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by avador 2mo ago
“our stupid little lives”. Stupid and little in relation to _what_? You cannot ascribe lives as stupid or little unless you’ve got a smart and a grand. So: what is the smart and grand you’ve got? I want to take note of it.
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by avador 2mo ago
For me, it’s the following sentence that gives the meaning to that one. The countryside is literally so beautiful that the beauty cannot (be) beheld [sic]. That is, the sunlight hitting that bit of the world at that bob of time is so intens
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by avador 3mo ago
There’s a very real dichotomy at play here. Position 0: humans depend upon AI. Position 1: AIs depend upon humans. At first blush, it seems achingly obvious that position 1 is true, whilst position 0 is a false play by con artists. Well, at
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by avador 3mo ago
Once I began the “start from zero” routine at work, I could not stop. It meant I had to know what to do to get back to my ideal dev env every morning. It meant I had the choice to automate that, or to leave some bits (or all bits) manual. I
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by avador 3mo ago
I have always cringed at the senior-junior distinction, especially because it is mostly espoused by those calling themselves senior, and that felt unnecessarily imperious. Any senior in any workplace is senior because of their specific and
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by avador 4mo ago
Not normally, no. Can you point to a divergence of the bitterness in the subsequent text? What I find to be the normal pattern (by intuition) is that the condensed leading text belies the expansive following text. This is likely lazy (a sho
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by avador 4mo ago
Isn’t “Writing is a Technology that Restructures Human Thought” another way of saying that “feedback has an effect”? If so, this seems to be a trivial (still worthy) assertion. For example, I intend to, say, construct a shed. I make mistake
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by avador 4mo ago
The inability to tell if a model is improving is, I think, a tell that the model has improved up to your level of programmatic (analytic, computational) capacity. A lot of the information (blogs, tweelches, plosts) that I consume seems to b
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by avador 5mo ago
Well, if it works on step one, then why not step two? Where would different folks draw the line? My grandparents might continue on a while, whereas I would not. But if it also “works” on step two for me, should I take a third? What counts a
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by avador 5mo ago
Yes.
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by avador 5mo ago
Useful - thank you. I will contact them.
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by avador 5mo ago
epicfurious.com is blocked by my service provider. It’s a small, local, fiber company called mornington. They do not say why in the returned html. I do not approve of such blockage. Nevertheless. Knowledge is knowledge. So I post for everyo
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by avador 5mo ago
I _think_ what you’ve said is “go shallow, not deep”. That is, don’t let the walk you make inside the latent space a long one. Twenty-five short and peppered steps, from de novo, is better than one long, protracted stew. Is that accurate?
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by avador 5mo ago
Order of operations: Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast.[0] [0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by avador 5mo ago
I think you and 7e are both right. Being able to iterate some N orders of magnitude quicker is a big deal. This doesn’t eliminate design and UX. Rather, it merges it with high iteration speed to produce a form of “play”. “Play” is what prod
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Constraints Are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma(lucumr.pocoo.org)
3 points by avador 2y ago|0 comments
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by avador 2y ago
Compusion.
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Revisionist Engineering(sequoiacap.com)
5 points by avador 4y ago|0 comments
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The world is not a theorem(arxiv.org)
1 points by avador 4y ago|0 comments
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by avador 4y ago
Just finished a reading. (Ordered after seeing this post.) It’s not my normal cup of tea. I will never forget it.
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by avador 4y ago
Hey Yohan, That is an absolutely lovely resource. Thanks for sharing! Concise, useful, references like this are great “core drills”[0] into the ever-expanding deluge of human knowledge. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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CPython’s Internals: From Source Code to Bytecode(flyabledev.com)
2 points by avador 4y ago|1 comments
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Code Rewrites and Joint Cognitive Systems(surfingcomplexity.blog)
14 points by avador 4y ago|1 comments
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by avador 5y ago
To go from scratch to calculus, there is Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Hogben. I did not see it on gutenberg. But it is on archive.org. https://archive.org/details/HogbenMathematicsForTheMillion/p...
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by avador 5y ago
NKosmatos pointed out in another reply that this post was about software rot, and not data rot. From the Wikipedia article he linked for software rot: “[software rot] is not a physical phenomenon: the software does not actually decay, but r
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by avador 5y ago
Imagine your database is a sensor network instead of some schema-ful/typed data store. Field operators unbeholden to you keep adding, removing, or updating sensors. Your data format evolves underneath you, and you behave more like a ma
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Bitrot(surfingcomplexity.blog)
67 points by avador 5y ago|20 comments
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by avador 5y ago
It looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=staltz Or https://staltz.com/ Offers will vary, but, if impromptu answers carry any weight, then off the top of my Sunday afternoon head, this is the first
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by avador 5y ago
Conclusion: “ To create the future we must first dream the future. Private foundations that are interested in pro-density politics should give a bunch of money to people like Christopher Hawthorne, who should then scour the country for a hu
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by avador 5y ago
I feel the same. The two levels of “variableness”, and the prohibition of mixing them, must have something to do with lazy vs eager evaluation, right?

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