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charlieyu1
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- charlieyu1 parentNot so great to bet on 97% chance Jesus not returning before 2027 now
- As much as I hate ads, if you don’t make yourself known to potential customers you’re very screwed
- Maybe the reality is actually quite bad.
And at least the negativity allows us to fix the problems. I’m actually sick of modern toxic positivity, problems that could be fixed early are deliberately ignored until they couldn’t be ignored anymore.
- On the other hand, English is quite fine for describing Rubik’s cube turning notation. We use single English letters for turning notation but it’s just abbreviations
- I just don’t understand why we design every language to be so different
- If you plot the regression line of y against x, and also x against y, you would get two different lines.
I found it in the middle of teaching a stats class, and feel embarrassed.
I guess normalising is one way to remove the bias.
- Or the Vietnamese refugees who fleed on boats 50 years ago. I grew up listening to radio with Vietnamese announcements towards the boats every morning. Sadly Americans abondoned them, they lost their home country and were left behind.
- Worked at an AI training company for a few months. Enshittification is real. Idiots who never deserved to be here coming up with new policies every week, sometimes twice a week. Absolutely spineless when receiving nonsense from the client which is one of FAANG but will screw colleagues with no remorse.
- It is usually those who never experienced dictatorship complaining
- Surprised that list comprehensions are only 26% faster than for loops. It used to feel like 4-5x
- At least it’s not another Chinese firm
- I wrote a few math books. Does it increase my luck? A little bit, here or there. Will I recoup the 1200+ hours working on the project and be paid at least minimum wage for that? No chance.
- The prosperity in the 80-90s numbed people’ minds
- I mean it gets triggered every time I download a new app. This has been bugged for years.
- I don’t think covering only BMP is enough these days
- I mean anyone who has used any AI products of Google can agree they are horrible
- I don't know, I have been forced to update many times just to use Word. Win7/Word 2003 was working fine for me as a math editor. Somehow everyone changes to .docx, Equation Editor 3.0 was replaced, then one of my major client only accept Word 2019 files for consistency so I was forced to update to Windows 10 just to use that.
And I still haven't seen an increase in productivity. In fact, migration from Equation Editor 3.0 was really painful. I could type math equations blindfolded, I know Ctrl-R for a square root, Ctrl-F for fractions, Ctrl-K A for a right arrow and Ctrl-K I for the infinity. Now I have to use their "new" equation editor with unpredictable behaviour. No hot keys, or useless hotkeys that you basically have to type the entire command to do something you were doing with just two keys. Sometimes the correct maths won't even render unless I press the spacebar a couple of times! It has been a pain in the ass. It took me about 3x keystrokes and 1.5x time to do the same thing that I was doing with the old editors.
- I mean I’m not forced to update anymore
- It’s almost like tech world pays more and has less bullshit than academia
- We have seen the opposite in crypto recently. Celebrity buys something and then people followed drives up the price like crazy
- Hong Kong already showed that paying public servants well doesn’t stop corruption.
- This is actually one of the most well-known proof
- The problem was not about bamboo scaffolding. Bamboo is very fire resilent. The problem was the safety nets covering the building is very flammable.
We can see that the bamboo frame is still there after days of burning. Steel structures would do much worse when the fire goes over 1000 degree Celesius.
- Pretty crazy that H_n - ln(n) has a series expansion with rational coefficients except the constant term
- Overtaxation, less disposable income.
- It was like a month ago, but it was not possible to delete if AI added it, even their community support confirmed so
- A client emailed me for a meeting at Monday 2pm. The Gmail AI immediately marked Monday 2am on my calendar and it cannot even be deleted.
- Microsoft nuked the default behaviour of the input method of Traditional Chinese that had been working for the last 50 years with a silent Windows Update
- I can feel the junior manager trying to repair but it is really someone higher-up should have properly apologised