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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's probably worth 14B in the way a fire that you feed 14B of cash into is worth 14B

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Day 13, day 13 of shirking other responsibilities.

p1Ok. So, I overthought this a little. Ultimately, this problem boils down to solving a system of 2 linear equations aka inverting a matrix.

Of course, anyone who has done undergraduate linear algebra knows to look to the determinant in case some shit goes down. For the general problem space, a zero determinant means that one equation is just a multiple of the other. A solution could still exist in this case. Consider:

a => x+1, y+1
b => x+2, y+2
x = 4, y = 4 (answer: 2 tokens)

The following has no solution:

a => x+2, y+2
b => x+4, y+4
x = 3, y = 3

I thought of all this, and instead of coding the solution, I just checked if any such cases were in my input. There weren't, and I was home free.

p2No real changes to the solution to p1 aside from the new targets. I wasn't sure if 64 bit ints were big enough to fit the numbers so I changed my code to use big ints.

I'm looking at my code again and I'm pretty sure that was all unnecessary.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh yeah, haha. I often face the dilemma dilemma in which I have to choose between ignoring the 'incorrect" usage (i.e. not a choice between two things that are difficult to choose between) and seethe OR mention the correct usage and look like a pedant. Sometimes it's a trilemma, and I'm all over the shop. But more seriously, I usually let it slide and let people use it to mean "a situation".

I doubt that Lorenz has a dilemma in line with the correct usage. I couldn't fight the urge to steelman, spoilered below, which I suspect this is nothing near what Lorenz had in mind.

exhausting Steelman within. I only tried to come up with something, it's not a good steelman. I'm so sorry about this.In the world that Lorenz posits, where prediction markets somehow represent accurate news reporting, either a journalist participates in the market whilst reporting news (conflict of interest), or they don't, and they are bad at their job (and not performing at your job is unethical, I guess?)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

sorry, what exactly is the dilemma here? how is it an ethical dilemma to have an unethical way to make money?

I'm guessing what's being said is that in this fictional scenario with an ethically neutral prediction market, you could do insider trading but with fake news? Like, you predict that they will find cheese on the moon, and then you make a story about cheese on the moon.

Either way, it is a moot point since prediction markets are bunk, ethically or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Nah my neighbour, Steve Tesla. He’s real smart. Found a way to get free cable

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

This is great. The “diaspora” framing makes me want there to be an NPR style public interest story about all this. The emotional core would be about trying to find a place to belong and being betrayed by the people you thought could be your friends, or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It’s my pleasure!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That’s the power of not saying anything interesting, you can’t contradict it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

We’ve actually already done that. KFC can’t legally call itself kentucky fried chicken anymore because they don’t serve “chicken”. Instead it’s a GMO non-chicken animal that fits all the criteria you mentioned. Open your third eye

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

tired: lab grown meat

wired: worm filet mignon

hired: eat the rich

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah yeah the folding mechanism which just appeared one day out of nowhere, invented by nobody for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I’ve said what I said came here to say. Meanwhile, you haven’t said anything at all.

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