khalid_salad

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But even if we assume that this is the case, and even if there are a lot of people that simply don’t try [to learn new technology]…should companies really take advantage of them?

DISGUSTING POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this is the best idea on the internet, actually

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

why does that spelling make my skin crawl

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

it's because he has shit for brains

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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, @[email protected]. This one is my favorite. It feels Dark Souls-y.

Image description

Live crawfish with arms spread in front of bowl of cooked crawfish with caption "Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

in my texas high school we read atlash shrugged^1^ and the davinci code

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

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