Jeff_Brown

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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
I should have listed immutability as another thing that changed my brain for the better.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
I can't recommend it highly enough. You're already familiar with laziness from Lisp, but purity is another head-trip. It made me a better programmer in any language, and even a better software architect before I've written a
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Have you tried Haskell? It feels much closer to math to me. Definitions, not procedures. It even looks like math.
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Startup REMSpace claims to have achieved communication between sleeping people(businesswire.com)
2 points by Jeff_Brown 2y ago|2 comments
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
It's not AGI yet but has everything to do with it.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
And even assuming it's one molecule thick, how did he know how tightly the oil molecules in that layer pack together?
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Given that this tech is unstoppable, the best defense might be a good offense: Flood the internet with clips of prominent religious and political leaders, especially those largely responsible for mob violence historically, saying prepostero
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
They definitely meant the latter.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Wasn't "one ring to rule them all" a metaphor for nukes?
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Yeah, the way I played, I read the parts of the books about magic, combat, monsters and chatacter development, and ignored anything about society, filling it in with my own teenage ideas.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
I'm really happy about it but I'm not sure how game changing it would be for a blind person. It seems to require seeing what's on the page.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
I would use this for edits that are hard to do otherwise. Like, instead of typing `M-x align-regexp` and then figuring out what regular expression to type, I would just highlight a passage and say to the LLM "Can you align all the libr
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
If can tell where content came from, it's fine with me. If a host of paid spammers or bots can astroturf an opinion and fool me into thinking they are a wide demographic, that's a problem. And it is -- but it predates LLMs.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
If it seemed full of annoying product placement, no. If the content and presentation were sufficiently good, yes. I believe (but then again I also want to believe, so make of this what you will) that I'd be holding the AI to only the s
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
What are the "Important implications for sports training" mentioned in the article? Should I change how I train?
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Exactly. The sun on your skin, the breeze in your hair, sand in your toes, clean saltwater air ... good luck.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Seems perfectly possible. General relativity, after all, was precisely the discovery that the curvature of space, well spacetime, is not uniform.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
How can they gain after losing 30% to Apple?
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Longevity research is likely to improve quality of life too. Diseases that have been tackled separately since forever -- cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes -- are starting to be seen as manifestations of a single underlying process, which i
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
For a fast keyboard-bssed workflow but also the ability to divide time however you like (I'm a big fan of strange swing fractions like 3/5 instead of 2/3), keep audio and midi side by side, and use whatever plugins you like,
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Feelings are certainly part part of it, and hard to teach, so I appreciate the Captain's efforts. But music is also largely engineering and math, and it won't sound good if you haven't done a lot of intellectual homework (a
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Don't! Faithfulness to a single source is the biggest reason I see for failure In students. Be promiscuous. If a page, chapter, or even whole book bores you, scan ahead, put it on trial for a bit, and if it doesn't redeem itself q
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
I love just the ideas in the Erlang system. I've tried to break into it a few times, including once or twice with Gleam, and kept getting blocked by terminology I didn't know and couldn't look up, or instructions that didn&#x
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
It all seems so unfathomable to me. Even plants! Wild almonds will kill you with cyanide. Even domesticated horses are scary as hell -- what would they have been like before that? Domestic goats can kill big men -- my uncle (huge, muscly, o
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
+1 Unless you depend on the results of partial execution to decide how to execute the rest of the script, this seems like the most natural solution.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Is the idea to step through a script, maybe executing the default value of each line, but offering the opportunity to edit that line before executing it?
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by Jeff_Brown 3y ago
> intentions behind every tone Or at least an interesting process. I didn't appreciate this until I started making tracks myself. Music that's simple to notate, once interpreted by a human, gains more information than could pos
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by Jeff_Brown 3y ago
That was my thought. Who cares what time it feels like on the moon, if the people making plans and decisions about it are at, say, Cape Canaveral? Once we get humans on the moon, they'll probably want their own time zones -- but in tha
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by Jeff_Brown 3y ago
Meh article but it raises an interesting question: How do you test documentation? The best (and maybe the only real) test is be for someone unfamiliar to try it and manage to do what it explains. You can't rerun that test without findi
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by Jeff_Brown 3y ago
Easily solved. Just let the user switch between color schemes, rather than impose them all at once.

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