ak_111

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by ak_111 1y ago
This title is a bit ironic when you consider the fact that one of the motivations of inventing category theory is to provide a foundation for many branches of mathematics
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by ak_111 1y ago
It works perfectly on Gnome (ubuntu) though. There is simple toggle you have to do in one of the standard control panels as well. I am surprised this issue is not gaining traction with the KDE crowd, as I imagine a substantial part of the u
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by ak_111 1y ago
I am used to having "Emacs key-bindings" on both gnome and Mac (so that for example ctrl-a will always go to the beginning of a textbox no matter the application, such as chrome). For some strange reason this seems to be very hard
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by ak_111 1y ago
Actually things did happen in 2001 (9-11), 2008 (GFC), 2012-2015 (Eurozone crisis), 2020 (Covid) and 2022 (Russio-Nato war). Each of these came very close for a major market depression (except 911). The fact that none did only instilled in
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by ak_111 1y ago
I know, my point is that it is not directly backed by gold, but indirectly you can make the point there astronomical gold reserve comes into play if gold prices go insanely high.
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by ak_111 1y ago
I always wonder why gold going this high is seen as bearish to the dollar as the US currently holds 8,133.46 metric tons of gold, more than the next three top holders combined (Germany, France and Italy) and almost twice as much as China an
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by ak_111 1y ago
I asked chatgpt to write a short fable about the phenomena of vibe coding in the style of Aesop: The Owl and the Fireflies One twilight, deep in the woods where logic rarely reached, an Owl began building a nest from strands of moonlight an
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by ak_111 1y ago
It might not lead to singularity but for people who work in academia, in terms of setting and marking assignments and lecture notes, for good or bad AI has had an enormous impact. You might argue that LLMs have simply exposed some systemati
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by ak_111 1y ago
You are not making your point any favour. It is right that everyone is calling you out for your xenophonbic BS. If it grew 10x between 2001 and 2009 (starting from a very small base), then between 2009 and 2023 it grew by only 0.3x (see gra
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by ak_111 1y ago
I appreciated Dilbert, but then he started showing up in my timeline amplifying pro-Gaza bombings tweets. I was surprised and disappointed with that as those Hasbara takes were the geopolitical propoganda equivalent to pointy-hair boss&#x27
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by ak_111 1y ago
He is not in the author list, just acknowledged by the authors.
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by ak_111 1y ago
As poster dead deep in the thread below, something like this can happen doc_format = get_user_input() parsed_doc = foolib.parse(doc_format) You as the implementer might know the user will never input xml, so doc_format can't be 'x
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by ak_111 1y ago
can you elaborate what is the simpelist alternative?
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by ak_111 1y ago
Isn't there some contradiction in your comment, I would have thought that distributed programming is precisely the thing that server side programming needs most?
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by ak_111 1y ago
which is better?
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by ak_111 1y ago
Dependency and build management is a fascinating and still unsolved problem in software engineering (in some sense it is the central problem). I am wondering if there is a good modern reference that provides a conceptual overview or compara
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by ak_111 1y ago
"dependency" here I guess means something higher-level that your compiler can't make the assumption you will never use. For example you know you will never use one of the main functions in the parsing library with one of the
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Thoughts on best static typed language for web development?
2 points by ak_111 1y ago|1 comments
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by ak_111 1y ago
Good point, but I suggest if you think of this fund as basically the GDP of Norway than just another hedge fund, losing 0.6% in a quarter is slightly bigger deal than you make it. Like a G7 country's GDP contracting 2% in a year.
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by ak_111 1y ago
What happened to UML? I remember it was everywhere in enterprise computing 20 years ago but seems to have disappeared now. Is it still around or did it go the way of SOAP, Java Applets? If not, what has replaced it?
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by ak_111 2y ago
Has anyone thought/experimented of a variant that works a bit like the starting phase of Risk: pawns are as they are classically, but players take turns in the beginning phase placing their other pieces in their respective bottom/
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by ak_111 2y ago
Replit is a bit strange phenomena, they clearly are creating a huge buzz online, but I mingle a lot with university students and academics and I hardly ever heard anyone mentioning using, even sometimes when I explicitly ask them they don&
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by ak_111 2y ago
The way you described TV app and Apple TV+ makes it sound that they are identical or am I missing the difference?
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by ak_111 2y ago
Possible, but if you look at the graduate students and lecturers behind many of these IPs you will find they are Chinese (or Russians or Iranians). This is the paradox in those who are championing barring Chinese students from the US to pre
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by ak_111 2y ago
That's what I am saying, Musk shenanigan so bad they EVEN vindicated CCP.
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by ak_111 2y ago
He single handedly also vindicated one of the most authoritarian regimes - China - in how it slapped Jack Ma as soon as he started entering politics and gaining influence beyond tech entrepreneurship.
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by ak_111 2y ago
Many are saying that Apple can't comply without breaking EU GDPR. Hence Apple has been put in the situation where they are forced to accept either operating in the UK market or the EU market. So my question is (am genuinely not being s
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by ak_111 2y ago
It's actually difficult to work out the affiliation of the authors for non-Chinese. SJTU = Shanghai Jiao Tong University, but couldn't work out GAIR and IIS.
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by ak_111 2y ago
The LLM can generate the correct search space for the problem, but identifying the solution within the search space is inefficient? Another way to put this: most of students who study the lecture notes for their high school math already hav
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by ak_111 2y ago
Would you say they were more vulnerable if the PRC kept it secret so as not to disclose their edge in AI while continuing to build on it?

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