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Comment · 11 months ago
The Fourier transform predates functional analysis by a century. I don't see the point in downplaying its significance just because 'duh it's simply a unitary linear operator on L2'.
Comment · 11 months ago
Ok? I'm not going to change the definition of a 70 year old field because people are annoyed at chatgpt wrappers.
Comment · 11 months ago
Yes one needs some awareness of the technology. Computer vision: unambiguously AI, motion planning: there are classical algorithms but I believe tesla / waymo both use NNs here too.

Look I don't like the advertising of FSD, or musk himself, but we without a doubt have cars using significant amounts of AI that work quite well.

Comment · 11 months ago
https://www.tesla.com/fsd ?

I also don't understand the LLM ⊄ AI people. Nobody was whining about pathfinding in video games being called AI lol. And I have to say LLMs are a lot smarter than A*.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'm just trying to shatter the illusion. Stop wrecking your mental health because you can't hang with the IMO kids. Many of these people are, unsurprisingly, very insular unless you want to talk about math and TC all day. Sounds really fun. The red pill is to be happy you're already making a fuckton of money for typing shit into a computer and make some friends in pottery class
Comment · 1 year ago
I can deny it because it's obvious bullshit lol. I don't think that way and neither does anybody I know from MIT think that way. This is reality versus your imagination. If there's anyone I look down on it's my classmates who could've worked anywhere and still went to palantir...

I can't claim 100% aren't assholes, but the vast majority realize the luck and arbitrary nature of it. Are you going to be stuck in decision day sadness mode for the rest of your life? Life is too short

Comment · 1 year ago
Is this like a humiliation fetish at this point? This is seriously unhealthy. We don't hate our friends that didn't a go to an eLiTe school because we're not sociopaths. Not sure why I'm even trying since you seem pretty dead set on this, but it's just a lot easier to go through life without made up enemies.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah the code has a (somewhat rudimentary) fluid sim that's fed into reaction-diffusion. Pretty cool, don't think I've seen that combination before
Comment · 1 year ago

   julia> using Random, BenchmarkTools
   julia> function isvowel(c)
            idx = (c | 0x20) - Int('a')
            return (0x00104111 & (1 << idx)) != 0
         end

   julia> hasvowel(str) = any(c -> isvowel(Int(c)), str)

   julia> @btime hasvowel(s) setup=(s=randstring("bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzBCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ0123456789", 10))
   15.739 ns (0 allocations: 0 bytes)
   false
some 77 thousand times faster
Comment · 1 year ago
Huh? It'll be slower and eat a massive amount of memory too.
Comment · 1 year ago
Here's what Google PageSpeed has to say about it: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-design-google-libra...

- Performance 44/100

- First Contentful Paint 1.7 s

- Speed Index 6.5 s

- Total Blocking Time 920 ms

- Largest Contentful Paint 4.8 s

at least it's emotional

Comment · 1 year ago
A $100B exception that wipes out all of their own-the-libs cuts
Comment · 1 year ago
I love McMaster but the multi-tab experience could really be better. Search filters don't carry through opening a link in a new tab (try searching M3 screw then ctrl-click socket head screws). Sometimes ctrl-clicking product numbers/product detail doesn't work at all. IIRC the back button sometimes breaks too. Pretty annoying since 80% of the time I'm researching the best component and want to backtrack easily.
Comment · 1 year ago
Did they actually tell you that? I highly doubt it. You've created a preconception that I guarantee is not accurate at all. You have multiple people here saying it's bullshit, and we're not lying or trolling or anything like that. I replied somewhere else but I want to reiterate - why would you even want approval from people who dehumanize others on the basis of TC? It's like being upset Martin Shkreli doesn't want to be your friend. I really hope you'll believe me

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