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I'm just going to answer this one candidly. Yes, you are doing something wrong. Immediately: the commit history is useful to understand the context in which a bug was introduced, b…

You're right that I can't reproduce it like a phone camera could, and that the more precise you are the better (and it might be that with my eyes closed I'm doing something closer …

Seriously, though, there's one nomogram you (yes you) should know about and have it well-enough engraved in your mind's eye that you can use it with eyes closed. A nomogram for Bay…

Gentry Lee is in this? That's very funny.

If you stare at the CYK algorithm long enough and see it for the dynamic programming approach it is, you'll then realize that you can do the same parallelization trick for any cont…

CRAN has very different social structures and culture than other languages' package repos. CRAN _will_ pull your package from the repository if you fail to play nice with all packa…

(People might not know the inside joke here, namely that WotC has in the past sent the actual Pinkertons after some people suspected of leaking unreleased cards)

I want to point out that you are posting from a 5-months old account (squarely within a time frame where LLM-powered accounts would be created), with an UUID-sounding username, cla…

Yes! That "prefeitura do Rio" huggingface URL is definitely shocking to read to this Brazilian as well (I'm assuming you and parent also are from your usernames).

I know this is irrelevant on the grand scheme of things, but that WebGL animation is really quite wrong. That is extra funny given the "ensure it has realistic orbital mechanics." …

(Disclosure: I work on https://quarto.org , for the same company that the author of WebR works on) Thanks for sharing that PDF link. It's so good! Would you be willing to write a b…

Science is just Stochastic Graduate Descent, as we used to say.

(FWIW, I'm the technical lead on the Quarto project) RMarkdown isn't going anywhere! Quarto exists to bring the RMarkdown experience that folks love to a broader set of users and c…

I’m dismayed that people are willing to put their names on garbage like this. If you want the serious version of the idea instead of the LLM diarrhea, just go Jonathan Shewchuk’s r…

Presumably because one of the two things are true: - there's competition, and so if it's possible to rent for less than 1000-eps and still profit, someone will - there's no competi…

You can also just grab the same piece from Substack: https://thenoosphere.substack.com/p/just-how-many-more-succe...

This is the kind of task that LLMs are precisely terrible at; there isn't an abundance of Zod 4 examples, and the LLM will sure as shit will give you _something_ you are now by def…

(I imagine you agree, so this is just to expand) a secondary, insidious issue is that administrators diffuse their rules through the bureaucracy. In the case of CS, you start seein…

Please - if I wanted to know what an LLM thinks about this, I would have asked it myself.

(Context: I’m an IC and told my Manager multiple times that I’d quit if they ever make me a manager) If you truly believe that, please do yourself a favor and read “The tyranny of …

My understanding is that "weird" unicode code points become https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode . I used the 󠅘󠅕󠅜󠅜󠅟 (copy-pasted from the post, presumably with the payload i…

(I worked tangentially on software for analyzing data that will come from the Vera Rubin telescope, and) yeah, while it was designed for spotting weird supernovae and such, the fir…

(Late reply, but) I got to play this over the weekend together with some other suggestions in this thread, and Dark Room was actually pretty good! Thanks for the recommendation.

Since we're all sharing clicker games, this one by Frank Lantz is a real classic: https://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

(Disclosure: I’m a former academic with more than a handful of papers to my name) The parent comment is harshly criticizing (fairly, in my view) a paper , and not the authors. Smar…