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There is at least one reason - it was a harder problem. Agreed that which IMO problems are hard for a human IMO participant and which are hard for an LLM are different things, but …

Small point but the last link here (from 2008) is a different project with the same title.

I interpret the article quite differently. The triangle example (which as the author writes is actually an example from “Lockhart’s Lament” on American math education) isn’t about …

I think the idea is that early Protestants like Calvinists believed in predestination - that it was already decided who would was going to heaven. One would think this would make t…

There is an interesting and seemingly not well-understood link between loss of sense of smell and decreased longevity: https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/poor-.…

I think the interpretation of "you don't get anywhere" is the crux. There are a few games I've put a few hundred hours in, and those hours were mostly fun and exciting. I gained sk…

Yep, I misread it also: I saw j = 2 * i (which would do evens and then odds when NUMBER is odd, or evens then evens again if NUMBER is even). For what it really is - powers of 2 mo…

The cartoon picture is that the first example will read everything into cache once, whereas the second example will read everything into cache twice. Cache lines are typically 64-b…

Maybe his wife, Fan Chung, who was also a close collaborator of Erdős (13 joint papers), or one of Ron's students will continue the tradition (maybe Steve Butler). Very sad news in…

Doesn’t seem like there’s enough evidence that this is actually happening. The video from the reddit post has scaffolding to the left. And why surround the bricks with fences and s…

I'm somewhat skeptical. Firstly, I don't think the language is the problem with scientific code. You can write messy code in any language. So the warning then has to be about writi…

Hah, I also came here to post that my dad worked for them in the 80’s (though in Oslo, even though he’s Irish). Didn’t expect to see two other people saying the same thing! I think…

Although I think this is wonderful, I wonder is there a non-public outreach reason for not just showing pre-recorded videos of people? I’m also curious about how well these eels ca…

There is an upcoming contest to write an AI for an (American) football based board game, Bloodbowl. The players have different stats as you describe, and the teams can be asymmetri…

I’m a little surprised by this sentiment (maybe I’m naively optimistic). I’m curious, do you (and others) think elementary and high schools will be back next fall?

The list by itself is of limited use, since each college on the list has made different announcements. I’d say the summary is most have vaguely worded statements leaving open the p…

A related problem is the complete lack of tone in text-based discourse, and the brain's penchant for subconsciously assuming text was written in a certain tone, with no mental "err…

I think there’s a chance it will be different: at least now there is the potential to offer customers an ad-free package for an extra cost. Some services like Hulu already do this …

Might be stored as an int in cents (or whatever the tick size is).

And sadly all three authors of "Winning Ways" have now passed away within almost exactly a year: Berlekamp died on Apr 9 last year, and Richard Guy died in March (he was 103!).

Thanks for making it, super cool! Btw, if it wasn't clear, my "controversial" comment isn't to be taken seriously

Here were my two experiences, one I felt would be easy and the other hard: Title: Build recommendations. Message: "I'd like to upgrade some components. My current rig has an old i7…

At time of filing H1B, the employer makes an LCA (Labour Condition Application) which includes information about the job like salary range and hours (which may be a range, maybe 30…

Small typo in title: "ans" -> "and" The paper itself is linked here: http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/Documents/Chapter1/cyborgs....