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by dswilkerson 3y ago
Theoretical Computer Scientist here: I don't what what "AGI" is, but neither the Large Language Models (ChatGPT) nor humans are a "a consistent formal system implementing axiomatic theories". ChatGPT cannot even re
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by dswilkerson 3y ago
I rather like namecheap.
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by dswilkerson 3y ago
FIVE YEARS and you still cannot code? Your whole approach must be wrong. I taught myself to code when I was 10 - 12 years old. When I started I had to use the display machine at the local Sears and I did not even have anywhere to save my
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
If you are willing to do Zen practice 100% you can go to San Francisco Zen Center and ask to be a student. They are on Page near Laguna.
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
The real question is how to learn the basics very thoroughly until they are part of you without thought. The answer is that when you learn something, either write it up yourself or code it up yourself. Even just copying is a great way to
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
You are welcome. Learning C is pretty straightforward when you know what it is doing: mysterious bugs are no longer mysterious. I think this notion of "information hiding" being helpful to people is ridiculous. Learn what the m
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
> exactly zero of this applies to me You do not use a tool for managing the build of your program? You do not use a revision control system? You keep everything in your head? Really?
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
I am a computer scientist and a computer engineer. I recommend that you learn to code first. After that, the motivation behind the computer science is a lot more clear and you will learn it much more easily. Learning to code means: * Abso
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
Since ChatGPT is Turing Complete (or well-approximated as such, modulo resource timeouts/cutoffs and sloppiness/errors), it is a fundamental property of computing that this "bug" cannot be fixed. In a Turing Complete sy
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
Inside or outside? Outside I would recommend walking/biking/taking a bus over the Golden Gate Bridge to Marin. If you like live music, No Name Bar in Sausalito is great and has no cover. Also, you can take Bay Area Rapid Transi
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
I have had a large amount of spam in my gmail for months now. A friend of mine works at Google, but not on the gmail team. I asked him if there would be any point to telling the gmail team that their spam filtering is now much worse. He
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
It is not really C, it is the underlying hardware. C is just portable assembly language. If I recall correctly, MIPS64 would fault on integer overflow, but I did not find a reference saying that after a quick search. The RISC-V team at Ber
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
Yes. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4612-1654-4_... John von Neumann’s Game Theory László Mérő The fundamental theorem of John von Neumann’s game theory states that in a broad category of games it
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
Gnu emacs
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
Likely just try to build one. The constraining resource is just being able to play with ELF files. The best ELF library we have found is https://github.com/serge1/ELFIO . Very easy to use and works predictably.
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
That's what 'git reset --hard' does. Read the git-reset man page: --hard Resets the index and working tree. Any changes to tracked files in the working tree since <commit> are discarded.
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
We wrote a C++ front-end from scratch that is quite de-constructed. For example, it will show you the parse tree before type disambiguation. You can visit the templates, or the templates instantiated. It has not been maintained for a whi
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
Why not just share registration details now?
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
Fredrick Douglas. Black slave in Maryland. Was taught the alphabet, but that's about all. Taught himself words by going up to white boys and saying "I know more words than you do." The other boy would respond "yea, h
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
Joan of Arc. French peasant girl who had visions. Ended up leading armies into battle against the English to free her country. Burned at the stake by the English for the crime of wearing pants into battle (instead of a skirt). That&#x27
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
Benjamin Franklin. Went from being a runaway boy to the only person to sign all four documents of the founding of the United States. He dropped out of second grade and taught himself math and reading/writing. He says in his autobiog
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
step through it in a debugger; run strace or ltrace on it; grep: works better with editor assistance, such as emacs M-x grep; write documentation for it; factor out parts of it;
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
Don't forget about tropical diseases when you are closer to the equator than the southern U.S.
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
I agree. Further, in this case it did not work: one of my friends at Google said that even if he reported it, he doubts they would do anything about it. What are we going to do about it though?
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
I grew up just north of Annapolis, Maryland which has high heat and humidity in the summers. Our house was built in about 1770 (yes, before the Constitution was written). (The basement was made of boulders and the kitchen was originally a
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
It doesn't matter how many people you send to Mars, you cannot live there. See the videos by Common Sense Skeptic. Mars (and Venus) do not have a magnetosphere to protect you from radiation. The gravity is the wrong amount, so your b
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
I have noticed this also. I have a few friends at Google who I pointed this out to, so let's see what happens. If anyone else has friends at Google, be sure to pester them about it.
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
I was a TA for the introductory programming class at Berkeley, CS61a, where we used Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs to teach Scheme, a statically-scoped dialect of LISP. Frankly, I do not recommend it. Scheme is just ano
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
So many startups went under at the same time that our liquidation firm combined the bankruptcy sale for our startup with that of another in our building at the same time into one auction. I think it was worse. No one needed the internet ba
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by dswilkerson 4y ago
https://omnimagazine.com/interview-richard-feynman-true-mean... OMNI There’s another thing that seems to happen a lot in modern physics: the discovery of applications for kinds of mathematics that were previously “pure,” su

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