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by eggdaft 3y ago
Scheme was taught in my first year of CS. One thing I noticed is that those who hadn’t coded through their teenage years found scheme much easier to learn than other languages we were being taught in the first year. I think that was because
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by eggdaft 3y ago
I think that’s mostly spillover from over social media, combined with the very opinionated nature of us nerds :-)
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by eggdaft 3y ago
I also see LLMs primarily as a better search engine. Stack overflow gave us code snippets and was a huge step forward. Now we can find those snippets and explanations much faster. The secondary use is as a duck to bounce ideas off. A duck t
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by eggdaft 3y ago
Polarisation in general can be well-explained by the business models of social media. You’re shown content that you react to strongest, and that is usually one end of a spectrum of views.
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by eggdaft 3y ago
For a long time I thought we were on a solid track to full VR, which would be indiscernible from reality. Recently I’ve realised that I was very wrong, and this is why. The visual element of VR is pretty much solved. Audio no problem. But t
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by eggdaft 3y ago
On the second one - if that’s in code than a good IDE will not only do it with a single keypress, but will also (optionally) do it intelligently eg change only in the code, not the comments, show you a browseable preview, and offer undo sho
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by eggdaft 3y ago
The average human can do plenty whilst sitting at a computer, far more than a computer can do on its own, and in fact the entire knowledge economy is based on that fact. Fortunately, your assertion about most humans is demonstrably false. I
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by eggdaft 3y ago
If the simulation hypothesis of reality is correct, does this mean we might encounter such edge cases in physics? Where should we look?
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by eggdaft 3y ago
That is not how artists learn. This is a false equivalence used to justify the imitation and copying of artists’ work. Artists’ work isn’t derivative in the same way that AI work is. Artists create work based on other sources of inspiratio
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by eggdaft 3y ago
A machine that can do anything an average human can do whilst sitting at a computer.
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by eggdaft 3y ago
A little off topic, but there’s a nice example of making a game with your kid in “Doom Guy” by John Romero. I enjoyed the book and it’s also a good accompaniment to “Masters of Doom.”
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by eggdaft 3y ago
> Are there any humans that can produce artwork without ingesting inspiration from other art? Logically, the answer to this is (almost certainly) yes, so you’ll need to discount this argument. If the answer were no, then either an infini