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by hansmayer 405 days ago
Yikes:( I am so worried about the damage that will be caused by the misuse of these tools. Already a lot of young folks will just mindlessly trust whatever the magic oracle spits out at them. We need to go back to testing people with pen and paper I suppose.
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I read this and I see a common thinking fallacy, when someone is inclined to believe something a priori they fit the evidence to their a priori beliefs.
No, its fairly simple - I misread
Why is that a bad answer?
Sorry - I misread the LLM answer - actually the LLM produced a correct answer here
> No it is not…

That’s a queue, not a stack. The LLM response was correct.

But a stack is commonly LIFO, not FIFO?!
This reads like a line from a QwQ or Qwen3 CoT chain :)
I mean, is it wrong? It seems correct. Unless I'm missing something.
Oops, my bad. I seem to have misread. Sorry.
No, a stack is LIFO like it said. A queue is FIFO or in other words LILO “Last In Last Out”.
My last job was at the office. I had my work queue implemented as a stack of files. I would sit at my desk and, in an infinite loop, pop files from my stack and process them. Occasionally, my supervisor would come and push a new file onto my stack. A naive worker would think that, once I was done with my stack, I could finally get some sleep, but no. Our office implemented something called "work stealing," where, once I was done with my own work, I had to visit a random co-worker and pop files from their stack.
No. The LLM's answer is correct.