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Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦
@Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦

Single dad, C++17 (or newer) developer, French speaker, English writer, Canadian, ex-Québecer, génération Passe-Partout, Ubuntu user, computer vision, neural networks, maintainer of the Darknet/YOLO codebase.

Looking for people to chat with. Or people to bike with. CISHET.

https://ccoderun.ca/stephane/

West coast of Canada (BC), PST/PDT. 🇨🇦

Neurodivergent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity#Neurodivergent

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For the Y2K, we weren't allowed to change any of the original code running on the AS/400. That code was always off-limit, and had existed since the 1970s as far as I know.

We created an intermediate tool that would look at transactions going into and out of the database.

When data was coming out, we'd convert the dates to 4-digit years. Then when data was going in, we'd convert 4-digit years back to 2-digit years.

I have no idea if 26 years later that is still in place. I suspect so. But the thought that banks will authorize AI and "vibe coding" to magically replace all this off-limit code running on the back end is hard to believe.
myrmepropagandist · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq34l6qrm6saynma9h6dc7qwcqedf92hsw0jgyrv3v3faxyrhw6l3q4aud5s Which one is random? (data sets are 100 numbers 1 to 6) listA=[2,3,5,1,2,2,4,2,4,5,...
Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦 profile picture
@nprofile1q... Can you settle the question?

(My vote is the many 3x repeated sequences in listA is not random, but I'm not dedicated enough to pull out a die and record 100 rolls to see if that is likely to happen a bunch of times.)
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myrmepropagandist · 5w
ListA was created by making a list of 16 or 17 of each number. The Stdev **of the frequencies** is much lower than what you will find on random lists of similar size. ListB was made by rolling dice.