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There is a surprisingly large amount of people that agree on the psychonaut wiki's (I'm not sure if it originated here) levels of hallucinated geometry. I say it's surprising because of for descriptions of subjective experiences that could seemingly manifest in infinite ways, it's eerily specific.

There are reports of ingestion of incredible amounts of LSD known as "thumbprints," wherein a brave person sticks their thumb in raw crystal LSD and presses it into their palm (or tongue).

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/1427364

How about grading the validity of the certificate on a continuous scale? P(site loads) = 1 - R*(days since issue) where browsers can choose R as they wish. This gets rid of this discontinuity.

I don't have a complete answer for you, but:

> probably offended so many people in my circle by not seeing/not replying to their emails.

If I were you, I'd BCC everyone whose addresses you remember with a short note saying to the effect of "I lost my other mail address so-and-so@gmail.com, gimme a sec pls" and I'm sure this incident will have no long-term impact on your reputation. Shit happens.

As far as getting help from Google goes, I think the only reliable method for non-paying customers is to raise a huge stink on websites like this or Twitter. Take this with a grain of salt, however; I'm much more likely to observe these big stinks and less likely to hear about people just calling support and getting help. It _may_ be possible.

I don't use RSS, but isn't this just a overspecialized, vendor-locked, ad-hoc version of that?

Does this guy know anything useful about AGI that I don't (all I know is that we're super fucking far away)? All of these articles seem to be him tossing around ideas that feel good to his mind, and no substance.

Interesting, I didn't learn in school that elemental crystalline structures were auxetic. Is this property of crystals important for industrial use?

No Amanda, my laptop has not ruined my life. It has made it much more bearable. Why not title this article "Unchecked greed ruined your and billions of other lives?" Right, no one will click on that.

This seems similar to bootstrapping theorem provers. Here is a HN discussion on one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21358674

> Your language does not allow me to prove program correctness

Isn't that the whole point of the SMT solver?

What about this example (that doesn't compile)?

  fn bla(int a) -> int
      model return == 2 * a
  {
      return a * a;
  }

Isn't that verifying program correctness? A sibling of this comment claims that "the only thing proven is memory access validity" but, again, this example takes that down.

Generating random permutations uniformly is a nontrivial problem that I have solved in (probably) close but incorrect ways using RNGs directly. Knowing about `shuf` would have helped a lot!

(psst, think you forgot the link.)

Has anyone used these to successfully learn absolute pitch themselves?

I don't have much to contribute, except my thanks for your reminding me to cancel my prime subscription. They REALLY tried to get me to not do that. I had to click "yes actually end it" around 5-6 times. I bet each of these hurdles keeps a couple million subscriptions in their pocket every year.

The chess computing term for this is "contempt," the parameter that determines the worst move the engine assumes its opponent would play. Classical chess engines can allow this parameter to be changed easily. I'm sure the MCTS algorithm for alphazero could be modified to allow this as well, if it doesn't already support it.

I'm curious what the significance of the tarot cards is here. Why not just write the following article: (this also serves as a TL;DR)

When you encounter a problem with your program, consider the following in order:

- your Motive

- Facet (localize the failure)

- Immediate Past (what changed to cause this problem)

- the Action (that you need to take)

- the desired Result

While the message is valuable, I'm not a fan of the obfuscation.

I know this is a dead horse, but I think R seriously shot itself in the foot with its data structures[1]. I don't really see a solution for this, as fixing it would never be backward compatible. I'll always pick Python over R because the data structures actually make sense to me as a programmer (objects that look like lists, dicts, matrices, etc. or any combination of the above, and they all behave in very predictable ways). I think this puts off a lot of other people like me.

[1]: https://jamesmccaffrey.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/r-language-v...

I don't think you're disagreeing with me here. It's just that your school doesn't care that much if students fail because of their own negligence. Mine does, because that looks bad or something.

I totally agree with your school's stance, but I acknowledge tha the current financial incentive structure prevents my school from having the same.

> has very little correlation to readiness to be treated as an adult

My words may have been misleading. What I'm trying to say is the kind of student that gets admission to Caltech is not the kind of student to neglect going to class out of laziness or whatever and fail out because of that.

> Most of those third-tier schools shouldn't exist in the first place

I disagree. I was offered admission to zero first rate schools, two second rate schools ($$$$$$ tuition), and my backup which is a third rate school (which I am attending for free).

If my backup school didn't exist, I would either be without a degree, or my parents would have a significant dent in their retirement. I'm willing to put up with the BS of third rate schools so that I can at least have a degree and not be scalped, thank you very much.

I'm grateful that my third rate school exists, no matter how shitty it is.

I will grant you, however, that no school should knowingly take $$$$$ from students and give them an useless degree. But a CS degree? It's pretty cool that I can get that from any school and it's the "same" level of degree whether it's from Caltech or Arizona State.

I think it's interesting because we don't assume "honor among thieves". Otherwise there's no useful way to distinguish morality from immorality.

"x cooperates with y" and "y is moral" shouldn't imply "x is moral".

Scratch is what got me into programming, and why I'm here today. It's awesome to see that it's still growing and new things are possible. Back when I started you couldn't define your own functions so you had to use a stack (and that only worked after they added arrays) or BYOB (a scratch variant where you could define functions).

This sort of thing doesn't work at schools that don't have such a high bar of entry. Caltech can afford to treat their students like adults, because they're picked from the cream of the crop.

On the other hand, schools like the one I went to would have a horrible(r) matriculation rate if students were not forced to attend certain classes. It infuriurates me (and I think students who want to fail should be allowed to fail), but ultimately it's a product of the financial incentive structure; more graduates = more $$$.

And forcing attendance of some classes does indeed increase the likelihood of certain borderline students graduating, nobody can deny that.

I've been looking around, and it seems WebGPU is doing the same things we've been using WebGL for. Is it a more generic interface that also allows for arbitary computation? (a la GPGPU)

Slight UI nitpick: On narrow screens (<800px), the signup part of the screen is cut off. There is a scroll bar but it doesn't work as intended.

https://i.imgur.com/pRtOd73.png

Since JS lacks a static type system, isn't it a bit misleading to call these "algebraic" effects, when algebraic is referring to the type system? I'm still not clear where the "algebraic" part comes in here.

Honestly, reading this article was the first time I saw a documented case of strobes causing seizures. It's possible (and this is purely speculation) that the attacker sent the strobe to give some comedic punch to the statement "you deserve a seizure" not expecting or hoping that it would actually cause a seizure.

What's preventing Twitter from making APNGs work the same way as animated GIFs? (e.g. you have to explicitly click the play button)

What you're saying basically amounts to "people are blinded to what they love by their need for financial security". This may be true on some level, but anyone can see through it with a modicum of introspection. Or am I giving the average person too much credit?

> I feel like it is hard for people to say what they truly love before they have at least $1M in their bank account.

[edited to protect your feelings]

Are you saying that simple introspection is hard? I completely disagree, because separating extrinsic motivation (I do this for money) from intrinsic motivation (I do this for fun) really isn't that hard.