queuebert

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Comment · 1 month ago
Is it? Modern roofing is pretty complex and is begging for innovation, even with materials that don't generate electricity.
Comment · 1 month ago
Serious question: Are you sure solving abstract mathematical problems with AI is responsible use? You will likely put mathematicians out of jobs, and I doubt solving the Collatz conjecture is urgent or will save lives. It also robs a future Fields medalist of the pride of doing all by themselves.

All things AI seems to assume that more and faster is better, but there is no justification of that assumption. As a biological counterexample, a tree grown quickly will likely not be as healthy or strong as one grown slowly.

Comment · 1 month ago
It's not backward, it's too forward. No one got arrested 100 yrs ago for letting their kid walk around alone.
Comment · 1 month ago
/loop ?
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, because no employee with million-dollar comp has ever been untrustworthy in the history of business.
Comment · 2 months ago
That's impressive. I thought the NetHack wiki would be older, but it dates to 2005, although I suspect there was an earlier version somewhere else.
Comment · 3 months ago
I highly recommend getting the full book. This should be required reading for every housing developer. If you ever felt like a house or community was uncomfortable or made you subconsciously unhappy, you might find the reason in this book.
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm sure that was 100% secure, too. /s (I did the same thing back then.)
Comment · 3 months ago
The link OP submitted appears to be a webpage displaying a screenshot of another web page, and the image aspect ratio has been altered. It's so comically bad it had to be on purpose, or someone is doing their web dev in MS Word.

Edit: I think actually it's a screenshot of a screenshot even, and this appears to be the entire design of spaceweather.gov. What in the holy heck is going on there? This has to be a top 10 worst website designs of all time.

Comment · 4 months ago
Statistically overdetection leads to poorer outcomes because interventions have a risk as well. That's why everyone doesn't get a yearly full body CT scan, for example. The current guidelines are based on optimizing for maximum good, and believe it or not some things are best not known about because the risk of dying from it is about the same as the risk of the treatment.
Comment · 4 months ago
Markets are forward looking, pricing in future cash flows. No one should be thinking about SpaceX's present value when buying their stock. If you do that you'll always be too late to the party.

That said, I don't agree on the valuation, but I can see where some people could be coming from.

Comment · 4 months ago
It's a joke about how fast it compiles. whoosh
Comment · 4 months ago
Why is that?
Comment · 4 months ago
> ... applying the same steps and rules n times

I do this too, with a document written for this purpose.

> ... a significant chunk of those runs involved the agent waiting for the compiler, linters, type checks, and test suites, as well as updating journals.

That is a good point. I'm mostly using C, which seemingly compiles in O(1) time, so I could imagine a large C++ or Rust codebase taking much longer to iterate simply due to compilation times.

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