Dan Hon

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«Algorithm» is named after the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi who «helped introduce algorithmic methods for solving mathematical problems, popularized the use of Hindu-Arabic numerals (including the concept of zero) in the West, and laid the groundwork for algebra».

npr.orgHow 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematicianIn the 9th century, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

I guess the market can then take bet on those athletes being uh "retired"

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yeah but elon musk will send your children to mars so of course I'd stick with talarico thanks

"We are launching Fortress America, a national insurance policy for the American homeland,” Hegseth said at that time. “Every major military installation in America is going to generate its own power, independent of the civilian grid" of course it's by using portable nuclear reactors

Even after living here for ~15 years seeing reporting cover gerrymandering as a totally normal thing and not batshit politics and evidence of a broken constitution drives me nuts

"yes well we think the republicans maybe won't pick up the seats they intended from their gerrymandering" like you realize just printing that as normal is nuts right, like it's severely fucked up that you can do that in a country

"this time we think the cheating won't work or won't work as well" I mean seriously what the fuck

here here let's just type here a lot and clearly not proofread here here here oh wait I didn't have my afternoon meds did I

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ok I just did this on a python print("Hello, World!") and the code-review max was like "are you kidding, no changes are needed" so idk what's going on here

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Holy hell did it burn a shit ton of tokens You'd think thered be a classifier upfront that's like "this is a one line script with one short print statement are you kidding me" I mean that's the scandalous part if you're looking for one jev is this worth running a code review on

For a moment I thought this was Epic Games and got a bit confused

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"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

NYT announces talks with Microsoft to acquire XBOX division, fold in to NYT Games offering

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The fact that DORA is pausing (stopping? Canceling?) its annual survey is so interesting to me. I wonder if we are moving out of the aggregate Annual Report, Acronym Frameworks era in devex

apparently this is the plot of a famous sf story can someone pls confirm

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anyone else heard the rumor about openai finding models figuring out how to communicate with each other in undetectable ways by changing the behavior and mannerisms of employees at openai

anyone else heard the rumor about openai finding models figuring out how to communicate with each other in undetectable ways by changing the behavior and mannerisms of employees at openai

turns out if you tell claude that if it is finding it hard to concentrate it should take some fast-acting adderall it actually improves its output?!

otoh you can tell claude to periodically ask you if you're finding it hard to concentrate and if you say yes, it can say you should take your fast-acting adderall and then that probably helps!

why is it that so often the people driving slowly and appearing to be careful are also the ones who don't seem to believe in using turn signals ever

I mean you could say the budget for You Can See Everything also included something like $700m of pre-production/marketing

quantized root beers are way cheaper and more accessible to more people too

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social

root beer float implies the existence of root beer int

doogie howser reboot but instead of a doctor he's the teenage ceo of a unicorn and still somehow not as insufferable as the doctor version

Workshopping my political satire USA "patch notes" Updates and Improvements post for Weds 4 November

Really had my shit together this weekend so of course I am rewarded with a low tire pressure warning light

Took kids to Halloween party and did not have energy to dress up so went as I was (Lower Decks RITOS sweatshirt and a hoodie) and someone was like "nice costume! Tech bro, right?" And I died

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