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Phew. The pessimism here is kinda... exhausting. But frankly I don't have any material objections """ The Mars Religion When you hold on to a belief so strongly that neither facts …

> Getting to Turing completeness can require polynomial CoT tokens, wrt the input problem size. So, as stated, this is impossible since it violates the Time Hierarchy Theorem. The …

For some reason, I find it kinda funny you don't just ask the LLM to extract the values for you. Practically, your solution makes a lot of sense -- way fewer tokens, less likely to…

No. Hokusai pre-dated Impressionism by a couple of decades, but his work was known in Paris and almost certainly influenced the movement. Also worth noting this particular work's i…

> The amendments limit the governments reach, not limiting the people. Well... other than the 18th Amendment.

Hmm... but does it taste good? If I'm growing my own tomatoes, I'm going for something delicious like a Pink Brandywine or Cherokee Purple (which, compared to this specimen, is adm…

I feel like I'm missing some context here?

Sure, but you can associate events with indicator rvs: X = 1[Heads], Y = 1[Tails]

Not sure how literal you're being -- this is an obituary. True to style, it gives a brief and positive biography of the deceased.

np is the standard alias for numpy, probably the most popular numerical and array processing library for python. So, no, not part of the standard lib at all. But a universal import…

This kind of work sounds potentially (?) important for continuing to improve network technology. Unfortunately I don't have the background to understand why it works in the slighte…

Not entirely sure what you're getting at here -- what do those other two publications have to do with this essay?

My favorite function here is more_itertools.one. Especially in something like a unit test, where ValueErrors from unexpected conditions are desirable, we can use it to turn code li…

Maybe in some cases, but the performance characteristics are way different. The functions in `more_itertools` return lazy generators, but it looks like `np.flatten` materializes th…

I couldn't really understand this paragraph. Maybe I need a worked example? > Bit rotation can be implemented using a combination of bit shifting and or operations, and on a hardwa…

This is touched on in the article. In fact a fintech startup Ingo Money is trying this. > And then there’s one decision which I just love aesthetically: if you’re willing to wait t…

Huh I have exactly the opposite prior here. I was surprised by the Ngram though: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=to+bartend%2C+... Looks like over the past 200 years,…

It's hard for me to relate to this point of view. Sure, my local park isn't the Grand Canyon, but on a day-to-day basis, failing to make the "top-100 list" doesn't impact my enjoym…

If I understand you correctly, I think ParamSpec (since 3.10) is what you are looking for, especially if you want to be generic over the type of the inner function. The example fro…

What does EMEA stand for?

This paragraph, later on in the piece, briefly addresses the issue. According to the sources the author cites, the cull is not ecologically justified, but rather to stop the cattle…

I appreciate that use of your vehicles was essential for you during the aftermath of Katrina. But I don't think emergency situations are a good enough rational for using a gasoline…

A Domino's extra-large pizza is 16", comparable to the width of the handlebars. I think they'll be fine.

A "sin tax" is logical enough -- higher prices discourage the excess consumption of alcohol and the money raised hopefully goes to beneficial government programs. However, I don't …