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pedrosorio
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Yes. And this has been long known. 2023 paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760

https://jurgengravestein.substack.com/p/why-you-should-total...

> A recent study by the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Microsoft, and others, suggest that the performance of LLMs can be enhanced through emotional appeal.

> Examples include phrases like “This is very important to my career” and “Stay determined and keep moving forward”.

Of course the top LLMs change every few months, so your mileage may vary.
pedrosorio
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
What harness do you use?
pedrosorio
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Yeah, OP is famous for never having put effort into anything, just an AI shill /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Sanfilippo

This whole thread is hilarious.
pedrosorio
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I had claude code implement minimax (w/ alpha-beta pruning) for the general n cells version of the game.

I checked n=6...20. It looks like white wins for n=6 and n=8 with perfect play, otherwise it is a draw.

With random play, black seems to have the edge regardless of board size. About 2/3 of the games end in a draw, but black wins 20% and white 13%.
pedrosorio
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Silly Asses by Isaac Asimov?

https://www.contecurte.eu/2019/05/ecumene-silly-asses/
pedrosorio
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
That was a bust: https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/pwht4f/whateve...
pedrosorio
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
> Is there a human out there who would just magically type all the right things - no errors - first try?

If they know what they're doing and it's not an exploratory task where the most efficient way to do it is by trial and error? Quite a few. Not always, but often.

That skill seems to have very little value in today's world though.
pedrosorio
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
Regarding electricity, it depends on what you mean by “we”, I guess

https://www.voronoiapp.com/energy/-China-Generated-More-Elec...
pedrosorio
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
> Here's the live assignment requirements: [1] https://i.imgur.com/aaiy7QR.png & [2] https://i.imgur.com/aaiy7QR.png.

These are the same link
pedrosorio
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
You can check all the teams and their members here: https://cphof.org/advanced/icpc/2025

It's rarely the case that looking at school names is useful (for many things in life) when there are more data points.

In this case, without any insider knowledge, just by looking at their profiles, the relevant name would appear to be Benjamin Jeter (https://codeforces.com/profile/BenjaminJ) rather than ASU. Currently 5th active American in the top competitive programming platform, top 200 worldwide (https://codeforces.com/ratings/country/United%20States). That's elite.

In teams of 3, even one "super player" can make a big difference. Almost certainly carrying that team.
pedrosorio
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
*St. Petersburg

I guess, like a lot of other sports at the college level, having a reputation that attracts the best competitive programmers (and a great coach to go along with it) doesn't hurt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Stankevich
pedrosorio
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Is that 6 AM - 6 PM nonstop work M-F? Or 8 hours on the weekdays and Saturday with a 12 hour sprint on Sunday?

How many of those 60 are spent in meetings?

Superhuman working hours for someone with a family.
pedrosorio
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
That one is much easier to Google though, as the expression is really only used to refer to one thing (the Indian subcontinent)
pedrosorio
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
> Reading OPs problem and some posts here where people are too bored of making ludicrous money left me with a bitter aftertaste that life really is unfair and success in life is more linked to the lottery of birth and opportunities available to you than any amount of hard work. Not hating, just saying.

Just FYI, large US tech companies have offices in Europe and they also hire people from Europe to work in their US offices, so if you really want it, "lottery of birth" is not an insurmountable obstacle.
pedrosorio
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
> The kind of stock options you get in big tech companies is not what you think. You can expect some hundreds/thousands dollars per year, that need 3/5 year to vest until you can have them in full.

Did you mean tens/hundreds of thousands per year? Vesting monthly or quarterly? Because that's what "big tech companies" pay just in stocks in the Bay Area.

https://www.levels.fyi/