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by antics 1y ago
I think the intuition the authors are trying to capture is that they believe the models are omniscient, but also dim-witted. And the question they are collectively trying to ask is whether this will continue forever. I've never seen th
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by antics 1y ago
I just meant that there are lots of problems where I think TCS could have contributed but didn't, because the relevant analysis was not acceptable at FOCS or SODA (or whatever). A good example is the original transformers paper, which
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by antics 1y ago
Oh I think there is no real doubt that this is true, it's why analytic combinatorics did not succeed in replacing asymptotic analysis. I just wish it had. If it was tractable in a similar set of areas I think a lot of things would be q
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by antics 1y ago
Yep, I mentioned this elsewhere in the threads—Knuth does do this quite a bit in TAOCP. I think in a lot of ways we've ended up completely full circle, in that we are now counting FLOPs. This time though I think we have very little h
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by antics 1y ago
Yep, That's exactly why we moved to asymptotic analysis. I was just hoping analytic combinatorics would help us move back to something like this.
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by antics 1y ago
I actually have read a chunk of the relevant TAOCP, but didn't mention it because the comment was already kind of long. I remarked to a friend the other day that it's kind of funny that we've a little bit come full circle on
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by antics 1y ago
This is only tangentially related, but one thing that I am still kind of hopeful about is analytic combinatorics will free us from the tyranny of asymptotic analysis. I suppose this is kind of a hot take, and in some ways less relevant th
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by antics 2y ago
That’s the one!
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by antics 2y ago
I’m aware and I think people do not care much to correct it. The tribe has had consistently bad experiences with outsiders attempting to document this kind of thing and I sense that people are mostly wanting to be left alone at this point.
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by antics 2y ago
I myself am very conflicted. I will always do what the elders say but opening things up greatly enhances the chance of survival.
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by antics 2y ago
I’m not sure that the AI itself has many ethical complications. Many terms of service grant AI companies ownership of the data you supply to them though and that very problematic for many tribes which consider the language sacred and not to
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by antics 2y ago
I did research on entirely unrelated NLP, actually. I worked on search for awhile (I am corecipient of SIGIR best paper ‘17) ad a bit in space- and memory- efficient nlp tasks.
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by antics 2y ago
There is more material than you'd normally find, but it is very hard to even fine-tune at that volume, unfortunately. I think we might be able to bootstrap something like that with a shared corpus of related languages, though.
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by antics 2y ago
So, bad news. Culturally, the Wasq'u consider Kiksht something that is for the community rather than outsiders. So unfortunately I think it will be extremely challenging to find someone to teach you, or resources to teach yourself.
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by antics 2y ago
We are fortunate to have a (comparatively) large amount of written and recorded language artifacts. Kiksht (and Chinookan languages generally) were heavily studied in the early 1900s by linguists like Sapir. re: revival, the Wikipedia artic
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by antics 2y ago
I learned it from my grandmother and from Gladys's grandkid. Gladys was the last person whose first language was Kiksht, not the last person who speaks it.
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by antics 2y ago
I am one of these people! I am one of a handful of people who speak my ancestral language, Kiksht. I am lucky to be uniquely well-suited to this work, as I am (as far as I know) the lone person from my tribe whose academic research backgrou
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by antics 2y ago
I really love this article. I made the transition in the opposite direction: I am a distributed systems engineer who found himself working on a collaborative text editor, and initially it was very unintuitive to me that text editors were
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We rewrote The NYT text editing library. Then we OSSd it. Then rewrote it again(smoores.dev)
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by antics 2y ago
I’d love to hear what people are reading to actually understand this. At this point I will openly admit that I do not know if what’s happening in Argentina is good or even on purpose. I sense that everything I read is at best motivated reas
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by antics 2y ago
I think the point they're making is that a process is a software abstraction that provides programmers the illusion of having a processor all to themselves. So in that sense the process is a software "analog" to the processor
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by antics 2y ago
I am being serious. There is a lot of value in making complicated things trivially understandable. I think it's not an accident, for example, that many of the highest-cited academic papers in CS are survey papers.
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by antics 2y ago
One of the things I like about this paper is the pristine, crystal-clear English it uses to describe things I thought I knew extremely well: > Processes are the software analog of processors. They are the units of software modularity,
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by antics 2y ago
There is one other way in which you are not a failure, and I am sure that I am not alone in thinking about it: I have been reading your words for 15 years, from the time I was a baby CS major. That's really true, e.g. , here[1] is a c
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by antics 2y ago
Ok, let's try from another angle. Close your eyes and picture the ideal, best, most successful product in this space, for whatever definitions those words mean to you. Everyone is different, but I think most people would not picture a
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by antics 2y ago
Sorry if this was not clear, but I am not making a normative statement that each feature should be broken out into its own tool. I'm saying that the revenue ramp on each these products is, empirically, good enough to be on track to I
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by antics 2y ago
Sorry, the goal here is not to trivialize GitHub, or suggest they suck at engineering, or even to say this is easy. I am just saying my own perspective, which is that I wish the core properties (pull requests, issues) had improved a long ti
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by antics 2y ago
Yes this is one of the reasons this discussion is so tricky. I just believe that if I maintain a popular project on GitHub I should not be automatically consigned to worst-in-class experiences for Issues and code review. I understand this i
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by antics 2y ago
I think of GitHub as a sad story. There are probably going to be at least 3 public companies that should have "just" been GitHub features: GitLab (GitHub Enterprise), Sourcegraph (search), and Linear (GitHub Issues). There are doz
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by antics 2y ago
One of my formative experiences as a freshman in CS (I learned to program in college) was accidentally opening a PDF with Emacs and watching as it displayed not weird binary data but a real, rendered PDF. I wondered what else it was doing b

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