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Re:My Mathematical Regression on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:27AM (#48641118)
https://projecteuler.net/problem=76 does this have a closed form solution? vast majority of the problems don't seem to have a closed form solution
Re:I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:49PM (#47299313)
What would you choose if you went to college tomorrow?
Re:What I learned building an AI-driven spaced repetition app on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @03:08PM (#45364694)
I tried this for "GPU architecture" and "DRAM technology". The hallucination rate for cited wikipedia links was quite high. I think the reliability of the facts weren't good enough either. I think this is more of a function of the learning material's domain(computer hardware stuff) not being as good as say math or programming.
It took you 10 years to get him to give up bread, sugar, potatoes? This approach would be hard to scale.
...so mewing is real and it is not a coincidence that it's suddenly a thing now?
Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022) on Sunday February 02, 2025 @11:01AM (#42909449)
Actually it's way easier to search for the information in an LLM compared to an 8 tb harddisk.

The search is vague, and the result is nondeterministic, but in a lot of cases it's still the better method.

https://fchollet.substack.com/i/137628402/llms-as-program-da... I like the way this article puts it. "LLM is a continuous, interpolative kind of database"

Re:Writing as Transformation on Thursday January 09, 2025 @05:41PM (#42650601)
I get it but really, we eat food to retain its nutrients while we read books to retain knowledge(sometimes).
Re:Arc Prize 2024 Winners and Technical Report on Friday December 06, 2024 @06:04PM (#42345543)
in other words, solving ARC is necessary but not sufficient for AGI
Re:Arc Prize 2024 Winners and Technical Report on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:56PM (#42345477)
we live in a society
Re:What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing? on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:10PM (#41560187)
Free lunch good
When kids are asked to memorize the multiplication table, they are actually supposed to memorize it.
Re:Scaling will never get us to AGI on Thursday April 11, 2024 @08:55AM (#40001578)
General intelligence somehow just emerged from dirt and water + @.
Re:Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) on Friday March 08, 2024 @11:30PM (#39649381)
Eloquent Javascript is better suited for someone who already has some experience with basic programming and wants to learn javascript while also exploring more advanced concepts in programming in general.

Javascript was not my first language, but I have refered to javascript.info from time to time and it seems to have a gentle introduction.

Re:Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) on Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:05PM (#39635732)
I don't think this is a good book for someone who wants to learn programming for the first time.
Re:Stop Eating Sugar (2020) on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:13PM (#39618994)
okay
What's there to farm on your CV if everything is on LinkedIn?
Re:Undefined Behavior in C and C++ on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:06PM (#39488786)
I don't get it.

How can UB on double-free, use-after-free, dangling pointers, etc lead to optimizations?

Re:Sora: Creating video from text on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:36PM (#39392911)
Your wish is Sora's(or its successor model's) prompt.
Re:Sora: Creating video from text on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:24PM (#39389120)
Should nukes be open source?
Re:Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read on Monday November 27, 2023 @02:39AM (#38429271)
Regardless of that hypothesis, this experiment was a huge success.
Re:Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:02AM (#38428719)
There are good screens and bad screens.
We live in a society.
As a big fan of spaced repetition I appreciated your previous courses. Going through the python course right now.
What you do you mean by junior not existing in Big Tech?

All the Big Tech companies I know regularly hire interns and new grads.

Re:Comfy with Python basic tooling, now what? on Sunday September 10, 2023 @12:23PM (#37457355)
I appreciate the honesty in this article.

There is so much virtue signaling online when it comes to testing and using debuggers.

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