I think you would need to deliberately choose a mathematical problem to solve, otherwise the most difficult thing you’ll come across will be binary representations of numbers and why floats are FUCKING BULLSHIT (seriously though they can be tricky if you think they are just “numbers in a calculator”).

If you want to really understand programming language theory, or computer science more generally, you will definitely need mathematics. But if the goal is “I want to tell this chip what to do,” you don’t need to learn a lot of math, in my opinion.

Edit: also, if you need help with any math, feel free to DM me. I am a former math teacher and sometimes teach algorithms (basically screaming “what is your induction variable”) at the undergraduate level.

this is the best idea on the internet, actually

someone who thinks “the buck stops here => nothing is true; all is permitted” probably won’t get much out of “here are all the places ive found shit where neurons should be” so idk

why does that spelling make my skin crawl

it’s because he has shit for brains

This kind of bullshit would classify you as Harry Potter if you drew a lightning bolt on your face.

I run GrapheneOS on my Pixel and I am pretty happy with it. Also, check out OpenBubbles (fork of an app called BlueBubbles) if you have a Mac that you can extract the hardware ID from. I use it to get my iPhone friends to stop complaining (it’s an American thing I think) and it’s good enough the vast majority of the time.

Reactions still come through as

shitheel reacted 🖕 to ‘hi everyone’

though

I’ve tried screaming “stop overfilling my hboxes” when compiling my TeX document, but it isn’t working! Am I prompting it wrong?

It’s built upon such a nonsensical ontology. The sentiment expressed in a piece of language is at least partially a social function, which is why I can add the following

I AM BEYOND FUCKING LIVID AT EVERYONE IN THIS FUCKING INSTANCE

to this response and no one will actually assume I’m really angry (I am though, send memes).

Edit: not one meme. Not. One.

Edit2: thank you for the memes, @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de. This one is my favorite. It feels Dark Souls-y.

Saw something about “sentiment analysis” in text. While writers have discussed “death of the author” and philosophers and linguists have discussed what it even means to derive meaning from text, these fucking AI dorks are looking at text in a vacuum and concluding “this text expresses anger”.

print("I'm angry!")

the above python script is angry, look at my baby skynet

in my texas high school we read atlash shrugged¹ and the davinci code

1: don’t tell my teacher but i sparknotes’d this one

The first half was OK, but then they cited this paper.

LLMs encode much more information about truthfulness than previously recognized. We first discover that the truthfulness information is concentrated in specific tokens, and leveraging this property significantly enhances error detection performance. Yet, we show that such error detectors fail to generalize across datasets, implying that—contrary to prior claims—truthfulness encoding is not universal but rather multifaceted.

I haven’t read the paper, and probably won’t, but what the shit is this?

SALAMI dorks make the same stupid argument as bitcoin dorks:

1. this shit is amazing look
2. ok it’s not amazing YET but it will be soon
3. ok but think about how long it took for [immediately, obviously useful invention] to become [what that invention is today]
4. ur a luddite

and yet people are still falling for it a year after SBF, the fucking poster boy for cryptocurrency, was convicted of being a fraudster.

is biometric “gait analysis” total bullshit? it feels like total bullshit, but I only DuckDuckWent for 20 seconds or so, idk

how come every academic I have worked with has given me some variation of

they already have all of my data, I don’t really care about my privacy

i’m in computer science 🙃

c++ is lost izalith

Dan asked me “what’s the fastest Big O notation?” and hey, to my credit despite not having a college degree, I knew the answer from self studying! “Oh, I know this. O(1) Constant time”, I said over the phone. “No, see it’s O(0). The fastest program is the one that never runs. It’s clear you don’t have enough experience for this role. So let’s test you on your sysadmin capabilities. Maybe you can redeem yourself there”.

There is something about the simultaneous pedantry and total ignorance in this that is enraging. Everything is O(1) space because there are 10⁸¹ atoms in the universe, and everything is O(1) time because of the heat death of the universe, don’tcha know. Also did I just solve the halting problem?

Is there a group that more consistently makes category errors than computer scientists? Can we mandate Philosophy 101 as a pre-req to shitting out research papers?

Edit: maybe I need to take a break from Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000.

Boss needs you to find the contiguous subarray with the maximum sum. Says he needs it by EOB Friday.

At least for me in the US, performance was very good. I was able to 100% Sekiro, for example.

The reason I think it was a freebie is:

1. Everyone was stuck in-doors about six months after launch
2. Everybody wanted to play videogames, but no one could get GPUs and the console situation was not great
3. Cyberpunk 2022 2077 came out and tons of people wanted to play it. It ran terribly on consoles and on PCs, but surprisingly well on Stadia at launch

It may have still failed altogether anyway, but the fact that they didn’t seize this opportunity, and instead stuck by their absolutely confusing-as-fuck “like Netflix but not really; first let me explain how this works” subscription model, always gets me.

Edit: Cyberpunk 2077 🤦🏻‍♂️