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by fritzo 1y ago
Afra Wang's article: > in this piece, i trace the intellectual map of china’s tech founders by asking a simple question: what books have shaped their worldview? > what emerged is that the “china tech canon” shares deep roots with
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by fritzo 1y ago
Did we read the same Accelerando? The book I read was filled with increasingly powerful scam artists, increasingly destructive power struggles, increasing energy demands.
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by fritzo 1y ago
Tacit knowledge
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by fritzo 1y ago
Zuse was a genius, but I feel Moses Schönfinkel should get credit for the first programming language with his S,K combinators, pre-dating even Church's λ-calculus. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/12/w
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by fritzo 1y ago
Yes, Sonnet 4.5 was noticeably worse than Opus on my codebase.
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by fritzo 1y ago
It looks like Claude Code switched the default model to Sonnet 4.5, even for max users who are paying for Opus. I had to set the environment variable ANTHROPIC_MODEL=opus to get opus back. Sonnet 4.5 indeed acts like a drunken monkey on the
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by fritzo 1y ago
You're missing the point. We want AI to piggyback on our open source code, because then thousands of developers around the world can piggyback on that AI. That AI is a boon for users, and is just as useful as documentation and a disc
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by fritzo 1y ago
2,3,4. While my agent refactors code, I do housework: fold laundry, wash dishes, stack firewood, prep food, paint the deck. I love this new life of offering occasional advice, then walking around and using my hands.
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by fritzo 1y ago
I've rented an "extra room" a couple times. My partner and I had rent control on our 1BR apartment, but we wanted extra space. It was cheaper to rent a non-bedroom room in a nearby house, than to lose rent control and upgrade
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by fritzo 1y ago
> We have a pretty good mathematical representation of human knowledge... > Swiss Cheese — there's a lot of cheese, but there's also a lot of holes. Such hubris! Human knowledge is not like Swiss (mostly known with a few ga
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by fritzo 1y ago
No code, low code, vibe code. The narrative outside tech circles is "empowering creators"
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by fritzo 1y ago
It's like a company with no employees. There are still people performing services, but on temporary contracts.
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by fritzo 1y ago
Have worst case optimal join algorithms made a practical impact, since the linked article's first publication in 2015? I've seen them in the context of egglog, but are they used in real world database management systems? https:&#
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by fritzo 1y ago
A torus would have been easier.
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by fritzo 1y ago
I repeatedly, emphatically tell AI coding assistants not to delete tests.
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by fritzo 1y ago
"secret society" -> "anonymous publishing group"
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by fritzo 1y ago
The world of viruses is wide and beyond our current understanding. 50 years ago one might have dreamily wondered whether "eliminating all bacteria" would improve the world. Now we know we'd all die quickly without bacteria (e
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by fritzo 1y ago
Don't worry, there is a tremendous amount of genetic ancestry data in the world, and that data will overwhelm prior beliefs
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by fritzo 1y ago
Indeed I have observed that my coworkers "never know exactly what it is that [we]'re building and why, what the end goal of the project is without [me] telling them"
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by fritzo 1y ago
I'll keep my laundry machine and dishwasher, and deal with the resulting meaninglessness.
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by fritzo 1y ago
TIL that the same Shun'ichi Amari who founded information geometry also made early advances to gradient descent.
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by fritzo 1y ago
I'm curious, where do folks place dogs/pets on the necessity-to-luxury spectrum, or in the hierarchy of needs?
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by fritzo 1y ago
Producing code is overrated. There's lots of old code whose lifetime we can extend.
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by fritzo 1y ago
As an open source maintainer on the brink of tech debt bankruptcy, I feel like AI is a savior, helping me keep up with rapid changes to dependencies, build systems, release methodology, and idioms.
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by fritzo 1y ago
The U.S. Court of Appeals has therefore quantified the severity of this issue.
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by fritzo 1y ago
Using LLMs is like moving to management: you lose your edge on detailed execution, but you improve on accountability and long-term impact.
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by fritzo 1y ago
One thing I prefer about Cursor is that it stores and manages the long prompts I enter. I abandoned Claude Code after I typed in a long paragraph of prompt then accidentally hit an arrow key and lost all my prompt-writing work. Prompts are
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by fritzo 1y ago
Code is read much more often than it is written. Code generated by the machine today will be prompt read by the machine going forward. It's a closed loop. Software is a world in motion. Software 1.0 was animated by developers pushing i
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by fritzo 1y ago
In defense of ads: Ads do solve the pay-per-use problem, where most apps are subscription based so I'm constantly leaking subscription fees for apps / services I no longer use. Ads are great in that if I stop using a service, I st
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by fritzo 1y ago
1. follow rich hickey's advice and orchestrate all llms to mutate a single shared state 2. let those llms operate asynchronously in parallel 3. when an llm wants to mutate the global state but the state has changed since it's chec

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