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by iskander 3y ago
>My point of view is that anyone who wants to write multithreaded code, shouldn't be trusted to. Making it easier for people to justify this kind of footgun is a problem. Out of curiosity, have you done any Rust programming and used
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by iskander 3y ago
> But in a world where most invasions are – or at least ought to be – self-deterring, for countries that do not have revanchist neighbors who might launch a stupid war of conquest out of pique Seems a bit dismissive about the degree of r
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by iskander 3y ago
Is there anything akin to Maturin for Zig? I would love to use it as an extension language for Python.
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by iskander 3y ago
>To be honest, give me the developer experience of the 90s. I want to make a change, and I want to be able to test this change either interactively or through a unit test within milliseconds, and I want to do this while sitting in an air
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by iskander 3y ago
Surprise twist: it's lymphoma
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by iskander 3y ago
I asked GPT4 to annotate the origin of each word and it did remarkably well: --- If - Old English "gif" (Proto-Germanic origin) you've - contraction of "you" (Old English "eow" - Proto-Germanic origin) and
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by iskander 3y ago
>He was proposing that without the Normans, English would have drawn on the German lexicon. That's not what's going on here, he's limiting the vocabulary to existing English words which derive from Old English and inventin
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by iskander 3y ago
I tried to get ChatGPT to transform your post into only words of Latin origin but it could never quite get away from simpler common words that derive from Old English: "Pertaining to inquiries concerning the categorization of English a
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by iskander 3y ago
While the test itself may not have been posted online, read the individual questions. They are extremely common topics on the internet and I wouldn't be surprised if the contents of this test are 100x+ replicated across different QM ma
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by iskander 4y ago
ZK is currently stuck with arithmetic circuit representations which are predictably very expensive to use as a representation for tensor data. The matrix based formulations are still limited and don't play nicely with the parts of ML m
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by iskander 4y ago
I think the equivalence between these is very weakly argued: The DEI cult is fueled by the genuine issue of social justice The ESG cult is fueled by the genuine issue of climate change The trad cult is fueled by the genuine is
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by iskander 4y ago
Fish biomass bottomed at the end of the 90s, which resulted in a bunch of changes in how large-scale fishing happens around the world: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1909726116 This mostly fixed the problem
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by iskander 4y ago
>This is fun to read and think about, but it's also important to keep in mind that this is very light on evidence and is basically fanfic. Applicable to much of the rationalist AI risk discourse.
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by iskander 4y ago
Luddites weren't afraid that they would be replaced by machines, they were skilled weavers who had already been replaced by programmable looms. Both their status/role in society and their income were significantly decreased as the
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by iskander 4y ago
I haven't seen most of these as news stories, where do you learn about what's going on?
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by iskander 4y ago
That's a very different model than 'prefer to live in the same places everyone else' -- you're saying that wherever housed people want to live, the homeless want to live there even more . Not obvious that there's e
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by iskander 4y ago
You would then expect the percent of homeless per state to be roughly similar, when it in fact varies tremendously: https://www.statista.com/statistics/727847/homelessness-rate... NYC, HI, CA >40 per 100k homel
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by iskander 4y ago
Homeless population by state is more or less a map of housing cost: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/homeless-po...
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by iskander 4y ago
I know someone who's worked with them and it seems like a very legitimate scrappy organization
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by iskander 4y ago
>Society is not broken and we don’t need weird conspiratorial explanations for any of this. Life expectancy plummeting through deaths of despair, juxtaposed with widespread addiction (as much to drugs without physical dependence as opiat
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by iskander 4y ago
Currently running a research lab and this fits with my anecdotal experience of what ideas and approaches are considered fundable by the NIH and NSF.
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by iskander 4y ago
This feels like a very superficial and somewhat silly redefinition of "staring into the abyss".
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by iskander 4y ago
I'm looking for something that fits into a setup.py file (or, like Maturin creates a multi-language package config) which (1) automatically compiles zig source into a Python extension module for me, so that I can (2) just import zig co
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by iskander 4y ago
Naive question about Zig: is there any tooling for embedding it within larger Python codebases akin to Maturin (for Rust) or Nimporter (for Nim)? I have seen examples where the Zig code imports Python.h and uses low-level Python C API calls
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by iskander 4y ago
>I think the advice is directed towards people who could take the stairs, but habitually don't. I think we could probably agree with this advice based on strong priors but this paper provides poor support for the advice since it&#x2
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by iskander 4y ago
Holy confounders Batman. Yes, someone who is unable to climb the stairs might not be long for this world but...making them sprint up a staircase is unlikely to prolong (rather than shorten) their lives.
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by iskander 4y ago
fwiw, I use USDC transfers on Ethereum in preference over wire transfers (which for me seem to require a physical bank visit to clear) or Zelle (which has very low max limit per day). I actually don't know of any robust alternatives in
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by iskander 4y ago
I send USDC on eth pretty frequently and for larger amounts find it more convenient than Venmo or Zelle. For smaller amounts it would only make sense if other people are already using L2s, which might happen through website integrations (or
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by iskander 4y ago
I think that's why USDC on an L2 is a better payment layer, especially if it's integrated into a payment app or a social site like Twitter
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by iskander 4y ago
You can check current prices here: https://l2fees.info/ Sending any amount of ETH it costs between $0.01 (on the Loopring network) and $0.46 on the Ethereum mainnet (with the most popular layer 2 network, Arbitrum, costing

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