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Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you for sharing this.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's very clear what's happening: they're passing it through a writing tool that has an "Auto-improve" feature the users click. This would do the naive, pre-LLM, trick of taking "repetitive" vocabulary and varying it using synonyms.
Comment · 2 months ago
I don’t understand how this would work.

If you’re using Git and you branch off ‘stable’, you won’t be able to merge to ‘trunk’ unless you rebase to pick up all of its changes. If a commit were to be reverted in the trunk now you need to revert it from all PRs as well. In the end, it’s equivalent to having one branch.

Comment · 7 months ago
Thank you. This sounds like a great approach! I’ve also been surprised at the mechanical nature that git resolves conflicts in, and the loss of intent when auto-merging.
Comment · 10 months ago
Yeah, just switch to level 1 in the level switcher! You should be able to go thru them all by just clicking next puzzle after that
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Comment · 1 year ago
What's your workflow if I may ask? I've been interested in the idea as well.
Comment · 1 year ago
There were unusual elements characteristic of the decay chain following a fission.

After a U-235 atom undergoes fission, one of the outcomes is it releases Barium and Krypton (and some neutrons), which then eventually decay to stable/semi-stable elements. If one of those stable elements is common in the deposit but otherwise rare naturally, it would point to a nuclear reaction having occurred.

Also note that the U-235 decay chain generally looks different from the decay chain following a fission reaction of U-235.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, I would say the y-axis range on charts should be set at "3-sigma likelihood of observation" thresholds. Not everything that's charted can be framed as sampling from a distribution, but the principle of manually setting chart ranges would nonetheless still apply.

For instance, if we're charting someone's body temperature, we would likely fix our y-axis to 80-110.

Comment · 1 year ago
What's your outlook on work green-card timelines for the next 2 years, esp. given the recent change in administration?
Comment · 1 year ago
> Source: Perplexity

AI slop, I don't trust any of this article, especially the bullets on what made Deepseek "win"

Comment · 2 years ago
This is not at all true, I recommend you look into the exact meaning of "legal standing".
Comment · 2 years ago
Monthly fees for the card

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