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> SpaceX is what it is because the vision is much less tyranny of the masses, and much more damn the torpedoes no one can stop me. Apple did not need to be controlled by a majority…

> I've been trying to square the physics and my experience. > Pedal B flat is the fundamental, low B flat is the 2x, F 3x, mid B flat the 4x, D the 5X, high F is 6X, G half sharp i…

> We also have a Research Engineering role for which we're actively interviewing: https://careers.ibm.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail?jobId=113488 ... This page says the job is closed.…

Think of it more as "speed is the indefinite integral of acceleration" with the extra constant denoting a choice of inertial reference frame.

I took that to mean ≈ "Amount of training data isn't the big factor dwarfing all else." Depends who "we" refers to, I guess. Back when LLM-generated code was new, I definitely saw …

And yet a lot of speakers still seem to need that self-evidently true statement pointed out to them. Tautological advice isn't necessarily bad or useless, especially for beginners.…

What percent of own-content submissions are good original content though?

Does that button... do anything?

> Ever try or even see a "Leet-Code" style question that stated the problem without providing example results? This style of question asks the examinee to devise a procedure for pr…

Teaching isn't likely to get you away from unreasonable people with unreasonable expectations.

We could be extremely, reductively classical about it and say that all of Nerdle's answers point to the same place (⊤, since any answer equivalent to ⊥ is disallowed by the rules),…

> Python's OOP is awkward with object.f() meaning something different from f(object), when really they ought to mean the same thing. Why should they? Coming from other OO languages…

> Figure 2 shows plots of overnight and intraday returns for twenty-one major stock market indices around the world. Turn the page and compare Figure 1 with Figure 2. See if you ca…

The issue is about which edges are in the same plane as which other edges. If this is a polyhedron, AD and BE must be coplanar, and BE and CF must be coplanar. Extending the edges …

The language of someone who's rational would respond to the issues raised by the interlocutor instead of just insulting him.

> A quick internet search turned up plenty of speculative results positing that dogs tilt their heads to hear better, to listen for specific words or tones, or to see past their sn…

Recursive sum-of-products types also let you do things that sums and products alone cannot.

OR alone is insufficient because you still need NOT (or AND and ⊥). You can also encode sum-like behavior using negation and products (a continuation consuming a pair of continuati…

> Option types require generics Why would a built-in option type require more genericity than the built-in array and map types?

> Interesting that this is pointed out, since I noticed they linked to this article, describing these sorts of jobs being a "teenage rite of passage" to be a myth. The hyperlink's …

> I've written plenty of invariants that would have been covered by a static type system but no tests. Do these invariants have some language-level support?

In order to make woodworking tools, you will probably want a functioning smithy.

Raising prices doesn't only move toward equilibrium by increasing the quantity supplied -- it also decreases the quantity demanded.

Catplosions (Tarn loves cats, cats reproduce, too many cats kills DF performance) This was a particularly insidious one because the usual strategy of culling excess livestock doesn…

> why is 2^68 0% of the "numbers that need to be checked"? The vast majority of natural numbers are larger than 2^68. Only 2^68 of them are less than 2^68, but infinitely many of t…