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As mathematician, I actually agree. We could do a lot more to communicate ideas in a way non-experts can understand. For instance, most people are familiar with polynomials. Take a…

Editions do not fragment the ecosystem at all. A crate written in rust 2015 can depend on a crate written in rust 2024 and vice versa. There are no forced upgrades. The only mainta…

Out of curiosity, did it shift up or down for you? I've had perfect putch from a young age, but now at 30 I hear everything a semiton higher (so e.g. a B sounds like a C to me, and…

My read of GP is that there is a cycle economy between "bitter lesson" style domain-general scaling and domain-specific adaptation once the scaling plateaus for the latest tech.

I love this! If I were to suggest any improvements: - Have a play-by-play view so users can see plays they missed - Make the "between innings" tabs clickable rather than forcing us…

To the extent that's true, the same would then apply to any sufficiently intelligent life. So if that's the crux of the argument, it has nothing to do with AI being a great filter.…

It always bothers me when people suggest that AI could be the "great filter" in the sense of Fermi's paradox. Yes, AI may well wipe out biological life, but all evidence suggests A…

It clearly doesn't use minimax, since it doesn't play the best move for black in the critical line, leading to a mate in 5 instead if a mate in 6. Best line is N4 N5, Nx6+ K7, R4 N…

The site plays Kx6 instead. You're right though that I was generous with the exclams; all the moves are easy to find in reality.

It frustrates me that the site does not give the strongest defense for black. The position is mate in 6, not 5: 1. N4 N5 2. Nx6+ K7 3. R4 N3+! 4. K2 N5 5. N8! Kx8 6. Rx5#

> Theoretically you can max out every 5 hour window, but they lose money on that. No, there is a weekly limit as well. Maxing out a single 5h window uses ~10% of the weekly limit

I find a lot of motivation from topology. If you plot a smooth degree d curve over the complex numbers, it forms a surface of degree g=(d-1)(d-2)/2. In the case of a cubic, we get …

Rooks don't have taxicab geometry. Their metric space is compact even on an infinite board. I think you're thinking of the wazir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wazir_(chess)

Sure, but who's reading the conversation to determine whether it "looks suspicious"? A regex? A neural network? Who decides the algorithm, and do you really can believe they won't …

I am confused how we can define a rotation number of the map from S^1 to R^3 defined at the end of the second paragraph. R^3 is nullhomotopic, after all...

My preference is semi-compatible with both conventions: First = 0 Second = 1 Toward = 2 Third = 3 … This way, the semantic meaning of the words “first” (prior to all others) and “s…

Beat me to it!

Working in HFT, my favorite is 1 nanosecond ≈ 1 foot

Can you make the checkboxes indexed from zero? (Maybe I am too dogmatic)

> You think mathematicians had it all wrong for centuries As a mathematician, yes, I do. Pretty much everything becomes simpler if you treat zero as the first natural number. > Inc…

And when you do need google, you can always just add `!g` to your search query. There are a bunch of other useful ones [0], my favorite is probably `!w` for Wikipedia. [0] https://…

I disagree on the zero-based indexing complaint. Indeed, the fact that Julia indexed from 1 is the sole reason I will never use an otherwise great language. I can’t comprehend how …

For anyone wondering if the speed of light is a concern, a good mnemonic is that a foot is roughly equal to a nanosecond. So a millisecond is long enough (by a factor of ~50000) th…

One of many things I learned from [0] is that the vast majority drownings happen in crowded pools with a ton of floaties. It’s so easy to miss a kid falling in. Those floats are su…