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by jacobr1 4y ago
I wonder if it makes sense to produce some sort of neo-COBAL that produces a bridge between flow and declarative syntax that better aligns with expressing intent that maps from human input. That is harder to do with lower-level languages, b
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And it is an odd thing to say on the thread about generative AI ... which is all about producing statistical approximations of outputs.
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In some ways, this has always been good programming design. Have clean interfaces. Encapsulate state, and have clear propagation of state between components. Identify appropriate abstractions that represent the components of your system suc
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This probably can be solved with better tooling. ChatGPT is probably "less confident" when it comes to these kind of false positives and could say so explicitly. What I think is happening with people though, is there is a missing
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One of the interesting things with with programming as field is that 2x-10x productivity gains are _common_. New abstractions and tools regularly allow people and teams to build more, quickly. The goalposts of what is expected to be deliver
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> - do not have to worry about car maintenance, parking tickets or theft; While significantly less of a hassle than car maintenance, if you are riding a bike daily, you do now need to consider bike maintenance. And theft remains an issue
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Things become a word when there is a critical mass of people that use the word. In this case vending initially refereed to placing a copy of the source code of the third party library into /vendor/ subdirectory, thus "vendori
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Someone should do that with good branding. Sorta like carfax. Call the Zillow Report or find a similar firm. License the standards and a saas interface to Inspectors to have another revenue stream (or maybe more broadly to contractors). The
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Why? They took on direct financial risk. They are "sophisticated" financial actors unlike the general public, with access to professional advice on managing their risk profile. I think it would be better for the economy and the lo
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Businesses should better manage their risks, and advisors such as VCs should be helping them do that. Bank runs aren't new and _shouldn't_ be surprising (in the sense that they are possible, not in the sense of any particular occu
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Part of the problem is that selling to small/medium business sucks, unless you can make it very transactional (the cheap model above, just scaled per-seat). Anything that needs to be hands on costs you almost as much in labor costs as
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For any use case? You join a F500 company and now they can use it? What if you leave the company. It makes sense if you are freelancer and can use it with an arbitrary number of clients. But then does it transfer when those clients sites ar
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> I think the existence of a nation state is less up for debate than the existence of a nation. That seems muddled. A nation-state is a state whose population are dominantly formed out of a single "nation." Generally the nation
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Right, and how is that working out for regional transit in the Bay Area? Probably better than most other places in the US ... but as far from functional for most residents in the area. The standard seems to be creating some kind of cross-co
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Strong correlation, but not exclusively. Plenty of areas regularly vote for bond measures paid by increases in property taxes. So you can get increases of BOTH rate and value.
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One implication though, is that LLMs can currently come up with novel mixes of existing ideas. It might be a good blender, integrating different pieces into a new whole.
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Yes, but the arguments of that era always seemed to revolve around minutiae like the package manager, or default filesysem, or choice of default desktop.
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Another theoretical issue is that UNDER performance doesn't mean NEGATIVE performance. If the market average is returning 10% one year, and a stock-picker returns 6% (maybe even 8% - but with fees eating 2%), then doing the OPPOSITE of
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Interesting - what are your non-coding use cases?
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I can also recommend Cython as an alternative to Pybind for the extension wrapper.
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It is a good way to consider the extremes of the problem-space, which often is a good way to come at a problem. But a more practical, analogous situation might be: should I buy a nice, warm bagel at the local bagel shop, or should buy it a
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It matters where you set the achievement bar. Sure, if the goal is "internationally recognized expert," perhaps luck is a stronger factor. But if the goal is, "strong enough programmer to write a spell-check algorithm from fi
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Maybe try https://9p.io/sys/doc/9.html My take is that plan 9 is basically a "pure" rewrite of a unix/posix OS, that takes many underlying principles of unix to their logical conclusions, without th
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> but have GPT write a flawed essay and ask the students to rewrite it. There is also benefit in the opposite - automating your editorial role. Have the student write an ok essay, then rerun in through the AI to clarify, or to raise ques
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thanks for the correction
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> there's no feasible way to simulate the physics of a useful size quantum computer without using one. What do the diverging growth curves look like? We probably could brute force simulate the exponential states within a small-n usi
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But they question is why does this stress everyone out. In our day-to-day lives you can basically ignore all of it, provided your basic needs are met and you are living in an environment where more of your material needs are being met. So w
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Note we tend to pay garbagemen more than teachers! I think that probably seeks to the job desirability. More people are willing to be teachers than haul garbage and that is reflected in the pay, net of other impacts.
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> Programming (mostly) isn't that hard as well More people could be trained to program, especially in a casual way many more (spreadsheet formulas, low-code forms or glue) but working as mentor in high-school CS programs, I've
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Except with something like K12 education we don't actually allocate resources in a market/capitalist fashion. So is your argument that we have a "mindset" problem? One could suggest the opposite problem, we don't ha

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