ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
6hr ago
going 850 miles in a wide range of northerly directions isn't well-defined there.
That's okay, those points don't appear on the curve. From eyeballing it, East-North-East is about as close as you can get to North before that becomes an issue.
Pick a better-behaved set of numbers and the "rhumb ring" (which doesn't seem to be a standard term) will touch the great circle ring in both the North and South directions.
Nah. You pick a better-behaved function, and it won't be an issue. The same distortion that causes you to measure a 300 mile distance as a 302 mile arc causes you to measure a 250 mile distance as an 850 mile spiral.
ulyssessword
17hr ago
see below. distance-direction vs. direction-distance.
ulyssessword
1d ago
So every point on this orange curve is the same distance from the yellow point? I don't think so.
ulyssessword
1d ago
... until I'm allowed to talk to women.
That one specific woman. Try again and hope that the next one is a bit more openminded.
ulyssessword
1d ago
She instantly made an annoyed face and turned away, never to talk to me again.
Sounds like that would've happened sooner or later regardless of your answer to that one question. It might as well be "sooner".
But like, what are we supposed to do in these situations? Is it just impossible to talk to people with different political opinions now?
There's not much you can do if someone else doesn't want to talk with you. Lying and hiding your beliefs might work, but that's not much of a solution.
ulyssessword
1d ago
There's a shorter way to get to that point but that doesn't matter.
How would you describe a point at the same latitude as yourself, and 300 miles away (by great circle)? "302 Miles East"?
ulyssessword
1d ago
I interpret them as "flies [to a point which is] 300 miles [to the] North [along the most-direct route]..." and "travels [along a path continuously facing] north for [a path length of] 300 miles". Compare to a winding trail: You can go 10 miles North by travelling North for 20 miles.
Both the bear and the helicopter are point-to-point (destination = distance+direction), while your followup question was path-based (travel mode and path, for a distance). The bear hunter walked in an equilateral triangle with approximately 119.9 degree corners.
If it had been "He travels south for one mile, east for one mile, and north for one mile", then it would be a 1 mile line, a 90 degree corner, a 1 mile arc with radius 1 mile, another 90 degree corner, then a 1 mile return line that's 122.7 degrees off from the first line.
I haven't mathed it out, but I suspect both versions involve the helicopter landing in New Jersey, but in different locations.
ulyssessword
1d ago
Well, if I state that a helicopter takes off and travels "north" for "300 miles" what does that mean to you? Same question for "west," "south" and "east"?
That's a different question than the one upthread. If you're running laps around the pole, then you're going west for 300 miles, but you did not fly 300 miles west, you flew in a circle.
Do you really want chatbot outputs to be that sensitive to your exact phrasing, or would you prefer reasonable interpretations?
ulyssessword
4d ago
PS: Watch the whole video. It's probably the greatest opening statement I've ever seen.
Damn, good call.
ulyssessword
6d ago
Isn't Canada in the midst of a gun buyback?
Kind of. Half the country is in the midst of something that could charitably be called a buyback.
The Federal Government has zero credibility on the issue, and they haven't taken any of the obvious opportunities to improve. If you properly file for the buy"back", then they won't guarantee any money, nevermind guaranteeing a fair price. They capped the payouts at about $250M, planning for 136k guns (vs. industry estimates of 500k+).
I also heard (and subsequently debunked) that they were giving themselves two months to do the paperwork, not that they were giving gun owners two months to apply. That tells you something about the current state of affairs.
Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Yukon are all obstructing it to various amounts because Trudeau was disastrous to national unity, both with specific policies (like this) and with his general attitude.
ulyssessword
7d ago
ulyssessword
7d ago
The dictionary definition is useless on its own. As an example, this scary cave diving sign checks all of the boxes.
ulyssessword
9d ago
...coronavirus lockdowns. Again we are being expected to tolerate draconian government interference with our daily lives...
How disruptive are ICE's activities in Minnesota? I have a hard time imagining that they create 1/10 the interference of the COVID lockdowns (averaged over their respective worst month-ish, counting everyone in the city except those properly targeted for arrest, and not counting the actions of protestors).
How many businesses are shut down? (Probably some, because their employees got arrested) Are they required to get identification and documentation before they serve customers? Are the schools still open? Can you visit your friends?
I'm not on the ground there, so I don't know exactly what's happening (or what their COVID measures were, for that matter). I'd just be very surprised if it was even in the same order of magnitude as the lockdowns.
ulyssessword
13d ago
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14d ago
ulyssessword
14d ago
I've been really diligent about implementing good practices like...
I wonder how long it'll be before "implementing" those practices is as simple as writing a good initial prompt for the coding agent to follow. And how long after that that "do it well" (or nothing at all) would sufficient for it to follow those practices by default.
Remember that LLM capabilities will only improve over time (barring severe government action, at least). Also remember that GPT-3 was released in 2020: Getting all the low-hanging fruit (never mind all the incremental improvements) from a novel technology in six years would be a fantastic achievement, so I don't think we're anywhere close to done.
ulyssessword
18d ago
I got to the first ending of Blue Prince (there are apparently a couple more), then the RNG dependence got to be too much. Once you need three or four checks to all pass within a single run just to check a theory, not necessarily to progress, it becomes a slog.
ulyssessword
20d ago
Do a partial exit strategy where you sell off any gains?
That's easier to do when you're looking at numbers on a screen. Seeing your position stay constant at $X while your number of shares goes down is one thing. Seeing a half-empty treasure chest where the value is only visible all the way over on the computer (and a couple calculations) is another.
It's about hit rate, not miss rate. If 90% of women are ACABers and 2.42% are badge bunnies, then their dating pool has ten five women per man (better than college, which is around 1.5). As long as the selection effects aren't too severe (and the numbers are anywhere close to my wild-ass guess), that sounds pretty good.
See also serial killers. They are unattractive to the vast majority of women, but still massively outnumbered by female fans.
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