Which 6 words did NYT remove?
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jibal commented on A visual introduction to big O notation samwho.dev/big-o/... · Posted by u/samwho
I would just say "almost always" to cut off the pedants. You do use the same notation to describe the best-case and average-case as well; people just don't care about those as often.
Pejoratively referring to people as "pedants" simply because they know what they are talking about is quite the ad hominem fallacy.
As for what people care about, it depends on what they're doing and what they know about the input distribution. If you're concerned about DOS attacks or response time in a game, then worse case is of primary importance. But if you're paying for wall time then you measure a hash table lookup by its O(1) average time, not its O(n) worst case time.
jibal commented on A visual introduction to big O notation samwho.dev/big-o/... · Posted by u/samwho
This article and its associated HN comment section continue in the long tradition of Big O Notation explainers [0] and getting into a comment kerfuffle over the finer, technical points of such notation versus its practical usage [1]. The wheel turns...
[0] https://nedbatchelder.com/text/bigo.html
[1] https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201711/toxic_experts.html
That second link is not about Big-O and is not something anyone should model.
jibal commented on A visual introduction to big O notation samwho.dev/big-o/... · Posted by u/samwho
So your contention is with the word “always”? It doesn’t always mean worst case? I got told off by someone else for _not_ saying this.
I really just want to find the way of describing this that won’t net me comments like yours. It is very disheartening to spend so much time on something, and really try to do the topic justice, to be met with a torrent of “this is wrong, that’s wrong, this is also wrong.” Please remember I am a human being trying to do my best.
> I got told off by someone else for _not_ saying this.
And what made you think they were right?
> I really just want to find the way of describing this that won’t net me comments like yours.
Do research. There's a large literature on algorithmic complexity ... maybe start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation
> It is very disheartening to spend so much time on something, and really try to do the topic justice, to be met with a torrent of “this is wrong, that’s wrong, this is also wrong.” Please remember I am a human being trying to do my best.
non sequitur
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Massive amounts of groundwater are being sucked out of Colorado by Chinese and ME companies that, for instance, grow alfalfa crops and then ship them to their home countries.
jibal commented on AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem vincirufus.com/posts/agi-... · Posted by u/vincirufus
They aren't relevant. Even if Penrose and Lucas were right (they aren't), a computational system can solve the vast majority of the problems we would want solved.
P.S. I don't know which argument is allegedly "a bait and switch argument" .... certainly not mine. Even if Penrose and Lucas were right (again, they aren't--Godel's Theorems are in PA and can be proved by existing machines), that would not be a barrier to achieving AGI because being able to "see" the validity Godel's theorems is not a necessary condition for being an AGI.
P.P.S. Oh, I just noticed that the response came from the same person who wrote "won’t somebody please think about Mr. Godel, and the Incompleteness Theorem ?"
I will simply observe that isn't any sort of argument.
That gradient example is hilarious.
With RGB you order green salad you get green salad.
With OKLCH you order green salad you get beet soup.
Yes ... see chrismorgan's comment on it up top.
Aside from a few criticisms that others have already raised I think this is quite a nice introduction to OKLCH and how to use them in CSS.
With that out of the way, I'd like to go on a tangent here: can anyone explain the modern trend of not including publishing dates in blog articles? It stood out to me here in particular because the opening sentence said that "OKLCH is a newer color model" and the "newer" part of that sentence will get dated quicker than you think. The main site does mention a date, but limits it to "August 2025" so this seems like a conscious choice and I just don't get it.
I can't explain it, but undated articles are a serious problem. I don't know whether it's a modern trend ... how can one tell in the absence of dates? I've seen plenty of undated content that appears to be old.
On some blogs I can only tell the timeframe of the content from the timestamps on the comments ... but many blogs like the OP's don't support comments. I'm not likely to revisit them. (The blurb on the OP's main page is ironic ... rather than obsessing over the smallest details I see obsession over esthetics to the detriment of functionality.)