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That's crazy high isn't it? That's 1 out of 250 people!

Will you still be working on educational content on the side? (e.g. updating fast.ai and/or making one off lectures like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkrNMKz9pWU ) Either way th…

AdamantChicken2 (aka AlphaCode2) replied to the thread! https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/123035?#comment-1091379

Some people on codeforces (the competitive programming platform that this was tested on) are discussing the model: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/123035 Seems like they don't be…

I remember deciding that I never want to ever have my DNA in any database after watching this talk: DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human G…

I didn't realize who this was by the title, but this is betaveros, the guy who won 1st place in Advent of Code every single year since 2019: https://clist.by/account/32289/resource…

Copying from an older comment of mine shilling Pypy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595590 PyPy is pretty well stress-tested by the competitive programming community. https:…

I've commented about this before, but their supposedly optimized implementation is still garbage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24125312 There's no reason to build the repea…

PyPy is easily 10x faster than CPython at numeric stuff, which is 99% of these contest problems. For example, using CPython, if you try to make an array of a million ints, you won'…

If you want more examples of real world use cases, PyPy is pretty stress-tested by the competitive programming community already. https://codeforces.com/contests has around 20-30k …

Isn't this use case the scientific computing use case? That's a fairly large part of the ecosystem to give up on! I think it's still a relatively low effort way (just need to write…

I stalked the author's linkedin and notice he has competitive programming experience: https://www.topcoder.com/members/kmod/details/?track=DATA_SC... (and top 15 putnam, ICPC world…

Soap film is also used to solve the steiner problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAyDi1aa40E

GPT-3 can probably be ran deterministically given some a fixed random seed (even if you might need to "reroll" the seed a few times to cherry pick outputs). Then you can just attac…

Not a good example because being discontent with c++ for loops is how we got https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/ranges (which imo is a good addition to the standard library) But yea…

I didn't know about functools.singledispatch/singledispatchmethod, it looks really nice! For typing hinting, I've been annotating with @overload which is just god awful ugly. And y…

Yes actually. Both c++ and java have red black trees. In c++ it's std::set, in java it's TreeSet. BST supports log(n) min/max/inserts/removes (among other stuff).

You would probably enjoy reading about an alternative implementation for STL's std::deque, called a tier vector[1][2]. It supports O(1) push_front/pop_front/push_back/pop_back/oper…

Dan Luu has a nice curated list: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/

Not in python! But I guess using negatives is the same as using different key (which is what python uses instead of comparators). The real problem is if you need min/max at the sam…

In certain domains, the trend has been to give up constant factors in order to increase programmer productivity (e.g., python pays a 10x slowdown but is batteries included). So in …

You're probably thinking of storing it as some linked list but that doesn't work with mathematical abstractions (which is my point). For example in mathematics if you write "C = A …

Mathematical abstractions are often at the wrong level of abstraction. Mathematicians mostly care about value semantics but programmers need to care about how it's realized in hard…