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Re:Do the thinking models think? on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @07:13AM (#46120473)
If the AI truly becomes human like, then it should also make mistakes like a human does even on simple arithmetic. Now, AI might make mistakes on simple arithmetic just like humans. However, once the human is given a hint on the fact that there is some simple arithmetic mistake to be corrected without any details, then the human corrects it. But the AI never does.
Re:C++ move semantics from scratch (2022) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @12:11AM (#45863083)
At this point, I think we need a single C++ book that captures all the best improvements since C++98 and simply skips all legacy. Just skip it as if it does not exist. Only then will new programmers feel encouraged to look at C++ in a fresh new light. And the book remains thin.
Re:The Unix Conspiracy on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:22AM (#45135859)
I just loved it - that the web page is simply so clean... Inspecting the downloads, it comprises exactly one HTML, one CSS and an Image. Loads super fast. Good old 90s.
Re:The sisters "paradox" – counter-intuitive probability on Friday August 29, 2025 @06:28AM (#45062332)
Its all in the wording. Such probability questions have deflated and dumbfounded generations of students and general public trying to learn the subject.
Re:Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes on Thursday November 28, 2024 @01:07AM (#42262853)
If I need "some" of the above, Kubernetes forces me to grapple with "all" of the above. I think that is the issue.
Re:A simple proof that pi is irrational [pdf] on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:41AM (#41327560)
Does anyone have a wat to prove it without using calculus ?
It will help greatly if authors annotate unsolved problems with difficulty levels to let unmentored readers know what they are up against. Yes, its painstaking for authors to provide solutions to all problems so why not let readers contribute and post their solutions ? The link to such a forum can be part of the book text. And thank you for the superb book.
Re:How much is enough to FIRE in San Francisco? on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:24AM (#40285150)
If there is a big war like that between superpowers, I bet we will have so much to cry about that we will give a damn even if our investments go down to zero !
Re:If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it? on Thursday April 11, 2024 @04:30AM (#39999764)
I find that it helps most if we make algorithms the centerpiece of the design and then use inheritance to facilitate coding and make everything succinct. The days of unwieldy inheritance structures coming out of big design patterns are clearly over.
Re:Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @02:33AM (#39535093)
This just shows that you don't really need 50K employees to make what Google does. You just need a few hundred brilliant ones who churn out something that makes super normal profits and carries the rest of the thousands of employees through. The rest of the staff will surely do something useful, but it could be just like finding the best screws to secure the covering of the already functioning nuclear reactor.
Re:US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:26AM (#38389969)
So, Americans are justified killing Bin Laden instead of "accusing" ?
Re:India suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:33AM (#37657747)
Does Canada condemn the assassination of Bin Laden by the Americans on Pakistani soil ?
Re:Fitch Downgrades the US Rating to 'AA+' on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:55AM (#36999313)
Considering the rating agencies put Enron on AAA ...
Re:Britain Is Dead on Monday May 08, 2023 @09:09AM (#35861165)
Who is the most influential or most well paid Briton ? Its either the hedge fund manager, real estate monarchs from Central London or the old and established elite. No innovators or upstarts in there. The society has somehow chosen to value people fiddling with complex financial instruments or real estate power broking over the real productive individuals. The post does not mention, but the same thing unfolding in America ? (* Apart from Elon Musk *), the darlings of the American society are developers of cutesy social networks or subprime mortgage schemers... Even America feels very different than what it used to be at the height of competition with the Soviets.
Re:The Art of Knowing When to Quit on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @09:40AM (#34427108)
Finding out when the finances allow one to quit is where half the universe is stuck at and is brainstorming at.
Re:The Book of CP-System on Friday November 25, 2022 @02:07AM (#33739997)
Imagined that the author must have dropped the A because all CAP is not possible !