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by cjauvin 5y ago
I live in Canada too, and these particular calls are rapidly destroying the notion of answering a number that is not in your contact list.
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by cjauvin 5y ago
The author wrote that book, which I found quite interesting: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300209570/atlas-ai In particular, in this book there is a discussion about the dangers and epistemic distortions ind
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by cjauvin 5y ago
Which game is it, Climb 2? If so I'm really interested in it, would you care to say more about it?
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by cjauvin 5y ago
I agree that the Go deployment model is generally a dream compared to Python. However, the other part of the equation is having access to mature and complete frameworks like Django (a high quality package blending best practices and common
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by cjauvin 5y ago
Many years ago I did some experimentation with the idea of slapping a very crude "parser" (no AI involved, just extremely basic string matching) on top of a Lone Wolf CYOA book which was made public via Project Aon [0]. I wrote ab
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by cjauvin 5y ago
They are talking about frameworks leveraging and extending the builtin Emacs completition mechanism [1]. The most well known ones are Ivy and Helm, I believe, but there are now many others. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software&#
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by cjauvin 5y ago
I use pass with Emacs, using this package [1], and it's very nicely integrated and useful. [1] https://melpa.org/#/pass
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by cjauvin 5y ago
Excellent video! While looking at the machine code listing from the C=64 German magazine from the 80s, I realized once more that there was an extra, ninth column for the hex code, which was quite upsetting for me as kid (I think it might ev
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by cjauvin 5y ago
I recently watched a DistroTube episode [1] where he explains the many problems (cultural and technical) with the current Linux desktop environments, and he is very critical of Gnome, in particular. As an Ubuntu user with a very Emacs-centr
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by cjauvin 5y ago
I have realized recently that a value that is gaining a lot of importance for me is the stability of my cognitive investments, in terms of tooling, across a time frame that goes beyond my "current project", and more into the &quot
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by cjauvin 5y ago
I'd be also very interested to know more about your experience and ideas, and also, I would take the occasion to try to better understand what is exactly meant by "consultant", in this context (for some reason I would always
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by cjauvin 5y ago
To me the most intriguing ideas that have been explored by Wittgenstein are related to his notion of a "private language" (and the question of whether it is simply possible or meaningful). You can ask for instance what is the diff
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by cjauvin 5y ago
One interesting thing I noticed in the last few years is that the younger generation seems to have a modified version of your rule (1): they don't necessarily add the "er" part anymore (i.e. making the verb infinitive), which
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by cjauvin 5y ago
I'm a big fan of the compose key, both for its universality and intuitive "syntax". For many years I endured the pain of a dual French/US keyboard layout (one for writing, the other for coding), until a coworker showed m
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by cjauvin 5y ago
I think ICQ used to work like this too, and I remember how impressed by it I was.
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by cjauvin 5y ago
I really wanted to follow this class taught by Steven Pinker [1] recently, but the audio becomes so bad after the first lecture that it's almost impossible to follow. It made me also think that there could probably be some interesting
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by cjauvin 5y ago
I believe this way of understanding AI and its implications is quite sound, and it reminds me of Rodney Brooks' Productivity Gain[0] article, where he argues that we should focus on talking about "digitalization", instead of
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I see this journalist (Cade Metz) everywhere these days it seems: this article, a NYT article about the Google ethical AI debate, and the article about Slate Star Codex..
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David Graeber: After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep(jacobinmag.com)
3 points by cjauvin 6y ago|0 comments
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by cjauvin 6y ago
His previous book (On Intelligence) is very stimulating and contains many ideas that have interesting connections with Deep Learning. I'm looking forward to read this new one.
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I understand your feeling and I would tend to agree for things in other domains.. but for a programming language, I find that if: (1) It doesn't make the language less efficient (2) The new feature is coherent with the rest of the lang
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I remember reading Avogadro Corp.[1] a couple of years ago and being impressed at how its AI (NLP in particular) felt quite in touch with the real stuff. I think it was self-published but I'm not sure. [1] https://www.amazon
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by cjauvin 6y ago
More context about the paper: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5253
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by cjauvin 6y ago
The article discusses it in sections related to Emacs' attitude toward modernization and progressiveness (see the citation from Ahmed Khanzada).
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I am working with Heroku these days and I find that the CLI experience they offer is really great and seamless.
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Org Mode's new site(orgmode.org)
430 points by cjauvin 6y ago|198 comments
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by cjauvin 6y ago
For an alternative take on a related topic, this is really a fantastically well-written and practical (free) book: http://craftinginterpreters.com
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by cjauvin 6y ago
Some other packages I can't live without: expand-region, git-link, pass, treemacs, vterm.
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I manage all my projects using a constellation of flexible (and hand-picked) tools it offers: magit for versioning, Org for documentation, note taking and time tracking, blacken, isort and prettier wrappers for my code formatting, ivy, coun
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I'm using it on Focal and it's fine. Can you link to that bug? Maybe something related to hardware acceleration? I had trouble with that in the past year.

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