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xdavidliu

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    Comment #49264336

    you're getting downvoted by others because of tone but I had the same thought

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    Comment #49249139

    one time about 9 years ago I was in the comments of a stackoverflow question, and saying something like "an accessor function need not directly give the underlying structure of the…

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    Comment #49197155

    the typo was the Axios article, not from Google's own announcement

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    Comment #49196304

    > these communities don’t care if your code works at all, but instead care that you know why and how it works. not literally true, and I doubt the author meant to say this. The com…

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    Comment #49114269

    pay walled

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    Comment #49058320

    that's not how the terminology is typical used, even if it makes literal sense

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    Comment #48664912

    i don't understand what the second paragraph is saying.

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    Comment #48653377

    less intense than in countries near equator, not less intense than winter

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    Comment #48480400

    only if it is not littered with unsafe blocks

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    Comment #48435004

    pull requests are welcome

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    Comment #48404400

    adding to the irony is the fact that the mechanism used by the NN architecture in LLMs is also called attention

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    Comment #48389582

    its not that they did not get your pun, its that they think building rockets is hard, and i tend to agree

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    Comment #48388407

    this comment is nonsensical

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    Comment #48109739

    not a bug; the post we are currently on is the one that apparently used to be negative.

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    Comment #48083495

    oh the irony

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    Comment #48030277

    framing 4 gb of data per user as 4 gb is even more of a stretch

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    Comment #48027922

    I'm of course not talking about the arithmetic, but rather understanding the semantics of ratios, sets, and subsets, and inferring statistical significance.

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    Comment #48027580

    I think the CEO was more talking in the line of Bill Russell or Maximus from Gladiator, not final-year Haslem

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    Comment #48001869

    this is the type of math they should be teaching in high school, not trigonometry and calculus (which should be electives)

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    Comment #47951509

    humans are probably the least cheap thing you can have in this context

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    Comment #47641966

    > 404 not found "delve removed from y combinator" removed from y combinator

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    Comment #47553220

    kinda reminds me of the plot of Sphere, where Samuel L Jackson is reading 20,000 leagues under the sea and is thinking of giant squids.