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Perhaps, but like I said, there are books and then there are good books. Besides, state of the art might change rapidly but the fundamentals rarely do.

You entirely underestimate the power of structured learning and reinforcing exercises. While critical reasoning, curiosity, and passion are things that may be difficult to impart, a well-written book …

Wasn't user aggression a factor in the orchestration of the xz attack? At this point, any aggression (at least in an Open Source project) must be dispelled not just because it's rude but als…

Any sufficiently advanced LLM is indistinguishable from Prolog. I half-jest but I envision the direction of LLM research to head towards a parser-oriented setup where LLMs merely extract the entities …

This is super cool! As someone who is interested but unfamiliar with formal verification, how "powerful" or "complete" would you say FizzBee is compared to the conventional tools s…

I won't be surprised. The accelerometers seem to be pretty sensitive. Enough to measure any variations in heart rates and breathing patterns which are likely highly correlated with sleep patterns…

Thanks for linking this. I always did wonder how they did it. From a cursory read, it looks like the basic approach is to collect accelerometer data and train it to predict ground truth labels generat…

I'd like to contribute by saying that even when you are sleeping, body burns calories for various neurobiological processes. That automatically translates to bad sleep equals decreased calorie ut…

Many countries in the Southeast Asia do it at least.

This is such a first world problem. It's normalized in many 3rd world countries to give and receive cash (red envelopes). Directly not giving money and resorting to gift cards (and roundabout met…

The only analytical solution I could find was this: https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath668/kmath668.htm I admit it kinda flew over my head (as I mentioned, I'm an empi…

It'd be cool to learn how one could reduce this resistances in this grid to an equivalent resistance. Perhaps you could share some insights?

I believe it's a kinda-sorta reformulation of the Gauss-Seidel method of solving systems of linear equations (which, obviously are fundamental in physics).

Indeed, sounds like an interesting approach! This was just the first thing that came to my mind and it was cool to relate a concept from thermodynamics to electronics. I'll go and see if I can fi…

This same argument could have been made in the 60's regarding computers. Don't just look at what is, also look at what could be.

I don't know but Skynet would probably have been a cooler name.

Kinda tangential but I've noticed that my most satisfying and restorative sleep is always followed by tons of eye goop the following morning. Maybe a kind of brain-waste?

My primary motivation for having a website was to "reserve" it for future. It's going to be nigh impossible to have a <firstname><lastname>.com in the future unless you have…

Lying to thousands shamelessly for their own gain? How very... Sociopathic.

I would really love for Google to provide advanced search capabilities or filters to superusers who know EXACTLY what they are searching for. I wouldn't even mind paying for it tbh.

Is the problem under-specified? What if a compression allows for symbols outside of data? Which is to say, the domain of input is, let's say the alphabets, while the outputs can have numerics in …

If you think about it, teenage rebellion makes sense from an evolutionary perspective as it encourages a subgroup (teenagers) to explore outside whatever's the norm (aka adults). I wrote more abo…

Guilty as charged. I'm definitely aware of my tendency to repeat things. In my admittedly flimsy defense, it stems from my fear of being misinterpreted.

Programming is what we call a formal language with well-defined unambiguous parsing rules. Any comparisons of programming to rhetorical languages doesn't sit right with me... Well, didn't us…

For all his comparisons to Paul Dirac, Feynmam seems to have really respected him, often saying, at times, "well, I'm no Dirac." But unfortunately, the meeting of two great theoretical …