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Comment · 1 year ago
My company's site has also been getting hammered by Brazilian IPs. They're focused on a single filterable table of fewer than 100 rows, querying it with various filter combinations every second of every minute of every day.
Comment · 1 year ago
You can't redefine functions in PHP.
Comment · 2 years ago
I also have this issue. What I do is work in a separate branch and cherry pick commits over to main then rebase.

I bet that what you describe could be implemented with stashes and scripts run on hooks, but that feels like fighting the tool too much. There's probably something we're missing?

Comment · 2 years ago
You can take the SAT as many times as you want and only submit your best score, so the pressure isn't the same.
Comment · 2 years ago
What statements about properties of randomly generated code snippets would be useful for coding LLMs? You would need to generate text explaining what each snippet does, but that would require an existing coding LLM, so any IP concerns would persist.
Comment · 2 years ago
>In order for an AI to evaluate the effect of a small molecule on the brain, it would have to... simulate the operation of a human brain in a simulated environment.

Humans aren't capable of doing this, but still make useful drug discoveries. AI can be empowered to conduct research in the real world, it doesn't need to simulate everything.

Comment · 2 years ago
So long as you consider "empty strings" to be "strings" in the first place. String of what?

It's like saying you have an "empty cup of water".

Comment · 3 years ago
What's not mentioned in the comment you're replying to is the postgraduate-level type theory you need to learn and constantly refine to work with these languages at a practical level. So be aware that even if you put the time into learning them, it's unlikely you'll get to use them at work.

Look up Coq, Agda, Lean, and Idris. I would start with Coq, it's the most used. Idris is more like Haskell and programmer-oriented.

Edit: Nevermind, apparently they were just talking about Haskell...

Comment · 3 years ago
Chronic post-vasectomy pain syndrome negatively impacts quality of life in 1-2% of cases. Even a small chance of chronic pain should be weighed carefully against the benefits and alternatives.
Comment · 3 years ago
The Collatz conjecture is undecidable, so no Turing machine like you describe exists.
Comment · 3 years ago
The person you responded to accounts for uncurved classes in their argument, that cheaters in uncurved classes "inject false signal into the difficulty feedback loop".

If the average assignment grades are very high the professor will be inclined to make the assignments more challenging. Cheating disrupts the professor's ability to accurately determine how well their students are grasping the material and adjust accordingly.

Comment · 3 years ago
> Lean to me is not only obscure but unapproachable by someone from a non-mathematical background. ... If we want to democratise formal methods and theorem proving ...

For whom is that a goal? Are there really that many individuals at the intersection of "I need to use a theorem prover" and "I don't have formal mathematical training"?

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