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by harperlee 2y ago
I think it is 'fittest with respect with the current / incoming environment', in contrast with 'strongest' / 'fastest' / some other absolute measurement, at the expense of the rest.
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by harperlee 2y ago
Fentanyl adulterators, market creators and resellers certainly do, for higher margin selling and/or increased volume.
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by harperlee 2y ago
I wonder if there has been any study of what happens to LLMs subject to bit rot, given the level of compression of facts on one hand and the “superposition of stored facts” on the other one ( I’m obviously a layman here, I don’t even have t
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by harperlee 2y ago
He might be arguing for "no".
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by harperlee 2y ago
My main problem with (jvm) stack traces is that they generally don't include information about the values that are passed to the function calls, so you get the structure of the code, but not the actual value that could help you reprodu
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by harperlee 2y ago
In the last 500 years.
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by harperlee 2y ago
Based on whether they take you to places you don’t want to end at, which is an incomplete measure but quite a pragmatical one. E.g. if your set of axioms end at “erase half of the population by force”, then perhaps revisit your axioms.
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by harperlee 2y ago
In my experience (mainly when trying to understand the implementation of core.logic), the problem with protocols is that the code inspection tools choke on them.
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by harperlee 2y ago
The bureaucracy of opening the business is a proxy for the bureaucracy that the business will endure during this lifetime. Admittedly, opening in 30 minutes is the result of politicians gaming the KPI, no one needs to open a company in 30 m
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by harperlee 2y ago
The fact that it was later bought by Microsoft (and rewritten in C++ so it can run on consoles[1]) is not relevant to the argument that you can, in fact, write a successful and performant game in Java, if you know how. [1] My source is just
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Elements of Clojure Now Free(elementsofclojure.com)
8 points by harperlee 2y ago|0 comments
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by harperlee 2y ago
Problem: with 2FA, lost phone = lost access to your email and rest of digital life, when on a trip (I’ll assume no one travels with their recovery keys).
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by harperlee 2y ago
Or tax their capital with income redistribution purposes, as we are already doing with more down to earth means of production.
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by harperlee 2y ago
Well from what I see on the emacs corners of the internet, not so much discussion. Also I recently read on an HN thread I started: it was taken out of Calva due to bugs no one fixed.
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Parinfer: Simpler Lisp Editing(shaunlebron.github.io)
168 points by harperlee 2y ago|32 comments
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by harperlee 2y ago
Some time ago parinfer ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42766205 ) took some attention as a more pythonesque approach to matching presentation and meaning. I liked it, but it seems that it didn’t catch on, alas.
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by harperlee 2y ago
It has been ages since I worked with Common Lisp, so I wonder: Would it be possible / make sense to have version control into the lisp image?
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How helpful is Hattie and Donoghue's model of learning? (2017)(learningspy.co.uk)
2 points by harperlee 2y ago|0 comments
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by harperlee 2y ago
From the landing page: darktable is (...) a virtual lighttable and darkroom Quite an interesting way to say that is a Lightroom alternative :)
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Idiomatic Errors in Clojure(daveliepmann.com)
97 points by harperlee 2y ago|42 comments
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by harperlee 2y ago
On the other hand, trying too hard to shoehorn semantic descriptions on names ends up with pathological cases (yes, chemistry, I’m looking at you!). Jokes apart, words are symbols that even if they have some semantics through etymology, in
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by harperlee 2y ago
Wouldn’t “let x to 1” be much more clear if it were “let x be 1”? How is this typically read in English mathematical contexts? Or perhaps “as”: with-open rdr to :random-value binding *file* to .getFile(url):
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by harperlee 2y ago
Putting forth an idea to an audience without rigorous proof does have intrinsic value. Further, if said idea implies that the audience is exceptionally good, you don't really need the proof, do you? The value for the audience is obviou
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by harperlee 2y ago
It is in Spain, any self-respected pre-smartphone-childhood person has at the very minimum least seen this in action at the playground.
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by harperlee 2y ago
Naïvely, writing only one logic relation of n parameters is about equivalent to writing n^2 functions (just decide for each parameter whether you give it or not as input). So there clearly is value there. I say naïvely because on one hand y
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Ironies of Automation (1983)(complexcognition.co.uk)
81 points by harperlee 2y ago|13 comments
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by harperlee 2y ago
Well to be pedantic: the time-keeping part isn’t the gears but a pendulum. The spring gives energy to the pendulum, but that can’t effect more than in its amplitude: the period of a given pendulum is constant. Later springs demultiply the t
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by harperlee 2y ago
In my humble experience, by far the best usage of holed coins such as the old 25 spanish pesetas coin ( https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Pesetas_fin_siglo_XX.j... ) is the ability to serve as a stopgap for spinning
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by harperlee 2y ago
A whalefall of sorts.
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A data parallel compiler hosted on the GPU(scholarworks.iu.edu)
2 points by harperlee 2y ago|1 comments

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