CompassRed

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hello to Bary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically speaking, no celestial body in our solar system orbits around a single point. The barycenter thing only works with two bodies. When there are more than two bodies, such as in our solar system, the orbits become chaotic. Granted, the influence between planets is small, so they all appear to orbit their barycenters with the sun, but there are small perturbations to the orbits caused by the locations and masses of all the other bodies in the solar system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be easy depending on your company’s git practices. Complicated git workflows can leave room for you to slip stuff in unnoticed or misattributed. I mean, it still has to pass a review, but a lot of the devs I work with don’t review that closely. Could just assign a lazy dev to the review and increase your odds of getting it through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨number box o number box⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This joke makes me sqrt(-1)%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨number box o number box⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly correct. It’s similar to how a vector in R^2 is just an arrow with a magnitude and a direction. When you represent that arrow in different bases, the arrow itself isn’t changing, just the list of numbers you use to represent them. Likewise, tensors do not change when you change bases, but their representations as n dimensional grids of numbers do change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs have already discovered new proofs for math problems that were previously unsolved. Granted, this hasn’t been done with a commercially available model as far a I know, but you are technically wrong to say they will never discover anything new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is. Either we need guns for protection and it is okay to point them at people in certain circumstances, or we don’t need guns for protection and they should be outlawed beyond certified uses like sport shooting, hunting, and collecting. I don’t understand your seeming belief that guns are okay to own, but not okay to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the same, and you kinda answered your own question with that quote. Consider what happens when an object defines both dunder bool and dunder len. It’s possible for dunder len to return 0 while dunder bool returns True, in which case the falsy-ness of the instance would not depend at all on the value of len