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charlieyu1 commented on A simple way to generate random points on a sphere   johndcook.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/piinbinary
torrance · 4 days ago
The simplest way to do this is described here: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SpherePointPicking.html

Essentially:

1. Generate uniformly random values u,v between 0 and 1.

2. Then find their spherical coordinates as:

theta = 2 pi u; phi = acos(2 v -1)

Honestly I’m unsure why you’d choose a method any more complicated.

charlieyu1 · 3 days ago
This is not uniform and skewed towards poles
charlieyu1 commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott
mathiaspoint · 5 days ago
The people in charge are largely hated by the electorate. They won by default effectively due to a quirk of how UK elections work (which was less of a problem when the monarch/aristocracy was still involved to counter balance things like this, but now that that's gone the state is effectively out of control.)

Unless by "democracy" you mean "sleepwalking administration everyone hates" the current UK government is unusually undemocratic.

charlieyu1 · 5 days ago
The electorate hated the politicians, then they still vote for the same guys. The general public doesn't care about politics, those who cared treats it like tribalism and don't want to learn what are actually happening, they don't want to think they only want to be told whatever feeding their brain chemistry.
charlieyu1 commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'   theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
charlieyu1 · 6 days ago
The same CEO that pushed employees back to the office?
charlieyu1 commented on How well does the money laundering control system work?   journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
charlieyu1 · 6 days ago
It is just an excuse for more survillence
charlieyu1 commented on Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)   hillelwayne.com/post/pyth... · Posted by u/agluszak
charlieyu1 · 6 days ago
More and more dubious things were designed in Python these days. A recent PEP purposes to use {/} as the empty set
charlieyu1 commented on Margin debt surges to record high   advisorperspectives.com/d... · Posted by u/pera
phoenixhaber · 6 days ago
The best investment advice that I believe I ever had is to take a basket of goods and rebalance them. My father uses a collection of bonds and stocks and if the valuation shifts he sells high and buys low once a quarter to rebalance the percentage risk he wants in the overall market.

Ideally the best markets to get into now are probably healthcare which is about to have a raft of medicines, energy which is going to be the shovels that everyone needs to power the AI. Transportation is always a good bet and shorting palantir to go long Exxon might be worthwhile so long as you don't do so on margin.

Margin is generally bad. Having a basket of commodities tided inversley to margin would probably be a good idea. Buying currencies and holding as an inverse proportion of the margin in their stock markets?

charlieyu1 · 6 days ago
The problem with your strategy is that alternatives are often very underperforming
charlieyu1 commented on AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers   axios.com/2025/08/18/ai-j... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
grues-dinner · 9 days ago
These are probably the same people who are "surprised" when 100 offshore agency dredgings don't magically do the app 10x faster than 10 expensive onshore workers.

To be fair, the PowerPoint they were shown at that AI Synergies retreat probably was very slick.

charlieyu1 · 8 days ago
I just don't understand why offshore agenies are so prevalent. Surely hiring directly would be cheaper and gives your more control when you are hiring >1000 workers
charlieyu1 commented on Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members   torrentfreak.com/pirate-l... · Posted by u/speckx
ronsor · 11 days ago
> Copyright Crime Special Unit

It's amazing that people have somehow been convinced that it's sane not only to throw others in prison for copying files but also to have special police for it.

charlieyu1 · 11 days ago
You would think we as a society should crack down harder on theft and robbery but here we are subsiding the rich on copyright laws
charlieyu1 commented on Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants   forbes.com/sites/michaelt... · Posted by u/hhs
ghaff · 18 days ago
As I mentioned in another comment, the objective of elite schools is not to just admit 1600 SAT (or whatever the metric is these days). It's to admit "good" students and then to look at other factors. You have successful parents that went to the school isn't the only other factor but it's not a terrible one for both financial and other reasons. Neither is admitting students who didn't completely ace the SATs but also have other notable accomplishments.
charlieyu1 · 17 days ago
SAT is a very very low bar to pass, especially Mathematics, it is ridiculously easy to get 800. Oxford and Cambridge basically have their own entrance exams that even the best students (eg IMO medalists) won't score full marks.
charlieyu1 commented on Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews   qodo.ai/blog/benchmarking... · Posted by u/marsh_mellow
qsort · 20 days ago
No, they aren't. Most benchmarks use ground truth, not evaluation by another LLM. Using another LLM as verifier, aside from the obvious "quis custodiet custodes ipsos", opens an entire can of worms, such as the fact that there could be systematic biases in the evaluation. This is not in and of itself disqualifying but it should be addressed, and the article doesn't even say anything.
charlieyu1 · 20 days ago
Even the benchmarks for maths only checked numerical answers for ground truth, which means the LLM can output a lot of nonsense and guess the correct answer to pass it

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