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If you have to express your computation using an "array programming DSL" with things like scan and gather anyways - why not opt to use torch/tensorflow/jax or anything else that ta…

Oh, at least in the post Soviet tradition of oral exams, you are given plenty of time to think and prepare your argument before you start an actual conversation with the examining …

Same. The focus on written exams rated blindly and uniformly at the US higher education system always puzzled me. I guess that's the only way to scale things up when you pay profes…

And there's also parsec.app but only for windows hosts through.

Honestly this is the first time I am seeing this kind of work that i genuinely like. Most fractal and other kinds of self repeating results are not that interesting at all to me.

https://youtu.be/IehwV2K60r8?is=WWZU3R1PMAQksHhj How they fit the Sonic 3D intro onto a sega mega drive _cartridge_!

How difficult it is to get a perfect beam in practice? Can one manufacture a flat rotman lense like that to introduce sinc phase shifts - this should yield a well behaved very dire…

If AI can find new proofs for well posed math problems, i see no reason why it shouldn't be able to implement a more performant fully featured version of an existing interpreter (e…

I have not looked into this specific issue, but are we sure that a regression here could have been avoided via a localized test? Maybe issues seem to arise from A implementing a fe…

I agree re Rust vs C - this is not (only) a language issue. What would (roughly) the invariant be here? In another thread comment below i argue that maybe the system (OS) itself is…

On the other hand, it is (both halting and spec adherence) are checkable under compute and space constraints though? :) I'd say the biggest hurdle are means to describe the spec in…

+1 that there are few things more exhausting than listening to someone's "proof of work" i'd rephrase as "visible lack of effort is problematic" - anything above that passes the ba…

I am far from a security expert, but from the number of "we missed a single line C check across files during refactoring" critical security bugs discovered on a regular basis these…

Could you elaborate on what exactly does such syntax provide over kwargs? To me it looks like verbatim x=a, y=b replaced by x(a)+y(b) in the argument section.

Yes, that was my thought as well when i was visiting UK and reddit kept asking me to verify my age. It might be even more private and non-trackable than that - if "age.id.gov" cent…

How `plot(.. + ggsize(700, 300) + ..)` is superior to a keyword parameter `plot(.. , size = (700, 300), ..)`?

One argument I heard from a college that the experimental llm written code (not production ofc) should be "write only" - you specify the requirements and constraints and let the ma…

I asked the same question a few years ago, and the answer I arrived at is that the app has, by default, more permissions (not only technical but also conventional) to collect data,…

To my surprise, even sophisticated means of traffic masking like amnezia and vxray get disrupted frequently, requiring hopping around self hosted solutions and updating ones setup …

Eastern European pan-fried cottage cheese fritters (mix and fry 150g cottage cheese, 5 tbsp flour, 1 egg, 3 tbsp sugar, salt) are great. That's all I have to say.

I still consider jax.vmap to be a little miracle: fn2 = vmap(fn, (1,2)), if i remember correctly, traverces the computation graph of fn and correctly broacasts all operations in a …

A long while ago i heard something (that might have been a urban myth) about Bose putting useless weight into their headphones to make them appear more "substantially professional"…

I'd be curious to know the breakdown of "wages and benefits" between academics, teachers and administrative staff. I've heard that admin takes up a huge fraction of the cost. How l…

This is really cool, these patterns (run once now and then once triggered) surface all the time and usually turn into ugly code! How many interations did it take? So most lines lik…

I was really confused about the case folding, this page explained the motivation well https://jean.abou-samra.fr/blog/unicode-misconceptions """ Continuing with the previous exampl…