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by black_knight 3mo ago
Having a weaker base system means you can distinguish more fine grained between statements. For example, in an intuitionistic setting there is a difference between a set being non-empty and a set having an element.
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Agda has the most wonderful (terrifying?) operator syntax I know of. Any Unicode (except for a few reserved words) can be used, and you can indicate where operandi go with an underscore. For instance defining a function named _•_ would allo
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by black_knight 3mo ago
I am a mathematician, and I agree with you here. I do not feel at all threatened by LLMs, because for me the joy of mathematics is in constructing the theories and beholding their beauty! I know other people are different from me here. I fi
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Because then it would be a different thing? WoW and Runescape exist. But MUDs exist too, and text and graphics have different possibilities. So it makes sense to have some of both in this rich world.
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Now that LLMs can do the actual configuration, I started using NixOS and now all my config lives in one repo, and every quality of life improvement fans out to every machine without issue. Since Claude (code) knows all about my system, it w
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by black_knight 3mo ago
I feel like there is a lot of interesting things one can do in proof engineering without resorting to "tactics" (meta-programs searching for the proof). In some cases one can replace them by robust lemmas which show general result
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Or maybe the USians need to talk more about human rights, as opposed to just Amrican right? And maybe discuss other ethical and political issues in a rational way too. And less like everything is a fotball match with us agains them?
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Yes, in the middle of a bunch of design work on my library. Sigh… Fable was really a step ahead of Opus on this kind of work. I guess I will be looking at Codex unless Fable is included in my Max subscription on Claude code – or the next Op
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Less common mayhaps, but some of my more blissful moments are when I sit down in the couch, load up one of my favourite albums, close my eyes and go on a musical journey! What I listen to is definitely not interchangeable. And contrary to T
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by black_knight 3mo ago
I don’t think political ads should be legal. Political information should be freely available to all, including children. But in no way should we be bombarded with the manipulation from whatever political entities have the most cash at hand
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Ban political ads? That one seems like an immediate win anyways.
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Currently considering disabling memories in Claude code as well. It keeps writing a note whenever it struggles with something, but then on the next task, it reads that note and misunderstands when it applies, gets confused about its current
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by black_knight 3mo ago
I love darcs! Somehow its interface just vibes with me. It is interactive by default, and the commands like “record”, “rollback”, etc, are somehow intuitive. Darcs also tried to put more semantic content in the patches, like file operations
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Here the other day Claude Code kept suggesting I do the task myself! It is quite often it will try to weasel out of doing difficult tasks and had to be directed to continue. Also, it can be riled up to do the task better, or try harder, if
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by black_knight 3mo ago
I miss when episodes were episodic. Watched Deep Space 9 recently, and it was such a blast: Characters developed and had arches, but there were no episodes where nothing happened! In more recently produced tv series there are so many episod
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Whenever I work on a challenging question I worry about this, because Opus will easily think for 200k tokens on the first prompt. I fear any follow up discussion is lobotomised!
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by black_knight 3mo ago
I think you can get a device to put between the VoIP and the phone which makes the bell ring properly! I think it is called a ring booster.
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by black_knight 3mo ago
What do you mean? Like either you speak or the person in the other end speak? That I don't remember! Was that a restriction on early cellular and cordless phones? Our phones had cords. I remember we had only one line going into our hou
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by black_knight 3mo ago
Where I live we have long since shut down our copper network. I miss the low latency and not constantly talking over each others sentences.
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by black_knight 3mo ago
I find it easier to work out when being mentally exhausted than doing something mentally challenging when physically exhausted. My main sport is climbing and it is perfect for a Friday evening when I am exhausted from my research and teachi
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by black_knight 4mo ago
I usually A/B test the different versions before choosing my canonical one. I will listen to the same sections in each version, flipping back and forth to hear the differences. It is incredible how much finding the right master improve
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by black_knight 4mo ago
Why would these be independent?
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by black_knight 4mo ago
With Anthropic going public, I wonder how long until enshittification sets in for LLMs. I guess as soon as they have figured out a way to lock-in users and growth slows down.
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by black_knight 4mo ago
Soon enough thought, the AI will learn this too from us and we will have AI bots writing comments about how TFA is AI generated.
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by black_knight 4mo ago
Wait until they hear about Plan 9!
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by black_knight 4mo ago
Fascinating how people have such complete diametrically opposed experiences. I guess both models have it in them to behave very differently in different circumstances and we have very little idea what pushes them in this or that direction.
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by black_knight 4mo ago
Judging by the students I have seen, it will take longer. You could become a mediocre programmer in months, and still be useful by doing grunt work. I don’t see how people will become master architects steering fleets of agents without a de
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by black_knight 4mo ago
Memories of his work will forever live in the models trained on his GitHub repositories.
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by black_knight 4mo ago
I am a producer of math. But I feel two ways about AI math. First I fear slop-math. People producing LLM “proofs” and prose with no value. I do not want to review something the author has spend lies energy on than I will spend reviewing. Tw
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by black_knight 4mo ago
I feel like the EU, maybe in collaboration with Norway (oil money and hydroelectric power), should get their ass in gear and start making bigger models.

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