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Country borders aren’t a product of nationalism either. They’re created in agreement with other governments (usually after a dispute). It marks the territorial reach of a government.

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Can also make an area more attractive, increase happiness and also improve road safety if strategically placed.

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Valve can’t count to 3

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TL;DR:

In Python, following returns False.

9007199254740993 == 9007199254740993.0

The floating point number 9007199254740993.0 is internally represented in memory as 9007199254740992.0 (due to how floating point works).

Python has special logic for comparing int with floats. Here it will try to compare the int 9007199254740993 with the float 9007199254740992.0. Python sees that the integer parts are different, so it will stop there and return False.

magic_lobster_party ,

It’s both. As you said it’s because of loss of floating point precision, but it’s also with some of the quirks how Python compares int with float. These two together causes this strange behavior.

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

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Even if AI is able to answer all questions 100% accurately, it wouldn’t mean much either way. Most of programming is making adjustments to old code while ensuring nothing breaks. Gonna be a while before AI will be able to do that reliably.

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Reminds me of this classic: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030

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You’re reading the title too literally. “Mind” is only mentioned once in the entire article, and that’s in the title.

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I would imagine a similar result. Like how the word “cartoon” activates one particular feature. And if you identify this feature you can control the level of “cartooniness” by tweaking the particular feature.

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    Even without that extra finger it still has that uncanny AI vibe

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    They will say it’s for “security reasons”

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    This doesn’t sound like a thing enterprises are going to accept. It’s like spyware but with extra buzzwords.

    I know people here love Linux, but I think most IT departments in the world would go for Apple first.

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    No one is investing in regular currencies. You’re supposed to use it to buy stuff.

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    Not sure how that can implemented, but I’m sure it will only lead to great amounts of SEO abuse. It only works if everybody are acting in good faith.

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    Then it’s just more easily abused by SEO. “Best” according to who? Votes? Number of views? Page rank? All numbers can be manipulated.

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    The article is about using computers to discover new conjectures (mathematical statements that are not yet known to be true or false). The conjecture can be then later be formally proven (or disproven) by humans.

    Sounds like a good match for me. Formulating conjectures is about finding an interesting pattern and argue that this pattern holds true. Computers are getting increasingly better at pattern matching, so why not use them?

    Title is a bit clickbaity by calling it AI.

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    Mama mia

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    Perfect is the enemy of good

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    You will be liable either way. If you don’t do anything, you broke the terms of not being attentive enough.

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    Good code

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    I’m pretty sure they keep the revision history, so there’s no point in it

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    What options are there to use instead? I think they’re still often having the best results, and are usually near the top.

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    And search engines are unable to index the questions and answers, so good luck finding the already answered question.

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    Windows95man was robbed

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    It’s a new thing that they’re harder to rip off. Because of EU regulation.

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    Social engineering is one of the most underestimated attack vectors. It doesn’t matter how cryptographically secure your system is if you can just ask for access.

    EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)

    EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...

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    That role is more on Embracer now

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    The video is more about the diminishing returns when it comes to increasing size of training set. It’s following a logarithmic curve. At some point, just “adding more data” won’t do much because the cost will be too high compared to the gain in accuracy.

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    Improvements are made all the time. You can’t feed a very large SVM the same data as transformer networks and expect it to perform the same. Transformers are used because they can more easily learn complicated patterns with less data.

    I think I’ve read somewhere that neural networks with only one hidden layer can theoretically predict anything (if the hidden layer is large enough), but an incredible amount of data is required for it to do so, so it’s not practical.

    Over time other models will be discovered that can make better use of the training data.

    magic_lobster_party ,

    DDG has been around for quite a while. Now it was a few years ago I used it last time, but the reason I switched back to Google was because I was clearly less productive with DDG.

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    1 dead whistleblower is a tragedy. 10 dead whistleblowers are a statistic.

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    It’s probably only because it’s co-designed by Teenage Engineering. Usually their devices get quite the fuzz.

    magic_lobster_party ,

    You know this won’t happen, but I like your optimism

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    I’m not going to commit suicide because of YouTube premium

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    They want people to pay for premium. That’s why they’re pushing more ads. To make the free plan insufferable.

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    Spotify also includes lyrics. It’s just not in free tier anymore.

    magic_lobster_party ,

    One time I struggled debugging a program on a clean Windows machine. For some reason it seemed like it couldn’t find a JSON file that’s obviously in the system. I could even open the file on my own and view its contents.

    Turns out after much frustration that the file was actually a json.txt file. I didn’t notice because the extension was hidden, so I only saw .json and thought it was fine.

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    Hate to break it to you, but most users are that dumb.

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    In this case I used notepad because it was a fresh Windows install on some VM.

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    I’ve asked GPT4 to write specific Python programs, and more often than not it does a good job. And if the program is incorrect I can tell it about the error and it will often manage to fix it for me.

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    That wasn’t real communism. Everybody’s equal under real communism.

    Hetero people would get executed too!

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    Most routers already have non-standard passwords by default. At least in EU. I’m not sure which devices besides routers and IoT peripherals are affected by this bill.

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    Especially considering most fun innovations get scrapped either way.

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    I believe it also is for creating hype among investors. “Look at this new amazing product lineup we got! Self driving cars! Invest in us before those huge things turn into reality!”

    And to get on the more conspiratorial side, it might also be to dry up the market of talent. It’s hard for competitors to make a product if all talent is already doing cool stuff elsewhere.

    magic_lobster_party ,

    That XKCD is almost 18 years old and is still as relevant.

    Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

    When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

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    It’s funny how so many were confident FSD really was safer than human drivers 10 years ago. Some even said it’s irresponsible not to let these self driving cars drive on the street.

    magic_lobster_party ,

    Always remember: when you invest in a stock, you can only lose what you’re putting in. When you short a stock, there’s no limit in how much you can lose. Yes, that means you can go in debt.

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    Shorting is when you borrow stocks and then immediately sell it. At some point you have to buy those stocks back so you can return the stocks to the lender.

    Say you short 1 stock at $1000. The stock later drops to $100. You have made a good $900 profit when you return the stock.

    Say the stock instead goes to $10,000. You have made a devastating $9000 loss. You have lost more than you initially shorted.

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