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djaouen

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About djaouen

And he said, "Just call me Professor Cool Hunter".

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48821831

    I built this site with Claude from my global vocabulary list I've been keeping these past few years. Enjoy!

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    Comment #46610652

    Yes, but for me to use your DNA as code would be a major malfunction!

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    Comment #46610374

    Are you f*cking kidding me? Grammarly is like the best one !

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    Comment #46610262

    You are defective. But, fear not! So is the rest of humanity!

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    Comment #46610204

    OK, then sequence your DNA and send it to me. I will make sure to use it as code!

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    Comment #46610064

    If the people developing and supporting chat- and c0rn-bots are anxious about the future, that is the correct emotion to be feeling.

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    Comment #46596333

    Programming used to prevent this by separating code from data. AI (currently) has no such safeguards.

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    Comment #46495210

    Yes. I call it, “Talking In Real Life” (TM).

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    Comment #46494992

    Squares are preferred because that is the same as minimizing Euclidean Distance, which is defined as sqrt((x2-x1)^2).

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    Comment #46494977

    This is probably obvious, but there is another form of regression that uses Mean Absolute Error rather than Squared Error as this approach is less prone to outliers. The Math isn’t…

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    Comment #46494037

    I am getting really sick of wading through the 90% sh*t (e.g., this) to get to the 10% gold on this website, especially since I have not profited one bit from coming here lol

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    Comment #46493853

    As I age, I find myself wanting more and more software and pieces of equipment that last for ages. To answer your question, I still have a functional watch from 14 years ago.

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    Comment #46492155

    Which dictators are "in fashion" depends wholly on which party is in POWER. Polarization means that, perhaps, the dictator of Belarus can be kidnapped and arraigned by the incoming…

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    Comment #46492078

    On so-called "gooning": you are confusing cause with effect. The cause is that women are no longer forced to marry undesirable men. The effect is that gooning becomes a means of se…

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    Comment #46491814

    Web development is perhaps "fun" again if you consider PHP 4 and jQuery as "fun". A "problem" arises for those of us who prefer Ruby, Rails, and HotWire. I'm not gonna lie, I use A…

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    Comment #46491644

    > The suck is why we’re here, and only those who overcome it themselves will reap all the rewards of their hard labor. Thinking/writing isn't "the suck". > because the more people …

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    Comment #46491415

    > For the purpose of conversation, what the model appears to ‘believe’ probably doesn’t matter This is wrong to the point of being absurd. What the model "appears to 'believe'" doe…

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    Comment #46475433

    Iirc, in Lisp, closures are heap-allocated, unless they are created at compile-time with macros. Therefore, there is the added overhead of malloc and free calls with each closure c…

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    Comment #46473140

    Lisp solves the performance hit of closures with macros. However, given what macros look like in C, I hope it never amounts to that!

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    Comment #46471382

    Hey, gotta pay the bills, somehow! *shrug*

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    Comment #46471243

    See, now this is how a website *should* look: mainly text, with non-obtrusive ads at the bottom. It's really not that hard!

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    Comment #46471015

    "Why do slaves hate chains?" wrote The Gotham Daily Propagandist

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    Comment #46407328

    Good. I hated it first!