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BurdensomeCount··on Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
Imagine how bad you must be to lose to a Stochastic Parrot...
BurdensomeCount··on A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
Close to impossible. This is a famous enough problem that anyone who understands what they are doing generally would pretty immediately recognise the significance of the counterexample if shown it.
BurdensomeCount··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
If the Chinese models are open weight the after release you don't care about China at all; they could be running on a server in Bulgaria with zero CCP influence for all you care.
BurdensomeCount··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Yes, 140k for a software job is extremely high. Comparable roles in Europe done by people who are equally skilled pay half as much.
BurdensomeCount··on Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK
> New Town Blocked

> A 50,000 home new town in Kent is blocked because they found nests full of agitated Chupacabras following the government's 'reintroduction' of the cryptid to British arable land. Your deposit requirement increases by £5000.

This is too real...

BurdensomeCount··on 'Hey Number 17 '
Terrible as these people may be, even they do not deserve the Brazen Bull (nobody does).
BurdensomeCount··on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
On a log scale (you can select this on your graph) we're basically moving on the same trend line as we have been since 1960. Covid caused a big jump but the years of stagnation since then mean we're back to normal.
BurdensomeCount··on Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
It works under the same principle as pressure washing, as long as the water pressure is high enough the final result is completely clean. Too high pressure can lead to material flying around everywhere but there's a very large range where the pressure is high enough to clean you but not enough to spray things around.

Drying is a personal preference and isn't as important anymore as you're clean down there now. Toilet paper is one option but you don't have to do it (I don't dry for reference) as it'll dry out by itself in a few minutes once you put your underwear on to absorb the water (which is fine because you're completely clean down there so it really is just clean water left).

BurdensomeCount··on Lolita: A tagless, dependently typed, self-aware programming language
Uptime: Close to 2000 years at this point.
BurdensomeCount··on Lolita: A tagless, dependently typed, self-aware programming language
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock...
BurdensomeCount··on NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
Hanania also has similarly scathing things to say about low class and low end white people. He's not partisan at all, or if he is, he's biased against the more "pathetic" parts of humanity, if you wish to put it like that, rather than having a Dem/Rep bias.
BurdensomeCount··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
By being very good. Mostly the Uber-geniuses thing, but I wouldn't call them geniuses. You do have a bit of the harder working but it's quite minor and of course sometime you benefit from being in the right place at the right time (luck). I'd say elite network is probably the least important conditional on you having a decent network that you can get at any top 20 school if you put in the effort (be involved in tech societies etc.)
BurdensomeCount··on Dropping the SAT requirement is a luxury belief
Now remove the affirmative action portion of the non-legacy students and compare numbers again.
BurdensomeCount··on Viral “racism in academia” story deleted when I started asking questions
It's not just this story. This is just one more example in the plethora of "inconvenient events".
BurdensomeCount··on Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour
Also what would count as "no issues" by and large depends on the dog breed I'd say. If a rottweiler tried to attack a rabbit that wouldn't be out of the ordinary, but if a border collie did the same it would.
BurdensomeCount··on “YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG
DDG was supposed to be like this originally, but they stopped using Yandex a while ago so now its just a wrapper on Bing...
BurdensomeCount··on “YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG
Yep, I think the delisting comes from Bing, not DDG since DDG just pulls all their results from Bing since they stopped also using Yandex.
BurdensomeCount··on “YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG
Amazing that nowadays if you want the best "uncensored" results you have to go to the Russian Yandex (at least on all topics unrelated to Russia). How did our society get to such a point...
BurdensomeCount··on Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
> My hope is that the Supreme Court, now that it's a 6/3 conservative majority, finally strikes down race based "affirmative action".

Agreed, and also favouritism for "legacies", children of faculty and athletics (they can get in on their own merit if they have it). This is a rot that seems to be unique to the US. In the pretty much every other country there would be an outrage if someone got admitted because their parents donated a lot of money.

BurdensomeCount··on The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism (2014)
No different to the 90%+ men like me who also have no chance due to genetics.