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It’s not becoming the users that are the decision makers. A few CTOs could make decisions based on this

I think it’s fundamentally hard to make tools like that because models can be sensitive to specifics, so dumbing them down is generally not great

Do you think there is room for a resurgence in linear optimization? Linear programming, and even integer linear programming are pretty well solved practically speaking.

I agree with the vibes of your comment, but I have to reply to this: > Unless you’re talking about advanced PR and market manipulation techniques to capture and retain ad revenue T…

> making bigger breakthroughs in AI, apps, self-driving cars Those weren’t really the topics people were interested in at the time (depending on your definition of AI). The shoulde…

As do high corporate tax rates

What are you basing such a bold prediction on?

>Which line in the FAQ are you making an analogy to? The line about filename shenanigans being disallowed. >A FAQ for the newsgroup is not automatically part of the rules for the c…

>It's easy to show that in practice some bytes are more common than others (because random) I don’t follow. Wouldn’t that be (because not random)

>uniform random strings’ K complexity is only _tightly concentrated around_ the strings’ length plus a machine-dependent constant What is the distribution of the complexity of a st…

And the FAQ for the bet said that if a team can’t afford to enter the playoffs then the bet is off.

But storing an index for a file of length 2^n takes only n bits, so you need that run of 0’s to be of length n+1 to win

This reminds me of a data compression scheme I came up with once: Treat an n bit file as a polynomial over the finite field with characteristic 2. Now, there are some irreducible p…

One thing you can do, as the other commenter pointed out, is consider entropy of the file. However, this restriction is too much for the purposes of this challenge. We don’t actual…

I feel like if the FAQ requires not using filename shenanigans then the slight of hand was illegal the whole way.

In what sense is it a manipulation? If I have a billion in cash and spend it all on a stock, that stock price will go up; that’s not manipulation. That’s supply and demand. >Why ch…

I think it’s kind of up to the investors what is unfair for them.

It’s a way to return money to share holders.

> socialist thinking getting us all closer to WW3 though I would love if you elaborated on that

Threads seems like it was designed by people who want me to be angry. Bluesky seems like it was designed by people who want me to be happy. I notice I stay on threads longer, often…

Being derivative isn’t necessarily a bad business strategy as long as you improve on whatever you’re deriving from.

> Newbie, inexperienced developers write complex code. Experienced, seasoned developers write simple code This is a really inaccurate generalization. Maybe you could say something …

Unless you’re taking the stance that free speech as a concept applies only to the government, then it’s definitely not orthogonal. Almost all moderation concerns are obviously rest…

I thought Netflix’s biggest advantage was the quality/salary of its engineers. I think that every time I wait for Paramount+ to restart after its gone black in picture on picture, …

Under-26yo crowd here who was late to stand up every in person day this week to confirm this tracks