Re: the carbon monoxide alarm. Basically everyone agrees that the ideal way to die is peacefully in your sleep and yet I'm supposed to want to be woken up by a very loud irritating sound instead. And supply my own batteries no less
@littmath@__alpoge__ Trying it on a hard problem in the chat it errors out because of too long a response. I think the right thing to do is use the API. I’m lazy so I run it in Claude code with ‘CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=128000 claude’. Bonus I can ask it to write a latex write up at the end.
@sama Sam, just filling out my graduate applications, gonna need you to fill one of these out for me. Hope you've been well. With the robot and all. Still not sure exactly what you do. Talk to you soon Cheers DB
I keep coming across all these "pseudocode" examples on Wikipedia and in academic papers, and what I don't understand is why the authors can't just learn a real programming language
please god obliterate the car in front of me. please kill the driver and explode their car. please mist my windshield with their blood. thank you. amen.
@nosilverv On the other hand, if you choose blue the probability of you dying is roughly 1/2.
These factors cancel out because
1/N × N/2 = 1/2
So on average you're not saving lives by choosing Blue.
At times, the joy that life attacks me with is unbearable and leads to gasping hysterical laughter. I find myself completely out of control and wonder how could life could surprise me again and again and again, so completely. How could a man be a cynic? It is a sin.
A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.