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Addendum: this assumes that the "God" of the OT describes the current Jewish conception of Yahweh, and not the "Yahweh Tzevaot" referenced in Samuel that exists as one of a pantheon of Canaanite gods including Baal and Ashtoreth.
> Exponential complexity is what you automatically get when your algorithm is "generate a possible solution, verify if it's correct, repeat if it's not".
I might be misunderstanding you, but this surely depends on the size of the candidate set in the problem. For a problem like "determine whether a given list of integers of length `n` contains a pair that sum to 100" the naive brute-force algorithm is polynomial. If you replace "pair" by "subset" then the naive brute-force algorithm becomes exponential.
That quotation is in fact from "Wind, Sand, and Stars", the memoir of the same author.
On the same theme:
> the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience
- Einstein
> I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time
- Pascal
> Simplicity is a great virtue but requires hard work to achieve and education to appreciate, and, to make matters worse, complexity sells better.
- Dijkstra.
I'd make the same contrast between Anathema and Snow Crash. Cyberpunk in general seems to appeal to a class of person that's not quite a nerd's nerd - perhaps a little more extraverted, the kind of person that might go to conventions.
I'd argue they're the most useful kitchen appliance, except possibly for air fryers. You can cook almost anything in a microwave, usually faster and with less cleaning up than otherwise.
> you can brew alcohol out of almost anything
You do need yeast though, right? Even if it's just naturally present e.g. as on the skin of grapes or other berries. Though I'm sure there are probably ways to extract yeast from other foods, like bread.
To be fair, there is precedent for God commanding things that would lead to a murder conviction in modern times. See e.g. the Amalekite massacre.
> McKechnie dropped the thiamine issue as “not important,” after lawyers for the prison authorities objected to his evidence.
People use AI to have more meetings??
The point isn't that people don't believe the punishment applies. It's that they don't significantly factor the consequence into their actions. They may be overwhelmed by emotion, they may think they can get away with it, or they may be under the influence. Moreover, is capital punishment that much more of a deterrent than life imprisonment?
Conservatism is a vague set of ideas about promoting and maintaining traditional institutions and values. That has various political manifestations, depending on circumstances. In the UK at the turn of the 20th Century for example, it meant heavy protectionist tariffs, as that supported domestic agriculture and the landed aristocracy. Nowadays the UK Conservative party opposes protectionist tariffs and champions free trade, as that maintains the current economic climate.
Agreed. "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a good example - Heinlein tries quite hard to envisage a society in which women wield more social power, but can't quite relinquish the idea that women wish and deserve to be dominated by powerful men. Worth stating that 1952 was shortly after WW2 i.e. at the start of Heinlein's "middle period" when his worldview shifted dramatically towards more right-wing values (military patriotism, anti-communism, and individual self-reliance).
Have used (a dotnet wrapper of) this to generate colour-coded round area polygons for municipal waste collections for many years now. works flawlessly and fast.
Not sure that's relevant. 11 was released 5 years before the blog post and support for 10 ended 1 year before the blog post.
Notepad on Windows opens markdown files and you can toggle formatted or syntax view. What am I missing?
This was my exact reaction as well, in case you find that reassuring.
In my experience in academia (although it's been over a decade now) "decoherent" is used as a rough synonym for "decohered".
Fair point. Please mentally replace "Summer" by "hot/dry season" in my reply.
I know people that work in mycology and plant pathology. My impression is that the "wood wide web" is generally a well-accepted and well-established concept. It's commonly accepted that mycorrhizal networks exist, that they benefit both plant and fungus, and that they allow propagation of resources between trees. There is some debate over the anthropomorphisation and the idea of "mother trees", but that's kind of what you expect when it comes to science popularisation in the media.
FWIW the book "Entangled Life" is okay as a popular science book, but Sheldrake isn't really a practicing research mycologist, so you can't expect too much from it scientifically. And it has some... slightly weird bits (do you really want to picture the author rolling around naked in some leaves?).
Yes; it's tricky to predict. On one hand, fungi tends to love moisture, so long hot Summers might work against them. On the other hand, fungi that parasitise on plants might do better if the plants are drought-stressed and less able to put up defenses.
> You, as a person, not the AI, are responsible for the quality
As someone who doesn't know much about linux kernel work: what does being responsible for the submission look like in practice? Are you expected to find fixes if your change causes unanticipated issues?
Is there not a way for candidates to use tokens via the company's own subscription during the test?
Who is against using LLMs to find root causes of bugs?
> Palahniuk was hardly the first person to use the metaphor. It's the stuff of self-help books and inspirational posters and elementary school assurances.
> In the 1970s snowflake was a disparaging term for a white man or for a black man who was seen as acting white.
> In Missouri in the early 1860s, a "Snowflake" was a person who was opposed to the abolition of slavery—the implication of the name being that such people valued white people over black people.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the-less-lovely-sid...
In the UK you can buy flavoured whey with 80% protein for £16/kg:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/366545965685
It has a few flavourings and colourings but nothing that would make me balk (and I'd be surprised if those somehow reduce the price).
That doesn't add up with what OP said, though. Firstly, they mentioned a 2-3x increase, whereas your link has a 60% increase. Secondly, what're they buying if not retail? Thirdly, 2 euros per kilo is surely much better value per gram of protein than you're ever going to get with chicken?
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but 1kg of whey protein on Amazon seems to cost around £20, which is roughly what I remember it costing back when I used to use it 7 or 8 years ago.
> estimated vs. actuals tend to stabilize over time
Have you measured this stabilisation?