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A Cheat-Sheet for Helix

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3 points·by beyondCritics·7 mesi fa·2 comments

The Blender Question Everyone Gets Wrong [video]

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1 points·by beyondCritics·9 mesi fa·1 comments

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beyondCritics
·3 mesi fa·discuss
There is plenty of demand for so called "secure code", where such coder arrogance will not be tolerated. Trust me on that, I know it.
beyondCritics
·3 mesi fa·discuss
If your code may be compiled, to use the Intel x87 numerical coprocessor, an important issue is the so called "excess precision": Different values on chip can collapse after being rounded and stored to their memory locations, invalidating previous comparisons. Spilling can happen unexpectedly. Note that Intel calls the x87 "legacy"
beyondCritics
·4 mesi fa·discuss
In order to demonstrate something exceptional, you have to establish a baseline. This baseline is called the "null hypothesis" in classical testing.
beyondCritics
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Statistical clueless amateurs found something they did not like, but of course were unable to convert their suspicions into something sound. They do not even think about it. Nevertheless a big sensation was anounced. I am tired of this.
beyondCritics
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Just HI slop. Ask any decent model, it can explain what's wrong this this description.
beyondCritics
·5 mesi fa·discuss
They must love dogs really deeply to go to such length to rediscover them.
beyondCritics
·5 mesi fa·discuss
>However when “few enough” pieces remain on the board (in the endgame), the number of possible game states is small enough that it’s possible to brute force solve the game from each state by enumerating all possible moves and resulting states so as to find the absolute optimal move for any given board position

You can basically never do that, even in the endgame, since you get always exponential blow up! Furthermore with less pieces on the board, they hamper each others movement less, therefore the branching factor really goes down only slightly. If you want to compute all mate-in-n positions, you discover the theoretical values in tiers, by unmoving each tier twice: If you know all mate-in-0,...,mate-in-n positions, unmove the mate-in-n set for the defender and filter out results, where he can avoid moving into the union of the known tiers. Then unmove for the attacker, to find mate-in-(n+1). Repeat until convergence. Repeat the whole process for the left over positions, to find more theoretical values.
beyondCritics
·6 mesi fa·discuss
They are giving their stuff away for free, hence they can do whatever they want. It goes without saying, that spiritual teachings are not there to create quarrel and division.
beyondCritics
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Beautiful cheat sheet for the modal editor helix
beyondCritics
·8 mesi fa·discuss
It is terrible to lose a relative in young age. But at least 80% percent of all heart diseases are known to be fully avoidable. The risk factors are known for ages and as matter of fact every adult is fully responsible to care for his own health. The right thing to do, is to watch out for a healthy diet.
beyondCritics
·8 mesi fa·discuss
>... I sadly found the explanation of coroutines utterly incomprehensible. Same for almost every other explanation I found on the web.

Nice to see a mirror of my experience.
beyondCritics
·9 mesi fa·discuss
For the records: I'm taking it very seriously and had this book in mind: Elizondo, L. (2024). Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's hunt for UFOs. William Morrow. The tone is very dark though.
beyondCritics
·9 mesi fa·discuss
For the informed nerd (e.g. read Elizondo first or Greer, Bledsoe) it should by now be established, that we have a serious UAP problem. Hence it's a good thing that all the incidents that were previously ridiculed and downplayed are now one by one reconsidered.
beyondCritics
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Turns out that old versions of Visual C++ used their own typedef of bool as int: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4897844/is-sizeofbool-de...
beyondCritics
·9 mesi fa·discuss
IT professional were asked to think out of the box. Big mistake...
beyondCritics
·9 mesi fa·discuss
There is also nice discussion of the beautiful and practically relevant "Saavedra position", which does have an under promotion to a rook. https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/saavedra.htm
beyondCritics
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Tim Krabbés blog is recommended for this type of question and in general: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/minor.htm
beyondCritics
·10 mesi fa·discuss
>Bruce helped the young athlete understand his movements in a way that seemed to decelerate time. “Bruce showed me how to harness some of what was raging inside me and summon it completely at my will. The Chinese call it chi; the Japanese, ki; the Indians, prana—it is the life force,” he said. “I was quite amazed to find, after working with Bruce, that when I really had my presence of mind, when I did control my life force, that’s what I saw, things coming at me in slow motion with plenty of time to get out of the way.

Seemingly we are learning here something new about Bruce Lee, that outside observers can't understand, most notably western ones. This decelaration of time also happened to me two times spontaneously, when I was attacked on surprise, hence I believe this verbatim. In both cases, that got me plenty of time, to decide what to do and was able to save myself without a scratch. However it never occurred to me,that that had something to do with my Chi force...