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Just like 1 + 1, the concept of mathematical equality is one that is far from simple or universal – and that’s becoming a big problem. How about equalish?
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Well there is
Java == (because = is the assignment operator)
Delphi = (because := is the assignment operator)
Javascript has == AND === (I'll let someone else explain that)
Is this what they are meaning? Because other than that, 2 = 2 doesn't seem that complicated.
No it isn't becoming a big problem, it's only a big problem for mathematicians who don't operate in the real world.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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The math is beyond my interest level, but it does seem to be very much an edge case scenario. Something along the lines of “how can we tell that these two sets are completely identical?”
Plus, it gives him a chance to take a lame potshot at Russell.
Yeah, math jerk.
TTFN - Kent
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Hmm... I didn't read it as a swipe at Russell.
I did read it as similar/related to some fringe stuff I was saying about Terrence Howard's assertion that 0 does not exist though. Pretty sure he happens to be right about that one.
To have =, you need 0. Why? Because that's the supposed 'difference' on either side? Integers are useful illusions. It's fine and very useful to pretend, but if there is no real-world corollary, it's definitely just pretending?
The Piraha of the Amazon have no real concept of numbers, no words for them. From what I understand, it goes back to their culture basically thinking there is no =. No two stones, fruits, whatever, are alike, and so you can't really "equate" them just by assigning an integer and to do so is so foreign it's not even taboo, but just impossible.
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(1 egotistical mathematician) + (concept of equality) = idiot.
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Well, neither are programmers.
Consider:
class A
{
};
class B : public A
{
}
bool operator=(A const& lhs, A const& rhs);
B b;
A a = b;
if (a == b) {
}
You could claim that the result should be "false", because a and b are manifestly not equal, but the Standard requires us to compare only the 'A' components of each variable, and therefore a and b are equal.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Wells Fargo fired more than a dozen employees from its wealth and investment management division in May after the bank investigated claims that they were faking work, according to a media report. If the mouse is jerking, I might be working
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The real question is why is Wells Fargo using keyboard activity to define productivity? It sounds to me like those workers figured out management's game and exploited it.
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The days where engineers only take orders from higher ups and complete the tasks they are told to do may be over. ...really? Really?!
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While Windows 11’s Paint Creator uses Microsoft’s cloud to generate AI images based on your prompts, Paint Cocreator turns your drawing/outline into an AI masterpiece locally, thanks to NPU. Or to put it another way: another feature you won't be using
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I can't even figure out how to use the Paint 3D app, and now this!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Microsoft will evaluate its employees’ cybersecurity contributions in reviews that will factor into their compensation, Brad Smith, the company’s vice chair and president, said ahead of a Thursday U.S. House committee hearing on the software maker’s security practices. In related news: Windows team now owe the company money
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What does Brad Smith contribute to cybersecurity I wonder.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The platform’s job search tool is also getting a boost, thanks to generative AI. ...which will then be turfed by the recruiter's AI resume processing tool
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“Clean Code” has garnered a bit of notoriety despite coining an endearing term we use in coding conversations. Because sometimes you want your code a little unclean
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Read the article, author has some good points. One thing I would have done was use a switch over a bunch of if/else's. Author's refactor of the original is also something I would approve.
Not that anyone was asking.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Elaborate scheme involved hidden camera and an earpiece to hear answers. Did he also get an A+ for the system he developed?
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VIC, the bot, will make decisions for the "meat puppet" who shows up at meetings. Probably better than the current crop of politicians
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Microsoft has also announced that Windows 10 version 21H2 has reached the end of servicing status. I am Updatus of Windows. Resistance is futile. You will be upgraded.
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In a new paper published in the journal Ethics and Information Technology, a trio of philosophy researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland argue that referring to chatbot's propensity to make crap up shouldn't be referred to as "hallucinations," because it's actually something much less flattering. The technical (but accurate) term
Sorry to your little sister
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In Trump circles, it's known as "alternative facts".
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Let's face it, calling any LLM program artificial "intelligence" is itself bovine excrement.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Love it! 
Now where's the browser extension to automatically replace all references to "AI" or "LLM" with "bullsh!t machine"?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Replacing LLM with BSM would preserve the layout of the page. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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When you consider the training source (public internet), of course LLMs spit out crap.
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