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Putting a face on a faceless account
1+ day, 16+ hour ago —...John D.... ...Usually Grok picks up on the color, as above....
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Can AI models reason: Just a stochastic parrot?
2+ day, 18+ hour ago —...Emily Bender and her colleagues famously described large language... ...first appeared on John D. Cook....
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Interval arithmetic and fixed points
2+ day, 22+ hour ago —...John D.... ...Now define a0 = 0, b0 = 1, and We could implement this in Python...
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Normal probability approximation
3+ day, 36+ min ago —...John D.... ...Here’s Python code to show how good the approximation is....
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Simple approximation to error function | Gaussian integral
3+ day, 19+ hour ago —...John D. ... ...Cook, PhD My colleagues and I have decades of consulting experience...
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Pressing the cosine key over and over
4+ day, 18+ hour ago —...You could verify this with the following Python code.... ...John D.... ...Cook, PhD My colleagues and I have decades of consulting experience...
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Gregorian Calendar and Number Theory
5+ day, 22+ hour ago —...Related post: Calendars and Continued Fractions John D. ... ...Cook, PhD My colleagues and I have decades of consulting experience...
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Golden hospital gowns
5+ day, 23+ hour ago —...Cook.... ...John D.... ...Cook, PhD My colleagues and I have decades of consulting experience...
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LLMs and regular expressions
6+ day, 18+ hour ago —...When I asked it to convert the regex to POSIX form it did so, and... ...syntactically correct Perl [1], both for the regex and the sample... ...John D.... ...then hacking on the compiler until the input compiled....
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Coiled logarithmic plot | polar plot on a log scale
1+ week, 5+ day ago —...For general n, the length is on the order of T1 + 1/n.... ...John D.... ...Stirling’s approximation shows that the logarithm of factorial grows...