TehPers

It seems there’s still debate over the legitimacy of LLM-driven proofs, including the Navier-Stokes problem.

In any case, I’m sure the mathematics community will figure this out. It’s clear that modern LLMs lack the capacity to create new problems worth solving and the creativity to solve most unsolved problems without leeching off another’s work.

I dedicated my degree to all the random Indians who had STEM related topics on youtube.

This is the most relatable thing I’ve read all week. No way in hell I would have graduated had they not dragged me by my feet screaming through the math courses. For all of YouTube’s faults, those videos are true gems.

I also ended up relying quite a bit on random old lectures from professors who can actually teach. No idea what schools they were lecturing at, but I wish the one I was at had more professors like them. Instead, they were all research professors who were being forced to lecture (or grad students in the same boat).

I don’t fully understand the question, to be honest, but would a purpose-built language like ActionScript qualify? It served only one purpose, and (debatably - AS3 was alright) served it well.

Otherwise, every general purpose language attempts to serve all its uses at once, which means they rarely specialize heavily into one particular domain. For example, while Rust’s stdlib devs could build a HTTP library, many Rust users don’t need one, good community-maintained libraries exist, and the stdlib devs don’t want to sacrifice stability with something that requires as much churn as a HTTP library needs. It serves their goal of stability really well, but requires extra steps from users who need that.

This doesn’t account for leap years, leap seconds, drift, timezones, which planet you’re on, or velocity of both the clock and its observer. That couldn’t possibly work.

Being more serious, time is far more complicated than that. It’s better to just keep clocks simple.

But it makes me think of it is as at type of recreational drug use. And that moral quandary of quantifying when drug use is transgressive and when it is not when the goal is chemically altered happiness.

I think this is a good point. For many people who take it, the goal is not to address a physical health concern (those people can address it through exercise which they still need while taking these medications), but to make themselves happy by making it easier to lose weight that they believe is excess.

Now I’m of the opinion that their self-image being so negative is more of a mental health problem (and I’m specifically not referring to people who are extremely obese, diabetic, etc here), but regardless, it’s not my place to prescribe them a treatment for their own issues. If these medications make them happy, then whatever.

The issue we have today is an issue of scarcity. Ozempic is expensive as fuck and isn’t accessible to the people who need it. For example, my sister in law is morbidly obese and has physical and genetic disorders that lead to a drug like this being lifesaving to her. She can’t really afford it even with insurance, but it’s not really a choice.

One thing to keep in mind though is side effects. These drugs aren’t all sunshine and rainbows. There are risks associated with them. For people who need them, the benefits usually outweigh the risks, but for “recreational” use, those risks should naturally be taken into consideration by whoever’s taking the drug.

The article doesn’t say they’re considering everything OTC, and the interview shows they explicitly are not.

That being said, it would be very entertaining to see opioids, amphetamines, etc. sold OTC.

Then when they need senior devs again, they can make a good offer.

This is often how it starts, sadly. Maybe by 2050 the rest of us plebians can get access to it (not that I need any new teeth right now, and hopefully not before 2050).

My point was that you can also reduce the overestimation by properly moderating these platforms. If there are fewer (or no) posts containing harmful content, then people will naturally estimate that the percentage is less. Plus, you have less harmful content.

these effects can be mitigated through a targeted educational intervention that corrects this misperception.

Let me make sure I understand this. The solution to “users who post harmful content” on moderated platforms is to educate others that those users are the minority?

Sure, education would be good here, but I’m sure someone out there can think of another solution to this problem.

GPA scales make no sense here, but usually the top varies somewhere between 4.0 and 5.0.

At the university I went to, I believe it went to 4.0 with honors, but I only knew one person who got remotely close to that. Honors was a separate process where they make you miserable in your last two years for no discernable benefit.

This depends on how the tool is used still. For someone seeking a diagnosis, the tool would be incredible. For someone who wants to use it to discriminate, the tool would be terrible.

Like most tools, the tool itself isn’t morally right or wrong. It’s the use of the tool that is.

It also wouldn’t work well because it’s impossible to diagnose someone with Autism solely from their face. They’d have much better luck making a tool for something like Down syndrome, but even still it would be very fallible.

Autism is widely called “invisible” for a reason lol.

I would hope this happens but who knows. It feels like making something as basic as insulin accessible is somehow controversial in the US, so it’d probably end up being accessible in other countries to cure cancer while in the US your insurance would pay $1m, never approve it for you, then max out your copay and somehow charge you more beyond that just for the consultation.

They’ve been curing cancer for longer than I’ve been alive, but it’s also clear that the treatments over time have gotten more effective. This makes me wonder though: if a 100% effective cure (or preventative) for cancer comes around, what will be the next big goal?

So when can we start taking these enzymes like vaccines? I’d sure like to undo the damage done to me over years or plastic lobbying.

Lol we did something like this at work once and it was pretty fun.

Here’s an idea: it’s a royal pain in the ass to transfer Firefox data from one mobile device to another without using their cloud sync feature. I’d love a way to do that while keeping the data local only.

On some teams, the backlog is just a way to track tech debt. Backlogs have a habit of growing indefinitely making it so lower priority tasks never get done.

Eithet way, tech debt is generally a bad thing. You’re just weighing it against other tasks, which are almost always more important.

This to me seems like one of those “correlation ≠ causation” things. I know at least a couple of people who don’t have “lunar-synchronized” cycles (I don’t exactly ask people their cycles though so N is small here).

Would be interesting if there was a causation though.

The article describes his past pretty well, but I’m not the only one seeing all the typos everywhere, am I? Anyway, interesting read, so thanks.