blevinstein's comments

I avoided this exact scam. The most important thing is to never trust an incoming phone number. If they can't give you a publicly posted phone number that you can call inbound, they are a scammer.

Google has dozens of properties and it is easy to generate an email from one of them that seems to confirm the attacker's identity. Never trust any of these to identify a legitimate representative.

This user just doesn't understand how to use an LLM properly.

The best solution to hallucination and inaccuracy is to give the LLM mechanisms for looking up the information it lacks. Tools, MCP, RAG, etc are crucial for use cases where you are looking for factual responses.

Sounds really similar to my experience a few months ago. I commented here about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/googleworkspace/s/NtJpputXtg

There was something in Google workspace that allowed the scanners to have an email sent to them, AND an additional and of their choice. But when I asked about calling them back, I was told that wasn't possible, which made me suspicious.

I think that was a joke. DLC normally means downloadable content.

Can anybody understand how it detects cheating (throwing your phone off a tall building)?

Assuming it's just using the accelerometer to detect freefall, is there any way to distinguish ascent and descent? GPS is probably too inaccurate and too high-latency to assist here.

Perhaps it can tell the difference between reaching terminal velocity and crashing into the ground, and it penalizes the former?

Product manager and project manager are different roles. I think the author was specifically designating the latter.

I also recently went through the Coinbase interview process, and was pleasantly surprised that they offered this compensation for the take-home interview part.

Overall, a 4-6 hour task, to be completed on your own over a 1-week period, seems reasonable to me.

Estimates online suggest that GWB has an IQ of 120-125, making him smarter than the average college grad, perhaps slightly less intelligent than the average person with an advanced degree.

It's also worth noting that IQ is not a particularly good predictor of presidential success, and only a partial measure of intelligence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidential_IQ_hoax#ci...

http://www.assessmentpsychology.com/

This proof is nearly equivalent to that proof, but uses the sine function to generate a contradiction. The crucial step involves the fact that:

1 + 2 * product(p', p')

must be divisible by some prime number, where

product(p', p')

is the product of all primes you were talking about.

500 rupees = $7.52, 1000 rupees = $15.05

These are not large denomination bills.

I would be surprised if this doesn't constitute a violation of Terms of Service somewhere along the line? Something that could provide grounds for one of the telecom companies involved to have it taken down, if it were to be successful.

Basically, it means that you can send information (in one direction only), without paying for use of the telecom network. Taken to an extreme, it should be possible to create a "free walkie talkie" app that worked all over the world, for free, by repeatedly calling back and forth but never connecting the call.

I recently spent some time working on exactly this, in 2D:

https://github.com/blevinstein/SRAsteroids

To see what it looks like, you can check out this youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hSCz7tRl1s

I wrote an engine that modeled object positions as "timelines", where position varies with time, and demonstrated the basic relativistic effects (length contraction, time dilation, and frequency shifting). Unfortunately, I never really figured out how to turn these into actual game mechanics.

I recently spent some time trying to turn a 2D simulation of Special Relativity into a game:

https://github.com/blevinstein/SRAsteroids

To see what it looks like, you can check out this youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hSCz7tRl1s

I wrote an engine that modeled object positions as "timelines", where position varies with time, and demonstrated the basic relativistic effects (length contraction, time dilation, and frequency shifting).

Unfortunately, I never really figured out how to turn these into actual game mechanics.

This is neat!

I was working on something similar recently: https://github.com/blevinstein/chess_assistant/blob/master/s...

I had been thinking about ways to analyze the graph of "threats", so I focused on which pieces were threatening which. I wanted to eventually extend this to also include which pieces were threatening which squares, but never got that far.

A friend of mine setup a simple PHP-based proxy while he was in high school, to get around the firewall.

Then, he modified it slightly to scrape facebook username/passwords, and gave the URL to all his friends. :)

I wonder whether modern security practices (e.g. https everywhere) will make proxies less lucrative (and therefore less common).

The Indiegogo perks really need to be rethought. I want to contribute, but I can't imagine I'll need more than the lowest ("30 CPU") level, at least to start, so I've only pledged $1. I'd much rather pay for 6 months or a year, and contribute $10 or $20.

I did as well. To save everybody else from having to search, Ronseal is a maker of wood stains, and their slogan is "Does exactly what it says on the tin."