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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We've hired a bunch of Indian guys who are using AI to do their work... the results are marginally better than either approach independently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Absent Indians using AI? The AI ouroboros?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

a negative times a negative is a positive?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

More like 0.10 + 0.05 = 0.20, in this case.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, 0.2 + 0.1 = 0.30000000000000004

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Welcome to the secret robot Internet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

That's what happens when you have Intel inside ;o)

(Yes, yes, I know, it's the whole binary based floating point thing, not just Intel, although my Atari 800 BASIC interpreter implemented floating point in BCD, so it didn't have that issue.)