ipnon

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by ipnon 7d ago
I feel that you can see quite strongly the truth in “writing code was never the point” when you encounter inevitably at every company the guy who has been around forever but doesn’t seem to be working particularly hard. Their value is (was)
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by ipnon 18d ago
We should remember that Meta is the largest social media company in the world, so they do not have much trouble with people trusting them with data.
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by ipnon 25d ago
Fable is much more expensive both in time and tokens for a marginal increase in productivity.
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by ipnon 28d ago
Yes, I think this project is a good example of how complex domains aren't simply solvable just by pointing ever more intelligence at the system, even when the code is all open source and the issues are all well defined. I say this as a
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by ipnon 29d ago
I used to find internet slang very piercing and illuminating. I felt I was able to describe certain things which were difficult or impossible to convey with AFK language. But now that this way of speaking has become normalized outside of th
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by ipnon 1mo ago
From 1990 to 2025, the number of people in extreme poverty dropped from around 2.3 billion to roughly 831 million. I think we're making fast enough progress here to warrant public companies going to space on their own dime and volition
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by ipnon 1mo ago
I don't think there's much value in college anymore outside of as a class signifier, and most schools are signifying that you are not in the right social class.
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by ipnon 1mo ago
It kind of has the personality of those students that get so stuck on one promising idea they lose sight of the problem.
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by ipnon 1mo ago
Very surprised no one has this answer: because it is fundamentally not a human being.
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by ipnon 2mo ago
I actually don't read any code! For generation I use simulations to ensure satisfactory error rates, for deterministic code I use test suites, and for user interfaces I use good ol' intuition! So I guess you could say I just write
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by ipnon 2mo ago
But why can’t we prompt the LLM “just do math research”? This is what I don’t understand.
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by ipnon 2mo ago
Yes, now that humans write less than 99% of code, the most important criteria for a language isn't readability, which I'd argue was always Python's main selling point, but the underlying runtime. There are practical limits to
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by ipnon 2mo ago
It's a good joke but most of my applications are I/O bound. So I use Elixir for performance.
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AppleScript (2006) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
8 points by ipnon 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 3mo ago
Kind of feels like fusion power at this point, always just around the corner.
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by ipnon 4mo ago
A company is like a bridge. The job of a bridge is to support the weight of what crosses it. But if a particular deck or arch or beam or joint or bearing fails to do its own job, the bridge can fail and will catastrophically. Perhaps some b
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)(eff.org)
2 points by ipnon 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 4mo ago
I think this is correct. There has been bipartisan support of Israel for decades. Netanyahu even mentions in his autobiography that Israeli politicians usually underestimate the strength and durability of the relationship with America.
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by ipnon 4mo ago
I’ve never thought about how the room model matches the LiveView socket model before. Which socket library are you using?
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by ipnon 5mo ago
My neighborhood in California added plenty of these and it didn’t change the vibe of the neighborhood at all. It’s a great YIMBY solution because it satisfies both the pro and anti development crowds.
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What's a mathematician to do? (2010)(mathoverflow.net)
179 points by ipnon 5mo ago|86 comments
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Mathematics Genealogy Project(mathgenealogy.org)
1 points by ipnon 5mo ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 5mo ago
A real theory would predict phenomena thus far unseen. We already know about this 4 part taxonomy.
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by ipnon 5mo ago
It’s not that crazy! Or hard. If you can store a hashed password in your users table, and keep the salt secret, you have working auth.
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by ipnon 5mo ago
I have noticed that everything in their app Just Works. It's very satisfying coming from other services!
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by ipnon 5mo ago
CUDA is an extension of C++ just like C++ is an extension of C. Deployed CUDA is growing exponentially. C++ is definitely not a dying language!
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by ipnon 5mo ago
I don't know of any. People are really just selecting for the underlying runtime. And Elixir and Gleam are better targets here.
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Fanspeak (1999)(fantasymaps.com)
1 points by ipnon 5mo ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 5mo ago
It leads to K-shaped education where parents who recognize the deficiency of public education simply teach their kids math themselves or hire private tutors. Public education used to be a force for equality of knowledge in the country. Now
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by ipnon 5mo ago
I usually invoke this by naming with POSIWID.

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