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Comment Re:Can AI write usable, performance, quality code? (Score 1) 207

Just asked ChatGPT about that line of code with a "Why?"

It gave a fine analysis with the result that I could rewrite it to:

1 – (sqrt(MiddlePoint))/(10)

I would probably continue to:

1 – sqrt(MiddlePoint/100)

And it guessed that the input was between 0 and 100 and we wanted a smoothly decreasing output.

Comment Re:Multiverse (Score 1) 209

I can see how that could work, but it would require the starting position of the masses in the universe to initially be far away from each other in order to release energy as mass gets closer. That doesn't really match up with my intuition about big bang, but really nothing about that is intuitive.

My gut feeling is also that you have to bring stuff really close in order to cancel out the energy bound in mass. Given that G is small and c^2 is large.

Do you have any calculations/papers/books that describe how to get the universe to have zero energy? (I read https://www.goodreads.com/book... a month ago, so I have been trying to find an explanation for where the energy is coming from)

Comment Re: Buggy software is buggy (Score 1) 233

Another relatively common use case is version control systems. They rely, at least in party, on accurate time stamps to resolve check-out and -in conflicts. Especially if multiple developers are working across a WAN or in the cloud, those timestamps would be fairly important. And--I'm speculating outside my area of expertise-- wouldn't there be a serious security vulnerability with a time discrepancy on mission-critical systems? A way to insert malicious code in that gap?

So, yah, this is probably very important.

Do you have a single example of a version control system that uses time to handle conflicts? I have never seen a system doing that, they all just handle it by looking at which commit reached the server first.

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