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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time

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  • Day 11!

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

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  • Menawhile: tenga stock prices soar because apparently their toys are so good that a guy was willing to kill for them to be banned

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

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  • OwO what’s this?

    • Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a real e/acc"

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  • NB: I will not perform sleuthing, i.e. reading up on this guy or anything he wrote. I don't think it's worth it

    • Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a real e/acc"

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  • Is it crazy that I don't think that the guy is the shooter? I don't see the EA crowd, famous for bootlicking, being up to the task of CEO assassination.

    • Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

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  • "sounds good to me"!

    • Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

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  • Day 10. I lied about doing this later, I guess.

    • Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

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  • Sgtm!

    • Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

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  • I will probably slow down and try to solve the problems on the weekends rather than daily. Anyway, 9:

    • A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service

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    • Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

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  • d8: done, and nothing to say about it.

    • A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service

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  • As a human,

    • Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

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  • We love to see it

    • Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

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    • Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

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  • Day 7 ::: spoiler 1 and 2 On reflection, it was a pretty fun little problem to solve. There wasn't much of a difference between the two parts. I ran into some bugs with my recursion termination conditions, but I got them in the end.

    Part 1. A quick look at the data showed that the input length was short enough to perform an O(2n) search with some early exits. I coded it as a dfs.

    Part 2. Adding concatenation just changes the base from 2 to 3, which, while strictly slower, wasn't much slower for this input. :::

    • Study claims that "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably." WaPo, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and others picked it up. Here's my response.

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    • OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro — maybe there’s a market!

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  • Fucking hell. What exactly do they pay Salty Ballman for if all he does is come up the same ideas over and over? Just replace him with a coin with “cram another LLM into the trenchcoat” on one side and “add another payment tier” on the other.

    Worst fake techonology revolution ever. This bubble can’t burst fast enough.

    • Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

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  • I have heard that egg nog and orange soda is a surprisingly good drink.

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th December 2024

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  • Sundar Pichai says Google Search will ‘enshittify profoundly’ in 2025 [paraphrasing]

    • Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

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  • as the edgy commie teens say, praxis