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shemii commented on Code is run more than read   olano.dev/2023-11-30-code... · Posted by u/signa11
cosmojg · 2 years ago
> By creating numbers from switches you can create even more interesting hot games.

Well, don't leave us hanging! What are some of your favorite hot games on top of switches?

shemii · 2 years ago
I'm just starting to learn about all this stuff, but iirc thr game of Go is famously "hot". Also I will emphasize thats when talking about "games", usually what is meant is a game position. What spe cific game you are playing isn't too important as it can be shown that some positions in different games are equivalent.
shemii commented on Code is run more than read   olano.dev/2023-11-30-code... · Posted by u/signa11
Akronymus · 2 years ago
Heres a relevant video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYj4NkeGPdM

I really love that video.

shemii · 2 years ago
Exactly this video made me read more into this topic, I'm currently reading winning ways and lessons in play simultaneously. It's quite fun! I've just gotten started and am looking forward for what's left.
shemii commented on Code is run more than read   olano.dev/2023-11-30-code... · Posted by u/signa11
kaba0 · 2 years ago
It is false - real numbers fulfill the trichotomy property, which is precisely the lack of such a relationship: every two real number is either less than, equal or greater than.

But the numerical context can still be correct: (edit: ~~imaginary~~) complex numbers for example don’t have such a property.

shemii · 2 years ago
As I've written in another comment here, a great example of a number-y field which is not totally ordered is Games ⊂ Surreal Numbers ⊂ ℝ. There you have certain "numbers" which can can confused with (read incomparable) whole intervals of numbers. Games are really cool :)
shemii commented on Code is run more than read   olano.dev/2023-11-30-code... · Posted by u/signa11
rob74 · 2 years ago
TIL of ≹, which "articulates a relationship where neither of the two compared entities is greater or lesser than the other, yet they aren't necessarily equal either. This nuanced distinction is essential in areas where there are different ways to compare entities that aren't strictly numerical." (https://www.mathematics-monster.com/symbols/Neither-Greater-...)
shemii · 2 years ago
Reminds me of the concept of games in combinatorial game theory, they are a superset of surreal numbers (which are themselves a superset of the real numbers) in which the definition of the surreal numbers is loosened in a way which looses the property of they being totally ordered. This creates games (read weird numbers) which can be "confused with" or "fuzzy" with other numbers, the simplest example is * (star) which is confused with 0, i.e. not bigger or smaller than it, it's a fuzzy cloud around zero (notated 0║*). More complex games called switches can be confused with bigger intervals of numbers and are considered "hot". By creating numbers from switches you can create even more interesting hot games.
shemii commented on Hashmaps in Factor are faster than in Zig   re.factorcode.org/2023/11... · Posted by u/kencausey
brabel · 2 years ago
When you use a language that's in alpha- (maybe beta- now?) stage, this kind of thing should be expected. Even with the latest version of Zig, perfectly correct programs can segfault due to miscompilation, so performance issues are not even the biggest worry you should have.
shemii · 2 years ago
One thing I really don't unserstand is how bun already reached stability with it's 1.0 release (https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0) while being written in Zig, which still hasn't reached it's 1.0 release.
shemii commented on Hashmaps in Factor are faster than in Zig   re.factorcode.org/2023/11... · Posted by u/kencausey
murkt · 2 years ago
Not that many hashmaps see hundreds of millions of entries in their lifetime. Given that Zig isn’t widely used, it’s probable that noone has really stumbled upon this behaviour in a non-benchmark setting.
shemii · 2 years ago
Actually it seems according to the issue that TigerBeetle (one of the bigger zig projects out there) noticed this issue [1]. It's also on their issue tracker [2].

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/17851

[2] https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/issues/1191

shemii commented on France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations   bbc.com/news/world-europe... · Posted by u/throwaway4good
whatshisface · 2 years ago
Israel has bombed airports in Syria only a few days ago. They seem willing to strain the American protection and could little by little provoke an escalation involving regional powers, leading to our involvement. The one thing that could make this catastrophe worse is if America is drawn in.
shemii · 2 years ago
One need not forget that Israel too has no interest in an all out conflict. Also the syrian attack iirc was to prevent Iran's foreign minister from landing there.

Everyone's (except maybe Iran's) hope is that this conflict does not escalate any more.

shemii commented on France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations   bbc.com/news/world-europe... · Posted by u/throwaway4good
voisin · 2 years ago
Isn’t the deck tilted so much in Israel’s favour (economically and militarily) right now, that Palestine doesn’t need to be oppressed in the manner that it is? Isn’t oppressing the Palestinian people what allows groups like Hamas to thrive?

(These are honest questions, from someone with essentially no understanding of the current conflict but is trying desperately to make sense of it and is struggling with obviously biased reporting everywhere I look)

shemii · 2 years ago
First of all, I am biased to my opinions so take everything I say eith a grain of salt.

Now, you need to divide your concept of thr Palestinian people to (at least) 2 groups or factions, those that live in Gaza and those that live in the west bank. The major difference between these groups is that Israel is the sovereign over the West Bank but disengaged from Gaza about 18 years ago and since it's disengagement, terrorist groups like Hamas have taken control of the Gaza strip[1]. One could have a long conversation about human rights issues in the West Bank but what is happening in Gaza right now isn't oppression, it's a war. You could point out Israel's blockade of Gaza as a form of oppression but it's just a way for Israel to prevent Hamas from accumulating massive amounts of weapons from certain foreign actors[2]. The really terrible thing ia that Hamas's infrastructure is so deeply linked and interleaved with civilian life it's impossible to fight them effectively without hurting civilians (Israel has some measures to attempt to do that[3] but everything has it's limits). Hamas isn't interested in peace and will slaighter their way to victory whatever happens, they are actively hurting both Gaza and Israeli civilians as we recently observed with the cruel massacre. The world will be better without Hamas, it's heartbreaking it has to happen this way.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_G... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_proxy_co... [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_knocking

shemii commented on France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations   bbc.com/news/world-europe... · Posted by u/throwaway4good
whatshisface · 2 years ago
The levels of hate have gone beyond reason and strategy and (it is hard to read my own words but because it's the truth I won't leave it implicit) reached ethnic cleansing and suicide bombing. That is the only way to explain these events and what is openly planned.

The united states must stay out. Controlling a city sized pile of collapsed buildings is a nightmarish situation that I do not wish on Israeli conscripts but extraordinarily so not on our own volunteers. The prospect of a second major invasion of the middle east should give pause even in the event that a terrorist strike in the United States occurs. Second to that I hope that they can return to a peace process before the scale of the atrocities stain their (Israeli) flag forever and ours by abetting. (Hamas' flag has guns on it, it can't get a lot worse. Wishing anything from their own leadership is hopeless even surrender.)

The civilians will be given guns and told their life is already over. We will be told Hamas is using child soldiers.

shemii · 2 years ago
In my opinion you shouldn't be worried about that possibility, the presence of the US in the middle east right now is probably just to deter other parties from escalating the conflict. The US has no interest and no intent for entering Gaza, Israel has the resources to deal with Hamas on it's own.

One of the most important parts of this conflict I think which most people here aren't talking about ia the geopolitics in the middle east. Most of this is still just a big old proxy war spear-headed by Iran. All the big terrorist groups and actors in the region wheather it be Gaza-based terror groups like Hamas or Lebanon's Hezbollah are funded and controlled by Iran.

There's a whole Wikipedia page on it, actually: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_proxy_co...

u/shemii

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