Certhas

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by Certhas 5mo ago
So? What point are you making? A different language with different design philosophy, has success in a different niche than Mojo is targeting?
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by Certhas 5mo ago
Do you have any sources for the claim that a large part of growth is off-shoring? Because that seems extremely implausible, and actually very insulting to the incredible success of Eastern Europe, before and after joining the EU, in closing
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by Certhas 5mo ago
I see, seems like the design is not complete and a work in progress (which is the same for Mojos Origins concept I think): "The details of lifetime checking are not yet finalized or specified. Additional syntax to specify the lifetimes
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by Certhas 5mo ago
I don't know Chapel in detail, I was more thinking Hylo. I don't think Chapel has a clear value/reference semantics or ownership/lifetime story? Am I wrong here? The Mojo docs include two sections dedicated to these topi
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by Certhas 5mo ago
This is a bit ironic, given that people seem to have no problem using CUDA all over the place... Plus they promise to open source with the 1.0 release. We'll see...
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by Certhas 5mo ago
Mojo has been suffering in their communication from targeting VCs rather than users. They never actually had a clear "Mojo extends Python" MVP or even strategy to get to an MVP anytime soon. And the language started developing bef
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by Certhas 5mo ago
If you paid very close attention it was actually clear from the start that the idea was to build a next gen systems language, taking the lessons from Swift and Rust, targeting CPU/GPU/Heterogeneous targets, and building around MLI
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by Certhas 5mo ago
I mostly agree with you that the political landscapes are mostly extremely different, rather than just shifted. Incidentally, when I tried Twitter (pre take over) it was more the US centric activist left that drove me away. (Edit: That said
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by Certhas 5mo ago
I wonder how much this translates to places outside the US... Bluesky being the place for everything Center-left and left of it by US standards would just make it the place for mainstream opinion in much of the EU. Personally I found it muc
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by Certhas 6mo ago
The big question is (and I don't know the answer, so not rhetorical) whether the protocol being open can be sufficient to prevent the rug-pull from being too bad...
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by Certhas 6mo ago
In what sense is bluesky irrelevant in this context? It's obviously not Twitter scale, but no alternative to GitHub will be GitHub scale for a long time to come either... And it does seem to have the right feature set. Not sure which o
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by Certhas 6mo ago
It's not. If you actually talk to lobbyists and political experts they will tell you that people react very differently to policies that on paper have the same effect. Mandating efficiency for new cars doesn't obviously hit you in
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by Certhas 6mo ago
If gasoline is expensive because of carbon taxes, people will vote for a party that tells them that climate change is not a problem, and that, if they win, gasoline will be cheap again.
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by Certhas 6mo ago
We shouldn't prohibit dumping toxic waste in the river, we should just tax it! I am familiar with the EU situation. The carbon tax you would have needed to achieve the effect of fleet emission standards would have been political suicid
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by Certhas 6mo ago
As per the article you are wrong: > Some of those [LLM] responses were prompted by asking about bixonimania, and others were in response to questions about hyperpigmentation on the eyelids from blue-light exposure. Also this was a non-pe
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by Certhas 7mo ago
The article states that it's not important for any reason other than oil and shipping: "The entire region has exactly two strategic concerns of note: the Suez Canal (and connected Red Sea shipping system) and the oil production in
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by Certhas 7mo ago
Not influential on economics research, but on economic policy.
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by Certhas 7mo ago
That's partly the point of the article, except the article acknowledges that this is organizationally hard: > You get things like the famous Toyota Production System where they eliminated the QA phase entirely. > [This] approach
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by Certhas 7mo ago
That's true if you buy a Laptop with all drivers preinstalled. But it's absolutely not true if you install on a machine you built yourself.
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by Certhas 7mo ago
Updating video drivers in Ubuntu is so so so much easier than under Windows it's ridiculous. Windows has more drivers for more things, but if Linux has drivers (e.g. you buy a Laptop with Linux support) then driver management is massiv
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by Certhas 8mo ago
That really seems very unlike what everyone else is seeing. There really is no reason why Julia should be slower than numba...
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by Certhas 8mo ago
We had this discussion on here recently. It's really puzzling to me. Julia has the most ergonomic array interface I have worked with by far. How did 1 based indexing ever trip you up?
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by Certhas 8mo ago
I love Makie but for investigating our datasets Python is overall superior (I am not familiar enough with R), despite Julia having the superior Array Syntax and Makie having the better API. This is simply because of the brilliant library su
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by Certhas 8mo ago
On top of what others have said: In many situations the alternative to Julia isn't Go but C++ (or maybe Rust though its library support is lacking). E.g. if you are writing high-ish* performance algorithmic code that should also run on
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by Certhas 8mo ago
This has been my optimistic take on the situation for the last two years. My pessimistic take is that social systems have an incredible ability to persist in a state of utter fuckedness much longer than seems reasonably possible.
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by Certhas 8mo ago
This is stupid. Nobody motivated by money is in academia. Academics are motivated by curiosity, but also prestige, vanity and the wish to hire students and collaborators. And on top of human vanity working it's magic, the ideology that
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by Certhas 8mo ago
LLMs can execute searches? You can absolutely send ChatGPT to look for a cheap flight and it will do pretty well. And because I am paying for ChatGPT rather than the advertiser's, I am the customer and not the product.
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by Certhas 8mo ago
I didn't, hence the "first". It's clear that being good at next token prediction forces the models to learn a lot, including giving such answers. But it's not their loss function. Presumably they would be capable of
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by Certhas 8mo ago
So if I have a row of 5 apples, I can say "take the second and third apple" or I can say "take the apples between one apple length and three apple lengths from the start". Which is more natural? The ruler is exactly the
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by Certhas 8mo ago
Your second point is the main argument for me personally. Numbers in brackets always mean the same thing: the ordinal number of the references object in an ordered collection. In 0 based indexing you can think of the number as refering to t

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