adityaathalye

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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Post author here. Guilty as charged re: rambling. Brevity is not my strong suit. To the second point, I'd say I'm in violent agreement with you. In fact, my whole thesis is that because software mutates all the time, it is obs
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The Computer and the Brain: John von Neumann(en.wikipedia.org)
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Hat-tip to HNer ex-aws-dude . Who else is going to be today's "Lucky 10,000"? Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101448#49103323 PDFs freely available for public download, from archives across the i
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Both of you, thanks for the referral and the endorsement. The PDF is easily available for free download from several public sources. Of course, Springer won't let you download it unless you spring some cash. nb. Don't feed the b
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
One would hope that a "public benefit corporation", such as OpenAI, would be transparent about the stuff that is being ingested by sausage factory. The literal legal entity is about benefiting the public after all. Since the leade
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
You made my day, david :)
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Ooh, are you using satellite views to explore? When google earth first came out, I was hooked on making the globe go round and round and zooming into strange and wonderful places. Incredible. As for yours truly; I'm trying to do "
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
Oh, that will be neat! I am a frequent reader of, and (very) infrequent contributor to that Ask HN :) Thanks for keeping it going. It always surfaces cool projects. Speaking for myself, I have far many more active topics I'm curious ab
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Ask HN: What have you been curious about?
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How to think about software quality (2022)(evalapply.org)
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
All I see is an anonymous account posting wholly unsubstantiated opinions. Not worth engaging with.
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
I'm sorry what, Hindu is not an identity?
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
There was no unified political entity prior to 1947---technically, 26 January 1950---because it took that long for Sardal Patel's program of political unification of sovereign princely states to conclude, so that the now-unified poli
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
What you describe, and the way you describe it, reads to me like a progressive application of the Saam, Daam, Dand, Bheda principle, attributed to the late great diplomat Chanakya. Saam: First, they tried reason. Daam: Then they demanded
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
I upvoted that comment because it's obvious tin foil hat "oooh look at the boogeyman" speech. That fact along with its critique contributes to the discourse on HN.
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
You would have also observed how every single politician wanting to become PM had showed up around the Taj while the act was in progress to leech off the media feeding frenzy. To broadcast that they are there to "stand in person wi
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
That's wild. TIL; thanks for sharing. That appears to be an epic failure of all kinds of intelligence on both sides of the war. And, it's a miracle the gaffe was not explained away as a "strategic master stroke" psyop en
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
The terrorists were only able to do so because mass-media news was live broadcasting everything on the air, and the terrorists holed up with hostages in the hotel were able to follow the blow-by-blow live . (edit: i.e. SatCom alone can&#x2
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
Hilariously (darkly), during the pandemic, the very same reason is why the very same administrators were hell-bent on forcing Bluetooth-always-on contact tracing on the whole country's smartphone-carrying population. (edit: viz. that
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
Excellent work, glinscott. Thank you for sharing! I am about to send this to all my pals who are parents to schoolkids (um, and also pals who are still, like me, basically a schoolkid :p XD). Building things up from first principles, and id
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
I am rooting for literally this... Blogged here: After "AI": Anticipating a post-LLM science & technology revolution https://www.evalapply.org/posts/after-ai/ TL;DR. > I, for one, welcome the co
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by adityaathalye 3mo ago
Form HR-1099-RAT · Exit Interview · economic status: locked in Permanent Underclass
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by adityaathalye 4mo ago
> Places I feel Inspired > I am happiest when walking in snow. Being enveloped in fog and cold mountains allow me a chance to become invisible. Iceland, Alaska, Tuscany and California are my current inspirations. Man I hope you are th
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Photos by Om(photosbyom.com)
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by adityaathalye 4mo ago
A sad day for us who learn of his passing. I hope it was painless and peaceful, as befits a person who gave so freely of himself. His collected body of work is a trustworthy chronicle of the Internet and the WWW's glow up era. It will
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by adityaathalye 4mo ago
Came here to say the same thing... A "building-sized financial product that incentivises extend and pretend" is fertile ground for an organised player like wework to "lease and sublet, except on a subscription basis". vi
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by adityaathalye 4mo ago
PSA: glojure maintenance has moved here: https://github.com/gloathub/glojure Worth changing the submit URL to this one? Edit: never mind. Spoke too soon. Ingy is keeping gloathub/glojure fork and glojurelang/
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by adityaathalye 4mo ago
Jank, a Clojure dialect, is playing in the same field: > Where jank differs from Clojure JVM is that its host is C++ on top of an LLVM-based JIT. This allows jank to offer the same benefits of REPL-based development while being able to s
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Gloat compiles Clojure and YAMLScript to Go code, native binaries and WASM(gloathub.org)
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by adityaathalye 4mo ago
Work is being furthered by Ingy döt Net [0] (Creator of Gloat, YAML, YAMLScript, and other stuff), supported by a Clojurists Together grant [1]. [0] https://gloathub.org/blog/2026/06/16/gloat-q2-grant-hal

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