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If you're sufficiently stubborn, it's certainly possible to call directly into code written in Verilog, held together with inscrutable Perl incantations.

High-level languages like C certainly have their place, but the space seems competitive these days. Who knows where the future will lead.


If you want something extra spicy, there are devices out there that implement CORBA in silicon (or at least FPGA), exposing a remote object accessible using CORBA

You didn’t miss the smiley, did you? :)

I didn't miss the smiley =)

This account is low-effort spam, the LLM generated comment seems to only look at the title. They should at least feed the contents of the page to the AI if they're going to spam.

Accounts like that should be deleted.

Of course, recurring payments work completely differently. A shockingly large fraction of recurring payments are from people who never got around to cancelling it. They're already getting what they want, any email just risks disturbing this situation.

I still get yearly email summary of my donations. They don't need to send more, and they could not send it if their objective is to stay under the radar

That could be true. I guess I could try giving a one-time donation from another account and see what happens.

You're absolutely right. That's not just a genius idea; it's a radical new paradigm.

I used to dual-boot windows, but I was too lazy to actually reboot, so naturally I had Virtualbox just boot the physical Windows partition while Linux was running. Which is totally fine!

It's not a real dual boot if you don't boot both partitions at the same time.

As long as you don't install guest VBox drivers, those would make it hang when it boots as the host on physical hardware, since there's no longer someone above to answer the hypercalls.


> I had Virtualbox just boot the physical Windows partition while Linux was running. Which is totally fine!

I had no idea that this was possible, and I learned something new today. Thank you!


I think Windows refused to do that at some point? So I booted the physical Linux partition from Windows if I needed both at the same time. That's on a laptop that otherwise almost always ran Linux.

It whines about licensing, but I switch between booting my windows installation bare metal and as a VM all the time

Yeah. That is a valid use. I mean, this is how I installed Windows to begin with, from Linux via QEMU, onto my other hard drive. I did reboot and test it out, and it worked just fine.

No, this is just what that writing style looks like. Names and acronyms are usually capitalized normally.

I keep being surprised by the magnitude of the disconnect between this place and the other circles of hell. I'd have thought the Venn diagram would have a lot more overlap.


Oh the venn diagram might be big, the HN population just has a lot of variance I think, and is less of a community per se. I don't doubt what you're saying, though in the grand scheme of things, I think the "too lazy to hit shift" population dwarfs any of these groups.

Yeah, I can agree with the variance. Except that the "too lazy to hit shift" community is not something I would ever confuse with people writing long form articles about their regex engine research that they'll be presenting at PLDI.

The confusion might be understandable for people who have never encountered this style before, but that's still a very uncharitable take about an otherwise pretty interesting article.


This does a terrible job explaining, but it seems to be in protest of age verification laws in operating systems.

The only commit is removing a user birthday field.


The existence of the user birthday field is mass surveillance, but the GECOS field, which contains your full name and street address, and the username, which often contains parts of your name and is mandatory, somehow are not. Full access to your home directory, which includes all of your passwords and usernames and confidential data, also somehow is not an invasion of privacy.

Correct, because putting additional data in GECOS is completely optional. This isn't about having your email client know your birthday, it's about phoning home to gate functionality. Verifiability, attestibility, all the loopholes that you think make this harmless are the croaks of a frog that is unjustifiably confident that the water in the pot won't continue getting hotter.

Putting your birthday in the birthday field is completely optional.

0.1 is of course a real number, but let A \in R the set of actual numbers... (/s)


The funny thing is, according to infinitists real numbers are not real. But I do like the concept of the set of actual numbers.


I don't know whether I'm an infinitist, but I personally think "real numbers" is the most ingenious marketing term created by mathematicians...


\infty is an actual number not in R


Should be \subset.


The goal isn't to improve the AI performance using the cheat sheet, it's to produce a cheat sheet at all that efficiently distills intuition about these 22 million results.

Presumably if it's written in plain text and useful to the AI, there may be some relevant information in there that will be interesting for humans too.


As I say, I understand the goal of having a cheat sheet that can distills a big chunk of math. But that distillation would have been better done by a neural network instead of the creation of a prompt (fine-tuning or pure distillation). But studying that neural network will be harder.

It's explicitly stated that the goal is to improve performance of cheap models but I assume, like you did, that they are hopping that the plain text may be useful to humans too.


Tao does state his hopes in the article: "My hope is that the winning submissions will capture the most productive techniques for solving these problems, and/or provide general problem-solving techniques that would also be applicable to other types of mathematical problems."

I think your suggestions are actually complementary. Distillation of the larger networks capable of solving these problems and study of the layers could be part of the process for generating the cheat sheet.


Wait, y'all are getting paid?


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