and tape ribbon can look very crisp: https://en.wikiped…

Bemused ( https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/can-bemuse-mean-amus... ) is another word that is often understood "incorrectly".

Completely reasonable. I'd probably edit your blog post a bit to indicate that.

Did you add output of the results to the C code?

IMO, not using any optimization flags with C is somewhat arbitrary, since the compiler writers could have just decided that by default we'll do thing X, Y, and Z, and then you'd ne…

For the discrete case, it seems that a better thing to do is consider the likelihood of getting that number of heads, rather than the likelihood of getting that exact sequence. I a…

Is all UB silly? E.g., wouldn't fully defining what happens when one goes beyond the end of an array impose a non-trivial performance hit for at least some code?

Seems that ideally, there would be a standard based on viral inactivation/removal rate, rather than targeting specifically ACH. Companies and builders could then decide what combin…

Seems to be more about holding chopsticks. But two ways to use chopsticks that might be less known: Opening a bottle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPLrGfAbhnw Also, I couldn't f…

If you use university resources, they almost certainly will have a claim to the IP. Best to just buy a personal laptop, and use only personal resources.

We have had a compiler elective before, but it was never required, and currently we don't offer it. I don't think there is a lot of demand from students for it, for better or worse…

I'm a professor at a R1 university in the CS dept. I wire-wrapped a PDP-8 in school as part of a CS degree, and thought it was super-interesting and fun, and part of me agrees with…