mcphage

Maybe The King of All Cosmos just hasn’t found the right one…

Who disassembles them all? That seems to be a serious chunk of the effort.

I would have like to see the graphs for some non-LLM words, to show the more modest 1.5x jump, so we can be sure that these specific words are increasing in frequency, and not just like, all words.

> we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun

And eat them, which... that's just like, really fucking weird.

Do you mean Marching Squares? Or Signed Distance Fields? Both are related, but not exactly the same.

The problem is that we think of categories as this binary thing, when they're not. We recognize it with adjectives like "Tall"—most people wouldn't say "something is either Tall or it's Not Tall". But the truth is, every word is like that. The solution isn't more and more rigid delineations—the solution is accepting that the borders are wide, and plenty of object straddle them.

To bring up an even more argued about example—is a hot dog a sandwich? Some people say yes, some people say no, but the answer can be (and most likely is) "kinda".

I agree, although most of the time you do end up needing to consider it with Map/Filter. It's just, it doesn't force you to. Which means either you think about it later, or it bites you in the ass because you didn't consider the empty case. Not always—and for those cases where you don't end up needing the empty case, Reduce is probably not necessary, and Map/Filter is sufficient.

Shin Megami Tensei?

> Reduce also forces you to conjure up a "zero" value of the relevant type, which isn't usually difficult but it does constitute some extra mental overhead.

It's always worthwhile to consider what the result will be when you pass in an empty list.

I like it, but don't care for the name. I find it easier to think about in terms of an accumulator.

Yeah, I agree with you, but I'm not sure the point of polling people in the first place.

From your link:

> Although their travel to Massachusetts was facilitated by DeSantis, the migrants who arrived on Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday came from Texas. The DeSantis administration paid an aviation company, Vertol Systems Company Inc., $615,000 to transport the migrants from San Antonio to the exclusive vacation enclave.

So Florida spent $615,000 to pick up some people from Texas and dump them on an island in Massachusetts?

...and you imagine that this makes the people in Massachusetts look bad?

Yeah. I don't know what to tell you, dude.

> The same was said about W. Also elected twice.

Well, he certainly gave it the ol' college try—and it did take quite a while to recover from his presidency.

> until it was time to have migrants in their back yards

How did the migrants get to Martha's Vineyard?

> Two page layout. This gives you more context when reading.

That was exactly the reason why I tried out the 12.9” iPad Pro back in like 2016. I used that for 8 years, and now am on my second.

It’s interesting how many studies were performed that confirmed this, and yet most (all?) of the time, the modernist building was built anyway. What was the point?

> I'm not sure anybody thinks it was anything other than an accident

How do you accidentally shoot down a passenger airplane?

That was tried, in the 1860s. What you’re suggesting didn’t go well.

They know, they’re just playing the FUD game.

Oh, you can, no problem. But you’re also wrong, and getting downvoted because of it.

This reminds me of Santayana's quote: “Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

There was also "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams" which uses a parallelized version of logo to explore ideas about decentralized systems and is really excellent: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262680936/turtles-termites-and-...

> have zero interest in it if it's AI-generated.

Someone is using AI to make songs for ads on YouTube. Maybe it's not a new thing, but I just started seeing them recently, and they're so fucking bad. They're these dull, rambling things telling a boring story badly, with equally bland AI animations to accompany it. They just go on, and on, and on, and suck the entire time.

> No, basic algebra and calculus has not changed.

That's all that's on the entrance exam? Basic algebra and calculus?

> The exam has not changed in difficulty

Has what students are expected to know changed since the 60s? For instance, have there been any, I dunno, new developments in technology over the past 60-odd years?

I actually lol’ed :-)

The only proper response is a “LGTM” and merge it into main.

Yeah. It’s like well, that would be great if there was no tomorrow, but the thing about tomorrow is that it always famously comes.

Well, I heard it was the Epstein-Trump Boating School For Children, which taught vulnerable youngsters how to get away from Epstein’s child-rape island.

> they struggle with those things because of the way they are. it's completely irrelevant.

I mean, they seem like fair game if you’re ever participating in a Turing Test.